Chapter 21:

JJ woke up to the smell of coffee. Slowly she opened her eyes, only to discover that she was laying on her couch. She could already feel the knots in her back. She tried to stretch out and grunted.

"Good morning sunshine!" Emily appeared in the kitchen entry with two cups of coffee. "I'm sorry. You were sleeping and I thought that if I made coffee for you too, then you wouldn't kill me for rummage around in your kitchen." The brunette held a hand with a cup of steaming coffee, offering it to the blonde.

"Hmm..." JJ pretended to think for a moment, before taking hold of the cup, inhaling the scent. "How can I say no to coffee?"

The two of them sat on JJ's couch and enjoyed the coffee and their morning together.

"So, do you mind if I borrow your shower?"

"No, of course not! You know where everything is. Would you like to borrow something to wear?"

"Yeah, that'd be great! I was thinking about stopping by my house after our shopping trip later, if that's okay with you?"

"Of course, Em!" The blonde smiled and tok the two empty cups to her kitchen. Emily watched the blonde for a moment before making her way to the bathroom. Emily swiftly stripped out of her clothes and slipped into the shower. Like JJ, Emily was stiff after the night on the couch and when the hot water sprayed over her tense back, she closed her eyes and enjoyed it.

When JJ returned from the kitchen, she heard her shower going. She walked to her bedroom to find something for the brunette to wear. When she looked through her closet she found one of Emily's pant tried to remember how or when the suit had ended up in her closet and she vaguely remembered a rather late, drunken night the two of them had out and that she had offered Emily to stay for the night. JJ pulled it out of her closet and moved over to the bathroom door. She was about to knock on the door when she heard the most beautiful thing.

"It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!"

Emily Prentiss was not only in her shower, but she song in said shower. JJ was hypnotized by the beautiful voice. Why on earth haven't I heard her sing before? JJ thought. She raised her hand and softly knocked on the door, to only regret it seconds later. The shower stopped, and with that the singing stopped to.

"Em? I found one of your pant suits. I'm gonna hang it on the door, okay?"

"Okay, thanks Jay!" Emily called from the other side of the door. "I'm done now anyway, I'll hurry out so you can shower!"

True to her word Emily soon exited the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body. JJ gulped hard and concentrated on her breathing. Move your butt into the bathroom and stop staring at her chest! JJ scolded herself and with a smile to Emily, she walked into her bathroom to take a shower.

Sometime later JJ came out of the bathroom and went into her bedroom in search for something to wear. She could hear Emily in her kitchen, singing along with the radio. JJ couldn't help but feeling filled up with joy. This was how it was supposed to be.

When she entered the kitchen she saw that Emily had made some breakfast and more coffee.

"Hey you! How was the shower?" Emily leaned casually on the kitchen island with a cup of coffee in her hand. She placed another cup of coffee in front of the blonde, before turning and grabbing a plate of scrambled eggs and french toast.

"It was nice. Thank you for making breakfast! You really are spoiling me rotten!" JJ grinned, "first morning coffee and then breakfast? You impress me Prentiss!"

"Well, don't say that before you've actually tasted it, it could taste crap." The two of them kept teasing each other as they ate their breakfast, like they did this every morning.

"Oh, did you hear! MY doctor has the hotts for Reid!" Emily almost spit out her coffee.

"Wow! Go Reid! Good for him!"

They continued to talk about office gossip as they cleared the table and washed the dishes.

"So, is there any specific places in Norway you'd like to go?" The two of them was seated on JJ's blue couch with Emily's Mac on her lap. "I've been there a couple of times and I know some places that I think you'd like." Emily smiled at JJ, and started to type in somethings in the search engine on her Mac.

"You've been to Norway?"

"Yup. Mom was stationed there for a year, and after that we went back sometimes, on various business trips."

"Wow! Where would you take me?" JJ tilted her head curiously and studied the older woman.

"I would start in Oslo, see a bit of the capital and the sightseeing there. Then the train to Bergen. See the city surrounded by seven mountains. Then either take you north with "Hurtigruten" or rent a car and drive around in the countrysides." Emily smiled to JJ, and found some pictures witch she showed to the blonde. The media liaison saw pictures of fjords, cities, mountains, fishermen and farms.

"What would you like to see Jay? Because we can have any kind of vacation you want. We can do all the sightseeing stuff, or we could go hiking in the mountains, or we can live on a farm."

"I would like to see a bit of Oslo. I kinda want to see The Vigeland Park and the viking museum. And I would love to take the train over the mountains to see Bergen."

"Well, then that's what we'll do. We'll go to Oslo and see the Vigeland Park, the viking museum and maybe their opera house? The castle is nice too." Emily smiled and showed JJ a picture of the castle.

The two of them continued to look for good sightseeing spots near the capital and Bergen. JJ found something that looked interesting and hit the link. They were directed to another sightseeing page, but this one only in Norwegian.

"Bah... Why do they have to have their own language? Can't they speak English like the rest of us?" JJ whined, and Emily smiled and shock her head.

"Let me see, Jay." JJ handed the other woman her laptop and Emily quickly scanned the page. "Oh, it's about the Fløibanen in Bergen!" Her face lit up.

"You know Norwegian, Emily?" JJ couldn't help but sound a bit surprised, even though she knew she shouldn't. The woman knew way to many languages.

"Yeah. Living a year there does that to you! Though my accent is horrible." She shrugged her shoulders and smiled.

"You are amazing!" JJ's eyes were shining as she looked at the brunette. "You are so amazing Emily Elizabeth Prentiss!"

After hours of shopping, mostly for their trip, warmer clothes was required, and stopping by Emily's place to pack all she would need, the returned to Virginia. When Emily had parked her car behind JJ's in the driveway, she simply sat still, not moving. JJ looked puzzled at her.

"Oh, I didn't think I would be this nervous." Emily mumbled to herself, before taking a deep breath and turn to JJ. She tok both JJ's hands in her hand and looked her in the eyes.

"Jennifer Jareau. Would you like to go to dinner with me?"

"Are you asking me out on a date Prentiss?" JJ smirked.

"Agent! It's Agent Prentiss!" Emily rolled her eyes. "But yeah, I guess I am Agent Jareau."

"In that case, I'd love to go to dinner with you."