Chapter 13:
"Emily, please don't leave me! I don't care if you're gay. And please don't say that you won't stay with me! I love you! I may not remember how or when we met, but I do remember how much you mean to me and that I love you."
Emily closed her eyes. Do not get your hopes up Prentiss! She's confused and hurt. You know she doesn't love you the same way! She wanted to tell her inner self to shut up, but somehow she couldn't.
"Jay..."
"No, Emily, please don't! I know that the way you love me is different from the way I love you, but you are one of my best friends and I do love you!" JJ's voices was small and her eyes were searching for the brunettes eyes. Emily didn't know what to do. She hated that she had upset JJ this much, but she didn't know if she could look at her now and see rejection.
"And I know that I'm just waking up and that I don't remember anything, but the things I do remember about you makes my heart jump, I get butterflies in my stomach and when you're not here, I think about you. Emily, what I'm trying to say is that I think that I like you too." Slowly Emily lifted her head and looked into JJ's eyes. When the deep brown eyes met the clear blue once, both women felt a connection.
"Please, please don't leave me! You promised earlier that you wouldn't." JJ pleaded softly, feeling her eyes tear up. Emily's heart broke when she saw how broken the other woman was. It was her fault that this beautiful woman was crying, and she had to fix it. Emily rose from the chair and carefully climbed onto the bed.
"Jay, it's okay. I am so sorry. I will never leave you." Emily spoke softly as she wrapped herself around the slighter smaller woman and spoke softly and stroke her hair.
"Em'ly. I'm so tired."
"It's okay Jennifer, just close your eyes and I will be here, chasing away all your monster."
"Do you promise?"
"Yes, sweetheart. I won't let you be alone. I'll hold you the whole night if you want me to!"
"Please do..." JJ's mumble disappears into a sigh and soon the blond is fast asleep. Emily pressed a kiss to JJ's head and looked up at the celling.
So, what to do now? Emily though to herself. She wanted nothing more than explore her feelings for JJ, but right now she couldn't and wouldn't take advantage of the younger woman. She knew if her heart broke she would no longer be abel to work and be so close to JJ. Her mind went over and over all the information JJ had told her and she tried to proses it.
"I need to tell Hotch about the UnSub!" Emily's head turned around, and JJ started to stir. Emily cursed herself for not remembering the sleeping woman in her arms and lay silent, trying to not wake JJ. After making sure JJ was still asleep, Emily carefully reached for her phone and turned it on.
"Hotch. I am sorry if I wake you! JJ is starting to remember things through her dreams. She told me a bit about the UnSub. He grabbed her from behind in the ally behind the club. He asked her why she was with the NOPD and didn't believe her when she told him she was FBI. Maybe run it through some officers? Check if he's been involved with NOPD before. Hope it helps! JJ'll probably be realest tomorrow afternoon. Okay if we take the plane back?"
Emily checked the time and hit send, she hoped that Hotch was either awake or didn't wake up from the text. She looked down at JJ and smiled, the other woman had snuggled close to her and used her as a teddy bear.
"Thank you for the info! It'll be helpful. We're going down to the station to interview both UnSub and LaMontagne now. Hopefully we'll be done about the time JJ'll be released, but if not, take the plane. Take care of her and yourself! Get some sleep Agent Prentiss, that's an order!"
Emily chuckled a little, but knew Hotch was right. It had been a long and exhausting day. She snuggled close to JJ and fell asleep fast.
"Tell me LaMontagne. What did you do to James Lee?" Morgan was tired, and when Morgan was tired he was impatient and unpleasant.
"I don't know who that is!" Detective William LaMontagne was tired. They had interrogated him the previous day, and now they had woken him up and started over again. On a case witch he was innocent! Why couldn't these cocky FBI people let him be?
"Then why was Agent Jareau abducted and hurt the way she was because Mr. Lee had a problem with NOPD?" Morgan lay down photos of a bruised and unconscious JJ in front of the detective.
"..." Will opened his moth to say something, but nothing came out. His eyes was locked at the photos of JJ. Morgan and Rossi rose from their seats and walked out of the room, leaving Will to look at the photos by himself.
"Damnit!" Morgan cursed when they entered the observation room. "I was woken up 2 A.M. to go and interrogate this idiot, and he doesn't know shit." David Rossi just shock his head and turned to watch the unit chief and the young genius with their UnSub in the other room.
"Did you sleep well Mr. Lee?" As both agents observed, they saw what looked like Reid and Hotch playing good cop/bad coop with their UnSub. Reid was being polite and offering water for the UnSub while Hotch simply sat in his chair and glared at the man.
"What do you have against the NOPD?" Reid asked politely, while Hotch opened a folder and looked through some notes.
When Hotch had gotten Emily's text, he woke the three other men and they all agreed to start working on the two men. Morgan was giving the not so pleasant task to wake their tech analyst to run a picture of James Lee and his name through the police database to see if anything showed up. They were now waiting for the results.
"Rossi, should we show LaMontagne the photo of Lee?"
"We will. But I don't want to go in there unprepared. We don't know what he might tell us, and I would rather bust him for a lie than listen to all the crap he has to say."