JJ sighed as she watched Emily pull up into the driveway of her house. She felt like banging her head against the window when she noticed the two cars already parked in Em's drive. Pen and Elle were there and this meant that JJ's night wasn't going to be ending anytime soon. She seriously was starting to reconsider her decision to go with Em as opposed to staying to watch the end of the cockfight between her ex and current lover. Her night started so well; she could still feel the ghost of Morgan's lips against her body, the feel of his hands caressing her, his whispered words in her ears. Everything was going so well, and then as if fate decided to send her a personal fuck you for being a cheat, her house gets vandalized and she is hit with the reality that she is still engaged to man that has cheated on her repeatedly. She didn't know what was worst, Will's infidelity or her own? What was she waiting for? She had already chosen Morgan, so why was she waiting to end things with Will? There was nothing more for them; even more, she no longer loved Will.
She climbed out of the car and walked slowly toward the front door as if heading to her execution. It wasn't that she didn't love her friends or appreciate their advice and support, but right now she did not need the Spanish Inquisition, especially with the prying ways of Penelope Garcia. She glanced back to the car, wondering for a second if she could take Em, grab the keys and make a run for it. As if reading her mind, Em pushed her keys into her pockets and wrapped JJ up in a hug as they moved closer to the front door. She sighed defeated as Em pushed the doorbell instead of using her keys, not taking the risk of JJ making a move for her keys. JJ groaned as she watched the door open to the expectant faces of Elle and Pen; life seriously sucked right now.
She glanced at Em, pleading with her eyes for mercy but Em merely shooked her head and nodded for the door. JJ's feelings were no longer going to be spared, she was trapped and there was nowhere for her to go. 'God please strike me down now!' She looked to the sky wondering if only for a moment if God heard her request and was willing to carry it out but no bolts of lightning or even the rumble of thunder happened and JJ was left with her answer from her deity. It appeared even he wanted her to suffer at the clutches of her best friends. She walked into the house and headed straight to the couch, grabbing the nearest pillow and stuffing her face into it. Maybe she could pass out from suffocation and they would leave her alone, but she had no such luck, when she felt the pillow being yanked from her face only to replaced by the grinning face of Penelope Garcia.
"So, JJ…" Garcia wiggled her eyebrows, "My darling blonde hair, blue eyed angel, where were you tonight?"
JJ wondered for a second if she should avoid telling the truth but as she looked into the eyes of her best friends, she knew, right now was the time to tell the truth because she needed clarity and guidance. "I, uh, I was with Morgan earlier tonight." She left it there, unable to continue and look her friends in their eyes.
"You were with Morgan? Okay, what am I missing here?" Pen looked around to Em and Elle as she noticed the solemn air that blanketed the room. "Elle? Em? Will someone please tell me what the hell I am missing? JJ, you were with Morgan and…" Pen looked around the room waiting for someone to enlighten her but no one made a move to do so. "Gosh, the way you guys are acting, it's like something happened between JJ and Morgan that wouldn't exactly be considered appropriate." Pen laughed slightly at her observation but she noticed the tension in the room only seemed to have thickened. "JJ? Are you guys serious right now, OMG, this is serious, you slept with Morgan!"
JJ winced at the accusatory tone and finger that Pen pointed at her. "Pen, I'm sorry, I mean I don't even really understand all of it myself, it just happened." JJ looked up to Pen and tried to fight back the tears she felt prickling the back of her eyes. She felt like she wanted to break down as she pretty much admitted to her friends that she was having an affair.
What JJ didn't expect to happen was the squeal of excitement that came from Pen's lips and the bear hug that she received from her as well. JJ was pretty sure she entered another reality as she looked at the smiling faces of her friends. "Oh sweetie! This is so exciting! I always thought that you and Morgan would get together, but then there was Will and Henry and it just didn't seem like it would happen. Oh my God, your kids are going to be so gorgeous. Wow, now that I think about it, you guys are going to have really sexy kids. I get dibs on being their godmother."
JJ stared in horror at all things that Pen said. Kids? As in more than one? She shook her head clear of that thought and focused back on the fact that Pen approved of her and Morgan. JJ was always afraid of how Pen would react the most especially of the flirtatious manner of Pen and Morgan's relationship, but right now it appeared Pen was the captain of the flagship leading the JJ and Morgan parade. She shook her head in wry amusement as once again Penelope Garcia managed to surprise her.
"Hold up Pen. Let the woman breathe." Em pulled Pen back to give JJ some space so she could have the opportunity to tell them the whole story. Em gave her an encouraging smile before sharing a knowing glance with Elle.
JJ looked around the room once again before taking a breath and telling the story, "It started the night we went out to the club about a month or so ago. You know how everyone was coupled up and it just reminded me of how my relationship with Will was going down the drain. There I was watching my friends being in the relationship with their dream men and me, I'm sitting there wondering why my relationship hasn't turned out that way. Then I noticed our resident Casanova on the dance floor doing his thing and before I know it were dancing together and having drinks and it felt like the first time in a real long time that I was having fun. He helped me forget my problems and it felt good." She paused as she thought about what she was going to say next. "So, you know the night carried on until we were all doubling up to leave and from what I can remember, I invited Morgan into my house and then we…" JJ gestured with her hands to get her point across without having to actually say the words.
"Oh no. JJ we want details." JJ glared at Elle as she felt herself flush with embarrassment knowing that they wanted details of the first night that her and Morgan spent together. Elle brushed off her glare by continuing, "What makes you think we could want all the juicy details of you and Morgan doing the horizontal mambo." She wiggled her brows in emphasis and JJ couldn't help bursting out in laughter while throwing a pillow in Elle's direction. It was the first time she was out of Morgan's presence and she felt comfortable about what they were doing. It felt good to know that her friends were in support of her in this and it eased her guilt, if only a little.
"You guys are incorrigible." Pen fixed her with puppy eyes and JJ could only sigh before capitulating to them, "Well ladies, lets just say that Morgan's reputation has much to stand upon, he's quite talented and that is all I'm saying."
"What! No, no, we need more than that, I mean how big is he?"
"Oh my God, Pen, I can not believe you just asked me that." JJ covered her face in embarrassment from her friend's lack of tact.
"JJ, I apologize for Pen's abrasiveness. But to be honest, I really want to know too, and you say he's quite talented, meaning…" Em waved her hand signaling JJ to complete the statement.
"You guys are pathetic, but if you must know, Derek is quite…" JJ rolled her eyes before continuing, "gifted in that area." She put up her hands parallel to each other before widening them making Elle's, Em's and Pen's eyes pop.
"Really?" Was the only word that Elle could get out. JJ only nodded in reply.
"Really?" It was Em's turn to ask and JJ smiled at how the rest of her night was shaping up.
"Pfft, I always knew that Morgan would be blessed." Pen crossed her arms over her chest and nodded her head in a sagely way that had everyone cracking up. "Anyways continue with the story."
JJ nodded before continuing, "Well you can imagine how surprised the both of us were waking up the next morning to each other. The strange thing about the whole situation to me was that it felt right, I wasn't panicking, I felt as if that was exactly how I was supposed to be waking up every morning for the rest of my life." JJ rolled her eyes at the 'aww' eyes her friends were making and the tears appearing in Pen's eyes. JJ literally felt like she was a forbidden love novel. She sighed before carrying on. "Anyways, when reality hit, we started freaking out, I headed into the kitchen to make coffee, anything to get me away from the memories of what we were doing the night before and soon Morgan joined me there. Next thing I know we're making out in the kitchen and if I hadn't of knocked over that coffee cop we probably would have had sex right there on my kitchen counter."
"Damn cup, that probably would have been soo hot." JJ smirked at Pen's words, licking her lips and she thought about it for the first time. Oh yea, her and Morgan in the kitchen would definitely be hot.
"Only you Pen would find a way to get mad at cup." Elle jested with Garcia before poking her for good measure. "Anyways JJ, keep going. What happened next? Did you guys realize that you both have been in love with each other forever and decided to have an illicit affair?
JJ winced at the word 'affair' and Elle immediately felt like she wanted to take it back. As much as she knew that JJ was with Will, she preferred Morgan for her friend and she knew that JJ's guilt alone was probably putting a downer on something that could end up being really special for JJ and Morgan. She wanted to see her best friends happy and she knew they could be just that with each other.
"Well, not exactly, I kind of kicked Morgan out, I knew that I should've made him stay so we could talk but all I could think about was his lips and every time we got close it was like we drawn together by something powerful. Our minds might have been thinking talk but our bodies were doing something else completely." She blushed at the catcalls her friends were making. "You guys are stupid, you know that right? Anyways, Morgan left and I felt like a complete mess, I mean I cheated on the father of my child, and while I suspected that Will hadn't been particularly faithful himself, I still felt guilt-ridden. It was like my feelings for Morgan and what had happened between us truly drove home that my relationship with Will was over. Eventually Will came home and he admitted to me that he had been cheating on me." JJ closed her eyes against how painful that memory was to her.
She was shocked out of the memory when she heard Pen shout, "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch. Honestly JJ, you're better off, he was not deserving of you, never mind the fact that the man that you are with now is an Adonis." JJ smiled at Garcia before deciding to go forward.
"Will wanted to apologize and tell me that he was going to be a better man, I ended up telling him that I needed time before I decided what we were going to do where our relationship was concerned, but I think deep down I already knew that I was going to end up with Morgan. He was all that I could think about. Funnily enough the morning that I came into work I was so sure that I was going to blurt out the truth to you guys when you cornered me in the office." JJ gave Pen a pointed look while Garcia had the decency to blush in embarrassment. " Surprisingly enough it was Morgan who distracted me from spilling the beans. I saw him down the hallway and it was like I was trapped in his stare, I can't even tell you guys what looking at the man did to me. Moving on, while we were on the case Morgan and I got into an argument about all of this, him claiming we could be together and me saying it couldn't happen; that I wasn't ready to choose. The thing was that he was right and that day when we nearly lost him in the fire drove him how close I came losing him."
"I went to his room that night to talk to him and I saw how badly hurt he was and I got angry at him claiming that I couldn't be with him unless he was willing to start acting like he had a family that he was to come home to. Next thing I was making out with him in his hotel room and then I left him hanging before anything more could happen between us. He was not happy about that. He let me know that when I saw him tonight when he took me against the door." JJ gasped in surprise as the last sentence slipped out her mouth. She looked at her friends whose mouths were all open in surprise. "Close your mouths before flies try and make homes in there. You said you guys wanted the story and I'm giving to you. So yea, Morgan was rocking my world before I got the call about my house and was once again I was hit with the reality that I have a fiancé who happens to be the father of my child and now I don't know what to do." JJ felt her tears return but this time she could not hold them back as she broke down from the weight of this whole situation. She continued to cry as Pen held her while Em and Elle stroked her hair and arm respectively.
Back to Will and Derek:
Will looked at Morgan as he stood watching JJ in her room. Why was he here? Will could understand a friend coming to check on the situation but did not Derek see that he was here? That he could handle the situation and protect JJ. He was starting to get upset; he knew him and JJ were not on the best of terms but that did not meant that he was not enough to handle this. Damn it, he's the fucking reason why the cops and all this shit was going on. This was not how he expected the situation to play out; she was supposed to come home and shocked that something like this happened; she's supposed to look to something familiar, something strong to hold on to and seek comfort from a.k.a. him. Instead she came home with Derek Morgan. It was him she received comfort from, him that she reached for when she was vulnerable. To say that Will was pissed was an understatement. That fucking whore was pushing his patience and he was that much closer to snapping again. He could feel the rage rising inside of him and he gritted his teeth as he fought the instinct to smash something again.
He sucked in a breath as he tried calming himself down; he couldn't stop the glare that appeared on his face as he looked Derek up and down. He didn't get what made the girls so hot for him, there was nothing special about the guy, he was alright looking but nothing spectacular. He huffed in frustration; when he looked the fucker in the eye he didn't get the message that he wasn't needed or really wanted. Like a cockroach you can't get rid of he stuck around and looks like he has every intention of sticking with JJ to see this through. He doesn't belong here. Will hated the way Morgan's eyes were filled with something akin to the way he used to look at JJ. It was the way he looked at her that made Will start to wonder if there was really something going on between JJ and Morgan. If that was true then Morgan was every bit as guilty as the whore he had a child with.
Derek watched Will as the emotions changed over his face, wondering for a second if it was possible that Will was apart of all of this. Derek needed proof though before he told JJ of his suspicions; he didn't want her to think that he was slandering Will just because he was the other man, plus JJ made it seem earlier that she had made her choice. He just hoped that she stuck with him through all of this. He was going to fight for JJ; Derek was no fool, though he was often mistaken as just the BAU's muscle, he was far more than that and he intended to prove that. Will didn't deserve JJ and even more if he was apart of this, then Morgan had every intention of keeping Will away from both her and Henry. He would ensure it. Morgan nodded toward Will once before heading out to speak quickly with the officers outside before going to his car and heading home for the night. There was not much more he could do, but wait for now.