disclamer: I don't own Criminal Minds (wish I did) or the charaters (except my oc girl). Not beted so any mistakes are mine. I love reviews, so feel free to leave one!
The longest journey begins with a single step -Lao-tzu
The pressure was bearing down so hard it made her already burning lungs pulse with liquid fire. Her hands pushed and clawed at the dirt surrounding her. Not daring to open her eyes she struggled for her life blind, deaf, and weak like a baby. As her mind started to go blank and her last thoughts float through her head her fingers emerged from the dirt into the night above. Wiggling for purchase on anything her hands followed, then her arms. Grasping at some grass left scattered here and there, she gave everything into one weak pull. Her head appearing rising from the ground, dirt sliding away she gasped blessed life giving air into her system. A few more gulps and she twisted the rest of her body from her almost grave. Not having the strength to stand she crawled to the nearest pile of dirt and began to dig like a dog. Wheezing and hacking despite her mouth being empty she gained speed. She came upon a face and clearing the mouth and nose area stuck a finger past the bluish lips into the mouth. With one hand she continued to dig the other shoved the finger into the back of a throat. After a moment life seemed to spark and the mouth opened on its own bile coming forth. Pulling her finger out she turned the head to the side letting the sludge that came up trickle down the side of the face. Several minutes later having dug the rest of the body from the dirt she lifted it from the hole. The body breathed in hitching breaths, the eyes opened but looked at nothing. She tried to talk to the body, get it to answer her but nothing changed. She cried as she grabbed the skinny arms and was forced to drag the body into the woods. It was a very slow pace through a dark nightmare that went on for hours. After what seemed like an eternity the sun began to rise, and with it hope as she came to a road. A road meant cars and cars meant people and people meant help. She lay the body on some grass a ways from the road and sat down to wait.
It took a long time but at last she heard it. A car. She ran to the road and waved her arms, jumping up and down as it approached. Some kind of Jeep looking thing was coming around a slight corner. It screeched to a stop not three feet from her and a middle aged man got out of the driver's side. A woman came from the passenger side seconds after him. "Oh my God are you alright?" The woman got to her first the man right behind.
"Help me," was all she could say as new tears sprang into her eyes. The man looked around the area for signs of where she could have come from as the woman looked her over. "Help us" she asked the woman as she began getting her crying under control.
"Us? Is there someone else here sweet heart?" The woman was looking around now too. She nodded her head and taking the woman's hand started walking over to the body. The man followed and seeing the body ran over and knelt down beside it. Checking it over he turned to the woman, "He's alive."
She woke up with a start as a hand gently shook her shoulder. "Miss, this is your stop" a kindly old man looked at her. She looked out the window at the bus depot and sighed. "Thank you," she smiled at the man and standing up stretched a bit. "Excuse me," she pressed herself against the seats in front of her and slid by him. Once in the isle she reached up and grabbed her carry on from the compartment above the seats. Then she walked to the front of the bus and out into the depot. The handlers were unpacking the baggage from the side and she had only to wait a few minutes before retrieving hers. Making sure she had everything she stepped away from the busy depot and into the city. The last leg of her journey was about to start and it made her nervous and yet excited. She had a mission to complete it was true but also a journey she had been on for ten years and it was almost over. She was so close she could taste it in the air which hung humid and still about her. Well every journey began with a single step and she took hers as she started off towards the lower end of the city.