"You tell them we know about the plan, you both die. Got it?"
JJ and Penelope both nodded, JJ was so delirious from pain that she probably didn't even know what the plan was. Penelope didn't want to put Ash in any more danger than she already was willing to by not warning her, but there was nothing she could do. If it was just her own life she might have risked it, but JJ had Will and Henry, both of them needed her.
Ashley would have to forgive her. JJ would have to forgive her for not helping Ashley. She wiped away her tears with a shaking hand as she wrapped JJ up in the blanket to try and shield her and her injuries from the cold of the basement.
"Why are you going after the women of the team?" She asked quietly.
He definitely heard her, but he didn't respond.
"Just tell us why!" She shouted, her voice cracking half way through the sentence as she leapt to her feet to face him. He didn't respond again. "Tell me why G-"He cut her off by hitting her hard across the face, her weak form stumbled backwards and collapsed onto the floor.
"Don't talk to me like that and you are not allowed to mention my name when THEY can hear us!" He roared.
"You've already kept us hostage for days! Tortured us! Threatened to kill us! What else can you possibly do?" She screamed. Tears racing down his cheeks.
"There's plenty more I can do Garcia. Trust me; I'll dump your body in front of Doctor Reid's apartment and JJ's in front of William Lamontagne's front door. But, I'm not done yet." He smirked through his hood and left them alone again, she didn't hear a lock click.
She went over to JJ. She was sat up in the blanket, awoken by the commotion. She tried to stand up, but Penelope stopped her. "Sugar plum, don't try and get up. I don't think you're ready." She said to her.
"No, Pen, let me try. Let me stand up."
Penelope nodded, but stood directly by her side, with her arms out ready to catch JJ if she stumbled. Surprisingly JJ easily managed to pull herself to her feet, which was a massive improvement from what she could only presume was the day before.
Both of them then realized that they hadn't heard any sounds from the computer screens throughout any of that, which was a bit of a shock. They glanced over and saw that Garcia's office was empty; nobody was there, until of course Reid stuck his head up from under the desk.
He looked very ill. He looked like he was about to throw up, or maybe he already had threw up and that's why he was under the desk. "The Replicator is…" He stuttered and trailed off. If possible more colour drained from his already pasty skin and he clumsily scrambled to his feet and out towards the bullpen. They could only hope he made it on time to stop Ashley from leaving.
He scrambled like a maniac straight out of the office and ran straight to the bullpen. "Hotch, Hotch! I know who the replicator is!" He shouted.
The whole team (including Will and Kevin) turned to look at him. All of them looked confused. Hotch moved closer to him. "Hotch; we can't go through with the plan! We need to keep Ashley protected-"He cut himself off, only just realizing that she wasn't in the bullpen.
"Hotch, where's Ashley?"
At that everyone sprang into gear. Kevin and Will went to the computers and Emily, Morgan, Rossi and Alex started putting their comms in. Hotch passed Reid his comm and vest. "She's just left." Was all he said. "Reid, who is the replicator?"
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