It is 10:47 p.m. and the team is in their big van on their way to where a police call was made on a sighting of their current killer.
Everyone has their guns already checked for ammo, bulletproof vests on and is ready for action. The killer is a woman who has killed a woman and two men so far by coming out her hiding place and stabbing the person in the heart once or twice, no other wounds except maybe a small bruise to the left or right temple.
The officer had reported that he saw a woman wearing all black walk into a large building that is two houses put together that had a small fire in it a few years back, located very close to a forest that is on a back road so no one has touched it since.
"She is smart, I'll give her that much. Not being seen by any witnesses for three crimes as brutal as they seem" Morgan commented as they pulled up to the front of the house, its all dark and some windows are broken with graphite on the exterior of the jointed houses.
"I wouldn't give her that much credit, this could be her hideaway and how could she be careless to let a patrolling police car see her?" Reid asked as he opened the doors for them all to file out.
"She may have wanted this to happen, wants to make us follow her, it is most likely a trap inside so I want constant communication while we're in there" Gideon stated as they each put in an ear piece with a microphone that comes out two inches from the ear.
Turning on the devices after placed, Hotch put his index finger onto the device and looked around at each of them, "one, two, three – testing" he said and the team members heard him clearly in their right ears as a paramedic van pulled up near their van in case if the woman is shot and wounded or one of them gets injured.
"Alright, I want Prentiss and Reid to circle around back" Gideon instructed and the two nodded in acceptance. "Morgan to cover the left house first floor while JJ cover the right house first floor, "Gideon continued and JJ said, "got it" while Morgan said, "you got it." Gideon then looked to Hotch, "you take the left house second floor and I'll take the right building second floor" he finished instructing and they each took out their gun's, cocked them and went off.
Morgan went to his door and kicked it open, charging into the house and moves his gun to the left and right – nothing, "clear" he stated and moved to the right to start down a hallway while Hotch came in right after him and went for the stairs to the left and charged straight up them while watching the corner of the wall to his left at the top and the hallway going off to the right with a door looking off to the area below. Getting to the top he looked around the corner, left and right, "clear" he stated.
JJ has just checked a hallway closet while Gideon has just made it to the top of his stairs and is looking back and forth down the hallway, "clear." He stated at the same time as JJ.
Reid and Prentiss have just came up to the back corners of each side of the jointed houses, "I don't see anyone… the grass is only at waist length" Reid observed and Prentiss noticed right away what he was getting at.
Starting down the hallway to the kitchen, JJ watches the large opening of the door less kitchen and a hallway coming from between a wall sectioning it off from the kitchen and the floor board like wall to her left.
The woman hiding behind a secret spot in the floorboard like wall is holding a detonator in her right hand and her thumb has just pressed the red button.
The wall to JJ's right a foot and a half ahead of her then exploded, chunks and small pieces of wood flying into the air and dust clouding the air all around, JJ's ears ringing, the whole teaming hearing part of the explosion from their positions wondering where it came from.
"Report" Gideon ordered knowing that it came from near by where he is.
JJ barely heard his voice in her head as she is slowly bringing her right arm down from shielding herself from the no longer falling debris but dust still clouding the air. "JJ reporting, it came from right next to me – but I'm not hurt" she reported as she then saw some movement to her left and raised her gun to it.
"Be on your guard, she's probably close to you" Hotch stated as a dark figure came towards her slowly.
"Freeze! Or I will shoot!" JJ demanded and Morgan looked around his own area, "I'm on my way over" he reported just as Gideon is starting on his way back.
The dark figure then in one quick movement charged, knife out in right hand clenched. JJ fired into the chest for no result but the woman to grab the gun and force it up, taken off guard by the woman's strength the masked woman kneed JJ in the stomach making her loose grip on the gun and for the lady to toss the gun aside.
The lady quickly cut at the shoulder strap of the bullet proof vest as JJ moved to grab for her arm, the lady knowing that JJ's mind is still affected by the blast swung her arm up and caught JJ in the left temple with her elbow knocking her out of it and dizzy.
Pulling away part of the bullet proof vest and plunged the knife into her making a small cry of pain escape JJ's lips as she began to fall to the floor and the cry turning into an inward gasp of comprehending what's just happened. Feeling the stainless steel blade within her, feeling a burning pain spread through her chest to the arm closest and the legs feeling the shock the body is now enduring making her slump to the ground.
The lady leaned in and pulled away her head set, "if I wanted to kill you I'd know where to hit – but then again" the lady said as she pulled the knife out and JJ began to feel the warm blood start to come out freely. The feeling drain from her face as her shaking right hand rose and went over top of the wound but not very strongly.
Meanwhile the lady lifted a piece of hardwood that lifted up a secret door in the floor and disappeared just as Morgan came running around the corner with his gun drawn, his heart began to race as he saw JJ with no gun and looking like she is having a hard time breathing. Running to her side he pulled out his walkie-talkie as Gideon ran up around the corner, "I need the paramedics! Agent down!" he ordered and dropped the walkie-talkie.
Gideon rushed to crouch down on the other side of her, already beaded sweat on her forehead and around her hair line, Morgan moved her hand away and shined his flashlight, Gideon's and Morgan's heart plummeted and right away Morgan put his hand over the wound and pressed hard.
Right then the paramedic's rushed in next to them and the one brought out a small flashlight and looked at her eyes, which are starting to flutter close.
"Ma'am hang on… you need to stay awake" the paramedic man said, while her head is all foggy, and his voice a blur, everything feeling like its going in slow motion, that its getting harder and harder to breath.
The other paramedic pulled out the stretcher the moment he saw her slummed, the one with her took out a folded piece of gauze from his front shirt pocket and pressed it hard onto the open would, she barely flinched which made Morgan look at Gideon who hasn't taken his eyes off her face the moment he seen her.
"I need a manual air breather!" the paramedic said just as the stretcher got propped up next to him, he looked at Morgan, "I need your help in lifting her onto the stretcher until my partner gets back."
Morgan nodded in acceptance and Morgan went for her legs as he was told to and the paramedic lifted her at her under arms and swiftly set her onto the stretcher before raising it to its full height just as the partner came back with the manual air breather. The one doing most of the work quickly moved up to her head and shined the flashlight into her eyes, her eyes just rolling up and looking off to the sides randomly without focus.
"We need to get her to the hospital stat!" the man said and his partner put the mask over her mouth and nose, the other one looking back at the two men as they went for the door while pushing the stretcher out.
"One of you needs to come with us, we need someone who knows her health records, blood type, family contacts – the works!" the man said as they pushed through the doors, the rest of the team is waiting outside not knowing what has happened. Only knowing they heard JJ getting attacked.
"I'm her superior – I'll be going with you Gideon stated and was surprised at how he was able to keep his voice firm even though he felt worry over coming him knowing that the way of her state that she could quite possibly not make it.
Prentiss's eyes widened and as did Reid's as they saw the state JJ is in on the stretcher, Prentiss covered her mouth with both hands in shock while Reid rubbed his face, avoiding covering his eyes to watch and moved his hands through his hair and began to pace in worry.
Hotch on the phone with the office couldn't help but stare, not fully listening to the person on the other end as he watched JJ being put into the back of the ambulance with the two paramedic's and Gideon and Morgan slowing to a stop in his track's still looking at the doors, hands on the back of his head as they watched the van pull away, he looked to the rest of the team.
Meanwhile Gideon is just sitting off to the side, hands partially over his face, eyes red from keeping his emotions in and hoping they can save her while they cut open the top left part of her black shirt and clean around the area to see the actual stab wound and then put more gauze onto the wound.
Her body jerking around on the stretcher, eyes closed and mouth open in trying to breath, fingers gripping the side of the stretcher and knee's raising up at the feeling of being helpless, the pain and the shock coming over her system.
Tears trickling down the sides of her face, her body stiffens up, the intervenus and pulse machine linked onto and into her when they first got her into the van.
Gideon rubbed his face, feeling as though he is about to loose a valued member of his team, of his family right before his eyes while the paramedic's are fighting to save her. Then his mind changed his perceptions of her, looking at her helpless young form as a daughter to him and staring in disbelief that this is happening.
JJ then gave a big cough and brought blood out of her and it hit the top of the breather but not blocking it from doing its job. Gideon heard the one paramedic swear, as he did not expect it to happen evidently and the beeping on the monitor changing to something more quickened.
To Be Continued…
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Started: Friday September. 28, 2007
By: SLITH