Hey guys! Here's the next chapter of the story. I really worked hard on it so it took a bit longer until the update... I hope you are not mad or something and still keep on reading :)

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Flashback – Two weeks ago, saturday morning

"Darling, can you just give me some coffee, please? Oh, and please put some orange juice into Henry's glass, he should get some vitamins, winter's coming soon."

JJ smiled as she sat down on the table. It was the first off since nearly three weeks, and she was enjoying having breakfast with her family.

Will smiled back and did what his wife had ask for. He was happy that she finally had a free day at the weekend. Of course he knew the responsibility that was getting along with her job, but he just missed her sometimes. And Henry too, of course.

Suddenly, he heard the, unfortunately, familiar ring tone of JJ's mobile phone. He looked at his wife.

"No, please, you said you'll have the day off..." he started. JJ smiled sadly and looked at the screen. It was Spencer's number. Maybe he wanted to ask if he could spent some hours with Henry...

"Don't worry, it's just Spence." JJ said and sighed as she pressed the green button to answer Reid's call. Somehow she had a feeling, that the call wasn't about Henry.

"Hey Spence, what's up?" JJ asked. She was curious since Reid didn't call often by himself. Usually it was her or any other one of the team who motivated him to get out.

"Oh, hey JJ... Listen, I'm sorry that I'm calling you, I know you probably want to spent the morning with your family..." She heard Reid's voice. Now she was alarmed. He sounded really nervously. Even more than usually.

"Spence, is everything alright?" She asked. She heard him taking a deep breath.

"Yeah... well, I wondered if you would like to have... a coffee or something with me. I just... I just need to talk with you about something and I already tried to call Morgan and Garcia but they wouldn't pick up... " He stopped. JJ looked at Will who tried to figure out what the conversation was about. Obviously nothing good since he knew the worried look of her wife very well. "I know... it's a stupid idea..." she heard him continuing. "Just... just forget that I called, and spend a nice day with Will and Henry, okay?"

JJ was confused. At first he call her and sounded obviously upset about something and then he wanted her to drop it? She knew Spencer well enough by now that there was definitely a problem and he needed to talk about this. She sighed again.

"Spence, it's no problem, I'd really like to have a coffee with you." She stopped as she saw the look of Will. He wasn't going to like this, that was clear. But Reid belongs to the family as well. "Well meet in half an hour at tour favorite he coffeeshop, is that okay?"

She heard Spencer taking a deep breath again. "Yeah, sounds great... and oh, please tell Will and Henry that I'm sorry... I promise, it won't take long." He sounded relieved and at the same time guilty. JJ wondered what would be so important that he had to talk with her personally.

"Don't worry, Spence, they'll understand. Okay, see you in half an hour."

"Thanks JJ. Bye."

"Bye."

And then she hung up.

End of flashback

…...

"No. I'm the one who give the orders right now, is that clear?"

Rodney had ordered him to sit down next to Reid, which had caused the elevator to shake even more. Morgan wanted so desperately talk to Reid, who sat there with his eyes closed and Rodney's knife on his throat. Morgan wondered if the kid was even awake. At least he could him hear breathing, although it seemed to be a little bit too fast. However, he didn't blame the young genius. They were trapped in a damn elevator with a murderer, for heaven's sake!

"Spence..." He whispered and hoped that Reid would open his eyes. Carefully, he looked up to Rodney who still pressed the knife on the kid's skin. However, he didn't really seemed to pay attention what they were doing.

Luckily, Reid opened his eyes. He was feeling really ill by now and felt his body trembling. It was just strange. Of course he had always suffered from claustrophobia, but he had managed to fight against his scares, as he knew that sooner or later he had to face them. And now, as he was stucked in this damn small room with Morgan and this guy who obviously was a murderer, it wasn't the elevator itself that scared him. Nor Rodney. He had to do with psychos everyday, and he was nearly used to it to deal with them. No, he was scared of other things...

"Morgan..." his voice was hoarse and he didn't dare to speak up loud because he didn't want to attract Rodney's attention.

"Spence, Hotch and the others will get us out of here, okay? Just... just hang on." Morgan stopped as Reid closed his eyes again. "Spence?"

"Morgan... I wanted to tell you..." Just as Reid was about to continue talking, he felt the knife being pushed harder against his throat.

"You boss better answers soon" he heard Rodneys deep voice speaking. "Or I've got to use my pretty knife here..."

Great, now he's going to be killed in a damn elevator.

…...

"Okay, this is what we're going to do.." Hotch said and felt the looks of the team and the fire men on him. He knew that he was responsible for his colleagues and that they trusted him to get them out of here. "I'll tell Rodney that the men of the fire brigade will get them out. Then, he can take me as a hostage instead of Morgan and Reid and do whatever he wants." JJ looked at him with her big eyes and wanted to interrupt her boss, since she didn't want to agree to the exchange, although she wished nothing more than having her colleagues back. But she also didn't want Hotch to get in danger. However, her boss just continued talking before she could answer back.

"Please, I know that it's a silly plan, but it's the only one I can think about to get the situation at least a bit defused."

Rossi was the only one who nodded. "Okay... but we'll only let you get going if we can put GPS transmitter on you. This guy won't get away that easily."

Hotch sighed. "Alright. I'll give you guys a sign as soon as you can enter the tunnel to climb down to the elevator, okay?" he turned to the fire men.

"Yes sir. Come on guys, let's get upstairs and make everything ready." One of the men said and they all went upstairs.

Hotch took a deep breath.

"Sir, are you still there?" he finally asked out loud. What a stupid question he thought at the same time. Of course he'll be still be there. How could he flee out of a elevator with two hostages? Hotch felt himself getting more and more nervous as he didn't receive an answer for what seemed like hours. But then..

"Well, what do you think?" He heard the man's voice. He sounded angry, which wasn't a good sign. Hotch tried his best to keep calm and professional.

"What do you suggest to get me out of here? And of course not to jail, because I really don't deserve to be behind bars."

If the situation wasn't that bad, he would've smiled. Sure, all murderers have a reason to kill somebody. And the fewest think about the consequences or why they will be penalized later for breaking the law.

"I'm sure you don't" Hotch said after choosing his words. This guy obviously gets upset very easily, and this was the last thing he wanted.

"Listen, I've indeed a deal to suggest." Hotch continued. "The fire brigade will get you out of here, and they won't be armed of course. Then I propose myself as an exchangement instead of your hostages."

There was again a long pause and Hotch and the team could hear some muttering sounds. Apparently he was discussing with Morgan and Reid about something.

After another few minutes, he suddenly heard an answer.

"Okay, this sounds pretty fair to me, since one of your agents doesn't look that good."

Hotch heard JJ swallowing. He knew that it was Reid who he meant since Morgan had mentioned that the youngest member was injured.

"Alright sir..." Hotch said and was glad that the man had agreed. He tried to ignore JJ's deep breaths and continued to speak. "I'll send the fire man down to you, is that okay?"

"Yeah. I'll give other instructions as soon as he'll be there."

"Okay. They'll need a few minutes to get down to you, so just stay as calm as possible."

He didn't get another answer, so he assumed that it was okay to send the fire men down.

He pulled out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the fire men who had talked to him before.

"Sir?" he heard the male voice speaking.

"You can go in now. But be careful, the suspect is armed, one of our agents is probably injured and the two are taken hostage by the suspect. If you talk to him, stay calm and don't upset him, no matter what he's saying, is that clear?"

"Alright sir. Don't worry, you guys are free in no time."

The man hung up and he could hear some moving up the elevator tunnel.

"I hope everything's going alright." JJ said finally as there was an awkard silence between the team.

"Don't worry... I'm sure it will" Hotch said and thought at the same time that even he wouldn't believe himself with a nervous voice like that.

Aaaaaaaand cut :) What do you think, will everything be alright? Can they save Reid and Morgan? How did you like the flashback? Please tell me what you think about this chapter and leave me a comment in form of a (hopefully nice ;D) review :)

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