All Things Happen For A Reason
I don't own criminal minds. There is some material that might not be suitable for younger readers. Some violence.
Chapter 1
"Bye. I'll see you guys in a week. If you need me, I'll have my cell phone with me at all times. You all take care. JJ, call me if you need anything." Emily says, and leaves the bullpen. Everyone just stands there for a few seconds, then heads back to work.
JJ gets back to her office and sits at her desk. She looks at the pictures of her and Will. Will's drawing attention to JJ's baby belly. Both of them are laughing. JJ smiles at the memory, tears streak down her cheeks. There's a knock at her office door. "Come in!" JJ wipes the wetness from her face. Dave opens the door and walks in. He shuts the door behind him.
"How ya doin' JJ?" looking at her concerned.
"Fine. Thanks for asking. Was there something I can help you with?"
"Yeah, go to lunch with me, my treat." Dave smiles.
"I'm sorry, but I'm brown bagging it today. Thanks anyway. Anything else I can do for you? Oh, did you get that report from the Merrick case?" JJ asks, looking for the file on her unusually cluttered desk.
"Jennifer, stop." JJ stops and looks at Dave. "Have you stopped and grieved for Will? I know it's hard to let the grieving process run it's course, but you need to let yourself feel them."
"Thanks Dave for your concern. I'm trying to be strong. It's hard to be strong with my pregnancy hormones raging. Then I think about my baby not knowing what a special man it's father was. We hadn't even made it to the alter. I'm sorry for ranting on like this. I've been leaning a lot on Emily and Penelope. Pen's been very busy planning her wedding. Now with Emily gone, I'm more afraid than anything." JJ says, crying.
"Why don't you and I go out for dinner tonight and I can step in for Emily."
"That's a good idea." JJ says, smiling. She seems a little more at ease.
"Good. I'll see you later. You take care of yourself and that sweet baby."
"Will do. Later." JJ says going back to work. Dave leaves her office.
Emily's on a plane to go see a friend in Wyoming. She's an old college roommate and friend. They haven't seen each other in over ten years, but talk regularly on the phone. Belinda, also known as Linda, is going through a bad divorce and Emily thought she could use some support. Linda has no family left. So when her soon-to-be ex filed for full custody of their daughter, Sue, Emily thought she could be a character witness for Linda. So this really wasn't a relaxing vacation. Emily was still worried about JJ. Leaving her so soon after Will's unfortunate accident. Emily felt like she had to her mother all her friends. She even looks after Aaron Hotchner, her hot boss. Even more now that he was almost blown up. His hearing is still bothering him. She tries to fix everyone, not leaving much time to worry about herself.
"Ma'am, may I get a cold cola please." Emily asks a stewardess that happened to walk by.
"Sure. I'll be right back. Do you need anything else?"
"No ma'am. Thank you." The stewardess leaves and Emily starts back on her paperwork. Not too long, the stewardess brings a glass with ice and a can of cola. She sets them on the tray Emily's using to do her work.
"Here you go." The stewardess cheerfully says.
"Thanks." Emily smiles back. She left alone to her soda and paperwork. Emily remembers this case all too well. She gets lost in the memories.
FLASH BACK BEGINS
Two months back, they were in Hope, Maine. A teenage girl was kidnapped by her older half brother. He beat and raped her. Tortured her for a week. The boy was mad that his father abandoned him and his mother when the boy was five. Then goes and starts a second family that produced the teenaged girl. When the team found the two siblings, the boy killed himself and the teenage girl ended up pregnant with her brothers baby. Before she could make up her mind to carry the child or abort, she miscarried. Emily was this girls support. Emily saw it as Gods way of sparing the girl of deciding a hard decision. But it still was hard to see someone go through that. Emily will keep that with her for the rest of her life.
FLASH BACK ENDS
By the time Emily snapped back to reality, the plane was landing.
It wasn't long before Emily was on her way to the luggage claim. Emily noticed a middle aged man following and watching her. But after she had gotten her bag, she didn't see him. So she chalked it up to her profiler instincts over reacting.
Just before Emily's set to exit the airport to find a taxi, a teen girl approaches Emily.
"Excuse me, can you help me?" The teen asks.
"Depends. What's wrong?"
"I found an infant abandoned and I don't know what to do." The teen's not showing and emotion.
"Did you take it to security?"
"No. I'm afraid they'll think it's mine. Can you come with me and help me?" The teen's now acting more urgently.
"Who's with the child now?" Emily's getting somewhat suspicious.
"It's in my car with the heater going. Please, I have to be home in a half hour." The teens near tears now. Emily can't understand why she's so upset.
"Where's it at?" Emily asks, giving in. She figures that she can just take it with her, swing by the police department and then head to Linda's. Emily follows the teen closely. Once outside, they walk up to a mini van. The teen turns around and looks at Emily.
"Sorry." That's all the teen says. Emily looks confused.
"For what?" Just as Emily says this a man grabs her from behind. His hand over her mouth and an arm around her tiny waist. Emily's legs lift off the ground and kick. The teen gets in the front passenger seat. The man hits Emily in the head with some solid metal object. It renders Emily unconscious. Then he ties her up and then down. Lastly, he puts a piece of ducked tape over her mouth.
"You didn't have to tape her mouth. Why did you hit her?" The teen asks.
"You shut up! If I want your opinion, I'll ask! Now, sit there quietly or I shut your mouth for you." The angry man says. The teen starts to silently cry.
Back at the BAU a few days later, Hotch comes to the bullpen. "Has anyone heard from Emily?"
"No, but she's probably pretty busy. If you haven't heard from her in a few days, then I'd call." Morgan says, not looking at Hotch and not too worried about Emily.
"It's just not like her to not call to check in. I think I'll just try her cell. If she doesn't answer, I'll leave a message. If you guys hear from her, let me know." Hotch climbs the few stairs to get back to his office. JJ leans in to talk to Reid.
"Wow, he's really worried about her. He wasn't like that with me was he?"
"A little. He actually knew where you were, so he wasn't as frantic. He did worry though. He wanted to make sure you ate and slept. You know, take care of the baby as well as yourself." Reid says, grabbing her hand and stroking it soothingly.
"Well, for about two days, I just stayed in bed. I didn't eat, but not that my Aunt Sarah didn't try to get me to eat. She was sweet enough to arrange the funeral. I just laid in bed and thought about all my memories with Will." JJ looks sad. "Excuse me, I need to get back to work." JJ heads back to her office. Reid felt bad for her.
Hotch dials Emily's cell phone number. It fazes him when it goes straight to voice mail. He listens to her message, with his heart fluttering at her voice. After the beep he leaves his message, "Emily, why haven't you called to let me know you arrived safely? I'm worried about you. I hope your friends okay. Call me ASAP. That's an order, not a request." He hangs up. Something didn't feel right. He wasn't sure what it was, but he was concerned.
In a small cabin in the middle of the woods, this man and teen holds Emily. She's tied up to a futon. Her mouth isn't taped anymore. When the man steps outside, Emily tries talking to the teen. "Why did you help him abduct me?" She watches the teen.
"He threatened to kill me and then my parents. I'm sorry he hit you. Do you need an aspirin?"
"Yes please. Are you saying that he abducted you too?" Emily's shocked.
"Yes. A month ago." The teen replies while getting a bottle of water and a couple aspirin.
"Why didn't you go to airport security?"
"Because, he would've killed my parents. Plus, he would've just started shooting people." The teen hands her the pill and water. Emily can barely get them in her mouth.
"When did he untie you?"
"About three weeks ago." The teen sits next to Emily on the futon.
"Has he hurt you? Has he touched you?" Emily not sure she wants to hear the answer.
"Yes. He's made me have sex with him. It hurt the first time. It was my first time. After that, I go away in my head, so it's not so bad. He lets me have my space. I get to be untied as long as I do my chores and don't refuse him sex. So I can write. Now I have you to talk to." The teen brightens a little, smiling.
"Oh honey, I'm sorry." Emily says, buts interrupted by the man coming back into the cabin.
"What are you doing? Get away from her! I don't want you two chummy! Now where's dinner?"
"It's still baking. It has another fifteen to twenty minutes in the oven. Can I get you something to snack on until dinner's ready?" The teen waits unexpectedly. Not sure how he's going to react.
"NO! Did you do all your chores?"
"Yes sir. I still have a load of sheets in the dryer and then I have the dinner dishes to wash. After that I'll have your lunch made for tomorrow and then I'll meet you in bed. Is that right sir?"
"Yes! I'm going outside to chop more fire wood. Call me when dinner's actually done." Once he was outside, Emily tries to use her profiler abilities and get this young lady to help the both of them escape the evilness of this sick man.
"Could I get some more water please?" Emily shakes the empty water bottle.
"Yes, just a moment." The teen finishes setting the table. Then she grabs another bottled water from the older refrigerator. She hands it to Emily.
"You know, if he were to get a water purifier system he would save a bundle and the environment." Emily makes idol chit chat.
"Don't say anything. Master hates when you try to sound smarter than him. Plus, he doesn't want anyone here eyeballing his meat. Meaning you and I."
"Sweetie, what's your name?"
"Meghan. But my nickname is Meg. My dad calls me Meggy Peggy. I sure do miss his handsome face. The way he made me feel safe." Meg says with a smile at the mental picture of her loving father.
"That's really sweet. My names Emily. My dad calls me Bunny. I feel the same way about my dad as you do about yours. Where are you from?"
"Boulder, Colorado. I lived a few houses down from the Ramsey's. My parents got an alarm system right after that." Meg's washing dishes that she can at that moment.
"What's your last name, Meg?" Meg waits for a few short seconds and makes sure the man doesn't hear them talking.
"My last name, Holliwall. I told him it was Jones. So play along please. If he finds out I lied, he'll beat me."
"Holliwall? As in Senator Michael Holliwall?" Emily knew this man. He'd been to the Prentiss' mansion. Emily even remembers that he'd had an infant with him. They stayed at the mansion instead of a hotel. Emily remembers even diapering the infant.
"Yes. That's my dad. That's why I didn't want him to know."
"My mom and dad are both political people. My dad is a Senator of Virginia and my mother's an Ambassador. I think I changed your diaper when your family stayed at my families mansion. My last name's Prentiss."
"Yes! Uncle Walt and Aunt Beth. So your Emmy. Well, I couldn't quite say Emily, so you became Emmy. Isn't your brother Christopher a doctor?"
"Yes, he's the family hero. Sure, my parents love me, but they wanted me to follow their jobs or Chris' job. They don't think my job's all that wonderful because it doesn't make a ton of money." Emily's obviously not happy about her parents reaction to her becoming an FBI agent.
"What do you do?"
"Don't tell him, but I'm an FBI agent. I'm with the BAU. That's behavioral analyst unit. I'm a profiler. So I have a lot of work done in the mind. Like I go and try to find bad people that kidnap or kill people. We try to get inside the mind of this person so we can find him or her and stop them. Remember, don't tell him. He might kill me. So I'll keep your secret, you keep mine. We'll help each other through this. What do you say?"
"That sounds good to me. I'll ask him if you can eat at the table without being tied up. Just don't try to run away. We're thirty miles or so away from anything. So just be cool. Maybe he'll allow you to be untied with me during the day while he works. Then we can do thing together. I'm glad I'm not alone anymore. I'm just sorry it was in this situation that we had to be reintroduced." Just as Meg finished her sentence, the timer went off. She quickly pulls the casserole out of the oven and sets it in the center of the table. Then she goes to call this man she calls Master. He walks in just yelling.
"About damn time you finished dinner! You need to start it earlier! I don 't like having a late dinner!"
"I'm sorry Master. It won't happen again. May out new guest eat at the table with us untied if she promises to behave?" Meg waits, not knowing how he'll react.
"Fine. But if she tries to escape, you're both going to die. Got it!" Emily and Meg both nod in unison. Meg goes and unties Emily's hands. Then they go and sit at the table. Meg dishes out to each plate, starting with Master first." What's you name girlie?"
"Emily, sir."
"Emily what?"
"Emily Morgan, sir." Emily makes eye contact with Meg. Meg smiles a small smile at the deception.
"Where were you coming from?"
"I was visiting my half brother in Virginia, sir. I'm originally from Evanston, Wyoming, sir." Emily's fast on her feet so to speak. That's what a good agent can do. Emily knew that someone had to be missing her. Whether it's Linda one of the team members. Her first bet was JJ.
"What do you do for work?" He asks as they ate. It resembled a family at this table.
"I'm a daycare worker. I work at Happy Elephant daycare. I'm what they call a traveling worker. I see how well the daycare's coming along. So I travel all over the U.S, sir." Emily answers almost like she was a soldier.
"Do you have any family?"
"Just my brother and me, sir." Emily didn't hesitate. Meg thought this was going surprisingly easy. "Why did you take me, sir?" Until Emily asked that. Master slams both fists on the table, causing both girls to jump. Meg closed her eyes as if she'd been through this before.
"You don't ask the questions! Go into the bedroom."
"Yes, sir." Emily gets up and heads to the bedroom. She's thinking out all the possible sanarios in her head. Beating, Rape, combination of both or kill her. Either way, Emily's heart begins to race. She begins a silent prayer to God and Aaron. With both prayers, Emily asks both guys to help her and stop this monster.
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