Emily stepped out early in the morning, she loved her family time but she also needed some down time just for her. She started walking around the resort, after two days there she was amazed at how large the place actually was. Between the main building and the outer hotel rooms the place felt like a hidden gem. Walking down the sand to the edge of the very large pond she rolled into one of the hammocks, she closed her eyes and relaxed. Not hearing JJ walking up she was startled when someone joined her, but quickly relaxed again when she realized that it was JJ. She smiled and wrapped her arms around her kissing her forehead.
"Finding you solitude agent Prentiss?" JJ asked and Emily chuckled.
"Maybe agent Jareau." Emily sighed and pulled JJ as close to her as she could. "I love it here."
"I do too." JJ smiled and kissed Emily's neck. "It's so perfect." They stayed that way for another half hour before agreeing to go get breakfast before waking their children up. They walked hand in hand down to the little bakery in the main building, ordering fresh coffee and pastries; they found a table by the smaller pond to eat by and curled up together on one side watching the wildlife in the water. Walking back to their room they noticed a fairly large amount of people gathering, deciding to check it out they walked down to the group and asked a man what was so interesting.
"The alligator came up on shore, here." He stepped to the side and the animal came into view, the five-foot alligator lay less than ten feet away.
"He's huge." Emily said and took a step back, JJ laughed.
"There are plenty of people between you and him Emily. Anyway he wont bother you if you don't bother him." JJ took Emily's hand and led them back to the room, she kissed her before pushing her inside and flopping down on the bed next to Izzy who was actually awake.
"Hey babe." JJ said pulling a freshly clean Izzy to her.
"Hmmm you smell like cinnamon rolls and coffee."
"I hate your sense of smell." Emily said walking over to the bathroom, knocking on the door. "You ok Jaden?"
"Which bottle am I suppose to use? Mickey mouse, Mini mouse, or Pluto?"
"For what buddy?"
"My hair."
"Mickey." Izzy said and JJ closed her eyes falling back into a completely relaxed state.
"How'd you manage to get him up and in the tub?" Emily asked lying down behind JJ.
"I told him he wouldn't want to smell like a monkey and get confused with the other monkeys at animal kingdom." Izzy smiled and Emily chuckled.
"We owe you."
"No you don't it was easy, plus I'm really excited about today." Izzy smiled and JJ kissed the back of her head. "When can we go?"
"It's only nine, we should eat first." Emily said and Izzy nodded.
"I want a cinnamon roll." Izzy groaned and Emily chuckled. Jaden walked out fully clothed and squeaky clean.
"Well look at that." Emily smiled and looked Jaden up and down. "Got your shorts on right and everything little bud."
"Izzy picked them out for me." Emily pulled a comb out and slicked his damp hair back.
"Rocking boy." Emily smiled and kissed his forehead. "Ready for breakfast then Animal Kingdom?"
"Yeah!" Jaden grabbed Izzy's hand and pulled her off the bed. "Come on lets go!"
"Right behind you little bro." Izzy said following him out the door and to the main building for breakfast. Emily chuckled and pulled JJ up to her, kissing her gently.
"Come on love we got two kids to chase." JJ took Emily's hand and they once again walked hand in hand back to the main building, the bright colors putting them into a good mood. When they walked by the smaller pond they saw a group of people again, this time their children were part of it, giving a short whistle JJ got the attention of both children.
"Mom there's an alligator!" Jaden yelled not leaving his spot by the fence.
"Be careful please." Emily yelled and Izzy showed that she had a tight grip on her younger brother. Walking over they peered over the fence and saw the same gator in the water enjoying a meal of some crackers kids were throwing to him.
"Mommy I wanna feed him!" Jaden said and JJ shook her head.
"That's not good for him Jaden, you should eat your food anyway, he'll be here later."
"You sure?"
"I swear." JJ took Jaden and set him down on the ground. "Let's go eat then go to the park." JJ took Jaden inside to get food while Emily and Izzy leaned over the rail watching the gator.
"He's amazing."
"A lot of raw power in such a small thing." Emily said and Izzy looked at her, Emily pulled her into a hug. "Hmm?" Izzy always hated when her mother knew she was going to say something and didn't have the guts to do so.
"I miss you guys."
"What do you mean?"
"We never see you and mom, you're always out with the team on some stupid case."
"Izzy you know that's our job."
"Yeah well Jamie's dad gave up his job for his family."
"Honey you know if we wanted to we would quit right now and we wouldn't have to work. You also know that our jobs mean a lot to us. They help us stay sane."
"I just want a family."
"I know honey." Emily held Izzy close. "You'd rather have all of us or none of us." Izzy nodded. "Even though we work, we still love you, you know that right?"
"Yeah."
"Good, because no matter what we love you more than you can imagine."
"I know ma." Izzy hugged Emily again, sniffling. As they pulled apart Jaden came tearing up with a cinnamon roll in his hands for Izzy.
"Izzy, Izzy look! I got a roll for you!" He grinned as Izzy took it.
"Thanks J man." Izzy smiled and ruffled his hair. JJ walked up and wrapped her arm around Izzy's waist, pulling her close.
"How you doing?" She smiled at her daughter, Izzy grinned back.
"Better now I got food." JJ laughed and the family walked to the bus stop to get headed to Animal Kingdom. Walking up she smiled when she recognized Zack, nudging Izzy in his direction she smiled down at her.
"Go talk to him."
"You sure you're not going to kill him?"
"I'll try my best." Emily smiled.
"Hey Zack." Izzy walked over to the boy and smiled.
"Well look at that we're at the same resort." He smiled at her.
"Yeah. What park are you going to today?" She smiled at him.
"The Animal Kingdom place for Sasha." He pointed at a little girl that looked just like him.
"Your sister?"
"Yup five year old ball of fire." He smiled and Sasha walked over to him.
"Zack when are we going?"
"When the bus gets here." Zack pulled Sasha to him. "Sa, this is Izzy."
"Hi." The little girl smiled up at Izzy.
"Hey! That's my sister, get your own." Jaden said stepping up to Izzy his arms wrapping around her legs.
"Jaden be nice." Izzy said putting a hand on his head. Izzy smiled at Zack. "Jaden I'd like you to meet Sasha, Zack's little sister."
"Hi."
"Hi." The girl looked them up and down then stepped behind Zack. "Our bus is here."
"Izzy, lets go." Emily said, she watched as Zack followed behind Izzy helping her up onto the bus.
"Emily… be nice." JJ said taking her arm in her's. Izzy sat down next to Zack on the bus and they talked about what they wanted to see the most at the park.
"You've never heard of the killimanjaro's ride? We have to go on it!" Zack was getting excited as he spoke.
"I have to stay with my family." Izzy said, she really wanted to stay with Zack but it was a family vacation.
"Maybe our families can stick together?" Izzy looked over at JJ and Emily, who both nod that it was ok with them.
"Maybe." Izzy smiled and took his hand.
x-x-x
Izzy picked Jaden up as he jumped up to get the hanging basket of fruit. She held him up as he picked two pieces of fruit out. Smiling she placed him back on the ground she paid for the fruit and pops. Handing Zack his pop, he smiled and took Sasha's hand. Emily walked hand in hand with JJ talking with Zack's parents, Jordan and Sandra.
"You both work for the FBI?" Jordan asked looking at Emily.
"Yup BAU or behavioral analysis unit."
"How long?" Sandra asked.
"I was 22 when I joined." JJ said.
"And I was 20 when I joined the FBI, I didn't join the BAU for awhile after though, I was about 24 when I did join."
"When did you have Izzy?"
"Years ago." Everyone chuckled and Emily smiled. "I was 22 when Izzy decided to come barreling into the world."
"Your kids are great, like little angels." Sandra smiled.
x-x-x
JJ watched her family as she floated along the other side of the pool. She watched as Izzy and Jaden kept throwing a pool football to keep it away from Emily. Smiling as they would wait till Emily was closer to the person throwing before releasing the ball. She chuckled when Emily picked Jaden up and threw him over her shoulder, Izzy jumped into action and tackled her mother crashing all three of them into the water. When Emily surfaced first with biggest grin on her face, she held the football in her hands. Seconds later Izzy and Jaden popped up. Izzy huffed and swam away with Jaden in toe. Pulling Jaden out of the pool they walked over to the snack bar.
"Hey Izzy."
"Hi Pedro."
"What can I get you today?"
"What do you think Jay? Fries and hot dogs?"
"Yeah." Jaden grinned than ran back to the pool. Izzy laughed as Jaden launched himself at Emily. Turning back to Pedro she smiled when he pulled a lollipop out for a kid. Looking back at her family she smiled as Emily roughhoused with Jaden and JJ chuckled from her safe spot on the steps. Pedro put the food down by her and she handed him the card, taking the food over to a table. Jaden ran up and started eating while Izzy went back to get her card.
"Iz, you seem to have a fan." Pedro said and Izzy looked over to see Zack smiling at her.
"Thanks Pedro." She smiled and walked over to Zack. "I thought you guys were going to stay at the park?"
"Got a little too hot." He smiled and Izzy laughed, he followed her over to the table. Izzy smiled when he pulled a seat out for him, Jaden glared at him till Izzy gave him a look and he scampered off to Emily. Sandra walked over to Emily and JJ, sitting by them she smiled.
"Would you guys like to join us for dinner tonight? Zack and Izzy showed interest in going down to downtown Disney, and the hotel has child watching services…" JJ looked and Emily with pleading eyes and Emily smiled and nodded.
"We'd love to go Sandra."
x-x-x
Two hours later Emily found herself watching Sasha and Jaden play with the other kids of the daycare staff. JJ wrapped her arms around Emily and rested her head on her shoulder.
"Come on, we have to go get ready." She said and Emily nodded, Izzy and Zack we're heading out within the hour and had a curfew of 1. Taking JJ's hand they walked back to the room, able to see Izzy and Zack off before they left.
"Hey." Emily grabbed Izzy real quick, pulling her back in the room with her and JJ.
"Mom!"
"Isabel… I get it he's a nice guy and all just… be smart, you may never see him after this." Emily said and Izzy nodded.
"Mom… I don't like him like that, honestly I'm not all that interested in something right now either, we're just friends."
"Don't let him pressure you ok?"
"Mom, you may carry a gun for protection, but you so don't need it, you and uncle Derek trained me in hand to hand combat, I know how to protect myself." JJ smirked from her spot by the bathroom as she got ready.
"Emily, she's a big girl, you should trust her." JJ said as she walked over still putting an earring in.
"Ok, ok." Emily kissed Izzy's forehead. "I love you have fun." She said and JJ rolled her eyes hugging Izzy.
"I love you too, don't be dumb, and don't forget you have money on you." JJ smiled and Izzy nodded.
"By the way mom," Izzy smiled at JJ. "You look beautiful." JJ smiled and hugged Izzy again.
"All I have to do now is convince your mother into a dress every once in awhile and my life will be complete." JJ said and Izzy chuckled.
"Ok, sure mom. I've got to go, I'll see you soon."
"Ok honey." JJ said as she pushed Izzy out the door. She turned back to Emily, pulling her into a kiss.
"We did good." Emily said and JJ nodded.
"We did very good." She smiled, stepping away from Emily. "Now get ready, we're suppose to meet Sandra and Jordan in half an hour."
"But… there is so much we could do in that time instead."
"Oh really? I think I'd rather take my time with certain other things." JJ said walking away from Emily. Emily sighed and grabbed her clothes from the closet bar.
"You'll be the death of me Jennifer Jareau."
"Once again, you weren't saying that the other night."
"Oh I was, just a different context behind it." Emily smirked and JJ kissed her.
"Hurry please." Emily laughed. Changed, cleaned up and excited Emily waited for JJ to finish getting ready.
"Come on JJ…" Emily whined and JJ rolled her eyes, looking over her shoulder at Emily.
"I only need a few more minutes." She said pulling the curling iron away from her head for the last time.
"But you look beautiful already, why do I get the feeling you want to be over the top?"
"Because I do, and you've never complained about over the top before."
"Very true." Emily smiled and JJ took her hand.
"Ready?"
"Always." Emily stood up and the two women walked out of their hotel room, walking to the main lobby where they were to meet Jordan and Sandra. JJ sat next to Emily on one of the benches provided by the resort, her head resting on Emily's shoulder, she played with Emily's wedding ring, twirling it around Emily's finger. Sandra walked in a few steps ahead of her husband who was busy playing with his new camera, spotting the two women he snapped a photo of them. Walking over to Sandra he showed it to her, smiling she kissed her husband.
"We should give that to them."
"I agree." He smiled.
"You two ready?" Sandra asked as they got closer, JJ looked up and them and smiled.
"Yeah, we are." Emily said lacing her fingers with JJ. Standing up the group of four headed toward the bus station.
"I must admit, I feel a little underdressed." Sandra said looking at Emily and JJ. Emily had a suit on while JJ wore a blue button down and black skirt on. Emily laughed and shook her head.
"Don't, you look amazing." She smiled at the woman who smiled back.
"We just felt like getting a little dressed up tonight." JJ said.
"And by we she means her, and she forced me." Emily said and JJ swatted her arm. "But I love it." Emily said and JJ smiled resting her head on Emily's shoulder as they walked. The four continued to talk while on the bus going to Downtown Disney.
"Anyone else hope we don't run into Izzy and Zack?" Jordan asked and JJ laughed nodding.
x-x-x
Zack kept looking back at Izzy who had her eyes glued to a girl about their age. Sighing he walked over to her, leaning down to whisper in her ear.
"Go have fun, I'll cover for you ok?" Izzy smiled hugging Zack around the neck.
"I promise to make it up to you." She said and kissed his cheek, he laughed.
"It's alright Iz, I kind of wanted to head back to Epcot anyway, and there was this girl that worked in."
"Mexico!"
"You know who I'm talking about?"
"Go for it! She'd love you." Izzy said and Zack smiled, Izzy looked at Zack then undid some of the buttons on his shirt only to realize he had his tee shirt on still. "Take the shirt off." She said and he obeyed handing it to her, she put it in his bag, and looked at his jeans. "Where'd your belt go?" she asked and he pulled it out of the bag. "Ok put it on, it adds a certain flare."
"Ok." He listened and she looked him over once more.
"You're good." She smiled and Zack looked her over.
"Undo your hair." He said and she pulled the hair tie out. "That's better."
"Ok, no trouble and we have to met back at the hotel at twelve thirty ok?"
"It's a deal." He smiled, they hugged and headed off in separate directions. Barely a minute later Zack ran right into JJ.
"Zack, I'm sorry, I should've been paying attention."
"It's alright Mrs. Prentiss."
"Zack, call me JJ I insist. Where's Izzy?" Zack paled.
"She went into a store…"
"Ok… so that's not my daughter hanging off some stranger?"
"No?"
"Zack you are a terrible liar." JJ said as she walked over to Izzy. "Isabel." JJ said and Izzy jumped away from the girl.
"Mom… I'm so dead aren't I?"
"You are so damn lucky I caught you and not Emily."
"I know." Izzy couldn't look JJ in the eye still.
"You going to introduce me?"
"Um… this is Harmony."
"Hi." The girl said from behind Izzy.
"Isabel…" JJ sighed. "I can't stop you so I'm going to tell you what I told you earlier and I tell you a lot. You can make your own choices, just try to make smart ones." JJ said and Izzy nodded.
"Where's mom?" Izzy asked.
"She and Sandra are at the cirque thing, looking at the photos, Jordan is out with his camera, and I decided to come down to the harbor… only to find you hanging off some girl."
"Mom I am so sorry…" Izzy said and JJ shook her head, kissing Izzy's forehead.
"Just be smart ok? You're old enough now." JJ said and Izzy nodded, JJ walked away. "You told her I carry a gun right?" She said and Harmony stiffened.
"Mom! It's ok, she never uses it." Izzy said as JJ disappeared, still praying she made the right choice pushing Izzy in the right direction.
x-x-x
It was nearing midnight, Emily and JJ we're walking hand in hand back to the bus stations with Jordan and Sandra not far behind. Emily leaned her forehead against JJ's, stopping them in front of a lit fountain.
"I loved tonight." Emily said softly and JJ nodded her agreement, Jordan looked up at them and Sandra nudged him.
"Take a photo." She ordered, by the time he had the camera ready the water turned from fire red to a cyan color, making the women pop against the light. He looked at the screen and smiled showing it to Sandra, she smiled and nodded.
x-x-x
Zack kept looking at the time, he finally gave up and called Izzy, there was no answer, he didn't know how he was suppose to go tell his family what happened and why Izzy wasn't with him at half past one. Sighing he walked to his room, walking in he looked at his dad.
"Zachary what's wrong?" He asked standing up.
"I fucked up…"
"What happened honey?" Sandra walked up to him and Zack sighed.
"Izzy and I split up, I went back to Epcot, she went to hang out with some other girl, we were suppose to meet up at twelve thirty."
"That was an hour ago." Jordan pointed out.
"I was waiting hoping she was just running late."
"Shit… we need to go tell JJ and Emily." Jordan said grabbing the key card they went to Emily and JJ's room. Knocking softly on the door Jordan knew Emily was already worried when she opened the door.
"Emily…" Sandra said and stepped into the room.
"Oh god…" Emily said and JJ walked over to them.
"What happened?" She demanded and Zack looked at the ground.
"She never met back up." Zack said and Emily was close to tears. JJ pushed passed Zack and Jordan to get outside, leaving everyone behind. Pulling her cell phone out she called Izzy, it went straight to voicemail. She sighed and called Garcia.
"Hello?"
"Pen! I need you to pin point Izzy's phone."
"What's the matter?"
"She… She's lost."
"You suck at lying." Garcia said and typed away at her computer. "Alright, she isn't that far from you, if you go to your northeast you'll run into a pool, it says she's there."
"Thank you Pen." JJ said hanging up the phone. She started sprinting toward the reflecting pool. When it came to sight so did Izzy who had her knees tucked to her chest and tears falling down her cheeks. "Izzy…" JJ said and Izzy looked up at her.
"Mommy…" JJ walked over to her and wrapped her arms around Izzy.
"It's ok I got you." She whispered and Izzy started crying harder. JJ made Izzy look up at her. "You didn't make such a great choice did you?"
"I'm sorry," Izzy cried.
"It's ok, tell me what happened."
"I didn't realize she was that much older mom…"
"Ok…"
"She could drink…"
"You drank?" Izzy nodded.
"Mom… I slept with her." This shocked JJ and she hugged Izzy closer. "It was horrible… I feel so used." Izzy said and JJ rubbed circles on her back.
"It's ok, I promise, it's going to be ok, but we need to get you back to Emily… before she kills both of us." JJ said and Izzy nodded, standing up JJ helped her up. She wrapped an arm around her as they walked back to the room, Izzy shook more the closer they got. JJ opened the door to find that Jaden was up and Zack's family was still there, comforting Emily.
"Izzy!" Jaden said running up to Izzy hugging her legs.
"Hey you." Izzy ruffled his hair. "Shouldn't you be asleep?"
"Yeah but you were missing."
"Sandra… I know it's a lot to ask, but would you guys mind watching Jaden for the night?" JJ asked and Sandra shook her head, taking his hand they started to walk out.
"You be good bud ok? I love you." JJ said kissing him.
"I love you too mommy." Jaden smiled, he walked with Sandra out of the room. JJ sighed and shut the door.
"Isabel…" Emily looked at Izzy who started crying all over again, Emily walked over and wrapped Izzy in a hug. "Do I have to kill someone?" She asked and Izzy shook her head. "Do you want to tell me what happened?" Izzy shook her head again. "You do know you have to right?" Izzy nodded and Emily smiled. "Good, come on, sit down." Emily said walking them backwards till they hit the bed, sitting down Izzy looked up at Emily. Emily looked down at Izzy and saw her little girl so broken it ripped her heart to pieces.
"I made a mistake."
"Ok."
"I slept with someone." Emily felt her heart stop and had to force a nod out. "I feel so used…"
"Honey… did you use a condom?" Emily asked and Izzy looked up at her mother.
"I guess I should have said I slept with a girl." Emily relaxed a bit.
"If you say thank god I'm going to hit you." JJ warned and Emily nodded.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Emily asked and Izzy shook her head.
"I just want to shower and go to bed."
"I can arrange that." Emily smiled and Izzy nodded hugging onto her mother still.
"I'm so sorry mom."
"It's ok baby." Emily kissed the top of Izzy's head. "I love you."
"I love you too." Izzy said softly before getting up and heading to the bathroom. When the door shut Emily let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and flopped back onto the bed.
"Em…"
"Oh god…" Emily looked up at JJ. "Please tell me you're not about to tell me something I really don't want to hear?"
"I knew they split up."
"Jennifer! You could have stopped this?" Emily nearly yelled and JJ grabbed Emily's arm pulling her out of the room.
"I couldn't have stopped this… well I could have but we agreed to let our children make mistakes and we would only try to push them in the right direction."
"She's sixteen! She slept with someone, this isn't a mistake this is…"
"Emily stop… we all have to go through this at some point in time." JJ said and Emily ran her hands through her hair.
"I feel so useless." She said and JJ nodded.
"I do too." JJ stepped up and hugged Emily. "It's going to be ok, you know this right?"
"I do." Emily sighed and hugged JJ tightly back. "Did we mess up?"
"No… it was bond to happen sooner or later."
"God I wish it had been much later." Emily said making JJ chuckle.
"It's going to be ok." JJ said, "We have so much love in this family that we will make it ok."
"We do… I love you so much Jennifer." Emily said.
"I love you too Emily." JJ said looking back toward the room where Izzy was, crying sitting on the floor of the shower tub combo in the room. JJ prayed that she was right and everything was going to be ok.