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Day 9 and 10 of my 30 days of creativity have not been so great. Yesterday, I messed around with scrapbooking on the computer, using some gifs and stuff that I've found on websites. Not sure of how they look, but that's what a new hobby is all about right, trying stuff and seeing what you like and what you don't? Better on the machine than with paper and photos and glue, though that will be my next attempt!

Today was failure on the part of the creativity... went out for a spin with Nimoy this morning and stayed out for lunch til nearly three, then Himself who is on nights was up so we had some family time, and as Himself was leaving, my friend C, who is getting married in less than 6 weeks and whose matron of honour, which I refuse to be called because it sounds so old, I don't care if I am married bridesmaid I am, arrived and she's only just left at a quarter past ten! So today I failed.

But, does anyone want to help me? I've seen the icon meme going around but I've looked at my icons and I'd end up writing love rectangles which is too complicated for me with my Mammy brain!

Ergo, prompt me peoples! Show, ship I sail/character, prompt, and I promise this time I will answer them with a drabble! (Be nice! Mammy brain!)

In the meantime, have this. I wrote it in the summer (Pregnancy brain!), and it's a Criminal Minds AU... and yes, this is me, there is more in the verse!

Title: Chemistry
Author: helsinkibaby
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Pairing: JJ/Hotch ish
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 340
Summary: Garcia notices something when the new girl starts work.


For as long as she’s been working in the BAU, Penelope Garcia has known one thing about Aaron Hotchner.

The hard-ass very rarely smiles.

In fact, if she hadn’t seen him talking every day, if she hadn’t seen him biting into food on several occasions, she would have said she didn’t even know if he had teeth. Morgan swears that he was different before the divorce, but she finds that hard to believe.

Not that Garcia notices Hotch’s smiles, or lack thereof, on a daily basis. But on the day that the new media liaison walks into the briefing room, introduces herself as “Jennifer Jareau… but you can call me JJ,” and shakes hands with everyone in turn, Garcia catches Hotch’s face out of the corner of her eye and what she sees there has her doing a hard double take.

The corners of his lips are turned up, and there may not be teeth-baring involved, but for Hotch, turned up lips are the equivalent of a full-on belly laugh from anyone else.

And he’s looking right at JJ.

Who of course he’s met before, and who gives him a smile as she holds up the folder in her hands. “Shall we begin?”

“By all means,” Hotch agrees, gesturing at the conference table, a sign for everyone to take their seats. He’s all business, and Garcia almost thinks she imagined the whole thing. Until, that is, Morgan leans in to murmur in her ear, “Did you see that?”

“The smile?” Her lips barely move, but his do, and her knees almost buckle because a Derek Morgan smile is a thing of beauty.

“And how he can’t take his eyes off her? Looks like our ice man is starting to thaw.”

Two minutes into the briefing and Garcia’s noticed that too. Just like she’s noticed that JJ’s eyes keep flickering back to Hotch. Which could be the newbie trying to impress the boss.

Garcia doesn’t get that vibe though, and she might not be a profiler but she knows a thing or two about chemistry and she knows that’s what she’s seeing.
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