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We got to Rossi's about 1 and spent the day eating, laughing, hanging out and Morgan and I played a game of soccer with Henry and Jack. A while later I was sitting back and having a beer when Morgan came over and sat down passing me another one
"What's on your mind Pennsylvania Petite?" he looked over taking a drink of his beer
"Just thinking about our job and what we see and how we go about our down time. I like that we spend it together" I said sitting back watching Hotch, Beth, Jack and Henry getting into Reids physics magic
"That's because in the words of Penelope Garcia "we are family" and I believe it was you that said we do what we have to, to protect our family. Spending days like this or going to movies or the bar or just relaxing, making sure that none of us burn out like Elle or Gideon, that's how we protect each other." He said reminding me of past conversations
"Yea I know, i just like it, doesn't make you feel so alone. Some nights after we have a hard case and Henry is still at Wills, I turn every light on, turn all the TVs or stereo just to have some noise in the house. Those nights I just can't stand it and all the bad images run through my mind" I took another sip of beer "especially the last couple of days, every time I shut my eyes I see Hastings running his hands up and down my body or I see Cruz beaten and stabbed on the ground, but then PG crack a joke and Henry laughing and I just remember it has happened and that I'm ok, Hastings and Askari are dead and that for the first time in 3 years I'm not keeping any secrets. It's actually quite freeing" I smile and watch Henry run around with Jack
"I bet it is. What do you usually do when those thoughts start running through your mind?" he asked, I wasn't sure if he was worried or curious
"Usually it plays out for a while, then I manage to think of how the case ended or the team and just little bit of the jokes and stuff we would crack trying to lighten the moods and stuff. It calms me down but sometimes it would take a while, could take all night but eventually I fall asleep, wake up in the morning with the sun shining and realise it's a new day and that even though there are bad men and women out there but there are also good people and people out there that need us to save them, even if they don't know it yet." I tell him and start peeling the label off my drink "Do you wanna know what my favourite part about being in the BAU is" he just nodded and waited for me to continue "my favourite part is thinking about all the people that aren't going to be hurt because we caught the UnSub. I mean yea we usually save one or two people per case but I like to think about the people who have lives because we changed their future." I smiled at the thought and put my bottle down
"That's actually a really good thing to do. I like to do it occasionally too, do you ever wonder how the people we have saved and how they are coping?" he asked leaning back in the chair
"Yea especially when 2 cases are like each other. I often wonder how the kids and teenagers we save are going. We should get Garcia to do a check or something"
"Or we could do some visits or phone calls?" he said as Hotch and Rossi walked over
"What are you two doing hiding out over here?" Rossi asked sitting down with us
"We were just talking about all the victims that we have saved and were wondering how they are coping now." I said
"We have saved a fair few people over the years. How's Cindy and Anthony doing?" Rossi asked turning to Morgan
"They are doing ok. Cindy's nightmares have almost gone, only has a one or two every month or so and Anthony is coping pretty well, he asks about his Dad occasionally asks about the other kids that were at the cabin with him but apart from that they are going pretty good. I talk to them a fair bit when we aren't on a case" he smiled
"That's good, how you feeling JJ?" his voice filled with compassion and a hint of worry
"I'm doing pretty good. Believe it or not Henry's been a big help, he knows when I'm sad and gives me a hug, I've got up the last couple of days and he's got a glass of water and my pain meds ready, he even brought me breakfast in bed the yesterday morning. It was so cute" I smile at yesterdays memory
"He's an observant little boy, going to be one great profiler one day" Rossi laughed
"Oh god I hope not. I mean I love our job but I wouldn't want him to see what we do" I laughed
"Don't want who to see what Mommy?" I jumped as I didn't see him walking up behind me
"I was just telling your mother here that you will be a great profiler one day buddy" Rossi told him as Henry laughed
"I hope so, that's what I want to be when I grow up" Henry smiled as he climbed up on my lap
"Me too, we can be in the same team Henry" Jack said, sitting down next to Hotch
"Oh is that right? Looks like we've got our replacements already" Hotch laughed and not too long later Garcia, Reid and Alex joined us and handed out a few bears and we sat around chatting for a while and Henry started playing with the necklace my sister gave me and the 2 charms that are on it.
"Where did you get this Momma?"
"My sister gave it to me before she died" I said sadly looking down at him
"So I have another Aunty? Does she look down on me from heaven with everyone else?" He asked and I smiled at his innocence
"Yes she is sweetie, she's up there with my dad, and your dads parents looking down on you and I bet they are so proud" I said stroking his hair while he fiddled with the pendant that came with the necklace then he started playing with the other one
"Where did this one come from? It's different to the other one" he played with the little blue and gold plastic butterfly
"The beautiful woman gave it to me on our first date." I said looking down at it
"The beautiful woman?" Morgan asked "Are you talking about E-"
"Yep, I'm telling Henry the story of us" I interrupted him, I wasn't ready for Henry to know it was Emily just yet
"Oh that's nice. Where about are you up to?" Hotch asked
"First date." I said looking up at him
"That was in Arizona yea?" Morgan asked "The case with the killer on a campus killing brunette girls?"
"Yep, the security guard and the college girl who was an admirer. That was also the last case Gideon worked" I looked over to Reid, I knew Gideon leaving hit him the hardest
"Wait, you had a date on a case?" Beth asked
"It wasn't like that, we had planned it for the Friday night but we got called out to this case. She knew I was taking this case hard because I was talking to a set of girls who fit the victim ology and thought that having the date would help me out a bit, which it did."
"She asked for all our help to set it up" Hotch laughed and
"Really? I didn't know that, well I knew she got Morgan, Reid and Garcias help. I didn't know she went to you and Gideon" I said surprised
"What happened on the date Mommy?" Henry asked looking up
**Flashback**
I was sitting in my room looking over the files when there was a knock on my door and I was surprised when I opened it
"Hey girl, we going down to the lobby for a drink and you're coming" Morgan was standing next to Reid and I know there is no point arguing, if I go down for one they won't bug me and I can get back in at least half an hour
"Alright, give me a sec, I'll meet you down there" I shut the door and quickly got changed and grabbed by stuff and went to see if Emily was coming but after knocking on her door a couple of times, not getting an answer and being a little disappointed I joined the boys downstairs.
"Hey guys, do you know where Emily is? I was going to see if she wanted to come down but she didn't answer her door" I said sitting down at the bar and picking up the beer they had already ordered for me.
"I think she left, I saw her getting into the elevator as we were walking to your door" Spence said taking a drink
"Oh ok" I looked down into my drink, I kind of wanted to see her tonight, we had planned our first date for tonight but after catching this case we had postponed it but I still at least wanted to see her.
"It's Prentiss, she is probably back at the precinct, you know how she can be" Morgan said and I took another drink. It's true, there have been many times we have gone back to a precinct and there is Emily head down in a bunch of files at 7 in the morning.
"Yea true" after chatting for about half an hour I decided to call it a night "anyway thanks for the drink guys but I want to go have a shower and a good nights sleep before tomorrow" I said getting up
"Yea, have a good night Jayje" Morgan said with a smirk and Reid had a small smile on his face. I lifted an eyebrow and wondered what they were up to but I let it go, with them boys I probably didn't want to know. As I was walking to my room I was stopped by Hotch and Gideon and we spent a good 5 minutes or so standing in the hallway going over the media presentation for the next morning, when Hotch got a message I saw a little smile and figured it must've been about jack and with that they said their goodnights and went to their own rooms and I could finally got to go to my own. When I opened my door I was stunned, there was Emily holding a glass of wine, the lights dimmed and the little table by the window set up for dinner and there were a few candles around the room to give it a bit of a glow.
"Em, wow" I said shutting the door behind me, still shocked
"Hey, I figured if we couldn't go out on our date I would bring our date to you" she said walking over to me handing my glass and kissing my cheek
"You didn't really have to do this, I would've waited till we got back" I smile and take a sip of wine
"Yea, but I couldn't. I've wanted this for a while and even though I never pictured our first date in a hotel room in the middle of Flagstaff but hey when life throws you lemons." She smiles and turns the stereo on as background music
"This is probably the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me" I put my glass down and wrap my arms around her, just needing to feel close to her.
"Well I aim to please, but don't get your hopes up too much, there wasn't much open at this time of night so we've just got burgers and fries from the diner just down the road"
"Hey, I don't care if we are having crackers and cheese, as long as I'm with you that's all I care about" I smile and get lost in her eyes, this is what I needed after a day like today, to be reminded of the good in the world. She presses her lips against mine and shudder as a thrill runs down my spine and I feel her smile against my lips, I see fireworks and stars and excitement runs through my body. She runs her tongue across my bottom lip, seeking entrance which I allow and one our tongues meet, one or both of us moan, my hands tangle in her hair, pulling her closer and hers on my waist pulling me tighter. After a pretty heavy make out session and needing air becomes a problem we pull back, our breathing short and fast and I can't get a smile off my face "Aren't we just 2 horny teenagers in FBI Kevlar" we laugh then after a quick kiss to my lips she takes my hand and pulls me over to the table
"As much as I love doing that, I'm also pretty hungry and if we don't eat now it'll go cold" she smiled and sat down, picking up 2 take out containers from a box next to the table and handing me one "When we get back I'll cook you something to make up for this" she laughs and hands me a plastic knife and fork and pours some more wine into our glasses
"You cook? Should I putting the number for poison control on my speed dial?" I laugh and she feigns hurt
"Oh you wound me Jennifer Jareau, but yes I do cook. As a kid moving so much it was hard to fit in with the other kids and the only real friends I had were the staff because they moved with us. I used to spend more time in the kitchen than anywhere in the house and when I was old enough Antonio started teaching me everything I know." She smiled and popped a fry into her mouth. I was surprised that she had opened up so quickly to me and I didn't want it to stop. We spent the next few hours talking about anything and everything and by the end of the night I knew I knew more about Emily Prentiss than most people. She looked down into the box next to her and picked something up "Oh yea I forgot about this" she said handing me a round plastic container and as I opened it this little blue and gold plastic butterfly keychain fell out "I was waiting for our food and I saw it in one of them toy ball machines and I immediately thought of you, knowing how much you love butterflies." She smiled and I was in shock, not because she had brought it but because I had only told her that once when we first started hanging out, I didn't think she would remember "I know in cases like these, the ones that tend to change the way you see the world, it's good to have something to remind us of who we are and why we are doing this job" she places her hand on mine and I get lost in her eyes once again
"Thank you Emily, no one has ever gone to all this trouble for me before." I lean over the table and give her a kiss full of the love, thanks, happiness and honest truth of my feelings towards her "I love you" I whisper after we pull apart
"I love you too" she smiles then presses a quick kiss against my lips and pulls back "As much as I want to continue that, we do have work in the morning and need our sleep" she turned the hotel room light on and started packing up the table and I looked down at the butterfly in my hand, I pulled the chain part off and thread it through my necklace, knowing it's the safest place for it. After looking down at it for a while, I looked up and saw Emily standing just in front of me with a huge grin on her face.
"You don't have to leave if you don't want" I said, not wanting to be apart from her just yet, she cocks an eyebrow and I laugh "not like that, we can cuddle and sleep, I don't want you to leave" she walks and presses her lips against my temple
"Ok, I'll be right back" she's gone long enough for me to change into my pyjamas and jump into bed, when she walks in I'm sitting up flicking through the channels on tv
"Hey not that I don't mind, because I definitely don't but how exactly did you get into my room earlier?" I ask as she gets in with me, turns off the tv and light and pulls me close, my back against her front and I hear her chuckle
"Garcia" she kisses the back of my head and for the first time in a long time I have the most amazing sleep, wrapped up in her arms.
**End Flashback**