heart like yours (jennifer jareau)

4. ten

AN: hi guys! happy monday!!

so forewarning:

i may have robbed you of smut but trust i will deliver when henry is no longer in the womb, i gotchu horn dogs :)

welcome to the baby moon!! we have exclusively jj and lilah today! yay! and progress is being made between our girls, we love to see it!

TWs:
dead children
mentions of suicide
mentions of sex trafficking
mentions of child SA/abuse
mentions of child on child violence
the tape of dylan and delilah is mentioned
so is the moment jj found lilah in the basement
and the bruises from the chains
and her scars

it sounds like a lot but i hope you guys enjoy! this chapter has been a long time coming i think <333

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"i tell too many stories at once. this, too, is a violence. but i want to tell you everything, i want you to love me for it, and i want you to forgive me after i say everything you asked me not to say." - james allen hall 

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They were in Italy for JJ's baby moon. JJ had won on that front, and, yeah, Delilah had been worried on the flight, but JJ slept the entire flight anyway, so, it actually wasn't that bad of an idea for Cece to give them the green light to go ahead with the trip.

They were here for a week, the first week of October, and JJ was due in about five to six weeks. Liv was handling Mason for the week of school runs, and the two of them were going back to work when they got back.

JJ had to train the temporary agent filling her role, and Delilah actually had a job helping Evie and had to go to work until their time off kicked in. Strauss had given Delilah a form of parental leave, and she got a month off with the baby while JJ got three months off.

But, until then, they were in Italy for the baby moon.

Nora and Dave both had properties over here. Nora's was on the Amalfi coast, which was beautiful but too steep for JJ in her pregnant, and Dave's was in Sicily.

Delilah had also invested in real estate in Italy when she got home from Thailand. She had an apartment in Rome that Dave's real estate manager rented out for her to tourists. She also had a villa in the hills of Tuscany, Florence, and it was one of the best things she'd ever invested in.

She kept it the exact way she bought it; entirely traditional Italian style with terracotta floors and wooden beams. The pool was already there; she only upgraded the tiles in there and fixed the plumbing, and she just had a maintenance crew go in every few weeks to keep on top of the beautiful garden and the small garden of fruit trees over the fifteen acres that belonged to the property.

She would've taken JJ to Rome, but it kind of felt like a slap in the face to take JJ somewhere where walking was kind of a necessity because traffic was horrific, especially when she was, like, seven and a half months pregnant. They'd go when the baby was born and walking for hours was actually a feasible option.

Until then, the driver Delilah booked drove them out of the city and up the hills. JJ gawked through the window the entire time, looking back at the city they were leaving as it got smaller and smaller, and they got higher and higher.

And then the driver took the turn to the sandy gravel road that led to the property. He parked up outside the gates, Delilah paying and tipping him once he helped her get their luggage out of his trunk. He left with a wave.