"Where is she? Where is my little girl?" Morgan turned around, facing two people who he could only assume was JJ's parents. He held out his hand and tried to smile at them, hoping it would give them the faith and hope that the BAU team seemed to lack at this moment of time,
"Mr and Mrs Jareau?" He took in their appearance, used to doing so with almost all the parents and other family members he saw on a regular basis, he could tell immediately that JJ was closer with her Dad, it was in the body language. He looked at the man, taking in his rosy cheeks, his dimple lines on his large face, his once bleach blonde hair, now fading into an almost Grey colour. Morgan looked at his eyes,seeing JJ in them as he shook his head and looked at the woman, she was a lot shorter than both JJ and her husband, her long, blonde hair went past her shoulders, Morgan could see the tear tracks down both of their faces and sighed. He knew that neither of them had anything to do with he missing FBI Agents, his missing best friends.
"Just follow me over here." He said as they both nodded, he smiled at the thought of JJ being brought up in a stable environment, from what he could tell within two minutes of meeting the couple, he had already been able to tell how much love they had for each other and their daughter.
"JJ's brothers are on their way, is that okay?" Morgan nodded,
"I am sure JJ will want all her family around her when we find her."
"My name is James by the way, and this is my wife, Jane." He blushed a little, embarrassed by his rudeness, Morgan shook his head,
"Morgan. I am one of JJ's friends and team mates. We will find her, we will put everything into this case, her and Emily, she is also with this team, we won't let anything happen to them." He saw the man grin at the name JJ, and Jane rolled her eyes, trying not to smile too much,
"JJ, I see you adopted that name for her as well." He winked at Morgan, still smiling, then looking at his wife,
"She doesn't like it, thinks it makes JJ sound too boyish, JJ of course loved it. Who wouldn't? I mean come on, she has four brothers, and she never liked Jennifer." He playfully nudged his wife,
"I refuse to call her that." She smiled at him and shook her head as they carried on walking towards the conference room,
"Have you had any news on them?"
"Not yet, but we are sure it will come through soon. There is no way the Unsubs could ever take two of the best agents and not want to brag about it." He sighed as he opened the door, nodding towards his friends and colleagues, pointing at Emily's parents and asking JJ's to go and sit next to them.
"JJ's parents?" Reid whispered, Morgan just nodded and sat down with his head in his hands, how could this have happened? How could they have let this happen to their best friends? How could he have got to them?
"It wasn't your fault, it wasn't anyones fault." Hotch put a hand on Morgans shoulder in an attempt to comfort him, the man just nodded and went back to looking at the large white board, the smiling photographs of their two best friends looking back at them. Begging for them to save them from the hell they had been placed in, wishing that it would end soon.
Reid stood up and pinned up a photograph of JJ and Emily leaving the FBI and getting into their cars,
"They left here to drive home at 1am last Thursday." Reid looked over towards the parents, not sure if they should even be here for the briefing.
"So it's been four days so far... how long do you think we have?" Rossi spoke up, looking up from the case file for the first time,
"I honestly don't know.." Reid sighed, for once he was lost for words, could you even bring up statistics on the life of your friend and the woman you secretly loved?
"Guys you need to see this..." Garcia's voice boomed through the room as her face came up on the large screen, Morgan frowned,
"What is it?"
"You need to watch it," They could see the tears falling down her face as she typed, and then she was gone... replaced by a video, a much more sinister scene than any of them could imagine.
Morgan turned his head away and shook his head once the video was over,
"My perfect little girl..." He heard James whisper to himself, looking at his wife as tears fell down his face and hers, he watched as the Prentiss' reminds calm and collected, just like Emily.
"They broke her." Jane finally spoke up, everyone looked up at her confused,
"JJ... She wouldn't speak at first, she found it too hard then... I know my daughter, she went through something when she was nine years old and the only way she could cope with it was by shutting everyone out, by not even looking at anyone, she wouldn't talk, eat, drink... anything. She shut down...and now those bastards have done the same to her!" James shook his head as he tried to explain, trying to control the temper that was flaring up by the second, slamming his hand on the table and standing up.
"I swear to god... you need to find them soon. JJ she is fragile, she doesn't show it but we need to get her back to the hospital, before she goes too deep into depression this time." He looked up at the photograph of his daughter on the board and smiled at her as he touched it lightly,
"I asked her, no, begged her, not to do this but she insisted on doing so and now look what has happened!" He sighed and turned away from the photograph of his only daughter,
"We will find her," Hotch patted the man on the back and took him back to his seat, looking over at Reid,
"What happened to JJ when she was nine?"
"There was an accident, one of her brothers died... her twin brother, you never get over something like that. The loss of a sibling, the loss of a child. But we tried to cope, it was hard. It was horrible, the car... we didn't see it coming and the next thing we know, we are alive and our nine year old son isn't." Jane looked down at the table and played with the cup of water in front of her,
"Jennifer didn't cope well, they were so close, she was one of the boys." Jane smiled a little and then looked at her husband as tears fell down her face,
"It took three years for us to get her to speak again... she was in hospital for over half of that. There was only one way she could see it; Her brother had died, and she was alive. She thought she was being punished, and when she thought we didn't love her anymore, she thought we blamed her for his death, she shut down completely. We didn't see her smile properly again until her thirteenth birthday, when she finally realized that everything she had felt for the past three years was wrong, she could finally see the good things about his short life, and she focused on that. She knew he wouldn't want her to carry on living the way she was, she was back to our little JJ. She still spoke to him at night, prayed for him to be okay but she was happy and normal, just like I wanted my little girl to be." James looked up at the photograph again,
"If anything happens when she is there, she could have a massive relapse... are her and Emily close?" Jane finished off for him, she saw the looks the team exchanged and sighed, nodding to her own question,
"They are very close." Reid said regretfully,
"JJ, Garcia and Emily are like one big team, always out to get us." Morgan laughed a little and then shook his head, realizing he may never have that again,
"What I wouldn't give for one of those teasing sessions or pranks again." He whispered, knowing everyone in the room had heard him.
"We're going to get them back and JJ is going to be fine and so is Emily. They will protect each other, JJ has a different coping method from some of us, when Reid got kidnapped before.. he got through it and so will Emily and JJ, they have to." Rossi tried to reassure the team and himself before getting up and walking out of the door, determined to have this case solved before the week was over... well before the week was over. He wasn't going to let those two valuable team members get hurt more than they already were, and after hearing about JJ, he knew he had to find them soon and he was going to do all he could to do so.
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Morgan watched as their older team member walked out and then looked back towards his team and his best friends parents,
"We have one week to solve this, but we can do this well before the time limit. Let's treat this as though he said 24 hours."
"Why did he give us a week?" Reid frowned,
"He can do more to them in a week, he thinks it will make us not rush, he wants us to believe that nothing will happen to them in that week. He wants our guard down, but it's not going to happen..." Morgan sighed as he looked up at the screen, at the two beaten agents staring back at him, both of them trying to hide the emotions in their faces. Looking into their eyes, he frowned as he took a step closer,
"What do you see?" Mr Prentiss got up and stood next to him, trying to see the same thing,
"Look, the moonlight reflecting in their eyes, if you look over this way a bit," he pointed down at the floor, towards the light fragments,
"They are being held somewhere, the windows are barred..."
"A shed? Workshop?" Reid sighed and looked at the same place,
"How does this help?"
"If we know what they are being held in then we could find them a lot easier, now please let us do our job."
"I am going to meet our sons downstairs, can I bring them up?" Morgan looked behind him and nodded before walking over to the board and writing down 'held in an area with bars. Workshop? Shed? House?'
"It doesn't round it down, does it?" Reid sighed as he sat down and stared at the frozen video in front of him, looking for another clue,
"No not yet, we need to figure this out..."
"We need to start looking through case files, start with looking at all of those who are on death row in the next week." Hotch nodded at them both as he walked out of the room and towards his own office.
Reid sighed,
"I will look for the death row prisoners, you look through the murder case files, remember over ten women, early 20's..." Morgan nodded,
"I know." He muttered as he got up and and walked out of the room, determined to get this case over and done with soon.
A/N
I thought I would be nice to JJ's dad,I could see them getting along well for some reason. And I am not sure if JJ has ever mentioned her brothers and how many she has, I think she actually has before, but I thought I would add a little more to make her life that little more interesting.
This chapter had very little action, but a little JJ background there=D
As she is the best character in Criminal Minds,
Coming up soon
Back to JJ and Emily, are things going to get any better for them?
Will the team find them?
Will Reid ever tell someone that he loves JJ?
What are JJ's brothers like?
Coming soon in 'Putting Up Walls'
JJMerrick :)
