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"Fear of the Dark"
{quote: 'fear of the dark.. fear of the dark(!).. i have a constant fear that something's always near..'}
in which a hacker called the Master wants to kidnap penelope garcia and make her the queen of the netisians and commit criminal acts by his side. The FBI know nothing of his plan until garcia's long-lost, best friend shows up, determined to protect her. Her netisian name is 'truancey'. Tru informs the BAU team of the Master's plan and they concoct a plan of their own to stop him.
And so it begins...
"ipsepn!, ie edane oit arnuw ipsepn!"
('pnips!, i need to warn pnips!')
"what are you saying?", said rossi for what felt like the fifty-th time, "english(!)" "you understand what i am saying, you must speak it."
the elevator binged and out bounced garcia.
"garcia-", started hotch, "we need you to run this girl through ifus and interpole."
"yes, sir!", chirpped garcia happily, "but.. interpole, sir?"
yes, we believe she may be international." "reid's working on language recognition as we speak, could you assist him when you finish with the check?"
"most certainly, sir." "this goddess of all knowledge is now at your service!", she beamed, shuffling off to her office, many bags in tow.
Hotch gave a small smile, "thanks garcia."
she flicked back a brief smile of her own, then turned back to the task at hand.
(part: B)
"anything?", asked rossi as garcia came bustling up to him and hotchner.
"that's what i came to tell y'all", garcia hurried to explain, "who ever she is, this girl is a frickin' ghost." "no ifus, no codus, no interpole, no nothing." "i tried everything i could think of, and trust me i say that's a list that is endlessly long, and i got nieght." "according to the information super highway, who ever this girl is, she doesn't exsist."
"it's alright", said hotch, "it was a long shot anyway." "reid's still processing languages." "maybe a fresh set of eyes would help."
"done and done, interpid boss man sir", said garcia grinning brightly. She thought of giving him a salute, but brushed that silly idea aside. 'time to focus on more important things, garcy', she told herself rather sternly. 'yeh, like talking to yourself,' retorted the sarcastic part of her brain. She sighed and shook her head at her own nonsense, coming up to reid's desk.
"hey, sweet thing", she smiled warmly, "what'cha up to?"
"hey, garcia", reid greeted happily, "i'm not having any luck with this language recognition software." "it's been searching for a little over an hour now, and it still hasn't matched even the smallest of syllables."
"would ya like ta take mine for a spin then?", offered garcia with a hint of knowing behind her eyes.
"very much, thanks", answered reid with renewed enthusiasm, rising from his chair and heading off with garcia to her lair.
"reid, i have to ask, why didn't you just use my system to begin with?"
"because you weren't here to ask permission.. and i happen to value my good health", he jibbed innocently, smiling slightly.
Garcia laughed whole-heartedly. "oh, reid." "what a perfect answer", she said and gave him a peck on the forehead, turning to unlock her door.
Reid blushed slightly and smiled shyly, tucking a few strands of hair behind his ear. He was glad she was too busy to notice.
After she'd gotten her babies rev'ed again, she turned to reid, who was seated in her spare chair, twiddling a pencil between his long fingers. "so!, what now, boy genius?", she grinned.
"enter the following phrase into the phonetic matching section-", he answered immediately. "the girl we brought in keeps saying it over and over again."
garcia spun around in her swivel chair, fingers poised above her keyboard, at the ready. "shoot", she affirmed.
"i believe it is - - 'eyep see pin, eye ee, ee dah knee, oh eyet, are newwh, eyep see pin'." "it must be important, she keeps repeating it over and over again.."
garcia had paused, suspended in shock.
"garcia?", reid asked with concern, "are you, um, okay?.."
"she said ie edane oit arnuw ipsepn?", she asked, not hearing reid's question, "are you sure?"
"yeah", said reid, a little taken aback, "do you know the language?" "you're pronounciation is impeccable-"
garcia jumped up suddenly from her chair, "i need to speak to her, now(!)"
"um, she's in interrogation right now-"
garcia didn't wait for anything furthur, she turned on her heels and marched out the door.
"wait!-" "garcia!-", sputtered reid, leaping up to follow her, "you can't just go in there!-"
penelope skidded to a halt in the pit, and paused to re-orient herself. Breathing fast, she spied what she was looking for.
Reid appeared just moments too late to stop her. "garcia!-"
she brushed past rossi and hotch without even looking at them, interrupting the conversation they had been having. They looked after her with similar looks of confusion, then they exchanged a look of slight fear between each other and gave chase.
Penelope burst into the interrogation room, startling both derek morgan and the captured criminal.
"baby girl(!)", derek said in surprise, getting up from his seat. "what are you-?", he began, but she cut him off.
"anceutru?", garcia asked, trying to peer around the girl's curtain of hair.
('truance?')
The girl perked up immediately. "enelopeap?", she asked in disbelief.
('penelope?')
"tru!", garcia smiled happily, rushing around the interrogation table to hug the girl.
Derek's mind was swimming with questions. His goddess was buddies with a fugitive? He had a bad feeling about this.
"ipsepn!", cheered the girl, shuffling out of her chair as best she could in hand cuffs, "ie issedem uoyo, yum endafri." her eyes filled with greatful tears.
('pnips!') ('i missed you, my friend.')
"i missed you too", garcia sighed happily, breaking off their hug, and wiping her own tears away.
"what the heck's goin' on?", asked rossi, voicing what everyone was thinking.
"truance is my sister in arms", garcia began to explain, "she hacked with me when i was in the netsians."
truance grabbed garcia's arm with renewed fear in her eyes. "atuth ies yuwh ie aduh oit eab aptureduc!", she said with honest, pleading eyes. "ipsepn..", she whispered earnestly, "uoyo ea-ar ien aveugr angerud!"
('that is why i had to be captured!') ('pnips.. you are in grave danger!')
"what?", said garcia, momentarily taken aback. "i'm in-?" "how do you-?" "who's after-?"
"aull ien odigo imeet, m'adyul", interrupted truance, "uoyo ustom onvinceic emath oit etal eam utoo!"
('all in good time, m'lady, you must convince then to let me out!')
garcia paused and gave a half-hearted chuckle. "ahh, is that all?" she turned to her bosses nervously. "she says you need to let her go."
"garcia, we can't do that-", hotch tried to reason with her and calm her down.
"and why on earth not?", huffed garcia, beginning to anger.
"she's in league with an environmentalist group that plans on launching a massive explosive attack on a large section of the city today", explained rossi.
"my gawd..", she gasped, turning distrustful eyes on her former friend.
"ellat emath ie aveuh aull eath ormationi-inf eyath edane, utob eyath ustom etal eam utoo oif iseth omiro, aund utoo oif eseath uffsoc!", truance urged. "aseuple, ipsepn!" "eaw ea-ar unningor utoo oif imeet!"
('tell them i have all the information they need, but they must let me out if this room, and out if these cuffs!') (please, pnips!) ('are running out of time!')
penelope hesistated.
Truance rolled her eyes in frustration. "uoyo owikn eam, aum ie au illerek?"
('you know me, am i a killer?')
penelope paused, searching her former friend's eyes for any hint of a lie. She found nothing. She turned back to her bosses. "she says she'll tell you all the intel you can handle if you'll just let her out for a few minutes."
"penelope-", hotch tried to disaude her, but she interrupted him.
"i trust her.. sir", she corrected herself at the last second.
Hotch gave her a piercing stare. "you understand you're putting all of us in danger?"
garcia nodded, not meeting derek's eyes. She knew he was looking to her for an explanation, but , honestly, she had none. For all she knew, the girl across from her was not at all like the one she had known. Something inside of her told her it was the right thing to do, and that was that.
Rossi reluctantly unlocked truance from her shackles.
Tru wasted no more time.
"Ie on'tid anume oit armual uoyo, ipsepn, utob ie aveuh au ombib appedustr oit yum odyib-"
('i don't mean to alarm you, pnips, but i have a bomb strapped to my body-')
"what?", garcia's heart nearly stopped.
"eyath iggeder eam uop ithew au ombib-"
('they rigged me up with a bomb-')
garcia's face went white, and she began to protest, but tru stopped her just in time.
"-aund iet oiasl asuh au icrophoneem oin iet!-"
('-and it also has a microphone on it!-')
garcia froze.
Tru sighed with relief, "-ief uoyo yutr oit arnuw uroyo endsafri, eyath illew aruhe uoyo, aund ie illew odeiexpl."
('-if you try to warn your friends, they will hear you, and i will explode.')
"then how-?"
"uoyo aveuh oit otisho eam ien eath estach", tru pointed to the center of her torso, "ighter erahe."
('you have to shoot me in the chest.') ('right here.')
"you're-" she switched, "uoyo ea-ar azyucr, uoyo owikn atuth ighter?"
('you are crazy, you know that right?')
tru perked up, "ois uoyo'ill oid iet?"
('so you'll do it?')
garcia shook her head, "eath ingseth uoyo alkut eam oi-int.."
('the things you talk me into..')
tru smiled greatfully.
Garcia turned on her heel, and looked at morgan, "hey hot stuff, you know how i love you right?"
"yeh.. what?" "what are you up to?"
"i need that," garcia pointed at his gun.
"whoa, wait a minute baby girl, i thought you didn't believe in-"
"this is a special exception", garcia cut him off just before he said 'guns'. She bet that would get them all blown to heck as well.
Derek hesistated.
Garcia gave him an exsasparated look. "you trust me, right?"
"yeh, but-"
garcia held out her hand expectantly.
Morgan slowly handed his gun over to his baby girl.
Garcia smiled at him then turned back around. "how do you want to do this?"
tru gestured for her to hand it over, "ie etterab oid iet." "uoyo edaus oit eab au ackucr otish, utob uoyo ea-ar otin 'eraoth uoyo' ighter owin ois..."
('i better do it.') ('you used to be a crack shot, but you are not 'other you' right now so...')
"irefa ughoeno..", garcia handed the gun over and the team tensed.
('fair enough..')
Tru smiled as she pointed the gun at her own chest. "ie ewakn ie uldoco untoco oin uoyo."
('i knew i could count on you.')
and she pulled the trigger.