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It had been 9 hours give or take since the last wounds were inflicted, each woman now nurse a broken wrist and more scratches. The men's arms were torn, and ripped, and dripping blood but this didn't discourage them. However, it seemed every time their hands got even remotely close to freedom, the barbed wire did what it could and tightened into a hurtful grip.

They had noticed that the man had an order, since the women had woken up from the beatings the first time; Penelope was always taken first, followed by Emily and then JJ. This time when he took Penelope he left the door open, the breeze floated through the walkway and around them before recirculating. They heard metal on metal; a few whimpers and those noises made Derek go ballistic against his wounding restraints.

A pain filled whimper filled their ears and the women cried, the men got angry as they couldn't help, for once in their lives they felt completely useless. They heard the rough voice echo, then a huff and the sound of near dragging someone. Penelope was retrained back down, with more tears on her face, a new piece of tape over her lips and then Emily was gone again. She fiddled with the metal around part of her right arm, and put her head back against the pain that was now radiating up her arm. They saw the new ringlets of blood as it escaped from under the metal and then heard the repeat of sound effects, this time Emily howled in pain, and they knew they still had to listen through JJ, who was currently looking more and more petrified with each now reverberated noise that filtered through.

'Pen you okay?' She nodded, her eyes never leaving the new metal. They listened as Emily was dumped back down, a similar metal device on her arm, tape over her mouth, they had all her heard her cry out and knew they would have to hear it with JJ. The man latched her back up and moved to Penelope, he took the metal contraption from her arm and Penelope near enough fainted as she felt the metal spikes get drawn out of her skin, the man dropped it on the floor in front of Hotch and the men all saw what had been put on Penelope's arm, and what was on Emily's arm right now and what was soon to be put on JJ's and just like that JJ was gone. By the time he came back Penelope and Emily were now slumped asleep, they heard the smirk and they all fought against the wire and he took Penelope again. Things were happening too frequently and too order.

The man knew they weren't going far, the door was left opened again and they heard the sound of the tape being ripped from the skin. The familiar sound of pain rang out and then the gush of water. They all exchanged looks, Derek ripped more than the others as he heard the noises, his thrashing gained him more cuts but he didn't care. The man dumped an unconscious Penelope on the floor and moved onto Emily. He took the metal device off and left it on the floor, JJ completely unaware of everything as she slept. They all looked at Penelope, she was soaked from head to toe, her body shaking with evident chills, her eyes shut, new cuts pulsating blood. Derek tore even more and his arm came free, minutes later Hotch prevailed and they both got free, they wasted no time with self assessment, they both realised that Reid and Rossi were not far behind them with freedom. Hotch helped completely free the two other men, Derek rushed to Penelope's side, he picked her up, felt her jump at the touch and then cradled her to give her body heat. When he looked over Hotch and Rossi had left the room and a situation could be heard, Reid was checking on JJ and Derek needed to check on Penelope, he needed to see the severity of her wounds.

'Pen.' He said as he ran a hand over her bruised face. He felt her shivering from the coldness and pulled her closer. Her eyes began to open; he looked at her lips, sore and cut. 'That's it P... you need to open your eyes.'

'Der...rek.' She croaked, her jaw chattering together.

'Yeah baby girl, we're going to get you out.' She nodded and finally let some tears out. 'I'm going to lay you down; I need to check you over.' She didn't reply to him, she just closed her eyes against the pain and to combat the chills. She felt him lift the top up and gently touch around the areas. Derek looked at Penelope's stomach as it lay bare, she had stab wounds all over, some he knew how she got, and others were new and unknown. He looked at her hands closer this time and her arms, the punctures all over them, the holes. He looked back her face and saw her eyes were closed, her body beginning to shake even more violently. He pulled her up and sat against the wall, her body close so he could transfer as much body heat as possible.

Reid looked over JJ as she sat staring at Penelope. Her eyes swollen from the beating, the bruising severe. He too looked over her hands and arm, the metal device still yet to be removed from her arm. She whimpered at the touch but became more aware of everything. 'I'm going to look for a key.' She nodded and he scrambled to his feet and ran out of the door, resurfacing, he unlatched her from the waist restraint and then took off metal entrapment on her arm. He pulled her into his arms as she began to cry even more, evident that things didn't look good for her, and they looked worse for Emily and Penelope. He felt the cuts as he held her close and he was scared of hurting her but she clung to him for dear life and he knew not to break that bond, not until she was entirely ready to do so.

'Kid... where's Hotch?'

'They're sorting Emily out... she's pretty much like Pen.'

'And the bloke?'

'Bleeding out tied to up.' Reid eyed up the seemingly asleep Penelope in Derek's arms. 'Is she okay?'

'No... we need to get her out of here, I can't get her warm.'

'Blood loss makes the body colder, that and it seems he showered them in ice cold water making the body temperature plummet.'

Rossi ran into the room. 'We need to move them, we've found a room with beds in, strangely its equipped for 7 people. Is it safe to move them?'

'We need to get blankets for Pen.' Rossi nodded and watched Morgan look down. 'Pen you need to wake up so we can get you warm.' She remained unresponsive. 'Pen come on.'

'Morgan just carry her.' Derek nodded and stood putting Penelope in his arms, her head fell onto his chest. 'Right let's get her in the room.' Derek followed Rossi, Reid stuck around in the room sorting JJ out, he decided he would follow in a few minutes, for now he was sorting out JJ. When they made it into the room there were indeed 7 perfectly made beds with initials, their initials. Derek laid Penelope on one and began to grab spare blankets, Rossi helped while Hotch helped Emily. When she remained cold Derek got on the bed and pulled Penelope close to him trying to enforce some body heat that she needed.

'The shivering is stopping.' Derek said as Penelope stopped her shaking of coldness, now she was shaking from pain and fear. 'Come on baby girl.' He said and kissed her head. 'I need you to come through this.'

'Morgan she's waking up.' Rossi said as he approached them.

'Come on baby girl, you need to stay awake.' He said looking down, rocking her gently as he tried to generate heat; he felt her body shake more, not from pain, or chills but sobs. 'Ahh Pen we are going to get you out.' He put his lips to her head. 'I promise.' He looked up as Reid came in helping JJ, holding her ribs protectively; Reid sat her down and wrapped a blanket around her.

'Reid with me... we need to find a way out.' Reid nodded and followed Rossi out after making sure JJ was laying down fine.

Hotch got up and approached Derek and Penelope, he crouched and moved some straggles of hair to inspect Penelope closer, her eyes were closed but tears were spilling out. He stood and walked from the room. The only thing they heard was the sound of kicks and the wind being knocked out of someone's lungs.