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It was a terrible morning for JJ, it was raining outside and she barely made it to the FBI parking lot, fighting the urge to close her eyes and sit in the car until her pounding heart calmed down, but she knew it wouldn't. She'd had that heavy feeling in her chest for weeks, ever since Will died. Finally, she forced herself to get out of the car, grab her bag, and walk slowly into the building. She didn't even bother to put her hood on or take out umbrella from her bag.
When she entered the building, she went straight to the elevator, she used to buy her daily morning coffee on the lower loor of the building, but that changed after that sad event, she no longer felt like drinking coffee, in fact, she didn't feel like eating or drinking anything anymore.
After a few seconds of riding the elevator, she got off at one of the upper floors and headed straight to the bullpen. Tara was already sitting at her desk, texting someone on the phone, probably Rebecca. At the next table were Luke and Penelope, who obviously had something else to do besides the paperwork that was lying on Luke's desk.
Penelope glanced at JJ out of the corner of her eye and smiled, JJ tried to smile back but it only came out as a twisted smirk.
And then she saw her. Emily Prentiss was locked in her office as usual. Sometimes JJ felt like Emily only came out when they had a new case. JJ looked at Emily for a few more seconds, but Emily was too busy with something on her laptop, so she didn't notice JJ's gaze. The blonde finally sat down at her desk and sighed. She knew she should get back to work, work always distracted her from what was happening in the world around her, but this time it somehow didn't work. Her whole body was tired, she hadn't slept properly in weeks and the lack of food wasn't helping her much either. She rubbed her eyes and just at that moment Emily came out of her office.
"We have a new case" she spoke to the team and went to the conference room with the files and the rest of the team got up from their tables and went to Emily.
Everyone sat down and JJ immediately took the case file in her hands, she didn't want Emily to see her tired eyes, so she immediately started reading quietly while Emily explained the case. JJ didn't listen to her most of the time, so when Emily finally dismissed them with the news that they would be flying to another state in a few hours, JJ got up and was ready to leave, Emily stopped her.
"JJ, wait" she said and JJ immediately turned around.
"Yeah?"
"Do you want uh...do you want help something? Packing your bag or something? It's just that I already have everything ready, so I was wondering if you wanted help." Emily offered and JJ was slightly taken aback.
"Uh...yeah, why not?" JJ blushed slightly and looked down quickly.
"Great, let's go." Emily came over and put her hand on her back and as soon as JJ started walking, she took it off.