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Warning: Self harm

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"Come on Princess, talk to me." Morgan encouraged, and took a step towards her.

Emily found herself unable to say anything. She couldn't will herself to admit what she had done…but nor could she deny it.

"Anything you tell me in confidence will stay that way. It's just between us." Morgan reassured her.

Emily nodded, and bit her lip in an attempt to keep the tears that had filled her eyes from falling down. She dared a glance at Morgan and saw his concerned eyes.

"I-" she stammered and looked at her palms.

Morgan put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her into his chest. He felt her heavy breaths and ran his hand through her dark hair.

"Come on, let's sit down," Morgan whispered into her ear.

He gently helped her to the ground and he slid so that he was up against the wall, pulling her into his side.

"What if she's not okay?" Emily whispered.

"Don't think like that Emily. JJ's strong- she can get through this."

"You know what we were talking about before I crashed the car?" Emily's glazed eyes were staring off into space. "That damn case. JJ was the one person who didn't blame me for what happened."

Morgan started to protest, but he stopped himself. They both knew that that was true.

"I was so distracted thinking about how I killed Caroline that now I might have killed JJ, too."

"Emily you didn't try to make this happen." Morgan didn't know what else to say.

"But that doesn't mean it didn't."

Morgan pulled Emily even closer to him, and the two of them sat silent in the hospital hallway. Every once in a while, he would run his fingers through Emily's hair or brush a stray tear off her face.

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"Morgan?" Hotch's voice came from behind him.

He turned his head, but stayed in the same position. Looking up, he saw Hotch standing in the doorway.

Emily immediately jumped up at the sound of Hotch's voice, moved away from Morgan, and wiped her eyes.

"JJ just woke up and the doctor has allowed two of us to see her," Hotch explained as he looked in confusion at Emily, who had obviously been in Morgan's arms.

"I want to see her." Emily's voice came out quiet, but determined nonetheless.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Morgan asked, looking at her in concern.

"I need to."

"Is it okay if I go with her Hotch?" Morgan asked, knowing that the unit chief would want to be the first to see JJ.

Hotch looked between the two of them. "That's fine."

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Emily and Morgan stood outside JJ's room. When the nurse inside exited, she noticed the pair and stopped to talk to them.

"As you know, Ms. Jareau suffered a very serious head injury. She is having a hard time with her short-term memory. She won't remember the accident or the past few days, but she does remember your team members. Also, she is having difficulty speaking. That isn't uncommon in these cases, and it should go away in time. I want you to keep a calm atmosphere in the room. A lot of times patients get anxious after these types of injuries. I will be right at the nurses' station across the hall if you need anything," she informed them. Since they had no questions, she left to the nurses' station.

"Are you sure you're ready Princess? No one would think any less of you if you wanted to wait," Morgan said.

"I'm sure." Emily stared at the door.

Morgan reached for the door knob and turned it. The door squeaked faintly as the hinges moved. He stepped inside first, with Emily right behind him.

When they entered the room, they saw JJ lying in the hospital bed. It looked as though the bed had absorbed her, she was so small.

A bandage was wrapped around her head, and her left leg was elevated and in a cast.

"Jayje…" Emily stepped over to the side of her friend's bed.

"H- h- hi," JJ stammered.

"How are you feeling?" Emily asked, concern filling her voice.

"I- I'm f- fi-" A look of annoyance crossed JJ's face.

"It's okay JJ, I get it." Emily's heart was breaking on the inside, but she wouldn't let it show.

Morgan approached the other side of the bed and put his hand gently on JJ's shoulder. "You gave us quite a scare JJ. I hope you're starting to feel better."

JJ nodded stiffly. "I d- don't re-reme- mber it." She struggled to speak.

"That's probably for the best," Morgan assured her.

Emily felt pain building up in the pit of her stomach. "I'm sorry Jayje," she whispered.

"Wh- why?" JJ questioned.

Morgan looked over at Emily and shook his head. He was trying to tell her that she didn't want to do this. She didn't want to tell JJ what had actually happened, that Emily had been driving the car.

"I'm just sorry you got hurt." Emily's voice cracked at the end of her sentence and she blinked away tears.

JJ nodded and suddenly spots of light started to fill her vision.

Emily was looking at her friend, and the next thing she saw she started shaking in her bed.

"Morgan?" Emily shouted, panicked.

Morgan ran to the door and flung it open. "Nurse!" He yelled in the direction of the nurses' station.

Emily stood frozen in her place as she saw nurses run in. They made sure that JJ wasn't going to hurt herself. Emily couldn't take her eyes off of her friend.

When JJ stopped shaking, the nurse injected something into her IV and made a note on her chart.

Another nurse walked over to Emily and Morgan, who had moved next to Emily.

"I'm sorry you had to see that. Witnessing a seizure can be quite scary. Sometimes, when a person experiences head trauma, they can start having seizures. We sedated Ms. Jareau so she wouldn't experience anymore seizures until the medicine can take effect," the nurse explained.

"I did this," Emily said numbly.

"What?" Morgan turned to her.

"Oh my God, I did this." Emily felt the overwhelming urge to hurt herself fill her. "I can't…I- I can't," she stammered. Her eyes darting around the room, she walked quickly out of the hospital room. Once she was out of the room, she started running. Tears blurred her vision and she didn't know where she was going. She just knew what she needed to do.

After a few minutes Emily finally stopped running. She searched around desperately and grabbed a pair of scissors from a nurse's desk near her, making sure that no one was near her.

She pulled up her right sleeve, and before she knew what she was doing, she had dragged the scissors across her pale wrist. She watched as the blood slid out of her wrist, and her final wall broke.

She dropped the scissors on the ground and felt tears flowing from her eyes, no longer able to hold them back.

Suddenly she heard someone yell her name.

"Emily!" Morgan shouted as he ran towards her.

He kicked the scissors away from her and wrapped his big hand around Emily's bleeding wrist.

Emily let out a sob and Morgan pulled her into his arms.

"Morgan, I hurt JJ like that…it's my fault," Emily cried.

"Shhh," he whispered into her ear. "Let's go get you some help."

She froze. "No Morgan, you can't tell anyone…" she pleaded.

"Let's just start by getting this wrapped up. Emily, you need to talk to me; I can't let you hurt yourself again." Morgan was angry with himself for letting it go this far. He shouldn't have let her run away.

Emily gripped Morgan like a lifeline, because that's exactly what he was. He was the one thing that was keeping her from going under.

From completely giving up.

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