Emily Prentiss One-Shots

Emily/JJ

Title: Science of Attraction - pagetfan (Ao3)

Summary: Set sometime in Season 7 - JJ & Emily are sent to scope out a gay-bar and JJ observes Emily doing what she does every time she's sent to seduce a potential unsub. In awe, out of curiosity, just for fun she asks 'How do you do it?". JJ gets more than she bargained for in Emily's impromptu lesson in attraction.

Rating - Teens and Up Audience 

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Science of Attraction: or Emily Prentiss being sexy and complicated and mysterious for a bunch of words

It's not that Jennifer Jareau has never flirted. She's been successful in love, though the job had always limited her opportunities to other law enforcement which had eventually led her to Will and her little family. She had no need to flirt anymore. Perhaps she's simply forgotten some secret memory of how to move and talk to entice another person. This is why she finds herself so over her own head in a bar next to her normally goofy coworker who's somehow transformed herself in front of JJ's own eyes into someone, something completely different.

Emily Prentiss knows how to flirt, and she employs it professionally as readily and effectively as standard child interview technique or hostage negotiation procedure. JJ has seen it, and while flirting with the monsters they catch is something she's happy never to do she admires the confidence and skill it takes to do it. Right now, in this gay bar, undercover with Emily to scope out a killer, JJ is now observing the easy routine from the point of view of the brunette's target and something in her finally snaps. JJ is open minded but pretty straight, not to mention practically married, extremely committed to her family, and comfortable enough in her close friendship with Emily that they've played at flirting together before. Yet she's on fire under the other agent's gaze and she has to ask. Has to know how the fuck she does it, regardless of the team listening in over the wires they wear.

"Ok I give up" she laughs "how do you do this?"

"Do what?" Emily asks with a smirk and JJ huffs in frustration.

"It's like you flick a switch and suddenly no red-blooded human being you set your gaze on can escape this..." JJ gestures frantically at Emily, searching for a way to describe the "Magnetism!" She finally settles on. This makes Emily laugh, though JJ notices that something darker flashes behind her eyes as well.

"It's just behaviour" Emily says "like profiling, you just take the behaviours that subconsciously communicate attraction and availability and lust and consciously use them" She laughs again at the look on JJ's face. It's clear the blonde doesn't believe it could be that easy, and part of Emily wants to maintain the illusion that it isn't, if only to prevent JJ from being thrust into the kinds of situations their unit chief often puts Emily in.

"Ok, show me" JJ finally insists. They hear one of their teammates, probably Morgan, chuckle through their ear pieces but ignore him.

"OK" Emily agrees, sitting up and isolating each movement of her body to illustrate her words. "It comes down to some pretty basic physical cues, first is the shoulders and hands. When a woman dips one shoulder and lifts the other toward her romantic interest it signals vulnerability and virtue at the same time, a physical push-pull" The brunette quickly shows JJ the move, one the blonde immediately recognizes as one every girl has done at some point, often accompanied by a hair flip. "Dropping this shoulder exposes my neck, vulnerability, while raising this shoulder protects it, virtue"

"Oh wow, yeah I've definitely done that" JJ says. The women laugh together as JJ subtly tries it herself. Next Emily lifts a hand to her hair, flipping dark curls over her shoulder and smiling.