Chapter IV

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, said the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

- Revelation 1:8

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What happened right before the shooting...

JJ awoke from her nap due to a knock on the door. She opened it to find Tanya with a gun in her face. Tanya seemed nervous, her eyes twitching this way and that. "You were so stupid. You believed me?" JJ had her mouth open, backing into her couch. "Yes, yes, have a seat, you're nervous, I understand. Don't you reach for that gun!" Tanya saw JJ's hand move towards her pillow. She slapped JJ's hand with her gun and pulled her gun out from under the pillow. "You, ma'am, do NOT get this." Tanya now had two guns pointed at JJ. "What if I cut your hair off, huh? And draw the almighty eye of Ra on your back, and you, too, will be condemned to an afterlife in Hell." JJ stood up. "So that's what you did?" she said. "You spent the whole day torturing them, then you cut their hair, call the police, and kill them over the phone?" Tanya laughed. "You've finally caught up." She raised her gun...

BOOM.

Reid and Mags were waiting in the hospital for the outcome. JJ was in critical condititon, hovering over life and death. She was in surgery currently, emergency room number 12. Mags sighed. Reid didn't know what to do. He had no clue how she was feeling, so he didn't try to say anything. If anything, that made Mags feel better. He didn't try anything; he was just as awkward as usual. Tanya had shot herself as well, and she died in surgery. Not that Mags cared, she would've killed Tanya if she lived. I am such an idiot, she thought. She, along with the rest of the team, had forgotten all about Tanya. They had hundreds of ex - cons who fit the MO. Tanya, well...Tanya hid it very well. She was so headstrong, too. She acted like she cared about Zakari's death. But she didn't, Mags thought, She didn't give a damn - JJ's doctor came out and walked towards Reid and Mags. He pulled his mask down and nodded, smiling. Mags let out a sigh of relief she had been holding in from the car ride to the hospital. JJ was going to live. She was alive. There was just one small problem. She had absolutely nowhere to go. Luckily, she and the team would arrange a guardian for her, someone who was good with kids. Or something like that, she thought. "I'm gonna go to the cafeteria to get a root beer. You want anything?" Reid shook his head, and she went towards the elevator.

"You okay?" Reid asked Mags. Mags looked up at him and nodded. "Root beer makes my eyes water," she said, and looked back down at her plastic cup. Soon after she finished, they drove to the conference room; JJ wasn't allowed to have visitors until the next day. Garcia let Mags use a computer that wasn't hooked up to the database. Not that it would help; Mags just stared at the screensaver. Soon enough she just went outside the conference room and listened:

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Hotch asked.

"I'm not sure, but I have to try." Emily Prentiss said. Mags held her hand over her mouth to let out a big breath.

"You can't go all profiler on her, and don't act like a friend," Gideon said. "Act like a respectable adult taking care of a child."

"Got it," she said.

"And don't mollycoddle her or anything. She'll go nuts." Garcia said.

"Got it."

"Take her places to get the 'bad stuff' off her mind," said Morgan.

"Got it."

"Stop saying 'Got it,'" Gideon said.

"Got it," Emily said. "Sorry, sir."

"She's most likely going to be quiet, so don't force her to answer you." Reid said. "That would make her, if possible, even more quiet."

Mags couldn't take it anymore. She stepped into the doorway. No one noticed until she said, "Are you profiling me?"

And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

- Revelation 21:6