A/N: Hey look, another chapter! Yay! We had fun writing this chapter (I REALLY had fun), for reasons which will become apparent as this chapter proceeds. Don't worry guys, I know the summery says this is a case-fic, trust me, the case is coming. Thank you to all who have read this fic so far and I send uber-hugs to those who have Reviewed, Story-Alerted, and Favourited. Feel free to leave us more Reviews. They make us smile.
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Emily had arrived home at around 6:30PM and already started to clean up the mess in her home. Well it wasn't so much a mess. It was more like tidying things up here and there. While cleaning up, she noticed the empty bottle of wine along with the glasses in the sink. Emily took a moment, looking at the glasses and wondered if she had gone home with someone the night before. She lifted a hand to her head and briefly recalled something.
She saw herself laughing... Someone was kissing her neck... It felt good... so good.
She was snapped out of her recollection by a knock on the door. She opened the door and smiled at JJ. "Hey JJ, come on in."
JJ smiled as she appeared at Emily's door. She had went to the shop, gotten wine and beer and headed to her friend's house. She had also texted Hotch just because... She couldn't help herself and to be honest, it annoyed her. She wasn't that kind of girl. With a sigh, JJ knocked on Emily's door and waited for her friend to answer and her mind to be on something other than Aaron Hotchner. "Hey Emily... You ok?" She asked seeing her friend look a little flushed. JJ handed her what she'd brought and smiled a little more.
Emily laughed a little nervously. "What? No, I'm totally fine. Yeah. Oh you brought wine and beer. Great. I doubt I'll be drinking any of this though." Emily took the bottle of wine and the beer and brought them into her kitchen.
JJ followed Emily into the kitchen. "Bottle of wine gone already?" She asked seeing Emily's kitchen.
Emily saw her empty bottle and realised that she forgotten to remove it. She grabbed the bottle and placed it in a recycling bin, near her sink. "Oh uhhh, yeah. That was from the last few nights. I like to have a glass before bed." A blush crept across her face. She wasn't ready to admit to her friend that she had company the night before, especially since she couldn't remember who it was.
JJ raised an eyebrow, "You drank from two different glasses?" She asked and chuckled, "Blame it on spending 24/7 with profilers for the last six years." She laughed and took her jacket off. JJ looked at the apartment, "You been cleaning?" she asked and sat on the sofa.
Emily cleared her throat. She really should have known better... Or rather, known JJ better. Either way she was not ready to talk about what happened last night, mainly because she still had no idea what happened last night. "Should have seen that one coming."
Their conversation was cut short by a knock on the door. Emily let out a breath of relief as she opened the door to Garcia.
Brightly clad, as usual, Penelope Garcia entered Emily's home with a big smile on her face. "Hello my lovely ladies! I have brought a selection of movies from The Movie List. We can pick which movie we want to watch!"
After wrapping her arms around Emily, Garcia waved a piece of paper with a list of movies that the three women needed to watch. The first time they had done a Girl's Night In, they had come up with a list of movies they needed to watch, either because one of them had never seen them, or because they were just amazing movies.
JJ smiled and hugged Garcia, forgetting about the wine glasses. She laughed and checked out the list, "Ohh 27 Dresses, I haven't seen that." She commented and read the other names. She moved along the sofa slightly and let Garcia sit too, "Ohh Garcia we are NOT watching Twilight."
Emily grabbed the bag from Garcia's hand and reached inside to pull out three different movies. "Let's see, Miss Garcia has brought with her, Mamma Mia, Legally Blonde and the aforementioned, Twilight." Emily furrowed her brows in semi-disgust and sighed. She looked over the list to see some of the movies she had suggested. Snatch, Crash, Ocean's Eleven, I Am Love. "Yeah I will agree with JJ, there is no way I am sitting through those 2 hours again." Emily walked to her DVD collection and pulled out some selections from the list that she owned. She then smiled as Garcia crossed her arms in annoyance.
"What is wrong with a little supernatural romance? You guys KNOW you wish you had a sexy Vampire Lover!"
Emily rolled her eyes and laughed. "Yeah no thanks, I prefer men who do not sparkle and try to control every aspect of my life."
"Or walk about all the time with their shirts off." JJ laughed and looked over the list, "P.S. I Love You... I've never seen that." she commented and shifted in her seat as she got a text. JJ smiled briefly
Emily handed JJ her copy of PS: I Love You. Emily wasn't a huge fan of romance/drama movies, but she had a soft spot for that particular movie. "We can watch it, I don't mind." Emily lifted an eye brow as JJ smiled at a text message.
Penelope had also looked towards JJ and could not help but laugh a little. "Well well well, and what is it that has our little JJ all up in smiles?"
JJ suddenly looked like she was caught in head lights, a blush crept on her cheeks, "Me? No one... nothing."
Garcia began to giggle "You may say that my dear, but your face tells another tale entirely!" She walked over to one of Emily's couches and settled down on it.
JJ frowned a little, "No Garcia, it doesn't." She said. She was only texting Hotch back, not that she'd tell them that of course, but still, it was Hotch.
In an effort to move the conversation away from her text messages JJ looked over to Garcia, "So you and Kevin still..." She made a 'shaky shaky' hand gesture. She felt like she hadn't spoken to her friends in ages. "And what about you Miss Prentiss, men?"
A blush came upon Penelope's face as JJ asked about her and Kevin. Things were going relatively well, even though they weren't as hot and heavy as they used to be. "Ummm... Things are alright between us... Just, we're trying to rekindle our flame... so to speak."
Garcia turned to Emily who was acting distracted while looking through her movies. "Yes, my lovely Profiling Lady, have any dashing men entered your life?"
Emily had to start laughing at that. She didn't exactly have time to go out looking for men, or any kind of companion for that matter. "Men are rare in my life thus far ladies. Though I did almost buy that cat I had mentioned a while ago."
She said and was happy with the conversation moving on to Garcia and Emily. JJ was happy Garcia was still happy and that she and Kevin were still going for it. "Emily we need to get you out there! A woman like you could get any guy in a second... it's not difficult." She said and turned, "And yes I realise I'm single, but I have a baby so that gives me one up on ya!" She smiled.
Emily began to shake her head as JJ suggested them going out to search for a man for Emily. "Oh believe me, I would love to go out with you guys, but to find me a man. I don't really think a one night stand is a good start to a healthy relationship."
JJ looked at Emily, "Who said anything about a one night stand? Maybe we should start looking closer to home." JJ suggested with a shrug. Her phone buzzed again and another smile appeared as she read it.
Emily, in the meantime, had wandered back to the kitchen and was looking through some delivery brochures. "Right because the workplace is the perfect spot to find true love." Emily replied in a sarcastic tone. "No offence Garcia" she said in reference to the office romance Garcia shared with Kevin Lynch.
Garcia kept her eyes on JJ and the phone that kept buzzing. "My dear, you seen to be very interested in that phone of yours. You sure you're not hiding a secret lover?" Garcia knew how upset JJ had been when Will had left and all she wanted was to see her dear friend up in smiles again. She wanted her to find someone who could love and respect her. Sure it seemed annoying that she kept asking JJ about her love life, but she wanted to see her happy.
JJ rolled her eyes at Garcia, "A secret man? Yeah and the BAU won't have a case this month. As for work place romances, I have a few men in my office that would suit you Emily." She smirked, "I'd say we could swap but... Yeah." JJ laughed it off. If it was up to Emily she'd set JJ up with Morgan, Rossi, Reid or Hotch.
Garcia playfully winked at JJ "Hey, I was just asking. You DO seem very into your phone. It keeps buzzing and each time it does, a smile comes to your face" Yes, she had been around profilers WAY too long. Then again, when it came to matters of the heart and of romance (for her friends that is), Penelope considered herself to be a little more then an expert.
JJ smiled and shook her head, "It's a friend Garcia, I know more people than the BAU team." She laughed and was happy to hear that satisfied her friend's nosiness.
"Ok ladies, what are you up for? Pizza, Lebanese, or Chinese?" Emily asked as she lifted up several different brochures.
"I would LOVE some Chinese. I haven't had General Tao in the longest time!" Garcia replied to Emily's question.
JJ glanced at her friend, "Chinese as well!" She smiled and looked at Emily, "Ok I actually got dressed in the dark, do you have a top I can borrow?" She asked seeing a stain on her current one.
Emily nodded and and proceeded to take note on what they should order. She figured it would be best to get a combo meal for four people and decide what to do with left overs once they were done. Emily nodded and gave a thumbs up to JJ when she asked if she could borrow one of her tops.
JJ smiled and stood, facing Garcia. "Hey Garcia, Emily's on the phone... Wanna come raid her wardrobe?" She joked knowing what a neat freak Emily was.
Garcia looked over her shoulder to see Emily completely immersed in the conversation with the restaurant. She leapt off of the couch and joined JJ in Emily's bedroom. "Do I? What a silly question to ask!"
Garcia entered Emily's room and noticed that it was a little disarray. "Looks like our girl had a rough night last night." She walked over to Emily's closet and began to casually rummage through Emily's clothes. She then spotted a little black dress and let out a little whistle as she pulled it out. "Look like our serious Emily has a seriously sexy side to her!"
JJ raised an eyebrow seeing Emily's bedroom, it was NEVER like this. She knew the brunette would be up soon so they had to rummage fast. "Wow that's one short dress, especially with the length of her legs." She gasped and looked about for a clean top.
Garcia smiled as she put the dress back to it's original spot. She continued to look through some more of Emily's clothes, loving that she was able to see a totally different side of the woman she worked with everyday. Emily had the normal business-like clothes she wore everyday to work, but she also had some fun, sexy-sophisticated clothes for going out at night. At the same time, there were some REALLY funky clothes from decades ago which Garcia could not help but laugh about.
After finding a top she preferred, JJ frowned a little as she went to pick up her discarded top. Amidst the pile of random clothing, lay simple dark blue tie. "Ohhhh... This is a guys tie." She said as JJ and Garcia shared a look, "Emily Prentiss doesn't need our help finding a man, she had one last night!" JJ laughed.
Garcia turned and saw the dark blue tie in JJ's hand. She let out a loud laugh as she went to give it a closer look. "Oh my God! That little sneaky profiler! I wonder who the lucky man was!" Garcia looked out the door to see Emily hanging up the phone. "We totally need to interrogate her!" She laughed as Emily walked into the room.
The brunette eyed the two women with curiosity. "What are you two laughing about?"
JJ grinned to her friend, "Ohh three things." JJ told Emily, "One, that LBD is VERY heavy on the L, especially with your legs." She laughed, along with Garcia.
Emily smirked and crossed her arms over her chest as she let her friends tease her. She wasn't too mad that they rummaged her closet, she should have known better than to let JJ and Garcia loose in her room without her around. "Yeah yeah yeah, laugh all you want guys. Can't a girl have some clothing other than office-wear?"
JJ shook her head and continued "Two, you have clothes from years ago I think Garcia is going to demand you do a catwalk for us in... And three."
Emily laughed and rolled her eyes about the cat walk comment. There was no way in hell she would ever do a cat walk of her 80's vintage clothes. "Ok ok, so I'm nostalgic. Leave me alone! Now, tell me, what's number three?"
JJ and Garcia grinned, JJ brought out the blue tie and waved it about. "Who oh who was sleeping in your bed last night missy?" She said and giggled. "Busted much?"
Emily's laughter disappeared immediately as JJ waved the dark blue tie in Emily's. Her eyes widened... She grabbed the tie and looked at it closely. "This tie looks exactly like the one..."
Someone was kissing her neck, she liked it... God she liked it. Long, slender fingers gently grazed the side of her head as the kisser made his way up to Emily's chin... Then to her lips... She saw Reid. Finally, she saw him... ALL of him!
Emily dropped the tie and gasped as it all came together. It was Reid! She had spent the night with Spencer Reid! "Oh my God... Shit... Shit!" She muttered to herself as she bolted from her room. She needed water, and she needed it now!
JJ and Garcia frowned sharing a look and ran after her, "Emily? Emily? You ok?" JJ called and followed her friend. "What? Did you... Did someone... You knew you slept with someone last night right?" She asked suddenly worried for her friend... She couldn't have been further from the truth.
Garcia's laughter ceased as soon as she saw Emily drop the tie and run from the room. Something must have happened last night and judging from the things they all saw everyday, panic arose in her throat. She followed JJ to the kitchen, where Emily was gulping down a glass of water. "Em? Sweetie, calm down. Do you remember anything that happened last night?"
Emily didn't hear anything that JJ or Garcia were saying. The only things that rushed through her mind were images from the night before. She saw them laughing and drinking wine together.
She was starting to kiss him... He then took over and began to kiss her back... God she loved it to!
Emily shook her head. It all made sense! Why he was so upset with her earlier today! He felt guilty for what they did. Damn it! "When I woke up, I had no idea, but as the day went on, I started to remember little bits and pieces. Now, I remember everything... Damn it." She said as she went for another glass of water. This was not good..
JJ frowned and rubbed her back as she passed her a drink of water. "Ok calm down. Who was it with?" She asked and looked too Garcia, "And how can you not remember? I mean I remember getting home." She said. "I didn't think you were that drunk."
Emily began to calm down as she still tried to process events from the night before. She saw the kissing leading into the bedroom. She saw the clothes coming off. She remembered feeling him kiss her collarbone and how she laughed. She remembered kissing him back. Kissing his neck...
She shook her head. There was no way she could tell JJ and Garcia who she had spent the night with. "I'm fine. I'm fine." She took a deep breath and gathered her thoughts. It was going to be ok. Everything would be fine. She would talk to Reid tomorrow about what had happened. Obviously they didn't know what they were doing and they should pretend like nothing happened. It would be fine. Everything would be fine. Except she had lost her usual cool with JJ and Garcia and they now they thought something horrible had happened to her.
"I'm sorry for losing my head, but you would to if you realized you slept with some agent from White Collar who's been flirting with you for the past few weeks." Emily let out a sigh and held her head in her hands. She felt bad for lying to JJ and Garcia, but she wasn't ready to tell them the truth... Not yet anyway.
JJ smirked, "You had me worried there! I thought someone had had their wicked way with you! See that's why you should drink less and get a lift from someone responsible." She told her friend and got her more water. "I can't believe you got some last night." She said satisfied her friend hadn't been taken advantage of.
Garcia sighed and stepped back. "Thank God nothing else happened! I was all ready to get the Team to figure out who the perpetrator was and believe me, he would have gotten what he deserved!" The team looked out for one another, each and everyone knew that if one of them was messed with, it was personal for all of them. If Emily was hurt, the others would not have wasted a minute in figuring out who it was that hurt her.
Emily gave them a small smile. The guilt remaining inside. "Sorry guys, I guess my compartmentalising skills were on the brink just now. But don't worry, nothing bad happened. I'm sure he was just as drunk as I was. It's just such a shock..."
JJ frowned, "Ok girl you need to remember. Cause we want details." She joked. Truthfully JJ just wanted to know nothing unruly did happen to her friend. She paused hair from her face and looked to Garcia, "And you were saying there was no drama from last night." She said knowing her friend loved drama and gossip.
Emily laughed lightly. Or course they wanted to know all of the juicy details. She just did not want to tell them. Emily believed it would be unfair both to herself and to Reid. She needed to speak with him before anyone else. "I don't remember much JJ, just stumbling home with someone from the White Collar division. We had some wine and... yeah... "
Emily groaned and held her head down. She could feel some left over hangover feelings coming back. She refused to tell her friends how their own resident genius had her gasping in complete ecstasy. How she then loved the soft moans from his mouth indicating that he wanted her as much as she wanted him...
Garcia let out a low whistle as she listened to Emily's tale. "Oh trust me, the drama is only just beginning. Who was this mysterious man? Can we have a name for your 'Prince Charming'?" she replied with air quotations.
Emily lifted her head as Garcia asked her which man it was. She tried to think of a name which would not arouse too much suspicion. There was Agent McCutcheon who had been trying to get her on a date for the longest time. Emily remembered talking to Garcia about him once or twice while he was trying to flirt with her. She never really gave him the time of day. She found him to be arrogant and WAY too cheesy for her tastes. Plus, he was boring. "Ugh... Agent Jim McCutcheon..."
More guilt seeped in as Emily now felt bad for implicated an innocent man into what had happened. "Just... please don't go spreading this around. I want to forget last night ever happened." Emily made direct eye contact with Garcia, who had widened her eyes at Emily's confession.
"Agent McCutcheon! HA! I should have known! God this is so deliciously amazing!" Garcia clapped her hands in excitement, but stopped when she saw the eyes of death a la Prentiss glaring at her. "Fine! Fine! I will keep this juicy little tidbit of gossip to myself, even though it will destroy me to do so."
JJ smiled and shook her head, "Aww Em, don't worry it could have been worse. It could have been Agent Dennis." She said and rubbed her friend's back.
Emily smiled once more, thankful for JJ being such a good friend to her, despite her lying to her face. "Thank you JJ. And you're so right, anyone frankly is better than Dennis." Emily shuddered at the thought of Agent Dennis. She recalled JJ having issues with him as much as Emily had issues with McCutcheon, though Dennis was a brand new form of creepy.
Emily cleared her throat. "Let's just forget this, I don't wanna talk about last night anymore. Garcia, pick any movie aside from Twilight"
Garcia started to look through the selection of movies and picked PS: I Love You. "Let's just watch this one, seeing as I've always wanted to see it and our little liar never has." She looked over to JJ, who gave her a confused look. "That's right, think I've forgotten our little chat session"
JJ looked to Garcia with sheer fear, "I don't have a prince charming." She said worried they'd figure it out.
Garcia sighed and turned to JJ who suddenly had a look of fear across her face as she questioned her. "See, just a few minutes ago you were insisting that you were talking with a friend from work, now I see this terror on you face... I may not be a profiler, but sugar you have something going on!"
JJ looked to Garcia, "Um no. I meant it was a friend. I- we should watch a movie." She said and stood quickly.
As JJ fumbled with her words, Garcia lifted an eyebrow. JJ was never at a loss for words. She was known for always having a clear head under stressful situations. The only time Garcia could ever remember JJ having difficulty expressing herself was whenever Will was around, or during the first few months the two were out in the open. "You can't lie to me, Jareau. Something is up."
JJ rolled her eyes, "Okay Garcia... You got me." She smiled. "I'm seeing someone and you all know who he is." JJ left them hanging for a moment. "It's Gerard Butler." She joked.
As JJ started to talk, Garcia leaned in closer, desperate to find out who it was, her mind already coming up with various possibilities. As JJ said the name of the famous Scottish actor, Garcia groan in defeat. She wanted to press further but instead sighed, and let the topic go. If there was another thing she knew about JJ, it was to let her decide when it was right to tell them of her secret fling. JJ wasn't an open person and didn't spread her secrets around.
Emily, though laughing along with Garcia and JJ, had her mind partially occupied with the night's revelations. More specifically, she was thinking about what to do about the night's revelations. "You lucky girl. I wonder how he makes time for you with his busy filming schedule" she laughed as the door bell rang. Emily waved JJ to follow her as they gathered the food for the three of them.
JJ followed Emily and laughed. She took the food and placed it on the table near the TV. She sat down after getting a few things from the kitchen, "So it's P.S I love you..."
Garcia grinned "Hey, I certainly do not mind the handsome Scotsman, Gerard Butler! And, of course, my lovely beau, Jeffery Dean Morgan. Who, by the way, is far too under-appreciated. I swear as if losing him on Grey's Anatomy wasn't enough, he had to die on Supernatural as well." Penelope was caught up in swooning over the men of the movie.
Emily could not help but laugh at her obsession as she prepared the plates for the trio. As expected she had some left overs, so she placed them aside for now, in case anyone else wanted something to eat. She then joined her friends as the movie began.
N/B: Ok so, Emily knows. This should be interesting. *grins* Jotch fans will be happy to know that the next chapter is oozing with Jotch happy fluffyness.
And a side note, how many JDM fans were heart broken to see him die on Grey's Anatomy and then on Supernatural? (If I got the deaths wrong, I'm sorry, I watched Grey's Anatomy before watching Supernatural) It just ain't right I tell you. It's a horrible waste of an amazing actor (and such a beautiful actor as well). And no, I refuse to acknowledge the "Ghost-Denny" story line. Though I loves me some Denny, it just went on WAY too long for me to appreciate him.
Innyway... Reviews, yeah? Per favore? Grazie! :D