"Finally we're alone." Reid muttered to JJ after he shut the door behind Emily. He let out a quick sigh of relief before joining her on the couch again. "How are you?" He asked, seeing the blank look across her face.

She turned to look at him. "I'm good." She shrugged. "I'm glad today is our last day here. I want to see Henry again." He noticed that she didn't mention Will. There was something in her voice that was off, like there was more to what she was saying then she was letting on. He decided to leave it alone though since she'd been through a lot already.

"Yea I know…I need to get home too so I can finish Finnegan's Wake again." Reid sighed happily to himself. Solitude was the only life he'd ever known and now, unlike most people he found comfort in being alone.

"Again?" JJ gave him an astonished look.

He knew why she looked so surprised. That book was supposedly the most challenging book to read in the English language, but Reid enjoyed the puzzling abstractness of it. "Of course!" He shook his head, "I liked it the first time, but going through a second time you tend to notice that you didn't the first read. I love it."

"You would. It's like a genius' high." JJ teased and then let out a tired sigh.

You two have been doing a great job this past week, but we don't want you to get any more attention than you already have. Just lay low today and get ready for tomorrow.

Both of the young agents heard Hotch's voice in their ears. "Yes sir." Reid was the first to respond and as he did so he pulled out his earpiece. Since they were lying low he figured that Hotch didn't need to hear their whole conversations anymore. He stood up and walked into the kitchen to get them some drinks. "So JJ…" he started, bringing the drinks back into the living room. "I know you have to have some interesting stories from that small town of yours." He smiled.

JJ raised an eyebrow at her friend and took a quick sip of her drink. "What kind of stories are you looking for?"

"Anything really. We do have a lot of time on our hands."

She took another sip. "Well I did have to go down to the police station one time." A smile appeared on her face like she remembered it as a funny story.

"Jennifer Jareau I had no idea you were a rebel! I always pictured you as one of the popular girls, but not one that takes trips down to the police station!" Reid exclaimed looking at his friend. He couldn't wait to hear this story.

"One time! It was only one time!" JJ shot him a glare. "It was all a misunderstanding, but in that town everything was blown way out of proportion." She sighed, "So it was one night during the summer and I snuck out to go hang out with my friends."

"How did you manage to sneak out without being seen?"

"I climbed out my window and jumped down, but our second floor wasn't that high up so it really wasn't a big deal. We walked down to these train tracks and everyone was drinking except for me because I was on the soccer team and they did random drug tests all the time. They started playing chicken on the tracks. In time the police found us and someone around me yelled to run so I did." JJ shrugged.

"You ran? That's probably the worst thing that you could have done."

"We actually got away though because we jumped into the freezing cold lake and swam to the other side. The police never thought to check there. After a while they gave up, but when I got home the police were at my house waiting. They had recognized me when I ran so when I showed back up at my house, soaking wet they took me down to the police station and tested me. When they figured out that I didn't have any drugs in my system they just questioned me about who else had been there. I didn't give them up and no one ever found out. It never went down on my permanent record either because I wasn't drinking so I technically didn't do anything wrong." JJ smiled smugly.

"Wow." Reid shook his head. "You're crazy…"

"Oh come on. You had to have gotten in trouble when you were a teenager." JJ insisted.

"Well there was that one time when I forgot my homework." Reid chuckled.

"One time?" JJ lifted her eyebrows. "Oh my gosh Spence! That's pretty impressive that you only didn't do it once."

"It was all so easy that it only took me a few minutes. Other than that the only times I really got in trouble were when I called out the answers too much in class or for cheating." Reid shrugged.

"You cheated?"

"They thought I was cheating because I got straight one hundreds on all of my tests. It took them a whole year of visits to the principal's office to finally figure out that I had an eidetic memory. That's when I started to skip grades." Reid smiled proudly at the thought. "Alright…I think that's it for story time. What else can we do?"

"How about a movie?" JJ asked, shrugging. "There's really nothing else to do while stuck in a house all day." She walked over to a case by the fireplace and started to rummage through it. "Remember the Titans….The Cove…"

"The Cove? The documentary about how the Japanese kill dolphins to use in one of their soup recipes? We are definitely not watching that." Reid told her, thinking about all of the information he knew about the subject. He could just rapid-fire the dolphin maiming stories he'd heard, but he decided to keep his mouth shut for once.

"I agree." JJ nodded at him before delving back into the movies. "There's The DaVinci Code…Inception…"

"They really have Inception? That's such a mediocre take on the possibilities of the human mind. They think that you can just plant memories into someone else's mind…that's completely unheard of and absurd." Reid shook his head in disapproval for that movie.

"Okay well there are a few more…Star Wars…" She shook her head, "Forrest Gump…"

"What's that about?" Reid asked, bending down to look at the cover.

"Oh come on, Spence. You know…Life is like a box of chocolates…" JJ smiled at him. "You never know what you're gonna get." She turned back towards the pile.

"Box of chocolates…?" Reid pondered the metaphor.

JJ reached down for the last couple movies in the case. "No…no…no…" She said as she rifled through them. "Oh! I love this movie!" She held it up for him to see.

"A Walk to Remember? I've never even heard of that movie." Reid shrugged.

"Really? Never? We have to watch it then. I watched it with my sister when I was little and I never really got it until a few years later." JJ shook her head and put the movie in the DVD player.

A pit formed in Reid's stomach. Whenever JJ mentioned her sister certain sadness washed over him. He'd lost his mom and his dad, but neither were actually dead and neither had really chosen to leave him in a way like that. It was just sad for him to think of what it was like for her to have to go through that as such a young age. "Sure we can watch this." He sat down on the couch and she joined him after setting everything up. While the credits rolled, Reid looked over at JJ. "So do you have any other siblings?"

"I have an older brother and another older sister, but when I say older I mean I'm 28, my brother is 26 and my sister is 31. My other sister was pretty close to my age." JJ answered and Reid noticed that she started to look uncomfortable so he left it alone for a while.

The movie started and Reid surprisingly found himself interested in the storyline. It was a pleasant story, but he had assumed that it would also have a happy ending so he was caught off guard when the main girl character announced to her true love that she was dying of leukemia. The movie went on to a less interesting scene, so Reid decided to ask JJ a question that had been nagging him for a while. "Hey JJ?"

"Yea?" She didn't take her eyes off the screen. It was like she could sense that he was about to bring up something she didn't want to talk about.

"What was she like?"

Now he had her attention. She turned her head towards him, "Who?" She asked, but he could see that she knew perfectly well who he was talking about and just wanted to hear him say it out loud.

"Your other sister."

A small smile flashed across JJ's face, but sadness could still be seen in her eyes. "She was…well, let's just say she was my role model. She was everything I wanted to be when I was older; smart, popular, outgoing and compassionate. Most people thought that I would be closer with the sister that was around my age, but for some reason my older sister and I connected better. She helped me with my small, what I thought to be 'life-changing', problems, but I never stopped to think that she might have problems of her own. And I never thought that they would lead to…" She stopped for a few seconds and then started again. "My sister was a great person….but everyone has their demons and I guess that she just couldn't…handle hers."

Reid gave her a nod while processing what she had told him. "I'm sure she'd proud of you."

"I'd like to think that." The corners of JJ's lips curled up slightly at the thought before she turned back to the movie. It was on the ending scene, which was also the saddest part in the whole movie.

As Reid watched he gulped back the tears that wanted to escape from his eyes. A movie had never made him want to cry before, but this one, because of the passion that it brought, was a lot more emotional for him. He snuck a glance at JJ beside him only to see tears flowing freely down her face. It was weird seeing her cry for a second time because she was usually so strong and composed, but he knew that this time her tears weren't for the movie…

Reid leaned against the wall with his eyes closed. He felt pain everywhere, literally. Even his toes and fingers were throbbing with discomfort. In the past hour, Reid had been through two fights. The first, he had been forced into for round two. It hadn't been too bad until he fell on the ground and didn't have the strength to get up. The wind was knocked out of him and the cool surface of the concrete floor felt good against his skin. He had no plan to get to his feet again until he heard Brian slap JJ across the face. No. That wouldn't happen while he was here. He pulled himself off the ground and tackled Brian, slamming him into the ground. Blood pooled on the ground in front of Brian's face so Reid knew that his nose had broken against the floor. He knew that had to have been painful. The young agent climbed on top of Brian to hold him down, watching the clock on the other side of the room. As long as he could keep Brian suspended like this the clock was still running, giving him less time for the next round.

0:30…0:29…0:28…0:27…

"Spence?!" JJ exclaimed behind him. He turned his head to look at her only to meet her wide blue eyes. "You…you pinned him down…" She looked shocked and shook her head. "I-I…didn't know you had it in you." She sounded weak, but he didn't have time to address that at the moment.

"I didn't either." Reid smirked for a brief second before he felt Brian squirm under him so he put his hand on the stronger man's neck to stay in control of the situation. He glanced over at the clock again to see how much time was left.

0:18…0:17…0:16…0:15…

Fifteen seconds was all he had left to get through, but of course…just as Reid had turned to look over at the timer his grip had loosened giving Brian enough time to push him off. Reid collided with the floor on his back as Brian stood up, wiping his nose. He lifted Reid off of the ground by the collar of his shirt, standing him back up again.

"Now it's fair again. Think you can beat me now? Huh?" Brian teased, rolling his eyes. He aimed a punch at Reid's nose, but the profiler noticed and was able to dodge before the fist reached its destination. As he ducked he also threw a punch at Brian's stomach, causing him to double over for a second, but only a second. The older man recovered quickly and this time without hesitation or even pre-planning he swung his fist blindly towards Reid. It crashed into his cheek knocking him onto the ground. He fell so hard he almost thought he heard the beeping noise again…oh wait. That was a beeping noise. It was the beeping noise of the timer. Thank god. He thought as he heard Brian walk over and stop the beeping.

"Wow I really did not think you would last that long. Kudos to you, buddy. Now…Jennifer…I wonder what kind of fight you have in you." Brian chuckled, walking over to her. He grabbed her wrist, lifting her off the ground. As she stood, her legs gave in a little making her have to lean on him for support. There was no way she would make it through a fight with him.

"No." Reid whispered only to realize that it was too quiet for either of them to hear. He saw that JJ's eyes were barely open and there was a large red mark on her face from where he had slapped her. She was pale and sickly, he couldn't let this happen. "NO." He repeated again, this time with fierceness in his voice. He stood up and blinked a few times. Both of them looked over at him.

"Spence…" JJ's voice faltered as she spoke like she was already exhausted from standing up this long. "What are you doing…?" She pushed herself off of Brian so that she was standing by herself. "I'm…okay, really."

"No." This was the third time he had said it now. "I'm not letting this happen. Can I take this round for her? She's too weak anyway so what's the point of fighting with her when we both know she won't be able to keep up?" Reid shot the questions at Brian.

"No…no one can just take rounds for other people." He spat the words 'take rounds' as if it were some sort of crime. "This is meant to test how strong you are, if she can't do this then she'll just have one hell of a time during round three."

"She can't do this, Brian. Just let me take this one round for her and she'll do the rest by herself. How about this: if you let me take this round for her, you can take off all of the extra time I've built up from round one and two."

"That'd be a whole…minute and a half that you're throwing away…for her." Brian informed him, expecting that this fact would make Reid hesitate in his decision. "Just remember that you have no idea what's coming during round three. It could be something so horrible that you'd wish you had kept that minute and a half. Why waste it?"

"Because she's my best friend and she means the world to me so I'd do anything for her, including this." Reid's eyes met hers and he nodded, giving her a look that told her not to feel guilty about this. She returned it with a sad gaze. "So are we going to do this or what?" He glared at Brian.

Brian still looked hesitant about it, but then he turned to JJ. "Are you okay with this? I mean, this time I'm not going easy on him. I'll beat the crap out of him so…if you want to stop it, speak up." He looked down at her.

JJ looked desperately at Reid, but he just shook his head at her. She got the message. "He can do it." A silent tear slid down her face as he let her go. She walked back over to the wall and slid back down into a sitting position against it.

Reid gave her a smile and a nod before watching Brian set the timer again. It was set for the full 5 minutes now, but he could do it. He had to do it…for JJ. "Don't worry." He whispered towards her to make sure that she knew that everything was going to be okay.

A FEW HOURS EARLIER IN QUANTICO…

Hotch was sitting in his office looking through the personal files of each of the neighbors from the neighborhood that Reid and JJ had been staying in. Every single one of them led perfectly normal lives even the one who had slapped JJ. They had no real leads and they couldn't get warrants either because of their lack of evidence. His people were in trouble and there was virtually nothing he could do about it. He let out a frustrated sigh and buried his face in his hands. He'd been the one who had sent the two youngest members out there and now? They had been kidnapped. It was surreal.

The door to his office flew open to show a very flustered Morgan standing before him. "Hotch! You need to come see this!"

Hotch looked up, annoyed. "Morgan, can't this wait? I'm trying to get through these files…"

"No! It can't wait, you need to come now." Morgan made eye contact with his unit chief and Hotch saw the urgency in his eyes so he stood up and followed him out. They walked hastily to Garcia's office and as he walked in he saw that on the main monitor was a video. There were two figures laying in a small room. One was a blonde woman and the other was a brunet man.

Hotch's mouth dropped open for a few seconds, but he quickly closed it and manintain his rock hard expression. "Is that-"

"Yes." Emily shook her head and Hotch noticed that she and Garcia were holding hands. "It's them."

Hotch looked back up at the screen and saw a man crouching over Reid in just the right position so they couldn't see his face at any time. He was completely aware of where the camera was. "What is he doing to him?" He asked, completely appalled by the scene that was unfolding in front of him. The man had a knife and was cutting Reid, but he didn't fight back…at all.

"You missed the rules." Rossi muttered and then went on to explain the rules of the sick game that their colleagues were being forced to play. The old man's eyes were worn and dull.

"Where is this coming from?" Hotch demanded, stepping forward, but no one responded. "Garcia!" He exclaimed, forcefully. "Where is this coming from?!" He all but yelled at the technical analyst.

"I don't know Hotch!" Garcia yelled back at him. The next part she added more softly. "I can't trace it; it's bouncing off too many servers."

Hotch didn't respond he just watched as a medic came in a started to help Reid with his wounds. "Morgan, come help me look through the files. Garcia, Rossi and Emily keep watching the video and come get us if anything happens." He turned around and walked out with Morgan following his wake.

The two livid men looked through the cases for less than ten minutes before Emily knocked on the door. Hotch looked up and his stomach dropped. He hoped that something bad hadn't happened to Reid or JJ.

"Come in." He tried to keep his voice level even though he was anxious about what Emily was going to tell them.

She walked in and sat down in one of the available chairs. "Reid got medical care, but JJ didn't and she's in pretty bad shape. Reid is estimating that she only as a few more hours without care before she…" Emily stopped herself. "Reid also started to hear this beeping noise and he almost lost it before JJ calmed him down. Right now…they're just sleeping and we should be too. We'll be no good if we're all tired like this, but I do think that someone should take the night shift and watch the video just in case something happens." She suggested.

"I will." Hotch volunteered. He didn't want to miss anything that was happening to them because he felt like it was his fault that they were in that situation in the first place. If anything happened to them he wouldn't forgive himself.

"No Hotch you have Jack, I'll stay." Morgan cut in, waking Hotch from his thoughts. Without even arguing, Hotch nodded at the other man. He was too tired to protest and it was true that they needed sleep if they want to help the two young agents.

"Alright. I'll see you two in the morning."