I am so so so sorry guys! I know it has been a loooooooooong time but I was busy and then I felt kind of down and well life and things. Thank you for still being here and here is a new chapter and a longer one for you! Hope you like it. :)
Chapter VII:
"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
Octavia Butler
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The team was in the waiting room, they were all there thinking. Morgan had his back on the wall, his head looking up trying to understand everything that had happened, if only he had gone with them maybe he could have…or if…if…just ifs but no more he was done, now he needed to focused on how to be helpful for them now.
Reid was sitting, his head down, his right leg moved trying to calm his nerves but it wasn´t working, he was going over what they could have done better to get them sooner or to avoid everything that happened but his brain kept telling him they had done all they could but his heart refused to believe it.
Rossi was beside Reid, he had his eyes close, he was praying for his two team mates, his two friends, both were special to him they were like daughters, but in the end he thought it wasn´t just him who felt horrible but the entire team, because they were family and if one was hurting all of them were.
Hotch was standing, he was looking at his team their faces a mirror of his own, sadness and worry written on them all. He was the boss; he needed to keep it together, but how do you do that when you feel like you failed to do your job, to protect two of your friends? He closed his eyes trying to get rid of those thoughts; he had to be strong for the team and for JJ and Emily.
"How are you holding it up?" Rossi asked him, he saw Hotch standing on his own and went to help.
"I´m not sure." He said sincerely. "I keep thinking it´s my fault."
"Because you told them to go to the hospital?" He asked him Hotch nodded. "I remember telling them as well."
"But I am responsible for them Dave… for all of you!"
Rossi turned and faced his friend. "You are an excellent boss my friend but you can beat yourself over this." Rossi saw he was about to speak so he stopped him. "We didn´t know this was going to happen and you know it. They wanted them and were going to wait until the right time and there was nothing we could have done because we had no idea! So don´t do this to yourself, because it wasn´t your fault or anyone's."
"I´ll believe it when I know JJ and Emily are okay." Hotch told him, his eyes had a sad light in them.
"They will, they are strong and stubborn as hell so believe it my friend." Rossi told him patting his back. This made Hotch smile, a real smile.
When Hotch was about to say something else one of the doctors came in the room, they all stood up waiting for his words and hopefully good news. First they profiled him, he made it hard they weren´t sure of his expression, he looked tired it was the only thing they knew was true.
"Agent Jareau?" The Doctor asked he saw them approached and the sadness and preoccupation in their faces so he waited no more. "I am Doctor Cain."
"Hello Doctor." Hotch greeted as the rest of the team did the same. "What can you tell us of Agent Jareau state?"
He cleared his throat first. "First of all Agent Jareau sustained different kind of injuries, some were less severe than others but not for that less worrying." The team heard him talk. They saw JJ and Emily, they saw what those man did to them but it was superficial, they couldn't see beyond that and most importantly couldn't see the mental damaged they caused. "She has diverse bruises over her body, mainly her upper body, she has cut over her left eyebrow, luckily it didn´t require stitches."
Morgan crossed his arms "luckily" he thought. "There was nothing lucky about this." He said nothing though. Reid had his hands in his pockets going over the injuries and the time of recovery for each one. Rossi and Hotch looked stoic, they both nodded when the doctor talk trying to get everything. It was hard for each member to hear all the information but they had to, the needed to hear it.
"Her right shoulder was dislocated so we had to put it back in place; it had bruises all over it as well. She must had hit it repeatedly to have got those kinds of bruises." They knew why but no one said anything. "When Agent Jareau came in she had nail embedded in her hand, we were able to remove them."
"Will that cause long term damage?" Reid asked.
"Thankfully it won´t. The way the nails were embedded caused her immense pain but it didn´t damage any tendon or other important part of her hand." Reid was relived for that part so was the rest of the team. "She also has puncture wounds all over her body, like something large but thin was inserted in her arms, legs and shoulder. Most of them didn´t need stitches and she also has burns marcs, well more like brands on the left side of her stomach." He let that sink in and said the final part. "Apparently your agent was electrocuted more than one time while she was held captive." Doctor Cain told the team.
This made everyone angrier, if that was even possible, they all knew what Askari did to her not long ago and now she suffered again, it was no fair. "Is that all Doctor?" Hotch asked him, worried that he would say no.
"About her injuries? Yes." He said. "We had to sedate her because of the extreme pain she was in and because she wouldn´t stop moving asking for Agent Prentiss. She in room 412, you can go see her but do not disturb her she needs to rest, her body is tire and in pain so probably she won´t wake up today or even tomorrow because it needs time to heal."
"We can all go in?" Morgan asked him.
Doctor Cain thought about it for a second. "Yes but as I said before, do not disturb her."
"What about Agent Prentiss?" It was Rossi that asked this time. "Do you know something?"
"My friend, Doctor Keene was the one working on Agent Prentiss. The only information I handle is that she was in surgery because of internal bleeding." Doctor Cain told them he could see the surprise and concern in their faces. "That is all I know."
"Thank you Doctor." Hotch said choking hand with him.
"If I know anything else about your other Agent I will let you know with one of the nurses." Cain said before going into the ER.
Hotch signed and then faced his agents. "Let´s go see JJ and then one of us can come and wait for news on Emily."
"Garcia is on her way here and so are JJ´s mom and Henry." Reid told him.
Aaron Hotchner nodded and walked toward the elevator with Reid, Morgan and Rossi behind him, the ride to the floor was silent no one said a word they all had their heads someplace else. When they got to JJ´s room they saw her through the window in her room, a nurse was looking over some notes and writing something down making hard to actually see the blonde. Reid was the first one in, followed by Morgan, Rossi and finally Hotch.
"JJ…" Reid whispered. She was sleeping, her right arm was on a special sling, her right hand was cover with bandages and the cut over her eyebrow was cover as well. She was pale making the color of the bruises more notorious.
Spencer sat beside her, Morgan stood on the other side and Hotch and Rossi stood near the door. They were in silence, looking at her and wanting to kill the bastard that did this all over again.
An hour and a half later a nurse came into the room and informed the team that Emily´s doctor wanted to talk with Hotch. He told the team to wait for him but of course, they didn´t and went with him.
Doctor Keene saw them approached. "Doctor Keene I´m Agent Hotchner and this is my team." He said presenting them. "What can you tell us about Agent Prentiss?"
She looked at each one of them, took a deep breath and told them about Emily´s state. "Agent Prentiss came in here with lots of bruises but what worried me the most was the internal bleeding cause by the beating she sustained while captive. She has a concussion, it´s not that bad but we will monitor her closely just to be safe, she also has two broken and four bruises ribs. The bleeding was cause, as I told you before for the beating, she must of have suffer a sustainable among of hits to her stomach and torso in general or less but harder blows to it. Her wrists are swollen because of the time she had them tide together and it appears she was hanging from them because of the angle of the redness. She also has a cut on her forehead that required stitches, she is stable and in recovery right now we will take her to her room soon. During the surgery she lost a lot of blood so she is very weak and will probably not wake up for a while. " Before they could say anything she talked again. "Don´t worry! It´s normal, her body is tired and the lost of blood intensifies that state, but she is stable. We will be monitoring her blood pressure, her concussion and everything actually very closely, so we can be sure she is going to be okay." Doctor Keene finished saying.
The guys didn´t know what to say during the doctor speech. It was too much, with JJ and now with Emily, they were happy both women were okay for now but as the doctor said, they still are not out of the woods. "Can I ask you something Doctor?" Hotch asked her.
"Yes of course." She said waiting for the question.
"Is it possible to take Agent Prentiss to Agent Jareau's room?" He asked. Doctor Keene was surprised, that was not the question she was expecting. "I think it would be good for them to be together after what they went through." Hotch said.
"I think I can to that." She said smiling. "I will tell a nurse to inform you when Agent Prentiss will be move to the room."She said goodbye, Hotch and the team said their thanks and she left.
"I can´t believe this actually happened." Morgan finally said, he was angry and frustrated and hearing the Doctor talk about what their friends went through made everything worse.
"Listen." Hotch said to his team. "I know we are angry, I know this is a horrible situation and that it´s not fair for JJ and Emily to have gone through this, they came to help this women and…We now need to be strong for them. It´s going to be hard for both and we have to be there to help in any way possible, we all know too well this kind of situation and they do too but that doesn´t mean it´s going to be any easier or that they are going to accept help at first."
"They are strong." Rossi then said. "We know that, they will get through this but they will need help even if they don´t want it."
"We will be there." Reid then said.
"Garcia will be here at any minute with JJ´s mom and Henry." Morgan told them. "Let´s go see our girls." And with that the guys went back to JJ´s room.
…...CM…...
She was lying on the floor, she was cold, her eyes closed. She heard and felt the wing, it made her shiver. "Where am I?" The woman thought. She didn´t remember. Finally she opened her eyes, her vision tried to adjust to the light above her, it was a dim light. "Where?" She asked again. She stood up and looked around. The woman couldn´t see anything, the light only lighted the place where she was standing but nothing more. "Hello?" She called and nothing. "Is anyone there?" Pure silence, she walked a few steps and realized the light followed her. "Emily?" She called, for some estrange reason she knew she was looking for her friend, somehow she knew she had to call for her. "Em!" The blonde got desperate and ran; she looked around and only saw darkness. "Emily!" and suddenly she stopped, she had heard something. "Em?" She voiced almost in a whisper.
"JJ…" There was again the sound and now she heard her name, it was Emily calling for her. She ran again and called for her friend, with each step she realized her name sounded stronger and louder. Then she stopped.
"Emily?" She asked, her friend was sitting on a chair her head down, JJ got closer. "Emily are you okay? Can you hear me?" JJ walked a few more steps and found herself in front of the brunette. "Em?" She said and knelt down to see her friend´s face but a voice stopped her.
"She is gone." The male voice said, she recognize that voice it was Kevin. "There is nothing you can do to help her." When she heard him she had turned to face him and after he said those words she looked again at Emily just to see that she wasn´t there anymore.
"Where is she?! What did you do to her?!" She screamed at him.
"I didn´t do it." Now it wasn´t Kevin speaking but Askari.
JJ froze in place, why was he there? It made no sense but Kevin didn´t make much sense as well. "What are YOU doing here?" She asked with anger in her voice.
He laughed and walked in her direction. "You brought me here." He said.
"No I didn´t! You are dead!" She spat out, suddenly a figure appeared beside Askari and JJ´s heart stopped. "Emily!"
"I´m going to have so much fun with her." The man said and stabbed Emily before JJ´s eyes.
"NOOOOOOOO!" She screamed and saw her friend´s eyes go out of life.
Reid was sitting besides JJ´s hospital bed, reading. He had been there sense the doctor brought Emily into the room. If it wasn´t for Morgan he may have died of caffeine depravation.
"Maybe you should sleep." Morgan told him, he was sitting besides Emily´s bed. Hotch and Rossi had gone to get them dinner, none of them wanted to leave the girls alone.
"I can´t." He answered. Morgan just sighed, to tell the true he was just like his friend, they were all worry. The doctors had told them JJ and Emily were doing well but they still didn´t know when they were going to wake up, they said it was up to the girls and not to worry because everything looked to be just fine.
"Yeah, I know." They went silent, it was nice but they could feel the concerned radiating from each other.
Reid was the first one to notice, because he was closer. He saw her moving, at first he thought it was his mind playing some horrible trick but then he saw it again. "She is moving." He told his friend; Morgan stood up and went to his side. They saw her move again, this time it was more notorious. She was mumbling something, it was almost like a whisper they couldn´t tell what she was saying. JJ then tossed around more violently.
"She is having a nightmare." Reid stated. "JJ? Can you hear me?" He asked tentatively and suddenly they heard a piercing sound, Spencer realized it was JJ, she woke up screaming, she sat up and looked around, they could see she was still trap in her nightmare. "JJ! Hey, you are okay. It´s me" Reid tried to get her attention. She moved far from him.
"Stay away!" She yelled. Morgan had gone to look for the doctor as soon as JJ woke up.
"JJ! It´s me, Reid!" He told her ones more and hugged her. "You are okay. Everything it´s okay, you are safe." And that made the trick.
She calmed down and realized she wasn´t in the dream anymore, she was at the hospital and Reid was hugging her. "Spence…"
He let go of her and looked her in the eyes. "Hi." He said smiling.
"Hi." She said back. "What happened?"
"We found you." He simple said. Then he saw her eyes grew big.
"Emily!" She said, he saw her star to panic and calmed her down.
"She is okay! You are both here." He told her pointing to her right. JJ turned her head and saw her friend lying on the bed, she saw the tube that helped her breath and the machines around her.
Before she could ask him again what had happen the doctor came in along with Morgan. "I see you are awake Agent Jareau." He greeted her, she just nodded. "I´m Doctor Cane and I´m going to need your friends to wait outside for a few minutes while I see how are you." He said.
Reid reluctantly let go of JJ´s hand and followed Morgan outside. "Did you see her face?" He asked his partner after a while.
"Yeah. She´s going to need our help to get out of this one and so will Emily." Morgan told Reid without looking at him. Spencer nodded.
Emily and JJ were special for both men. Emily and Morgan were best friends and partners in crime, she was her buddy and he had come so close to lose her again. Doyle actually killed her and now this UnSubs came too damn close to do it again. He clenched his jaw trying to calm himself before going into the room again.
For Reid was similar, JJ was also his best friend, she would laughed with him and listen to his rambling, he was Henry´s godfather. After Will died he became a father figure for the young boy and JJ couldn´t be happier that Henry went over to Reid after the tragedy. Reid would talk about Will with him and he would teach him thing. She was his family and now it was up to him to help her get through this, she had helped him so many times before and now it was his turned.
The doctor told JJ to take it easy before leaving the room. According to him her wounds were healing really well, he had explained what she would have to do and every one of her injuries. She didn´t need to be reminded, she knew every single one. When Reid and Morgan came in she had asked them if they could leave her alone for a few minutes, Reid felt sad but he did as she say, he knew she needed space.
JJ took a deep breath, she had to get herself together and focused on the now… but she also knew that to do so she needed to let go of the past and that was not an easy task because she first had to confront it. She looked at Emily, JJ had asked the doctor about her friend, apparently she was getting better like her but she hadn´t woken up yet. JJ climbed out of bed, it was not easy, it was painful, she bit her lip to try and suppress a whimper.
She finally reached her destination; JJ sat down besides Emily´s bed and with her good hand took Emily´s. "Hi." She said it was obvious Emily was not going to answer her back but she still wanted to talk to her. "I..um…I just wanted to tell you that you really need to wake up." She said trying not to cry. "You are driving Morgan crazy." She laughed. "C´mon Em, wake up. I need to see your eyes…I need to hear your voice telling me not to worry and that you are fine while I tell you the contrary." Now the tears ran freely down her face. "I need to hear you laugh at Morgan and talk with Reid about nerds stuffs." She took a deep breath and then added. "And I really need to her you saying that you understand and that everything is going to be okay…please Em…wake up." JJ sat there holding her hand, looking at her friend, she only let go of her hand when she felt Emily move.
"Em?" She asked, she waited but nothing, maybe it had been her mind but she was sure that wasn´t it. She was sure Emily´s hand moved wish mean she was listening. "You wake up Em, you hear me… and I´m going to be right here when you do." She said and stood up from her sit beside her, she climbed back into her bed and turned her head to look at her friend, she closed her eyes and darkness claimed her once more.
I think it´s going to be one more chapter and then nothing... okay not nothing but it´ll be the end for the story and the beginning of a new one :D THANKS!
