Charlotte Ann was adopted by Emily Prentiss when she was 14 years old; her parents were unsubs in a 2018 case worked by the BAU. Four years later, Charlotte is 18 and moves away to college. Emily is now Section Chief of the BAU, with more responsibility than before, and is unaware of how much Charlotte is struggling in college- until her daughter appears at her office door a day earlier than she was supposed to. 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐔 𝐰/ 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐌 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Was it the most ideal relationship? No, no it wasn't. Did that stop you? No, no it didn't.

JJ and Emily have been married for 2 years now, The BAU, we're called in for a case involving children and each one is hard on JJ due to loss in her family when she was just a teenager. How will meeting a child, not in a good situation affect their family? How will they react when one of them gets a surprise that could change their life forever? #1 Aj Cook 2/2/22 #1 FBI Agent 2/27/22 #1 Criminalminds 3/21/22 # 1 BAU #1 Foster 4/2/22 #1 PagetBrewster 6/13/22 #1 WLW 10/31/22 #1 Jemily 12/2/22 # 1 Jennifer Jareau 12/5/22 # 1 Emily Prentiss 1/4/23

Agent Emily Prentiss is new to the BAU. But while she's out hunting the bad guys, she found someone she never even new she was searching for.

Emily Prentiss joins the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI and forms a quick friendship with its media liaison, Jennifer Jareau. A life-threatening situation brings deeper feelings to the surface, but expectations and fears threaten to shatter them.

Two people. Three words. Emily and JJ are best friends. They are comfortable as ever with eachother and everyone knows they are a force to reckon with. Emily knows she is gay. JJ thought she was gay as a young adult but her parents convinced her she was wrong. They both feel a little more every once and a while but brush it off. What if they don't? All chapters will have content warning

-Sometimes the odds just aren't in your favour- *I don't own any of the criminal minds character* *will and JJ aren't together and henry is nonexistent*

*Trigger warning: abuse mentioned throughout the story* Emily and JJ always had a thing while working in the BAU. Even though Emily has a boyfriend who she's been with for a year, she's secretly in love with JJ and she may feel the same way. There's only one thing that JJ doesn't know, inside, Emily feels broken because her boyfriend, Josh, abuses her. One day, JJ notices the scars, cuts, and bruises on Emily and starts to get worried. Josh soon disappears and kidnaps Emily and also JJ for getting in between them.

⤷ « The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. » Emily and JJ have been working together at the BAU for years. But what if, one day, Emily confesses her feelings for the other woman? ✨Jemily✨ Credits to Criminal Minds

What are we to do then, when everything to be illuminated is not evil?