-TCE-

The brunette woman groaned softly as she rolled over to wrap her arms back around her blonde girlfriend, but all that met her was a cold mattress. Groaning louder this time in frustration, Emily crawled out of bed and pulled on a hoodie and sweatpants to venture downstairs. As she descended the wooden staircase, she was bombarded with the smells of a large breakfast coming from the kitchen. Following her nose, Emily entered into a scene much like the one from the night before.

For the moment, Emily stood in the doorway and watched the busy kitchen. JJ, her blonde hair pulled into a messy ponytail, stood behind Henry helping him pour batter onto a griddle to make pancakes. Lisa and Richard stood at the opposite counter helping the other four children decorate their pancakes with fruit and bacon to making smiling masterpieces. Feeling comfortable enough with JJ's parents distracted, Emily made her way over to her blonde girlfriend and laid a gentle hand on the small of her back while leaning over to place a quick kiss to her rosy cheek.

Feeling the familiar lips on her cheek, JJ quickly turned her head and captured Emily's lips in a chaste kiss before the brunette could pull away, "Good morning, Sunshine!" she sing-songed as she turned her attention back to her task of helping Henry.

Hearing his mother speaking above him, Henry immediately brought his head up to look at the person she was speaking to. When his eyes met those of Emily, the young boy instantly released his hold on the bowl and wriggled out of his mother's grasp while chanting "Emmy" excitedly. JJ, grateful she had a hold on the bowl so it didn't fall and bust, smiled as she watch Emily bend down to lift Henry off the ground, "Good morning, Champ. What are you and your mother up to?" the brunette asked as she wrapped the small boy in her arms.

Pulling back after giving Emily a hug, Henry looked excited back towards the pancakes his mother was now making, "We're making pancakes, Emmy. I alweady ate mine but now me and Mommy are making yours!"

Setting the small boy back on the ground, Emily smiled as she leaned casually against the counter top and said, "You and your mother are actually making me breakfast? Usually I'm the one slaving over the stove while you two watch from the table."

JJ looked up and playfully glared at the brunette before Henry responded, oblivious to the joke, "Yeah, but you were still asweep and Mommy said not to wake you up."

Henry, satisfied with his explanation, stepped back in front of his mother to start helping her again. While Henry was distracted for the moment, JJ retaliated, "It's not my fault that you've been trained by professional chefs from a young age. And to point out, you've mentioned on several occasions that you enjoy cooking for Henry and me. Don't try and say otherwise, Missy."

Holding her hands up in surrender, Emily's smiled grew wider at the playful banter going on between the two, "Alright, alright! You caught me. But it will be nice to be the one served instead of the one serving."

Lisa Jareau turned and watched the two women playfully bickering with each other for a moment. The other children were busy eating their pancakes so she had a moment to breathe. Lisa noticed how relaxed and content Emily appeared to be as the brunette had a hip casually propped against the counter and her arms crossed loosely in front of her. This was the side of Emily Prentiss that JJ had fallen in love with, and Lisa could see that. When the brunette addressed herself and Richard, she was poised, articulate, and diplomatic. When the two older adults had first met the brunette, they had known that JJ was head over heels with the woman. But at the first meeting, they could not understand how or why. How could their little girl love a woman who acted like a robot? But as time wore on and Lisa experienced moments like these where she got to peek into their world, she knew there wasn't another person on Earth more suited for JJ than Emily.

The older woman made her way toward the trio as she addressed Emily, "Good morning, Emily dear. Did you sleep well?" Lisa regretfully noticed Emily flinch slightly at the intrusion, but quickly recovered as she stood taller and straightened her posture. She wished more than anything that the Ambassador had shown this girl love while she was growing up so that she wouldn't fear being reprimanded by parental figures so much.

Emily had made the mistake of falling into a seclude world with JJ and Henry. But that often happened when she was around the two. So when the voice of Lisa Jareau penetrated her mind, Emily jumped slightly and reverted back to her 'Ambassador's daughter' personality, "Yes ma'am. It was splendid."

"Oh please dear, you don't need to be so proper with me," Lisa explained as she waived a hand in the air. "Now, I don't know if JJ has told you about how today works, but its Christmas Eve, so Richard and I are going to be taking the kids out of the house for the day. That leaves you all with time to do whatever you want or need to do. And that starts right…now!" Lisa said she went to grab Henry from where he was standing between JJ and Emily.

JJ smiled as she watched her son being twirled around by her mother. "Gwandma! Put me down!" yelled the little boy as he struggled to get loose. When Lisa finally set him back on the hard wood floor, Henry ran to Emily and wrapped his small arms around her legs. "I don't wanna leave you Emmy. You just got here yesterday and now you just woke up. I wanna stay wif you," he whined.

Emily bent down so she was eye level with the blonde boy. She felt her heart clench in her chest because everything inside her told her to give Henry what he wanted. But at the same time, she needed to not only make Henry leave to follow the Jareau tradition, but so she could give JJ her Christmas gift. But looking into Henry's dark blue eyes, she felt her resolve crumble just a little, "I know Champ. I wish you could stay too. I'm sorry, but you've got to go with your Grandparents and all of your cousins. But listen, if you're an extra good boy, I'll have a big surprise for you when you get back. Deal?"

Hearing the word surprise, Henry's eyes brightened and a big smile stretched across his small face, "Weally?" When Emily smiled also and nodded, Henry wrapped his arms around her neck in a quick hug and said, "Well, I've got to weave then! Come on Gwandma, we've got to get outta here!" Henry walked back to Lisa, reached up and grabbed one of her hands with both of his, and pulled her towards the kitchen door.

As the two disappeared, JJ noticed that her father had left with the other children while Emily had been talking to Henry. Realizing she and Emily were alone, she pulled the brunette up from her crouched position on the floor and pushed her firmly against the countertop. Leaning in and pressing a strong kiss to Emily's lips, JJ moaned into the contact. Pulling back, JJ allowed her hands to rest on either side of the brunette as she asked, "So what's this big surprise you've got for Henry? You know Christmas is tomorrow right?"

Emily fought hard to keep a stoic face. She didn't want to be too closed off so as to make JJ suspicious, but she didn't want to seem too excited either. Instead, she answered calmly with only a hint of a smirk, "I realize that. But it's not really a present just for Henry. It's kind of a surprise for both of you, so I figure I'll give it to you two tonight."

JJ stood for a minute and stared hard into Emily's eyes. She hated it when Emily kept things from her, but this was obviously something the brunette had been planning. So, not wanting to ruin her girlfriend's surprise, JJ only nodded as she placed a few more slow kisses to Emily's lips. "You know I hate surprises right?" the blonde asked in between kisses.

"Mmm, I know. But something tells me you'll like this one. And that's all I'm saying about that," Emily finished as she tried to push JJ back. She wasn't very big on PDA, especially in her girlfriend's parent's house.

JJ, resisting Emily's silent pleas to back off, simply continued her trail of kisses down the brunette's neck to her collar bone poking out of the top of the hoodie. "What if I told you I had a surprise for you right now?" the shorter woman asked huskily as she grabbed Emily's right hand with her left and guided it to the waistband of her flannel pajama pants.

Emily moaned at the feeling of her handing meeting the soft flesh of JJ's tight stomach. As if moving of its own accord, Emily's hand slowly crept down the front of JJ's pants to be met with a slick wetness. As if the combination of hearing JJ moan into her ear and the feeling of her now wet fingers, Emily broke out of her trance and whispered huskily into JJ's ear, only able to speak in choppy sentences, "Not here Baby. Not now. Later. I promise."

But Emily never removed her hand. Instead, she left it sitting in place while JJ locked their lips in a passionate kiss. Only breaking apart when the need for air grew too great, "It's not fair to get me all worked up and then not give me a release. Don't you see what you do to me Emily Prentiss?" JJ ground out with much difficulty. Her brain was clouded with lust and barley able to process coherent thoughts.

"God! Will you two get a room?" Jason exclaimed before Emily had the opportunity to respond to JJ's whispered inquiry. "Better yet, get a lock on the room you already have. Or maybe I should tell you to learn how to use the lock, on the door, to the room, you two already have," the man finished with a full-fledged smirk plastered onto his pale face. His hazel eyes sparkled with a mischievous glint as he watched the two women jump apart. Emily quickly stood ram-rod straight as she assumed her 'don't fuck with me' posture as JJ called it. But the crimson blush spreading across her cheeks gave away her true embarrassment.

JJ quickly straightened her pajama bottoms before she turned around to face her obnoxious older brother. "Shut-up Jason! That's twice now that you've interrupted us."

"Yeah, but this time it wasn't my fault. I cannot be held accountable for your decision to partake in 'extracurricular activities' in the kitchen of our childhood home. Which is now filled with family I might add," he finished as he ran his hand through his thick brown hair. If JJ was the spitting image of her mother with her short stature, blonde hair and blue eyes, then Jason looked just like his father with his hazel eyes, brown mane of hair, chiseled features and tall physique.

Just as JJ was about to retaliate to defend her and Emily, another person walked into the increasingly crowded kitchen, "What's all this commotion about?" Emily only closed her eyes as she saw JJ's oldest sibling, Julie, walk into the room. She hadn't dealt much with the blonde haired, hazel eyed woman who was about the same height as Emily, but she did know that the woman was a force to be reckoned with. She was just as much of a jokester as Jason, but in a much more subdued fashion. The older sister pushed a stray curl behind her ear as she waited for someone to answer.

"Nothing much Jules, Emily was just trying to jump Jenny's bones…again!" Jason finished in a roar of laughter as he dodged an oven mitt thrown at his head.

Watching as JJ looked for something else to chunk at her brother, Emily felt the need to defend her honor, "In my defense, the first time we were behind a closed door. And both times JJ seduced me into acting on my lustful urges."

Julie watched as JJ found a plastic spatula and advanced toward Jason who was hunkered down behind the bar. Just as the youngest Jareau was about to reach her brother, Julie stepped in. She grabbed JJ by the waist, and since she was a few inches taller than her sister, she easily spun the shorter woman around while grabbing the spatula from her flailing hands. "Hey! That's no fair! You two always gang up on me!" JJ whined as she wrenched herself from Julie's grasp. "Daddy!" the petulant woman called.

Emily's eyes widened as she realized JJ had actually just called for her dad in the same manner that Henry often whined for his mother. The mother and son were more alike than the brunette had originally thought. "He and Mom have already left with the kids. And don't even think of calling for Matt and Liz because they're both in the shower. It's just me and Jason here. Your girlfriend could protect you, but I think she's too worried about making a good impression to do much of anything," Julie taunted as she crossed her arms in front of her chest and leveled a challenging look on JJ.

The two women stared each other down for a few moments as they squared away before JJ stomped her foot in defeat, let out a small huff, and spun around to exit the kitchen. On the way, she grabbed Emily's hand and dragged the flabbergasted brunette behind her.

As the two entered JJ's room, the blonde immediately set about pulling clothes from her numerous suitcases laid out across the room. Emily watched her girlfriend storm around the room for a few minutes before saying, "You know, you're kinda cute when you go all 'Daddy's little girl throwing a temper tantrum.'"

Halting in her preparations for the day, JJ spun towards Emily to find her leaning against the door and grinning widely. Reaching out to grab a shirt from Emily's suitcase, JJ threw the garment at the brunette's face and said, "Oh shut-up Emily and just get ready. Dress warm."

Not another word was said as the two women got ready for their day.

-TCE-

Emily looked around at her surroundings as she blindly followed JJ down the snowy forest path. The two where bundled up with toboggans pulled over their heads and gloves secured over their hands. Each woman had a pair of ice skates slung over a shoulder, Emily having borrowed a pair of Julie's old ones. With her hand tightly held by JJ, Emily finally asked, "So…are you ever going to tell me where we're going?"

"Patience is a virtue Emily. One you would do well to acquire," JJ stated as she slowed down to walk beside her girlfriend. She had refused to reveal their destination, citing only that it had been her favorite spot to escape to when she was growing up. "Besides, we'll be there in five minutes."

Emily kept to herself that she had more patience than JJ was aware of as she fingered the tiny blue box with her free hand that was tucked in the pocket of her jacket. "That's what you said ten minutes ago. I just feel like you're leading me off into the woods to kill me where no one can hear my cries for help."

"Oh please Em. You and I both know I'd be a lot more efficient with your murder so as to leave minimal amounts of trace evidence, thus ensuring my innocence," JJ retaliated as she pulled Emily's arm tighter into her body. She dew her other arm across her body to place a hand on Emily's bicep.

Emily smiled broadly at the playful banter she often enjoyed with JJ, "Well, at least I know what to look out for."

Turning her head to gaze up into Emily's face, JJ allowed a deep smile to grace her features as she said, "There's that smile I've been missing." JJ never thought her happiness would be so dependent on another person's until she had Henry. But now, with Emily, it was just a strong, but in a different way, as her desire to see her son happy.

Emily only rolled her eyes at the sappy comment before lowering her head to place a quick kiss to JJ's forehead. "Well, with no judging, familial eyes bearing down on me, I can actually relax a bit. Hence, the smile."

JJ was about to respond when she noticed her surroundings. Somehow in the time she was talking with Emily, she had lost track of the hike. The two women now stood at the natural entrance to an open area in the woods. In the middle of the opening, a large pond sat frozen solid with piles of snow sitting at its banks. The freshly fallen snow laid untouched my human intrusion. The opening was surrounded by trees on all sides except for the area where the two women now stood. Emily looked around in awe at the area. There was about a twenty yard space between the tree line and the edge of the pond. Next to the pond, a sole maple tree stood, ancient and sturdy, with its thick branches stretching toward the middle of the frozen pond.

Emily was snapped from her daze when JJ pulled her forward by the hand. The blonde woman dragged the brunette to a low hanging branch of the old maple tree and sat the two of them down. Emily automatically followed JJ's lead as the woman began taking off her shoes to put her skates on. While Emily still took in her surroundings while absentmindedly pulling on her skates, JJ began explaining her attachment to this location, "Almost nobody knows about this spot. Even though my family's house is in the neighborhood, they still own all this land back here. Most of it is fenced off, including this area. When I was growing up, Daddy would bring me out here to learn to fish during the summer. Julie, Jason, and I learned to swim in this pond. And during the winter, we would all come out here to skate. Eventually, Julie and Jason got too old and too cool so they stopped coming with Daddy and me. Then one day, I was too old for Daddy to tag along too. That's when it became my safe haven. When I was going through my sexuality crisis, I spent a lot of time down here."

JJ paused as she turned to look at Emily, who was now staring intently back at her. "That's why I wanted to bring you down here. This was my safe haven growing up. It was a major part of my past. But you're my safe haven now Emily. It was important for me to show you where I grew up." JJ leaned forward and brought Emily's face closer to hers with both of her hands. For a moment, the two just sat and shared a tender kiss. Pulling back, JJ looked deep into Emily's brown eyes and said with conviction and certainty in her voice, "I love you, Emily Prentiss."

Emily stared back into JJ's blue eyes as she responded, in English, "I love you, too."

JJ was shocked for a moment to hear Emily respond to that statement in English. Usually, to convey feelings, Emily reverted to her native tongue, Portuguese. Even though JJ knew it meant more to Emily to say 'eu te amo,' it was still nice to hear the brunette respond in English for once. Growing excited with the expression of feelings, JJ quickly stood up and pulled Emily with her. "Come on, Em! Let's skate!"

Emily, wobbling on her own skates, slowly followed JJ to the edge of the pond. As she looked apprehensively down at the ice, the brunette turned her panicked eyes up to meet JJ's reassuring ones, "I don't know if this is such a good idea anymore. You know I'm not very coordinated or athletic like you are."

"Oh please! I've seen you chase down an unsub and tackle his ass to the ground. Trust me, you're plenty athletic," JJ argued as she tried to pull Emily onto the slick ice.

"Chasing an unsub is a lot different from having to coordinate my balance on two thin pieces of metal while twirling around on a slick surface of ice. Give me the unsub any day," Emily persisted as she kept a firm grasp on the drooping branch to her left. JJ still had her right hand in a vice like grip, but Emily was holding onto the tree even tighter.

Knowing just how to persuade the brunette, JJ exclaimed, "Do you not trust me, Emily?"

"Don't be ridiculous JJ. Of course I trust you. But trusting you with my heart is a lot different than trusting you to catch me when I'm going to inevitably fall on my ass."

"I'll catch you Sweetheart. Just trust me," JJ goaded, adding in a few fluttering eye lashes and a soft pout for good measure.

"Damnit, why do you have to be so friggin' cute?" Emily mumbled to herself as she finally let go of the tree branch.

On shaking and unsteady legs, Emily glided onto the ice with JJ pulling her forward. The blonde, clearly practiced at ice skating, easily skated backwards to drag the trembling brunette behind her. Emily's terrorized face slowly broke into a grin as she watched JJ leading the way. The wind was whipping the blonde hair sticking out of the bottom of the toboggan around JJ's pale face. The bitterly cold wind had caused JJ's normally rosy cheeks to glow a brighter red. But the most beautiful part for Emily was the way JJ's blue eyes danced with laughter as happiness shone brightly from within. "How in the world did I get this lucky?" Emily thought happily to herself.

Snapping out of her mesmerized trance, Emily heard JJ talking to her, "Okay Em. I'm going to let you go. You're doing great, just keep your balance and the rest will come to you."

Before Emily could protest and beg JJ to not let go of her two hands, the blonde had already skated away from her. Instantly panicking, Emily's arms starting whirl winding and the brunette quickly found herself sitting hard on the cold ice. Looking up to glare at JJ, Emily remained pouting while she said, "I knew this would happen. I trusted you!"

JJ easily heard to teasing note in the brunette's tone. But she still felt bad that the moment she skated away, her girlfriend had fallen down. "I'm sorry Sweetheart. Come on, I'll help you up and I promise not to let go until you say it's okay. Deal?"

Deciding to play the sympathy card a little longer, Emily simply shook her head and remained seated on the cold ice. Stuffing her hands deep into her coat pockets, the brunette fingered the little blue box hidden inside. She remained silent while JJ coaxed, "Come on Baby, I promise to make it up to you tonight."

Hearing the lustful quality of her girlfriends voice, Emily looked up and retorted, "Why? So your brother can walk in on us and interrupt again?"

"Listen, I promise to lock the door this time! Just get up and skate with your girlfriend damnit!" JJ joked as she reached down and pulled Emily up by arms.

"Fine, fine! So demanding!" the brunette jibed as she now stood unsteadily beside JJ this time.

As the two pushed off, JJ kept a firm grip around Emily's waist before saying, "You don't seem to mind my bossy nature in the bedroom." Emily smirked as she allowed her silence to show JJ that the blonde was right. The two fell into a comfortable silence as they skated around the width of the pond. Slowly JJ lessened her grip around Emily's waist until the two where skating just holding hands. Finally, JJ resumed speaking, "See Em? Look at you, basically skating on your own already. You're a natural!"

"I attribute this success story to the fact I had the world's best instructor."

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were trying to put the moves on me Emily."

Emily smiled as she looked over at the blonde beside her. "Oh no, you'll know when I'm putting the moves on you. I can promise you that," Emily finished mysteriously.

"Okay Miss Flirt, let's see if you can do this on your own," JJ urged as she slowly let go of Emily's hand. The brunette, though she still looked terrified, actually did well on her own. The pair made it about half way around the large pond before Emily's skate hit a hidden stick and sent her flying, head first, to JJ's feet. Immediately falling to her knees in front of Emily, JJ pulled the brunette up and searched her eyes for any signs of pain, "Oh my God! Emily, Sweetheart, are you alright?"

Taking a mental check of her body, Emily determined that nothing was broken. She was going to have some pretty big bruises, but nothing serious. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just, stand up," Emily instructed as she rose to her knees.

"Yeah, okay, I'll help you up," JJ agreed at once. But when JJ reached her full height and looked down, she saw that Emily didn't have her hands out stretched for the blonde to help her stand up. Instead, Emily was now kneeling on one knee, with a small blue box cradled in her trembling and now gloveless hands. "Emily, what's going on?" JJ asked hesitantly, her voice quivering with restrained excitement.

Before gathering the courage to look into JJ's expectant blue eyes, Emily mumbled half-heartedly to herself, "God, I didn't think I'd be this nervous." After another deep breath, Emily finally raised her brown eyes to meet her blue counterparts hovering above her. "Jen, I was alone my entire life. I moved from city to city, state to state, country to country. I never stayed in one place long enough to make a real friend. Because of that, I withdrew into myself and learned how to guard my heart in ways no human should ever have to.

"But then I met you Jen. You completely changed my world and flipped it upside down. If I'm being honest, I fell in love with you the first day I met you. Terrified, I did what I did best and tried to retreat behind my walls and hide inside my compartments. But you and Henry shattered the barriers I had spent a lifetime constructing in only a matter of days. As our friendship grew, I fell deeper and deeper for you with each passing day, but I was living in denial, terrified of being hurt. But sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes. And when you became my girlfriend, I knew I had never been happier than in that moment. And every day since then has been better than the one before.

"One of my favorite quotes is: 'Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity; eternity can be the tick of a clock.' I learned it back in boarding school, and it's always stuck with me because I never thought I would be lucky enough to experience the feeling. But with you Jen, that quote rings truer than it possibly has for any couple before. When I'm away from you, time crawls by and I'm all but rushing to see you again, willing time to speed up. But our time together flies by too quickly and I feel that every moment is a moment we'll never get back; every moment a wasted opportunity to show you, tell you, how I feel. Well, I refuse to let any more of those moments pass.

"I've been planning this moment since our first date. I knew, even then, that I would be on bended knee and at your mercy one day. So I ask you this, Jennifer Jareau, will you marry me?" Emily finished her monologue as she held the eye contact with JJ they had established before she began. In that moment, her senses picked up on every detail around her. A robin was chirping in a distant tree. Her pant leg was soggy and wet with melted ice. Her fingers were chilled to the point of numbness. JJ's breath rose in unsteady puffs into the air. JJ's clear blue eyes were filled with unshed tears. Her heart beat was heavy and thudding in her chest.

JJ continued to hold Emily's confident gaze. She and Emily had briefly discussed marriage before, joking about what kind of rings they wanted. As she looked down at the Tiffany & Co. blue box in her girlfriend's hand and she saw the massive princess cut diamond, she knew that Emily had been listening. The blonde hadn't thought that Emily was ready for such a big commitment, only just recently revealing to JJ that she had never had a serious relationship. But JJ had fallen for the brunette the first day she had seen her interact with Henry. When the two hit it off, JJ knew she wanted to marry Emily.

Finally, after a few moments of complete silence, JJ allowed a large smile to spread across her cold face as she fell to her knees in front of Emily. Looking back into Emily's light brown eyes, with her heart pounding excitedly in her chest, JJ nodded her head vigorously before saying, "Yes! Yes Emily Prentiss. I'll marry you. I'll be your wife!" JJ finished in a squeal as she leaned forward and wrapped her arms tightly around Emily's neck and pulled the brunette into a passionate kiss.

When the need for air became too great, Emily reluctantly pulled back and put some space between their two bodies. With a large smile on her face, Emily took the ring from the velvet folds and slipped it onto JJ's left ring finger after she removed the bright blue glove. As JJ looked down at the perfectly fitted diamond ring, she looked back up into Emily's chocolate brown eyes and said, "I love you so much Emily. I'll spend every day, for the rest of my life, showing you and telling you just how much."

After leaning down and capturing JJ's mouth in another kiss, this one slow and sensual, Emily grabbed JJ's hands and pulled both of them to their feet, Emily responded, "I love you more than I may ever be able to tell you, Jennifer. But I'll spend forever trying."

After a few more tender kisses, Emily stood up and pulled an excited JJ after her. The brunette looked on as the blonde happily stared down and admired her enormous ring. Giving JJ a quick kiss, Emily skated gracefully to the edge of the pond. Looking behind her, the older woman saw a stunned blonde gaping at her, "Wait, I thought you couldn't skate."

Emily smirked devilishly as she responded, "Have you met my mother? She had me in every kind of lesson for every kind of non-contact sport since I could walk. Of course I can skate."

JJ's heart thudded in her chest as she realized just how much thought Emily put into this proposal. If possible, in that moment, JJ had fallen even more in love with the brunette profiler. Walking to the drooping tree branch, JJ sat down next to Emily as they both began to put their boots back on to trek back to the house. JJ was giddy with excitement as she thought about telling Julie, Liz and her mother. Hardly able to contain her enthusiasm JJ bounced up and down eagerly on the limb. "Hurry up, Em! I wanna tell everybody."

Laughing softly at JJ's behavior, Emily looked beside her and made eye contact with JJ before saying, "I'm sorry if I'm taking my time, but I want to enjoy this moment with my fiancé."

JJ, feeling slightly guilty, still smiled grandly before leaning in and kissing Emily softly on the lips a few times. "Mmm… fiancé, I like the way that sounds."

"I'll like the way, 'wife' sounds a whole lot better," Emily replied with a twinkle in her eye. Finally finished putting on her boots, Emily stood and grabbed JJ's still un-gloved left hand into her bare right one. Hand in hand, the pair made their way back towards the Jareau residence to announce the good news.