A/N- So this is a little different for me. This is written as if it was an essay that AJ wrote for school. I thought it might be fun to see her perspective on her 'family.' She is 14.
My Family
By Amanda Jereau Prentiss
My family is the true definition of what it means to be loved. I have two mothers, which I know must people find strange or wrong, but it is all I have ever known. Supervisory Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Jereau is my biological mother. Meaning she is the one that actually gave birth to me. She is the FBI Communications Liaison to the White House. She works side by side with the President and travels were ever he or she goes. It is a very important job and mom was hand picked by the former Senior Director for the position. Not to mention she is really good at it. My other mother is Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss. She legally adopted me when I was born. So I am just as much her daughter as I am JJ's (for the purpose of this essay I will occasionally refer to my mothers by their given names, just to avoid confusion, because trust me it can get confusing). She works for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU for short, with the rest of my 'family,' but I will talk about them later. The BAU deals with some of the worst that people have to offer.
My mothers have been together for almost 16 years now. When they first met they both worked together at the BAU. JJ was the Media Liaison for the team and Emily was and still is a profiler. They have been through a lot in those 16 years. There work is very dangerous and sometimes they get hurt. They both have been shot and both were inside of a warehouse when it blew up. However, they both always seem to pull through. I think it is because they love each other so much.
When I was two, my mothers had a commitment ceremony in the backyard. I don't remember it, seeing that I was only two, but I have seen the pictures and the video. They both looked so beautiful and so happy.
Now, I sure your starting to wonder how two woman can have a baby, right? Well my biological father, or sperm donor as I refer to him, was not a nice man. He is currently in prison and lord willing that is where he will stay. I never met him and never want do. His name is Sam Thomas and he was a detective in Louisville. He tricked the BAU into helping him with a case just so he could kidnap and kill my mom because of something that happened between her and his brother many years before. He did some horrible things to her while he held her captive, but luckily mom, aka Emily, and the rest of the BAU team figured out where she was and found him before he got a chance to kill her. Then nine months later I was born, Surprise! I know that it must have been hard for her knowing what he had done to her but I know she wanted to be a mother even more.
When I was baby, my grandparents moved to Washington DC to watch me while JJ and Emily were out of town or at work. Grandma Angie and Grandpa Tom are the coolest grandparents ever. One time grandma punched this woman in the face because she was rude to my mothers. She said something about it being wrong for two women to be together, or something like that and grandma got mad and hit her. We have it on video tape and everything. We watch it all the time. Grandpa has been to every one of my soccer games. In six years he hasn't missed a single one. I love my grandparents so much. Every summer they take me on vacation with them, since JJ and Emily don't really have a job that allow for vacations (We did go on vacation one time when I was eight, but that was the only time.). So I spend a week with them at some beach house or some cabin somewhere. I also visit my Grandmother Prentiss in France for two weeks every summer. Grandmother Prentiss is the US Ambassador to France and lives in a huge house just out side of Paris. I always make sure I come home with an ample supply of French chocolates for my mothers. They are both complete chocolate freaks. I always keep some hidden in my room, just incase I get in trouble. A box of French Chocolates can work like a get out of jail free card.
Earlier I mentioned that Emily worked at the BAU with the rest of my 'family,' well they aren't actually my family, but they might as well be. First there are my god parents Uncle Derek Morgan and Aunt Penelope Garcia-Morgan. Uncle Derek is a profiler like my mom and Aunt Pen is Technical Analyst for the BAU. She is a computer genius. If you have anything to hide, at all, she will find it. They got married about 6 years ago and I got to be the flower girl. JJ was the Maid of Honor and Emily was the 'Best Woman.' I know right? Leave it to Uncle Derek to have a woman as his best man. Anyways Uncle Derek has always been more like a father to me. He loves me like one of his own and I know that we I get married someday that not only will he have to ask Emily for permission, he will have to ask Uncle Derek too. That is if I ever find a boy brave enough to face my family. I mean would you want to date a girl whose entire family owned a gun? Anyways, Uncle Derek and Aunt Pen have two kids; Jacob who is six and Alexa who is two.
Uncle Hotch also works at the BAU and he is Emily's boss. He was always very supportive of their relationship and made sure that they didn't get split up when everyone found out. JJ and Emily kept there relationship a secret at first because it was against the rules to date fellow agents, but when JJ got shot, Emily had no choice but to tell everyone.
Next there is Aunt Amy and Uncle Andy. Aunt Amy works with mom at the BAU and Uncle Andy is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at American General Hospital. Aunt Amy and JJ went to college together and she has some of the funniest stories about mom. Plus she said there are several that she says she will tell me when I get older. Aunt Amy and my mothers are like the three amigos. You rarely see one without the other two.
Uncle Reid used to work at the BAU but left a couple years ago to teach profiling at the FBI Academy. If you looked up the word genius in the dictionary, I swear there would be a picture of Uncle Reid. He knows everything about everything and he is a doctor three times over. When ever I need help with my homework, Uncle Reid is who I go too.
Well that about does it for my family and as you can see we are not your typical family but we are family. They would do anything of anybody and are always there is someone needs a friend. I couldn't ask for a better family, nor would I want too. If you looked up family in the dictionary it would say any person of blood relation; but to me family is so much more than that. To me it is Aunt Pen bringing me homemade soup when I'm sick, or Uncle Andy holding my hand when I had to have surgery a couple years back after a car accident. It's Uncle Hotch and the entire BAU team always making sure that they are home for each and everyone of my birthdays. To me that is what family is all about. We are as close as you can get and not be related by blood. It's what makes my family so great.
A/N- So what did you think?? Good?? Bad?? I hope that it came across as if a 14 year old wrote it. PLEASE REVIEW!!
Also, work has been crazy so I'm a little behind in my writing. I hope to have the next story later this week (at the latest next weekend)
