Chapter 6

"Are you sure you don't want Kevin to drive you home?" Garcia asked JJ when Kevin parked the car in front of the two waiting women.

"Yes, I am sure. I will take a cab home, it would be ridiculous if the two of you have to go that far out of your way to bring me home." JJ stepped closer to her friend and hugged her. "Thanks Pen."

"No problem honey, that's what friends are for." Kevin got out of the car and greeted the women after which he asked if JJ wanted a ride home, which she once again declined. He then hailed a cab for her and together with Garcia he watched as the cab drove away.

Thirty minutes later the cab came to a halt in front of her house. JJ paid the cab fee and quickly made her way towards her darkened house. The house she now shared with her boyfriend and son. A lot had changed since the days lived here alone.

Will, choose to leave his job behind in New Orleans when he moved in with her. He had put his spare time to good use by fixing up the house, doing all the chores which JJ always procrastinated on. Though not just the outside of the house had changed, nothing was the way it used to be.

From the beginning of their relationship JJ made it clear that she didn't want to give up her job and Will seemed to have settled with that idea, but JJ knew better. Truth-be-told he seemed content staying at home with their son; lately he had commented about their son being a momma's boy even though he spent more time with his father.

Will had brought up the conversation about her job again even though they had the talk more then once during and after her pregnancy. Nothing had changed when it came to her feelings regarding working for the BAU. JJ knew that she wasn't the only person who was struggling in the relationship but she was convinced that Will loved her.

JJ locked the door behind her and put away her gun and credentials in the safe before she continued up the stairs towards her sons' room. Henry was soundly asleep in his bed but he had shed his blankets away from his feet. JJ smiled, she often found him lying in his bed with the blankets pulled up and snuggled around his body leaving his feet bare. She made sure that the little boy was covered before she left his room.

Soon she found herself standing in front of her own bedroom door. She hesitated before she pushed the handle down and opened the door. She almost sighed in relief when Will didn't respond to her entering the room. She quickly shedding her clothes and put on her night shirt before she slipped between the sheets. The moment she laid down she could feel the movement of Will behind her, her body tensed the moment his arm wrapped around her, and pulled her close to him. She didn't breathe hoping that it was a mere reaction and that Will wasn't waking up, she knew that he would start asking questions. Questions, which she at this moment, didn't want to answer and couldn't answer. For what felt like hours she laid there staring into the dark.

"Where were you?"

JJ didn't answer him immediately she hoped that the questions would stop, but she knew they wouldn't. The confrontation was inevitable. "Out..." She answered simply, full well knowing that he would continue to prod her for more details. He was after all a trained detective; he would not be satisfied with her one word answers.

"Out, that is your answer JJ... just out?"

"Yes Will, that is my answer, I was out." She poured her mug full of black steaming coffee. She hoped that it would relieve her headache. She doubted that it would help, especially since she could feel the situation spiraling out of control.

"Do you really think that it is necessary for you to go out? You have been away on a case for four days, you finally return home and the very next day you choose to go out with your team members instead of coming home to your husband and son." Will spoke in a clear tone of voice, but he couldn't hide the anger from his face.

"Now wait a minute, we are not married Will, you are not my husband." JJ was angry.

"That is so not the point here, JJ! I despise the fact that you act as if we don't matter to you, that is what's important here."

"Will, I do care about you, I love Henry you know that." She said in her own defense; "Sometimes a woman needs to talk to another woman. I was with Garcia last night, not all of my team members. You know as well as I that Garcia doesn't go on cases with us and therefore I don't spend as much time with my best friend as I would sometimes like. So, every now and again I will go out with her. You have always known that I am an independent woman and that I need my space, which does not mean that I don't care."

"Maybe that is were the problem lies, you care... but do you love me?"

"Please, Will not now. I have to leave for work soon." JJ pleaded with him, she didn't want to do this. Not right now, and not like this.

"I take that as a no." Will got up from the table and left the room. Seconds later she could hear the front door slam shut.

JJ sighed and threw her hands up in a dramatic gesture. Before she left the kitchen, not knowing where Will went meant that she would have to take Henry with her to work since she couldn't sit here waiting till he came home. She quickly gathered her belongings and brought them out to the car before she returned inside to gather her young son.