《The Blonde and The Brunette (Jemily)》twelve
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"I know who you are, you're Emily Prentiss and the only reason I'm not in a psych ward right now is because as messed up as I am you keep me sane, you keep me, me and I think that's why I've been pushing you away, I don't want to feel this pain, I want to love you, I want to love Henry and I want to smile again but I can't." JJ explained and the brunette turned around to see the blonde holding herself in her arms with a sad and distant expression across her face.
"It's okay, we'll get you help, we will get through this together," Emily replied and went over to JJ who then held the brunette tight.
"I love you, and I need you, but I don't know if I can do this, it's so hard," JJ said, breaking down into tears and Emily stroked her hair.
"You can do this, and I will be by your side the whole time my love, I'm right here always" Emily replied.
It had been a little less than a month and JJ had been seeing a new therapist that had helped her a lot in the little time that she spent with her. Therapy visits were twice a week and she had been prescribed a new anti-anxiety medication and an antidepressant.
Henry had been coming up on his first birthday and the two women couldn't be happier. Their bond had grown into something words couldn't even describe, but they had been closer than ever. JJ told Emily everything even if she didn't ask, JJ wanted to, so Emily began doing the same thing. They would talk about their day, JJ would talk about her therapy sessions, Emily would talk about work, and they would talk about Henry and everything else.
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JJ and Emily were on the plane back from a case when JJ got up from her seat and went to the bathroom. Emily knew that this case was hard on JJ, it was about a cult leader forcing teenagers to commit suicide. JJ's older sister Roslyn committed suicide when she was 17 and JJ was 11. Emily was the only one who knew that story and she got up as well and followed JJ. She got to the door of the bathroom, knocked once then walked in.
"Hey, are you alr-" Emily started but was interrupted by JJ's lips being pressed onto hers.
"Lock the door" JJ whispered as she began to move her lips onto Emily's neck.
"J-JJ, Stop" Emily replied gently pushing JJ off of her.
"Why?" JJ asked with a touch of madness.
"This case has been especially hard on you, everything with Roslyn. Talk to me JJ, the past month, everything has been better, we have been sharing everything, just talk to me, tell me how you feel, please love" Emily softly begged and JJ broke down into tears.
"I still don't understand, I don't understand why she did it, she left me Em, and now someone made eleven kids the same age do that to themselves, to their parents, to their siblings. I don't understand" JJ explained and Emily held her.
"No one does, no one understands, the best thing you can do is remember who they were, and all the good memories you have, and I know that you and your sister had a lot of great memories" Emily responded and kissed JJ's head. JJ calmed down and Emiky caressed her cheek.
"You ready to go out there?" The brunette asked
"Ye-Yeah, I'm ready" Emily lightly kissed JJ and they left the bathroom. Both women sat down and Derek saw JJ's red eyes and tear stained cheeks, instead of making a dirty comment he was concerned.
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"JJ are you alright?" He asked
"Yeah, I'm okay now" JJ responded before falling asleep on Emily's shoulder.
"Prentiss" Hotch stated softly trying not to wake JJ.
"What's up?" She asked
"Is she alright?" Hotch motioned to the blonde on Emily's shoulder.
"She will be, she just needs to go home, to go see Henry" Emily explained.
The jet landed and the women headed home, as soon they got there JJ placed her bag down and went to Henry's nursery while Emily relieved the nanny. The brunette ordered food for her and JJ then also headed upstairs where she saw JJ holding Henry in her arms.
"I love you so much buddy, mom and I will make sure that you will always be okay" JJ whispered to the infant as Emily watched.
"Ma-ma!" He babbled and JJ smiled.
"Yeah, mama and mommy, will make sure that you will always be okay" JJ said and gently rocked Henry to sleep and placed him in his crib. The blonde left the nursery and headed downstairs where Emily was on the couch with food on the coffee table.
"Hey, I got you that summer salad you like" Emily said once she heard JJ's footsteps.
"With-" the blonde started
"Grilled chicken" Emily smiled which was contagious to JJ who then cuddled up against Emily and kissed her. After she finished her food the blonde picked up a little then settled herself down facing Emily and took the brunette's hand.
"What's wrong?" Emily asked
"Please don't leave me, Emily I have been horrible and I know that I pushed away, but please don't leave, I need you, I-" JJ began to explain as she had a small anxiety attack.
"Hey-Hey, JJ. Calm down. I am never going to leave you, you are everything to me, and I will never leave me. You haven't been horrible, you have been hurt and in pain for months, and after everything we have been through, after years of loving you and not telling you, I'm not going to give up on you, give up on us and everything we've built. JJ I love you and I love our son, and I couldn't ask for any other life" Emily explained as she caressed JJ's cheek.
"Always?" The blonde asked
"Always" Emily responded and kissed JJ passionately.
(Go check out my new Hotchniss fanfic, I will continue this one as well, leave a comment on what you want to see next for JJ and Emily.)
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. 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