heart like yours (jennifer jareau)

4. twenty one

AN: happy monday everybody!!

so just a forewarning, i will NOT be updating next monday because it's my birthday next wednesday, but that is also christmas🌝 so i'm spending the whole week celebrating instead and i will be drunk next monday :)))

i hope you all have a wonderful holiday period and i'll be back the week after!

TWs:
mentions of stabbing
mentions of foyet
mentions of lilah's kids
mentions of ways to dispose a body
allusions to torture
mentions of blood
jj getting philosophical when thinking about her wifey
mentions of animals being killed
mentions of child killers (as in the child is the killer)

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"he kisses- how do i explain it? like someone in love. like he has nothing to lose. like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. only now, only you." - andrew sean greer

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JJ didn't like the fact Delilah was on medical leave after being stabbed, but that was mostly because she didn't like the fact Delilah had been stabbed in the first place.

She was a lot calmer about it, now she'd had a few days to get over it, and she'd apologised for getting so angry at Delilah when it really wasn't her fault. The fear had just taken over and JJ had never been brave enough to keep her shit together the way Delilah did.

So, yeah, JJ was entirely relieved Delilah had a mandatory two weeks off work because it meant JJ could actually relax without worrying about Delilah. She was at home with Liv and Nora and Colin and Haley and Will, and all the kids, and she was healing well.

However, that meant that, when a case of a missing seven year old boy came up, Delilah wasn't the agent to come with them.

Evie was.

It was fine, of course. They were friends, now, and Evie didn't seem to hold the office sex against JJ because she never brought it up, and JJ wasn't about to talk about it. They just got on with working and trying to solve the case.

If anything, JJ was worried Evie would lash out at Hotch, and it seemed Emily was on the same page because the two of them had been keeping a close eye on both Evie and Hotch whenever they were in the vicinity of each other.

Yet, nothing. Evie didn't even look at him. She didn't look at him, didn't talk to him, didn't even acknowledge what he said to other people.

She just did her job and pretended he didn't exist.

"How do you do it?" JJ asked, cornering Evie in the local station's kitchen. "How do you just pretend he doesn't exist like he hasn't hurt her more than anyone? How do you not want to just... Go crazy at him?"

Evie sipped on her coffee.

"It's taking most of my energy," Evie said. "But Delilah wants him alive, so, he's still here, unfortunately."

"Unfortunately," JJ echoed, making herself a coffee.

"I've been calling in a few favours," Evie said quietly, leaning back against the counter next to JJ. "Nobody's seen Foyet. I've got things in place to keep Haley and Jack safe in the houses, but the public is a whole other matter. Delilah told me she's explaining her theories to Haley this week. We're keeping Hotch alive so Haley can lose her shit at him over this, and then we keep Haley and Jack safe and pray that Foyet just kills Hotch when he realises he can't get Haley and Jack."