Chapter 6

JJ

Working was virtually impossible after that visit of Emily's and so JJ packed up shortly after asking Emily to leave and left for home. Home; where she, her partner and their son resided, home where there was no Derek or Emily to cause her anymore emotional turmoil. She should have felt glad but surprisingly or maybe not so much; she wasn't as happy about heading home as she should be. She figured it had something to do with the fact that the choice of who she stayed with had been taken from her, even if it was with good intentions.

She couldn't be bitter about the decision though, they'd only been doing what they thought was good for her, for them and as she got out of the car to a two year old Henry toddling towards her, she was grateful to them in a way. That didn't mean however that she wasn't pissed as all hell or sad about their decision because she was, but she hadn't known who she'd choose anyway so maybe the couple bowing out was a blessing in disguise. Maybe what she felt for them and them for her was test, a test to see how faithful she was because she was sure Will was planning on proposing again soon and maybe this was her queue to finally say yes. Picking Henry up in her arms she forced a happy smile onto her face and turned to face Will, hugging her little blonde haired son happily.

"Hey honey," she greeted as the Cajun pecked her on the cheek and picked her briefcase up for her.

"Hey chérie, did you finish what you needed to?" he asked in his sweet Southern drawl.

"Yep and there aren't any cases that can't wait till Monday so the rest of the weekend is ours," JJ replied as they headed inside, Henry chattering away happily as they did.

"That's good cherie, because I was thinking maybe we could spend sometime together tomorrow, just the two of us. We could ask Morgan and Emily to look after him, they might need the practice, I can see them having a little one of their own soon," Will told her, chuckling as he talked about the profiler couple. JJ tensed at the mention of the pair and the thought of them having a child together, they were the last people she wanted to think about, let alone look after her son.

"Why don't we take him to Pen's, I'm sure she'd love to see him," JJ replied, hoping Will would just agree with her and send Henry off to the tech analyst tomorrow.

She didn't want to sound particularly mean but she needed to spend to bonding with Will without the distraction of Henry. After the last couple of months and what had just happened earlier that day she really needed to reconnect with Will, to reaffirm her feelings for him. She needed to know that it didn't matter if Derek and Emily had, for all intents and purposes, broken up with her, that she still had Will and that their relationship was solid.

AN: As always a flashback chapter is accompanied with a normal chapter. Also, for anyone who reads Different Shades of the Same Colour it will be updated sometime tomorrow.

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