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The marriage is real. Twelve years is real. What they've built is real. It's just not enough for either of them, and pretending otherwise isn't something either of them can keep doing.
So they agree. No sneaking. No lying. Just honesty, finally, about what they need, who they are, and what this is allowed to be.
JJ thinks she knows what she's doing. She thinks she has it managed.
She hasn't accounted for Emily.
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For eight years, Emily Prentiss has kept what she feels for JJ at exactly the right level. Not more. Never more. JJ met Will, JJ married Will, and Emily learned to be the best friend and nothing else because that was what was available, and something was better than nothing.
For eight years, Jennifer Jareau has been married to a man she loved, and then liked and then quietly stopped understanding why she'd chosen. She comes home happy every Saturday from Emily's and doesn't examine why until one Friday night makes examining it unavoidable.
It starts as an accident.
It takes eighteen months, one marriage, and eight years of things neither of them said to figure out what it actually is.
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Emily Prentiss has been hiding the fact that she has a daughter from the entire BAU team for three years. At work, she is Agent Prentiss; unshakeable, professional, giving nothing away. At home, she is Mom to Frankie, seven years old and her whole world, with a nanny stepping in on cases that Emily hates being away for.
Jennifer's marriage to Will ends quietly, worn down by distance and arguments that stopped meaning anything. It was Will himself who finally named it, asking why she seemed so distant, and in doing so, forcing her to admit something she had been avoiding for a long time.
With the divorce finalised, Jennifer calls Emily one night. Then the next. Then every night after that, warm late calls that become the best part of her day. When she hears voices and movement in the background, she assumes Emily has a secret girlfriend; someone she's hiding, the reason she never comes to team dinners or girls' nights.
When Emily tells her the truth, that she has a daughter, that she has been raising her alone for years, that the two halves of her life have simply never been allowed to meet, Jennifer is stunned. Then the awe settles in, quiet and certain, and doesn't leave.
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Rain, coffee, and quiet mornings were supposed to mean safety, the kind of peace they’d both fought hard to earn. But when Emily collapses without warning, JJ’s world tilts off its axis in an instant.
What follows is a slow, aching rediscovery of trust in their love, in the fragile human body, and in the steady hands that hold it together when everything else begins to shake.A story about control, surrender, and learning how to live again when your body stops obeying the rules.
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Jennifer Jareau is studying at NYC when she just so happens to run into Emily Prentiss. One of the richest people in the world and the queen of the bdsm world in New York. Taken under her wing JJ can’t help but fall for her.
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01 Sep 2021