JJ eventually began to stir, she opened her eyes with a groan, not awake enough to realise where she was yet. She froze, feeling a soft body under her.

"Hay sleepy head" Emily spoke softly

JJ relaxed in her arms and rubbed her eyes, "How long was I asleep?"

"Almost two hours" Emily brushed the hair from JJ's face "Don't worry though, obviously you needed it."

The younger agent nodded and stayed silent for a couple of minutes, "Is everyone mad at me?

Emily frowned softly and shook her head, "God no Jay… We have just been worried we could never be mad at you."

"Morgan was" she sat up on the couch running a hand through soft blonde waves.

"He will come round, you know what he is like but he could never hate you" she sat up with a stretch

"I should have told you guys sooner… I should have been honest the minute I knew"

"JJ… this was your business not ours… what's done is done the important thing is that we know now, we will catch him and keep you safe"

JJ frowned softly, not fully believing her friend but nodded anyway with a sigh "Emily, thank you for staying with me… It… you make me feel safe" she whispered the last part softly

Emily looked pleasantly surprised at that last admission, despite the situation she couldn't help but smile softly as she placed a hand on JJ's thigh "You will always have me… always" she learned closer pulling her in for a hug again.

Laying her head on Emily's shoulder JJ sighed happily, "I'm still tired" she mumbled

"I'm not surprised… it's been allot to keep to yourself. But you don't have to do that anymore, I'm here for you, we all are."

"I know" she mumbled "It's funny… this was the first place I felt at home I never thought I'd be back and it hasn't changed at all." She sniffled

"She lil JJ was a rule breaking bad ass" Emily tried to ease the mood.

"JJ was boring.. Shelby was a hell raiser" she couldn't help but smile back "God if teen me could see what I am doing now she wouldn't believe it" she scoffed "I hated cops… like a lot, didn't trust them I guess cos they didn't do anything to help when I needed it" she shrugged "I had my first boyfriend here" she changed the conversation "Not that we were allowed but I didn't really care for the rules back… I miss them sometimes, the friends I made, I know I could use work to look them up but I… I didn't want any cross over between JJ and Shelby" she frowned softly "Is that weird?"

Emily shook her head, understanding that more then anyone knew, she wanted know part of Emily and Lauren to mix either… like JJ, that was a part of her past she had never shared. "It isn't weird. Not at all."

JJ pulled her knees to her chest and Emily couldn't help but notice how different she seemed, her whole energy had shifted, like she was constantly on the defense, she had snapped a few times. Something she had never seen JJ do, it was like she was meeting Shelby for the first time. "How much did Sophie and Peter tell you guys?"

"Not allot really, Sophie was adamant it had to come from you, they love you jay.. they seem very protective."

"I really missed them…" she smiled sadly.

Hotch found Morgan on the small basket ball court to the back of the main building, shooting some hoops with a couple of kids. He could tell Morgan was annoyed, he watched his younger team mate for a few minutes before Morgan tossed the ball to one of the kids and walked back to Hotch.

"Yeah yeah, I shouldn't have stormed out like that" he sighed "She should have told us Hotch, she knew who this bastard was and didn't say anything." He clenched his jaw.

"We all have secrets Morgan. You know that" Hotch pointed out, silently referring to Dereks own abuse he had once kept from the team.

Morgan paced a little "If he sticks to his pattern he will take another women soon he might know she is here already."

"I know and that's why we are going to help her. The others were right this is a safe place for her to stay and we will just make sure she is never alone. The best thing we can do now is work the case. I need your head in the game Morgan. JJ needs you focused.

"Has someone spoke to Garcia?"

Hotch nodded "Rossi and Reid are updating her, I left Emily with JJ. We know who are unsub is but I want you to work a profile with me anyway, we don't know where he is and it'll give us all something to focus on"

Rossi and Reid had called Garcia to fill her in, understandably she was upset, not that her friend didn't tell her but because of the abuse her friend had suffered, and the fact that JJ had dealt with this all alone for years at a time.

"Penelope, I know it's allot but we need to focus. I need everything on Walt and JJs childhood and time here"

"Sir" Garcia whispered "she's my best friend"

"I know we all care for her allot but we have to find this sick son of a bitch, not just for the victims but for her too."

"Y-yeah alright umm tell her I love her. Please" the idea of having to through her friends life broke her heart, she had to do it once before with Morgan and she hated it this time just as much as she did then, only this time she knew she would find more learning all about the abuse her best friend had faced as a child broke her heart and it felt like such an invasion of privacy going through it all.

Meanwhile, back in the room Emily was trying to gather further information from JJ, the younger agent had been giving short, snappy answers, occasionally changing the topic when she didn't want to talk about a certain topic Emily raised.

Emily was almost great full when her phone rang and it was Hotch "Yeah… yeah she's awake now… are you sure that's a good idea… okay okay" she sighed running a hand through her hair "yeah we will come over now" she hung up "Hotch wants us to meet him in the single therapy room… he said you'd know where that is?"

JJ scoffed "It's more like an interview room… one way mirror included I'm not stupid" she sighed and walked out the room with Emily following her.

Once they arrived, Morgan and Hotch were waiting outside, "Morgan is going to ask you some questions."

"Oh so he's talking to me again now" she crossed her arms, her face matching that of a petulant teen.

Hotch decided to let it slide, for now. "JJ just let him do the interview we just need to build up a profile you know how this works."

She ignored him walking into the room, whilst the others stood the other side of the glass, it really was like an interview room as JJ said.

"Ask away" she crossed her arms leaning back in the chair bouncing her leg.

"We are just here to help" he spoke softly

"Everything is in the file" she shrugged

"Come on… we both know that's not how it works when you're a kid in that position."

JJ chuckled, "What do you want to know Morgan? You want me to tell you about the parties where he passed me between his friends to pay of debts? Or the time I ran away and lasted for almost a year by selling my self? Cos that was real fun actually." Emily was right, this wasn't JJ… not their JJ this was Shelby talking.

The other agents watched from behind the glass, Hotch looked to Peter for confirmation who simply nodded.

"I did it here too you know, there was a delivery guy used to sneak us in cigarettes and alcohol he was easy too" she laughed "all he wanted was to be sucked off so I did. Easy" she shrugged

"Jay…" Morgan started

"What ? You said you wanted to know I'm just telling you what happened. Oh there's also that one time I told Scott, my first love and he looked at me kinda like you did earlier. Like I was scum, dirty. What am I not good enough for you Morgan. It's okay for you to sleep around but its an issue if I do it?" She was rambling now, her pupils wide and unfocused, she stood and walked around to the side where Derek was sat, she looked down at him as he remained seated, trying to keep his expression neutral but soft, countless training often went out the window when it was someone you considered family.

Before he could stop her she was straddling his lap, "Come on Derek… I'm sure there's better things we could be dong then talking about my fucked up childhood … maybe I could show you, I can show you exactly what I did to survive on the streets." She leaned forward and whispered in his ear "I'll even let you use your cuffs on me" she bit her ear lobe and ground her hips.

Dereks strong hands went to her hps to keep her in place "Jennifer… stop… this isn't you, it is not what you want. And I would never take advantage."

"What you don't want me? Am I too used for you? You don't like used goods?" She tried to roll her hips but he was strong.

"Jesus someone needs to stop this" Emily snapped out

"Just wait… Derek knows what he is doing. He wont let her cross that boundary." Rossi added.

"Come on Derek.. you must have thought about it, me and you, think how hot it could be… in my office… on the plane… anywhere you want really." It wasn't till she leaned into kiss him that he moved his hands of her hips, wrapping her in a tight hug to his chest so she couldn't move "Derek! Get off me!" She thrashed trying to move, "Let me go" she thrashed harder as he held her close and whispered words of comfort in her ear, he let her thrash until she stilled from exhaustion, by now sobbing into the crook of his neck.

"I've got you princess… I got you baby its okay"

"What the hell was that" Emily frowned

It was Peter who answered "We used to see this allot with her… she tried something similar with just about every staff member she worked with… including the women. It's not uncommon in young victims of abuse, its what she knew, that's how she had survived so long with Walt and then on the streets."

Eventually, Derek eased his grip but continued to hold her until the tears ran dry.

"I… I'm so sorry derek I… oh my god I'm so sorry i… I don't know what happened I just –"

"Shhh.. its okay… its okay we got you."

Eventually, she got up avoiding looking at him or the one way mirror she knew her team stood behind "I umm.. I'm going to lie down… please don't… don't follow me I just need to be a lone for a bit I promise I'm fine" before anyone could answer JJ left the room, heading towards the cabin her and Emily were using for accommodation whilst they were here.