M2B: Teenage Years

Chapter Two (02): The Rescue and Aftermath

When his whole arm started to ache, the detective decided to give his victim a small break, and so he put the whip down onto the sandy ground and made his way to face his victim. Grey on the other hand was out of breath and having trouble breathing through the pain she was currently in. Her white T-shirt was stained with her own blood. Tear tracks were on her face and when she finally came face to face with her assailant, all she could do was glare at him.

"Let's take a small breather and get to know one another" he told her as he looked at his handy work on her back, "Here let me take care of that" he said as he pulled out a hunting knife and cut off her T-shirt off and left her in her jeans and black bra, "Now isn't that better?"

"Fuck you!" Jess practically growled out, before swiftly kicking her assailant in the balls.

Now on his knees, it was the detective's turn to glare at her and slowly stood onto his feet again and punched her repeatedly in the ribcage, "Don't. Fucking. Do. That. Again!" he told her with every punch he landed until he heard something snap, "There we go, that should keep you quiet for now…" he then kicked her in the gut, before picking up a knuckle duster, "Now let's continue, shall we?"

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"I've got him!" Morgan shouted as he ran after the leader of the pack of UnSubs. McAllister ran though the living room and out the open window and was now running through the backward when he was met with the barrel of a gun in his face, that was held by JJ. Seconds later Derek caught up and roughly handled him as he placed the cuffs on his wrists.

"Look all over the property for our missing agent!" Hotch shouted over the noises to the deputies and federal agents.

"Who's going to question him?" Prentiss asked her supervisor.

"JJ and I will, while you watch for any signs of lying or that he's giving away her location. We'll find her Emily"

"I know, sir…" she said in her detached voice.

After everyone returned to the station, the team leader went to see how Rossi was progressing with Langley. As he carefully watched at the mirror, Morgan joined him. Who noticed that whenever he tried to cover something up, he'd start tapping his index finger in a certain rhythm.

"What do you think it means?" Derek asked his boss and longtime friend.

"That he knows who but not where she is" he answered, before adding, "go in there and stir him up a bit and send Dave out so that we can devise a plan together"

"Hotch?" it was JJ, "McAllister is in the second interview room"

"Alright I'll right there, you start asking him about the past victims"

"Okay" the former media liaison said as she made her way to the interview room that McAllister was in.

"What are you thinking about Hotch?" Morgan asked his friend.

"I think Langley wants us to believe that he was part of the pack, but as we saw out there they already had someone else with them that we saved… I think this was an inside job"

"… Why though? And Who?" Rossi asked as he left the interview room to give Langley a break.

"It's not a secret that some of the officers were glaring at her… she probably looked very much different to them" Morgan said.

"You mean Gay" Hotch stated, "Probably but why take the huge risk of getting noticed like this, unless they had done this before" Then an idea came to him, "Have Garcia check former female or male officer that have transferred under weird circumstances"

"You think they've struck against other officers before?" Dave asked.

"Either that or they got really lucky with Grey as their first victim" Derek interjected, "How's Em?"

"Detached..." Aaron sighed out.

"I need her in here for Langley, when Garcia finishes her search; let her get some 'steam' out" Rossi suggested.

Both men nodded their agreement and each went their separate ways to start devising a way to get Langley to start talking. That's when both Hotch and Rossi noticed a officer who kept eyeing the interview room Langley was in and gave each other a look that said 'He's in on it'.

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Jess was now wheezing every time she drew in a breath. The detective was currently washing off the blood from the knuckle-duster's, while whistling a happy tune. Grey's eyes were both shut tight and swollen, blood was running from both of her nostrils and she couldn't feel her arms anymore.

"Now… lets move on shall we?" he told her as he grabbed hold of a metal baseball bat and walked around her dangling body. "Too bad I have to do this to you… you've got a hot body" he said in a low voice as he let his hand wander to her breast and gave it a squeeze and then let the same hand go down to her crotch and grab hold of it, "This is mine now!"

He then swung the bat and hit her at the hip, making her cry out in pain, but the gag in her mouth muffled it. He just kept swinging over and over again until he saw that she had passed out from the pain, half an hour later. He then untied her hands from the hook and placed her body down onto the sandy ground.

The detective looked her up and down and knew that he was going against the plan, but just couldn't help himself to release some steam off by using her body. So he removed his belt and let it drop onto the ground…

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Just as Hotch was about to let Rossi go back to interview Langley, he received a call from Garcia who had nothing but good news for them.

"Talk to me Garcia" the team leader, told her.

"I've done a thing and saw Langley lead Jessie towards the back of the precinct that leads to the back parking lot. I've sent you the feed and as you can see he hits her with his baton at the last second, then about a minute later Langley comes back inside and guess who else comes back inside about an hour later… that unknown cop that you said has been eyeing where Langley is. I've also done that search you wanted me to do and found two cops have transferred. One male who was openly out and the other is unknown on sexual preferences. I've attached their numbers to the email I've sent you sir"

"Thank you Garcia, now I need you keep an eye on the second officer and let us know if he leaves the premises again, I'll have Morgan follow him" Hotch explained, before disconnecting the call.

"I'll make those two calls and see if we can convince them to testify against those officers" Rossi said as he went into the conference room to have some privacy.

JJ came back in minutes later and walked straight to her supervisor, "McAllister admits and has signed a letter of confession indicating everything he did to every victim and where and why he did it, as well as the others. But they all deny the missing Federal agent"

"Good, now I need you to stay with Langley and question him on other officers that are involved and show him this footage" Hotch told her as he showed her the footage that Garcia had sent them.

"Alright, I'll go ahead and dot hat right now and see if he'll cop to a deal at least with his lawyer in the room now"

"No deals… they're all going to pay for this. By the time this other officer does his thing we're going to have enough evidence against them and you tell him that"

"Alright Hotch" with that JJ was now heading to the Interview room where Langley was.

Seconds later Aaron received a text from Morgan saying 'He's on the move'.

Hotch then walked inside the chief of police office and closed the door, "I'm calling the DA right now to get a warrant of arrest on one of your as well as Langley and whoever has my agent"

"Do you have any evidence?" he demanded.

"We have video surveillance and by the time we get the location of where our agent is, we'll have all three or four men arrested. Now you can either show that you don't let officers use their badge like this or I can run your name in the mud. Your choice" with that Hotch walked out and was calling the DA.

Meanwhile with Morgan, who was still on the second dirty cop man's tail. Now was currently parked about half a block away from where the other cop had parked. They were ten blocks away from the precinct, when the dirty cop stopped the car and got out to go onto an abandon farmland that had an old barn.

Derek, texted Hotch the address and carefully went around back until he spotted the man outside the barn and saw another man walked and immediately recognized him as one of the detectives. Hearing the siren and thinking that it was the team coming, Morgan quickly put his bulletproof vest on and quietly went on the property and saw the detective go back inside the barn while the dirty cop was now making his way to his vehicle. Morgan intercepted him and tackled him down, knocking the man out cold.

After cuffing the man and standing up, he saw the team's cars and other cops making their way down the road with their sirens off.

"Where's the third or fourth person?" Rossi asked.

"I only saw a third person and its one of the detectives'" Morgan answered as they made their way to the barn and saw that the barn door was wide opened and out ran the detective. Morgan and JJ both ran after the guy, while the rest of the team went to go find their colleague.

As Dave and Emily ran inside the barn with their guns aimed, both of them froze when they saw a half naked Jessie on the sandy ground out cold.

"Jessie!" Emily called out as she kneeled by her wife's side and checked for a pulse, and felt a strong one. She sighed out in relief and told Dave to get the medics, "Jess, you need to wake up"

"…N..No… M-More" was all Jessie croaked out.

"Shhh, everything's okay now"

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Three hours later, the team was in the waiting room. Impatiently waiting to hear from their colleague's doctor. And just when Emily was about to go ask the head nurse again. A female dark haired doctor walked out and called out her wife's name.

"I'm her wife and this is our boss" Prentiss said.

"Agent Grey was battered quite heavily. We had to stitch almost her entire back with a total of 157 stitches. Both eye sockets are broken, as is her nose and couple of ribcages. No internal bleeding were found, but we do need to talk to your boss privately, if that's okay"

"Only if it's okay with Emily" Hotch said out loud.

"We're all family here, we'd just end up telling each other anyway" Prentiss answered honestly.

"Alright… I'm afraid that we found signs that Agent Grey was sexually assaulted" the female doctor told the entire team.

No one made a single sound or moved an inch. Had they heard correctly? One of their own had been raped? The first thing on everyone else's mind was how was Emily going to be and what was she going to do.

"There's also another problem, we can't seem to have her consent to perform a SAE. We need to get he samples if you wish to press charges on the man responsible"

"May I go in the room she's in? I'll try to convince her" Emily weakly said, still in shock.

"Alright, just follow me" the female doctor told her, as she guided the older brunette to where her wife was located.

"I'm fine! I don't need anymore exams!" Jess argued with the nurse, who was trying to convince her that she had been raped and needs to be taken care of. Then there was a knock at the door and in walked her doctor and her wife, "Emily?"

"Jess, let them take care of you and get the samples they need to charge that detective Sam Connors" she begged as she held her wife's hand.

"Nothing happened!" she denied.

"Jessie please"

"Em, I swear nothing happened, apart from the beating!" she lied.

"Do it for other victims… you were there when it happened to me, now let me be there for you"

"…" Grey refused to look or even make eye contact with her wife. She knew that Em was right, but she didn't want to admit that it had actually happened, "Alright…"

"You'll do it?"

"…Yeah" she sighed in a defeated way and looked away.

They did the Sexual assault kit, which was painful and embarrassing to Jess. They ended up giving her a sleeping pill, and was now fast asleep. Emily never left her side that night. She knew what was going to happen for the next while: Nightmares and flashbacks. And it did happen multiple times that first night at the hospital. Neither women got any sleep that night.

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On the flight back home everyone had an eye on Jessie. The traumatized agent sat all the way in the back and was currently looking out the window. Prentiss sat next to her and was holding her left hand in her right one.

Morgan had his headphones on, but his thoughts were on his colleague and what her thoughts are like at the moment. JJ and Reid were pretending to be playing a game of poker, but their eyes kept looking back at the wide-awake and quiet couple. Rossi and Hotch were the only ones that were keeping their eyes to themselves but there current conversation was about them.

"Hotch, what can we do?" David asked his long-time protégé.

"What can we do, Dave? Knowing Grey and Prentiss and how much they are alike… she's going to deny it ever happened, while Emily remains calm and understanding to some degree"

"You think she won't interfere?"

"Not now, the wounds are still to fresh to poke at, in a matter of speaking. But she can't wait too long either"

"What can the team do?"

"Be there for both of them whenever they need to rant or a shoulder to cry on"

"I hope those men remain in prison for the rest of their lives"

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"We're home!" Emily called out as they entered the front door of their house.

"You made it back in time!" Lucas said as he ran down the stairs, but stopped dead in his tracks, when he spotted his mama, "What happened?!"

"Got beaten" Jess answered flatly.

"You okay mama?" Laura asked as she made her way over to her mama and hugged her waist.

"…Yeah" the beaten agent answered coldly, before pulling away and made her way upstairs and into the master bedroom and just lay on the bed, after closing the door.

"I've never seen so… down before mom. What really happened?" Lucas asked.

"Not in front of your sister" This angered Lucas, because he knew she was trying to hide what really happened to his mama, "Where's Jen?"

"Mom…" Lucas the young teenager said in a serious tone.

"Lucas, not now"

"We deserve to know, mom" he pointed out.

"He's right mom" Laura backed him up.

"… Mama was badly hurt"

"How bad though?" Lucas demanded.

"… She was attacked by cops and one of them really hurt her"

"Mom" Laura said in an annoying tone.

"Was she… raped?"

"Yes"

"Oh god…" Laura had tears in her eyes, seconds later she was pulled in a hug by her mom.

"I know tomorrow is yours and Jen's birthday party, but I need all of you to understand if mama doesn't come down, it's not because she doesn't want to. It's because she can't right now"

"I'll let Jen know now, she's doing homework"

"What about Matthew?" Laura asked out loud.

"I'll tell him" Emily answered.

In Jen and Laura's room, Jennifer was studying for her academic math class when she heard a knock at the door.

"Come in" she called out.

"Hey… I need to tell you something important, but you need to sit" her twin brother carefully told her.

"Are mom and mama home?" she asked.

"Yeah, but Mama was… hurt"

"What do you mean, she was hurt?" the twin sister asked, "Where is she?"

"She's sleeping and doesn't want to see anyone"

"That doesn't sound like her"

"She also might not come down to the party tomorrow"

"Now I know something really bad happened to her, she loves celebrating our birthdays!"

"Mama was assaulted… sexually"

"She was raped… oh god… I have to see her!"

"Jen, no!"

"She's my mom!"

"She's not herself right now,,, Give her some space right now to let what happened to her and deal with it"

"… Alright"

"Does Laura know?" he nodded, "How about—"

"Mom's telling him right now"

Jennifer walked up to her brother and hugged him and tight as possible, while she let her tears fall from her eyes.

Meanwhile with Matthew, who was out in the backyard, the young troublemaker was just tossing a football in the air to himself.

"Matt"

"Hey mom, when did you two get home?" he asked her.

"Five to ten minutes ago, maybe… We need to talk about mama"

"Listen I know I've been unfair to her, but what I'm going through is rough right now!"

"It's not that, but I do need you to back off and not say anything negative to her, actually you shouldn't be saying negative things to your parents period!"

"What she do, get beaten?" he said almost in a not-so caring tone.

"She was raped" Emily snapped at him, "And she needs everyone right now, and if you're just going to make things worse by lashing out at her, then back off and stay away from her!" with that the angry mother walked back inside the house and kept the kids company.

Matthew on the other hand was shocked to say the least. He went from pretending that he didn't seem to care to feeling extremely guilty about everything he had said and thought about his mama. The older child put away the football and sat on the deck chair. He cursed at himself and knew that his mother was right about him and had to be there for his mama, since she never turned his back on him. But he had for a while, turned his back on her. Now though… he wanted to make things right but he just didn't know how at the moment.

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"NO!" Grey screamed as she sat up in bed, drenched in sweat and was panting.

"Jessie! It's okay baby, it's all right…" but Jess flinched away from her touch and covered her face with her arms, "Baby it's only me"

Eventually Jessie realized that her wife was there and that she was home and safe from those officers. The younger of the two carefully leaned towards her wife and sighed out in relief, when she felt those comforting, strong arms wrapping around her.

Emily on the other hand was saddened by how her wife had reacted to her touch at first, but that soon went away and was replaced by happiness when she saw her life partner lean towards her, when she offered her arm to her. Ten minutes had passed by and they hadn't said a word to one another.

"Jessie, what happened in your nightmare?" the older brunette asked.

"They… they were all there taking their turn with me…" the spikey haired brunette said, tears running down her face, "Is that how you felt after? Pure fear?"

"Jessie… yes fear is part of it, but what you went through was completely different from what I went through" Emily explained, "As long as you keep talking about it and not keep it inside, you'll get stronger everyday, I promise you"

That morning, Jessie was awake but refused to leave the comfort of the bed. Her dad and parents-in-laws were at the house getting the main floor and backyard ready for the twins party.

After Emily had told her parents and father-in-law what had happened during the case, all three looked towards the staircase and wanted to go comfort the traumatized woman, but knew that it would only make her feel weaker.

"How are you handling it Emily?" Patrick asked his daughter-in-law.

"… I'm okay" she lied.

"Emily…" her mother said in a serious tone, while glaring at her.

"I feel like I failed to protect her, alright! She's up there suffering and I'm here getting my kids' party ready instead of being up there with her"

"Go up there Emily, we'll have the rest on control and ready for the party. We'll call you when everyone's here alright?" her father suggested.

"You sure?" they all nodded, "Alright but if you need me, I'll just be in the master bedroom" Prentiss answered before heading up the stairs and laid next to her wife and eventually held her as close to her as possible.

As the sun was starting to rise, signaling a new day starting, Em was now wide-awake when she felt the sunrays hit her eyes. As the older woman sat up, she immediately looked over to where he wife was laying and saw that she was also wide-awake and that her eyes were bloodshot red. She knew that it meant that Jess hadn't slept at all during the night.

Meanwhile Grey noticed that her wife was now awake and slowly turned her head to towards her and gave a weak smile. She just couldn't sleep with her nightmares haunting her all night and the flashbacks weren't any help either.

"Hey" Jess said with a weak and forced smile.

"You didn't sleep at all" Emily stated, as she gently stroked her wife's face and placed a soft kiss on her lips.

"The flashbacks were too much and I didn't want to relive that nightmare, not again…"

"I think you should call Dr. LaFlamme and start seeing him again" Prentiss suggested, knowing it needed to be said, but that it might start an argument between them. She was right.

"Ugh! Why bother, I'm fucked up in the head for good anyways" Grey said as she sat up and turned her back to her wife, "You can't fix what's already broken"

"That's not true and you know it!" the older brunette argued back.

"You didn't and turned out fine! So why do I have to do it!?"

"Because you've had a more traumatic past than I!" Emily pointed out, before adding, "Can we not do this now, it's the twins birthday today and they have their party"

"I can't go… Not with the team and my dad and your parents there…"

"Jessie…"

"I said No!" she yelled. Then the young agent realized that the kids could probably hear them and immediately felt bad about that and the fact that she had raised her voice to her life partner, who was just trying to help her, "Just leave me alone…" Grey muttered before lying back in the bed, while still having her back turned to her wife.

Prentiss sighed in defeat and started to get dressed. Once she was all ready, she walked over to her wife, "At least try to come down for the kids… you know that it'd mean a lot to them" was all she said before walking out of their bedroom and closing the door.

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When everyone finally arrived the twins each went to their friends and were talking about various subjects. As the time went by, it was time for cake and then time for the twins to open their presents. Garcia was taking pictures and creating an album to mark the event.

"Hey Jen, where's your other mom?" Cassie, her BFF, asked out loud earning most of the adults' attention.

"Right here…" Jessie answered as she descended the stairs. The team, her in-laws, father, wife and kids were happy that she had made the effort to come down and celebrate.

"What happened to you Mrs. Prentiss-Grey?" Joey Lucas' best friend, asked out loud.

"Just got into a fight during the job" Grey lied, and everyone bought it, except for her family members.

Everyone went back to celebrating the twin's birthday. The music was a little loud, but the neighbors were out of town, so it was okay for the special occasion. The team couldn't help but keep an eye on their colleague, who was purposely distancing herself from the group of parents by remaining in the kitchen, where the cakes were and just stared at her reflection through the little mirror on the fridge. Her face was still a bit swollen, but she could close her eyes now. The bruises are very dark and cover a big percentage of her face. The young agent was so focused on her reflection that she hadn't heard one of the kids' parents approach her until a hand was on her and she freaked out by spinning and pushing the person away and running up the stairs and hiding in the master bedroom and locked herself in the bathroom.

"What happened?" Emily asked the male parent, who was Cassie's dad, as she helped him stand on his feet again.

"I was just telling her that the party was a success, I put a hand on her shoulder and the next thing I know she pushed me to the floor and ran away" Chris said, Cassie's dad.

"I'm so sorry, Chris. She's just jumpy from the beating" the older brunette explained.

"No worries, when you go check on her tell her that everything's good, alright" he smiled softly before going over to his wife and quietly tell her what happened and tell her to keep it to herself.

JJ then appeared by her friend's side and told her, "Jessie won't come out from the bathroom, in your bedroom"

"I'll go" she told her best friend, before quietly walking up the stairs and made her way to the locked door and gently knocked on the door, "Jessie?"

On the other side of the door, Jessie was sitting on the floor of the shower. Her knees were bend and pulled all the way under her chin and her arms wrapped around her legs as she cried. The younger woman jumped when she heard the knock and voice of her wife, but she still didn't move from where she was sitting.

Unbeknownst to her, Emily was picking the lock and eventually was able to unlock the door and quietly walked in and stopped dead in her tracks, when she spotted her naked wife sitting on the floor of the shower. Prentiss closed and locked the door again, before she took off her clothes and sat behind her wife.

Grey jumped when a familiar hand gently squeezed her right shoulder. She sighed out, and still refused to make eye contact with her life partner. Em then wrapped her arms around her wife's torso and pulled her body right up against one another. At that moment, every emotions and feelings that Jess had pent up inside broke and she started sobbing so hard that her whole body shook. All Prentiss could do was hold onto her and says sweet nothings in her Ear.

Hours later, after the party was over. The team, kids and their grandparents were helping to clean up, when they saw Emily descend the stairs.

"How is she, mom" Jen and Laura asked at the same time.

Right then, the emotions Emily had also hidden, the Damn broke and she started crying, which was something rare to see in person. Morgan immediately went up to her and wrapped his strong arms around her and pulled her into his chest and gently kissed the top of her head. Everyone else couldn't believe what they were witnessing. They've never seen Prentiss cry like that before. They all just stood there in sadness.