Title: Curious Mixture
Summary: AU: Jennifer JJ Jareau and Emily Prentiss tale in progress. JJ and Emily find themselves at a crossroads in their relationship after so many promises broken and wishes unfulfilled…
Author: Cherokee62
Rating: T (will change to M as story progresses)
Spoilers: Seasons 1 thru 12 basically
Word Count: 818
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, nor do I make any profit in my parody of them. If I did own them, I would not be writing Jemily Femslash, JJ and Emily would have been a happy couple years ago, the first FBI agents to marry and Will would have graciously donated his sperm to make Henry and went away until JJ and Emily decided they wanted another child. These characters are (sadly) owned by CBS Corp.
A/N: I am back from a very long dry spell and this is my first posting, though not my first attempt to write, a JJ/Emily tale. At the moment it is un-bated, but I hope to remedy that as soon as possible. So please bear with any mistakes or grammatical errors I am sure to make. For those who have read my work before, I hope you're happy to see me again, and please give me feedback as this take unfolds. For those who are finding me for the first time, I warn you know, canon is just a starting point for me. If it is inconvenient or annoying to me and my story I have no problem changing it. That is the point of FF after all.
So I hope this story does not disappoint either of us. I hope you enjoy and if you get a chance, drop me a line and let me know if you like the direction it's going or whatever. Thank you for your time.
Cherokee
Chapter 1
2009
As they waited for the jet to be fueled to return the team to Washington; Penelope Garcia, Jennifer JJ Jareau, and Emily Prentiss strolled through the airport gift shop. Emily was chuckling at the overpriced nonsense they had for sale and rolling her eyes at the gullibility of some people as Garcia held up one glittering, silly knick-knack or toy after another for her to look at.
"Ooh. Look at this one!" Garcia gushed as she held something up with a wide smile.
JJ and Emily glanced at each other and grinned.
"Nice." JJ deadpanned.
"Real cute." Emily agreed, voice flat even as her stomach did it's usual little flip whenever she looked into JJ's sapphire blue eyes. "Damn I have it so bad for her! I have got to tell her one of these days before I just blurt out something stupid when she smiles at me like that." Emily thought as she gazed at JJ.
Garcia as usual ignored the sarcasm in their voices and continued to look over the trinkets.
JJ noticed the glazed look that had descended over Emily's eyes like it always did when they shared a look and a smile and just grinned. "So cute." She thought for the thousandth time about the raven haired agent and her obvious crush.
"Hey JJ, look at this!" Garcia called out disrupting the moment between the two women. Emily and JJ looked over and Garcia was holding up a huge glass heart.
"What in the world…?" Emily said, walking over with a grin beginning to form on her lips.
"Isn't it cool?" Garcia beamed. "It would make an awesome Valentine's Day gift, don't cha think?"
JJ had also moved closer and was watching as Emily took it from Garcia's hands, an unusual smile on her face.
"Is it glass or plastic?" Emily asked as she reached for the large heart. "Oh wow, it's heavier than I expected!" Emily's eyes widened as she smiled in childish delight and held it out; "JJ look!"
JJ nodded with a smile but was more interested in Emily's uncharacteristic reaction then in the trinket.
"It's nice."
"Nice? It's awesome!" Emily exclaimed, her eyes still glued to the glass heart.
Both JJ and Garcia exchanged looks of amazement, Garcia shrugging when JJ's eyebrow went up.
"You like that?" JJ asked Emily.
"Oh yeah." Emily replied, her voice soft. "It reminds me of those candy hearts you used to get as a kid on Valentine's Day." Emily was staring at the opaque pink glass heart, a wistful look on her face that neither woman had seen before. "You know the ones; they say 'be mine', 'love you', or 'sweetie' on them. Sometimes they are just colored hearts like this one."
Emily held it up in the light, slightly towards the grinning women in front of her and sighed deeply. "I used to wait all day on Valentine's for someone to leave me one of those little candy hearts. Every year I would wait...my heart beating so hard if someone would start to come close to my desk..."
Her eyes seemed to unfocus as she gazed at the glass heart. "Oh I got cards. Sometimes even chocolate from the teacher or when parents sent gifts to the entire class but never those silly little pink candy hearts." She paused for a moment, her fingers grazing over the smooth glass. "Don't even know why I wanted one but I did. Badly." She sighed deeply and her smile was so sad JJ wanted to pull her into her arms and just hold her.
"Every year I would check my mail box. Shake it to see if it fell to the bottom, but nope." Suddenly Emily shook her head, realizing where she was and laughed. "Damn, what brought that on?"
She turned the heart over and looked at the price on the back, "Are they serious? That's more than a steak dinner with a good glass of wine!" She sat the heart back down on the shelf and looked at her friends, "I think I see Morgan waving at us, jet must be ready. Let's get going ladies."
Garcia and JJ nodded and smiled following her to the exit.
Emily waved and moved toward Morgan. As they got closer and Morgan began to talk to them, JJ glanced back at the shop.
"Pen, how much time do you think we have until we have to board?"
Garcia looked around and spotted Rossi and Hotch still in the airport bar. "They still have a half of a drink left so about ten minutes I would think. Why?"
JJ nodded, "No reason, just have to visit the restroom. Be right back."
She headed toward the ladies room, paused and looked back at the group to be sure they were all preoccupied before she made a quick change in direction and darted into the gift shop.