A/N: I love my sister. I really do. She gave me a mini laptop computer she is no longer using so now I can type during the hour I spend on trains every day to and from work and not just at home. So you can thank her for the more expedited postings you will be seeing in the near future.

Thanks to fanficlover, moonshine-036 and Hazmatt for reviewing the first chapter of this piece and giving me a reason to really get into working on it.

This story is rated M with violence, language and adult themes.

Silence - Chapter 2

"Hey guys, I've got Garcia on the line and she's extremely anxious to speak to all of us." Derek put the call on speaker and held it in the middle of the group as Hotch pulled out his phone with a frown.

"Just give me a second. I've got JJ calling in. Go ah…"

His words were cut off as the sound of gunfire had everyone reflexively ducking as they looked around.

"We need you to come back to the station like yesterday. Some crazy guy's shooting at us and has the rest of the station hostage."

"You're surrounded by cops JJ; it isn't possible."

"Tell that to your wife who is currently bleeding from either a bullet to the arm or wooden shards kicked up by the bullets hitting the doorframe as she lunged out of the way," she hissed in return.

Before any of them could answer, they heard a distant male voice shout, "Leave your weapons behind and come out with your hands up. I promise not to shoot you if you appear in the next ten seconds."

"You'll have to give me a few more seconds than that. My colleague is pregnant and she'll need some help to get up." In a whisper she hissed, "Get back here before someone dies."

They heard JJ moving away from the phone and more distant to that, a male voice muttering angrily about something.

"Baby girl I'll need to call you back."

"No! You can't!"

"If you didn't hear that…"

"I heard it as clearly as the rest of you but it isn't the only issue you have to deal with."

"Well get in contact with Jordan and get her to deal with anything pressing you might need me for before I return."

"I can't; Jordan's on her way to hospital with a couple of bullets in her."

"What!"

They all stopped dead and turned to look at him as his world rocked underneath him. Kelly was closest and hooked a hand under his arm for support as she asked, "What happened Garcia?"

"Police responded to a report of shots fired at the Hotchner residence. They arrived to find Carrie had been tortured and was nearly dead. By the looks of the CCTV footage, Teresa was first through the door and had enough time to leap out of the way as the gunman swung round to shoot her. Unfortunately, in doing so she hit a wall head first hard enough to crack her skull. Austin appeared too stunned to respond and took the first bullet to the upper abdomen before Jordan tackled her out of the way and caught the next couple."

"What about Jack and Toby?" Aaron asked anxiously as his heart stopped.

"No one knows. When he first appeared at the house, he obviously threatened them into silence so that Carrie returned to the room unaware. That didn't stop her from tackling the guy out of the way so the boys could run and run they did. Carrie and the creep fought for a few minutes before he got the better of her and shot her the first time. He then proceeded to torture her until the girls arrived and interrupted. Despite being on maternity leave, Jordan obviously still carries around her service revolver and again, despite being shot a couple of times, managed to not only aim the weapon, but shoot at him. She didn't hit him, but she did scare him off. Although that could have been the cops arriving with sirens because they ran in a minute later.

"Anyway, I called and spoke to the police and alerted them to the most likely places to look for the boys but they haven't been spotted as yet and Jess is beside herself with worry because they didn't go to her for help. Will dropped Henry off with me and went out to look for them. Brad just left a message for me from the hospital; things aren't looking too good for Carrie and they don't think she'll survive surgery.

"I'm on my way to the hospital as soon as I finish this call and as soon as I have answers I shall call again and update you all. Know everyone's prayers are with you during these times and Strauss is doing everything she can to light a fire under everyone to get them searching harder and faster."

Aaron felt almost physically ill as he thought of his son out on the street and possibly being chased by a madman.

"What about the unsub Garcia? Do the police have him in custody?"

"Not yet and I can tell you this, it doesn't make sense to any of us; the guy who did this was a cop."

Aaron wanted to throw up as realisation hit. "Carrie's abusive husband is a cop. He got away with the abuse for years before that station was investigated for corruption. I kept a light tab on what was going on and her husband was one of the cops fired. They have a new Senior and he's doing an excellent job of cleaning the place up but it was too little too late for Carrie and Toby. Was the guy tall with sandy blond hair and mean eyes?"

"That's him."

"Garcia, I need you to tell me the minute they find the boys and call us with regular updates on the rest of the girls regardless of whether there is anything new to report. We'll go rescue JJ and Emily and be on the plane home as soon as I can manage it."

"I promise I will let no one sleep until we find those boys safe and sound."

"Thanks Garcia."

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"Jack, I'm really cold."

"I know Toby. But we can't do anything until my dad finds us and comes to rescue us."

"What if he never comes? What if my dad kills us before he gets here."

"He came last time and saved me from the bad guy; he'll come this time too. I promise."

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JJ watched Emily closely as she rubbed slowly at her abdomen with her uninjured arm. The guy who'd as good as signed his death warrant had allowed Emily to use the bathroom and to wrap up her arm. She was also the only one sitting in a chair while the rest were on the floor. But since sitting down and having her unborn child threatened if anyone so much as twitched, she'd been so completely wrapped up in looking down at her belly that JJ was worried about her colleague and friend's mental and emotional state.

They were all aware that the station was now surrounded by every cop and fed in the city not in the building when it was taken. Billie now stood directly behind Emily with the gun pressed against the top of her head while the phone rang for the fourth time in the last two minutes. Someone was obviously trying to get through to them.

As the phone stopped ringing for all of a second before it started up again, Billie growled an expletive and backed up towards it.

"If anyone even thinks of moving while I'm on this call I swear I'll blow the baby to kingdom come."

JJ saw Emily flinch at the threat as she had the first time and though the stroking stopped for a second, she didn't look up as Billie picked up the handset and growled, "I swear, if you try anything, anything at all, I'm shooting the pregnant fed."

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The relief at knowing Emily was alive enough to be threatened had long been eclipsed by their lack of successful negotiation with Billie. He still had complete control of the station simply because no one wanted to risk getting the baby shot and Aaron was feeling so completely torn in two that he was close to walking in there and just blowing the guys' brains out. His son was still missing, he'd just been told Carrie was dead and his wife was being held at gunpoint. He couldn't think of anything worse.

"Hotch, I negotiated having water sent in; sealed bottles only, but it means we can get in to assess the situation. Hotch?"

Kelly looked at Dave sadly. "Garcia just phoned; Carrie didn't make it alive off the table. There was simply too much damage."

"Shit," he said with real feeling.

"That was Morgan's reaction also."

"Jordan isn't…" he couldn't say it, didn't want to even contemplate it.

"Nothing is known of her condition yet."

"Could anything else possibly go wrong?"

"Unfortunately. Austin requires a transfusion of blood but the hospital is all out of her type and they are running out of time to find the right one before she bleeds to death."

"Teresa?"

"In a coma and still in surgery. She didn't have any news as to her condition on the table."

He shoved a hand through his hair and sighed tiredly. "I don't suppose they found the boys?"

"We didn't get that lucky. I'll help you take the water in or I can do it myself if you need a few minutes to get your head around everything?"

"Thanks for the offer but the way I look at it is the sooner we get this stopped the sooner we can go home to be with our ladies."

"I hear you and I'm glad you at least are still with me. Is it worth me keeping my ankle holster to see if we get a break?"

He hesitated. "I don't want to put Emily in any more danger than she is already in but I think we need to see if we can get a break. If he finds the gun, I'll kick you out and see if I can salvage the situation by stating that I didn't know because you're new to replace our pregnant co-worker. Grab a med kit too; we can see if he'll let us check out Emily's arm while we are in there. If he does, I'll distract him and try to draw him away. Kelly, we may only get one shot at this; if he turns away from her enough, you get her on the ground and you give the warning. After that, don't hesitate; if he starts to swing toward you or looks like he'll pull the trigger on someone else, you shoot the bastard and we'll deal with the rest later."

She nodded as they waited for the boxes of water to finish being bugged just in case the original plan didn't work and the standoff continued. Finally given the green light, he called through to indicate they were coming through with the water for everyone. He followed Kelly toward the door and watched her ankle; as near as he could see there wasn't any way to see that she had a small gun in her boot.

He pulled even with her and got the door to the station. She walked in ahead of him and stepped to the side out of his way. There they waited as they assessed the scene before them. Emily sat in the only chair, not looking at anyone as she rubbed her belly and Kelly prayed that she hadn't gone into premature labour. JJ sat against a wall nearby and looked back at them calmly. The rest of the cops they could see lay belly down on the ground.

Billie glared at them and pointed to the counter. "You can leave the water there."

Kelly smiled serenely, as if there was nothing wrong with what she could see. "We'd love to be able to Billie but the husband of the pregnant fed is our boss and has requested that we see how she is. It would go a long way towards seeing you get your brother back if you would allow us to check on her. Can we do that before we go?"

They held their breath and Dave sent up a silent prayer of thanks that Kelly was such a quick thinker. Finally Billie pointed at Kelly with his free hand. "The woman only. And you need to take your jacket off and turn around so I can see you aren't packing anything."

Kelly did as she was told and when Billie was satisfied he gestured her through. He had her open the med kit and show him what was inside before he let her do what she wanted to do. As Dave asked Billie if he needed anything else, she crouched down in front of Emily and peered up under her hair.

"Are you alright under here," she asked quietly.

"Not really. I have this horrible feeling that something is really wrong with Jack and he needs me right now. Is there any chance you've heard of anything being not quite right back home?"

"Let us get you out of this and then ask me again; we don't have enough time right now. I'm going to check out your arm. Do you know if you were shot?"

"It doesn't feel like it and it didn't look like it but it's possible I was winged because I didn't find any wood when I cleaned it out."

Kelly nodded and got to work unwrapping the bandage already in place as she watched Billie out of the corner of her eye. Dave was distracting him by asking almost totally inane questions and the guy was obviously getting pissed off by it. The hope was that he'd get so pissed off that he'd start waving the gun around. This in itself was a risk; anyone could get shot when she pulled her gun and especially if she had to tackle him. But it was a risk they had to take in order to end this insanity.

She was just wrapping Emily's arm back up after ascertaining that the wound appeared to be nothing more than a really bad graze that might need a stitch or two at its deepest end when Billie suddenly screamed and shifted the gun from the top of her bent head.

In one smooth move, she pulled Emily off the chair and to the ground, pulled her gun as she shifted to her feet, clicked off the safety and pressed the gun to the back of Billie's head.

"Billie drop the gun now and kick it away from you. Billie."

When he moved to spin to face her, she pulled the trigger just as he kicked her legs out from under her, losing her gun as she hit the ground. She lunged to grab his gun before he could use it but even as wrapped her hands around it, she knew she was far too late to stop disaster from happening.

It was going to be just one thing after another today...

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A/N: I really don't have a clue where this one is going at the moment, so I think I might stay tuned also for the next instalment.

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