I originally posted this story on my instagram account { willifertho} which is why this first chapter is so short. I promise you everything after it will be longer. Thanks for reading and enjoy.

If you gave someone your heart

and they died,

did they take it with them?

Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you

that couldn't be filled?

~Jodi Picoult

Will kept replaying the scene in his head, like Henry would when he saw a scene in a movie that made him laugh. Except, Will wasn't laughing. Everytime he thought about it he wanted to yell at himself to pay attention, to be quicker...to save her.

Flashback

Him, JJ, and Rossi had been running through the wooded are of the park. They were chasing an unsub who had been on a killing spree in DC for the past three weeks, and had already killed five people. They had finally caught the bastard dumping another body in the park, and just like the profile said, he ran.

"FBI," JJ shouted running ahead of him and Rossi. "Stop running and drop your weapon." The man stopped suddenly, realizing he was outnumbered.

He should have known it was to easy. This was a man who had killed six people, counting the body he had just disposed of. He had never been caught dumping a body, and he had just happened to chose the park they were checking. He was so relieved that he couldn't think straight.

The man just stood there. "Put your hands up!" JJ said, keeping her gun aimed at his head. The man slowly raised his hands up, clutching a knife in his left hand.

"Now drop the weapon and turn around!" Rossi demanded. Without hesitation, the man let his knife fall to the ground and then turned around. He had a scar that when from his ear to his chin, which once again, fit the profile. Hotch had said that the unsub had something that caused people to cringe when they looked at him. The reason for his rampage.

The scar wasn't what he was focused on. It was the fact that he was smiling. He was about to be put away for life, and he was smiling. It was like he thought that this was a game and he was some how the winner.

"We knew you'd be here," the man mumbled.

"What?" Will asked him, trying to hid his confusion.

"You thought you were so smart, but we knew. Yes, we knew," the man said laughing.

Rossi started looking around, the word "we" obviously shaking him as well.

"You tell me what your talking about now or I won't hesitate to put a bullet between your eyes," JJ told him, her voice still steady despite what he said.

"I can't really take the credit. I'm not the smart one. That's okay though, because he always let me do the fun part," the man said with a smirk on his face.

"I'm not going to ask you again," JJ said. Will watched her nervously dart her eyes to the left and then the right, looking for the other half of "we".

"You aren't any better though. If you were really as smart as he told me you were, you would've realized he was right above you this whole time," the man chuckled.

JJ and Wi spin around, while Rossi tackles the man they had already caught to the ground so he can't try and escape.

They look up into one of the trees, to see a larger man sitting towards the top with a 12 gauge aimed at them.

"Drop your wea-"JJ didn't even have time to finish her sentence. None of them saw it coming, not JJ, Rossi or Will. Not until he had pulled the trigger.

"Jay!"Will shouted as the bullet went flying from the gun. She wasn't wearing a vest, none of them were. They weren't expecting to find the unsub here, just maybe some witnesses. He tried to get to her, she was so close. Before he could reach her the bullet hit her in the stomach, making her fall backwards, hitting her head on a rock as she hits the ground.

"No...no...no,"Will says as he falls to the ground beside her. Will looks up towards the tree where the man who shot her is still sitting. He is looking at JJ with his head tilted, like he is trying to decide whether or not he approves of his work. He shakes his head and then starts to raise his gun, but this time Will is faster, and shoots the man in the chest, causing him to fall out of the tree. Will keeps his gun raised, the man isn't moving, which Will hopes means that he is dead, because to check he would have to leave JJ. And that is the last thing he wanted to do.

"Jay,"Will says his voice full of concern. "Hey c'mon jay say something."

"Will,"she says groggily and tries to move which only makes her cry out in pain.

"No cher, don't move. Just stay put its going to be okay,"Will said, managing a small smile. He took her hand in his, and squeezed tightly as she drifted out of consciousness.

Present Time

Will couldn't think about it anymore. He hadn't been able to get past that point ever since it happened. Will closed his eyes and tilted his head back. All he could think about is that if he had gotten to her sooner, she would be okay. She wouldn't need surgery, or multiple stitches in her head, and he wouldn't have to explain to their son where his mommy was.

If it wasn't for him, JJ would be at home watching Peter Pan with Henry like she had promised him. He could only imagine how upset Henry would be. He knew Garcia was on her way to get Henry and take him back to her place for a few hours before bringing him to the hospital. Hopefully a visit from his Aunt Penelope would cheer him up. Will didn't know if he could handle an upset Henry at this point.

"Will," Reid says walking into the waiting room. He was the first member of her team to arrive, the others had to go back to the station to interrogate the unsub that was still alive because they believed they had abducted another girl before they got caught. Will guessed that Reid would be first, he's like her brother, her best friend.

"Reid,"Will says standing up. "Did you find the girl?"

"They're close, he isn't that smart they're about to get a confession out of him,"Reid says. "How is she?"

"They won't tell me anything," He replies.

"It wasn't serious, though?" Reid asks. Will realizes at that point how little they had told Spencer, and why they let him leave and not anyone else. So they could discuss it without him.

"She's a fighter..."Will replies. "I'm sure-I'm sure she'll be fine."

When he says it he isn't sure who he's trying to convince. Reid or himself.