I'm Fine

Chapter 2

Emily's Pov:

Her slender hand laid on Emily's thigh, Jj drawing small circles with her index finger. Emily tried not to lose focus and kept her eyes on the road. She could feel her heartbeat increasing, sweat slowly starting to form on her forehead, and her face becoming bright red.

"Oh... um.... g..good" she smiled while stuttering over every word.

"Hah. What's got you stumbling over your words luv?".

Emily felt her mouth becoming dry, "You know... just.. nervous about.. th.. the case".

"It's gonna be fine, we got this. We'll talk to the families and figure out what they all have in common. And after the case we can spend time together doing random stuff" Jj's voice sounded like music to Emily's ears, every word making her feel safer and safer. As if she was being wrapped in a blanket of Jj's love. She never wanted the car ride to end, but sadly it had to because they arrived.

Jj's Pov:

Jj removes her hand from Emily's thigh while she parked the car. Undoing her seatbelt she began to open the door. The immediate wave of heat hit her like a truck, the humidity already causing her blouse to stick to her body.

"God I fucking hate the heat" Emily mumbled while walking towards the door next to Jj. She pulled open the glass door and motioned for Jj to go in.

"What a gentlemen" she joked while looking behind her at Emily.

When she faced forward again a dark skinned woman greeted them with a pleasant smile, "Hello I'm detective Murphy. I'm the main detective on this case, and I'm sure glad to have your team's help on this. I thought the team was bigger but I guess this will do..".

"Oh no. We're only two members out of six. I'm Agent Prentiss and that's Agent Jareau. We're here to meet with the family members of the victims".

"Oh yes, my apologies. They are right over there", the woman pointed to a group of people sitting in chairs all clearly in disarray. Jj and Emily said thankyou and made their way over to the group, everyone was eager to talk to the two women. They decided to talk to a nice couple.

They all sat down in an office, Emily and Jj across from the man and woman. Jj placed the file on the table, "We know this is a difficult time for you two. But we would just like to have some information about your daughter, to see if any of the victims have things in common".

The man grabbed his wife's hand in his, "I... I want to see what happened to my baby girl". He tried to hold back his tears but one slipped out.

"I'm sorry sir, but it would be better if you didn't. Keep the memories of your daughter when she was alive, you don't want these to ruin those special moments." Emily looked at the man who was hunched over, tightly holding his wife's hand.

Jj softly said, "Did Charlotte participate in any after school activities?".

"Yes.. she played softball, she was quite good" the wife stopped to collect herself, ".. she also went to a church group every other day..".

"What church?".

The husband looked at his wife, not knowing the answer. Once again the wife spoke weakly, "Saint Anne's. Me and Sam never went, but we let Charlotte go because she enjoyed it. She said that the priest was  working on a project and would soon reach the end of it" she looked away before finally realizing, "oh god.... she didn't even know... he.. he killed my little girl" the woman began to yell and stood up from her chair. She threw it across the room in rage before falling to her knees, sobbing.

"Thank you. This helped a lot. It really did" Emily said before her and Jj walked out, leaving the husband and wife to collect themselves.

No one's Pov: