Waking Up to the Dawn

Chapter 1 – Life is Gone

It was dark out and Jennifer Jareau was lying awake in her bed with a dead look on her face. Her heart was broken and her eyes were sunken. She could still feel the fresh blood between her legs. He always made her bleed before he left her to drown in her sorrows and guilt. He always told her how much he loved her and how much he would miss her when she finally left, not that she ever would. They would never let her off the drugs long enough to be sane.

"Good morning Jennifer," a woman in a white dress said cheerfully as she entered the room.

"What's so good about it?" JJ huffed as she sat up in the white metal bed.

"Jennifer, you really need a better attitude Jennifer. Come on, lets give you your medication," the woman said cheerfully. She pulled out a needle from a little white pouch and pulled it towards JJ's arm.

"NOO!" JJ screamed as she jumped from her bed, hitting the padded walls with her fists. "No more medication please!" JJ yelled as she fought against the nurse. "It's making me go crazy!" The nurse glared at JJ as she tried to straiten JJ's arm to inject the needle.

"You're already crazy," the woman hissed as doctors and security guards ran in, holding her weak body down.

"No!" JJ screamed as they readied the needle. "Please," she begged as the needle penetrated her arm.

"It's alright Jennifer," a doctor soothed as he stroked her damp hair back. She fell into a drug induced sleep.

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"Jane!" Sarah Borelese yelled as she exited the large house. She smiled as she spotted a girl with long blonde hair in a ponytail pop her head out from behind a tree branch.

"What is it ma?" the teenager called, pushing away the tree branches in her face.

"Come down sweetheart, Uncle Johnny will be here shortly with Dominic," her mother yelled back in return.

"Ok mom," the child called as she jumped from the tree, landing on her feet.

"I swear you're part cat," a voice said from behind Jane. Jane turned to see a girl with dark brown hair and green eyes smiling at her.

"Kayla!" Jane yelled as she hugged her sister, tackling the sophomore to the ground.

"You act as if it's been months instead of days," Kayla said with a laugh as she pushed her little sister off. Jane only smiled as she tickled her sister's sides. Suddenly Jane started to cough and her skin burned hot as she rolled onto her back, panting.

A woman with long blonde hair arguing with a man with long brown hair and dark eyes.

"JANE!" Kayla's voice seemed so far away. Jane tried to hold on to it, but it seemed impossible. Her mind kept slipping into the nightmare as her limbs started to twist, as if fighting off an attacker, from a mixture of the pain and the struggle to get the proper amount of oxygen into her lungs. "JANE! Can you here me?! Jane!" Kayla continued to yell as she tried to hold down Jane's flailing limbs. Jane felt a burning in her throat and realized she was screaming. "MOM! MOM!" Kayla yelled. Jane's eyes burned as the nightmare took over her mind again.

"What do you want from me?!" the woman screamed.

"I want you to take that THING and get rid of it!" he yelled.

"That THING is my daughter!" the woman yelled.

"Get rid of it!" he yelled. "Kill it, she's half demon!"

"But she's half mine!" the woman yelled. The man glared at her as he picked up a lamp and broke it across her face. She screamed as she fell to the floor, clutching her bleeding face.

Jane could feel her mother and father kneeled by her side as they tried to hold her limbs. "Kayla, call 911," her mother told her. Kayla nodded as she ran for the house. Jane continued to scream.

"Dear God help us," their father begged as he tried to hold onto her arms.

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Hotch sat in his office, filing paperwork when Mary came in with a report in her hands. "Here you go Hotch; we've all finished our reports."

"Thanks Mary," Hotch said, exhaustion evident in his tone.

"You ok Hotch?" Mary asked him, slightly concerned for their chief, their leader, their boss, and their friend.

"I'm fine Mary," he told her. When she didn't move to leave, he looked up to see she had her arms crossed, her foot tapping, and she was giving him the 'I'm not stupid' look.

"Just thinking about JJ." Mary sighed.

"I know. She was doing well after everything that happens, then she finds out she's pregnant, gets into a relationship with a guy she barely knows, quits her job, then disappears off the face of the earth with no trail at all," Mary said softly.

"I know he did something to her," Hotch sighed.

"We'll find her again," Mary told him softly as she put her hand on his shoulder.

"But last time we found her was by a tip." Mary sighed.

"Hotch," she leaned in closer to his face and looked him in the eye, "doesn't matter. Somehow we'll find her." He nodded, and suddenly found himself entranced by her lips. Before either knew it, they'd leaned in to the point in which their lips were just about to touch when the door opened. The two jumped apart just as Morgan said:

"Whoa, sorry to interrupt." Mary blushed a deep scarlet and pulled away from him. She quickly ran past Morgan into the bullpen.

"That wasn't—"

"Hotch." Hotch sighed as he put his face in his hands. "Hotch, that girl that just ran out of here, is younger then Reid, she is 21 years old and you are 42, twice her age. Not to mention Rossi would kill you. Just think about this," Morgan told him firmly as he left.

"There is a time to live, a time to die, a time laugh, and a time to cry. All we remember are the times of sorrow, and for some, there are no times of laughter."

-Lane Cordmint