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After losing her job, Jennifer Jareau takes the only offer she has left: a room, a paycheck, and a chance to start over at a ranch forty minutes from everything she's ever known.
Moving to Prentiss Ranch means new routines, hard work, and a six-year-old who has a lot of questions about horses. It also means Emily Prentiss, who seems about as thrilled by the arrangement as JJ is.
Starting over was never going to be easy.
Or: Jemily cowgirl AU probably no one wanted but I wrote anyway.
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11 Jun 2026
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they all say you're a light (all i see is a shadow) by emilysblackbird
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
09 Jun 2026
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Emily Prentiss spent her whole childhood leaving places. She was seven years old when she arrived in Millhaven, Virginia, and seventeen when she finally understood that she'd made the mistake of letting it matter. She was twenty-two when she left it behind entirely, and thirty-five when a retired bookseller called her on a Tuesday afternoon and gave her a reason to come back.
Jennifer Jareau has lived in Millhaven her whole life. She has a house, a husband, a sixteen-year-old daughter who notices everything, and a best friend she hasn't spoken to properly in thirteen years. She is fine. Everything is fine.
It is not fine.
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10 Jun 2026
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i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) by prentolomaea
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
09 Jun 2026
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(title is derived from an e.e. cummings poem )
JJ’s world shifted the moment two thin lines appeared on the pregnancy test. Ever since then? Chaos.
In between swollen ankles and ridiculously early mornings spent at the foot of the toilet, Will left. He left quietly, without a fuss. No big argument. No explanation. He was there one week, then gone the next. He changed his number and left JJ a lousy, half-assed note. JJ didn’t have time to process it, too busy folding onesies and tending to a crying infant.
So, when Emily Prentiss decided to give her a hand, it seemed foolish to decline. Not when she hadn’t slept in days. Not when her apartment was littered with toys and bottles scattered across the kitchen.
JJ didn’t even realize when her eyes started softening when she looked at Emily. She didn’t realize when her heart made that jump around Emily. But seeing Emily Prentiss—usually sharp and composed —rock her baby with hands so gentle it made JJ hold her breath…it did things to her.
It did things to Emily too.
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10 Jun 2026
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Set after Season 18, this is a slow-burn exploration of Emily and JJ navigating their relationship in the aftermath of Will's death. A speculative take on what could happen if the show chose to explore the connection that was hinted at in their early seasons.
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05 Jun 2026
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are those the crown jewels (or are you just happy to see me) by Promsie
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)
31 May 2026
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"Hotch said he called in reinforcements from overseas," Reid supplies.
JJ lets out a thin laugh unaware of where her thoughts immediately drifted to until the words tumble out of her mouth. “What, like Interpol or something?”
“Exactly like Interpol.”
At first, JJ thinks she’s having some kind of stroke. Or that, in fact, her alarm never went off, and she is still in bed, having a bittersweet dream about one of Penelope’s many plans and schemes. It’s more likely than the person behind her really being who JJ desperately wants, needs, her to be.
"Holy wow," Penelope whispers, grabbing JJ's wrist so tight she must suppress a wince.
Only then does she turn around, feels her heart leaping into her throat because Emily Prentiss is standing in the entry of the bullpen. She’s really here. In America. At the BAU. Less than twenty feet away from where JJ is struggling to not leap into her arms.
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Here's to the second part of "luck of the irish"
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23 May 2026
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What happened in Paris was meant to stay there. It was a glimpse into another life, one that only ever brought them pain.
Over fifteen years later, Emily is being left behind. Lives are built, and she isn't a part of them. The mask she wears has slipped, her mortality is catching up to her, and it's easier to turn her back than to stand there and watch it.
JJ is still married. She shouldn't be. Her marriage has become a contract that she's too tired to leave.
With Emily pressing buttons, and JJ already halfway out the door, love, need, and anger rear their heads.
What follows is a series of terrible decisions, a vicious spiral they can't seem to escape, and a future neither of them dared to dream of.
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18 May 2026
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Pushing it down and praying by Secretlysage
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), criminal minds: Evolution
31 May 2026
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Its not a love that begins with fire,
It begins with restraint.
Glances that last too long and hands that almost touch but don't. Twenty years of tension folded neatly into suits and buried in case files.
They don't fall in love, they realize that they have been standing in it all along. Grief is what cracks it open.
A year after JJ lost Will she has hollowed out and begun rebuilding herself into something quieter, steadier, she tries to put herself back out there in a world full of desire. She dresses for it, sits across from men who look at her like she's a prize. Their words fill the space, but leave her unheard, untouched.
But she already knows what it feels like to be seen.
Emily never tried to impress her. Never needed to perform. Emily watches JJ date other people and it causes something inside of her to coil.
Something deeper. More dangerous.
Or: After a year of loss, JJ searches for connection in the wrong places, only to realize the person she had been looking for was right in front of her all along.
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30 Mar 2026
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two widows. four kids between them. years of history. non-stop bad timing. lines they promised themselves they wouldn’t cross.
because after all, jennifer jareau is 'straight'
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30 Mar 2026
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Emily is extremely stressed at work due to her promotion to Section Chief and JJ is going through a dry-spell since her divorce. What other reasons do you need to start a friends-with-benefits thing?
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Jemily starts a friends-with-benefits thing and the question is if it's really "just sex".
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30 Mar 2026
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After surviving the explosion and mending her fractured relationship with JJ, Emily Prentiss is finally cleared to return to work—or so she believes. But a routine psych evaluation with a familiar therapist, takes an unexpected turn when buried emotions and an impulsive confession that she never thought would resurface—comes back and threatens her already fragile stability. Emily is left questioning whether she can juggle the relentless demands of her high-stakes career with the quiet, steady pull of a life with JJ. With talk of a more serious commitment and family, the lines between who she was and who she's becoming begin to blur. Now, she must confront the hardest question of all: is she truly ready to stay in the life she's fought so hard to rebuild?
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- Part 2 of Grip My Heart Like My Headboard
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24 Feb 2026
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Emily Prentiss never expected to question her heart so late in life. She always thought she was straight, and that her bond with JJ was nothing more than friendship. But after their fallout and Will’s death, she realizes there’s a depth between them she can’t ignore. JJ loved Will, she chose him, and Emily respects that. His absence doesn’t change the past, but it forces Emily to face truths she has long avoided.
As Emily untangles her feelings for JJ, she crosses paths with Dr. Maja Keller; first a fleeting encounter, then an unexpected friendship, and finally something undeniable. For the first time, Emily learns what it means to be seen, pursued, and cherished with the same loyalty she has always given others. Amid grief, longing, and the weight of old choices, she discovers a love she never thought possible, and one she can no longer deny.
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20 Feb 2026
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05 Feb 2026
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After her divorce from Will, JJ is trying to find her footing in the unfamiliar world of modern dating. But when late-night coffees, shared vulnerabilities, and hesitant steps into dating apps bring her even closer to Emily, their friendship starts to blur the lines between comfort and something more.
Set Season 18 of Criminal Minds.
****Update: now complete with epilogue.****
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- Part 1 of Unmatched
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26 Jan 2026
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JJ is a 22 years old college student who felt like her journalism degree wasn't enough so she turned to biology. Emily is a 27 years old professor who mostly teaches medicine classes. Their paths cross several times, unexpectedly. An electric current hangs between them, without either of them daring to admit it. It's forbidden, it's complicated, it's intense.
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03 Jan 2026
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In the wake of Will’s death, Emily and JJ find themselves drawn closer than ever. During a girls’ night masterfully engineered by Garcia and Tara—who both know exactly what’s in their hearts—Emily realizes she can’t keep running from her feelings.
A story about healing, about friendship turning into something deeper, about two soulmates finally finding their way to each other.
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03 Jan 2026
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Bradley, a struggling photographer in NYC, gets a job as a personal assistant to UBA's CEO Laura Peterson. Under the bitchy and tough facade that brings Bradley to tears more than once, Laura turns out to be caring and sweet and Bradley finds herself falling in love with her boss.
Very loosely based on the movie 'Devil wears Prada'.
There will be no boss-employee relationship here, don't worry ;)Bookmarked by itrida
22 Feb 2024
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Mystery Work
Part of Archived Works
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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19 Feb 2024
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When Bradley Jackson, a middle class young woman moves from London to the English countryside, her family expects her to find a suitable husband that will keep their status in the small but influential society of Hampstead. Bradley isn’t too keen to fall into a loveless marriage as she has seen happen to her parents, but as an only child the pressure for her future, and the Jacksons, is all but a heavy burden.
Her life changes completely when she meets the Peterson heirs—Cory and Laura. Although Cory is head over heals for Bradley, and the proper and suitable candidate to steal her heart, she finds herself enamoured for his younger sister instead, the enthralling Laura Peterson.
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14 Feb 2024
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Post Season 3 fic: Bradley has a couple of chance encounters with Laura after being on house arrest for six months.
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13 Feb 2024
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You're Invited (in the middle of the night) by Saintsavory
Fandoms: The Morning Show (TV 2019)
14 Feb 2024
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Bradley sends a drunk email to Laura, inviting her to her wedding.
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13 Feb 2024