Secret Love

Secret Love Part 23

Chapter 23

Covering her face, with the makeup, JJ tried her best covering the bruises that now laid on her skin. Running her hands through her hair JJ, walked out of the bathroom, seeing Luke still laid in bed. Rolling her eyes, JJ sat down on the bed picking up her shoes, feeling Luke wrap his arms around her waist, and his lips on her neck.

"mmm, come back to bed."

"I can't I'm already late, I got to go," JJ said looking around at him, kissing him deeply on the lips.

Walking into the bullpen JJ placed her bags down next to Emily's desk. Looking up she saw her teammates all sat around. In the mini kitchen area, walking towards them she poured herself a cup of coffee, leaning against the counter.

"Morning..."

"Morning, you're later than usual," Reid said looking up from his book.

Pausing before taking a sip of her coffee, JJ listened to Reid's words, taking a sip of her coffee, JJ lowered her hands.

"Yeah, I slept in."

They all ignored the effort in JJ's voice knowing something was up but knew not to push JJ to talk since she was a very private person. Morgan watched her closely,  he had been doing since he saw her in the gym, he knew there wasn't something right and he just wished she would tell one of them, but knew she wouldn't.

JJ was glad they had a case, close to home, knowing she didn't have to fly around the country and deal with the mass arguments that would follow, walking up to the victims family house, JJ looked around seeing the various people on the street, knowing it wasn't a very good neighborhood. Following Rossi, she watched as he knocked on the door, JJ jumped a little when she heard dogs barking from the inside. Rossi noticed how startled she was.

Taking a deep breath, JJ kept calm, watching as the door opened. As the family allowed them in JJ sat down next to Rossi, letting him take the lead. Heading back to the BAU, JJ headed into her office, knowing she needed to get away from everyone. Rossi walked over to the team, seeing the look on her face. They had all noticed, how skittish she had been around them and everyone, whenever when someone touched her arm, she would pull away, and any noise would make her jump. All of them were worried but didn't know what to do, as they knew JJ would never tell them if there was something wrong. They felt helpless.

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Walking into her apartment, JJ saw Luke, sat half-naked on the sofa, rolling her eyes a little she dropped her bags on the floor, leaving her gun on the table in the doorway, walking into the kitchen she grabbed two beers from the fridge, kicking off her shoes, JJ sat down next to Luke handing him the beer.

"I thought you'd never come home."

JJ looked up at Luke, kissing him on the lips. "Yeah, sorry people just won't stop killing people."

Luke wrapped his arm around JJ, kissing her forehead. JJ liked him when he was like this when he hadn't been drinking. He was nice and caring, but she knew very soon that would change. Sitting up JJ placed her bottle down on the table.

"I'm gonna go wash up," JJ said standing up, slowly letting go of Luke's hand.

Walking into her bedroom, JJ stripped off her clothes, changing into some jog bottoms and a plain top and cardigan, walking into the bathroom, she grabbed her makeup wipes, wiping away all the makeup on her face. Looking at herself, she saw the purple bruise under her right eye.

 Walking back into the living room, she saw Luke over by the fridge, looking down she saw the now empty bottle on the table. She stood still as Luke walked towards hers, running his finger down her face. JJ lowered her head, not wanting to look at him, folding her arms over her chest, she took a deep breath.