A/N: I just want to say a huge thank you to ... protejerinnocencia my beta! Thank you so much for everything! and this wouldn't have worked, or been the same without you!! I also want to dedicated this chapter to my bestie, Ava. Thanks again for all your help with this chapter Hun, especially with all the random questions I asked you like how many people sit around a rectangular table (which i was too lazy to figure out) and all the other random questions i asked you!! This chapter wouldn't have been finished without you!!
"What?" Taylor asked shocked. JJ sighed and shook her head. "Think about it Taylor," she said, anger and frustration evident in her voice "you said so yourself, my file is too perfect, the timing of me arriving at the camp was too perfect. How can anyone have a record like that?"
"I…" Taylor trailed off. "I can't believe this. You're an FBI agent?" Taylor already knew the answer, but still had to ask to make sure she wasn't hearing things. Taylor kept muttering things to herself until JJ got frustrated with her. "Taylor, it's a lot to take in, in such a short time, I know, believe me, but you can't tell anyone."
"Why not?" Taylor questioned facing her, with anger in her eyes "You have lied to all of us, I… they trusted you. They deserve the truth! Is the only reason you told me so I wouldn't tell anyone?" she asked angrily "Of course it is!"
"I know they deserve the truth, and I will tell them, just not till this is over," she explained "Taylor, you have to believe me, I didn't want to hurt anyone, I didn't want any of this to happen."
"Yeah? and how can we trust anything you say anymore?" Taylor demanded stomping her foot on the ground. There was silence and by this time, JJ was close to tears. She didn't know how she had expected this to go, but it wasn't like this.
"Did you rig the camp so you would get in?" she demanded to know.
"No," JJ replied "how could you suggest that? I got in all by myself, to tell you the truth, I thought I wouldn't get in, and you guys would be on your own, unable to protect yourselves against..." she trailed off knowing she couldn't give away the fact that Stacy was the killer. Especially since everyone idolized her.
Taylor noticed this but didn't say anything about it, knowing she probably couldn't talk about it and, truth be told, she didn't want to know.
Taylor didn't know who she was talking to but realized that, whoever she was, she was telling the truth about everything.
Taylor was silent for a minute. "What do I call you? Now that I know the truth," Taylor asked. She was angry that she had betrayed them all, but, she was telling her now, and Taylor couldn't stay angry at her forever, no matter how much she hurt them all.
"Kate," JJ responded "I can't afford to lose my cover. Not now."
"What about Will? He really an ex?" she said referring back to the conversation they had at the café after Will had called her. They'd asked who he was and she replied "a possessive ex-boyfriend".
"No… that was a lie, he's my current boyfriend, and I don't even know how he got my number." JJ said. "I wish he hadn't called me… he could have blown the whole operation."
There was silence and Taylor began to pace around the room. "Does anyone know? Besides me?" Taylor questioned, continuing to pace.
"Kelly," JJ replied "she was the one who taught me how to be a cheerleader." Taylor looked surprised but didn't say anything else about it. By now JJ was in tears and Taylor felt bad for her. She hated the fact that she had lied to everyone, and used them, but, something in her gut told them to trust her…. And besides, being on the good side of the FBI might guarantee that nothing would happen to her.
JJ and Taylor sat down on the bed and talked trough everything, both, expressing there opinions about everything. There was shouting as anger was expressed and tears were shed. There was much pacing and stomping.
"Ok, I'll keep your secret," she said after a moment to think about it, about everything that had been said. "On the conditions that you protect me, nothing happens to me at all, and you don't lie to me about anything anymore, and, I want to meet a real FBI agent, someone you work with."
"You met Agent Prentiss didn't you? The one who gave us a lift here," JJ asked.
"Yeah… wait, you work with her? You know her personally?" Taylor asked surprised. She suddenly remembered the car trip. "That must have been awkward in the car on the way over, not being able to talk to her freely."
JJ nodded "It was."
The two girls stood in silence for a minute before Taylor's phone rang. It was Laura asking where she and JJ were. Taylor said they would be right down and hung up, turning to the door and walking out followed by JJ. Taylor continued to ask more questions on the way down and JJ answered them as truthfully as she could, without giving away any information about the case or people involved in it. The two forgave each other for everything, and decided to start again, forgetting the past, as the future was right now, the most important thing.
They arrived down in the restaurant and saw the others seated around the table looking at a menu. They walked over, excusing themselves for being late and sat down. They each took the menu handed to them and looking through it. Taylor knew not to say anything more on the subject and JJ was glad for that.
Laura looked suspiciously between the two as they were being nice to each other and she knew for a fact that Taylor hated JJ. A waiter appeared and they ordered their meals from him before handing him their menus. He walked off to go place the orders and the table lapsed into silence.
Emily walked in to the restaurant to have some dinner and Samantha spotted her, talking to the hostess about getting a table.
The girls had been seated at a rectangular table for eight people and had more room so, before anyone could protest, Samantha called out. "Agent Prentiss!" Emily turned around and saw Samantha. "Why don't you join us?" she asked sweetly.
"Oh, I don't know, I mean -" Emily was cut off by Laura.
"We don't mind at all," she said smiling. Emily thanked them and she made her way over to the table. Kelly, JJ and Taylor were sitting on one side and Samantha and Laura were on the other. So Emily decided to sit at the head of the table.
There was an awkward silence around the room while they waited for there meals to come. A waiter came by and Emily ordered some wine for herself and then, after looking over the menu he handed her, picked something and ordered it, handing the menu back to him.
The silence was broken when Emily's phone rang. She excused herself to answer. Their meals arrived a minute or so later and they all began to eat in silence again. Emily sat down muttering an apology. Moments later Emily's meal arrived and she too began to eat.
"So who was on the phone?" JJ asked looking at Emily. Emily set down her fork. "That was Dana; she's tied up in some things this week, so she wanted me to look after you guys for the rest of the week. Is that ok with you?"
They all nodded eagerly, because all of them liked Emily and thought that it would be cool to have an FBI agent to look after them for a week and have extra protection in case they needed it.
"Good," she said picking up her fork again to finish her meal. They made small talk over dinner, finding out things about each other before going their separate ways back to their rooms. Taylor grabbed Emily's arm when it was just the two of them, and dragged her to a private corner. "Kate or whatever her name is, told me everything. Don't get angry at her, I figured it out by myself and she was worried about me telling someone…so she told me everything."
"Oh," Emily said surprised.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to tell anyone, I just… thought you should hear it from me first before you found out from someone else," Taylor said looking at the ground.
"Thanks Taylor," she replied "I'll have a word with her about to tonight. I'm glad you told me, but if you tell a soul…"
"Oh don't worry Agent Prentiss, I won't," she promised and walked off towards the elevator.
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The next morning, JJ woke up and felt nauseous. She ran to the bathroom throwing up in the toilet. After throwing up her dinner from the night before, JJ stood up, wiped her mouth and then flushed the toilet and walked into the room again. Kelly was awake, but still looked sleepy. "What time is it?" she asked in a sleepy voice.
"Ah, a little after 5," JJ said lying back down on her bed. Kelly rubbed her sleepy eyes and looked over at JJ. "You ok?" she asked concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she replied staring up at the ceiling.
Kelly sat up in her bed. "Will you be able to do this? The camp I mean," she quickly added when JJ gave her a confused look "I don't think it will be good for you… and…" she trailed off.
"Kelly, we've gone over this, I can do this. I have to," she added quietly "I'm going to do this ok, whether you want me to or not."
"OK," Kelly said "I was just checking."
Kelly and JJ then slowly got out of bed and got ready for the day ahead of them, their first day at camp. They had showers, got dressed and then packed their backpacks with the stuff they needed during the day.
At 6 am sharp Emily knocked on the door. "Ready to go?" she asked.
Kelly nodded, whilst JJ put her hand over her mouth and ran into the bathroom, kneeling down in front of the toilet and throwing up. Kelly ran in after her, and knelt down besides her, holding her hair out of the way and then rubbing her back in circular motions. JJ continued to be sick into the toilet bowl.
Emily stood in the doorway watching the scene, sensing it had happened a few times before this. It was just the way that JJ was placed in front of the toilet, like she had found herself a comfortable position, the way Kelly didn't need to say anything, but knew how to comfort JJ.
"JJ, are you ok?" she asked. Both JJ and Kelly looked at each other in that instant, realizing that they would have to tell her the truth.
"Em," JJ began after she stopped throwing up and had wiped her mouth. Kelly handed her a glass of water, and she gratefully took a sip. "Em, I'm pregnant."
Emily's mouth fell open in shock. A minute later her brain began to function again and she stepped forward towards JJ and pulled her into a hug. "Oh my god, JJ, congratulations."
She pulled back and then looked at her and JJ sighed, knowing what was coming. "I promise I will tell you everything later tonight, but for now, we need to go or we will be late," JJ said grabbing her bag.
She walked out the door and knocked on the room to her right to tell Taylor that they had to leave. Soon all of them were sitting in Emily's black SUV on the way to the camp. No one said anything on the way and when Emily pulled up in the parking lot, they all got out silently and walked to the reception area to sign in for the day.
They got split up into groups, everyone mixed between the schools and they went of to various activities. One group concentrated on stamina and fitness; running laps, sit ups, push up's, things you would normally see a rugby team doing at their training sessions. Another group worked on the tricks and were being shown how to do them safely, or how to improve on the ones they could already do. The last group was concentrating on the dance part of it and were learning things such as how to choreograph a dance.
During the day, they swapped between the groups and met the three instructors. Damien, Trixie and Heather. Damien was the instructor for the tricks workshop, Trixie, the dance instructor and Heather, the fitness instructor.
Heather and Damien were really strict and pushed you to your limit, but Trixie, although strict, had a rule about not pushing yourself and letting it come naturally. All were nice, and kept the students working the entire day, only taking breaks for lunch and a five minute break between each workshop.
It was 6pm when the day finished and the five girls were exhausted, just wanting to back to the hotel and sleep, especially JJ. They made their way into the parking lot, to where Emily had parked her car.
They waited, leaning against the car, for Emily to come. She arrived minutes later with her cell phone glued to her ear, which she sandwiched between her shoulder and ear as she unlocked the car for the girls. Samantha got into the front seat and the others got into the back seats while they waited for Emily to finish her phone call. She did and then got into the car apologizing before pulling out of the lot and driving back to the hotel.
"How was it?" she asked them all once they were on the highway.
"Exhausting, but fun," Laura said. Everyone agreed and said similar things before going silent, staring out windows or fiddling with there bags.
JJ was staring out the window thinking, but soon the slow rocking motion of the car began to put her to sleep, and soon, she had drifted off. When they arrived at the hotel, the girls grabbed their bags out of the car and made their way up to room, but JJ was still asleep in the car.
Emily got JJ's bag out of the back and handed it to Kelly, asking her to take it up to the room, while she undid JJ's seatbelt and then gently lifted her out of the car. Emily carried her up to her room.
Emily received strange looks from the people staying at the hotel and some of the workers from the hotel as she carried JJ into the elevator, and then, after getting out at the right floor, carrying JJ to her room.
She placed JJ down on her bed and tucked her in, wishing her a good night before walking out of the room and down to her own room. She found Reid sitting on his bed, waiting for her.
"How was it?" he asked. Emily yawned before looking at him and then telling him all about her day. Once she had finished speaking she grabbed her pyjamas out of her bag, walking into the bathroom to get changed.
"Oh, Morgan called," Reid called out "he wants you to call him back."
Emily stuck her head out the door "he didn't say what it was about?"
"No," Reid said "and that struck me as odd." He was silent for a minute. "Is there anything going on between you and Morgan?" Reid asked suddenly.
"No," Emily called through the door. She opened it and stepped out looking at him. "Why would you think that?"
"It's just… you guys have always had this connection, and you're close -"
"Like you and JJ," Emily interrupted sitting down on her bed. Reid's mouth fell open. "Wh… What are you talking about?"
"You and JJ have a connection, and are close, always going off together everywhere," Emily said not mentioning the pregnancy in case he didn't already know about it.
"We are best friends that's it," he said looking at her. Emily picked up the phone and dialled room service, not feeling like going out for dinner tonight. She just wanted to relax.
She rolled her eyes at Reid not believing a word he said. She ordered some dinner from room service and then hung up, flipping on the TV.
After dinner, she grabbed her cell phone and walked into the bathroom dialling Morgan's number. "Hey, you called?" she said to him after he picked up the phone.
