A/N_ Going back in time again..... JJ is currently pregnant in this story; so that means JJ is still working at the BAU.
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Emily took a deep breath and then made her way to Hotch's office; knocking slightly on the door before walking in.
"Hey Hotch, do you have a minute?" Emily asked.
"Sure, come in."
"Mind if I close the door?" Emily asked; her nervousness beginning to show through.
"Sure." Hotch replied. He had pretty good idea what this was about. Emily closed the door and made her way over the chair opposite Hotch's desk.
"I was hoping we could talk about JJ?"
"I see." Hotch nodded. "This wouldn't happen to have anything to do with last week would it?" The look on Emily's face told him he was dead on. "You know I can't force her out of the field until she is six months, right?"
"I know, but after last week I was hoping that maybe you could talk to her."
Flashback…
"How long do you plan on staying out in the field?" Morgan asked as he and JJ made their way through the abandoned warehouse, looking for any signs that the unsub might have been there.
"Well technically I can stay in the field until I'm six months and then I have to be placed on desk duty." JJ frowned. The thought of desk duty for three months terrified her. "However, it's really up to my doctor. She has the finally say in when I get taken out of the field."
"What does Emily say about all this? I mean I would think that she is a nervous wreck."
"Oh you have no idea. The woman is driving me crazy." JJ laughed.
"She just wants you to be safe." Morgan smiled.
"I know and I get that; but I'm pregnant not handicapped." JJ sighed. "She would have me on desk duty right now if she could. At my last doctors appointment she was all but begging her to agree to desk duty."
"How did that turn out?"
"She spent the night in the guest bedroom." JJ smiled. "Well I don't see any signs of him here."
"Yeah me either." Morgan took one last look around. "Either he has moved on or this isn't the right building."
"Well let's get out of here."
JJ and Morgan made their way back towards the steps. JJ was about three steps from the landing when the concrete step crumbled causing her to slip and fall the rest of the way down.
"Jesus JJ are you all right?" Morgan asked as he carefully made his way down to the landing.
"Yeah I'm fine." JJ said as she stood up. "But I think maybe we should get out of here before the whole building comes down."
"Good idea." Morgan and JJ walked down the next flight of stairs and finally made it back out side. Morgan noticed JJ wince in pain as she tried to stretch her back. "You sure you're okay?"
"I'm fine. I just tweaked my back a little."
"Maybe we should take you to the hospital just to be sure. I mean you know for the baby and all."
"I don't need to go to the…" JJ stopped as she felt a sharp pain in her back.
"That's it, we're going." Morgan led JJ to the car and called Garcia to get directions to the nearest hospital.
A couple hours later, Morgan and JJ walked back into the police department. Morgan had his arm wrapped protectively around her waist. Emily immediately began to panic.
"What happened?" Emily asked as she jumped up from her chair.
"I fell. It's no big deal." JJ said as she sat down; Emily kneeled in front of her.
"You fell?" Emily looked up at Morgan who nodded. "Are you sure you're okay? Do we need to go to the hospital?"
"We just came from the hospital." Morgan answered for her.
"You went to the hospital and you didn't call me?" Emily snapped.
"Morgan made me; but I promise you I'm fine. The doctor said that it was just a bruised rib, no big deal." JJ told Emily.
"And the baby?"
"That baby is fine. I'm fine. Everyone is fine."
"Why didn't you call me?" Emily asked, struggling to hold back her anger.
"Because it's not a big deal." JJ rolled her eyes.
"This is why you shouldn't be in the…"
"Don't even say it." JJ snapped.
"Look Emily I know that you're concerned. We all are but I don't know what I can do." Hotch explained.
"Talk to her. Tell her that you are concerned for her safety as the face of the BAU." Emily was desperate. "I don't think I can take much more of her being in the field and last week just proves my point. Granted she just fell but what if that unsub had been there. What if…" Emily was on the verge of tears.
"I'll talk to her." Hotch lowered his head. "You know she is going to kill me, right? And not just me, probably you too?"
"I can take it." Emily offered a small smile. "What I can't handle is something happening to her out in the field."
"Okay, I'll talk to her this afternoon, but I'm not going to promise anything." Emily nodded and left Hotch's office. "Well that should be a fun conversation." Hotch sighed.
Around mid afternoon, JJ was leaning against Emily's desk enjoying a little break when Hotch yelled for her from his office.
"JJ can I talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure." JJ replied; then turned to Emily. "Wonder what this is about?" Emily shrugged her shoulders and JJ made her way to Hotch's office. Emily cringed when she saw Hotch close the door.
"I'm so dead." Emily said as she stared at Hotch's door.
"Why what did you do?" Morgan asked confused by Emily's worried expression.
"Hotch is talking to JJ about limiting her field work."
"What? Is he crazy?" Morgan was pretty sure JJ was going to kill him. "Why would he do something as suicidal as that?"
"I might have, possibly, sort of asked him to."
"Why? Are you crazy?" Morgan stared back at Emily.
"Look I'm worried. I don't want anything to happen to her or the baby. She shouldn't be working in the field."
"I'm not going argue that point with you because I agree, but don't you think that JJ should be the one making that decision. I mean she is the one that is pregnant." Emily just stared back at Morgan with venom in her eyes.
"Yes it is JJ's decision but she is being unreasonable. She is just so stubborn!" Emily hissed.
"Like someone else I know." Morgan mumbled under his breath.
"What was that?"
"Nothing." Morgan quickly got up and headed for the break room.
"Emily Elizabeth Prentiss!" Emily turned around to see JJ coming down the stairs. "You! My office NOW!" Oh, she is pissed! Emily thought as JJ stormed out of the bullpen. Emily quickly got up and followed her to her office.
JJ was pacing her office when Emily walked in and closed the door.
"How could you?" JJ asked in a very not so happy tone.
"What?"
"Oh don't play dumb with me, you know exactly what I'm talking about!" Emily remained silent. "You went to Hotch, our BOSS, behind my back and told him to take me out of the field!"
"I can't believe that Hotch ratted me out." Emily sighed.
"Oh he didn't. He never mentioned your name." Emily looked up at JJ. "We have been arguing about this for a week now; so call me crazy, but when my boss calls me into his office to talk about my fieldwork, I have a pretty good notion where the idea came from."
"Look, I just want you to be safe. Both of you." Emily stood up and went to put her hand on JJ's still barely there bump; but JJ quickly stepped back.
"Oh I don't think so. You do not get to play the baby card right now!"
"Please, you have to understand. Imagine if it was the other way around, wouldn't you be doing the same thing right now?"
"I would have at least hoped that I would have tried to talk to you about it first."
"We have been talking about it, you just won't listen." Emily replied starting to get pissed herself. She could feel it coming; this was going to be a knock down drag out fight right here in JJ's office.
"Talking? Is that what you call you TELLING me that I have to stop my field work. Talking?"
"Damnit JJ sometimes you are too stubborn for your own good." Emily snapped back. "I just want what is best for you and for the team!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that having a pregnant lady on the team was cause for concern"
"Well obliviously Hotch agreed with me!"
"Not until you talked him into it!" JJ was furious.
The argument continued to rage on, both women refusing to give up ground. Outside JJ's office door Garcia was struggling to get a better listen.
"Baby girl what are you doing?" Morgan asked walking up behind her.
"Sssh, I'm trying to listen."
"Are they still arguing?"
"Yep. They started out arguing about JJ's field work and then there was a small detour about JJ's resentment of Emily's Supervisor Agent status; but now they are arguing about some ex-girlfriend of JJ's that they ran into the other night at dinner."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah, things are getting heated in there."
"Do you really think you should be eavesdropping like this?" Morgan asked not really wanting to invade his friends personal lives.
"Honey this is good stuff. Lesbian drama is better than a Mexican Soap Opera." Garcia laughed. All of the sudden the door flew open and Garcia went stumbling into JJ's office. "Um... I... hi?" Neither woman said anything.
Emily took one last look at JJ and stormed out of the office, almost knocking Morgan over in the process, who had been standing in the door way.
"Damn girl, I thought hurricane season was over." Morgan laughed for a second before turning to look at JJ and immediately he went silent. He could almost see the fire coming from JJ's eyes and it truly scared him.
"OUT!" JJ yelled at both of them as she pushed both Garcia and Morgan out of her office and then slammed the down.
"Wow she is pissed."
JJ stayed at the office well past dark and Emily had long since gone home. She couldn't bring herself to go home. She was still furious with Emily and she was glad that they had taken separate cars today. She looked at her watch and groaned; it read 8:15pm. Even if she left then it would be 9 before she got home. She leaned back in her chair and sighed. She heard her door open and when she opened her eyes she couldn't help but laugh.
"Is it safe?" Morgan asked waving a napkin just inside her office door.
"Yes, come in Morgan. What are you still doing here?"
"Well you know me. I always wait till the last minute to do my paper work." Morgan smiled. "You okay? I mean with everything that happened today?"
"Oh you mean like my girlfriend going behind my back and telling our boss that I'm not suited for field work any more?"
"Yeah that would be it." Morgan sat down on the couch across from JJ's desk. "Come here girl." Morgan patted the spot next to him. JJ got up and walked over to the couch. She sat down next to Morgan and he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. She leaned into his hug and placed her head on his shoulder. "You know she just wants what's best for you and little peanut there right?" JJ laughed at Morgan's nickname for the baby.
"I know."
"It would kill her if something happened to either of you." Morgan gave her a little squeeze. "And not just her; it would kill all of us."
"I don't like feeling useless." JJ said as a tear fell down her cheek.
"You're not going to be useless JJ. You do more for this team then the rest of us combined. You do more in the first hour that you are here then I do in a week."
"Well that's true." JJ teased as she wiped the tears from her face.
"I know that we don't always say it but you are what holds this team together. You are what makes us all better agents." JJ let a few more tears fall. "We just want you to both to be safe." Morgan laid his hand on her belly. "After that is my god peanut in there." Morgan teased as JJ put her hand on his.
"Thank you." JJ replied softly.
"Don't mention it." Morgan smiled. "Now go home. Go home before Emily sends out a search party for you." JJ could not help but laugh. "Do you want a ride home?"
"No I'm good."
JJ and Morgan stood up and Morgan gave her a hug before he left her office. JJ gathered up her things and headed home. She walked into the house, only to find it dark and quiet. It was almost 9:30 and she knew that Emily was home because her car was in the garage. She walked to the bedroom and sighed when Emily wasn't there. She turned and made her way up to the guest bedroom. She slowly opened the door and saw Emily laying on the bed facing the wall. As quietly as she could she crawled into bed with Emily and wrapped her arms around her waist. Emily pulled JJ's hands to her mouth and kissed her knuckles.
"I'm sorry I went to Hotch behind your back." Emily said letting a few tears fall.
"No, I'm sorry. I over reacted and you're right. I shouldn't be in the field any more." JJ kissed Emily's shoulder. "Little peanut here needs to be my number one priority and..."
"Peanut? You've been talking to Morgan haven't you?"
"Yeah, he made me see the light so to speak." JJ smiled. "I guess I was just afraid. Afraid that you all would find out that you really didn't need me there and...." Emily turned around to face JJ.
"Honey, I think those pregnancy hormones are starting to affect your brain." Emily said as she tucked a strand of hair behind JJ's ear. "Never in a million years could we ever think that. Nobody and I do mean nobody can do what you do on a daily basis. Trust me, we tried." Emily placed a gentle kiss on JJ's lips. "And just because you can't go out in the field anymore doesn't mean you aren't a part of the team."
"I know that and tomorrow morning I will tell Hotch that I'm done with field work until after the baby is born."
"You don't know how happy that makes me." Emily smiled and then kissed JJ again, although this one was slightly more passionate.
"Come on sweetie, let's go to bed." JJ said as she made an attempt to get up.
"Honey we are in bed." Emily laughed.
"No, our bed." JJ smiled before kissing Emily one more time. "Although I'm pretty sure this is the only room in the house we haven't… you know." JJ said wagging her eyebrows.
"See now those are the pregnancy hormones I like." Emily said with a devilish grin before pulling JJ in a very passionate kiss.
A/N- So what did you think..... I would imagine that JJ would be pretty pissed if Emily went behind her back like that.... LOL..... PLEASE REVIEW.
