JJ sat in the darkness wishing that she could see Emily. She was pissed at the brunette. This whole time she had told the blonde to stay quiet. But she didn't stay quiet. How could she do that? She didn't get it. She didn't understand. Then it hit her. Emily only started speaking when there was attention on her. Did Emily only talk to get the attention back to her and off of JJ. JJ thought about it and it was plausible that she would. When her and Reid were in that compound with Cyrus she had volunteered herself as the agent and got herself beat up. This was a very similar situation. Thinking about that made her even angrier. Does she think that she can't take care of herself? Does Emily see her as this weak little girl? Now her previous thought at hoping that it wouldn't be her time pissed her off. Tomorrow she figured she would do whatever she had to in order to make it her turn.

Her thoughts were broken with the sound of Emily groaning. She was finally coming to. JJ's eyes had adjusted to the darkness and she could see Emily's eyes slowly start to open.

"Why did you start talking? Were you protecting me? What was that?" JJ asked a little harsher than she intended.

"Oh don't worry I'm fine. My head feels like its about to explode, I have blood coming out of my mouth and nose, and what feels like a bruised rib cage but honestly I have never felt better. But no really lets question my motives."

"Oh come off it Emily, if I would have asked about your well being you would have bitten my head off for treating you like some broken thing. So why did you do it?"

Emily sighed "Honestly JJ, I had a couple of reasons for doing it. The first was I wanted to see how they would react to someone standing up to them. It helped us out, I mean now we know that Trent has a little bit of an anger problem. We are also now aware that as long as we don't give them what they want they most likely won't kill us. You heard Jackson he said that we were "fun" to him. We may piss Trent off but Jackson will prevent him from doing anything horrible. Well, he won't let him kill us. The second reason I will confess was because I wasn't sure what Trent was going to you. Up until that point he hadn't said a word or done anything and he was sounding irritated. So maybe I wanted to get attention away from you. I was already getting the shit beat out of me. I figured I could at least protect you for one night. I don't know what the future holds for us here. I want to say that I am optimistic enough to think our team will find us. But we have to be realistic we might be here at least for a couple days." Emily finished and started coughing. Her lungs started to burn and she couldn't get it under control.

JJ wished in that moment that she wasn't chained to a wall. She wanted nothing more than to go to her friend and rub her back and help her to comfort her. She felt helpless. Emily was the one that was hit tonight and she was questioning her motives thinking she was weak. "Emily…hey it's ok. Take a deep breath."

"Cant…take…breath…hurts."

JJ started to struggle against her chains. She was trying to get them to move or do something so that she could get to Emily. She twisted and moved her body and she couldn't get a hand but she put her foot on the other woman's leg and started stroking. "I know it might hurt but if you keeping coughing then it'll just hurt worse. Just try and calm down."

After a few moments Emily's coughing fit subsided. JJ had kept her foot where it was in hopes that it would offer Emily some sort of comfort.

"So…how are you really doing?" JJ asked.

"I'm fine." Emily replied.

"Oh, so now that I have actually asked you how you were you are going to lie to me."

"Touché, seriously though it hurts a bit. The beating I took in Colorado was actually worse then this one. My shoulder is killing me though. I'm guessing he had a blood coagulant because the wound isn't bleeding. But, don't worry about me JJ I'll be ok."

"If you say so Emily. You know if we want to survive we are going have to be in this thing together. No more trying to protect me. These guys obviously have a system and we both will just have to take what they give us. If you promise not to protect me I won't go ahead with my plan of protecting you."

Emily thought about this for a moment, this is what she had feared in the beginning if JJ knew she was protecting her then she would do something stupid. She knew if she promised her that she wouldn't the second she did something JJ would do something. So she did something she was pretty sure she would end up regretting.

"I promise." It was said just a little above a whisper.

Both women then started to fall asleep with JJ's foot wrapped up in Emily's leg.