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it was one of the rare weekends where the bau team members were all off work. but of course they were together, all at rossi’s enjoying a weekend just chilling together, loving their family dynamic, as family dynamic which contained two hyper regressed kiddos.
penelope and jj were playing in the garden. they’d roped derek and emily into their games of course. spencer sat on the deck, head in his book, rossi was whisking away in the kitchen and aaron watched on from the deck, making sure everything was in order.
“can we pay duck duck goose now penny?’ jj asked, looking up at her big sister with her puppy eyes.
“no we playin tag,” penelope replied, tagging her little sister. “you’re it.”
“no wan pay tag,” jj huffed suddenly, crossing her arms and stomping her foot.
“girls, why don’t we play a round or two of duck duck goose before it’s dinner time?” derek suggested and put his hands on jj’s shoulders to try and diffuse the situation.
“nooo. no wan play that!” penelope groaned, throwing her head back.
“dinner amici!!” rossi suddenly shouted from the decking. jj suddenly let out a cry, she didn’t want to eat. she wasn’t ready to eat, not mentally. why did no one warn her?
“dinner!!” penelope shouted, running into the house, derek followed and emily grabbed her girl.
“it’s okay, you’re okay.”
“no wan to.”
“i know sweetheart. i know,” emily sighed. jj’s eating disorder had been playing up so much it had been difficult to get any food down her recently, the whole team had struggled to help.
“come on little love,” emily whispered and pulled jj up into her arms to carry her inside.
“mama,” jj whimpered, hiding in her neck.
“uncle rossi made your favourite, hm,” emilt said.
“carbonara?” jj asked, sniffling.
“yes my love; carbonara for the princess. come sit,” rossi said and motioned for jj’s special chair. emily sat jj down.
“jj eat all up!” penelope cheered and kissed jj’s head as a sweet endearing act.
jj whimpered, not wanting to eat it all up at all.
“you don’t have to. just try some for me okay?” emily said, tucking some hair behind her ear. jj nodded and sighed softly. the rest of the team took their seats and began eating. jj picked up her bluey fork and began eating off her decorated plate. it was safe.
after dinner, the girls were both a lot chirper and no longer angry or upset with one another.
“uncle derek can you come pay wif us?” jj asked with her sweetest puppy eyes.
“pease dada!” penelope begged, her hands clasped together.
“not if we’re playing princesses.” derek said.
“of course it’s princesses. go on mr tough man,” emily teased.
“you have to come play too!” derek said, throwing up his hands.
“nope nope nope. jj knows after dinner is mama’s wine time. you’re playing now,” emily sniggered and waved the bottle of rossi’s most expensive in derek’s face. he sighed in defeat.
“fine!”
“yay!” the little ones cheered and they grabbed a hand each before dragging him up the stairs.
the adults were downstairs and the little ones were getting their derek all dressed up covered in makeup. he looked beautiful to them, obviously, as handsome as ever to everyone else.
“allllll done!” jj cheered and took a step back from her makeup canvas. whilst nj was in charge of the makeup, penelope was on hair.
“i nearly done too,” penelope said.
“then we gotta show him to eveone!” jj muttered and did a twirl in a dress.
“do we have to?”
“mhms,” penelope giggled. “or else all work for nothing.”
“yeah got show eveone uncle derek,” jj said, huffing and sitting on the floor. she was tired but didn’t want to admit it. with penelope’s adhd, she hardly ever slept whereas jj was always sleepy, she usually slept a full 12 hours and more if she could. with it nearing 8pm, she was ready for bed. but she loved playing with her big sister!
“okay doned!” penelope cheered and stood back from the magic creation of bows and clips in her dada’s hair.
“okay let go show!” jj said happily. she jumped up from the floor and headed downstairs, dragging derek too.
“wait jj!” penelope shouted.
“inside voices ladies,” derek reminded his little.
“sorry dada. jj he not wearing his tutu,” penny said, holding it up.
“darn it. do i have to?”
“yessss uncle derek!” jj said and hurriedly pushed him back into their play room.
“darn it.” he said again.
they paraded their derek down the stairs and the rest of the team laughed and cheered at the handy work of their little ones.
“what amazing work girls!” rossi congratulated. “take a bow!”
both girls stood proudly beside derek, who was not happy, and took the biggest, most proudest bows.
“right girls, bed time!” emily said once derek went to get changed.
“not mineee. ha ha jj got go bed!” penelope giggled and ran off. jj stood there, looking between her caregiver’s open arms and penelope who had ran off.
“come on baby i can see you’re sleepy.”
“nope. i not.” jj giggled and ran off after her sister. she didn’t want to miss out on playing, no matter how tired she was.
“jj!” emily called and sighed as she saw the flash of blonde disappear up the stairs.
“it’s a saturday, let her play a little longer.” hotch said, grabbing emily’s arm and pulling her back down.
“she needs rest or she’ll be grumpy and bratty.” emily groaned.
“she’ll be okay. we can just let her sleep in the morning.”
“fine.”
however, what the adults didn’t know is that the girls were up to no good. in the bathroom.
“so we just have to put this in here and this in here and it makes a potion.” penelope said as she mixed the fancy, expensive shampoo bottles into the toothbrush pot in the bathroom.
“okay but what if it no work,” jj said, leaning in close.
“it will. we will be eal fairies in no time jay.” penelope said and handed over the ‘potion’. “you drink first.”
“why me?”
“cus said so.”
“just cus you said so doesn’t mean i have listen.”
“you do. i boss.”
“you not.”
“i older than you. i boss.”
“i wan be boss.”
“you just a baby. drink it.” she pushed it into her chest, causing the foamy liquid to burst out and splash onto the younger girls t-shirt. she hated wet clothes.
“nooo,” she cried, desperately trying to get the wetness off her.
“i sorry jj!” penelope cried. jj lashed out the , throwing her hands at penelope, causing the cup to go flying across the bathroom and soak the floor. both girls gasped at the loud noise and looked as the soap and water leaked across the floor.
“uh oh.” penelope said.
“off!” jj cried, pulling at her still wet top and now wet socks. she sat down, to try and pull them off but cried out as the wetness soaked into her bum and clothes even more.
“mama!” she screamed as she felt herself get more and more overwhelmed.
“no jj. not mama. she tell us off.” penelope urged and kneeled down beside her friend.
“penny help you.” she said.
“no! not you!” jj cried and threw her hands at penelope, pushing her back. suddenly, emily and derek burst through the bathroom door, to see jj push penelope back.
“jennifer!” emily scolded but suddenly saw the distraught state of her girl.
“okay, okay,” she muttered, more to herself and entered the room.
“what were you two doing in here?” derek asked, looking at the state of rossi’s bathroom.
“jj’s idea dada!” penelope instantly blamed jj and jj cried out.
“it not!”
“let’s get you out of here, come on,” emily said and picked up jj. jj clung to her, fussy about her wet clothes still.
“want off.”
“penelope explain what happened in here,” derek said, firmly to his little.
“dada!”
“none of that whining baby cakes, i need to know.”
penelope began explaining then, how jj encouraged them to make a potion to become fairies and insisted that they use rossi’s most expensive shampoos to be the best fairies they could.
“did you drink it?”
“no jj nearly did but she pushed me dada and it spilled so she got angry and pushed again.”
derek sighed. “you’re telling me you had no involvement in this?”
“no dada. i tried stop her!”
“tell me the truth or it’s time out.”
“dadaaaaaa!”
meanwhile.
“jj sweetheart calm down, they’re not on you anymore,” emily soothed her little as she fussed about the clinging wet clothes to her.
“mama they feel them.” she muttered, quickly becoming overtired and overwhelmed.
“do you want a shower?”
“not shower day!”
“baby,” emily sighed. she turned her little one around and pulled her into her lap, rocking her side to side. she began to sing softly, to help calm her down. the little one yawned but calmed down quickly.
“now, tell mama what on earth you were doing in the bathroom with rossi’s things and why i caught you pushing penelope.”
“penny made me.”
“she made you?”
“she said if we make potions and drink them we become fairies.”
“did you drink it?”
“nooo penny pilled it first.”
“how did she spill it?”
“i maybe push her mama but seee made me!”
“she made you push her?”
“mhm!”
“is that how you both ended up on the floor? did she push you?”
“no i falled.”
“so why did you push her?”
“maaammmaaaaa,” jj whined loudly and threw her head back.
half an hour later and both littles were cleaned up into their pjs ready to settle down for bed. emily hoped she’d get her little one to sleep in no time with the constant yawns and rubbing of her eyes it was inevitable but derek had a bigger challenge on his hands as all penelope wanted to play was fairies.
“it bed time penny,” jj whispered, sniffling and snuggling into her sister whilst the caregivers spoke in the kitchen.
“no mine.”
“mhm, you dada say so.”
“nuh uh. just wo cus wo baby.” penelope whispered and wrapped and arm around her baby sister. she kissed her head lightly and emily brought in a bottle of milk for her girl.
“oh look at you two.” she said softly and took in the cute sight in front of her. “my girls.”
“mama,” jj whispered, despite the cuddle she was already getting and raised her arms to be held.
“come to mama.” emily said and lifted sleepy jj up. she sat her across her lap and began feeding her her nighttime bottle, one full of nutrients she needed to help her ED. it was an easy put down. penelope got back to her colouring fairies and derek stroked her hair as he set her warm milk in her sippy beside her.
“fanks dada.”
“you’re welcome baby girl.”