This chapter's really short, but I'm pretty sure it's the shortest one of the 5 that I have done.
Also, in this story Gideon left right after 'Revelations' instead of at the end of the season. And Rossi hasn't joined the team yet. I just didn't write either of them in for some reason...lol
Thanks to DeviousRobynno and kdzl for reviewing the first chapter!
From Darkness to Light
A CM fanfic
Chapter 2
Jennifer Jareau walked into the BAU bullpen at 7:00 that morning. She was early. Extremely early, even for her, but she was tired of watching pointless shows on TV where everything turned out ok and everyone was happy all the time. Hell, she was just plain tired and she knew they'd be able to tell. But she was just too tired to care anymore, too tired to hide it and if anyone asked her why she was there so early she'd simply tell them 'It's Monday so I'm sure I've got tons of new cases to look through.' and she'd say it with what she hoped could be mistaken for a genuine smile. Then she'd go to her office and stay there until she had to come out.
J.J. didn't know how much time had gone by, but the next thing she knew the bullpen was full of people, Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, and Emily Prentiss, among them. They were her friends, as was Garcia and even Hotch. She had considered them family, but how could they not blame her for what had happened to Reid in Georgia? She knew it was her fault Tobias had taken him and she had spent many of her sleepless nights wondering why she let them split up and why she didn't just follow him when he went around the barn instead of going in by herself. The questions haunted her and her mind was full of what-ifs and how-comes. And what bothered J.J. the most was that not much had changed. Sure, Gideon left and Emily was still fairly new, but Reid had gotten over his drug addiction, which was yet another side effect from their trip to the Henkel farm, and things were starting to get back to normal. J.J. just wasn't so sure that her life could ever be completely back to the way it was.