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1. soccer jerseys and stale cigarettes by jemilyswaitingroom

   Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/Emily Prentiss
   • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau/William LaMontagne Jr.
   • Emily Prentiss & Spencer Reid
   • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau & Emily Prentiss
   • Penelope Garcia & Jennifer "JJ" Jareau & Derek Morgan & Emily Prentiss & Spencer Reid
   • Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
   • William LaMontagne Jr.
   • Emily Prentiss
   • Spencer Reid
   • Derek Morgan (Criminal Minds)
   • Penelope Garcia
   • Elizabeth Prentiss
   • Alternate Universe - High School
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Slow Burn
   • Closeted Character
   • First Time
   • First Love
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mutual Pining
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Lesbian Emily Prentiss
   • Closeted JJ
   • Popular JJ
   • New kid Emily
   • Smoking
   • Bad Parenting (Elizabeth Prentiss)
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Compulsory Heterosexuality
   • 2000s
   • Forced Proximity

   Summary

   Emily Prentiss got kicked out of her London school for kissing a girl. Now she's stuck in suburban Virginia, wearing too much eyeliner and smoking behind the gym.

   Jennifer "JJ" Jareau is Rosewood High royalty. She's mean when it's funny, shallow when it's easy, and has never questioned her perfect life because why would she?

   They're supposed to hate each other. They do hate each other.

   The problem is, hate takes energy. Hate means paying attention. And somewhere between library arguments and parking lot confrontations, between literary analysis and late-night texts, hate starts looking suspiciously like something else.

   (featuring: JJ's terrible boyfriend, Emily's worse attitude, competitive bitchiness, emotional walls made of steel, both of them being disasters, and the world's longest "oh fuck" moment).

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   15,604

   Chapters:

   4/?

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