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SONG PROMPT #86 – JJ/HOTCH
"Storm" - Adrianne
JJ stood as Hotch and Rossi returned to the bullpen after what seemed to be an intense meeting. She tried to catch Hotch's eye, but he stubbornly refused to look at her as he had for the last two weeks. She groaned inwardly, wishing not for the first time that she knew how to fix the gap between the two of them.
They had been seeing each other, casually, more out of a physical need when the desire to touch and be touched was overwhelming than out of an emotional need. Or so, she had thought until that fateful night two weeks ago where Hotch declared his love for her and she had run away.
She regretted it the moment she stepped outside of his apartment, but didn't know what to say to make it better. She was still afraid; afraid to take that last step and give him her heart when it had been broken so many times before. JJ rolled her eyes when Rossi shot her a look that was both sympathetic and exasperated. The last thing she needed was Rossi involved in her business.
"Hotch," she called out, sighing when he didn't stop. "Hotch!" She took a deep breath when paused at his office door, but didn't turn around. "I love you!"
"What?" he replied, just loud enough for her to hear. The entire room stilled.
JJ licked her lips, taking a step forward. "I love you. I should have told you two weeks ago, but I was scared; scared that my heart would get broken again. What I didn't realize was that my heart is already yours... if you want it."
Hotch walked swiftly down the stairs, pulling her into his arms without pausing. "I will always want it. I will always want you."
JJ hugged him tighter, letting his words warm her heart believing for the first time in a long time that her heart was safe.
SONG PROMPT #87 – JJ/HOTCH
"Naked" - Avril Lavigne
He hides behind his work, behind his heartbreak, behind his upstanding morals. He knows this is an excuse to keep everyone away. Well, almost everyone. Somehow, her beautiful blue eyes see through every wall he throws up to look right into his soul. The times he's had to push her away to save himself are the hardest times in his life, but he believes she is better off without him as anything other than her boss.
She comes to him not six months after her wedding day in the middle of the night. Her son is with his godmother; his son is with his aunt. She begs him to give her a reason not to go back to her miserable marriage, filled with resentment on both sides, but he tells her to go home to her husband and work it out, refusing to meet her eyes. She storms out the house, slamming the door behind her only to return seconds later.
She grabs his face, forcing his eyes to hers. She demands that he tell her to leave, to walk out of the house, and never look back. He feeds the words to her, hoping they didn't sound as hollow to her as they did to his own ears. He knows by the softening of her eyes that they did. His last thought as her lips crash over his was how amazingly right it felt to have his soulmate in his arms at last.
SONG PROMPT #88 – JJ/HOTCH
"It's Ok" - Atomic Kitten
"It's okay," JJ assured him, holding the phone to her ear with her shoulder while pouring milk for Henry's cereal.
"I just... really wanted to be there," Hotch replied with a sigh. "But the rain won't let up until tomorrow and all flights are grounded."
JJ rolled her eyes slightly. "Really, Hotch, it's okay."
He paused on the phone and she wondered if he was trying to withhold a second sigh. "But I promised I would be there for everything this time. I missed so much with Jack and I was trying so hard."
"Aaron, I know," she replied, using his first name to snap him out of his misery. "But it's just a twelve week check-up. It won't even be twenty minutes."
"I'm being crazy again, aren't I?"
JJ bit her bottom lip. "Maybe a little, but it's okay. I find it adorable."
Hotch was unable to stop the smiling on his face. "I love you."
"I love you, too," she replied, "but I have to say, I'm not missing your snoring keeping me up night."
