Chapter 42:
"Hi, Jen. How did the appointment go?"
"Emily!" was all the blonde got out before she broke down and sobbed hysterically.
Emily shot up from her seat and moved out of the room.
"Jen, are you still there?" She asked concerned while making her way over to Nikki and Nora's desks. Of course the brunette detective wasn't around. She put her hand over the mouth piece and looked desperately at Nora.
"I need a private place." she whispered pleadingly. Without asking anything, Nora quickly got to her feet and led Emily through the precinct and into an empty office. The agent smiled gratefully before turning her full attention back to the phone.
JJ hadn't answered her question, just kept sobbing.
"JJ, my love. I'm here, I'm right here. Let's try breathing, okay? Deep in and out!" Emily was on the verge of a freakout, but she knew JJ needed her right now, so freaking out would have to wait. Emily breathed slow and deep, and loudly. After sometime, she heard JJ sniffle a little while she tried to breath with her. She could hear the blonde sob occasionally, but she was much calmer now that earlier.
"That's it, sweetie. Breath with me." Emily whispered soothingly into the phone.
Emily had no idea how long the two of them were on the phone, just breathing together. The brunette worried, she knew that being alone and recreate the time in New Orleans would be hard for the blonde and she wished she had stayed home.
"Emily, I miss you!" JJ finally calmed down enough to talk, but she didn't sound like her self. Her voice was broken and small.
"I miss you too Jen!" Emily whispered. She sank to the floor and pulled her knees to her chest. "Where are you baby?" She needed to find out why the blonde was so upset, but she didn't want to make her more upset.
"I'm in my office."
"Okay. Jen, can you open the top drawer on the left side?"
JJ shuffled a little around before she pulled out the drawer. On top of some papers was an envelope with her name on it.
"Did you find the envelope?" Emily's soft voice came through her phone.
"I did. What is it?"
"It's something for you to think of when you miss me."
JJ toyed with the necklace around her neck. The heart was warm and it reminded her of Emily.
"Go on, open it!" JJ could hear the brunette smile through the phone. "Wait! Go and sit on the couch."
"You know I could never deny you anything." JJ moved from her office chair to the small couch, where she and Emily had sat together countless times, but never as an item. She carefully opened the envelope and found a picture and a note.
"My love, I hope this can remind you of what we have and what we are. I am always with you in your heart! I love you! Em x" JJ put the note in her lap and picked up the picture. It was a picture of her and Emily she'd never seen before. The two of them sat on a bench, JJ's head on Emily's shoulder with Emily's arms wrapped around her.
"Baby? I know you're hurting now, but do you think it would help to talk about it?" Emily's question was softly spoken, JJ could hear the love and concern in her lover's voice.
"I..." She tried to speak, but found it difficult, the tears threatening to come back.
"Sshhh. It's okay baby! I'm right here on the phone with you."
Emily's heart broke. She hated that JJ was hurting and that she couldn't be there for her. All she wanted to do was to hop on the first plane she could and travel back to D.C.
The brunette could hear JJ starting to lose it.
"Jen, honey. Why don't you lay down, kick off your shoes and close your eyes." Emily heard JJ shuffle around a bit before the blonde settled sown.
"I am right here baby, just put your hand on your heart to feel it beat. Because that's where I am, in your heart." The profiler spoke softly and gently.
She wouldn't get answers from JJ now, the most important thing was to calm the blonde down. Emily started to hum softly on a lullaby and was soon singing. She heard the blonde's breath get calmer and more even. When she heard JJ sigh and her breath steady and slow, she stopped singing.
"I love you Jennifer. Always!" the profiler whispered before hanging up.
After hanging up, Emily tok a brief moment to compose herself. She sent a quick text to JJ letting her know that she hung up after the blonde fell asleep and to pleas call her when she woke up. And of course that she loved her. Then she dialed another familiar number.
"And what can I clear up for you today?" Garcia's usually perky voice answered the phone.
"Pen, I need your help." Emily closed her eyes and concentrated.
"Sure you do. You guys always need my help!" The blonde answered cheerfully.
"Well, it's not really case related. Pen, she broke down. She called me crying. She was so upset that she couldn't even tell me what's wrong. I finally calmed her down and she is sleeping in her office. But Pen, I can't leave here, no matter how much I want to! Will you please take care of her? Please don't push her to tell you things, just let her know you're there, and she'll come to you when she's ready."
"Of course! Had I known I would have been there for her. My poor girl!"
"I know you would have! But Pen, can you do me a HUGE favor?"
"Name it and I'll thing about it!"
"I need to know what got her so upset. Can you see if she was upset at leaving her eval?"
"Video rolling up right now." Garcia quiet down, and Emily assumed she was looking trough the material. "She looks fine coming out of eval... Oh!" Garcia interrupted herself and became quiet again. Then Emily heard the tech analyst curse.
"Garcia what?" Emily needed to know what happened at Quantico!
"Em? You know agent Anderson? The liaison at the other team? It seams as he tried to dump a load of files at her and she refused to accept them, but he said somethings to her and it really hurt her. But she fired back and shoved the files back in his hands, but then he said something that made her freeze and he just gave her the files and walked off. After that she retreated to her office."
Emily's hands were tightly tied to fists. Garcia didn't know how Anderson and the other BAU team had treated JJ. All she wanted to do right now was to hop on a plane to D.C. and kill that bastard.