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The Gallows

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Cinny

Chapter 8

"JJ…JJ, wake up." Rossi was pleading with her. How did this happen? How did he let them get into this much trouble? "JJ you have to wake up now!"

JJ stirred and then she could hear Rossi's voice just above a whisper, pleading with her. 'Did I fall asleep on the jet?' her own voice echoed inside of her brain, all of this seemed like she was still dreaming. She rolled onto her side and felt a sharp pain in her lower back. She was jolted into reality by that and she sat up, her head swirling and a wave of nausea and dizziness threatened to send her back into her dream land.

"JJ, are you alright?" Rossi knew she was still dazed from the stun gun but she would quickly recover now that she was awake.

What happened came flooding back to her. A contact in the media called her, telling her about a tip. Rossi was driving her home, after Hotch had told them to get some rest that they would pick this back up in the morning. She told Rossi about it and they decided to check it out. One quick call to Hotch and they were at the jogging park. They waited for a half hour sitting in the SUV. Finally Rossi got out from behind the wheel and that was the mistake he made putting them into this position. As soon as he did a man stepped out from the tree line holding an automatic weapon at JJ as she sat in the passenger side of the car.

"Put your weapon on the windshield and step around the front." Rossi did as he was told and the man had motioned for JJ to step out using two fingers in a come here gesture.

Rossi inched closer as the man told him to. JJ moved, following his orders and he told Rossi to step behind her. The gun was inches from JJ's face and he told Rossi to remove her gun and drop it. "Now come here!" Rossi stepped in closer and when he was within arms length the man pulled the stun gun from his pocket and hit Rossi with it. Then he did the same to JJ.

JJ felt the area below her ribcage and winced. Her jaw hurt and she realized she had a considerably large bruise there. She was positive it would be black and blue. She didn't know that after both of them were unconscious he had hit her.

Quickly he worked binding Rossi's wrists and ankles. He hoisted him into the SUV and then he went to JJ. She moaned and he hit her hard with the end of the gun. He took them to his workshop leaving Rossi bound and tossing JJ to the concrete floor like she was a sack of potatoes. Three days of nothing to eat and only water would make them ready. His wife would need that beautiful flesh again soon. He worried about this woman though. She wasn't the right type, if he couldn't use her she still had to die, she saw him and it would be such a waste, her skin was amazingly blemish free.

Her eyes went to Rossi and she said, "I'm sorry."

"JJ this is not your fault! Come and untie me." JJ struggled to get up and once she did she leaned against the wall. Her eyes settled on a wooden structure behind the chair Rossi was sitting on. She followed the line of the two by four studs, looking up to the ceiling. "Oh God!" JJ sank to the floor again crying. Rossi slid around on the chair and looked behind him. He looked up and saw the angled blade. A guillotine was built near the back of the room blood coated the blade and most of the floor around it. Rossi sank against the back of the chair taking in a couple of deep breaths.