A Missed Opportunity

broken promises

JJ looked at Emily as her breath got faster. Her knees started to buckle. Her stomach started to hurt. The blonde slowly started to get dizzy. Emily looked at her not knowing what happened.

JJ fell into Emily's arms as the two sank to the ground. Still confused Emily looked at the blondes torso. It was red. Like really red.

"No." She whispered looking at the red on her hands. "Help me!" She yelled into the air. It caught the attention of a group of kids playing with their parents. They ran over and started calling for help.

"Don't leave me. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Emily said trying to keep her awake.

"Stop. Please don't apologize Em." JJ whispered as her mouth filled with blood. With a cough, the blood covered her chin and dropped to her neck. Emily pushed hair behind the blondes ear. Tears formed in her eyes as she tried to see who caused it.

Her eyes met the man that held her captive. It took everything inside of her to not tackle him right there, but JJ needed her. She pulled over a man and told him to tackle Will. Strangely obeying, Will was on the ground as an ambulance pulled up. Emily backed up to let the paramedics work and immediately called Penelope using someone's phone.

"Penelope Garcia." Hearing that caused more tears to form. "It's Emily. Bring the team to wherever this phone is. Will shot JJ. I can't ride with her. She's too hurt. Um. Bring the team. And come along." She said in one breath.

"We're on our way muffin. I'll be there." Penelope said, crying into the phone. Emily looked back at the scene that had happened. Everyone had gone inside, the paramedics were loading JJ into an ambulance, cars were starting to pull up, and the man was still kneeling on Will.

She hung up the phone and marched over to to Will. She kicked the gun away and told the man to get off. In one hand she grabbed his collar, in the other she started swinging. She sat on her knees and repeated what she had done before. This time no one was stopping her.

She got a couple good swings in before arms wrapped around her again. This time she pushed them off. She didn't want to stop. Her fist made contact again causing the arms to yank her off quicker.

She was pulled back as she saw Hotch pull Will away. Soon the arms were replaced by Penelope gathering her into a hug as she sat in a ball. The bubbly blonde brushed her hair behind her ear and rubbed her back.

"I promised her I wouldn't let him hurt her." She sobbed into Garcia's shoulder. "I couldn't stop him. I tried. I tried Pen. But I couldn't do it. I couldn't stop him. I promise I tried." She rambled.

"You protected her as best as you could. She wouldn't be here if it weren't for you." Penelope said trying to calm her down.

After sitting for a while the two got a ride from Morgan to the hospital. They sat in the waiting room, Emily hugging her knees like JJ always did.

"Jennifer Jareau?" The doctor said looking around. Emily popped her head up as Hotch said "That's us. She's FBI." The doctor nodded.

"I'm Dr. Robbins, her surgeon. She's lucky. No major organs or arteries were hit. She's waking up now but I only want one visitor for now. Is that you?" She said making eye contact with Emily, she could see the puffiness of her eyes. She reached out her hand in an attempt to make her feel better. Emily looked at Garcia like a little kid. When Garcia nodded she took the doctors hand and followed her down the hall to JJ.

"I'll leave you two alone." Emily ran to the chair next to the bed and grabbed the blondes hand. "I'm sorry Jay. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I broke my promise. I messed up. You got hurt in so so sorry." She started to ramble again. She dug her head into the bed and squeezed her hand tighter. She kept apologizing until a certain blonde stopped her.

"Em. It wasn't your fault." Emily's head popped up again. Tears formed as she looked at the smiling blonde. "I am so sorry Jennifer. I messed up and you got hurt. I couldn't protect you. I broke my promise." JJ kissed the brunettes hand.

"You protected me more than anyone else I have ever known. You hurt yourself before you let him hurt me. You didn't break your promise. Please don't hate yourself. I love you more than anything. You are my blackbird. I love you so much." She said, wiping away Emily's tears.

"But you got hurt." Emily said still sad. JJ pat the bed next to her and pulled her up. Emily curled up next to her and dug her head into the blondes neck.

"You couldn't control that. You did everything you could do to protect me. And you did protect me. You saved me Emily. Don't you ever think that you got me hurt." She said stroking the brunettes hair.

They sat there until Emily stopped crying. "Have you gotten looked at Em?" She asked looking in her eyes. Emily chuckled. "I think I forgot to. Can I do it here? I'm comfortable." She said. JJ laughed and pressed the nurse call button.

"Can she get her face looked at in here? We were," she paused. "We were kidnapped. I haven't gotten checked out yet." Emily finished. She could see the color drain from her girlfriend's face.

The nurse nodded and put on a pair of gloves. Carefully she looked at the bruise forming on Emily's face. After a short check she moved to her hands. They were bloody and needed to be wrapped. The nurse did just that and left the room once more.

After an hour the whole team was there. They spent the time catching up. "How long before I can leave?" JJ asked. "The next couple of days. But you'll have to be with someone." Penelope said looking at the two girls in bed.

JJ bit her tongue before asking. "What's going to happen to Will?" "After Emily beat his ass, he was sent to prison." Morgan said proud of his friend.

Soon the day came and JJ could go home with Emily.