My Side Of The Story… My Burden To Bare

"Everyone go home and I don't expect one of you here until ten instead of seven… do I make myself clear?" Hotch told the team in his boss tone.

"Very clear Hotch, I'm out of here!" said Derek Morgan, who had already grabbed his jacket and heading out of the bullpen, with the rest of the team right behind him… all but Emily Prentiss, who was still trying to finish the current report that she was filling.

"The same goes for you as well Prentiss" he told her, before he took the report from her hand "Go home, rest and finish up tomorrow when you get here at ten in the morning"

"But I was almost done…"

"Home Prentiss" he barked at her.

She put on her coat, got into the elevator that took her to her garage parking lot, got into her vehicle and was now driving back to her condo…her home.

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(UNSUB'S POV)

I waited for her for well over three hours, since the sun set and the stars started to show themselves. I looked at my watch once more… 10:45 PM… she should be home in the next hour or so… at least she better be! I was then brought back to reality, w hen I saw her vehicle turn into the underground parking garage. I on the other hand was already inside the garage waiting for her arrival.

I got out at the same time she did and closed the car door and quickly crouched and moved around to the nearest vehicle, when I knew that she quickly took a short look around to see if someone else was there. Good… she was now back on the move and was probably heading for the elevator, since it was very late tonight and was probably very exhausted.

I rose up from my hiding spot and walk among the shadows so that she could not see me coming… and it worked; especially when I pulled out my .45 Caliber, wrapped my entire free hand onto her mouth to stop her from screaming and laid the barrel of my gun onto her temple lobe. She stopped alright… but this was just the beginning of the night.

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He had left as the sun was rising, but not before he threatened her that if she even mentioned one word to anyone what had really happened to herm he would not only kill her but he would go after her family, which she didn't believe.

"I'm sure Will wouldn't be too happy to know that it was because of you that JJ and Henry were brutally butchered…how Kevin's girl… Penelope Garcia? Like I said… one word, and it's the end for your lovely family" He then cut the straps he had bind her hands with to the bed post and then walked out of her home like nothing had happened.

6:07 am…

Emily had finally gotten the strength to lift herself off of her blood covered bed and weakly made her way into her nearest washroom. There she saw her broken nose, her right eye was completely closed, she also had many small cuts all over her upper to her face and possible her head, from the bashing she got from fighting back, her bottom lip was not only swollen but was split open and all of the dark bruises were showing. She knew she couldn't go to work, but right now her first thought was to try and cover her body. She was pretty sure that her left wrist was sprained and that her right one was broken from the amount of swelling that was showing at the moment.

7:36 am…

After a long while of trying her best of putting on clothes, Emily finally settled with her dark robe and was able to keep it close but she knew that she had to get checked out at the hospital… but any injuries that weren't case related would be reported to both Hotch and Rossi… which would mean she couldn't hide the truth from them… concluding to that she would have to put her family life at risk because of her.

She sat in her living room after spending almost fifteen minutes at getting down the stairs without falling. She saw her home phone on the floor and called Hotch's work number and waited for him to answer, she knew that he always arrived at work at seven in the morning flat.

"Hotchner"

"Hey Hotch" she tried to not sound in pain.

"Prentiss, what are you doing up this early?"

"I'm not feeling too great… I was hoping if it was okay if took the rest of the week off"

"I'll have to check in with Strauss, but you do sound a little off… take today off and I'll let you know later about the rest of the week okay?"

"Thanks Hotch…" she then hung up, without saying goodbye which bugged her supervisor because even when she was sick, Emily would always show up and would then be driven back home.

Emily let herself lie down on her couch as she sobbed until she fell asleep from exhaustion.

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As lunch time came, everyone was worried about how sick Emily was, due to the fact that she was infamous for showing up with a fever of almost 103 and still ready to work. Derek and Garcia went out with Kevin and would later be join in by JJ for lunch, while the two older agents were having their lunch in Rossi's office, leaving the resident genius, Dr. Spencer Reid who was very worried about Emily. He knew something else was up and he also knew that Hotch had the same feeling as well but wouldn't admit it, due to the fact that it would be inner profiling. He grabbed his messenger bag, walked up to Rossi's door and gently knocked.

"Come in kid. What can we do for you?" Rossi asked, with a small grin on his face.

"Um, I'm heading out for lunch and will probably be back within the hour"

"Yeah go ahead Reid, today's a slow day so take your time" his boss told him, but he saw the way the man was starring at him that he knew what he was really going to do. He knew that he was going to go check on Emily. He was glad that other than him, someone else knew that something really bad was going on with Emily for her to not only ask today off but the whole week off.