London Calling Chapter 16
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"Hey." Emily looked up from the table as a frazzled JJ made her way over.
"Sorry, I'm late. I had to drop off Henry at Will's." She flopped down in the chair she'd finally reached and smiled.
"So, you look happy." It had been several days since they'd last seen one another. They'd texted one another but that was it. They were meeting for dinner to catch up.
JJ smiled serenely. "I am happy."
"So?" Emily prompted.
"So?" JJ responded.
"Ah come on! I'm dying here. I'm freaking six months pregnant and planning a wedding in two weeks, throw me a bone." She growled.
"I'm not sure what it is you want here Em?" JJ slyly replied.
"I want to know how it went the other night with you and Hotch." One of the reasons they had not met up before now was the fact that Derek and Hotch had been in town. They were currently on the west coast hunting down a sociopath.
"It went." JJ blushed, as she took a sip of water.
Emily narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, I'm going to need more than an 'it went'."
"I'm not going to give you a play by play." JJ laughed. "I'm not sure why you'd need it. You can see that I'm obviously happy, we're together, what more do you want?"
"Oh, it was bad wasn't it?" She wrinkled her nose, feeling badly for her friend.
"No!"
"Of course you'd say no." Emily said sympathetically. "I guess we should have expected as much, I mean, it is Hotch."
JJ raised a brow. "What the heck is that supposed to mean?"
"Well, it's not like you were sleeping with Derek." She shrugged. "I imagine it was all perfectly nice but no fireworks or anything."
"Screw you," JJ defended. "It wasn't nice, it was incredible."
Emily scoffed, not really believing JJ's assessment. "I'm not trying to piss you off Jay, I'm just saying we should have known not to expect so much. Hotch is a pretty staid guy. He probably doesn't like to get messy."
"It was incredible and he is not staid!" JJ hissed.
"Well he's not exactly sex on a stick." Emily remarked, implying that Derek Morgan was.
"Are you kidding? He's gorgeous. Half the women in Quantico want to sleep with him!"
"Please, I'll give you he's attractive but I doubt all that many women on base want to sleep with him, now if you said they wanted to sleep with Derek…."
"Are you kidding? Half the women on base have slept with Derek! But only once which leads me to believe he's probably like cotton candy – all fluff, little content. Once is more than enough."
"Hey!" She responded, indignantly, before pausing for a moment, "Do you really think he's slept with that many women?" Not giving JJ a chance to answer she reached across the table and squeezed her hand. "I'm glad we're doing this, I really missed you."
"Me too, I'm starved, where's our waiter?" JJ asked looking around the restaurant.
"I think we may have scared him off." She giggled. "So?" She started again.
JJ rolled her eyes. "Fine. Aaron Hotchner is a sex god. There, are you happy?"
"Seriously?" Emily asked doubtfully. "You think I'm going to buy that?"
"Seriously." JJ confirmed. "You have no idea what's under that suit." The ringing of her phone had her groaning. Her lip curled as she looked at the caller id. "Crap it's Will. I hope nothing is wrong with Henry. Hello?" She listened as Will went off on a rant. "What?! No, I'm not pregnant." She almost laughed out loud as Emily's eyes bulged. "Yes, we did spend the night at Aaron's. Oh for the love of God, Will, there were two young boys present, it's not like we had a freaking orgy. Yes, I did say that maybe I wanted more kids. Seriously, do you think we could have this conversation in person and could you maybe consider your getting your information from a three year old boy? Fine. Fine." She hung up the phone with a huff. "Well, that went well." She looked over at her slack jawed friend. "Thank you, by the way."
"Me?" Emily squeaked.
"I believe you were the one that explained to my son where babies came from." She craned her head. "Where is that waiter? Now I need a real drink."
"Drinking's not good for babies." She smirked. "Why exactly did Will think you were pregnant?"
"Because Jack asked me a bunch of questions, including did I love his dad…."
"You already told him you loved him? That was fast. Who said it first?"
Ignoring her JJ continued, "To which I answered yes, I do love Aaron. Then he asked me if Aaron loved me, again to which I answered yes, not knowing that when you are in love and give it to one another you get a baby in your tummy." She glared at Emily. "Henry checks my stomach every day."
"Oh that is adorable." She frowned a bit. "I miss that little scamp."
"Yeah, we can talk about arranging a supervised visit."
"So you and Aaron are in love." She grinned. "Does Aaron want more kids, too?"
"I think we both are considering the possibility." JJ answered honestly.
"Aren't you worried that you're moving too fast?"
"Not even a little. You're freaking out, aren't you?" JJ asked.
"I thought you were going to allow me to continue to ignore that." She grinned as she looked past JJ. "Oh, look here's the waiter."
A young man sheepishly approached the table. He'd apparently heard their earlier conversation as he couldn't quite make eye contact with them as he took down their order.
"Well, we've obviously scandalized the wait staff." JJ snorted as the youngster walked away.
"He's probably not believing that whole sex god thing either and is too embarrassed to meet your eye." Emily quipped.
"So, when is Mama Morgan hitting town?" JJ asked, ignoring the jab.
"She's coming in next weekend. She'll be here for the whole week. She wants to go baby shopping and meet my mom."
"Your mom is aware you're getting married, right?"
"Of course, I told you that Derek asked for my hand," she snorted, "pretty cute, huh? He's very chivalrous."
"Yes, I thought as much when you told me about the screaming orgasm." JJ scoffed. "Does your mom know you're getting married in two weeks?" She specified.
"See, I share details with you, why can't you do the same?" She was thoughtful for a moment. "Crap, I think I told her."
"I'm not sure what I can say that sex god doesn't cover? The man is great in bed. Seriously, joke all you want, all he has to do is look at me to get me wet."
"Oh god."
They both turned in time to see the waiter returning with their drinks. He was bright red, having just overheard JJ's comment, meeting her glance he quickly dropped his eyes, stumbled and their drinks went flying.
"Maybe we shouldn't talk about this in public?" Emily laughed.
"Probably not, I'm going to end up horny and the only one that can help me with that problem is far away."
"Seriously?" Emily's look of disbelief said it all.
"Hey, I don't think Derek Morgan is exactly sex on a stick."
"I wasn't even going to respond to your ridiculous cotton candy analogy."
"We can agree to disagree."
"And then we were asked to leave." JJ huffed. "Can you believe that?"
"I'm still struggling with the fact you talk to Prentiss about our sex life."
"I didn't give her specifics." She giggled, "It's not like I gave up your moves."
"Thank you?" Hotch responded, dryly.
"You're not mad, are you?" JJ worried. "It was just girl talk. We tend to get carried away."
"Enough to get asked to leave at Red Robin."
"Eh, I didn't want a burger any way." She was curled up in her bed talking to him. He was currently at his hotel for the evening. "Family friendly restaurant, my ass." She sighed. "You didn't answer my question, you're not mad are you?"
"Huh?" He was obviously distracted but whether it was the case he was working on or the fact that she was so open with Emily she wasn't sure. "Oh, no, sorry."
"Do you have time for the rest of my story?"
"There's more? Does this involve you getting kicked out of any more places?" He teased.
"Ha! No." She paused dramatically. "Will called just as I got to the restaurant. Henry told him that we slept over and I was having a baby."
His next comment convinced her that he really wasn't paying attention to her. "That's nice."
"Yeah, well he wanted to know if there was a chance the baby was his."
Her comment was met with complete silence. Then a mumbled 'son of a bitch'. "JJ, honey, I've got to go. I just discovered something we overlooked. It's the break that we were looking for."
She knew him well enough that she should have realized that he was pouring over files as he spoke to her. "Okay. Call me when you get a chance, okay?"
"Alright. I love you."
"I love you, too." She barely repeated the phrase before the phone went dead.
"And I really wanted a burger. We're never going to Red Robin again." Emily complained as she shared the events of her day with Derek.
"Maybe you and JJ shouldn't be talking about sex in a place where families go out to eat." Derek suggested.
"I think the prude was just jealous. Her husband didn't look like a sex god or sex on a stick." She growled, recalling the patron who had complained to management about the conversation she'd shamelessly eavesdropped on.
"How come Hotch gets to be a sex god and I'm only sex on a stick?"
"JJ obviously embellishes." She mocked. "I mean come on, Hotch?"
"I don't know he is a good looking dude." He replied. "You know what they say, still waters run deep."
She laughed. "Should I be worried?"
"Nah, he doesn't do it for me." He sighed, suddenly serious. "I hate being all the way across the country. I keep worrying that you're going to need me and I'm not going to be there."
"Please tell me we're not going to turn into that couple."
He sighed heavily. "I've been reading a book and there are a lot of things that can go wrong."
"Derek, we were just at the doctor's last week. I'm fine, the baby is fine."
"I'd feel better if you stayed with JJ when I was on travel." He argued stubbornly.
Exasperated Emily shouted. "I just moved out of JJ's!"
"You could get her to tell you why Hotch is a sex god." He cajoled.
"I'm not going back to JJ's." She stated. "This is going to be our life Derek. I can't move over to JJ's every time you travel. We're living our lives. How would you feel if I told you to make sure you partner with Hotch every case because he's the best shot?"
"Just until the baby is five?" He pleaded.
"Derek."
"Fine." He groaned, as he heard a knock at the door. "Shit, Hotch is here, it looks like there's a break in the case. I got to go, babe."
"Okay. Be safe." She paused then hurriedly added, "Make sure you partner with Hotch. I love you."
He chuckled. "I love you, too."
JJ looked down at the phone she was still holding. At a loss for anything better to do she hit the speed dial.
"Hey." Emily dejectedly answered the phone that she just disconnected.
"Hey." JJ responded in much the same tone. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing. What are you doing?"
"Nothing." JJ sighed. "Hotch just blew me off."
"No he didn't," Emily placated, "They got a break in the case. I just hung up with Derek."
"Whatever." JJ sighed again, sadly. "I didn't even get to ask him what he was wearing."
Ever the friend, Emily asked, "Do you want to know what I'm wearing?"
"Nah, it's not the same. Besides I saw you a little while ago, I know what you're wearing."
"You don't know that, I could have changed since you saw me." She countered.
JJ smiled. "You're just saying that to make me feel better."
"So, how's Hotch?"
"He was distracted." She pouted.
"I hate to say this, but you know how he gets when he's working. He tends to get tunnel vision."
"Yeah, I know." She looked around her empty room. "How's Derek?"
"He wants to wrap me in bubble wrap."
"Is that some kind of new kinky thing?"
"No it's commentary on the fact that even though I could probably kick his ass or at least put up a good fight he seems to think that I shouldn't be alone."
"He just doesn't like the fact he's not with you. Did he suggest that you come over?" She snickered.
"Just until the baby turns five." Emily told her wryly.
"I made a wise ass comment about Will and Hotch didn't even respond." JJ told her, still bummed by the fact.
"So he's back to Hotch now, ouch."
"You're really not good at this emotional support stuff." JJ grumbled. "You're supposed to say something encouraging like, 'that jerk'. Or something to that affect."
"Do you want me to try again?"
"Not if you're just trying to placate me."
Emily chuckled. "Jesus. When did we become so pathetic?"
"I think it happened right about the time we got kicked out of Red Robin." JJ snorted.
"I'm sure you're right." Emily agreed. "I think I'm going to go eat an apple and pretend it's a snickers bar."
"Okay. I'll talk to you tomorrow." JJ laughed. She was just about to set her phone down when it vibrated alerting her that she had a new text message. She flipped it open and smiled widely.
*I heard and chose to ignore your smart assed comment – not funny. I love you.
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