A/N- Okay so AJ 14 here…. someone sent me this idea (a couple people actually); so I hope you like it.
ENJOY….
It was late on Friday night when Emily, JJ and AJ walked into the grocery store. They had gone to dinner and movie and were heading home when JJ got the sudden urge to have some ice cream. So now here they were browsing the ice cream selection at 11pm on Friday night.
"Can I go look at the magazines?" Fourteen year old AJ asked as Emily and JJ argued over whether to get Rocky Road or French Vanilla. JJ wanted Rocky Road because after three weeks of eating nothing but vanilla ice cream when she was pregnant with AJ she had developed a serve disliking to the flavor. AJ did have to admit it was fun watching the two of them bicker. They were worse than little kids some times. Plus she knew that Emily only wanted vanilla to pester JJ.
"Yeah okay, but be careful." Emily said turning to her daughter.
"Oh good lord mom, there is like seven people in the whole store; including us." Emily stuck her tongue out at her and AJ laughed. "Real mature mom." AJ teased. "Come find me when you two are done arguing. And mom," AJ said as she turned back around to face JJ, "just flash your blue eyes at her, that is what I do when I want something." AJ laughed before running down the aisle.
"HEY!" Emily yelled after her daughter.
"Well she does have a point." JJ teased, before offering up some serious puppy dog eyes.
"Oh I so hate you." Emily groaned.
"No you don't." JJ smiled as she pulled Emily into a kiss right there in the middle of the frozen food section.
"Fine you win. Rocky Road it is." Emily frowned after they pulled apart.
"Thanks sweetie." JJ smiled as she pulled the tub of Rocky Road ice cream from the freezer. "I promise I'll make it up to you."
"Oh really?" Emily asked with raised eyebrows.
"It just so happens that AJ is going over to Kelly's for a sleep over tomorrow night and we will have the whole house to ourselves." JJ said with an evil grin.
"Have I ever mentioned how much I love Kelly." Emily teased before pulling JJ into a kiss.
"You two are like rabbits." AJ teased as she walked up behind her mothers. "Not to mention you are drawing a crowd." AJ said as she pointed the end of the aisle where a man was standing staring at the two women. Emily turned to face the man and flashed her gun and badge. At which point the man made a bee line for the next aisle.
"Honey was completely necessary?" JJ asked.
"What?" Emily replied trying to sound all innocent.
Suddenly the sound of gunfire erupted from the front of the store. JJ dropped the ice cream container and quickly pulled her gun. Emily grabbed AJ and pushed her to the ground and pulled her gun as well.
Emily looked over at JJ and frowned. JJ just shook her head.
"What do we do?" Emily asked just above a whisper. It was difficult to hear over the shouts of from the front of the store.
"I'm not sure yet. You think it's just a robbery or do you think it's something …" JJ stopped when she heard the sound of police sirens outside the store. "That was fast."
"Something tells me it's not a robbery." Emily frowned still all but laying on top of AJ.
"I think you're right." JJ turned around to see the man who had been staring at them crawling over to them.
"What the hell is going on?" He asked once he reached them. "I heard gun fire and a lot of shouting."
"I think the police chased a suspect right into the store." Emily answered. "I'm Special Agent Emily Prentiss and this is my wife Special Agent Jennifer Jereau."
"Mike Craig." He said nodding at both women. "Well I guess if you are going to end up in a hostage situation then you might as well be with a couple FBI agents." Mike said with a nervous laugh.
They heard the suspect yell at some one to go and search the store for customers. Emily prayed that it was one of the employees and not another suspect. One, her and JJ and could handle. Two not so much.
Emily looked down at her daughter who already had her phone out texting someone.
"Oh you are a smart one AJ." Emily smiled.
"Uncle Hotch or Uncle Derek asked?" AJ asked as she finished her message.
"Both." JJ replied. AJ typed both names and hit send. JJ looked up at Emily. "We can end this Emily, but we can't let him know we are here."
"We can't leave AJ." Emily replied. "Plus we don't even know how many of them there are. We have to be smart about this." Emily could hear footsteps in the next aisle. In a few minutes whoever it was that was looking for customers would be coming down the aisle they were in. Emily said a silent pray to anyone who would listen to please let it not be another suspect.
JJ turned around to face the other end of the aisle while Emily continued to look the to other way. The man turned the corner and froze when he saw Emily pointing a gun at him. Emily let out a sigh of relief when she realized that it was the manager.
Emily put her hand to her lips and motioned for the man to be quiet as she slowly pulled out her badge. The store manager nodded and quickly walked over to her.
"Oh thank god." The man said quietly.
"How many?"
"Just one, but he is loaded down with guns." The manager said, fear evident in his eyes. "He is holding my sales clerk hostage while I search for customers. Are you going to help us?"
"We are going to try." Emily said turning to face JJ. She knew what needed to be done and she didn't like it one bit. JJ could read Emily's face like a book and she nodded.
"Sir we need you to do a something for us." JJ said turning to face Mike.
"Anything."
"I need you to take our daughter and go with the manager." Mike nodded his understanding. JJ couldn't believe that she was doing this. She was trusting her daughters life to a complete stranger. "I need you to pretend that she is your daughter and you," she pointed at the manager, "need to pretend that these are the only customers you found."
"What are you going to do?" The manager asked.
"We are going to kind away to end this with out anyone getting hurt." Emily replied as she let AJ up off the floor.
"No mom you can't. I don't want to go. Why can't you just wait till Uncle Hotch Uncle Derek gets here?" AJ said with tears in her eyes.
"Honey I know that you are scared but this is what your mother and I do. We can take care of this before this man hurts someone." Emily told her daughter before pulling her into a hug. "I need you to go with these men and do as they say. Everything will be okay. I promise."
"WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING YOU SO LONG?" They heard the suspect yell.
"Go." JJ said as she pointed to Mike and the manager.
"I will do what I can to protect her." Mike replied. "I have a daughter at home her age. I promise."
"Good, because if anything happens to her I will shoot you myself." Emily hissed as she hugged AJ one more time. "I love you." AJ nodded through the tears and then turned to hug JJ before getting up and following the two men to the front of the store.
Emily heard the manager say that he found two customers and that was it and so far it appeared that the suspect believed him.
"I can't believe we just did that." Emily said as she wiped a tear from her cheek.
"I don't like it any better than you do; but you know as good as I do that she is safer there. If we had hid her and he found her, she would be as good as dead." JJ said quietly as her heart cringed at just the thought.
"Ok so now what?" Emily asked.
"I'm going to try and circle around and get in front of him; you stay here and wait for my signal. Once I have his attention you can come up from behind."
"Are you crazy? You walk out in front of him and he will not hesitate to shoot you."
"Any better idea's Emily?" Emily thought for a minute and realized that JJ was right. Damnit! Emily groaned to herself.
"Okay fine but you stay here. I'll go." JJ just shook her head.
"This is not up for debate Emily. You stay here and I'll go." Emily started to object again but JJ cut her off. "That's an order Agent Prentiss." Emily closed her mouth and glared at JJ. That was the first time in the 8 years that JJ had out ranked her that JJ had given her a direct order and Emily had to admit she didn't like it.
"Fine!" Emily snapped. JJ turned to make her way around the store, but before she could get to far away Emily grabbed her hand. "Please be careful." Emily might have been pissed but she wasn't stupid. She knew that this could go really wrong really fast.
"Always." JJ smiled and gave Emily a quick kiss.
Emily watched as JJ turned the corner and disappeared from her view.
"I can't believe she gave me a direct order." Emily said talking to herself. "She is so going to pay for that."
Ten minutes passed and Emily waited for JJ's signal. She could hear the police outside on their bull horns trying to get the man to surrender or at least pick up the phone so they could talk.
On the other side of the store JJ took at deep breath. For the first time since this whole ordeal began she wished she had her vest. She knew that the director, as well as Hotch and Morgan for that matter, were going to have her ass for doing this without protection. JJ glanced around the corner and saw the man pacing near the first cash register. She took one more breath and slowly stepped out from her hiding spot.
"Sir I need you to put the gun down!" JJ yelled as she trained her on the man. The man spun around and grabbed the sale girl, using her as a body shield.
"Where the hell did you come from?" The man demanded to know pointing his gun at the girl.
"I'm Agent Jennifer Jereau. I work for the FBI." JJ said a little louder, hoping Emily would hear here. "I need you to put down the gun and let the girl go." JJ said calmly.
AJ sat there next to Mike as she watched her mother put herself in danger. AJ always knew what her mother's did for a living but it wasn't until that exact moment that she realized the danger they put themselves in. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Emily creep up behind the man.
The suspect noticed movement behind him from one of the security mirrors and he knew he was done for. In a last ditch effort to get out of this he pushed the sales girl down and pointed his gun at JJ. JJ dove for cover just as two shots rang out. At the sound of the shots the SWAT Team led by none other than Derek Morgan and Aaron Hotchner stormed the store. Morgan made his way towards the suspect who was clearly dead; while Hotch made his way towards JJ.
"ALL CLEAR!" Morgan shouted as he pushed the gun away from the suspect with his foot. Upon hearing that AJ jumped up and ran towards Emily. Emily barely had time to put her gun away before AJ was in her arms.
"Are you okay sweetie?" Emily asked as she hugged AJ tightly. AJ nodded as the tears fell down her face. "Are you sure?" Emily asked as she pushed AJ back a little and looked at her daughter in the face, slowly wiping the tears away.
"I was so scared." AJ said as she wrapped her arms back around Emily.
"You two okay?" Morgan asked as he walked over to where Emily and AJ were standing.
"Yeah were fine. She's a little shaken up but she's okay." Emily smiled. Then it suddenly hit her. In the chaos she had forgotten about JJ. She quickly scanned the crowd looking for her. Her eyes finally settled on the blonde woman and Emily's heart sank as she saw JJ holding her right arm as she talked to Hotch. Panic and fear griped her as she tried to look for blood. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw JJ move her hand and no blood could be seen on her white shirt. "Thanks for getting here so fast." Emily said turning her attention back to Morgan.
"I'm not going to lie to you; I damn near had a heart attack when I get a text from my god daughter telling me her and her mothers, who are like my sisters were in the middle of a hostage situation. I think you scared the shit out of Hotch too." Morgan replied with a laugh. "He called me before I even made it out the door."
"Well thanks again." Emily said she gave Morgan a kiss on the cheek. "Hey pumpkin why don't we go see your mom?" Emily felt AJ nod against her chest and the two began walking over to where JJ was. The closer they got the more Emily realized that Hotch was not happy.
"What the hell were you thinking JJ?" Hotch demanded to know. "You could have been killed! Is that what you wanted your daughter to see? You sprawled out on the floor, dead!"
"Of course not!" JJ shot back as she continued to rub her sore arm. She was fairly certain she was going to have a rather nasty bruise from where she dove to the ground, narrowly missing the suspect's bullet. "I didn't see any other choice."
"Are you trying to kill me? Because tonight damn near did me in. First of all I get a text telling me two of my closet friends and there daughter, who I love like my own are being held hostage and then as SWAT is preparing to make an assault, I see YOU on the security feed step right out in front of the gun wielding suspect with NO VEST ON!" Hotch shouted.
"I'm sorry Hotch, but I didn't see another other choice. This was the only way I could guarantee my daughter's safety. If we had waited for SWAT who knows what would have happened in the process. I'm not proud of what I did. I know that it was stupid but I did it to protect my family!"
"Everything okay?" Emily asked cautiously as she and AJ walked up to them. AJ quickly left Emily's arms and wrapped her arms around JJ. Seeing her mother with gun pointed at her had scared her to death.
"And you! How could you let her do that? I can't reprimand her but you!"
"Sir with all do respect I didn't have a choice. I was given a direct order from an out ranking FBI Agent." Emily said as she glared at JJ. JJ knew that Emily wasn't going to let that go anytime soon.
"Excuse me?" Hotch asked in confusion as his anger began to subside.
"Senior Supervisory Agent In Charge Jennifer Jereau gave me a direct order." Emily replied. Hotch glanced back and forth between JJ and Emily and couldn't help but laugh. In all that she had been through tonight; the hostage situation, watching her wife stand in front of a crazy man with a gun and then shooting the suspect herself; Emily was more upset that JJ out ranked her. "It's not funny Hotch!" Emily demanded.
"Oh but it is." Hotch continued to laugh as he walked away.
Two hours later JJ, Emily and AJ were finally leaving the scene and were heading home.
"So are you sure your okay AJ?" JJ asked as Emily drove them home.
"Yeah I fine. Still a little freaked out I guess but I'm okay." AJ said with a slight smile. "It's just… I mean I 've always known what you two did for a living but knowing and seeing are to different things. I mean you had a gun pointed at you and you," AJ pointed at Emily, "you killed someone. It's just a lot to process."
"I know it is but I promise you things like that don't happen everyday." JJ told her.
"Have you ever killed anyone?" AJ asked JJ.
"Sadly I have; but it is not something we like to talk about. In the job that we do sometimes it is necessary to do things we don't like to do, but we do them just the same." JJ replied. "Because what we do matters. It matters to a lot of people."
"I know that and I get that. It's just I'm just starting to realize that when you leave in the morning there is a strong possibly you might not come home that night."
"Honey listen to me." Emily looked in the rear view mirror to make sure she had AJ's attention. "I cannot promise you that nothing bad is ever going to happen to us, because I don't know that is going to happen tomorrow. But I can promise you that your mother and I will do everything in our power to make sure we come home each and every night. Okay?"
"Thanks mom." AJ said as she wiped a tear from her cheek. "Oh and mom?" AJ said turning to JJ.
"Yes sweetie?"
"Next time you want some ice cream can we just stop at McDonald's or something?" JJ just simply rolled her eyes as AJ laughed.
"Pumpkin I think that might be the best idea I've heard all night." Emily laughed.
A/N- I can soooo see Emily getting pissed that JJ gave her a direct order… lol….. PLEASE REVIEW!!
