A/N Come on guys, no reviews these last two chapters guys? Well at least your reading. But please review this one? Thanks. This started as a JJ analysis but when I got to the end I turned it into an actual fic and fixed the beginning. KK R&R! Thanks!
Her heart stopped in her chest for a moment in panic. Could they handle this? Now? After everything that had happened in Afghanistan? Her mind flashed through the past ten years in a panic.
When she first joined the BAU she was the communications liaison. She was so young and innocent. The crimes didn't hit her the way the do now. She was good with the families-interviewing them after they had just lost their loved ones. She supposed this was because she knew how hard it was to lose someone so close to you. She was on top of everything, and could handle the media with ease, even with all the vicious reporters.
Then Elle shot a guy in cold blood. She knew it affected Spence, it affected them all, but Spence felt it the most. She left and SSA Emily Prentiss who could speak several different languages, joined the team. But JJ was still the same. She hadn't known Elle too well.
She supposed she didn't even really start changing until Reid was kidnapped by Tobias Hankle and she believed it to be her fault. She knew now, of course, it wasn't her fault, but at the time she did. And that was what mattered. Seeing Spence in so much pain that day, because of her, changed her. The realities of the job hit her harder. The teams losses were even more her own.
And then she met Will. That evening in the bar with Will made her blush and feel the butterflies in a way she hadn't in a long time. Then she was back to Quantico but her and Will saw each other on weekends. She was happy. She became closer to Emily and Garcia until they were like sisters. Hotch was like her brother and best friend. Reid was what he always was-her baby brother.
She finally felt like a part of the BAU family. She had been for a long time before of course, but now she felt it. She was still working in the background, and she didn't get much recognition, but that was okay. That's not why she did her job anyway.
She could tell when Spence finally quit the drugs-everyone could. She was so relieved about it because it had felt like her fault. That still haunted her-what Spence went through because they split up.
And then Gideon left. His friend from college had been killed and he left without a word. He left a letter for Spencer, knowing he would be the one to check on him. Gideon leaving hit them all hard. It was like losing a family member. But she knew once again, it hit Spence the hardest.
Then SSA Rossi joined the team, coming out of retirement. He didn't fit in right away, but in time he became like a second dad to all of them, especially Emily, JJ could tell.
And then Will again. They worked on a case together and she almost completely screwed up their relationship. She almost lost him because she was scared of telling the team they were dating. Because once she told her team, that made it real. And when things are real, that's when people get hurt. And she always ran from getting hurt. That's what she told Will. But she almost screwed it up because she couldn't communicate. JJ, the communications liaison, couldn't communicate.
And then a few weeks later she found out she was pregnant with Henry. And hen they had the terrorist case and the agent Hotch liked, Kate, was killed. Things spiraled downward. Hotch's ear was messed up, Reid thought his dad was a killer... That definitely hadn't been a high point. But Hingis turned around for a while once Henry was born. Spence became the godfather, and Garcia the godmother. She went on maternity leave and when she came back everything was normal again.
And then the Reaper came and destroyed everything. Hotch's ex-wife, Haley, was killed by the Reaper, George Foyet. He killed her, leaving Jack motherless. JJ didn't j ow if she had hated an UnSub as much as she did in that moment. Seeing Hotch in so much pain, and Jack, so young not fully understanding what was happening.
And then about a year later her life was shot to hell. The FBI brass was transferring her. Not to the Pentagon like everyone thought, but to Afghanistan as a female communications liaison with the hostages.
Then Ian Doyle came and ruined Emily Prentiss' life. Em had to pretend she was dead and JJ helped her. She went to her funeral. Then she was back in Afghanistan again.
She found oust she was pregnant there. There was an explosion. She lost the baby. Nothing was the same after that. She got back into the BAU because of Emily's "death" and it felt so wrong, but she was just so happy to be done with Afghanistan.
Then Em came back and Spence hated them both for lying to him. And she couldn't really blame him.
Eventually everything went back to normal, but then Will was held hostage and almost got blown up and her son was with an UnSub. She decided it was finally time to marry Will after that heart attack. Then Emily left and went to London. Alex Blake joined the team and everything fell into a lull. You know, until Reid's girlfriend was killed and they found out they were being stalked. Rossi and Strauss had been "secretly" seeing each other for almost a year when the stalker killed her. The team just couldn't catch a break.
Then about six months later JJ was kidnapped and tortured by the one and only Askari, that had caused the explosion that made her lose her baby. And it was hell. But then Emily had shown up with the team to save her, as she was working with the BAU to get her back. And she finally told Will about her miscarriage.
The scars healed, people didn't walk on eggshells around her anymore. But she knew. From the second she had been forced into Afghanistan and made the call that cost a team's lives, she had lost all her innocence that she had managed to keep throughout her time on the team. All the loss in the past years had finally caught up to her.
Six months later Spence was shot in the throat and Alex Blake left to take a teaching position. They tried to get Em to come back, but she wouldn't. So the new addition to the team was Kate Callahan.
Around the year anniversary of her abduction, she started hallucinating Askari. She guess she should have seen the PTSD coming from a mile away, but like she told Spence, this wasn't PTSD. The only name she had for it was Askari. She was breaking. It got better, the pain healed again, but she still had scars.
But now here she was, six months later, holding the stick with the little plus sign. She was pregnant. She was going to have another baby. As the past ten years flashed through her mind, what they had gone through, her past year... She wasn't sure she could do it.
But she thought of what the next ten years would be like. The new baby, Henry being a big brother... That thought brought a smile to her face. And she thought of the team. Hotch maybe getting remarried, Morgan and Savannah getting married, Spence finding the right girl, Kate's new baby, maybe even Emily finding someone she could trust and settle down with.
And as she thought about it, she knew that no matter what happened in he last ten ears to break her, the next ten years would make her stronger. And that no matter where her and the team went in the next ten years, they would all still be family. And the next ten years would be beautiful.
