Chapter 11:
Emily tok a moment to look through the window to see that JJ was smiling at something Cindy said. She looked happy and relaxed, just as Emily had predicted she would be once her parents were with her. She smiled for herself before she went to find the team. When she returned to the waiting area, the team was sitting were she had left them earlier.
"Hi guys", Emily smiled and sat down next to Morgan.
"Hi pumpkin. How's she?" Garcia was smiling, but not her 100-Garcia% perky.
"She is fine, I think. Cindy and Nathan really know how to make her feel relaxed. I'm so glad they came down here." Emily looked grateful into Hotch's eyes. For a moment each one on the team was lost in their own thoughts.
"Has the doctor got the result yet?" Rossi spoke up, breaking the silence.
"No, not yet. But she said it wouldn't take much longer. But what about our case? And Will?" Emily looked at her unit chief and second in command. "I don't think it will do JJ any good if everyone of us is sitting here doing nothing. I know that once she is discharged JJ wants to go home." Both Hotch and Rossi nodded.
"You are right Emily. We need to get back to the station." Morgan was about to protest, but Hotch held up his hand. "I know you don't want to leave, but right now the best thing we can do for JJ is close this case for good." Even though no one on the team wanted to leave, they knew Hotch and Emily were right.
"Morgan, do you think you could interview Det. LaMontagne without killing him?" Morgan grunted angry, but nodded.
"Morgan, you and Rossi will interview Det. LaMontagne then. Reid, I would like you to come with me and interview Mr. Lee with me. Bring up the notebook and see if he cracks." The four men rose. Emily was conflicted. She wanted to help her team mates. She would like nothing more than see both Will and James Lee behind bars, but at the same time she didn't want to leave JJ.
"Emily, I want you to stay here and watch JJ. I know you want to help with the interviews, but JJ needs you."
"Thank you Hotch." The team said their goodbyes and went back to the station.
Once Emily left the room JJ missed her. She was glad that her parents had flown down here to see her and after Emily's introduction she wasn't scared, but it was something about the other woman she missed.
Form her parents she learned about her childhood. The little town East Allegheny in Pennsylvania. Her love for soccer and that she was Varsity soccer captain in High School and was offered a full scholarship to Pittsburgh University to play. Then she had changed her mind and started at the CCT (The Communication, Culture & Technology Master of Arts Program) at Georgetown, she had wanted to be a journalist. She had changed her mind after a lecture by a man named David Rossi, who was one of the first original profilers of the BAU, and she joined the academy right out of college. After the academy she was offered the job at the BAU and she had been there for the last three years.
"And you are, somehow and I do not approve, a Red Skins fan." Nathan sighed and made her wife and daughter laugh.
"I know! Emily told me earlier. I'm like the black sheep of the family!" The playful banter between father and daughter continued, and JJ felt almost as relaxed with them as she did with Emily. She could tell that they loved her very much, and she wanted to regain her memory to show them that she loved them too.
"So, tell me, princess. How are you really?" Garcia asked when the boys had left.
"I honestly don't know Garcia. I am so, so, SO pissed off at Will for losing her and for upsetting her so much earlier, so grateful that we found her, so happy that she is okay, except for the memory loss, so sad that her memory is lost, so scared that she won't regain it." Emily sighed and looked down at her hands.
"I didn't expect anything else." Garcia enveloped the other woman in a hug, and they just sat for a while hugging each other.
"Garcia, would you mind talking a little walk with me? I think I need some coffee or water, and I need to buy some food and water for later." Emily brought her hand to her head while thinking. "Shit! I need to swing by the hotel too. How am I going to do all this?" she said out loud, more to herself, then Garcia.
"Pumpkin, calm down! First, let's go for a walk and grab some coffee and food. Then I'll text my chocolate good to come and pick me up when they are done at the station, I'll tell him to bring your things. Are you going to stay here?" Garcia already knew the answer, but she asked anyway.
"Yes. Pen, you're a lifesaver! I owe you when we get back to D.C.!"
"Just take care of our girl! And it also makes it easier for me, I don't have to book a hotel room for me or the Jareau's. I'll just take yours and they can have JJ's. It's a win-win." The blond winked at the brunette before standing up and dragging the profiler to her feet. "Now come on kitten. I want my coffee!"
When the two women returned they found Cindy and Nathan in the waiting room.
"Hi. How's JJ?" Emily asked when they reached the older couple.
"Oh, she's fine. She fell asleep about 5 minutes ago." Cindy smiled and gave Emily a hug. "Thank you for taking so good care of her!" She whispered in her ear. Emily felt her eyes tearing up.
"She would have done the same for me." She whispered back and blinked rapidly.
"We brought you coffee and something to eat." Garcia said when Cindy had let go of Emily and sat down again. "I am also making the arrangements so that you can have JJ's hotel room at the same hotel as the team is staying in." Nathan reached for the offered coffee cup with a smile.
"Thank you so much! Both of you!" He smiled to both women, before a comfortable silence fell over them.
"Mr. and Mrs. Jareau. I have the result of JJ's test." Dr. Draper approached the group with a folder in her hand. "Would you like to go to my office to discuss them?"
"No. We would like to keep JJ's team updated on everything, so we can talk out here." Nathan grabbed Cindy's hand while smiling at Dr. Draper.
"Very well." Eva sat down and opened the folder. "From the results of the MRI it doesn't look like there is anything permanent damage. I believe JJ will regain her memory again, but it will take time. It is very important that she is held stress free as much as possible. Her brain is protecting itself, so it's important that her memory will come back to her on it's own. Don't push it, be patient and gentle."
The four of them looked at each other and smiled. This was good news! Emily knew it would take time, but she would give all the time she needed.
"Dr. Draper? When wil JJ be discharged?"
"I want to keep her over night for observation and to do a check up on her tomorrow, but it think she could be discharged as soon as tomorrow, but it depends on how things goes tonight and tomorrow morning." the doctor smiled at the agent. "is JJ living alone in D.C.?" she asked.
"Yes, she is." Garcia answered.
"Well, she can't be alone, for at least the next weeks." Cindy looked at Nathan, they both knew that Nathan couldn't be away from his business so long.
"I'll stay with her!" Emily said. "I'll take time off work and move into her house." Dr. Draper nodded and smiled.
"I'll get you the prescriptions for her medicine in the morning. Do you have any more questions for me?" They all shock their heads. "Okay, then. Have someone page me when JJ wakes up, and I'll go over this with her too. If there is anything, and I mean anything, don't hesitate to ask someone to page me." With a smile the doctor disappeared down the hall.
"Emily, it's not a problem for me to stay with JJ. You don't have to take time off work. Nathan and I will figure out something. Maybe we could take JJ home to East Allegheny!"
"Cindy, it is no problem at all for me to stay with JJ. And I would like it very much, if you of course will allow me. I think that maybe she will feel comfortable in her own house."
"Maybe you are right Emily. But are you sure about your work?"
"Yes. Don't worry about that! And you are welcome to come visit anytime you would!" Emily smiled at them. "And I will of course talk to JJ about this. If she doesn't want to stay with me, but with you, I'll respect that."
"I am glad Jenny has someone like you Emily!" Nathan smiled and gave Emily a hug.
"Mr. and Mrs. Jareau?" Garcia had just received a text message from Morgan. "Agent Morgan is coming to pick me up to bring me back to the hotel. Would you like to join us?"
"I won't leave JJ's side!" Emily assured them. Cindy looked at her husband and nodded.
"Thank you, Penelope. Jenny is so lucky to have both of you!" When Cindy hugged Garcia, Morgan came around the corner.
"Hi. I brought your bag Emily." Morgan smiled and gave Emily her go-bag.
"Thank you, Derek. How'd everything go?" Morgan shrugged his shoulders. "LaMontagne didn't want to talk to us, so he is sleeping in the arrest of his own precinct, Lee has loosened up a bit, but hasn't cracked." Emily nodded.
The Jareau's and Garcia and Morgan gave Emily goodbye hugs and went down the corridor to head back to the hotel.
Silently Emily snuck into JJ's room. She sat her bag down and went to sit in the chair by JJ's bed.
As if JJ knew Emily had entered the room she stirred and reached for the other woman's hand.
"Em'ly?" Emily smiled hand tok the offered hand in hers.
"Yes, love? I am right here!"
"I knew you'd come back!" JJ sighed happily and fell to sleep again.
A/N: As you may know now I don't have much knowledge about high school, medicine or the law system in the US. I hope it was okay!
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