New chapter! Thanks guys for the reviews, they made me happy :) I hope you are liking this so far.
This chapter is all Emily and JJ, I hope you like it.
Chapter IV:
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller
"Emily!" The brunette heard her name, her eyes were closed, and her head hang up. She didn´t want to open her eyes. "Emily!" but the voice kept calling, she knew the voice, and she had known it for a long time now, it was soft and caring but firm. "Emily, wake up!" And then she knew who it was she opened her eyes and lifted her head up.
"JJ?" She asked still not sure of what was going on. "What happened?"
"Emily! Thank God you are awake!" The blonde said. She had been trying to wake her friend for half an hour by now. "We were on an accident, remember?"
Emily frowned, thinking, JJ could see her mind working and then it all came back. "What happened after I black out?" She asked the blonde now looking around her. They were in some kind of room, there were no windows, Emily could only see a door and a table behind JJ but the light was so dim that it made it hard to see more than just that.
"Let´s just said I don´t have a dislocated shoulder anymore." JJ said, she saw Emily´s expression and then added. "It is okay, really just let it go…anyway they got us in their truck and drove us here."
"Where is here?" Emily asked.
"I´m not sure, we had a bag on our heads the entire ride…it was a long ride Em." JJ took a deep breath and then continued. "I´m sure these guys are our UnSubs. They said no words during the way here."
Emily exhaled. "By now the team must know we are missing and if they know what we know."
"That these guys are our UnSubs."
"Yes, then they must be looking for us as we speak." Just then Emily realized the uncomfortable position they were held in. She had hand cuff and she was hanging from a chain that was secured to the ceiling, she couldn´t actually see it, her feet barely touched the ground. JJ on the other hand was tied to a pole, her hands were behind her and around the metal pole and her ankles were still tied together.
"Em…" The brunette heard her friend called. "Can you promise me something?" She asked.
"What?" She could see the pleading look and determination in JJ´s eyes.
"Promise me that…whatever happens you won´t act all hero."
"JJ I…" But she was cut off by JJ.
"Emily, please! I know you, I know what you think so please don´t do it! I won´t be able to take it…You and I, we both know what these guys do to their victims…so I´m not going to just stay here while you go all Emily Prentiss in this place!"
This made Emily smile. "Okay but…I know you as well and I want you to promise me the same."
JJ looked her in the eyes and smiled. "I have the feeling these promises won´t last long." And her smile faded as fast as it had appeared.
"I can promise you this though." Emily said after a few seconds. "I will do anything to try and keep us alive, you and me."
"Isn´t that the opposite of what we just said?"
"Kind of but…this time I said both of us."
"I see…because I can´t lose another sister." JJ said in a quiet tone, she looked down before Emily could see her face.
The brunette was about to say something when the door to the room opened, the UnSubs came in, first the tall one and then the other.
…
"Alright Kevin, how are we going to do this?" Sean asked his friend, they had left the agents down in the room and now they were talking of what to do. Sean and Kevin had done this more than once, that´s why the FBI was in town. They would kidnap a girl, one for Kevin and then they would do the same but for Sean, both guys had pretty different taste in women (as they call it).
"Maybe we can try something new, what do you said?" Kevin said. "We always do it separately, maybe this time we can do it together to see how they react, just one time and then we separate them. Let´s play with their minds as well." His face was pure excitement.
"I like the idea." Sean told Kevin. "Help me get the things." Kevin was taller than Sean but he was younger, he always admired Sean, when they first talk about their fantasies and thoughts that was the moment they became inseparables.
…
"I see you are awake Agent Prentiss." Sean told Emily. "Good because it wouldn´t be fun at all if you weren´t."
Emily said nothing, she just observed his movements. She noticed that both man were carrying bags. Kevin left his on the table behind JJ and she saw Sean going behinds her so she assumed there was a table as well.
"We decided to try something knew this time." Kevin said approaching JJ. She didn´t react, she was not going to show fear. "We normally do this in separated rooms but…there is something about you two that makes things different."
JJ felt sick, she looked in this guy´s eyes and saw nothing, he was enjoining this, there was no remorse, nothing and that simple fact made her heart go faster. "And what is that?" She asked with a firm tone.
Kevin and Sean smiled. "Friendship of course!" Sean said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Emily and JJ looked at each other, they understood then, maybe the only thing that was going to keep them alive was also the same thing that could kill them.
"Who goes first?" Sean asked Kevin.
"I go first." Emily said, there was no way she was going to let JJ go first, she needed to know what was going to happen and better be her than JJ.
"Emily don´t!" JJ said, she had asked her not to do it, it was the first thing she had asked her and she goes and does it. "Damn it Emily!"
"I see then…it´s okay with you Kevin?" The black eyed boy told his friend.
"Go ahead it gives me more time to think of what I´m going to do." Kevin said. Sean smiled and went to get his first toy.
JJ saw him going over his stuffs, she tried so hard not to look into Emily´s eyes but she failed, she made eye contact with her and wasn´t sure how she should felt. Kevin was going through his own bag so it was just the two of them, JJ saw Emily´s mouth moving. "It´s okay." JJ looked at her, how it was suppose to be okay? It was not okay!
Emily kept her gaze on JJ, her blonde friend was mad at her but, what could she do? It was her after all; she knew JJ was going to endure something similar but still her impulse, her protective side made the choice for her. Then she saw JJ muttered something "Stay Alive" and she smiled, a bittersweet smile but it was the only thing Emily needed to get through this.
"Okay! Let´s begin." Sean said turning around, JJ saw him but did nothing to alert Emily because she didn´t want her to see the fear in her eyes. Sean was wearing punching gloves and he stood in front of Emily. "I´m more physical." He said before throwing the first blow. Emily tried to double over but the chains made it impossible. He then threw another and another and another.
JJ saw everything, she saw her best friend getting use like a punching back, after the third blow she began to struggle with the ropes around her hands. "Stop…" She said and kept trying to undo the knot but it was to no avail, she felt so helpless so she tried harder. "Stop it!" Sean was getting angry at Emily. At first she wasn´t reacting to his blows as the other girls but after a while she began to make sounds, it wasn´t much but it was something, he also heard JJ telling him to stop.
Kevin saw JJ, she was something else, he could see the pain and fieriness in her eyes. "It´s not going to work." He told her. "He is in his world right now. I have to say it though, she is strong, I think we did a good choice with you two."
"Shut up." JJ said still trying to get off the ropes and the damn pole. She could feel her shoulder protesting, it was burning again but she didn´t care, she jut wanted to help Emily, she could see she was getting weaker.
Sean then stopped. "Wow that was fun! I like you Agent Prentiss…you are really something else." He said, Emily then looked at him and said nothing her eyes spoke for her and the look in her eyes scared him, it was weird he had never felt like this before and it scared him. "You go now pal."
Emily felt like her ribs were going to kill her, it was hard to breathe properly and the left side of her face felt hot, she knew it would swell up soon. She was able to take it this time but she didn't know for how long, if the team didn´t find them soon she was afraid of not been able to make it. Even if they didn´t kill them, there were other ways to break a person and both agent knew it.
"I already know what to do." Kevin said going to the table and returning with a small bag on his hands. "What do you think is in here Agent Jareau?"
"I don´t not…your beauty products?" JJ said. She knew she shouldn´t provoke them but after what she saw she just couldn´t help it.
"Ha…very funny Agent, but no." Kevin said smiling, he then opened the bag and took something similar to a nail, it was long and thin, the head was a hook. "Do you like them? I made them myself. You see I like to create knew things and these are knew, so you are the first one to try them." He took one and walked to her.
JJ tried to move again, she didn´t want to know where he was going to put those things but she also knew she couldn´t do anything to avoid it.
"I wouldn´t move if I were you Agent." He said using the object on her; Kevin put it on her damage shoulder and inserted it in. JJ tried so hard not to emit any sound but it was almost impossible, the pain was too much, she knew it was going to hurt but she didn´t expected him to do it in her damage shoulder. "It works!" He said to Sean.
JJ´s breathing was fast, she was trying so hard to keep it together but every time he inserted one of the nails in her, whether it was her other shoulder, her leg or her arm the pain was as horrible as the previews one.
Emily felt like JJ when she was the one being tortured, helpless. "Stop it!" The brunette screamed, her ribs protested but she didn´t care. "Stop it you fucking coward!" and suddenly something hard connected with her face.
"Shut up!" Sean said, he was enjoining the expression on her face but he didn´t want her to ruin his friend´s moment. Emily swore she could see stars.
"I´m done here! What do you think?" Kevin asked Sean, he just nodded and smiled.
"Let´s give them time to…breathe." Sean said and left followed by Kevin.
"Alright! Because I´m starving."
There was total silent in the room; they could hear each other breathing. " JJ?" Emily said. "JJ, can you hear me?"
"Yeah…but I think…I can´t move." She said. It was true every time she tried to move her body would protest, Kevin knew what he was doing. "How about… you?"
"I´m…not sure." Emily said, she didn´t want to worry JJ but she should have known better.
"Don´t lie to me Em…not here."
"I know…I´m sorry." The brunette agent said. "It´s kind of… hard to breathe but…it´s not that bad."
"Em…how are we going to do this?" JJ then asked the question both had in their minds. "I can´t…it´s so hard to see him do this to you and do nothing…I just…."
"I know JJ…I know, but I also know the team will find us, so we have to keep going, okay?" She said. Emily so wanted to believe her own words as well.
"Okay." JJ felt like Emily´s words were what she needed to hear and then she had a thought. "Em… I know you are always trying to protect us but I want you to know something."
"What?"
"I want you to know that… I also have your back. Here and when we get out of here, I… I will be there, with you and I don´t want you to forget it." Emily felt tears forming, she saw the love in JJ´s eyes and knew the team felt the same as she did, they were family and hearing the words from her best friend made her feel like it was possible to get through this.
"The team will find us but in the mean time we have to stay alive." Emily said looking at JJ, she nodded and both tried to rest, it was hard but they needed it because this was still not over.
There it is! It was fun and interesting to write JJ and Emily´s talk. It felt right and I love their friendship so I had to add emotions to it! Because you know they love each other.