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A/N: Right this is pretty much hurt all round but will be Garcia orientated... as ever...
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PROLOGUE
The noise was ringing out still; her hearing hadn't absorbed the loudness yet. She knew it was bad, she knew how deep they were in the moments that it had happened. She could hear the building still falling and she just sat frozen with the ear piece still in her ear.
About 3 minutes earlier she was helping with guarding the team through a building. She was doing well until she heard one of the most terrifying words of her life. BOMB. That word still evoked a chill up her spine and put the fear of Christ up her. Said bomb had gone off and none of the team had gotten out. She knew that was a dead clean fact.
She shook her head she needed to get them help. So she did so, she rang emergency services, she rang the section chief and she rang the director and then she broke. She sat and allowed all the feelings that were bubbling and concocting to ebb out however they so needed to.
She knew she had, as her right as part of the team, to ring each of the team members family and tell them what had happened but she didn't want to call them and offer false hope. She wanted to give them appropriate details. She knew what false hope felt like and that was the last thing she needed right then.
So she sat in silence and stared at her screen. Sad tears, regretful tears, angry tears, worried tears all marking her face. The blueprints and land layouts that she had kept up to help them still sat in front of her and she just looked to where the team had been. Where the bomb had been and fully broke down. She didn't withhold anything. She just cried with the anguish that was tearing her apart.
She found herself inundated with paperwork and phone calls not long after, she was the only one on the team that could do it now and soon she just stood up and called it quits. She needed to get to the hospital. She couldn't work. She'd worked for long enough already. Struggled with the case for long enough and now she had to know how they were doing. She was tired, worried and her head was killing her with the multiple scenarios that were playing out.
All she took with her was her purse, her phone and the list of contact details. The hospital knew she'd do it. She'd made that an order almost as soon as she could. She'd give it until morning to give an update. Hopefully the prospect wouldn't be as dire as it was now. Hopefully she could ring with good news. Hopefully she could continue to hope. Hopefully she'd be strong enough to pick up the pieces.
For once in her life Penelope Garcia was waiting on the fate of six people that meant more to her that the entire world that spun around her.
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A/N: Unlike the others I felt this needed a prologue =)