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Rossi followed the ambulance, he had seen the women, he had seen the blood on the men, he had seen their duty to get the women help above them, all he needed to do was find the people behind it. He waited outside, calling and updating, Derek's mom, Hotch's brother, the facility where Reid's mom was, phoning Emily's parents as well as JJ's, he had contemplated calling Penelope's brother but he would rather wait and see if she truly wanted them. When the police and swat came out he looked in expectation.
'Agent Rossi, there's no one there.'
'What do you mean no one? There has to be someone around.'
'Afraid not, the only people we found in there were your team members.'
'Fuck!' Rossi said running his hands over his head. 'Forensics?'
'Are going over the entire place with a fine tooth comb... if there's anything here we'll find it.' The chief of SWAT said. 'Agent Rossi, go to the hospital, we have your number, we find something you'll be the first to know.' Rossi just nodded and headed for the SUV he came in.
He stopped by each of the houses and picked up the go bags that the team members always had ready for cases, he then got to the hospital and waited impatiently as the nurses got him every piece of information on each of the team members. He had the tedious job of proving who he was and it wasn't until he turned up on each of the files that the nurses took time to find out what they could.
'Rossi.' Came a male voice behind him.
Rossi turned and couldn't help but relax. 'Oh Sean...'
'What's happening? Where's Aaron?'
'I'm just waiting on news.'
'Rossi?' Came another voice, woman's voice.
'Mrs Morgan, we are just getting news on all of them, you've made it in good time.' They stood waiting around until 2 of the nurses came back.
'The three men are getting sutures to knife wounds.'
'And the women?'
'I'm afraid there is no word on them at the moment, they are still pretty much the same as when they were brought in.'
'Okay, can we see them?'
'I can allow you agent Rossi in but you are welcome down the corridor, all the men are in the same room.' Everyone nodded and followed the nurse down the corridor. 'The men will be moved upstairs shortly to be treated for dehydration and shock but everything appears to be normal.'
'Okay.' The nurse allowed Rossi in but Fran and Sean had to wait outside the room, they watched the men all look at Rossi hopeful.
'How are they?'
'There's no word.' He said he traced the knife wounds on Hotch's chest and then looked at Derek's and then Reid's, he remand silent the whole.
'What is it Dave?' Hotch asked as the nurse finished stitching his back.
'Erm... who took you?'
'The Princeton Brothers... why?'
'No one was there.'
'What?!' Derek said angrily. 'How do you mean no one was there?'
'Derek you need to calm down, your mom's outside, do you really want to her to see you angry.'
'Rossi, man, I get you I really do but at the end of the day they told us they were dead!'
'Dead?'
'They drugged them so much that they weren't blinking; there was no breathing visible, they couldn't even move.'
'I'm going to push for information.' Rossi said as he felt the anger rise. 'I'll be right back.' He left to get stopped by Fran and Sean.
'Everything okay?'
'Yeah they're on fluids and getting finished stitched up but they were told the girls were dead.'
'Emily and JJ?' Fran asked.
'And Penelope... I'll be right back.' No more than five minutes later Rossi came running back. 'I'll update you in a moment.'
'No just go in there.' The pair could tell that this was urgent and the men needed to hear it first. 'I'm going to get to the point... JJ has an adverse reaction to the drug.'
'How bad?'
'She's just coming out in a rash, her breathings tight and she keeps going in and out of consciousness apparently... she keeps asking for Reid.'
'And Pen?'
'And Emily?'
'Both are having it tough, can't stop being sick, heart arrhythmias, dehydration, uncontrollable shaking, breathings pretty bad, they are basically suffering every side effect.'
'What else?'
'The large dose that they were given means they are all going through the phase of being weaned of them.'
'What like a drug addict?' Reid squeaked as memories of his dilaudid problems sprung to mine, he got a solemn nod before Rossi continued.
'Well the neuromuscular agents aren't suppose to be used in high quantities nor are they supposed to be used progressively for 2 days, so they basically aren't having the best time.'
'I need to get to Pen.' Derek said as he stood up. 'Can you take me of this IV?'
'Derek...'
'No Dave! I... we had to stare at them... be told we didn't tell them we love them, their eyes didn't blink, they just stared! I do not want her out of my sight.'
'I'm with Derek.' Reid said standing up.
'Reid...'
'Sorry Rossi but I'm with both of them.' Hotch said when the nurse was done.
'I can only allow you men to leave this room is if you stay on fluids and await for pressure bandages on your wounds.'
'Are they necessary?'
'Extremely because some of the wounds are yet to stop bleeding. Give me a couple of minutes and we can tell you where your rooms are and you can go to your partners.' As promised the men walked out of the room with a hospital gown undone round their shoulders, and their jeans they were wearing previous, as they were yet to change into the clothes Rossi had bought.
Fran immediately took her sons comforting open arms and Sean gave his brother a worried hug. They then walked down to where the girls were in silence.
'JJ's on her own, whereas Penelope and Emily were put together. They're all near one another.' Everyone just nodded and walked down until Rossi stopped outside 2 double doors. 'Penelope and Emily are in there, JJ's in the next room Reid.' Reid nodded and shifted to look in the other room.
'Have you been in?' Rossi just nodded. 'What were they like?'
'They can't move properly, apparently it's the drugs that have paralysed their muscles and Emily and Penelope were heaving and breathing in deeply which apparently is a really good sign.'
'But they don't look good.'
'Well you've got to think they are coming off really high doses of drugs.' The men nodded. 'Just think you haven't lost them.'
'No but if they can't find the Princeton brothers we could.'
'We didn't go to the police though Derek, they came to us.'
'So, they said they would silence us through them.' The men stood watching in, Hotch had Sean's hand on his shoulder comfortingly, as did Derek with Fran and Reid with Rossi, they all watched as medical staff rushed around and heart monitors showed heart beats, wires led into machines, tubes ran from devices. Even though Rossi, Fran and Sean made themselves understand as much as they could they could not truly understand what the urgency to protect the girls was.
Little did the men know was that they didn't truly know how much protection the women needed either, to the Princeton brother's Emily, Penelope and JJ were gold dust to the 3 men of the BAU and so would be their main access to freedom.
