Chapter 44:
Emily closed her eyes and let out an angry sound. Anderson had always been arrogant and egotistical.
"Garcia, do you have sound?"
"Two seconds! Want me to send it to you?"
"Yes please. Thank you so much for doing this Pen! And please, please take care of her! Would you mind staying? I don't want her alone right now, feel free to use my card and make sure she eats something." Emily went from angry to concerned. She rubbed her hand over her forehead.
"You would have done the same for my, Emily! Just hurry home to her!" With that, the blonde tech. hung up.
"I need to grab my laptop," Emily mumbled to herself, "and I need to do something for JJ to make her feel better." She got up from the floor and opened the door.
To her surprise Detective Nora Delaney were sitting outside the door going through some paperwork. When the door opened, the blonde looked up.
"Everything alright Agent Prentiss?"
"No, not really," Emily drew her hand through her hair, "thank you for sitting her! You didn't have to!"
"I just wanted to make sure you got your privacy. Listen, I know most of the officers and some of the detectives don't like you, because of everything that happened with LaMontagne. And usually I would support them, I'm from a cop family and it's important to have each others back. My dad worked some cases with Will's dad. But I saw the progress you had the last time you were here, you guys are good at what you do! And I trust Nikki." When she mentioned Nikki's name, Nora's face softened a bit.
"Thank you Det. Delaney. Please call me Emily." Emily smiled. She was really starting to like this detective.
"Thanks for coming down here again, I know how hard it must be, for all of you! Please call me Nora," the detective smiled back, "if there is anything you need, you can come to me or Nikki." With a last smile, the blonde detective picked up her papers and walked back to her desk.
Emily followed slowly behind. She knew she needed to focus on the case, but she had to talk to Hotch about what happened to JJ. As she walked by Nora's desk she shot the detective a smile before heading into the conference room.
"Prentiss, what was that?" The unit chief made it clear that he didn't like that one of his agent just walked out and didn't return for half an hour.
"I'm sorry, Hotch. Something happened back at Quantico with JJ and she called me completely broken down." Emily answered truthfully. She knew Hotch too was worried about the blonde media liaison.
As soon as she said something about JJ, his face changed from annoyed to concerned.
"What happened?" The whole team gathered around Emily now, everyone cared about JJ.
"I'm not sure yet. I had Garcia pull up the surveillance video," Emily began before quickly adding, "so blame me no her Hotch!" Hotch just waved his hand and mention to her to continue.
"Garcia said she looked okay when she came from her eval and was about to cut the feed when she saw Anderson approaching her. He tried to give her some of his work and he said somethings to her and after that she froze and he walked away. I don't know what he said to her, but Garcia sent me a clip."
Everybody on the team knew how agent Anderson treated JJ. He was one of those agents that meant that women belonged at home cooking and cleaning, and definitely not as a FBI agent. But no one else knew about what happened to JJ when she was training with the other BAU team.
Emily found her laptop and opened her mail to find the link that Garcia sent. She clicked on it and everybody turned to the screen to watch.
They saw JJ walk from the elevators towards her office. When she was a few steps from her door the saw Anderson approaching her and yell:
"Hey, Jareau!"
"What can I do for you Anderson?"
Emily could see JJ's shoulder rise a bit as the blonde drew in a deep breath.
"I need you to look at these cases for me."
The team saw Anderson hand over five or so cases to the blonde.
"Excuse me? You can't just hand these over, Anderson! I already have more cases than my team can deal with, and they aren't even at Quantico at the moment!"
"You don't think my team has cases?" Anderson turned around, and kept insulting JJ, "Well let me tell you something, Jareau, they don't because everyone on MY team actually does their paperwork on time. And now you take care of these files, because I'm going out with the guys." He smirked his arrogant smile and walked away again.
Emily's blood was boiling, but obviously she wasn't the only one. Morgan's hands were in tight fists and the man looked angry at the screen, Hotch, Rossi and Reid looked angry too.
"Do NOT walk away from me Anderson! These are YOUR cases and I will NOT do you work!" She shoved the cases back into his arms, and spun around.
Emily knew by the tone JJ used that she was tired.
"A little sensitive Agent? Did I hit a soar spot? We both know that I am the superior agent." Anderson grabbed her arm and turned her around. His voice was lowered and his smirk right on it's place. "How many breakdowns have you had now?" he added, before quickly shoving the files back into JJ's arms and disappeared down the hall as she stood frozen to the spot.
The clip stopped but all of the agents just kept starring at the screen. Emily knew it had been bad, but she hadn't imagined it would be this bad. She quickly pulled out her cellphone and texted Garcia:
"Whatever you do, DON'T call her 'Jennifer'!"
"What was he talking about when he asked her how many breakdowns she's had?" Reid asked. Everybody looked at each other, nobody knew.
"Something happened when JJ was training with Anderson's team, before she joined the team. She was stalked and trapped inside a house with a UnSub. She had to kill him in the end and sat alone for 5 minutes with his blood and brain on her before her team came to rescue her. On the daily briefing she didn't dare to speak about her doubts because of the way they treated her." Emily shut her eyes tightly, after giving the team the short version of what happened with JJ.
Morgan got up from his seat and started to pace around. He only did that when he was really furious or concerned. The four men didn't know what to say, how to act. All of them wanted to go back to Quantico and protect JJ. In someway or another they all loved her. Finally Hotch looked at his team and spoke.
"I know you all want to go back, but we can't. Even though how much we want to, sitting around being angry doesn't help. We made a commitment to the NOPD and we need to fulfill it. Let's just solve this case as fast as we can. Prentiss, if JJ calls you, you have my permission to answer it. I will call Section Chief Strauss and Unit Chief Newman and report him." Hotch looked at his watch, "we present the profile in 30 minutes. Morgan can you gather the detectives and officers?"
Hotch pulled out his phone and the other agents went their separate ways. Morgan to speak to Dets. Beaumont and Delaney, Reid to call his girlfriend and Rossi looked through some of his notes.
Emily picked up her computer and walked into the precinct. On her way over to the empty office she saw Morgan flirt with Nikki, while Nora gave him an annoyed look. She smiled and shock her head, leave it to Morgan to be Morgan. Once alone in the empty office she started to search for the things she needed to surprise JJ.
A/N: Thanks for all of the reviews!:D Makes me write faster:)
And a new decision: A) Short case or B) Long case?