KATRIN'S P.O.V
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know" ~Jim Rohn
When we arrive back at the precinct Hotch is waiting for us, looking almost annoyed as he holds out a folder in someone's general direction before approaching us
"Reid, Prentiss I want you to go interview the staff at the hospitals the girls were taken from, Coleman I want you to stay here with JJ and help her out with some things"
As Reid and Prentiss walk off and Hotch follows close behind going God knows where I'm left standing in a room bustling with detectives wondering why I'm the only one being left behind to work with JJ.
"Hi" I jump back a little and turn around to see JJ standing behind me with a stack of folders in her arms
"Oh, Hi"
"The detectives said we can use the room over there as a makeshift office if we want" she points to a room with slightly tinted windows and I follow her towards it, locking the door behind us before sitting down in a leather swivel chair.
"Kat could you pass me my phone please?" I hand JJ her phone, catching a glimpse of the little boy smiling up at me from the screen as she takes it.
"Is that your son?" I ask and she smiles
"Yeah, his name's Henry" she sets down the files and sits across from me "He's seven.... I'm expecting my second now"
"Congratulations" I say quietly, smiling as she reaches out to grab a cookie from the packet on the desk.
"Do you enjoy it?" I ask curiously
"Enjoy what?" she asks, brushing a blond lock from her face
"Being a mom"
"Yeah, it's probably the best job in the whole world... do you want kids?"
"I don't... I don't know. They told me I won't even know if I can have kids until I try" I pick at my cuticles and look up at her.
There's a long period of silence before she finally says
"Why mightn't you be able to have kids?"
"I was in an accident a few years ago" I explain "I had to have so much surgery and go on so much medication and.... yeah".
She gives me a weak smile
"When I got pregnant with Henry my husband Will was so worried I'd get hurt in the field" JJ chuckles before continuing "He wanted me to pull myself out"
"Did you?" I ask
"No, I couldn't. I mean, I love being a mom more than anything else in the world but I also love this job and the people I get to work with, nothing could ever change that".
We work in silence for a long amount of time before I say
"What happened to Hotch to make him so... Hotch?"
"He's kind of always been like this" JJ tells me "But a few years ago his wife Haley was murdered by an UnSub called the Reaper. He was left with their son Jack and I can't imagine what that does to a person"
I can't think of anything to say to that. Poor Hotch.
"I didn't know"
"Hotch isn't really the kind of person to talk about his feelings, he prefers to go internal"
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