Hey everybody... sorry you had to wait so long for the next chapters - I played them over and over and over in my mind trying to figure out the best way to lay everything out - so I hope you really enjoy them :D

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"Is this how you got out buddy?" Emily asked Sergio as she pulled open the drapes of her bedroom window and saw that the window was about halfway open. Her gun pointed at the panes of glass as she had just finished clearing the rest of her apartment. She wasn't taking any chances with knowing that Ian Doyle was out there somewhere.

She closed and locked the window, keeping her gun pointed at the panes of glass as the window slammed shut and the lock clicked in place. Then she turned and tucked her gun into the holster nestled in the back waistband of her pants as she made her way around the end of the bed.

Emily took a deep calming breath as she picked up the cordless phone from the nightstand next to her bed and dialed Brianna's number. "Hey Brianna; it's Emily."

"Yeah, I just got back now. It was good. Thanks… um… did you leave the fire escape window open for Sergio to get out?" Emily's eyes slipped shut and she sighed in relief at Brianna's confirmation that she had left the window open for Sergio.

"Okay." Emily sighed. "No it just it was open and I was wondering how it got that way. It's fine. No, no there's no water damage." Emily replied as she walked around the foot of the bed to look out the window.

"Um… it's fine. Thank you so much for taking care of him while I was gone." Emily said as she turned back around attempting to calm her nerves. "Uh, you want to have brunch this weekend? ... Okay, cool! I'll give you a call. Okay, bye." She said and then pulled the phone away from her ear and dropped it on the bed.

Sergio walked across the room and stopped at Emily's feet, meowing to be picked up.

"Buddy," She spoke to Sergio as she bent over to pick him up. "puh" she murmured as she made kissy noises and tussled Sergio's black fur. She pet his back and then let him go as he leapt out of her arms just as the phone rang.

She turned to looker at the answering machine when she saw that it was an unknown caller on the caller ID.

"Hi its Emily, leave a message." Emily's voice came from the answering machine. There was silence at the sound of the tone. Then after a long moment the silence was followed by the sound of a dial tone. Emily set the phone back down on the bed and set about securing her apartment so that she wouldn't be caught unaware.

JJ smiled into her pillow as she woke up to the feeling of a naked Spence snuggled against her back. Her smile grew as his arms tightened around her and he buried his face in her neck and began placing soft kisses up and down her neck.

She moaned and arched her back into Spence as she lifted her arm and wrapped it around the back of Spence's head, carding her fingers through his hair. "Good morning baby."

"Good morning beautiful" Spence replied, smiling into JJ's neck as his hands slid up her belly to cup her breasts as her arching back pushed them forward. He ground his erection into her ass to tease her.

Then a phone started ringing.

"Ugh" JJ half moaned, half sighed in frustration. "Baby, you better get your phone. It's probably Hotch with a case."

"Not my phone ringing." Spence murmured into her neck. He continued placing soft kisses and nuzzling her neck. One hand continued to palm one of her breasts while his other hand slid ever so slowly and gracefully down her belly, pausing to trace random patterns on the flesh of her belly, drawing out the moment when he'd reach his ultimate destination.

"Who… oh god baby,… who's calling… oh… me at 6 am?" JJ moaned as she lifted her head to look at the alarm clock. Then she stretched to reach over to the nightstand on her side of the bed for her cell phone, blindly fumbling to pick up her phone as Spence's hands continued to work their magic on her body.

Spence continued kissing her shoulder and letting his hands roam up and down JJ's body. He traced a circle around her belly button and then his fingers slid into the nest of golden curls at the apex of her thighs.

"Jareau" JJ managed to somehow answer the phone professionally. She squeezed her eyes shut in concentration against the incredibly sexy things Spence was doing with his hands and mouth at the moment. She hoped whoever was on the phone made it quick. She bit her lip in an attempt to hold back a moan as Spence's fingers evilly teased her while she was on the phone. She was so getting him back the second she was off the phone.

Hearing an unexpected voice for 6 am, at least anymore, on the other end of the phone caused JJ to shoot straight up in bed. "Will, what are you doing calling at 6 am?" JJ asked as she glanced at Spence apologetically. If there was a bigger mood killer than your ex-boyfriend calling while you were in bed with your current boyfriend, she didn't know what it was. She did know that if Will weren't the father of the precious little boy sound asleep in the room across the hall, she'd be telling him to stick his phone somewhere unpleasant right now.

Spence sat up next to JJ. He knew she needed to take Will's call. He was after all Henry's father. He leaned over and whispered in JJ's ear. "I'm going to go take a shower."

JJ nodded. "Hang on just one second Will." She said and then put her hand over the mouth piece of the phone and turned her head to kiss Spence. "I love you." she whispered softly against his lips as she pulled away from their brief good morning kiss.

"I love you too." Spence replied with a smile as he threw back the covers on his side of the bed and climbed out of the bed, pausing to stretch for just a moment.

JJ bit her lip as she lifted her phone back to her ear and watched the show going on next to her as her boyfriend stretched his tall lean naked form. "Yeah, I'm here Will… no… yes, that would be okay." She responded as she watched Spence walk across the bedroom and into the bathroom and close the door.

With her distractingly good looking naked boyfriend out of the room, JJ turned her full attention to her phone conversation with Will. "I understand Will. Yes, of course you want to pick up more of your stuff. Henry will be excited to see you too. What time does your flight land… okay, we'll see you tonight then. Sure, I can leave it a surprise for Henry. Okay. Bye." JJ hung up her phone and flopped back against the pillows and covered her eyes with her arm.

Will was flying back to DC later today to get his things and spend a few days with Henry. She only hoped that things could remain as amicable between them as they'd been so far once Will found out that she'd moved on and was now in a relationship with Spence.

At the thought of Spence, JJ smiled and hopped out of bed. The man she loved was currently alone and naked in her shower and she definitely owed him for continuing to tease her while she was on the phone. After all, she had promised herself to get him back when she was off the phone, and if you couldn't keep a promise to yourself, then who could you keep a promise to?

"So he's coming to get more of his things?" Spence asked confused as JJ explained the reason for Will's call so early in the morning.

JJ nodded as she took a sip of her tea. She really wanted coffee, but she was being supportive of Spence in his effort to cut back on his caffeine consumption to see if it helped his headaches. "Mm hm."

Spence looked down at his coffee cup. He too wished it was coffee instead of tea in the cup. Then he lifted his eyes to look at JJ over the rim of his cup as he took a sip of tea. "What about Henry?" he asked after swallowing his sip of tea.

"I'm sure he's going to be really excited to see his Dad, but Will wants it to be a surprise." JJ replied as she glanced at her watch checking the time to make sure she got Henry up with plenty of time to spare for breakfast.

"Do… do you think Will is going to try and convince you to get back together?" Spence asked curiously.

"I hope not, for his sake. All we did was fight constantly at the end, so I can't imagine why he would possibly want to get back together." JJ mused. "Even if he does; it's not happening. I love you Spence and you are the only person I want to be with. You know that right?"

Spence nodded. "I love you too JJ." He said as he leaned down and kissed her. Then they heard the sounds of a certain two year old boy waking up just upstairs. "You go get Henry and I'll make breakfast."

JJ smiled at Spence as she slid down off of the barstool at the bar in the kitchen. She leaned up to kiss him and reached around to pinch his ass at the same time.

"JJ!" Spence yelped as he jumped in surprise.

JJ laughed. "You can consider that to be me getting you back for continuing to tease me while I was on the phone earlier. I meant to get you back in the shower… but I might have gotten a little distracted." JJ smirked and then leaned up to kiss Spence again and then pulled away and turned and walked out the kitchen to help Henry get ready for the day.

"Where's Prentiss?" Morgan asked as he walked into the round table room, cup of coffee in hand.

"I don't know. Her car wasn't here when I rode in this morning." Reid replied as he craned his neck to look at Morgan while he walked behind him.

"I'm gonna give her a call, get her ETA." Garcia said as she rose from her chair at the table and headed for the door.

Just as Garcia reached the door of the conference room, Prentiss walked in. "Hey" she said as she slipped past Garcia with her bags still over her shoulder.

"Somebody have a long night?" Morgan asked as he tracked Prentiss across the round table room with his gaze.

Prentiss gazed back at Morgan over her shoulder. "Somebody want to mind their own business?"

Morgan stood looking at Emily's back as she got coffee with a perplexed look on his face. Emily had never reacted to his teasing like that before. Something was definitely up with her.

"Garcia?" Hotch said as he strode into the room all business with the stack of folders in his hand and his suit jacket flapping in the breeze created by his brisk stride.

"Spin the wheel and it is sunny Los Angeles people." Garcia said as she lifted the remote and turned on the monitor.

"Two times in one year huh?" Morgan asked as he settled into his seat.

"Remind me again why it's called the 'City of Angels'?" Rossi said in a deadpan voice.

"It was originally called the Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels" Reid paused as he felt everyone's eyes on him. "That was a rhetorical question wasn't it?" he asked as he looked around at everybody.

"Methanol is compositionally speaking the simplest of the alcohols." Reid explained as he stood in the galley of the jet. "It's actually ubiquitous in the environment. There's small traces of its vapor in the atmosphere, but atmospheric methanol is easily oxidized by sunlight." He said as he opened up the container of tea bags and reached in to select one, when what he really wanted was a sugar laden cup of coffee. Damn his headaches.

"Is it toxic?" Emily asked as she twisted in the booth to look at Reid.

"Uh, ingesting ten milliliters of it will cause permanent blindness and as little as thirty is potentially fatal." Reid replied as he opened his tea bag.

"Well these victims had between five and six ounces in their lungs." Morgan said as he flipped through the file and then looked over at Reid.

"You know if there were immersed in it, they would have died even without ingesting or inhaling it. When absorbed through the skin, it depresses the central nervous system to an unsustainable degree." He said as he focused on making sure not to spill the hot water on himself as her pour some in his cup.

"Well what's it used for?" Morgan asked as Reid head out of the galley to sit at one of the small tables.

"What isn't it used for?" Reid asked as he slid into his seat and got comfortable. "Uh, solvent, in anti-freeze, in World War II the Germans used it for rocket fuel; it's used in wine making; its most common place use however is in the creation of other chemicals. Methanol can become plastic, plywood, paint, explosives, permanent-press textiles; it's essentially the chemical used to separate other chemicals from each other."

Morgan raised his eyebrows as he listened to Reid rattle off all of the different uses of methanol. One thought was running through his head. Thank god Reid was on their side, because if they ever had to try to profile and track down Reid, they would be SOL.

"Can it be bought? Is it tracked?" Emily asked as she continued to look back at Reid in his seat behind her where she was seated in the booth with Hotch and Rossi.

"California's got some of the strictest environmental laws in the country. I'm sure it's regulated." Hotch added.

"Yeah, but methanol is also used in making bio-fuels, which quite a few people have been doing at home. I'd imagine that the sale of it is fairly common place." Rossi said as he jumped into the conversation.

"But he needs enough in which to immerse a body." Hotch rebutted and then the team continued to discuss the case, moving on from the methanol to the patch of skin, to the randomness and widespread area of the abduction and dumpsites.

"…this guy could be anywhere. LA is over five hundred square miles." Morgan said in concern for how they were going to narrow down their profile quickly enough to catch the unsub before he moved on to another victim.

"Uh… four hundred and ninety eight point three…" Reid replied out of habit and then began playing with the string of his tea bag as he glanced out the window at realizing he'd slid into an old habit that he was trying to break.

Morgan chuckled under his breath… yep if pretty boy ever changed sides they were screwed… then he refocused on the conversation about how well the unsub knew the city.

"Henry, baby, look who's here." JJ whispered in Henry's ear as she knelt down next to him to take his coat off and glanced over her shoulder at where Will sat on the couch. Will had taken a taxi from the airport and let himself in the house with his key. He'd beaten JJ and Henry home by about half an hour.

Henry stood on his tip toes to peek over Mommy's shoulder. Then he gasped. "Dada you home!" He scurried as quickly as his little legs could carry him over to his Daddy.

"Hey jumpin' bean!" Will said as he stood up and scooped his son up into his arms.

JJ smiled as she took off her own coat and hung it up along with Henry's. She felt her heartstrings tug as she watched father and son greet each other. Will was a great guy and a great father. She hoped that he could move on and find someone who would love him the way he deserved to be loved.

Will grinned as he settled Henry on his hip. "Hey ch… JJ." Will said catching himself before he could utter his nickname for JJ.

"Will… how was the flight?" JJ asked as she stood awkwardly in her own living room with her arms crossed, unsure of what she should expect in this situation.

"Fine; fine." Will replied awkwardly nodding and not knowing what else to say.

"Dada, Dada" Henry said as he tapped his Daddy on the shoulder to get his attention.

"What is it buddy?" Will asked as he turned to look at Henry.

"You tome see my bed."

"You want me to go see your bed?" Will asked and then glanced at JJ.

JJ smiled. "Henry is sleeping in a big boy bed now, aren't you baby?" JJ asked as she looked at Henry.

"Uh huh. I wike it." Henry said as he nodded eagerly.

"Well alright then, let's go see your new bed." Will replied as he headed for the stairs, relieved for the distraction from the tension between himself and JJ.

JJ smiled as she stood in the doorway of Henry's room after kissing her baby boy goodnight and watched as Will tucked Henry in and kissed him goodnight. Then she turned and headed for the stairs.

A few minutes later, Will came down the stairs and into the living room. "You know I've been staying busy just tryin' to forget how much I miss him." He said as he crossed the living room and sat down on the far end of the couch from JJ. He cleared his throat and turned to look at JJ. "Is this… are we really… do ya think maybe we should uh…"

JJ winced as she realized that Will was going to ask exactly what she'd been hoping that he wouldn't.

Will cleared his throat again. "I've uh… been thinkin' while I was in N'awlins… and I was wonderin' if maybe we shouldn't get back together?"

'Yep, there it was.' JJ thought to herself as she took a deep breath and a moment to gather her thoughts. Then she turned to look at Will. "No." She shook her head. "No, we shouldn't Will. None of the reasons we broke up have changed… and they aren't ever going to change."

Will's eyes widened. That hadn't been the response he'd been expecting. All the times he'd thought about it, he'd envisioned JJ welcoming him back with open arms… a big kiss… maybe some passionate make-up sex. He sure as hell hadn't expected to be told no. The wheels in his head were turning as he studied JJ as she sat before him. Something was different. She was different. "There's someone else isn't there?"

JJ sighed and rubbed her fingers across her forehead and her thumb against her temple. "Yes. Spence and I are together…"

Will narrowed his eyes. "YOU WHAT!"

"Keep your voice down." JJ said tersely "In case you've forgotten, we just put Henry to bed."

"How can you have moved on already?" he growled as he lowered his voice.

"Just how long was I supposed to wear black and mourn our relationship?" JJ snapped in frustration.

Will clenched and unclenched his hands and his jaw twitched. This was not how things were supposed to have gone.

JJ sighed and then attempted to get Will to see reason. "You might not like it Will, but we are over. I've moved on and you need to move on too." She sighed as she looked at Will "All we've done over the last six months… since I left the BAU is fight. Is that really the relationship you want be in? We don't have anything in common… When was the last time we had a civil conversation that didn't revolve around Henry?"

Will opened his mouth to argue, but then closed it as he realized that JJ was right.

"I love Henry, Will. I could never regret him, ever…" JJ said.

"Then why won't you give us another chance?" Will asked angrily. "Henry deserves to grow up with two parents."

"He has two parents Will." JJ retorted. "I certainly hope that you aren't implying that that will change if we aren't together anymore." She snapped as she crossed her arms and stared him down.

"That's not what I meant and you know it." Will said as he pointed at JJ. "Why are you always twisting my words and turning them around on me?"

JJ sighed deeply as she realized that this was getting them nowhere. "This is exactly what I'm talking about Will. A relationship has to be built on more than having a child together or someday we'll resent each other. We agreed, remember?"

"Yeah… I remember." Will replied as he thought back to the discussion they'd had almost four months ago when they decided to split up. "but I…" Will muttered something under his breath.

JJ raised her eyebrows as she caught what Will muttered. "You thought that eventually we'd get back together didn't you?" JJ asked as she tipped her head studying Will. "That's why you were so agreeable about us splitting up. You thought that if you gave me time and space that I'd miss you and maybe I'd forget all about everything we talked about."

"I just didn't think you'd move on so quickly. Hell it's only been three months since we agreed to split up and two since I went to N'awlins." Will replied with his jaw clenched. "Just how long did it take you to jump in Spencer's bed?" Will taunted nastily.

"That's none of your business! Damn you Will LaMontagne!" JJ cursed. "Six months… a year… it wouldn't have changed any of this. I tried everything I could think of to save us. Everything… but we don't work together. You know what I think it is? I think you're jealous that I'm moving on before you got a chance to."

Will shifted uncomfortably in his seat as JJ hit a little too close to home.

"We are over Will, but you're right; Henry does deserve to have two parents that love him and can stand to be in the same room together. Holidays and birthdays would be a lot more pleasant if we could be friends." JJ said as she stood up from the couch, turned on her heels, and headed upstairs.

JJ fumed as she packed a few things to go spend the night at Spence's. She'd be damned if she'd stay here and deal with Will. Henry was down for the night. She'd get up early and come back before Henry woke up.

Then her hands paused as she picked her pajamas up off the bed. How would she feel if it was the other way around? Would she be angry and hurt if it she wanted to get back together and Will said no? How would she feel if Will was already in another relationship? They had spent the four years together. He deserved the benefit of the doubt, even if he was being an ass right now.

She finished packing and stepped out into the hallway only to run into the solid wall of Will's chest.

"JJ, I…" Will paused as he looked as JJ's duffle bag and then at JJ with large eyes. "Where the hell are you going?" he asked angrily.

JJ held her hand up. "Stop it Will. If this is about Henry, you don't have to worry. Spence isn't trying to replace you." JJ said as she shook her head. "You are Henry's father and you always will be. I'm not trying to cut you out of Henry's life. I'm just moving on with my own life. Just because you and I aren't together doesn't mean you're losing Henry. Henry loves you. You're his Daddy, but he loves his Uncle Spence too… Don't make him choose. Don't put him in the middle. He is the only person that should matter now. Tonight should have been proof enough that you and I don't work."

"JJ…" Will said softly.

JJ shook her head. "Think about what I said and sleep on it. We can talk more tomorrow… but for tonight I'm going to get out of here before either of us says something that we really regret and can't take back."

Will nodded.

"I really would like us to be able to be friends Will." JJ murmured as she slipped past Will and headed downstairs.

Will watched her go. Then he turned to follow her. Maybe a beer and some Sports Center would help him clear his mind.

"Dada?" he heard softly from just beyond the door of Henry's room.

"Hey Henry, what are you doing awake?" Will spoke softly as he entered Henry's room. "You're supposed to be asleep." He said as he sat down on the edge of Henry's bed.

"Yewwing waked me up." Henry said as he looked up at his Daddy with sad eyes.

That cut through Will's heart like a knife. How many times had a fight between him and JJ woke up their son and they hadn't noticed because they'd been too busy screaming at each other about god knows what. "I'm sorry buddy. Mommy and I didn't mean to be so loud or to wake you up." Will whispered as he leaned down and kissed the top of Henry's head.

"I no wike it." Henry whimpered.

Will sighed. "I know buddy. I don't like it when Mommy and I fight either." He said as he lay down on the bed next to Henry and looked at the little boys blue eyes just like his mothers. Then out of curiosity and because a two year old would tell you anything you wanted to know if you asked the right questions. "Do Mommy and Uncle Spencer fight?"

"No" Henry shook his head. "Unca 'Pence make Mama waff… he make me waff too."

"Yeah?" Will asked as he tried to remember the last time he'd made JJ laugh. He began to realize exactly what JJ was talking about when he realized how long it had been since he'd seen her laugh. And that didn't even count, because he wasn't the one who'd made her laugh…. Maybe she had a point. "What else do you like about spending time with Uncle Spencer?" Will asked as he looked at Henry.

"He wead to me an tell me 'tories… we pway… "

"Sounds like you have a lot of fun with Uncle Spencer." Will said sincerely as he realized how much Spencer meant to Henry and how important a part of his little boy's life Spencer had become.

"Uh huh" Henry nodded. "Dada you 'tay an pway wif us?" Henry asked in a sleepy voice.

"Sure buddy…" Will replied as he watched Henry's eyes flutter open and shut as he fell back asleep. He leaned forward and kissed his small son on the forehead. The best thing to come out of his and JJ's relationship had been Henry. He couldn't afford to screw it up. The fighting between himself and JJ had to stop. It was already affecting Henry and he was only two. JJ was right. They didn't work as a couple. They hadn't for quite some time, but they could be friends and raise their son together. It'd take him some time…but he had to let JJ go. That probably made it a good thing that he needed to go back to New Orleans for at least a few more months.

It was late and Emily was exhausted as she made her way up the stairs of her building. She walked down the hall towards her condo door, juggling her keys in her hand. She absent mindedly reached up and scratched the back of her head. And then she saw it. A long box wrapped with a ribbon was leaning against her door.

Spence wearily walked up the stairs to his apartment. He'd much rather be going over to JJ's and climbing into bed with his girlfriend, but it was late and she was probably sound asleep. Plus she had company. Until he heard from her how things had gone with Will, it could make for an awkward morning tomorrow if he stayed at JJ's tonight.

He opened his door and left the lights off as he kicked off his shoes, hung up his coat, and set his messenger bag off to the side. He loosened his tie as he headed for the bathroom. It had been a long day and all he wanted was a shower and then a good night's sleep. He could feel a headache beginning to develop, but maybe he could fall asleep before it became a full blown headache that kept him awake all night. That was part of the reason he had invited Emily to go see "Solaris" even though it was five hours long. Chances are he wouldn't be able to fall asleep if he was getting a headache anyway.

JJ burrowed her face into the Spence scented pillows at the sound of the shower running across the hall. She heard the water shut off and then she blinked against the light as the bathroom door opened a moment later revealing a naked backlit Spence towel drying his hair. Then he reached over and shut off the overhead bathroom light, leaving on the nightlight as he continued to towel dry his hair and walk across the hall to the bedroom.

"What the…?" Spence murmured as he made out the silhouetted figure lying in his bed.

"Surprise" JJ replied softly at the sound of his voice.

"JJ, what are you doing here?" Spence asked as he pulled back the covers and climbed into bed next to her.

"Will and I had a fight. I needed to get away from him before I said something that I couldn't take back." JJ said as she snuggled up against Spence.

"What did you fight about?" Spence asked as he buried his face in JJ's hair, delighting in the smell and touch of his girlfriend.

"You were right. He wanted to get back together."

Spence pulled back to look at JJ. "You told him no right?" he asked slightly insecure.

JJ smiled and shook her head. "I'm here aren't I, in your bed, waiting for you?"

"Yeah." Spence replied as he leaned down and kissed JJ softly. "Not that I'm not happy about it, but why'd you come over here? You could have just gone to bed and ignored Will." Spence said as he ran his fingers through JJ's hair.

"I just wanted to get a good night's sleep." JJ said biting her lip as she looked up at Spence. "I just sleep better with you there and I thought maybe if I slept here completely surrounded by the smell of you, that I'd sleep better."