AN: Sorry this update took me so long. It has been a busy few days. OH and I still don't own anything that is familiar. Enjoy!
Chapter 7: Rescue
They could hear yelling as they approached the barn in cloaked in the complete darkness of a cloudy night. Hotch hopped it was a good sign that they couldn't hear Morgan yelling, he hopped that they were just fighting amongst themselves. He motioned for the communicator on his side of the barn to notify the other side of the barn for the on three. Then the communicators surrounding the barn flashed their lights three times. The agents, police officers, and military personal swarmed the building, all of them shouting "FBI, we have you surrounded!" as they entered.
There was chaos as the people in the barn tried to scatter but where stopped at every possible exit, both doors and any low windows had people blocking them, the women screamed and threw their hands in the air, while the men reached for their weapons. There were children crying and guns being cocked. An older man in front of his family aimed a gun a prone from on the ground.
"How did you find us? I had him take off his gear. There shouldn't have been any standard issue bugs on him!" pops shouted angrily at Hotch who was in the lead of his team.
"I told you my baby girl could do it." the form on the floor said letting the team know that was Derek.
"And she did Morgan; she traced the beacon that you volunteered to help her with." Reid explained to him from behind some people where Hotch had made him stay.
"A child? The FBI uses a child to help them solve cases? Who would even think to do that to a child?" one of the women asked disgusted.
"Did I tell you that she was a child?" Morgan asked from the floor. "Oh sorry I should have told you that she is the same tech that I called Angel. I have many nicknames for her. And I did warn you. I told you to fear her wrath." He laughed at that but had to stop because of the pain.
"Morgan that is enough," Hotch warned, not wanting to know what these people would do if a single gun shot rang out before they were wrangled up.
"You want your boy Morgan here to live then you back right back out those doors." Pops warned him.
"You have no advantage you kill my one man and your entire family goes to jail for your crimes before you are even cold in the ground, right down to that 9 year old boy over there. Morgan already told us that he was an accomplice, the lookout to be exact. Oh by cold in the ground I don't mean by any of us. His baby girl would track you to the ends of the earth." Spencer piped up again.
"Hotch there are children here, so I wont say it out right, but the adults don't know it was just him." Morgan explained despite having a gun pointed at him as he lay crumpled on the floor, "He was the ring leader, brainwashed them all into believing that killing these poor families was for the good of their own. But it was all so that he could…"
"You shut your trap boy or I swear I will but a bullet in you right now!" Morgan visibly cringed away from him and Hotch who had been watching the other officers file out the women and children decided it was time to remove the risk to his agent. With a quick signal, that pops missed in is fury. The remaining agents jumped into action.
Hotch shot the old man's arm causing him to drop the weapon, as the other agents subdued, with force, the remaining family members. Mostly it was just the men of the family and the three children that had helped them.
"I would never say what you did to those poor families out loud, not around children at least. I would never have that ruin another child's life, not to bring in scum like you." Morgan spat at 'pops' when Hotch had the guys face on the ground next to him.
"I SAID, SHUT UP BOY!" he roared but this time Derek just laughed in his face.
"Too late 'pops' they have had the seed of doubt planted in their brains. If I'm right they wont let it go know until they find out what you did to those families. Do you know what they do to men like you in prison?"
"What's he talking about pops we didn't do nothing to them people?" asked Amanda, She was the only on to have not put up a fight, when the agents tried to subdue them.
"You didn't do anything to them?" asked Morgan, "Four whole families are dead because of your family, what about their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins? Does this not affect them? But that is not what I meant, but like I said I would never ruin another child with this," Morgan told the girl.
"Pops, what did you do with them that night you wanted to yourself?" asked the other teen, Chris, if Morgan remembered right. Hotch never gave the man time to answer but walked him out of the barn and into his own police car, letting the family wonder. As Hotch took him out Reid went over to untie Derek.
"Reid I have to get home now." Morgan told him as Spencer unlocked the handcuffs and cut through the rope that was holding his legs.
"Morgan what you need is a hospital."
"No, I'll go when I get home but I need to get home, call JJ she'll do it." He answered moodily.
"No my friend I am taking you to the hospital and I will tell JJ to tell Garcia where we are going so she can check up on you but you are not flying without seeing a Doctor first." Reid was saying as Derek tried to get himself to his feet, but his legs were not cooperating. "Morgan you can't even stand I am taking you to the hospital and that is…"
"Morgan go to the hospital, everything will be handled for you, no paper work." Rossi told him, despite the fact that Morgan wasn't fighting about going anymore. He knew that if he could not stand that she would understand.
"Derek Hospital now." Hotch ordered as he walked back into the barn. He glanced at his phone when it rang before picking it up, "Yeah JJ what do you need?" Hotch answered it, "Here take my cell it is JJ she wants to talk to you." He continued confused as why she had called instead of using the radio to talk to Morgan, he could have been given one of those just as easily as his phone.
"Morgan go to the hospital in Columbus I got Garcia on the first flight out as soon as they were done with her services in finding you. She should arrive about the same time you do. I will come get you myself, we'll tell them it because they have so much to do here that they all have to stay and I will just give you two some space and a warning when they start arriving."
"Yeah JJ alright. Get here fast ok?" Morgan sounded reassured and the team around him was baffled. What had JJ said to him?
"JJ? What did you say to him? He seemed so worried before he talked to you and now you would think that he wasn't in any pain from the look on his face" Hotch smelled something fishy.
"I didn't say much. I guess he got sick of being told to go." She lied through her teeth, her friends had asked her to protect their secret and she would not tell anyone. Not even to the one man that they had to tell eventually.
"I don't believe you, but for now I need to take him…"
"Sorry to interrupt Hotch but why don't I take him? You and the team have to finish up the case here before you can leave, and I can't be too much of a help but at least they wont have to do without you too." She told him not wanting to lie to him more then need be and she would if he continued to pry.
"JJ you are up to something I just haven't decided yet if you are in on it alone or not. But you are right so get over here we will help you get him loaded and then when you get there you drive into the ambulance bay and have the hospital unload him. You are not to help him in your condition; you need to be resting not half lifting Morgan in and out of and SUV."
"Yes, sir I was planning on that already. I don't think normally I would be able to half lift anyone of you but Reid out of an SUV. Hotch I promise to be careful I will try and get him to talk on the way there ok? I don't know if I can he usually talks to Garcia about this kind of stuff. I just think that he should not keep this experience in, with what he has been through already in life."
"Well then tell her to get her butt to that hospital. You are right he does needs to be talking to someone. Now get over here." Hotch told her and hung up. "Derek, you just sit here on the hay until JJ gets here and we will load you up and she will take you to the hospital the team will meet you guys there later ok?"
Morgan ignored him, he didn't mean to but his thoughts were racing. He had forgotten about the beacon, he had not resigned himself that he was going to die here but he certainly thought that it would take them longer then a few hours. He knew she would save him; Garcia had never let him down. He had thought that he was going to have to relive that horrible time in his life, but she saved him! He had a few broken bones yeah but he was going to be fine. The love of his life had saved him, and he was going to see her in a little bit. It was those thoughts that allowed him to calmly watch the team work with the local officers and the others that he had not met.
"Officer? Where is the agent that was with us I wanted to thank him…?" Mrs. Johnson inquired
"He is right over there ma'am but he is pretty banged up right now…"
"I know how banged up he is I was right there listening to the beating he took all the while not uttering a single yelp of pain because he didn't want to scar my children, kids he doesn't even know! I just wanted to thank him." She persisted seeing that the officer was not going to let her past.
JJ heard this as she was walking in and walked over to them. "It is alright Officer I will escort her over and then make sure that she is back with her family before Agent Morgan and I head to the hospital."
"You are part of his team right let me guess, you are JJ Justice?" She asked as they walked slowly over to Morgan.
"JJ who?" she asked, "Yes my name is JJ but that one I have never heard before."
"The agent was trying to make us calm. The children looked so scared he told them stories, he later confessed to my husband and I that they were easy. He just pulled out the violent parts of his real live and cartooned it up a little, making their names into silly cartoon superhero names. In the stories your name was JJ Justice." The woman explained.
"The stories thing is a new twist but trying to make other people feel better is definitely something Morgan would do." JJ laughed, "If you are ever told the full details of the case you may understand him better."
"How is he doing? I mean I know that he took a beating, a long one but not once did he make a sound, and they didn't let us see him while they were getting us out."
"He is in pretty bad shape; I was coming to take him into the hospital in Columbus. None of the rest of the team can get away, and Garcia would kill me if I took him to some Hospital were she hasn't cleared the doctors.
"If he is that bad you might want to call in the one he named Angel, she was good with computers in the stories. He told us your real names but I'm sorry I don't remember them. But they have some sort of relationship; maybe she would comfort him like he did for us."
"I already bought her a plane ticket and she is in the air as we speak. If you don't mind my asking how did you know who he would need to talk to?"
"Honey, I learned a lot about that man in the few hours we were locked up together. He loves her and he either doesn't know it or has recently figured it out, it was written in all of his stories, I don't think even my husband saw it but what can I say he is a man." Mrs. Johnson laughed at the look on her face.
"You nailed that I am the only one they have told, and only because I figured it out. We are profilers so you think the others should be able to see it but I guess not. Well lets see how Morgan is doing and then you really should be getting back to your family, the other agents are going to need to interview all of you." JJ told her finally as the closed in on him, "Derek I know that I said we would leave as soon as I got here but Mrs. Johnson wanted to talk to you." JJ told him gently, as she walked into his line of sight.
"It's ok JJ, What can I help you with Mrs. Johnson?" He looked over at her through his one good eye as he sat a little straighter on the hay.
"I just wanted to thank you again, without you I don't know what would have happened. You kept us sane in there, you did your best to keep us safe and ultimately you saved our lives, or at least your Angel did. So thank you from the bottom of my heart if you ever are visiting Ohio you stop in and I will make you a feast of a meal. I don't know how I can ever repay you." Tears were rolling down her cheeks as she said this.
"Mrs. Johnson I need nothing more then to spend some quite time with our real savior. My Angel. I am sure that the rest of the team would love it if you made them a meal. Not to mention it would keep them here longer, so I can have my Angel alone before they get to the hospital." He smiled at her when he saw understanding cross her face.
"Your wish is my command, one full meal coming up and I will not take no for an answer from any of the team, what were there real names again? I made the mistake of calling JJ here JJ Justice."
"Super Spence if Dr, Spencer Reid, he is the kid over there." Derek nodded his head in the general direction of Spence seeing that he couldn't point JJ did it for him so that the woman would know for sure. "Rabid Rossi, don't laugh JJ I was doing this on the fly it was the best I could come up with, is David Rossi. Eager Emily, is Emily Prentiss, JJ here as you know is JJ Justice, but she will be coming with me. And our fearless leader is Aaron Hotchner, or as you have come to know him Hulking Hotchner. Angel isn't here but she will be meeting us at the hospital and her real name is Penelope Garcia." Morgan explained again.
"Thank you again agent Morgan and I will do my best to delay them." Mrs. Johnson told him before walking back to her family. As she walked away all of the agents in question converged on Morgan and JJ.
"Alright Morgan Rossi and I are going to help you stand up to get you to the SUV, you think you can Handle walking between us if we hold up must of your weight?" Hotch asked him.
"No way to know unless we try how else are you planning to get me out of here if I can't?" he asked.
"Well we could completely carry you but somehow I figured you would object to that. Or there is an ambulance here and we could have them bring over a stretcher." Rossi explained.
"No, walking is good." Derek answered.
"How are you arms?"
"They are better then my legs but I think one of my wrists is broken, that same hand doesn't look right either, and the other shoulder is out of the socket. How about we try do to do this like they did for ole FDR, his aids would basically hold him up while the moved about. But more under the arms then the forearms please. But first How about one of you popping this arm back into place. It will make this walking thing easier on me." Derek told them and braced himself as much as he could as Rossi did as he asked. Then Hotch and Rossi hefted him to his feet.
It took quite a bit of maneuvering and a group effort as Morgan's legs were not interested in helping right then. Reid actually got in the opposite door they were trying to put him through and pulled his friend into the SUV across the seat. Then Rossi held him in a setting position while that door was closed behind him a pile of coats were put in so that he wouldn't jar against the door as the drove. Then being the smallest Emily was elected to find away to strap Morgan in without hurting him the whole way to the hospital. Once they were done they closed the other door and ganged up on JJ.
"JJ be careful but use the sirens he really should be at the closest hospital but I know he wont stand for that." Hotch told her.
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AN: Please review and let me know what you think.
AN: The issue this was based around did not pass so there is still no casino in OH. Just a story that I thought I could put together nicely, after watching one of those stupid political ads on TV.
