A/N: Hi guys I´m back and I´m sad to say...the story just came to and end. I´m sad and happy at the same time becuase it had been so much fun to write it. I appreciate the time you took to read the story and to review, for that I thanked you all so much.
Now go and read the last of the story! Enjoy guys :)
Chapter XIV
JJ was released from the hospital the same day the team had to go back. She did everything she could so the doctor could let her go before they left but it was to no avail, however Doctor Williams saw her struggle with the idea of being there without her team and decided to discharged her the same day the team was supposed to leave.
"Jennifer I think you are ready to go." He had told her the day after she and Reid kissed. No one knew except them and Henry, it was their secret. "You still need to take it easy, though."
"I know." She said smiling, she was so happy to get out of the hospital and go home with her family.
"Don´t worry doc, we´ll make sure she follows all the instruction." Garcia said sitting beside JJ. The entire team was there once again.
"I´m sure you will and glad as well. That said I think it´s okay for you to go home with your team and rest, no work for two weeks then no field work until you can walk properly again."
"You mean I can go back to work after two weeks but I'll be confined to desk job?"She asked, she didn´t like the idea of no work but she also knew it was for her own good and for her family.
"Yes that´s right." He said, trying to understand why she asked him something like that.
"JJ, you need to get better and to do so you can´t rush things." Her mother told her. She knew her daughter and what she was thinking, so did the rest of the team.
"I know, I know." JJ said. Doctor Williams smiled, now he understood why the question.
The blonde had just woken up when she heard a male voice near her door room.
"I thought FBI agents were supposed to be awake really early." The man said still standing near the door, not wanting to come in just yet.
"We are but as you can see I´m kind of…not in FBI mode." She joked back. "Hi Sam."
"Hi JJ." He then came in. "How are you feeling?"
"I´m…okay. How are you? I haven´t seen you in a while." The team had told her Sam had stayed the first couple of days but never for long and then, when she woke up, would he only see her when she was sleeping.
"I…okay." He came closer to her and took the seat next to her bed. He rubbed his neck and took a deep breath. "I was…I felt ashamed."
"What? Why?" The blonde was confused; she had no idea why Sam felt like that.
"JJ, it´s because of me….it´s my fault you are like this." He looked down. "If I hadn't said anything or maybe if I had stopped you, then nothing would have happened." His eyes still focused on the ground.
JJ felt sad, she didn´t want him to feel like that, it wasn´t his fault…maybe hers and definitely the UnSub´s but not his. "Sam, look at me." He raised his head, slowly. "It was not your fault. What happened…it just did, okay? We had no idea he was there or anything like that. I know it´s hard to understand, believe me I know, but know I don´t blame you, of anything." She smiled.
"Thank you. I needed to hear those words from you and it´s going to be hard to wrap my head around it but someday I will." They smiled. "You know" He began to say. "Maybe you don´t blame me but Dr. Reid does and he doesn't make any effort to hide it."
At first JJ was taken aback but then it kind of made sense to her. Reid loved her, she was gone and he was scared and worried for her and Sam was there to blame because he was the last person she was with before Jackson took her. "Don´t take it personal." She didn´t want Sam to think Reid was like that all the time. "Spence…well he…he has problems talking with people." "Really? He has problems that´s your answer? Genius you idiot." She thought.
"He cares for you." Sam said suddenly. "I can see they all care for you but he, he just cares on a different level."
JJ´s was stunned, he simply nailed it. "I…yeah." Both laughed. It was a simple yet nice moment for both, they had missed a lot in the past years and now they felt they could began again. "I´ve missed you." JJ said.
"I have missed you, too." He took her hand."I am so sorry Jenny." Sam said emotionally, he had finally said it, the one thing he had wanted to say since he heard she had been kidnapped and all because of him, he said it and the heaviness he felt in his chest was suddenly gone.
JJ tried to hug him but her side was holding her back, Sam sensed it and stood so they could hug properly. Outside Emily stood letting them have their moment, after all she knew they needed it.
"What are you doing?" A voice beside her asked.
Emily turned and saw Reid standing there, a confused expression adorning his face. "Giving them some time."
Reid poked his head enough to see what was happening inside the room and then looked at Emily. "They look okay." He said.
"You know you should talk to him and try to make things less tense whenever you are together." Emily had noticed the behavior of the young profiler when he was close to the Detective and so had the rest of the team. "She´s back with us and you know it´s not actually his fault."
He stared at her, not sure of what to say. "I…I know." He turned and looked through the window. "I was going to the police station before going to the airstrip. I was going to apologize."
"Well you won´t have to go now." She told him encouraging him to go and do it now that he had the chance. Reid was about to say something when Sam came out and saw them standing besides the door.
"Um…Good morning." He said awkwardly, the man still had no idea how to act with them.
"Hi."Emily said. Reid just stood there. "I´m going in and see what JJ needs for the trip, see you later." And left the two men alone.
Sam wanted to say something, he needed to settle things with Reid if he wanted to leave this entire ordeal behind, he was about to talk when Reid spoke.
"Listen Sam…I wanted to apologize with you." The Detective was surprised to hear him said that, he was not expecting an apology. "I acted like a stupid. I felt angry and sad because of what was happening and I took it out on you, it wasn´t right and I´m sorry. It´s just…I felt powerless, JJ was gone, I wasn´t there but you were and it made me angrier to know you could have done something but then I realized it was not fair for you. I know JJ and I know she would have gotten out of your car anyway, she´s like that." They both laughed.
"Yes, she is."
"I also know you care for her as much as we do, so then again I´m sorry." Sam could see the truth in his eyes and words. JJ was in really good hands and so was the young boy, because his cousin cares for the boy as much as she cares for her son and that´s a lot.
"Apology accepted and I´m sorry."
"You don´t…"
"Yes I do." He extended his hand; Reid looked down and took it. "See you soon Reid. Take care of her, would you?"
"See you Sam and you know she´s really capable of doing it herself so don´t let her hear you say it, but I will." They said goodbye, Sam went back to the station and Reid went inside.
…..
"You look good." Emily told her friend after going in.
"Hi! I feel good." JJ said with a huge smiled upon her face. "You here to take me back home?"
"Of course for what other reason would I come to a hospital?" She joked. "You ready to go?"
"I am. I really need my bed." They laughed. "I just need to get my things so I can change."
"Do you want some help?" Emily wasn´t sure of how her friend would react to people wanting to help her even in the must simple things.
JJ thought about it, she felt weird not being able to do simple tasks like changing clothes without taking an eternity to do it. "Yeah, sure." She said finally, she wanted to get out of there as soon as possible and having Em to help her would make things easier.
"JJ I know you want to do things by yourself and you know you can, but you also have to know that asking for help it´s not weekness." Emily told her graving JJ´s go back from beside the nightstand.
"I know…I can do lots of things but some are just harder now."
"Yeah…well your leg seems to be the part making it hard." She looked at it, JJ´s leg was now in a protective boot and she had bandage covering the part of her tight were gash from the stab wound was .
"It is! And my side still hurts so I can´t use crutches yet." She was getting frustrated bit by bit.
"Hey it´s okay, you can use one." Emily told her. "It´s your left side the one you can support but your right side is intact so you can use one there." She was trying to make her feel better.
JJ smiled. "You´re right, thanks." Emily smiled back.
"Now let´s get ready so we can go home."
"That sounds like a great idea." JJ took her covers off and moved near the edge of the bed, she sat there waiting for Emily to bring her go bag. "I´ll have to take this thing off first." JJ said pointing the boot.
"You have sweatpants here, if you wear them it won´t be necessary." The brunette profiler said holding the pants.
"I forgot I brought them." The blonde said. "I thing I have my redskins sweatshirt there as well." It was her comfortable outfit.
"Let me see…yep here it is. You want your FBI T-shirt?"
"Yeah sure." Emily then took the clothes and gave them to JJ. "I can get the shirt and the sweatshirt on; maybe you can help me with the pants?" She heard what her friend had said earlier but it was still difficult to ask.
"No problem, just tell me when you´re ready." Emily didn´t want to make a big deal about it so she talked like it was normal and in some way it was, they both shared clothed and rooms so they had seen each other changing before but she also understood now, it was different and so she was going to do all she could to make things easier for JJ.
JJ began to get dress, at first her side hurt but then the pain decreased and it became bearable. "I´m done." she said after a while.
"Alright." Emily took the pants. "I´m going to pass them through your legs and maybe then, you can stand up and lift them yourself, what do you said?" JJ smiled, Emily was doing everything she could to make her feel comfortable.
"That´ll be fine." The brunette helped her and once she was done JJ did the rest.
"Thank you Em." The blue eyed girl told her friend.
"You are my friend JJ. I´d do everything to help you and I know you would do the same for me, you did it already."
JJ's eyes welled up with tears. "And I would do it again."
"So would I." Emily responded. "Now let´s find the good Doctor and Doctor Williams so he can sign your discharge paper." Just then Reid came in.
"Spence hi!" Emily saw the light in JJ´s eyes shine brighter than before.
"Hi, sorry I kept you waiting I had something important to do." He said going over to them. "I see you are ready to leave."
"I am, Em was just going to get Doctor Williams…" then again the person in question came in.
"It seems everyone saved me the trip today." Emily said looking toward JJ.
"Umm you´re welcome I guess." Doc said. "I see you are ready to go back home agent."
"Not yet, I just need you to sign my papers and I´ll be free to go."
He chuckled. "Here they are. I signed them a few minutes ago. I´m going to give you some information and a prescription before you leave us." He handed her more papers. "Everything is there and remember to rest and go to a physiotherapist for your leg." He then looked at both agents.
"We´ll make sure of it doc so will her mother." Emily told him reassuring him. Sandy and Henry had gone back the day before; she wanted to have things ready for JJ.
"Very well then. I hope we don't see each other in a while, if you know what a mean." He said.
"We know Doctor." JJ said. "Thank you for everything."
"It´s my job agents. Have a calm and good fly." He said a final goodbye and left the room.
"It´s official, I can go now." She saw Reid go out the room just to come back with a wheelchair. "Really?"
"You know protocol and besides we are not making you walk all the way to the SUV." Emily told her with a firm voice.
"Fine." She said sitting down.
"It wasn´t that hard." Reid said laughing with Emily.
"Shut up you two; wait until I can walk again." She threatened both hiding a small smile.
….
When they got to the plane the team was already there waiting for them.
"I´ll go tell the pilot we are all set." Hotch said to the team.
"I can´t wait to go home." JJ said from the couch at the end of the plane. "I really need my bed and my little boy."
"We know. Hotel beds should be more comfortable." Rossi said from the seat behind the couch. Emily, Morgan, Reid and Garcia were seating besides it and Hotch was with Rossi.
"All ready." Hotch said walking and seating besides the oldest profiler.
Garcia saw JJ´s eyes; she could see the tiredness in them and the struggle JJ had to keep them open. "Hey sweetie. Why don´t you rest a bit? The fly isn´t long and you are going to need all of your strength once you get home, I´m sure there´s going to be a very excited little boy waiting for you."
JJ was about to protest when she heard Garcia talked about Henry, it was true and she wanted to have as much time with him as possible. "Okay." She said already half asleep. "Just…blink…don´t…yawn…stop…eyes close…talking." And she succumbed to sleep.
Reid looked at her then to the team. "She said not stop talking right?"
"She did." Morgan said. "I think she wants to hear us, just to know we are here." He smiled. "We can do that."
"Yes we can." Garcia then said and began to talk about what she was going to do for JJ´s birthday, it was tree months from now but she didn´t care by that time she knew her sweet blonde friend would be back to work with them as it should be.
From time to time Reid would glance in her direction; she looked so peaceful and beautiful. The young man smiled and saw Hotch looking at him with a smile of his own. His boss coughed him staring at JJ the way someone in love would and his smile told him he knew and that it was okay.