Reid entered the coffee shop. He didn't particularly like the shop but it was close mainly because the windows all had shutters and they were always closed so that the shop was only lit by a few lava lamps. There was one line made up of 6 people. He sighed and joined the end of the line. He needed to get to work but he felt he wouldn't be himself if he didn't have a coffee first. He shifted his weight to his other foot and watched as the woman began making the man's coffee. He rolled his eyes and looked at his phone it was from JJ. She was telling him to hurry up. He rolled his eyes again and turned his phone off. A man came in behind Reid and began nervously shifting his weight. Reid frowned a little bit but thought nothing of it. The tables were all empty apart from two women who were chatting and laughing. When the man at the front of the line had disappeared out of the door Reid checked his watch it was almost time for him to be at work before he could move forward there was a deafening bang from behind him and he and everybody else in the line whizzed around. It was the man behind Reid he had a gun and he'd just fired it. "EVERYBODY GET DOWN ON THE GROUND." He yelled swivelling the gun from person to person and that was when the hostage situation began.
BAU, Quantico, Virginia
JJ walked into the BAU HQ and headed for Morgan. "Morgan quick look." She turned on the TV onto a report of a hostage situation at Josephine's Coffee Shop in Downtown Virginia. Morgan turned and said "I suppose they want us to investigate this?"
"Yeah we've got to go and postpone all of the other cases." Morgan nodded and yelled out to Hotch who also caught the attention of Rossi and Emily who were standing up on the balcony talking about a recent case. "We need to get down there straight away."
When they arrived at the scene one of the police officers moved forward. "Hi I'm Brad Welsh. Are we going to get in?"
"No." Replied Hotch suddenly.
"Why?"
"Because if we do anything to surprise him then he'll attack and possibly kill all of the hostages."
"So what do we do?"
"Find out who our hostages are and go from there."
"Okay." Emily picked up her phone and spoke to Morgan who was talking to Garcia. "I'm going to call Reid." She dialled his number and waited as it rung.
Inside Hostage Situation
As the police gathered outside the hostages remained huddled in their positions. Then Reid's phone went off. The man with the gun (I haven't named him yet will take suggestions) pointed his gun around and asked "WHO'S PHONE IS THAT?" There was silent before Reid spoke up. "Mine." He said. The man marched over and said "GIVE ME YOUR PHONE." Reid silently gave the man his phone and he dropped it on the floor and stomped on it. Reid silently groaned before sitting back in his position.
Outside Hostage Situation
Emily frowned as the phone then hung up. "What?" she murmured to herself. Morgan had just hung up with Garcia. "Did Reid pick up?"
"No his phone was disconnected."
"Weird."
"What did Garcia say?"
"She's looking up the fingerprints we sent her."
"You sent her fingerprints already?"
"Yeah the police have been here for around 2 hours."
"This has been going on for 2 hours?"
"Yeah." Emily sighed and looked at the coffee shop with its closed shutters.