Forgotten Lies – Part Ten

A/N: So what did you think about the last part? Are you ready for this part? I hope you like it.

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JJ arrived 8 minutes later where Hotch, Derek and Rossi were waiting near the trucks. She could tell by the look on Derek's face when she walked over that he didn't want her there, only because she wasn't supposed to be. Hotch looked at her and handed her a vest to put on. The only reason why she needed it on was if Lawfer wanted to come out shooting.

"We set this phone directly to his," Hotch started to explain to her as she got the vest on and put the ear piece in her ear. "So far Rossi's tried to talk to him and got nothing out of it."

"Let me try." JJ offered, Hotch let out a sigh. There were no other options at that point, he looked at Rossi and nodded at him, Rossi then walked over, picked up the phone and pressed the button that lit up green.

"I can see we're not getting anywhere." Rossi said into the phone after a small debate. "Hold please." Rossi said before pressing the other button that turned red as he set the phone down, which put the phone on speaker and muted the sound coming from their end.

"He'll try anything he can do to get you in there once he hears your voice. It's important for him to know that that will never happen." Hotch told her quickly, JJ nodded and took a deep breath as she stepped over. "When you're ready." Hotch told her. JJ took a breath and pressed the button and it turned green.

"Greg Lawfer? I'm Agent Jareau with the FBI." she told him, she only left a small pause between, giving him a chance to react. "I would like to talk to you."

"Do you have a first name, Ms. Jareau?" Lawfer asked, completely paying no regard to the sentence that followed. JJ glanced up at Hotch, but realized the way she needed talk, she needed to gain his trust somehow.

"Jennifer." JJ replied. "Now, I want to talk to you about letting your son and the Agent go." JJ told him, somehow, she knew it wasn't that easy. It never was.

"I wont talk to you over the phone." he said simply.

"Well, it's the only way we can communicate right now-"

"No it is not." he cut her off. "You could come inside."

"We can talk over the phone." JJ said, she was kind of getting annoyed, but she didn't let it show.

"No, how about you come inside so we can talk or I shoot the kid then your Agent." Lawfer said, Hotch shook his head at her as she pressed the other button that muted their side.

"JJ, we just talked about this, you can't go in." Hotch told her.

"I know, but he's going to kill them. I know the profile, I can talk to him. At least get his mind off of killing them so you can move in." JJ said, Hotch shook his head.

"Absolutely not. I am not sending another agent in there." by this time, Hotch was getting aggravated. Not so much with JJ, but with the situation. He didn't even realize how this happened until they were all out there. The unsub had grabbed Spencer and pulled him into a room, then made Spencer tell them they needed to clear out or he'd kill them. Which, Spencer didn't want to do, so the unsub held a gun to his sons head and Spencer knew he had to.

"Do you really think we have any other choice here, Hotch? He has a 15 year-old boy and Reid in there!" JJ exclaimed.

"If we let you go in there he could kill you."

"If I don't go in there he will kill Spencer and his son." JJ said, Hotch didn't retort. He couldn't. She was right and they all knew it, he let out a sigh of defeat.

"Hotch, we can't let her in there!" Derek cut in.

"We don't have any more time." Hotch told him, Derek shook his head as Hotch nodded at JJ as she pressed the button.

"I'm coming in." JJ said before hanging up the phone, she took her gun out.

"You have 3 minutes." Hotch told her, JJ nodded as she waked towards the house. 3 minutes may not seem like that much time, but when the seconds are counting down, it's like a life time. JJ opened the front door and cautiously made her way into the house, pointed her gun at every crevice. She knew he could be tricking her, only asking her to come in to do a blitz attach on her. But it was a chance she had to take in order to save Spencer and his son. Hotch briefed the officers as to what was going to happen when the 3 minutes were up as JJ walked into the living room and saw him. He was pointing a gun at Spencer's head, less than a foot away from him. Spencer gave JJ a look, JJ knew exactly what that look meant. JJ noticed Lawfer's son on the other side of Spencer, sitting on the ground with his head down, she glanced back up at Lawfer.

"Hello Jennifer."

"You said you would talk to me if I came in here." JJ cut to the chase. She only had 2 minutes and 40 seconds to talk to him and she wanted to make them count.

"Put the gun down." he told her, Spencer's eyes widened at her.

"I won't." JJ said firmly.

"Then I'll shoot him." he said sadistically.

"And the second you do a bullet will be in your skull." JJ told him, he raised his eyebrows with a smirk.

"I wont let him go." he said simply.

"Then I'll shoot you." JJ said, she was focused, if he made any movement what so ever, she'd pull the trigger and it go right in his head. "Put the gun down and I can tell them you cooperated." she told him, he didn't move. "You have 5 seconds." she warned him, he shook his head. "Think about your son, do you really want the last time he sees you to be like this?" she asked, she then saw something in his face, his muscles relaxed as he looked at his son, then he slowly put the gun on the ground and pushed it forward, but it only made it half way. JJ kept her gun pointed at him as she made her way over to it.

"JJ!" Spencer warned quickly just as Lawfer's son, Jackson sprinted towards her as JJ was bending down to grab it. With her eyes trained on him, she didn't realize what happened when a his body fell into hers as he grabbed the gun. JJ picked up her gun and pointed it to him. Jackson was holding the gun towards her. When JJ saw Lawfer move out of the corner of her eye, she directed the gun to him so he didn't pull anything.

"Stay right there!" she warned, at this point she didn't even case that Jackson was pointing the gun at her, if she let Lawfer go, he'd kill them all. "Jackson, listen to me, you don't want to do this." JJ told him as she looked over at him.

"Do it boy!" Lawfer yelled, JJ glared at him before calmly looking back at Jackson.

"I know what he did to you. I know what he made you watch. I know what he makes you believe... that all women are worthless, right? That all women deserve to die..." JJ said, she could tell by the way he was shaking, and by the way he would keep looking at Spencer every time he moved and quickly pointing it at him, then back to JJ as he took a step back that he wasn't used to this. He wasn't a killer. "Is that what he told you about your mother?" she asked him.

"Don't talk about my mother!" he exclaimed. "She was worthless. She left us!"

"Is that what your father told you?" JJ asked.

"Shut your mouth, you worthless bitch!" Lawfer spat, JJ paid no attention to her.

"But that's not what really happened," JJ said in a calmer voice, Jackson squinted his eyes and opened his mouth, hesitating.

"She-she left... I know she did!"

"No, Jackson... your father murdered her. Just like the rest of the women."

"No... no!" Jackson said as he tightened the grip on the gun.

"He had to start somewhere..." Spencer said, Jackson pointed the gun towards him as Lawfer tried to sprint up, in hopes that JJ would hold a gun on his son.

"Sit down!" JJ yelled at him, still keeping her gun pointed steady at him. "Jackson," JJ said as Jackson looked at her and pointed the gun towards her. "Your father lied to you..."

"You told me she left!" Jackson said, his eyes were watering.

"Yeah, well I said a lot of things! Now kill her! She's just like all the other women."

"You killed my mother?" Jackson asked as he moved the gun in his direction and pulled the trigged out of rage, just as the pulled penetrated Lawfer's chest, the team busted in the door, and only have seen Jackson through the entry way, they pulled the trigger as they moved in.

"NO!" JJ found herself screaming as she ran over to Jackson as he fell to the ground, she put her gun in the small of her back as she knelt on the ground and put pressure on the right side of his chest. Spencer knelt across from JJ. "We need an ambulance!" JJ said as she looked up at Hotch and Rossi, who were standing around her. Rossi made the call, even though they all knew the chances of him surviving after that would be slim.

x x x

"The doctor said it was a close call," Hotch said as he walked over to JJ. They were back at the police department, getting ready to head out to the plane. "He got shot three times, all in the right side of his chest. He's lucky to be alive." JJ let out a sigh of relief as she looked at him.

"I know what you're thinking... I'm sorry I got too involved..."

"No, JJ, you didn't. He is innocent in this whole thing, brainwashed by his father since he was 10 years old." Hotch explained, JJ nodded as she thought.

"What's gonna happen to him?" JJ asked.

"Well... if there are no known relatives to take him in, he'll be put into the adoption system." Hotch explained, even though they both knew that was the answer. JJ hoped for a different one, JJ let out a sigh and nodded. "You ready to head home?" he asked, JJ nodded.

"So, Strauss know about what happened yet?" JJ asked, Hotch shook his head.

"No, but when she finds out I'll be getting a call. The same thing happened twice in 2 months..." Hotch said, they both knew the ending to that sentence, JJ nodded.

"I know... hopefully it wont end badly.." JJ said, Hotch nodded.

"Let's hope."

x x x

"Hey... I saw you called, sorry I didn't get a chance to call you back until now... It's been really hectic around here..." JJ said into the phone as she stood behind the curtain on the plane. It was the only free time she could find, she noticed Will had called 3 times. Once at 1pm, then again at 4 then 6. It was now 7:30 now.

"It's okay JJ..." Will said.

"What's up? Is everything alright?" JJ asked, she could tell by the tone of his voice it wasn't a 'hey, how are you doing' call.

"Henry's school called me around 12 to tell me that one of his class mates pushed him down the slide backwards and he hit his head on the wood lining of the playground.." Will explained.

"What? Is-is he okay?" she stuttered, mostly because she was completely shocked.

"Well I picked him up from school, the nurse recommended I bring him to the hospital because he said he was dizzy and felt sick to his stomach... the doctor said he got a concussion, it's nothing serious though."

"Nothing serious? He got a concussion because a child pushed him onto a slide backwards..." JJ took a deep breath and calmed herself down quickly. "What about the kid who hurt him?" JJ asked.

"Henry told me the boy that pushed him hit him before and called him things, I talked to the principle and she's going to talk to the boy's parents." Will explained, JJ shook her head.

"That makes so much sense.." she said in a low voice.

"What does?" Will asked.

"He lost his temper and hit me the other night.. I was going to talk to you about it when I got back.." JJ said as Rossi walked in the curtain without realizing JJ had been on the phone, he took a step back and JJ shook her head to tell him it's okay for him to be there. "I'm on the plane now, so I should be home in about 2 hours... I'll call you when I land." JJ told him, she waited for an answer before hanging up.

"Everything okay?" Rossi asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee, JJ nodded.

"Yeah," she said as she let out a breath.

"That doesn't sound too convincing..." Rossi said, JJ sighed and shook her head.

"One of Henry's classmates pushed him backwards down a slide and he got a concussion... it's minor, but apparently he did it on purpose and has been bullying Henry.." JJ said as she let out a sigh, Rossi nodded.

"That's hard..." he said, JJ nodded and gave him a half smile. Even though Rossi didn't say that much entirely, she knew he meant well. As Rossi nodded at her and walked past the curtain, JJ thought about how she tells the team everything and they are like her family. She could tell any one of them anything and they'd either always listen or give her advice. She just couldn't help but feel there was something missing from that. She started to feel even guiltier for the lie she must tell and the secret she must keep. She then yelled at herself to tell herself that she shouldn't keep thinking about this or feeling guilty because she has to do this. JJ let out a sigh and shook her head.

"Why is this so hard?" she said under her breath.