Chapter 59:
When Garcia placed a cup of steaming coffee and a plate with a sandwich in front of JJ, the young blonde snapped out of her daze.
"Here you go kitten." Garcia sat down across the table with her own cup of coffee.
"Thanks Pen, but I'm not really hungry." JJ shuffled the sandwich around the plate.
"Sweetie, you need to eat something. It's important for you to keep your strength up now. I can't have you pass out too." The tech analyst leaned over the table and grabbed JJ's hand. "I know your scared pumpkin, but not long ago I sat across from a very scared brunette, forcing her to eat while you were in a hospital bed." Garcia smiled a bit when she thought back to the conversation she had the the brunette profiler that morning.
"She was freaking out. She had just told you she had feelings for you, and then all of your memory hit and you passed out."
"Oh, yeah I do remember her telling me that she likes me, but not the passing out part." JJ joked dryly while picking on her food.
"Anyways, when she told me that you liked her back, she was so happy. I've never seen Emily that happy." Garcia ignored JJ's comment and kept talking, "She had told me a long time ago that she had a crush on you, and I tried and tried to make her tell you, to do something about it, but she refused. She said you meant to much to her to risk your friendship." Garcia smiled softly at the blonde across the table. "But just look at you two now kitten. What you two have is really special, and I'm happy for you."
The two of them sat in silence for awhile, both sipping their coffee lost in thoughts. JJ started to fiddle with her fingers nervously and tried to hint that they'd leave the deli and go back to the hospital.
"So, JJ." Garcia started, she was determined to not leave until JJ eat the sandwich. "You never told me much about your trip to Norway. I want details!" Garcia gave her a sweet, innocent smile with a sing-song voice. She even battered her eye lashes. Whatever she tried, she succeeded , because JJ couldn't hold back a laughter and a smile that reached all the way up to her eyes.
"Details about what? The country or me and Em?" The smile stayed on JJ's face, it felt good to be able to think of her and Emily's happy times.
"Well, both of course!" Garcia winked at her friend, glad to see her smile. Smiling JJ reached for her BlackBerry and pulled up a photo of her and Emily on top of a mountain.
"Oh, that's beautiful kitten. Where are you?" Garcia grabbed the phone and sent the picture to herself.
"That's in Bergen. The city is surrounded by seven mountains and one of the days we were there Emily to me up there with the Fløibanen Funcular. It was so beautiful." JJ's eyes were shining when she was thinking about the time.
"Oh, see! That's the fish market!" JJ pulls up another photo, this time it's a shot of herself in front a stand holding a huge cod. "Every morning fishermen came into the shore with their fish and sold it, fresh, right there. It was amazing, all kinds of fish. Since we stayed on a hotel Emily wouldn't let me buy anything since we couldn't cook it, but then she sneaked out and bought a cod and talked to the chef and she actually made me dinner, from that cod I'm holding right there."
Garcia felt her phone vibrate in her pocket and picked it up.
"This is queen of knowledge speaking." JJ kept looking through the pictures while Garcia was on the phone. She didn't even notice the other woman standing up and walking a bit away from the table while speaking.
"Did you reach the ambassador?" Rossi looked at Hotch, who just shook his head.
"No, she was in an important meeting. Her secretary told me he tell her to call me as soon as he got a hold on her." The unit chief sighed and closed his eye. "How did this happen Dave?"
"Aaron, you couldn't have done anything different." Rossi placed a comforting hand on the younger man's shoulder. "Have you called Haley?" When Hotch again shook his head, Rossi continued. "Take a moment to call your family. Everything will be okay." The last part was just as much for his own benefit as it was for his younger chief.
"Pumpkin?" Garcia's voice brought JJ back to reality and she looked up from her phone. "Morgan just called, they're finishing up the surgery and Dr. Kennedy is coming out to talk to us soon. Since you've been a good girl and eaten your sandwich I'm gonna let you get out of here. Let's go kitten."
Emily is out of surgery. Emily. Is out. She's out of surgery! The words dance around in JJ's head, making all her motions and thoughts freeze.
"JJ, sweetie?" Garcia touches the young blonde's arm and pulls her to her feet. "Come on, kitten." The tech analyst leads her friend across the street and into the waiting room. JJ is once again lost in her head.
A few minutes after the two blondes arrive, Dr. Kennedy and other surgeon from earlier walk through the door. As the team spots their friend's doctor, they all rise and form a semi circle.
"We believe the surgery was successful . We were able to get to the bleed fast and stop it. Emily is now being moved up to ICU and she'll wake up as soon as the anesthetics wear off." Dr. Kennedy gives them a reassuring smile.
"Thank you, Dr. Kennedy." Hotch face is almost a smile as he thanks the doctor.
"Do you have any more questions?" Dr. Kennedy is looking at the six team members, before turning to walk away.
"Hold on, Dr. Kennedy," Reid raises his voice. "Why wasn't her bleed discovered sooner? You say that you got to the bleed fast, but do you know how long it actually was bleeding before you were able to stop it? How is all of this affecting her heart? Why did she go into cardiac arrest?"
"Uhm... The first scan didn't show any brain bleed, so we didn't even consider it. She only fell to the floor." The doctors looked at each other, a little unsure on what to say.
"Excuse me, how long have you been working here?" After Reid's questioning , the whole team has turned their full focus back on the doctors.
"This is my first year as an attending." Dr. Kennedy answers.
"Okay. Thank you, Dr. Kennedy. That's all." Reid's tone is slightly cold as he ushers the doctor away.
"What was that about?" Rossi turn to look at the young genius as soon as the doctors disappears.
"About Emily." The young man answers, "Don't you think it's weird that when a person comes in unconscious with a broken nose they only send her to a simple CT scan? And then they don't have time to take her medical history? There is no reason for Emily to go into cardiac arrest with a head injury. They should have looked better at her when she was first admitted." As he talked, Reid seamed to grow angry.
"I agree with Reid. Even though I'm don't understood half the things he said, I do agree that they should have check her out better when she first got here." Morgan stepped up next to Reid.
"I'm with boy-wonder and chocolate adonis!"
"I say we bring in an expert." Hotch speaks up, looking at each of his team members.
"Yes, I agree. JJ what do you think?" Rossi, and the rest of the team, turns to the blonde, who has gotten very quiet and quite pale.
"She...Emily needs a doctor who knows how to treat her. Reid, can you call Dr. Draper and ask her to come? I don't know if she's top ten or anything, but she were good to me in New Orleans." JJ's voice comes out more unsteady than she wants.
"Of course. I'll call her right now." Reid moves over and squeezes JJ's shoulder. "And she is top ten neuro." He says with a proud smile and walks off to call her.
"As the holder of Emily medical proxy, this is your call JJ. I'm going to go and inform Dr. Kennedy of your decision ." Hotch walks off towards the nurses station to find the doctor.
"I am the holder of Emily's medical proxy?" The blonde looks at her remaining three team members. Morgan and Rossi looks just as surprised as herself, but Garcia just nods.
"Yeah. You've been for awhile, sweetie. Emily changed it when she realized that her mother wouldn't be the one that made the right decisions for her medical care."
"Oh." JJ was feeling a wash of happiness as she let the new information sink in. Emily trusted her!
"You can come and see Agent Prentiss now. But only two at the time." A nurse comes over with a chart in her hands.
"Go on JJ." Garcia smiles and pushes the blonde to go with the nurse. "We'll give the two of you some time before one of us will join you."
A/N: I'm bringing back Dr. Eva Draper, JJ's neuro doctor form New Orleans and Reid's girlfriend.
Is Emily going to wake right up from the anesthetics or is she going to have more trouble?