Jennifer Jareau's Daughter

Chapter 2

JJ's POV:

I just got back from a case where a little girl was kidnapped and returned to her parents. I can't help but think of the little girl I gave up ten years ago. What she would be like and how she looks now. As my team and I enter back into the building I sit at my desk and start to write my review of the case. I hear the glass down open and see three kids walking my way. I hurriedly stand up and walk towards them feeling my heart beat against my chest as the red headed girl looked familiar.

"Hi my names Jennifer you can call me JJ how can I help you guys?" I ask

"Hi my names is Miles nice to meet you!" Miles says as he shakes my hand

"My name's Sarah and that is Max. Miles and I are her best friends and you are the woman who abandoned her ten years ago." Sarah says rolling her eyes

I just stare at the kids in shock. Until I meet eyes with Max who looks away. As soon as I look at Max I instantly start to see the similarities we both have. How didn't I recognize her. I get lost in my thoughts until I see Miles lightly slap Sarah.

"Sorry for Sarah she's just very protective of the both of us." Miles says as he gestures between Max and himself

"Look we all came here so you can talk to Max. Maybe we can go in an office or somewhere private so we can all talk?" Sarah says

"Yes of course we can go in my old office." I reply

I walk up the stairs leading the kids to my old office I haven't step foot in for years. As we all enter my old office the kids instantly all sit on the couch. I quickly close the door and go sit in my old chair at my old desk. I look to see the kids all staring at one another silently having a discussion with their glances. I can see Max fidgeting nervously, Miles put his hand on her back reassuringly, and Sarah gives her an encouraging look to speak. Finally Max looks up at me and breaks the silence.

"Was I that awful that you had to give me away when I was barely a day old? Did you not love me? Why didn't you come back? Max asks the questions I knew she'd ask me. I just expected her to ask when she was sixteen and not nine.

"I loved you I still do I didn't look because I was told you'd have a good family. You were and are the best thing to happen to me I gave you away cause I wasn't ready and I was new to the FBI I didn't wanna put you in danger. I didn't want you to always live with a nanny and barely see me. My schedule back then was chaotic." I explain

"Instead you thought putting me in the system where I got abused, starved, and bullied was better? I have been in and out of the same orphanage for ten years. I've been in twenty different homes. I have never been adopted. I don't even know if we have the same last or not on my records. The only silver lining in my life is these two who have talked me off more ledges than you know. Maybe I made a mistake coming here. Excuse me I have to go to the bathroom." Max says as she gets up with Sarah following

"Look Max won't say it but she needs you. You need to adopt her. She can't go through anymore heartbreak she doesn't deserve it. You seem like a good person I see how much you miss her. It won't be easy she'll make it hard. But she loves you. If you keep trying she'll let her walls down. I promise." Miles says as he goes to check on Max.

I am just sitting here taking in everything. Max has never had a family. What did I do? Miles is right I need to adopt her I need to keep trying. I need to be there for her. I need to know what else happened to her. What did she mean by getting talked off of ledges. Did she do what Roslyn did? How could I go this long without checking on her. All the guilt is coming at me crashing in like waves of the ocean. My thoughts are interrupted as Max, Sarah, and Miles come back sitting in the same spot.