Chapter 2: Run
Once the coast is cleared, the hostages make a break for it. The police and SWAT surround the area. Emily and a few SWAT members take the back while JJ, Morgan and the others take the front.
Emily's group go in first. Before Morgan and JJ's group could go in, they get orders from Rossi to not enter. Suddenly the bank explodes with Emily and whoever else still inside.
The streets were filled with chaos. Police, SWAT members and all were scatted all over the ground from the impact of the explosion. Amongst those bodies was JJ. She had just came to, but had this loud ringing sound in her ear.
"JJ" she heard a muffled sound of her name. "JJ, can you hear me?" she looks up to find Derek Morgan standing over her. "JJ, can you hear me?" he asks again but slower. His voice started to sound clearer now.
"Uh…yea…yea I can hear you." JJ says trying to get her bearings together. She looks around, trying to remember what happened, then it all hits her. The bank…robbery…Quinn…explosion…Emily. "Emily…Quinn…where are they? Did they get out?" JJ asks frantically.
"We don't know yet. We're still looking…" Derek says. JJ breaks away from him and heads into the now ruined bank. "JJ! Wait!" Derek calls out, chasing after her.
JJ and Derek along with the remaining SWAT members go inside the bank to find any remaining hostages and Quinn and Emily.
"Quinn!...Emily!..."JJ called out in the debris. They walked through the bank, trying to find any survivors.
"Emily!" Derek shouts. He stops at a body on the ground. JJ was right behind him when he checked for a pulse, but there was none. JJ was starting to feel more worrisome for the safety of her girlfriend and sister.
They continued their search. As they searched, JJ came to an older couple who had been trapped inside. The woman seemed to have regained consciousness while the man was still out.
"Ma'am…" JJ tries to get a response from the woman. She heard her murmuring something but couldn't understand. "We need some help over here!" She calls out turning her focus back to the elderly couple. She needed to get these people out of here and start looking for Quinn and Emily. "Don't worry ma'am, help is coming. Just hold on."
"Please…" the woman says in a weak voice. "Just leave me with him. Please" She says. JJ looks momentarily shocked. "He's…my love of 67 years…my story." The woman weakly pleads.
JJ watched this woman with a heavy heart. She had always hoped this would be her and Emily someday. Being together till they're old and grey. Watching their great grandchildren running and just be happy together. She didn't know what she would do if she lost her now. Yes she was still upset with Emily for sending her inexperienced little sister into a dangerous situation, but dammit she loved that woman. She knew that Emily had well intentions for doing what she did. She needed her. She needed to find her now.
JJ swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat and tried the keep the tears at bay. She turns to Derek who had just walked up with help.
"I want you to get these people on an ambulance and to a hospital sat. Together. I don't want anything splitting them up under any circumstances. Keep tabs on them and report back to me. Got it?" JJ instructs sternly to one of the medics.
"Yes ma'am." He nods going to help the elderly couple. JJ takes one last look at the couple. She saw the woman mouth 'Thank You.'
She turns back to Derek. "Have you uh…have you found Emily yet?" JJ asks in a neutral voice. Just as Derek was about to answer they heard a faint yet familiar voice.
"Guys…Guys over here!" said the voice. JJ recognized the voice and ran right to it. JJ's heart leaped when she saw Emily was alive and well with just a few bruises.
"Emily!" JJ runs into the tall brunette agent's arms.
"JJ?" Emily looks a bit shocked when she sees JJ. She was expecting one of the SWAT members. JJ jumps into Emily's arms and Emily holds on to her as if her life depended on it. JJ pulls back from the hug and smashes her lips onto Emily's in a passionate kiss. "Thank God you're okay. I'm so sorry I let Quinn go in the bank. I just thought it was the right thing at the time. I'm so sorry." Emily apologizes when they break apart.
"It's okay. I know what you meant…I forgive you." JJ kisses Emily all over her face.
"Uh guys…" Morgan comes over. The two break apart. "Did you find anything?"
"Sorry…" JJ blushes a little. She then gets right back to business. "Did you see them…Quinn?" JJ asks.
"Uhh no, but I think they might have gone below the bank." Emily says. With one last kiss, JJ and Morgan go to check it out, while Emily stayed with the others to help find more survivors.
As JJ and Morgan went to search below the bank, further ahead, Chris, along with Quinn and the queen were making their way out of the bank. They make their getaway in a police authorized SUV.
JJ and Derek finally get to the end of the bank and the thieves trail. While Derek checked around JJ finds Quinn's wallet by the end of the door.
"Whatcha got?" Derek asks. JJ holds up Quinn's abandoned wallet. When Derek looks at the wallet confused JJ explains.
"Emily once told Quinn that if you can leave a bread crumb, do it."
"Okay, well then that's good that means she's been here." Derek said.
"But they shot her Derek. What good could she be to them?" JJ says
"I don't know JJ, but there was no blood trail, so that could be a good sign…" Derek says
"Yea, well they still have her, and who knows where or why, so how is that a good sign?" JJ says walking away. Derek sighs before following behind the blonde.
Quinn was feeling a little woozy from the blood lost in her arm, but she was hanging in there. As she was coming to, she overheard the two criminals talking. She heard that it was the queen, who she just learned name is Izzy, had recorded the entire heist. She also heard them arguing and it seemed that Chris was starting to show his doubt in the queen…Izzy. That was good, hopefully she could use that against them and get out of there alive.
"So…why won't you just let me kill her so we can get on with this?" Chris asks.
"We need her." Izzy says simply.
"For what?' Chris raises his voice.
"Leverage."
"Leverage?" Chris lets out a humorless laugh. "What kind of leverage could she possibly give us? She's a fucking trainee…" Chris says.
"She also has badge, and a badge, no matter what kind it is, will get us in." Izzy says. "We need to patch her up first."
"How? What do you want us to do, just walk into an ER? Newsflash the whole world and their mama is looking for us." Chris says. After he said that they saw an ambulance pass by.
"They have Quinn. I found her wallet." JJ says as soon as she and Derek rejoin the rest of the team.
They discuss more on the queen and Chris and the third man. Emily offers to speak to her Interpol informant again to try and get more on the queen. JJ looked a little weary as Emily walked out. Talking to him, she finds out that there's been a similar case when she was in Interpol.
"So Emily…have you thought about my offer?" Clyde asks.
"Dude, seriously. Bad timing." Emily says rolling her eyes.
"Oh come on Emily, don't you miss this." A pause. "Just think about it." he says before hanging up. Emily sighs before heading back to the team and relaying the news.
JJ still feels pretty weary around Emily, and Emily notices. As the team broke up to do more research Emily approaches JJ.
"Hey…" JJ looks up to Emily. "We're going to get her back." she says.
JJ gives tries to give a small smile, but it looks more like a grimace. "Okay what's wrong…well besides the obvious?" Emily asks. "I can tell there's something else you're worried about. And no I'm not profiling you."
"I…" JJ starts but can't seem to find the words. Everything is just so crazy today. Her little sister has been kidnapped by a couple of psychopaths and her girlfriend might be leaving for her old job. In another country. On top of that, she feels sick as shit. "I just want to get Quinn back safe. Rachel must be worried sick…" JJ says instead. And just as she says that they heard a familiar voice calling them.
"JJ! Emily!" a voice by the crowd called.
They looked over to see none other than Rachel in the crowd of wild media and civilians trying to see some action.
"Rachel…Rachel what are you doing here? How did you get here?" JJ asks once she and Emily were in front of the smaller brunette.
"Penelope sent the jet to pick us up. We heard everything on the news. Is Quinn okay? Where is Quinn? Please tell me she's okay." Rachel says desperately with tears filling her eyes. Tears started to fill JJ eyes also, but she tries to bite it down.
"W-we're still looking for her. I-I'm sure she's safe." JJ says through gritted teeth. She was just as worried about her little sister as much as Rachel, maybe more. Well maybe not more. Quinn is the "father" to Rachel's children. Rachel started at her with wide teary eyes.
"Rachel, where are your fathers? Maybe you should stay with them until we've solved all of this." Emily intervenes. She could tell JJ was breaking with worry for her sister.
"Th-they're back at the hotel with Bryce and the others. No, I'm not leaving until I see Quinn." Rachel says stubbornly.
"Rachel you have to. It's too dangerous here. Just go back to the hotel and we'll call you when we find out anything or when we find Quinn. Quinn wouldn't forgive us if anything happened to you." Emily says. Rachel looks as if she was about to protest, but she knows that Emily was right.
"Y-you'll call when you hear something?" Rachel says in a small scared voice. Emily was taken aback. She had never heard the tiny singer sound so small and terrified. Not even when she found out she was pregnant at just 17 years old with her second child.
"You'll be the first we call." Emily says. Rachel wraps her arms around Emily in a hug. Emily hugs her back, then places a small kiss on her head before letting her go.
"When you do get her back, can you please tell her that…tell her I love her." Rachel asks softly.
Emily nods. "Hey…" she calls over one of the police that was standing by. "Make sure she gets back to her hotel safely. And I swear to god if anything happens to her on the way there, I will hold you personally accountable. Do you understand me?" Emily says in a threatening voice. Looking scared shitless, the cop nods his head and guides Rachel to his squad car. Rachel takes one more look at JJ and Emily before following the uniformed cop. Emily turns her attention back to her still silent girlfriend. "JJ"
JJ snaps out of whatever trance she was in and looks at Emily. "Yes"
"Hey…we will find her." Emily says places her hands on JJ's shoulders.
Usually JJ has never doubted her team, but she just couldn't hold it in. "How do you know?"
"Because I believe in our team. And even if they couldn't do it, I will not rest until Quinn in back safe in your and Rachel's arms and safely with her children." Emily promises. JJ looks up at her girlfriend with tearful eyes. JJ surges forward pressing her lips on Emily's in a kiss.
"Thank you." JJ says against her lips. Emily nods and the two go back to the team to figure out a way to get Quinn back and put those bastards behind bars.
Chris quickly turns the van around and follows the ambulance. Once they are close enough, Izzy gets out of the car, pulling Quinn along and approaches the vehicle.
"You know, you're lasting pretty long for a trainee." Izzy says referring to the bullet wound Quinn has in her shoulder.
"Yea, well who says this is the first time I've been shot." Quinn says. "You'd be surprised at what I can handle." Quinn says a little cocky.
"I'm sure." Izzy smirks. They get closer to the EMT. "Excuse me…we're gonna need some help." Izzy says in slight politeness.
"Whoa, she's been shot." The EMT states the obvious.
Izzy rolls her eyes. "Yea, no shit Sherlock. Can you fix her?"
"She's gonna need to go to a hospital…" EMT points out looking at the dazed looking teenager. Izzy cuts him off and pulls out her gun.
"We don't have time. Now fix her." she threatens and Chris comes up behind also holding up his gun. The EMT looks scared and starts to work on Quinn. After he was done Izzy gave him a creepy smile. "Thank you" she says before shooting him in the head. She takes a navy blue shirt from the back of the vehicle and passes it to Quinn. "Put this on." Quinn looks at her confused. "You don't want to walk around with a bloodied shirt, now do you?" she asks in mock concern, but Quinn of course knew she wasn't capable of that. She takes the shirt and puts it on, leaving her old bloody shirt at the scene. "Good now let's go." she says pulling Quinn with her, and they head back to the car.
"I really liked that shirt." Quinn mutters.
After driving a little while longer, Chris begins to get restless.
"What the hell is the hold up? You said that they would call." Chris says impatiently.
"They will, just wait." Izzy says and as soon as they said that the phone rings. Izzy answers it. There was silence before Izzy hangs up. "Change of plans."
Chris looks at her confused. Done with playing games, Chris pulls over.
"A'ight, I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what the hell you're up to?" Chris says. Once again Izzy has that crocket smile on her face and then shoots Chris three times in the gut, but not killing him.
"Oh shit!" Quinn shouts from the back. "Was that really necessary?" She knew that the queen would do that at some point, but not now.
"He talks too much." Izzy says as if it's nothing. She then turns her gun to Quinn.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa…!"
"Why don't you give him a hand…officer?" Izzy mocks.
"What?"
"Get him out of the damn car." Izzy sneers.
"And what just leave him?" Quinn asks. Izzy just shrugs with a smirk. Quinn stumbles to get out of the car. She goes to the driver's side, opens it and pulls Chris out, as best she could with one arm, leaving him by the side of the car. "Now get in and drive." Izzy instructs. Quinn looks at her. "Now!" she barks. Quinn does as she says. Risking one more look at Chris before pulling off.
They drive a few blocks away before Izzy tells Quinn to stop. After she stops, the back door opens up and in comes the ex-marine from the bank. Quinn looks shocked.
"It's you?" she says shocked.
"Hey Quinnie bear, what's shakin?" He says as if they were old friends. Izzy was giving him sexy eyes. It was pretty gross.
"Drive." Izzy says still looking at Matt. "I think we should make a little stop, don't you think?" she says holding up Quinn's Washington drivers listens.
Quinn's breathe hitches, but she does as told and drives them to Emily and JJ's house. 20 minutes later Quinn pulls up to the house. She could see Henry and Lucas outside playing with Nancy the babysitter. Tears filled Quinn's eyes as she watches them, but she had to push them back down. She would not let these people see her cry. She watched as Izzy reached in the back and pulled Matt into a snobbery kiss. Quinn couldn't stop from rolling her eyes.
Izzy pulls away from the kiss and looks to Quinn. "Now…get out." Izzy and Quinn both exit the car. "You make one move, you and the kids are dead." Izzy whispers in her ear as they walked towards the house. Quinn swallows the lump in her throat and does as she's told.
As they get closer, Lucas was the first to notice his "daddy" had returned.
"Daddy!" the two year runs to Quinn. Quinn can't stop the sad smile from coming on her face at seeing her little boy.
"Hey little man." Quinn crouches down to pick up her son. Henry also comes running to his aunt. "Hey big man."
"No I'm the big man." Lucas says pointing to himself. Quinn laughs a tearful laugh, but covers it up so that no one knew.
"Yes you are my big handsome man." Quinn says trying to keep the tears down. Nancy comes up to Quinn. "Nancy…thanks for watching them. I'm sure they were quite a handful." Quinn says tickling both Lucas and Henry making them squirm and laugh.
"Oh it's no problem." Nancy says then looks over at Izzy.
"Oh…um…Nancy this is JJ and I's…cousin, Izzy. She came to visit for a while. She really wanted to meet the boys." Quinn lies. She didn't have to ask if Nancy watched the news. She already knows that the young girl hated watching it and was only interested in celebrity news. "She's going to look over them for a while."
"Oh okay. Well see you around Quinn, and it was nice to meet you Izzy." Nancy says nicely.
"Likewise." Izzy replies. With that Nancy walks away and back to her own home. Izzy turns to Quinn with a smirk. "Daddy huh? You know I figured you were packing. Too bad I didn't take the time to…test it out." Izzy says seductively. Quinn tightens her hands in a fist, but says nothing.
They walk into the house with the boys leading them.
"Do they still wear diapers? Because I so don't do diaper duty." Izzy says dryly.
Quinn turns to her with a glare.
"I swear to god if you touch one hair on either one of their heads, I'll…" Quinn starts through gritted teeth, but Izzy cuts her off.
"You'll what?" Izzy mocks. "I told you Quinnie, you make one move then he kills her and you and everyone you love and leave these two loving little boys orphans. Now do you really want that? No so I suggest you keep you yap SHUT!…and do as I say." Izzy sneers. Quinn's nose flares but she says nothing. She turns to Lucas who walked up to her.
"Daddy,…she's pretty." Lucas says in a soft shy voice. Henry nods in agreement.
"Kids have taste, I can tell you that." Izzy says. Quinn rolls her eyes
"Henry come here." Quinn calls over the little blonde boy, she crouches down to talk to both boys. "Now, daddy can't play with you right now, but Izzy is going to stay and play with you. Can you say hi to Izzy?" Quinn says with a shaky voice. Both look up at Izzy with cute smiles.
"Hey Izzy" Lucas and Henry say softly with a small wave. Izzy sends them back a fake smile
"…she's going to stay here till your mama JJ and Emily get here okay. So be good for her." Quinn says tears starting to fall from her face.
"Okay" both boys say softly. "Aunt Q, why are you cwying?" Henry asks.
Quinn sniff and gives them both a tearful smile. "Because I love you both so much. Okay. I. Love. You." Quinn says.
"I. Love. You. Too" both boys says softly together. Quinn them both in for a big hug. As she holds them, she lets her tears fall. 'Rachel, JJ, Emily…please forgive me.'Quinn thinks pulling back from the boys placing kisses on both their heads.
"Okay now go play." Quinn says and both boys run off, not even knowing what was going on.
"Oh how sweet. Almost makes me want to have a kid…Almost." Izzy says as Quinn gets up of the floor wiping her face of any tears. Quinn looks at her with a glare before walking past her and out of the house. Izzy just smirks.
"Oh boys…" Izzy says walking into the play room.
Quinn walks back outside and gets into the car.
"Hey check it out…" Matt shows off his fake badge. "Pretty nice right. Almost as good as yourself. Except mine is a detective's badge and yours…is just a measly little trainees sealed." Matt taunts.
"Serious what do you want?" Quinn asks exhausted. She was just tired of playing their little games. She just wanted her boys and sister to be safe.
"Kid it's simple…you do everything I tell you…or you can kiss your family goodbye. First Izzy will deal with your boys, then that little FBI sister of hers…so on and so forth. Got it. Don't play the hero kid, okay it's not worth it." Matt says. "Now drive."
BAU were on overload trying figure out the queen's plans and how to save Quinn. They had finally tracked down who they knew/thought was the queen's third guy. Ex-marine Matthew Downs.
JJ and Rossi were driving as they talked to the rest of the BAU. They measured up that Matt had talked to Quinn. Made her put her faith in his hands. Made her trust him, which also meant that she told him about Lucas and Rachel, but because Rachel wasn't there at the time, who would take her place…Henry, JJ and Emily.
JJ couldn't stop looking in Quinn's wallet that she had found. She kept looking at the front picture. It was a half and half picture. One half was a picture of Quinn, Rachel and Lucas (they hadn't gotten one with Bryce yet) and the other half was of JJ, Emily and Henry. After hearing the news, JJ frantically looked through Quinn's wallet and found that her DC license was missing.
"Quinn's licenses is missing." JJ says. The team seemed a little confused, because they knew Quinn lived in Ohio. There's no way the crocks would travel all the way out there. Emily answers their confusion.
"Because she stayed here a lot, Quinn has two license. One for Ohio and one for D.C." Emily answers. They understood, but that doesn't make them feel any better. It actually makes them feel worst.
"Which means…" Rossi starts.
"They know where we live." JJ finishes. The whole BAU has looks of distress in their faces.
Rossi hangs up and continues driving. He notices that JJ hasn't said anything in a while.
"Don't do that." Rossi says.
"Do what?" JJ says still looking out the window.
"Go all quiet like that. Make a little noise…yell…scream…hell even sing out your feeling if you have to." Rossi says trying to make a joke. JJ does nothing. "You know it's not your fault right." Rossi says. JJ lets out a humorless laugh.
"How is it not? I should have never left them. And I should have tried harder to get Quinn to go home. Hell it was my idea for Quinn to come here in the first place." JJ says.
"You didn't know." Rossi tries.
"I'm a mom."
"You're a federal agent."
"I'm a mom first. And a sister. My family comes first." JJ says more forcefully.
"And so is Quinn. Look neither one of you could have knew how this day would end or turn out. Quinn just thought it was another day in training camp. And…it was your day off, how could you possibly know that of all cases this would be the one we worked." Rossi says. JJ stays silent. "For what it's worth…I know she doesn't blame you."
"Who?"
"I think I'll let you figure that out." Rossi says.
JJ just looks out the window.
"So…just a question, why are you doing this?" Quinn asks. Matt looks at her. "I mean I've never served, but I'm pretty sure marines don't just come out of duty and start stealing from and killing innocent people." Quinn says.
"That's right. You've never been. You don't know what it's like. They take you in and then they betray you…you're never the same after. But I…I found a better happy ending. My new home." Matt says. Quinn stayed quiet.
They finally pull up to their destination. As they pulled in, they were stopped by a guard. The guard looked at Quinn. Quinn holds up her training badge, which indicated to the guard that Matt was apparently her appointed detective. He nods his head and lets them through.
They go inside and Matt guides them to the men's restroom. While Matt was getting his stuff ready, Quinn took that as her opportunity to try and fight. She rushes to him, injured arm and all. She was able to lay off at least two punches, but sadly Matt got the upper hand, punching Quinn in the face and gut, before pinning her against the wall with his gun pointed at her face.
"I thought…you cared about you family Quinn." Matt taunts her. "I told you. Don't be a hero."
"Well…can't say I didn't try." Quinn says with a lazy bloodied smile. Matt shoves her out of the restroom.
Emily, Morgan and Reid were searching through the burnt rubble of the bank trying to figure out the duo's plan and why. Reid says that everything they did was significant, had a reason behind it, but didn't know what. That's when the light bulb went off in Emily's head.
"No, it's more personal…It's their story." Emily says remembering something from earlier. Morgan and Reid look at her to explain. They head back to the BAU van to tell the rest what they have.
With more discussion, research, and puzzle solving, they found out what the next plan was at the train station.
"…but only authorizes are allowed in." Strauss says. The team thinks for a while before Emily cusses under her breath.
"Shit…that's why they needed Quinn." Emily says.
"What? She's not even an official officer." Strauss says
"No, but she's register at the academy training camp. All trainees have badges that signify they are a part of it. And they almost look like our real badges. Just glancing at it you'd never know the difference." Emily explains.
"Let's go." Hotch said and everyone moved out and got into the SUVs and hushed to train station.
They get to the station. After showing their credentials, they split up and searched. Emily came to a secluded part of the area that was under construction.
She carefully walked up the stairs looking around every corner. She came to one corner where she saw a figure sitting on the floor.
"Quinn!" Emily jogs over the blonde.
"Emily! Oh thank god." Quinn says breathing a sigh of relief. As Emily gets close she finds that there was a bomb attached to her body.
"Ah shit." Emily says as she looks at the bomb. She gets on the radio and tell Hotch she had Quinn and asks where the bomb squad was.
"They're three minutes away. I'm coming up there." Hotch informs her.
"No, you have to get everyone out of here." Emily cuts him off turning her attention back to Quinn.
"Wait, you guys need to get to the house. She's there with Henry and Luke." Quinn says in a panic.
"It's okay Quinn, we already have people there." Emily reassures her.
"I'm so sorry." Quinn says tears starting to fill her eyes.
"No, no Quinn it's not your fault. Okay none of this is your fault. Okay we're going to get you out of this and you're going to see your children and Rachel and JJ again, okay but you have to hold on and be strong for me alright. Can you do that for me?" Emily asks in a soft voice. Quinn nods with scared tears still in her eyes. This was the first time today that she surely showed panic and fear for her life.
Back at the Jareau/Prentiss household, JJ and Rossi were watching from outside. When the coast was clear they made their way to the house.
Inside, Izzy had just came from the kitchen with juice boxes for Lucas and Henry, when she had a noise coming from outside. She went to check but found nothing.
As Izzy was distracted, JJ quietly makes her way into the house from the back door. When the young boys saw her they were about to shout, happy to see her, but she motioned for them to be quiet and to follow her. She led them to her and Emily's bedroom. She did not want them to be around when she handled that bitch.
"Shh, stay right there and mommy will be back okay." JJ whispers. Both boys nodded and JJ softly closed the door and got into position.
Izzy comes back to find that the boys were missing. She just chalked it up to them just playing hide and seek. She went to search the closet in the hallway, but when she looked there was no one in there.
Suddenly she heard the sound of a gun locking behind her. She slowly closed to door and found JJ standing there with her gun pointed at her head.
"Don't move." JJ says in her FBI voice, she has to try to keep her anger calm. "Turn around." Izzy does as she says. Just as JJ was about to cuff her, Lucas comes out.
"Aunty Jay…Aunty Jay…" he says. It was enough to distract JJ and for Izzy to move in and snatch the gun away from JJ.
The two rumble around. Izzy breaks away and tries to get to her purse with her gun, but JJ got to her before she could. She takes the purse strap and wrapped it around Izzy's neck and slammed her against the pictures on the wall. Izzy quickly came back with her own retaliation. She landed a few punches on JJ. JJ looks up and saw Henry and Lucas standing at the end of the hallway by her room.
"Henry…GO!" JJ yells. Being the big boy he is, Henry takes his little cousin and takes him further into the bedroom and hides them in the closest.
Izzy finally gets to her gun and turns to point it at JJ, but JJ was quicker. Everything was in slow motion when JJ unloaded the gun and unlocked the bullet that was ready. She ended it all with one swift round kick to Izzy's face knocking her out.
Knowing that Rossi was right behind her, JJ runs to the closet and pulls Henry and Lucas into a hug. She hugged them like her life depended on it. She wasn't even worried about what was going on behind her, she was just happy her son and nephew were safe.
Emily was still trying to figure out how to get the bomb off of Quinn.
"Emily just…just go." Quinn says miserably. She knew this was the end. She was going to die. She didn't want to go too. She had to be there for JJ, Rachel and the kids. It would be her dying wish.
"No…no I'm not leaving you." Emily says trying to figure out everything. "Okay…" she tries in what she think might be an answer, but was wrong, giving her only 2 more tries to guess before the whole thing blow up. She tries again but is once again wrong.
"Oh come on…" Quinn says. "Last chance…sure you don't want to leave."
"I'm not leaving you. I made JJ and Rachel a promise and I plan on keeping that. Now…these are love letters…love letters to her. What would he…" Emily starts.
"Try Izzy." Quinn suddenly comes up with.
"What?"
"Izzy…her name is Izzy. Try that." Quinn guess.
Emily takes a chance and files it out…it works.
"Oh thank god." Both Emily and Quinn breathe a sigh of relief, but it didn't last long when a smaller box opened up.
"Oh for the love of…"
"…you've got to be kidding me." Both Emily and Quinn says at the same time.
This time instead of words, it was wires. Red, Blue and Yellow. Emily eyed and observed the colors. Without thinking too hard, she clipped the yellow one…and it worked.
"Whoa…how did you know that?" Quinn asks panting.
"I…I just didn't over think it." Emily also pants. Both of their hearts were racing.
"You guessed?" Emily nods. Quinn lets out a chuckle. "If you were wrong and we blew up…man, my sister would have killed you." Quinn jokes and both laugh.
Emily unlocks Quinn and takes the bomb and chains off of her.
"Come on, let's get you to the hospital." Emily says helping Quinn out of the building.
Quinn and Emily had been in a hospital for 5 minutes before Rachel and JJ came through the door with Lucas and Henry in their arms.
"Quinn!" Rachel yells running into Quinn's arms. Well arm, her other arm was in a sling.
"Rachel." Quinn hugs her just as hard. "Oh god I thought I'd never see you again." Quinn says. Tears coming down both girls faces.
Rachel pulls back from Quinn and slaps her in her uninjured arm.
"Ow Rach!" Quinn says.
"Don't you ever scare me like that. I thought you were going to die." Rachel cries.
"I know, I'm so sorry Rach I'm so so sorry." Quinn says. She reaches up and wipes the tears from Rachel's eyes, then rest her cheek on Quinn's hand, kissing the palm.
"I thought I lost you." Rachel says in a small frightened voice.
"I know and I am so sorry." A pause. "I wish I could say that this would never happen again, but…" Quinn trails off.
"I know." Rachel gives a small nod. "This is what you want to do and I will support you. But all I ask is please please please Quinn. Stay safe and come back to me. Because I don't know what I would do without you." Rachel says.
"Always. You and the kids are my world. I could never leave you without a fight." Quinn says. Rachel nods before leaning down and kissing Quinn's lips. Quinn smiles at her girlfriend when they break apart. Quinn looks up at her sister. "Jay…" Quinn started to say something, but JJ cut her off.
"No need to say sorry. I know what you did and why you did it, and it's okay. Well no its not. There will be hell to pay when you're healed. I mean what were you thinking for going in there? Unarmed for that matter. But you know what, I'm just happy you guys are safe." JJ says going to hug her sister. As she hugs her tight, JJ finally allowed the tears to fall from her eyes. "But…" JJ starts pulling back from the hug. "…if you ever do that again, seriously I'll kill you myself and have Rachel help me." JJ playfully threatens and looks to Rachel who nods her head with a grin. Quinn smiles back at them.
"Okay." Quinn chuckles. She turns serious for a moment. "Jay… please don't blame Emily." Quinn says. JJ looks at her sister. "She didn't encourage me go inside. If anything she tried to stop me. It was all my decision. She just put out the bulletproof vest hoping that I would at least be safe. She just put it there and left. I did the rest. Just please don't blame her" Quinn says. JJ looks a little stunned for words. Before she could say anything else, she saw that Quinn's attention had been caught somewhere else. She was looking at Lucas and Henry with a huge smile on her face.
"Daddy!" the little boy squeals reaching out for his 'daddy'.
"Hey buddy." Quinn takes him in her arms. "You were such a big boy today."
"I'm a big boy." Lucas says with a big toothy smile.
"Yes you are." Rachel says. Quinn looks at a shy looking Henry.
"You are too, big man. Good job for taking care of you little cousin." Quinn says looking at her nephew. She holds her uninjured hand out for a high five.
"Yea!" Henry says slapping Quinn's hand with a boyish smile making everyone laugh. Quinn smiles at her family then she noticed someone was missing.
"Wait, where's Bryce?" Quinn asks when she doesn't see her daughter.
"She's with my dads, and…" Just as Rachel said the hospital door burst open and in comes Leroy and Hiram carrying Bryce, along with Santana, Puck and Brittany.
"Oh my god, what are you guys doing here?!" Quinn says happy to see her friends.
"Well you knew S and I weren't gonna sit back while you had all the fun, Q." Puck said. Rachel rolls her eyes with a smile.
"We were worried about you Quinn. We're glad to see you're okay." Leroy says.
"Thanks guys. Really." Quinn smiles at seeing her friends. JJ steps out to let the others get their time with Quinn. She needed to check on something anyway.
"Hey, I'll be right back Q. I have to check on something, okay." JJ says. She places a kiss on Quinn, Rachel, Lucas and Henry's heads, snapping Santana and Puck in the back of the heads, cause she could, and hugging Leroy, Hiram and Brittany before walking out.
Emily was sitting outside the door watching Quinn and JJ and her friends interact when her phone started to ring. She stepped away for some privacy.
"Prentiss" she answers.
"Emily, thank god. I've been calling for the past hour." Clyde said on the other end. Emily can't help but to roll her eyes. "So…have you thought about my offer?"
Emily takes a deep breath. She looks at the room before answering.
"Actually I have thought about your offer and…" Emily takes another breath. What she didn't know was JJ was right behind her.
She had just come from checking with the doctor who was looking after the elderly couple from the bank. As it turns out they were both doing well and would be able to leave and two days. JJ was very happy to hear the news. She was walking back to the room when she overheard Emily talking to someone.
"And…"
"And…I'm going to have to decline." Emily says.
"Excuse me, what?" Clyde said in disbelief.
"My answer is no. Look Clyde when I came back, I was a little disorientated. I felt like I had to fit in my ordinary life. And I thought maybe if I were back in Interpol, I would feel…I don't know, better. But I can't leave, I have an amazing family and friends whom I love very much. I have a beautiful son and a beautiful girlfriend whom I plan to make my wife someday. I can't just leave all of that behind. I might not feel like I belong here right now, but with the help from my family, I'm sure I'll get that feeling back." Emily explains.
Clyde was silent on the other end before Emily hears him sigh.
"Well, if that's how you really feel, I guess there is no talking you out of it is there?"
"Nope." Emily replies confident.
"Well then, it was a nice offer and it'll still be here if you ever change your mind…"
"I think you should just find a new replacement." Emily cuts him off.
"…very well then. Take care Emily." Clyde says before hanging up.
Emily hangs up her phone before taking a deep breath.
"Did you really mean that?" a voice behind her asks. Shocked that anyone heard, Emily quickly turns around.
"Jennifer…how long have you been standing there?" Emily asks surprised.
"Long enough…well…did you?" JJ asks coming closer to Emily.
"…yes. Every word." Emily nods. JJ didn't give her a minute to think before she threw her arms around her neck and pulled her into a searing passionate kiss.
When air became an issue, JJ pulls back.
"…ask me again." JJ says against Emily's lips. Emily looks confused. "Ask me again." JJ repeats. Emily thinks for a moment before she realizes what JJ meant.
It was a week after JJ told Emily she was pregnant. After getting the news and celebrating, Emily asked JJ to marry her. Now JJ would have said yes off the top, but they had only been dating for a couple of weeks. JJ wanted get to know Emily a little bit more before they jumped into that kind of commitment. So JJ declines, but gently told Emily that later on in their future together, she would definitely say yes.
Emily's face broke out in a big smile.
"Jennifer Ann Jareau Fabray…will you marry me?" Emily asks pulling out the ring she had never left the house without since she bought it. What? You never know when a moment like this will happen. You always have to be prepared.
"Yes" JJ nods
"Yes?"
"Yes a million and one times YES!" JJ says Emily places the ring on JJ finger before pulling her in for a kiss. "Let's do it now." JJ says when they pull back from the kiss.
"What?"
"Let's do it now. Let's just get married now. If there is anything this day has taught me was you can't sit and wait for everything to happen." JJ says.
"Jen, I would love nothing more than to marry you right now, but your sister is still in the hospital. And things are still pretty crazy around here. How about Monday? I promise you this time by Monday you will be the new Mrs. Prentiss." Emily says.
"Hmm…Mrs. Prentiss…I like it." JJ says giving Emily a quick but passionate kiss. "Come on. Let's tell everyone the good news." JJ takes Emily's hand and takes her into the room where everyone was.
Again what neither of them noticed was Rossi was also listening into them and with a smile on his face, he takes out his phone and makes a call.
They walked back in the room with smiles on their faces.
"Hey" Quinn greets them. She saw the big smiles on their faces. "You asked her." she asks, but it sounds like more of a statement than a question.
"You knew?" JJ looks to her little sister surprised. Quinn shrugs with grin. She looks back at Emily who had the same expression on her face.
"So…little Jay's getting hitched…sweet." Santana and Puck say at the same time making everyone laugh.
A day later, Quinn was finally released from the hospital. She had to wear a sling for her shoulder, and would have a slight pain when she moved it for a while, but other than that, she was okay.
The team had all gathered at Rossi's house…excuse me mansion, for "drinks". Well that's what JJ thinks. What she doesn't know is Rossi made a few calls, and they all have arranged for Emily and JJ to have their wedding there.
Everyone was already there, family and friends, they were just waiting for the main guest. Emily was standing waiting in the living room, while JJ was in the bathroom freshening up.
"Hey" Morgan walks over to the nervous looking brunette. Emily turns to Derek. "You okay?"
"Uh…yea…yea. Just a little…"
"Nervous." Derek and Emily finished at the same time with a laugh. "Yea. I can tell."
"That obvious." Emily chuckles embarrassed.
"A little." Morgan teases. "Hey…I'm proud of you." Derek says sincerely. "And I'm glad you found what you were missing."
"I was never really missing it. I was just so in the dark, I couldn't find it. Sucks it took me almost being blown up twice to realize it." Emily says ending with a joke.
"Yea" Morgan chuckles. "But hey, I'm glad you found it…them." he says looking behind her.
Emily turns to find what he was looking at and there she found her beautiful bride to be and their amazing son. "Yea…me too." Emily couldn't stop the smile from spreading on her face as they made their way to her. "Hey" She reaches down to pick up her son.
"Hey" JJ leans in for a kiss. "You ready to go."
"As ready as ever." Emily says. JJ looks at her fiancée strange wondering what was going on with her. She seemed more nervous than usual. Not thinking much more of it, they made their way to the outside patio. Once they got there, Quinn, arm sling and all runs over to her sister.
"JJ!" Quinn says hugging her sister.
"Hey, whoa what was all of that about?" JJ asks pulling from the surprised hug.
"What I can't hug my sister?" Quinn says in mock offence. JJ and Emily laughs.
"Not without wanting something." JJ teases her sister. Quinn pouts and Rachel kisses her cheek, smiling at her.
"Ahh the guests of honor has arrived." Rossi announced walking up to the two. JJ looks confused.
"Uhh what's going on?" JJ asks as she looked around. It really didn't look like a place where they would just get together and have a few drinks. There seemed to be a more formal thing about it.
Suddenly Russell pops out. "Dad?" JJ looks really confused now. She knew he wasn't at the hospital for Quinn, but did promise to be there as soon as he could. That wasn't what confused her though. What did was the fact that her grandmother, Judy's mom, came out with him. She hadn't seem her since their disaster of a family reunion dinner with Judy and Russell's parents present. "Grandma…wh-what are you doing here? And what's that in your hands?' JJ asks confused.
"Well we couldn't just get married without your dad and grandma here right." Emily says. JJ turns to Emily surprised.
"You know about this?" JJ asks.
"Well I might have made a few calls, with a little help." Emily smile looking at Quinn and Dave.
"Hey, just cause I'm one handed right now, doesn't mean I can't be useful." Quinn jokes. Everyone laughs.
"Now it makes sense why we had to get so dressed up." JJ says. Looking from Emily and their son to Quinn and Rachel, all dressed really formal.
Rachel was wearing a nice blue elegant dress that stopped at her knees, Quinn was wearing a pair of black dress pants, a blue button up dress shirt and a black tie. Lucas was dressed just like his 'daddy', while Bryce was wearing a little blue dress like her mommy.
Like Quinn, Emily was wearing black dress pants and a purple button up with the top buttons unbuttoned, Henry was the same as his mama, but was wearing a black tie. And JJ was wearing a beautiful purple dress.
Carol Jareau steps towards her eldest granddaughter holding up the white wedding dress she had in her hands. JJ gasps when she saw.
"Is that…" JJ trails off.
"It was your mother's." Russell says. "She had planned to see you wear it on your special day." Hearing this, tears filled both JJ and Quinn's eyes. "She would be so proud to see you…both of you, and how you've both grown into beautiful women with your beautiful families." Russell says with tears in his eyes.
"Daddy" JJ cries, both her and Quinn hugging their dad and grandmother.
"Okay…okay enough tears. This is a happy day. Now you young lady need to get dressed…" Carol starts.
"And that ladies and gentlemen is where I and my fashion partner in crime comes in." Garcia comes over with her arm about Kurt's shoulders. JJ had just noticed that the glee club had also been there. "Now you young lady are coming with me." Garcia grabs JJ and pulls her into the house.
"Yay, that means I get the butch one." Kurt jokes also pulling Emily into the house.
"Whoa what?" Emily says before being dragged away.
"See I knew if those two got together it would be a nightmare." Quinn jokes. Everyone laughs and gets into place.
An hour later things got started. Emily made her way to stand in the front. She was basically wearing the same thing, just now she had on a jacket and make up. Quinn and Rachel were already standing in the front. Quinn would later stand by Emily because she was her 'best man'.
Music started playing and Rachel and Quinn both picked up mics and began singing.
(Rachel)
I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
Next Lucas and Henry came walking down, getting "awed" by everyone. Henry was holding the pillow with Emily and JJ's wedding rings. Garcia, Santana, Puck, and Brittany, being the bridesmaids and man. They also made their way to the front. Santana and Puck were on Emily's side while Garcia and Brittany were where JJ would be standing.
(Quinn)
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
Finally JJ comes out and makes her way down the aisle with Russell by her side in a beauty white dress and a big smile on her face.
As she made her way down the aisle, she look around at the audience. She saw that all of her friends and family were there. The BAU, some she had made while working in the Pentagon, some outside the force. The glee club, Shelby, the Lopezs and the Puckermans were also. Her uncle, Judy's brother and a few cousins. Even Emily's mother was there. She looks up to the sky and could just envision her mother looking down at her on her special day.
(Both)
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars
As they got closer, JJ looks at her wife to be and smiles at how happy she was. Emily hasn't being able to take her eyes off the beauty that was about to become her wife since she walked out there. Jennifer was truly a vision.
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
JJ joins Emily at the alter. Russell kissed her on the forehead before giving her away to Emily, also giving her a hug then heads to his seat. He had tears in his eyes. His oldest daughter was getting married. He was so happy for her and just knew that his wife was smiling down on them. Watching this special day happen.
(Yes He did)
"We are gathered here today to celebrate the marriage of Emily Elizabeth Prentiss and Jennifer Ann Jareau Fabray." The justice of the peace starts.
Emily and JJ hadn't been able to take their eyes off each other.
I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
"Jennifer Ann Jareau Fabray, do you take Emily Elizabeth Prentiss to be your lawful wedded wife? Will you love, comfort, and protect her; forsaking all others to be faithful to her until death do you part?"
JJ smiles widely "I do."
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true.
"Emily Elizabeth Prentiss, do you take Jennifer Ann Jareau Fabray to be you lawful wedded wife? Will you love, comfort, and protect her…till death…" the justice was cut off by a very eager Emily.
"Till death and long after that?…You bet I do." Emily says bringing JJ's hand to her lips and placing a kiss on it. The audience "awed" at that.
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars
"Please repeat after me. I, Emily Elizabeth Prentiss, take you, Jennifer Ann Jareau Fabray, to be my wife, and my better half. I will take care and cherish our relationship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever. I will always be open, honest and faithful to you. I take you for my wife, to have and to hold from this day on, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish for all the days of my life and until my last breath."
Emily repeats. Then the justice turns to JJ and instructs her to do the same. JJ also repeats.
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
Yeah.
Quinn and Rachel both passed them their rings as they said their vows.
"This ring, which has no beginning and no end, symbolizes the love and trust between us that will never cease. May its presence on your hand remind you of my love and vow. I place it on your finger as a visible sign of the promises which have made us wife and wife." They repeat as they place the rings on each other's finger.
Now I'm just rolling home
Into my lover's arms
"By the power enthroned in me, by the state of Washington D.C, I now pronounce you wife and wife. You may now kiss your bride."
"Finally!" Emily exclaims. Everyone laughs as Emily pulled JJ into a strong passionate kiss. Sealing their unity.
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.
Once they broke away, they waved Henry to come and join them. Henry ran and jumped into Emily's arms and she picks them up.
"Ladies and Gentlemen may I introduce. The Prentiss family." Everyone cheers and congratulates the newly wedded couple as the happy family looks down at their extended family. The ones that have always been there for them.
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.
The reception was of course held in Rossi's back yard. Some sweet words were said. Of course the funny yet threaten speeches from Quinn and Russell. Mark, Judy's brother tried to do a drunken uncle's speech, but sadly he wasn't drunk enough. Puck joked that he would get back to them later for that one. Now it was time for dancing.
JJ and Emily had their first dance as a newly wedded couple. Rachel again sang a beautiful song as the couple danced. Soon after everyone else joined them on the dance floor and all danced together. Having a good time.
After making their rounds of dancing with everyone else, JJ and Emily came back together.
As they danced, JJ leans to whisper something in Emily's ear.
"I'm pregnant." JJ says pulling back with a smile. Emily looks shocked.
"Seriously?" Emily asks. JJ nods her head "When did you…how…?" Emily stuttered.
"Last night while you were cleaning up. I had an extra from the last time. Luckily it did not expire. I used and…I'm pregnant." JJ says with a smile.
"You…you…" Emily stutters. "I'm gonna be a mama…again?" JJ nods biting her lip in a smile. A huge smile breaks out of Emily's face and she cheers, picking JJ up in a hug and spinning her around. "I'm gonna be a mama again!" Emily says a louder this time. Everyone stopped and turned to the newly wedded couple. "I'm gonna be a mama….again!" Emily announces.
Shocked at first, everyone cheered and congratulated the couple. Henry runs to his mommies and Emily picks him up and together.
"You ready to be a big brother, little man?" Emily asks her son.
Henry looks down at his mommy's stomach before locking back up at his parents with a big smile on his face. He nods excitedly. "I'm gonna be the bestest big bwother everrr!" He cheers. Emily and JJ laugh with their son. Happy about the new upcoming addition to their family.
They all dance and have fun together like the big family that they were.
The End
Song: "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts
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