Thank you for all the wonderful comments you guys have all been giving me! To make up for the time it took to update this is the longest chapter I have ever written. Once again this chapter has less angst, but some team bonding on the men's part. I hope you enjoy and I hope to hear your thoughts!

I do not own Criminal Minds

"Morgan!" Reid whined as he got flicked for the second time with green paint.

"What, Pretty boy doesn't want the green to clash with his pink shirt?" Morgan laughed.

"It's not pink, it's orange!" Reid defended himself.

"A pretty pink looking orange," Morgan retorted.

"If you two don't shut up I'm going to pour this bucket of paint on your heads," Rossi threatened holding the bucket in his hand. This shut them up.

Reid, Morgan, Rossi, and Hotch were standing in Emily's guest room painting it a light green. Since the birth had come so early and unexpected she hadn't had time to make it into a nursery.

"You know I think Emily would have killed us if we painted this room pink," Morgan observed.

They were down to their last wall and Morgan and Reid had managed to get about half a can on them. Hotch rolled his eyes as he looked at his profilers. They may be good on the job, but sometimes they acted like a bunch of high school boys.

"Done," Rossi announced. The group of men stood back and admired their work. They had successfully painted the walls, and only the walls, despite Morgan's urge to paint the ceiling as well.

"Not even close," Hotch pointed to the boxes that were lying in the middle of the room. Morgan groaned, but then went and grabbed the one for the crib.

"Come on boy genius, help me read these directions."

Reid followed him and together they tried to make sense of what to do. But the directions might as well been written in Portuguese.

On the other side of the room Hotch and Rossi got the changing table up in just minutes.

"I remember putting one of these together for Jack," Hotch smiled at the memory, "It took me three hours until Haley came and showed me how to do it."

"Women always are better at well…. Everything," Rossi laughed.

"I think we should go help Reid and Morgan before they end up hitting each other with the wood instead of making a crib," Hotch looked over to the confused Reid and irritated Morgan.

"And then we have the list Garcia gave us of stuff we still need to pick up from the store," Rossi added.

Today was going to be a long day.

Emily lay in the hospital bed with Jennifer Garcia Prentiss in her arms.

"She's just so cute!" Garcia cooed.

Emily smiled proudly at her daughter.

"They said I might be able to take her home sometime this week." Emily had been in the hospital with Jennifer for a week. JJ had been there with her the whole time and the rest of the team had taken turns visiting, yet it had been two days and the men hadn't come.

"Where are the guys?" Emily asked.

"Ummm," Garcia looked over at JJ, "They had to go work a case."

"That's weird. They didn't mention one." Emily said thinking aloud.

"Well actually they are just working it from the BAU and giving the profile over the phone," JJ quickly tried to fill in the blanks with lies that actually made sense.

"What's the case?" Emily asked.

"It's um, it's a-" JJ started. She shot Garcia a look for getting them in this situation. Now she had to think of a case that wouldn't affect Emily too badly, "There were a string of murders." She tried to keep it as vague as possible.

"Come on JJ, just tell me what the case is," Emily mistook JJ's intentions as trying to keep her in the dark.

"There is an UNSUB murdering men between the ages of 40 and 50," Was the first thing that came to JJ's mind not involving children or women.

"That's a new one," Emily replied.

"Yeah," JJ said, "They should be done soon." She could only pray that when the men got back she could tell them there cover story before they screwed the whole thing up.

"I think our best chance will be if we split up," Rossi announced his plan to the other three men that stood around him. They were still standing in Emily's apartment.

"Hotch and I will go to Baby R Us and get bedding and stuffed animals. Morgan and Reid you go to baby gap and get some clothes. Also get baby formula, wipes, and diapers." Rossi assigned tasks.

"You trust Reid to pick out baby clothes? We don't want Emily to kill us, do we?" Morgan retorted.

"Just go before I change my mind and make you do everything alone," Hotch threatened.

Morgan defensively put his hands in the air, but then left to get in his car with Reid in tow.

When they arrived in baby gap they were astonished at how much stuff there was.

"So what do we need, like two jumpers?" Morgan asked.

"Statistically baby's go through about two or three jumpers a day." Reid informed Morgan. Yet that seemed to be the only fact about babies he knew. In that department he was clueless, well at least to the extent of a normal man.

"How do those little things go through so much clothing?" The two of them walked in and began browsing the little outfits. They even looked too big for Jennifer.

Eventually a sales person noticed them and walked over, "Hello, may I help you with something?"

"We need clothes for a baby," Reid informed her.

"Well obviously we need clothes for a baby. It's baby gap!" Morgan responded to him.

"Is the baby a girl or a boy?" The clerk asked calmly.

"She's a girl, her name is Jennifer."

"That's precious," The sales clerk responded, "So are one of you the father?"

"No," They both responded in unison.

"Oh, so do you just need one outfit for a baby shower?" She asked.

"Actually we are shopping for our friend who is in the hospital, so we are doing the whole works." Morgan told her.

"Do you know Jennifer's size?"

"Baby's have sizes?" Morgan asked.

The clerk forced herself to smile. She had just started working here and was not yet accustomed to clueless men yet. "Yes they do. Just like adults babies come in all shapes and sizes."

"Well," Reid held up a jumper, "She is smaller than this."

"She's about 31 weeks now if that helps," Morgan offered.

"Oh, okay. We have our selection of smaller clothes over in this side of the store," She directed the men to follow her. When they started going through the clothes they found themselves thinking they were adorable, but of course they wouldn't let anyone else know that.

"What about this one?" Reid asked holding up one that said 'Mommy's Little Girl'.

"This one's better." Morgan showed him a blue jumper with a dinosaur on it.

They continued to pile up their basket with clothes until it looked as though it was going to fall over. On the top rested a pink jumper with the letter J printed across it in green.

Then Morgan spotted one hiding in the back of one of the shelves. He pulled it out and showed it to Reid.

"That's perfect," They both agreed and then added it to the stack.

After their checkout they headed back to the car.

"Off to the land of diapers, formulas, bottles, and galore!" Morgan said as they drove away to the next store.

Hotch and Rossi walked around Baby's R us and tried to find everything Garcia had written on the list for them. First they went and got sheets and then a baby blanket.

"How do you think she's doing?" Rossi asked Hotch.

"I think she's doing as good as can be expected," Hotch answered.

"I think she's doing better than that. They baby might be just what she needed."

Hotch nodded slowly, but wasn't convinced.

"Do you think she'll come back to the BAU?" Rossi asked.

"When I had Jack I barely got enough sleep to function," Hotch thought about back then.

"You came back," Rossi reminded him.

"But I had Hayley."

Jennifer was resting in the crib next to Emily's bed and she took this moment to close her eyes. She couldn't believe everything that had happened in the last week. When she opened them they instantly locked on JJ's. She longed to hold her close, but Garcia was here.

One thing Emily hadn't been counting on was Garcia picking up on the eye contact. "Hey Emily, I should probably head out now. I'll stop in with the guys and see how the case is going," She winked at JJ.

"Thanks for coming," Emily tried not to sound excited about the fact that Garcia was leaving.

As Garcia left the room she gave the pair a knowing smile that they both missed.

JJ walked over to the crib, "Jennifer," JJ said looked into it.

"I named her after the most amazing person I know," Emily smiled.

JJ smiled back and Emily scooted over in her hospital bed. JJ sat down in the empty space. She had been longing for time alone with Emily. Immediately their hands clasped together like a magnet.

"I love you JJ," Emily whispered sitting up. She brushed her lips against JJ's forehead.

"I love you too Em," JJ looked at her through her eyelashes, "I also love Jennifer."

"Do you think we should tell the team? You know, about us." JJ suddenly asked the gorgeous brunette.

"What do we tell them Jayje? That I'm some single mother who is in love with the woman she works with?"

"I don't know," JJ shook her head.

"But what are we?" Emily asked, "Is this even going to be anything more?"

Emily could see hurt in JJ's eyes. She wanted to stop, but she also needed to know the truth.

"Are these feeling real? I mean I was just pregnant and maybe it could just be…" Emily trailed off, but JJ knew what she was about to say.

JJ swallowed a lump in her throat and stood up. "Em I know you've been through a lot. And I know how I'm feeling, but right now… I just can't be here right now," She walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

"Shit," Emily hissed.

The noise caused Jennifer to wake up and start crying. Emily walked over and picked her up out of the crib. She tried to do everything the nurse had told her to. Feed her, burp her, change her, and just plain nurture her, but nothing worked. She paced up and down the room with the baby in her arms. Tears stung her eyes as she realized the terrible mistake she had made. JJ was the best thing that had ever happened to her, and she screwed that up too. She had just wanted to make sure the love was true, but… she shouldn't have done that, she already knew the answer.

"Shhh Jennifer, please stop crying," Emily begged rocking her back and forth.

Jennifer continued to sob as though she felt the pain JJ was feeling right now.

"Okay, I deserve this," Emily admitted. With one hand she held Jennifer and with the other she pulled out her phone. She dialed JJ's number and it went to voicemail.

Emily then knew what she had to do. Picking her phone up again she called Garcia.

"Hey Garcia," Emily's words choked in her voice, "I'm sorry to ask you this, but could you come back? There is something I need to tell you and I don't want to do it over the phone."

"Of course I will Sweetie, is everything all right?"

"No," Emily answered bitterly, "It was until I messed it up." She set down the phone and tried to focus all of her attention on Jennifer, yet it kept going back to JJ.

Garcia had just made it to her car in the parking lot when she got Emily's call. She immediately turned around and started walking back. When she turned onto Emily's hallway she saw JJ standing there blinking back tears.

"Jayje is everything okay? I just got a call from Emily. She also sounded upset." Garcia asked concerned.

"I guess you'll have to ask her," JJ said bitterly, but in fact she was just overcompensating for the amount of hurt and sadness she felt.

Garcia glanced uncertainly at the blonde, but then walked over to Emily's room. She walked in and saw that Emily's was also blinking back tears. What had happened for the ten minutes she was gone?

"Em is everything all right?" Garcia asked tentatively. In the corner of her eye she saw JJ standing outside of the door.

Emily gave a cynical laugh, "It was."

Garcia approached her and carefully took the baby out of her arms and set her in the crib.

"What is it you wanted to tell me?" Garcia asked pulling up the chair to Emily's bed.

Emily brushed her hair out of her face. She couldn't believe she was going to do this, but she had to. She had to show JJ how she truly felt about her. Emily didn't know how Garcia would react to this, but she was sure out of the team at least she would be the most understanding.

"I'm in love with JJ," She confessed, "I screwed it all up, but I wanted you to know."

JJ's eyes widened. Had she heard that correctly? She asked herself. Did she just tell Garcia? She quickly walked into the room to see Garcia's face erupt into a huge smile.

JJ's eyes met Emily for the second time that day. She quickly walked over to where Emily was sitting.

"I'm so sorry JJ! I made a huge mistake; I didn't mean what I said! I was just…" Emily tried to make JJ believe.

"I understand Emily. You were just confused, I am a little too. I have never felt this way about a woman. Hell, I've never felt this way!" JJ brought her into a hug.

"You guys are so cute! I was wondering when you would tell me," Garcia said.

This stopped their hug. "You already knew?" Emily asked her in disbelief.

"Of course I already knew! I may not be a profiler, but I sure can spot true love." She smiled.

"Who else knows?" JJ asked.

"Morgan just figured out a few days ago, you know men." The three of them laughed.

"Do you think the rest of the team will be… you know, okay with this?" JJ asked with worry refilling her eyes.

"Anything that makes you two happy," Garcia assured her.

Emily took JJ's hand in hers, "And even if they're not, I don't give a damn. All I care about is that I have you and Jennifer. That is the only thing in the world I could ever ask for."

JJ leaned her head forward and her lips about to meet Emily's, when she glanced awkwardly towards Garcia.

"Go on with it!" She exclaimed.

JJ took the queue and kissed Emily. They both felt a spark and knew 100% that this was not a mistake. This was love.

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