The planets bend between us

Epilogue

"Agent Jareau, Agent Prentiss, congratulations!" The section chief said politely as she shook hands with both women.

"Thank you for coming, Ma'am," JJ told the woman, trying to match the politeness. "We appreciate all the support you have given us in the past year. Thank you so much."

"Well, you two are great agents with a great future. It would have been a crime to transfer either of you. The BAU is lucky to have two wonderful agents such as yourselves. Pardon me, I see that Agent Rossi is by his lonesome," Strauss said quickly before making her way toward the eldest profiler.

JJ and Emily watched the strange interaction between the two people. They turned to each other and shrugged. They couldn't guess what their past could be. They only knew that it probably had saved their careers, so they couldn't complain.

Emily and JJ didn't want to be that cheesy, annoying, overly happy couple, but they couldn't help it when they were around each other. At the small reception outside (after all the chairs were moved and were placed around tables), JJ and Emily fed each other sips of champagne. They knew that the team was making fun of them. But at this point, they just didn't care.

Before the cake was to be sliced, Derek stood up and clinked his glass with a spoon. "Hi, hello, everyone. I am Emily's best man, and as the best man, it is only tradition to give a toast. Also, following tradition, my short little speech is going to be a story that basically makes fun of Emily Prentiss the whole time." He turned and winked at Emily who was playfully glaring at him.

"When I first met started to get to know Emily Prentiss, I learned early on that she was tough. Courageous, ambitious, a risk taker. She was a perfect partner in so many more ways than one. The only things personal I knew about her was what I could look up in her files. Smart, well educated, a helluva good agent. She worked hard and kept everything separate from her personal life. The team joked around for a while about whether or not she was a spy. Anyway, she didn't get into feelings for a while. So let me tell you, a few months ago, when she called me at 2:00 AM, I thought that something was wrong, not that she needed me to help her pick out a ring for JJ. Now, to be fair, Emily had started coming out of her shell after a while once we all started to trust each other better. And when she and JJ started dating, she was almost at the point that she was willing to talk about anything. Back to the story, though.

"So, it's 2:00 AM, she calls and tells me that she needs to see me. I thought an UnSub was after her, or something, so I rushed to her apartment. Emily opens the door, fully clothed, and says 'We need to go shopping.' I think I almost hit her in the dead of night. I was mad, but she started doing this puppy dog eye thing and told me that on a whim she asked Mr. Jareau for his permission to ask JJ to marry her. Well, Emily said that she was more than surprised when he said yes. She realized that she needed to actually get a ring and ask her before he got suspicious. I remember asking her why she couldn't find a ring on her own time, but she started to beg and told me that she had no idea what she was looking for and that she needed help. So, I gave in. Emily rarely asks me for something, so I knew it was a big deal for her to ask.

"You'd be surprised by how many jewelers are open in the middle of the night. We went to seven of them in the first hour. Emily was getting frustrated because she didn't find 'the one' and that everyone thought that we were a couple. By we got to the eighth place, we just told them that we were a couple to stop people from asking. But man, was she pissed. After the tenth store, I pulled her aside and asked her what was wrong. She finally admitted to me that she wanted the ring to be perfect because she said that JJ deserved perfect and that she, herself, wasn't perfect, so she at least needed a good ring. I think I laughed at her for a solid five minutes before she hit me and I stopped. I gave her a hug and told her that we could keep looking. The next place we went to had the perfect one.