champagne problems x jemily/hotchniss

fifty-three

two more chapters to go besties!😁

happy pride month babies! remember you are loved and valid. whether you are closeted or out, i'm so proud of you. and i love each and every one of you 🥰

also pretty please drop me some suggestions of episodes to watch while I'm on a road trip for my cousin's graduation. it's eight hours and i want to watch y'all's favorite criminal minds episodes☺️

happy readings and stay safe besties! -salem🤍

TW: swearing, gun violence, mentions of blood, mentions of death
word count: 4300

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Penelope: "Within near death experiences, life changes, love grows and the universe moves into another world." Petra Hermans.

One year and five months later

Ring. Ring. Ring.

"No. No. No," Emily mumbled as JJ reached over and grabbed the phone.

"Jareau," JJ said in her raspy morning voice. She just nodded her head as the man talked over the phone. Emily held onto her waist not to let her leave the bed. "We'll be there in about twenty minutes."

"Over my dead body. It's January and fucking freezing, and you're warm," Emily said and nuzzled her head against JJ's chest. JJ just chuckled as she hung up the phone.

"That was Hotch. We have to go downtown to the Attorney General's office. Fugitive Lawrence Beck tried to break his brother James Beck out when the alarms went off. We have to be there to link with the Fugitives Task Force," JJ said and pulled the covers off of them. Emily groaned as JJ got up. Shadow came running to JJ's side. The now one and half-year-old puppy was linked to the two women at the hip. She even stayed with them in their room. It wasn't precisely what both women had in mind when they said they wanted a baby girl, but it was working for now at least.

"God, it's too early for this," Emily said and sighed as JJ pulled her up out of bed. The blonde woman kissed her lips quickly before caressing her cheeks.

"Come on," JJ said and smiled. "I'll call Briana to come and watch the boys and Shadow."

"I'll start the coffee," Emily said and pulled away from JJ. Shadow immediately ran after her and joined her in the kitchen.

It didn't take long for the two to make their way downtown. JJ made sure to hold onto Emily's hand the entire car ride there. From what she understood, these two men were dangerous, and catching them has been a struggle for the fugitive task force.

JJ and Emily pulled up and hopped out of the car. Hotch stood there with a man as the rest of the team came in. "Everyone. This is Luke Alvez with the fugitive task force. Luke, this is SSA's Derek Morgan, Jennifer Jareau, Emily Prentiss, David Rossi, Doctor Spencer Reid, and Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia."

Needless to say, the man was absolutely star-struck with Penelope. And all of their eyes were on the two. Derek cleared his throat, and that's what brought Luke back down to Earth.

"Right. Uh, lovely to meet you all," Luke said and turned, beckoning the team the follow him. "So the escape happened up on the seventh floor. Lawerence posed as a new lawyer for his brother and took down the female officer who escorted him to the interview room."

"There are no cameras inside?" Emily asked as she put on her vest.

"He disabled them right before walking in. We don't have eyes in there. And the building is too big only to have my team cover it. Local police are barely on their way," Luke said and shook his head.