#agentjxreau

      running her fingers through her hair, phoenix was quick to weave her way through the streets of washington dc. she didn’t even know if phoenix was her real name, especially considering she had woken up in the hospital in pain, not knowing who or where she was but after being told she had survived a plane crash, but they did have to amputate her leg in the process. they did however decide to name phoenix, phoenix whilst she was out, because, just like the phoenix bird, she too rose from the ashes, or a sorts at least.

“there you are.” 

his heart is pounding; it’s been a year since she went missing right from under their noses, a year since emily helped bring her back. but a few seconds ago he could swear he saw the light go right out of her, and he’s seeing the bone white grip she’s got on the pen. he’s seeing a lot right now, a lot today, that tells him she’s not really here. 

“don’t be sorry. just ... talk to me.” 

her knee bounced in the taxi on the way home from the airport. she had told jj that she was heading home a couple of days from now, but she finished everything up earlier than planned but hadn’t told the lady of her mind, no, she wanted to keep it a surprise. as she looked at her watch, she knew the blonde would just be walking into the kitchen to sort out breakfast and coffee for her and henry, then after they ate, they’d facetime the brunette but emily clearly had another plan. thanking the taxi driver, then paid the man and grabbed her bag as she slipped out and headed to the front door quietly. opening it, she slipped off her heels and placed her suitcase down as she entered into the kitchen with a grin “ that smells good, got enough for three.?”

     he nodded, shrugging a shoulder as he glanced over at the blonde.     ❝     yeah, i guess. i just don’t know how you guys do it, you know ? with the cases you work.   ❞

It had taken everything to not break when he’d hugged her in his office. Even more so when he’d said ‘i love you’, which - for the first time - she hadn’t been able to reciprocate. She both does and doesn’t regret not saying it, but right now she can’t process anything because Derek is gone, and being caught out bawling in his office is super embarrassing.

        tim’s visitation. none of them were ready to say goodbye to tim, especially not arizona. and so jj wasn’t surprised when she found her cousin sitting in an empty hallway, away from the crowd of people saying their goodbyes. jj sank to the floor beside arizona, words of comfort tumbling around in her head but not quite making their way to her lips – because none of them were going to mean anything. they weren’t going to make arizona feel better, they weren’t going to bring back her brother. they weren’t going to fix anything. “of course,” she murmured quietly at her cousins request. one arm wrapped around arizona’s shoulders, pulling her close and tucking her into the dip where jj’s neck and shoulder met. “it’s gonna be okay. we’re gonna be okay.”

dying side-by-side

If there were one comfort about this whole ordeal it was that she hadn’t had to handle it alone. For part of it sure, but then her parents tried to rescue her. While it had been a set up for them to take JJ, at least mother and daughter were partially reunited. 

At the same time, Janet hated having her mother there. It meant each woman had to hear as the other one was tortured, beaten, and assaulted. 

“I’m sorry, mom,” the teenager cried. They were both lying on their backs, heads urned to face each other. Janet could barely see her mom through the blood covering her face. She could barely move from all of the torture done to her, especially since many of her bones were now broken. Despite this though, Janet forced herself to crawl to her mother, resting her head on her mother’s bloody chest. The blood didn’t matter anymore. They were both covered in it and both had lost too much to live. They both knew it too. “I’m sorry,” Janet apologized again. “I’m sorry I let this happen, that you had to get involved, that this happened to you too.” The blonde chocked up. She knew what was coming but she was still scared. “I’m so sorry and I love you.”