The Not So Small Family

25

JJ was still laying on Emily when the Marines stopped right next to them.

"Attention!" The Sergeant called out

All of the Marines immediately stood at attention, saluting.

Emily quietly sighed and kissed JJ's temple as a way of telling her to move. When JJ rolled off of her she groaned as she got up.

The rest of the Jareau family is looking on in confusion as Emily walked the two steps it took to be in front of the drill sergeant (Sgt).

"At ease men." They all stopped saluting and put their hands behind their backs, one hand gripping the other wrist. She looked over at the Sgt.

"Well I'll be damned. How're you Sergeant Daniels"

"Just fine Sergeant Major (SgtMaj) Prentiss" Daniels replied with his hands behind his back and his chin up.

"Good. What year are these recruits?"

"Second year ma'am"

Before she could say anything the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (SMMC) walked over.

"Attention!" One of the recruits yelled when he saw the SMMC. Everybody, even Emily, saluted.

"At ease soldiers."

They all went back to the position they were in before.

"Well hello Sergeant Major Prentiss. Are you working today?" He asked

"No sir I'm still on reserve and I have to go back for training in a little over a month"

That's when Henry walked over to Emily and tugged on her shirt.

"Mama come play with me" He said

"Henry come here baby, Mama's working right now" JJ said reaching for him

"Okay" He said in a heartbreaking way. Before he left Emily bent down and whispered something into his ear. When she patted him on the back to push him towards his mom, he skipped over. Actually skipped.

"Well SgtMaj Prentiss let's see how much training you need. We're going to do a hard inspection for these young recruits. That means you need to get into uniform. You do have it right?"

"Yes sir it's in my truck"

"Good you have 5 minutes." He took out a stopwatch. "Ready. Set. Go!"

She took off running towards the truck, hurdling things if she needed to. The SMMC looked back at the recruits.

"Now that's what I call hussle. Not none of this sissy shit" He said proudly

When she got back in her full combat  uniform and her hair in a military bun he looked down at his stopwatch.

"Hot damn Prentiss! That's a new record" He turned to look at the recruits. "Now I hope y'all are ready". He stepped back to let Emily inspect their uniforms.

She went up to the first guy looked him up and down inspecting every detail. She did that until she got to the end of the row. She inspected the last guy and noticed that his shirt was untucked. She looked him in the eyes then his untucked shirt then back to his eyes.

"Your shirt's untucked Lance Corporal!" She yelled in his face. She stepped back and yelled a little calmer this time, "Give me 15!"

"Yes SgtMaj!" He yelled and got down to do push ups.

She moved to the next row and walked down. She stopped in front of a Private First Class soldier and looked at his name patch.

"Fix your stance Shlovk!" She yelled before she kicked his foot to spread his legs so they were shoulder width apart. Luckily everyone else in that row had everything on correctly so she one again moved to the row behind them.

When she was inspecting another soldiers combat uniform she saw something move behind her. She turned around and saw that Shlovk had moved to his original stance. She stepped on the back of his knee where it bent which made him kneel.

"I said fix your stance Shlovk! Next time I see it isn't perfect your running! Got it!"

"Yes SgtMaj!" He said getting back up into the perfect stance. She walked back to the fourth row and walked until she got to the second to last person.

"Is there anything wrong with this uniform?" Emily asked

"No?" The soldier responded

"Is that a question or statement!?" She yelled in his face

"Statement Ma'am"

She laughed a sarcastic laugh. "You think there's nothing wrong with this?"

He nodded.

"Words Private"

"Yes"

She raised her eyebrows for more than one reason. "Your boots are untied, your pants aren't tucked into the boots, your shirt's untucked, your pants are unbuttoned, your belt is on backwards, I don't know how the hell you managed that, your jacket's unbuttoned, your ranks don't match," She said pointing to his hat and shoulder.  "Your name patch is on upside down," She said ripping half of it off the velcro. "That's not your hat" She said flicking it off of his head. "And that's the wrong uniform! Did you even look at your fellow recruits to see that this shit ain't right! Your entire fucking uniform is wrong and you tell me there's nothing wrong with it! Do you think I'm stupid!? Cause I can tell you right now, you're really fucking stupid if you think I'm gonna fall for that shit! Give me fifty then your running!"

She started to turn to the next person.

"Yes!"

She turned back around and stepped on his back, pushing him into the ground.

"What!?"

"Yes SgtMaj!"

"There we go!"

She turned around and cussed under her breath. She pushed the top half of the two soldiers in front of her out of the way and stepped over their feet. She walked up to the back of Shlovk and kicked where the knee bent so he fell to his knees.

"I told you the next time it's not perfect your running! Guess what!? Your running!" She grabbed him by the back of his collar and lifted him up. She guided him through the row and threw him to the side. "Start jogging!" She yelled so he started jogging in place.

She walked to the fifth and final row and started inspecting. She ended up making two more soldiers run before she even got halfway through it. She looked over to see all the soldiers who were supposed to be running just standing there.

"Did I say you can stop jogging!"

All of there heads shot up at the sound of her voice.

"No SgtMaj!" They all yelled at the same time and started to jog in place again. When she was done inspecting everyone she went over to the soldiers who were jogging in place.

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"She's intense" Mia said

"Yeah you kind of have to be if you don't want to get stepped on but I guess it helps that she's high ranking" JJ said watching them

"Why is he smiling so big" River asked pointing to the beaming SMMC

"Because he's proud and I'm pretty sure Emily's his favorite"

"How have they not peed their pants yet? I know I would of especially if that was directed at me"

"Trust me they probably did. Everyone who sees Emily's... anger? No. Wrath? No. I don't know but whenever they see that they're scared shitless. And that's nothing compared to this"

"Really?" Frannie asked

"Yeah now imagine if that was directed at you what would you do?"

She made a frightened face.

"Exactly"

"Remind me never to get on her bad side" Jeremy said

"I think that's enough of a reminder for you. And if you really want to see scary you should see her fight, especially if she's defending her family"

"I don't want to know what happens" Rosco said

"It's probably good you don't"