(t) jemily // what do they do on date night?
jemily // what do they do on date night? OH MY GOD OKAY!!
okay so their first few dates they try to schedule really fancy dinners, they both want this relationship to be perfect and on the inside they both know there’s an expectation of them (albeit not from each other)-- jj from rural pennsylvania feeling like she has to step out of her background, emily from socialite/ambassador’s daughter feeling like she has to prove herself. so it’s these dates at high-end restaurants with fancy wine and shit.
except their fucking CASES!!!!! they always come in literal minutes before they’re supposed to leave (they show up to the conference room in fancy outfits, which amuses everyone except the two of them), and reid can babble off all the statistics he wants, EVERY SINGLE TIME!! they have a date scheduled, a case comes in. every. single. time.
and then one night they get back to the shitty motel late and the ac is too loud and emily prentiss says “fuck it” and knocks on jj’s door and is like “i am your boss and i am ordering you to let me sleep in your room for the night”
and this happens a couple of times, just the two of them ending up in each other’s rooms during cases and sleeping curled up in each other’s arms, and then one night they bring food upstairs because it’s too late to eat together as a group and there’s a hallmark movie playing on the tv and then simultaneously they say...... wait. wait. is this a date?
and then they realize fuck it, time is precious, their work is dangerous, every single night is date night if they think it is, and that’s what happens. no more fancy dinners and wine and missed reservations; after work, emily just drops by jj’s house and helps cook dinner and they eat together with the boys and when they’re asleep they’ll curl up on the bed and watch some movies and if it gets too late emily will stay the night. when the boys are with will, jj will come over to emily’s and the process repeats. if they do work together in the same room? a date. clean the house? a date.
and if they want something “fancy”,, they go to the park (the boys come along if they’re with jj) and walk around, just chillin. sometimes they kiss. sometimes they just walk. sometimes they bring along a blanket and just sit in the shade and watch the boys scuffle. and it’s always very nice.