I'm Here For You

Chapter 8: Isabella And Emily Sitting In a Tree

The next two days passed very quickly for the whole BAU team, especially for Emily and J.J. The two women spent their time getting comfortable with pretending to be a couple, as well as learning their new identities that Garcia had come up with.

Emily was still Emily Prentiss, whereas J.J was now known as Jennifer Jareau-Prentiss. J.J had grown up in small, northern North Carolina town. Her family was fairly average; two working class parents, an older brother who went into the family plumbing business and a younger sister who decided to become a stay at home mom when she was a mere 25 years old. Jennifer had attended the University of North Carolina on a soccer scholarship, and was destined to go pro, but an unfortunate accident caused her to tear her Achilles tendon, and benched her indefinitely. Jennifer had decided to become an elementary school teacher and started teaching at a local school about 20 minutes outside of Raleigh. Emily on the other hand came from a very wealthy family; a mother and father who were descendants of the original settlers in North Carolina. Emily had a younger brother who was a lawyer in New York City. Emily had also attended the University of North Carolina as a business major. She and J.J met one day after a soccer game and instantly hit it off. They dated for close to 15 years before Emily proposed to J.J. Jennifer left her job and moved in with Emily, living off the large amount of money that Emily had gained from her parents, as well as her days on Wall Street. The two women eventually went to New York and got married when same sex marriage was legal and settled down in Raleigh.

The night before the women were scheduled to leave, they decided to invite Garcia over to Emily's apartment and have a girl's night in. Emily was in her room attempting to put the last of her shoes in one of the boxes when J.J walked in, dressed in a pair of skinny black jeans, a light pink fitted t-shirt, and to top off the whole look, mismatched orange and green socks. Emily looked down at the socks then up at her best friend, then down at the socks again.

"Umm...what the hell are on your feet Jayje?" Emily asked, a look of pretend disgust on her face. J.J smiled shyly.

"All my other clothes are packed away, and my feet were freezing. They aren't that bad, are they?" the blonde asked, looking at her feet worriedly. Emily quickly got rid of the fake look and walked towards the blonde, pulling her into a hug.

"Aw, no Jayje. I'm just messing with you. You look beautiful in everything." Emily said with a smile. She placed a soft kiss on J.J's cheek, making the other agent blush.

"Wow Em, you certainly know how to charm a lady." A voice said from the doorway. Both agents whipped around, Emily reaching for her gun that sat on the bed.

"Don't shoot! I'm sorry!" Penelope Garcia shrieked from the doorway, throwing her hands up in surrender. Emily sighed and placed her gun back on the bed, putting a hand over her heart.

"Dear god Garcia. You scared the shit out of me! How'd you get in here anyways?" Emily said, leaning on the bed and trying to regain her composure.

"Gumdrop over here let me in. I guess she didn't tell you." Garcia said, referencing J.J who stood by the bed, trying to regulate her breathing. Emily looked at the blonde, who simply smiled.

"That's what I came up here to tell you, but then you went all fashion police on my socks." J.J said, causing the other two agents to laugh.

Grabbing her gun off the bed, Emily followed the two blonde women out of the room and into the kitchen, where Chinese takeout and three total chick flicks were waiting for them.

The women spent the evening lounging around in the living room on the couches, eating Chinese and chatting through the first two movies. When Garcia got up to put their third and final movie in the DVD player, J.J returned from the kitchen and decided to lie down on the couch, pushing her different color feet into Emily's face.