Chapter 4: Hello Brother

Tuttle Hospital, Miami

Emily was forced to walk through the Miami streets looking for the hospital, wasting a few minutes of time before finally reaching it. She could not call Garcia for help, she had a feeling that if she did that Hotchner would show up and she did not want to imagine what would happen if the two of them were in the same room.

After arriving she had to search and wonder through the hospital second floor before finally finding room thirty-three on the very end of the hall. The building was mostly empty with the exception only a few patients that were out and the nurses. She hated being inside the place she was in, it brought back some of the more indelible memories from the few times she was brought in for injuries she received on the job, the most recurring memory being from when Doyle nearly killed her.

She was however still surprised when she learned that Sean still had her listed as his emergency contact if he was ever injured, she imagined in the ten years since she last saw him that he would have found someone else to receive a call like this one.

When she entered the room she could hear him starting to speak after the door made a squeak sound, announcing her intrusion into the room "I'll tell you like I told that last nurse who came in; I already took the damn medication already, so screw off. Unless you my friend then go away and don't bother me."

Emily could tell by his "cheery" disposition to her arrival, but not seeing who she was, that the nurses him had been annoying him since he arrived and she says "Well nice to see you too Sean."

Sean turns around in the hospital bed, suddenly realizing his error as he say "Emily, oh sorry, I thought you were another one of those idiot nurses I've had to put up with."

Emily took a look at Sean's body, he had bandages wrapped on the lower part of his ribs, but the injuries that caught her attention the most were the scars on his lower abdomen as well as various other scars that seemed to have faded some. Aside from the scars on him, the only other blemish to be seen was a "birds of a feather" tattoo on the front of his left shoulder with eight birds on the left side of his chest flying away from the feather.

As Emily looks around the room she watches him lay back in the bed and she asks "What happened to you Sean, you look like you've been in a cage fight?"

"Yeah thanks for noticing." He said sarcastically as he lay in the bed, still feeling sore, before replying "I'm not entirely sure, after I left the Neon I was on my way home to get those files ready for tomorrow and the next thing I know I'm getting hit with a tranquilizer dart to the neck and a beating to the ribs."

"Was that all that happened?" Emily asked, still horrified as she was staring at the scars on Sean's body, before he replies "No, not all of it. They wanted a file they thought Oliver gave me on the Archangels, but I don't know why they thought I would have one."

"Is there a file on the Archangels?" Emily asked.

"No, not that I know of; Oliver never mentioned anything like that when he got to town." Sean replied.

"What about the men who kidnapped you?" Emily asked; giving one question after another complied onto a million more questions.

Sean then replies, showing some anger in his expression "Yeah, I recognized them; a mercenary thug group they call the three demons. They were popular back in 2006 for various kidnappings and torture for information; they were considered high grade killer bogymen. Beyond that they've been in the dark since then, last I heard they were in Mexico or near the Mexican border."

"Who do you think hired them?" Emily asked and then he replies with a shrug of his shoulders "I don't know, probably the same guy who hired Keller to kill Oliver and Chloe."

Sean had the look of despair on his face as he was lying down in the hospital bed; Emily had seen him like this before when he was depressed. She could tell he wanted to leave the room more than anything; Sean hated hospitals more than most people would.

Suddenly Emily hears her phone begin to ring as Sean starts to force himself up in the bed and he says sarcastically "Oh no go, not like I'm going anywhere."

"Prentiss," Emily said, taking a few steps away so Sean could not listen in on her conversation, it was the voice Garcia she soon heard on the other end of the phone call as she says "Emily, I got a call from Hotchner and the Miami police; there's been a triple murder."

"What does this have to do with the murder we're investigating?" Emily asked, have some suspicion that they were investigation the men who kidnapped Sean, and soon her suspicion was validated as Garcia says "The three men were known thugs for hire and one of them was shot to death with a gun that is registered to Pierce."

"Okay Garcia, can I call you back real quick?" Emily asked before Garcia replies "Sure thing; is something wrong?" to which Emily says "It's nothing I just need to talk to someone real quick." And then she hangs up on the phone call before turning back to face Sean who was putting on his shirt and preparing to leave the hospital when she stopped him in his tracks saying "Hold on Sean, I still have another question for you."

"What is it Emily?" Sean asked as he begins to put on his jacket.

"When I got to Miami I was told you arrived here five years ago, what happed in the five years before that?" Emily asked, watching as Sean stared blankly at her; the expression on his face was cold as he searched for the right words to say, hesitating when his mouth opened then finally he said "I went looking for some answers about what happened to me during those two months and ten days that I was missing, eventually I found some after the first year and had to spend the next year in a maximum security prison, after that I just drifted around for the next three."

"What did you find out?" Emily asked and Sean replied "During those two months I was tortured for information both physically and mentally. They cut me up with a blade, they pumped their special little drugs in my system that nearly caused me to go insane from hallucination combined with the high, and they even beat me senseless until I became numb to the pain. After that it just stopped one day and somehow I escaped."

When Sean recounted most of the details of what happened to him Emily thought she would see the expression of a man with PTSD, but his face was devoid of emotion; like he remembers it as if he had watched it happen to someone else.

"Sean how does it not bother you to talk about this, I've seen people who have gone through stuff like that; they were nowhere near as calm as you are now." Emily said as Sean remained unfazed before responding by saying "I don't to be honest; that drugs they injected me with repressed the memory of it and afterwards when I regained the memory of it, it just didn't bother me. I had spent months imagining what happened to me; and when I did finally find out, it just seemed so meaningless."

"What kind of drug was it?" Emily asked, and then Sean was hesitant for a second as his eyes moved around, before he finally "I'm not sure really, I remember they shot me up with it every day, but to be honest, Emily, the closest thing I ever got to the name of it was a passing guard called it Vertigo, on account of the way you eyes move around the first five seconds before the high kicks in. All I remember aside from that was not having much of a care after they put it in me. And Emily I mean this stuff really messes with your head, for a brief second every problem I ever had was gone; I didn't care about being a prisoner, I no longer care that I was a bastard, I just felt so at peace, and then the beatings started and I was in for a long hell of a ride after that."

Emily suddenly remembered how she had to go and asks "Sean where are you going now?"

Sean replied, still feeling the soreness of his ribs "Home, I'm pretty sure the guys who grabbed me went through my loft after they did; I figure I'll go that first, then get some sleep, cause I am tired as can be right now."

Emily then remembered the files that he said he had for her and the team to read, she knew that if she told Hotchner and the others about this they would want to know if he still had the files on him, and she asks him "Sean, those files you have; do you think that the men who attacked you were able to get them?"

"I highly doubt it, Emily." Sean said before continuing on "I hid those files on a disc that I keep in a place no one would ever think to look."

"Where would that be?" Emily asked, and then Sean remained hesitant to answer at first; he had spent the past ten years never being able to trust anyone other than himself and a few of the people here in Miami, his boss Diamond and his coworker Cole to name a few, so his trust was not the most easily given thing to receive. Sean thought for a second about; his trust for the BAU was not a strong one, being not to shy of deep hatred, but he did trust Emily, she was the one person left from his old life that he believed he could still trust.

Finally he says "It's in a small hidden compartment in my room under the floor, you can only find it if you know where it is."

"You hid it under your floor?" Emily asked, in a humorous confusion before he replied "What? I was all I could think of at the time, and it's worked out for me so far….look whenever you're done with whatever it is your about to do; just come to my loft and I'll have it ready for you by then."

Emily agreed and he said goodbye to her as he left the hospital room.

Abandoned building, Miami

After separating from Sean at the hospital, Emily had to call Garcia back to ask for directions to meet up with the rest of the team at the murder scene they were investigating and examining to get inside the mind of the killer.

As she was on her way to the scene she continued to think of Sean, how he had those scars on his body, the things he mentioned in their conversation; such as how he was in a maximum security prison and was drugged ten years ago. She could tell by the look in his eye back there that he was not making this up, why would he? The thoughts that buzzed around in her heard were also the possibilities of what could have happened to him back then.

The images her head was creating as she walked were haunting, she did not even know she could imagine up something like them as her mind drew pictures of knives tearing into skin and bone as a man screams in pain from the blade in his flesh.

Finally she arrived to where the rest of the team was already waiting for her with police officers and detectives on the scene with them.

"Hey Emily," J.J. said, greeting her friend as she arrived fresh on the scene, but still devoid of a good night's rest. Her glee to see her friend was short lived, as J.J. began to take a notice to the look of intense concern on her face as she walked up to them. It was a cause for a concern in J.J. and she asks "What's wrong Emily, you look like you just saw a ghost?"

Emily then started to try and does everything in her power to make the expression on his face vanish into oblivion, she was sure that she did not want to talk to anyone about what she just heard so soon and she sure as hell did not want to give the team any reason to doubt her loyalty or give them anything they could use to make Sean think she sold him out.

She was still not sure to make of the situation, she trusted the team as much as they trusted her, but she also trusted Sean and did not want this to end up badly for anyone; so she decided to be quiet on the subject until she was absolutely sure. She did plan to tell eventually, just not now.

"Yeah I'm fine J.J. I just haven't gotten that much sleep is all." Emily said as she tried to cover her expression away, and then she tried to change the subject as she looks at the scene they were all at, asking her friend "What's going on?"

Then J.J. directs her friends to the bodies, but still having the impression that something was up.

Sean's Loft, Miami

Sean returned to his loft minutes after leaving the hospital Tuttle hospital, he was in a hurry to return home to see the extent of the damage done to his place after he was kidnapped. The three demons were infamous for making a mess of nice places to find what they want. The concern for his files was not the last thing from his mind, but he was more concerned with the degree his room could be ransacked.

Upon arriving at his home Sean immediately took notice to his door that was open with a small crack, giving him the implication that someone had recently opened it and planned on leaving later; he then pulls out his 1911 and raises it as he slowly opens the door.

Finding his stuff thrown around the room of the loft, there had definitely been a ransacking of his room after he was kidnapped, then as he looks through the rooms he finds one room with an occupant; he was startled at first as he quickly tried to aim his weapon and as he did this the man in the room with him raised a weapon of his own.

As Sean was staring down the barrel of a Browning Hi-Power and he in turn aimed his weapon at the man in return before taking a closer look at the man's face. He instantly recognized him as the man said to him "Hello, brother."

Sean then replied "Hello Keller."