A/N: A bit shorter than usual but I thought you might want me to take the edge off. Thanks for all of the awesome reviews and encouragement, means a lot! H
Commander Bennet cursed at the images before one view went blank.
"What the hell just happened." Frost asked. He had seen Jane launch herself before the one screen had gone blank.
"We just had an explosive go off, shit!" Bennet slammed his mic down, they needed the damn bomb squad.
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"Brandon what the fuck?" Chester got onto his knees and shook his head trying desperately to stop the ringing in his ears. His back was on fire and he knew it was probably full of shrapnel but he was alive. He could hear voices just beyond where the doorframe once stood to the juror room and knew SWAT was coming in. "Shit!" Staying low, he kicked Korsak's prone form and tried to make his way back to where his partner had been. They needed to get the hell out.
The low wall in front of the juror seating had blocked a lot of the blast but they hadn't escaped unscathed.
Emily had grabbed JJ and Pen both when Korsak had gone for the gun, thankfully for them. The low wall had imploded at them but except for some cuts and bruises they were okay.
Jordan and Maura had been slammed into the seats when the explosive had gone off. Maura coughed, trying to take a breath and knew she had bruised some ribs when she and Jordan had been blown back.
Jordan tried to clear her head and focus on what had happened but she found herself trying to help Morgan and Rossi who were stuck under the remains of the clerk's area.
"Jane?" Maura coughed again and looked over to where Jane had been. The table was gone and the ceiling directly above the area had collapsed onto the area. She saw Chester headed there and screamed.
"Jane!"
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Hotch groaned as he yanked his hand out and started to free himself. The blast had blown him back toward the entry loosening his bindings. His head was pounding to beat the band and he could feel the wetness on the back of it but he didn't care, he just wanted to check on his people.
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Chester cursed aloud as another part of the ceiling fell almost striking him. He didn't know why he was bothering, Brandon was probably dead but they were in this together. He glanced at the entries and realized two of them were now blocked with debris leaving only the inmate entry.
"Stop where you are!" One of the SWAT team members managed to get in and immediately ducked back out when Chester fired at them.
"Brandon where the hell are you?" Chester kept one eye on the door and never saw Hotch.
The two men went down in a tangle of arms and legs, grunting and panting both men's hands locked on the gun. Chester fired a wild shot as he tried to regain control of the gun but fell to the ground in a heap when Emily smashed what was left of a chair across his head.
"Thanks." Hotch panted.
"Anytime." Emily moved quickly to the spot where Jane and Brandon had been but because they had been so close to the blast the rubble was extensive.
"Where is she?" Maura cried
Morgan shifted some of the debris out of the way and joined Emily and Maura in their search.
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Jordan saw the remains of the bag and the items in it and knew they would have to get the bomb squad in. There was no telling if there was anything undetonated in there but they needed to get to Jane first.
"Emily slow down." JJ grabbed her elbow and steadied her. The wound on her head was bleeding again and she had seen her lose her balance twice.
"I'm fine Jennifer." JJ saw the unshed tears and understood, Maura had been distracted briefly by Rossi and was tending to Korsak as emergency personnel worked to get through the blocked doors. Only the one officer had been able to get through to help so far. She was thin enough to get through the opening.
The blast had slammed Jane and Brandon both into the elevated judge's bench, which was in pieces covered in parts of the wall and ceiling. The water from the sprinklers was making everything that much harder.
"Here!" Jordan pulled on Jane's foot and tossed off a piece of the bench. The others converged on the area with Maura in the lead and got to work digging Jane out.
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"We need to get in there!" Frost was beside himself. Even with the threat neutralized he knew the way they were digging that they had found Jane.
"We're almost through Detective, they-" Commander Bennet nodded grimly at the information he received over his radio. "Go! Get in there, we have people down!"
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"Let us get in there. Ma'am, please." One of the firefighters pulled Maura away from the rubble and handed her to an EMT as others of them finished what they had started. It was a few more minutes before they uncovered her.
The chair Jane had been sitting on was broken around her. Her wrists were bloody from the force that ripped the chair apart and there were patches of her shirt burned away from the explosion. She was unresponsive.
"We have a pulse! Weak and thready. Pass a backboard." The EMT's worked efficiently and turned her over carefully onto the backboard, immediately applying pressure to the bleeding wounds on her torso.
"We have another one!" Brandon was hidden beneath Jane's unconscious form and the debris that had fallen on her.
Brandon opened his eyes and looked into the eyes of the EMT trying to help him and grabbed her around the throat.
"No!" Emily broke his hold and started hitting him over and over, cursing until Morgan hooked his good arm around her and yanked her off.
"Enough!"
Wilkins was unconscious from the beating but otherwise seemed to have come out fairly unscathed unlike Jane.
"Jane…" Maura ran a hand down her cheek as they secured her. She hadn't stirred. Maura took one of Jane's hands and cried at the sight of her bloody wrists. "Please…can we get these off her?"
Rossi pulled out his keys and undid each cuff, mindful of Jane's injuries. The swelling around her wrists was pronounced and he gave Maura's hand a gentle squeeze as they carried Jane out of there with Maura right behind them.
He watched as the injured members of his team were tended to before being transported to the hospital and fought the tears that were threatening to fall.
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Frost watched as Jane was carried out and rushed to Maura's side.
"Maura?"
"Barry?" Maura broke down in his arms. Because of the explosion they were forced to carry Jane down the stairs and they both followed behind the firefighters and EMTs that carried her.
By the time they got her downstairs she was in distress. Jane was immediately loaded into the ambulance and hooked up to the cardiac monitor.
"Arrythmia! Dammit, how many times was she hit with that thing?" The paramedic tending to Jane was frantic trying to get her stabilized. "Any pre-existing conditions?"
"Yes…yes…she suffered a myocardial contusion almost two years ago."
"Damn." The paramedic banged on the window behind the driver. "Let's move it!"
Tears flowed down Maura's face as she watched the oxygen mask go over her fiancée's face.
"Jane…"
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"I don't need to go-"
"Emily Prentiss you are going to the hospital!" JJ waved her arms around her. "Pick someone to ride with, but you ARE going."
Emily knew enough not to argue with that tone. Half of them would be driving themselves, the others were being transported and if she were honest with herself she needed to at least get her hand looked at. After the beating she gave Wilkins it had started to swell.
"Yes ma'am." She said meekly. Her tone of voice brought JJ over to her. "I'm sorry Jayje."
"Emily…let's just get to the hospital." JJ wanted her family to be okay but the sight of a battered Jane Rizzoli being carried out had frightened her to her core. The torture she had endured, for them…
"Let's go."
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