Chapter 10:

After a while JJ stopped sobbing again. Her eyes were red an puffy and she looked scared and hurt. Emily tried her best to sooth her, and slowly JJ calmed down and breathed normally. Emily untangled herself from the hug, but remained close and tok JJ's hand.

"Are you feeling better sweetie? Is there anything you want?" JJ just shock her head and looked down on her hand, witch was entwined with Emily's.

"Jennifer, please look at me!" Emily pleaded, and JJ slowly raised her head. Emily's other hand reached out and touched her check. "It was only a bad dream. That man can't hurt you. No one can hurt you." Emily looked lovingly in her eyes.

"I know that. But it just seamed so real, and I was so scared." JJ whispered.

"I might have an explanation for why it felt so real." Emily began softly, "when I found you, you were trapped in a small room with walls of concrete. We don't know much about the man who abducted you, but we know that he didn't know you were FBI. I think what you dream was real." Emily could see that this new information scared JJ.

"But I need you to listen very carefully to me JJ. No one, and I mean NO ONE is going to hurt you, ever again! I will protect you."

The team and JJ's parents had just finished their coffee when Dr. Draper approached them.

"Mr. and Mrs. Jareau, I'm Eva Draper, head of Neurosurgery at Baton Rouge General." The doctor shock hands with Nathan and Cindy. "I have been following your daughter since she was admitted earlier today. Physically her injuries are small, her ribs are bruised and she will be sore for awhile. But she has lost her memory. I hope that it is temporarily, and earlier we did some test and I am waiting for the results. It seams some how she remembers Agent Prentiss, so I have only allowed her into the room. You, as her next of kin, have a legal right to be in that room and I will not deny you that. I do however ask that you are very patient with her. She is hurt and confused and she doesn't remember anything. When her boyfriend was brought to her earlier he got impatient and almost hit her, she was frightened after that before Agent Prentiss managed to calm her down." The Jareau's looked at the doctor with understanding, and anger towards Will.

"Doctor, we have talked a bit to Emily, and we are going to see JJ for a little while later. Emily said she would talk to JJ before we entered, to prepare her." Nathan said.

"Good. I think it is important to have family nearby, even if you don't remember her. Do you have any questions for me?"

"What are the chances of Jenny to get her memory back?"

"I don't know yet. I will know more once I see the results of the tests, but the odds are in her favor. She is young, in good shape and already now she is alert and processing her situation."

"Thank you so much for the information Doctor."

"Of course. I will come back and with more information when the test results have arrived." With that the doctor straightened her lab coat and walked down the corridor.

After sitting in comfortable silence, JJ's head resting on Emily's shoulder, hands entwined, Emily decided to tell JJ about her parents.

"Sweetheart? Your parents have arrived." Emily spoke softly, "would you like to see them?" Emily could feel JJ tens up.

"I don't know. A part of me wants to, but I don't want to be left alone with someone I don't know."

"I understand, if you're not ready, I'll tell your parents that, and they will wait. But if you want to see them, I could stay for awhile and when you are comfortable with being alone with them, I'll leave."

"Would you stay?" JJ asked, "I want to meet them."

"Of course. I'll stay with you as long as you want me to." Emily smiled and brushed some of JJ's hair out of her face. "Do you want me to go and get them?"

When the doctor left Nathan and Cindy sat back down.

"I am so very sorry for everything that happened with JJ. If we..."

"Agent Hotchner?" Cindy interrupted, "what happened to Jenny wasn't your fault. It wasn't any of yours fault, and I need you to remember that. Jenny is going to need a lot of help in these next months, and she needs all of you." Cindy looked at everyone on the team while speaking.

"Thank you." Hotch mumbled.

"Mr. and Mrs... Ehm... Nathan and Cindy? JJ would like to see you for a little while, if that's okay with you?" Emily had approached the group and turned to JJ's parents.

"Thank you Emily, we would like that very much." Cindy stood and walked over to Emily.

"She woke up from a nightmare and it tok some time to calm her down. She asked me if I would stay with her when she talked to you. I hope that's fine with you?"

Nathan nodded, "as we said before Emily; Jenny needs you." Nathan said while the three of them walked to JJ's room.

"Hey you!" JJ's face lit up when Emily poked her head into the room to make sure the blond wasn't crying or sleeping.

"Hey yourself", Emily said while she entered the room with JJ's parents after her. "I want you to meet someone very important to you. This is your mom and dad, Cindy and Nathan Jareau."

"Hello Jenny." Cindy said softly while approaching the bed.

"Hi.", subconsciously JJ reached for Emily's hand and relaxed a bit when their fingers touched. "Uhm, why do you call me Jenny?"

Nathan smiled and let out a little chuckle. "Right to the case, huh?" He winked at her, before answering her question. "When you were 8 you came into my office one day and you said "Dad, I don't like my name. Like really, really don't like it! Can you call me something else?"" The four of them busted out in laughter after hearing that.

"Did I really say that?" JJ blushed slightly after she stopped laughing. Both her mother and father nodded. Emily stood back and enjoyed the sight of JJ and her parents. Even if the blonde couldn't remember herself or her parents, she was responding to them in a way that amazed her.

JJ continued to ask her parents variously question about her as a kid and their relationship, and she seamed calm and relaxed.

"JJ, would you mind if a went for a little walk?" Emily asked, looking carefully at the woman in the bed. She really didn't want to go, but JJ needed some time alone with her parents.

"No! Of course not!" JJ said, a little hesitant, "You are free to do whatever you want to!"

"Okay. I will only be gone a little while, you won't even notice it." Emily smiled, before leaning down and pressed a soft kiss at JJ's check.