Ch. 11
Once Reid navigated them to a hotel and they checked in Hotch called JJ to fill her in on what was happening.
"We are going to try to get some rest and regroup before deciding our next move" Hotch told her from his hotel room
"But everyone's okay?" JJ asked with concern
"Yes everyone is fine" he told her and then asked, "Would you like to talk to Emily?"
"No that's okay I believe you" she told him unconvincingly
"Just hang on JJ" Hotch said as he picked up his room phone to call Emily's room to tell her to come over to his room for a minute
In less than a minute Emily and Declan were both in Hotch's room and Emily was talking to JJ on the phone.
"I'm fine JJ just some cuts and bruises, nothing I haven't had before" Emily told her with reassurance
"It's good to hear your voice. I just wish I could see you…and hold you…and kiss you" JJ told her
Emily closed her eyes imagining JJ holding her and feeling the warmth of her embrace, "Me too"
There was silence for a moment before JJ asked, "Hotch is there isn't he?"
"Yes" Emily answered
"Okay well I will let you go, but please come home safe. I miss you" JJ told her
"I know" Emily answered, without being able to say much more than that with Hotch in the room
"Bye JJ" Emily said as she hung up the phone
She turned and handed the phone back to Hotch before turning and tossing her right arm around Declan's shoulders pulling him with her out the door.
"You two get some rest. We will meet up in my room in say three hours"
Emily nodded as she closed the door behind her.
Once Emily and Declan got back to their room they both plopped down on a bed, ready for some much needed rest. Instead the phone in their room rang so Emily reached over to answer it, thinking it was someone from the team.
"Hello" she said into the phone
"Hello Emily" a voice said on the other end, a voice she was hoping to never hear again.
"What do you want?" she asked as she sat up on the bed
"You know what I want" Doyle told her
"Well you can't have it" she told him
Doyle laughed slightly before saying, "You think it's an option but see you tried to make me believe you were dead…again. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
"How do you know where I am?" Emily asked
"I have new people working for me and they found ways to keep an eye on all of you. That's right Emily. I know that Agent Hotch and Reid are at that hotel with you right now, just like I know Declan is with you. Tell me Emily, how was it talking to JJ? Guess what? I know that she has contact with Ethan and the agents watching him. Do you think she would die for your son?"
Emily's anger was boiling, "You LEAVE her ALONE" she told him angrily as she stood up from the bed.
Declan was now looking at Emily with a scared face, wondering what was going on.
"Oh Emily you would think you would have learned your lesson by now. The way to get through to people is their family. JJ's son sure is adorable. Do you think she would give up Ethan's whereabouts to save her own son?"
"If you harm her or even talk to her OR her son I will kill you" Emily said into the phone with anger
"Well then there is a simple solution. You give me Declan and I will leave JJ and her son alone"
"That's not going to happen" Emily told him
"As you wish Emily. But just remember you tried to kill me before and it didn't work" he told her before hanging up the phone
Emily slammed the hotel phone onto the receiver before spinning around and seeing Declan on the bed with wide eyes. She walked over to him and bent down to look into his bright blue eyes.
"Mason I'm sorry but I have to go. I want you to stay here and in 2.5 hours you go down the hall to Agent Hotchner's room okay. Then and only then you can tell him that I had to go."
"Where are you going?" he asked in a concerned voice
"I have to go help my friend. But you need to stay here and promise me you will do what Agent Hotchner says. You'll be safe with them" she told him
"No, I want to go with you" he told her in a scared tone of voice
"I can't take you Mason, it's too dangerous okay. I wouldn't leave you if I didn't think you would be safe"
"It's my dad isn't it? He found us?" he asked her sadly
Emily looked into his eyes and nodded slowly, "I'm sorry sweetie, but I have to go"
She stood back up and headed for the door, but as she turned around Declan was heading towards her and practically flew into her arms as he wrapped his arms tightly around her waist. She reciprocated the hug to the best of her ability with her right arm wrapping tightly around his shoulders.
"Be careful and thanks…for saving me" he told her before letting go and watching her walk out the hotel door.
Emily bit back the tears as she snuck down the walkway towards the street. Little did she know that Morgan and Rossi had just returned to the hotel. Rossi had already gone into his room but Morgan was fiddling around at the SUV and saw Emily come out of her room and walk down towards the street, so he followed her.
He followed her two blocks before she stepped into the street to hail a cab. Morgan waited until she had gotten inside the cab before he ran up to it catching the door before it closed and jumping in beside her. He told the cab driver to go before Emily would have a chance at stopping him.
"Morgan what the hell do you think you are doing?" she practically yelled at him
"The question is what are you doing?" he retorted
"None of your business! Now get out!" she told him angrily
"Uh uh princess, not this time. You aren't getting rid of me that easy. I know better this time, and I know you are up to something" he told her as he leaned against the seat and folded his arms across his chest.
"Morgan please don't do this" she begged him
"Emily I am a grown man who can make his own decisions. And this time I am not letting you out of my sight, so you might as well fill me in on where you're going because I am sticking around"
Emily sighed as she leaned back against the seat as well, shifting her shoulder slightly to avoid the pain as she leaned back.
"Doyle called me at the hotel. He has people watching all of us. He knew where we were."
"We have to tell the team then Emily"
"No, that's not who he's after" she told him, lowering her eyes
"Then who Emily?" he questioned with pleading eyes, "Ethan?"
Emily nodded, "And JJ…and Henry"
"What!"
Emily nodded, "He told me that he knew that JJ had the location of Ethan, or at least knew the people who were watching over Ethan"
"Did you call her?" Morgan asked
Emily shook her head, "No, I think that's how he's figured so much out already. He must be tracing our calls…or at least you guy's calls. I don't have a phone anymore"
Morgan pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked at it before rolling down the window and tossing the phone out.
"Morgan!"
Morgan just shrugged his shoulders, "Well if it's true, then they could probably trace us right now and we don't want that do we. Better to be safe than sorry. Now is that all he said?"
"No. He told me to choose between JJ and Declan" she told him quietly as she looked up at him.
His heart actually broke for her when he looked into her eyes. He had never seen them that sad and it scared him.
"It's going to be okay Emily. We will get to JJ" he told her in a reassuring voice
Emily nodded before turning and looking out the cab window. About twenty minutes later they were at the airport and on the first flight back to DC. As soon as they got off the plane they grabbed a cab and headed to JJ's. It was nearly 230am when the cab pulled up outside JJ's apartment building.
Emily and Morgan jogged up the steps to the building before taking the two flights of stairs to JJ's floor. Once there Morgan followed Emily down the hall before they stopped outside of JJ's door. They both drew their guns before knocking on the door.
"JJ" Emily said loud enough that she would be able to hear as she continued to knock on the door
After a few knocks JJ finally swung the door open. Emily took all of JJ in as she scanned the blonde from top to bottom. From the sweat pants to the spaghetti strap shirt and the blonde tousled hair. Before Emily's eyes had even made it all the way up to the blondes eyes JJ had ran and pounced on Emily, wrapping her arms around the brunette's neck and her legs around her waist. Emily caught her with her good arm, gun still in hand, holding the blonde's weight to the best of her ability, but the force of JJ's pounce knocked them both backwards and Emily's back hit the wall causing her to let out a groan of pain as the back of her shoulder connected with the wall.
JJ's lips had just crashed onto Emily's when she released the groan of pain. JJ immediately released her hold on the brunette as she stepped back to take a closer look, just then noticing the sling on the older woman's left arm as well as the cuts and bruises across her face.
JJ looked back up at Emily and noticed the pain on her face.
"Emily I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you" she said worriedly as she reached up to brush some stray hairs out of the brunette's eyes.
"I'm okay JJ, it's okay" she told the blonde reassuringly
"Damn girl. You really missed her didn't you?" Morgan asked as he looked from one woman to the other, "Was that a friendly kiss or did you, uh, you know mean to, uh-"
JJ rolled her eyes at Morgan, "Let's get inside" she said wrapping her arm around the brunettes waist and guiding her into her apartment, Morgan following as he watched the interchange between the two.
After guiding Emily to sit on the couch JJ sat down next to her, leaving Morgan to stand and stare down at the two women.
"How long?" he questioned
"What?" JJ asked
"You two, how long have you been, you know?" he asked as he motioned between the two
"We haven't Morgan" Emily told him
Morgan raised an eyebrow as he stared down his partner.
"It's a long story. But we aren't together…yet" JJ said as she turned to look at the brunette who let out a small smile
Morgan let out a smile before saying, "Damn. Well…that's um great, really. And hot" he told the two women before receiving death glares and two throw pillows heading for his face.
He let out a laugh before he realized the reason they had come here in the first place.
"We came here because we think you are in danger JJ" Morgan told her as he looked down at the younger woman
"There is no maybe about it. You ARE in danger JJ" Emily said as she looked at the blonde woman
"What do you mean? Why?" JJ asked as she looked from Emily to Morgan
"Doyle" Emily said as she looked up into blue eyes
"But why?" the blonde asked
"He thinks…Actually he knows you have contact with the agents protecting Sarah and Ethan" Emily told her before moving her eyes from JJ's to look up at Morgan
"Is that all?" JJ asked as she looked up at Morgan before looking back down at Emily
JJ knew the brunette was keeping something from her and she was not giving up until she found out the rest.
"Emily" JJ said as she looked at the brunette who refused to meet her gaze "I know you aren't telling me everything. Now-"
She was interrupted by a sleepy three year old standing at the end of the hallway, his sandy blonde hair sticking out in a messy way. In one hand he held Roary, his lion. With the other hand he was rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"Mommy, it's loud" he said sleepily
JJ immediately stood up from the couch followed by Emily when she heard the little boy's voice.
"I'm sorry baby" JJ said as she started to walk towards him, but before she got there the boy had spotted Emily standing there.
"Aunt Emmy!" Henry exclaimed as he ran towards her with a smile on his little face
"Hey handsome" Emily said as she scooped him up with her good arm, hugging him tight against her chest
"I missed you Aunt Emmy. So did mommy" he told her as his arms wrapped tightly around her neck
Emily smiled to herself as she felt Henry hug her neck tightly. She looked up to see JJ standing there watching them with a smile on her face and Emily could have sworn she saw a tear slide down JJ's face.
"Do you mind if I put him back to bed?" Emily asked JJ
JJ nodded, "I think he would like that, huh Henry?"
"Yeah" he answered as he buried his face in the crook of Emily's neck as she walked him down the hall back to his room.
Once they were out of earshot JJ turned back to Morgan.
"What else did Doyle say to her?" she asked as she walked towards the dark man
"JJ"
"Tell me Morgan I have a right to know" she told him
"He told her to choose between you and Declan"
JJ's jaw dropped, "What!"
Morgan nodded, "Doyle said he would leave you and Henry alone if Emily handed over Declan"
"She didn't…where's Declan?"
"She left him with Hotch. She didn't tell the team she was leaving, I just happened to be outside when she was sneaking away. As angry as I am with her I couldn't let her take on Doyle again alone"
"Derek, you can't stay mad at her" JJ told him softly, "She's one of your best friends"
"I know that JJ" Morgan said with a slightly angry voice, "I just…I wish that-"
"You could have been there to protect her" JJ said cutting him off and finishing what he had wanted to say, "But you can't always protect the ones you love, especially if they are as stubborn as she is. You and I both know that she would die protecting all of us no matter what, just like you would Morgan. It's one of the reason you two are such good friends. You are both stubborn, strong willed adults with a twisted sense of humor. And you also know that if you would have been in her position you would have done the exact same thing"
Morgan was about to open his mouth but JJ stopped him.
"And don't even try to deny it" she told him "One of the things that makes both of you such great people is the fact that you put yourselves before others all of the time and you would die for the people you love, but one of the things that drives me crazy about you two is your stupid stubborn pride. I mean just get over it already and tell each other you're sorry."
Morgan stared at JJ for a moment wanting to argue back but he knew she was right. A few minutes later Emily came back into the room to find Morgan and JJ standing there staring at each other.
"Everything okay?" she asked as she entered the living room
"I don't know you tell me Em" JJ said turning her gaze from Morgan to her "Morgan told me the ultimatum Doyle gave you"
"JJ I won't let anything happen to you or Henry. I promise" Emily told her sincerely
JJ closed her eyes and sighed before opening them and looking back at the brunette, "Don't you think I know that Emily. I know you love us but I will not have you die for us, do you hear me, not after the last year"
"And I will not stand by while Doyle takes away the most important people in my life" Emily countered back, her voice rising slightly with anger
"Neither will I" Morgan said, joining the conversation
"Shut up Morgan" the two women said simultaneously
Morgan held his hands up in defense, but didn't say anything.
"Dammit Emily" JJ said loudly, "I will not lose you. Don't you get it? I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life showing you how much I love you. These past eight months have been absolutely horrible. Knowing you are out there somewhere, but not knowing if you were safe. Wondering if you ever thought about me"
"You're kidding right JJ" Emily said walking towards JJ with the same angry tone, "All I did was think about you and Henry and the team…and Ethan. How do you think I felt having no contact with the people that meant the most to me. Jesus JJ, I love you more than you know. And for you to even doubt that I-"
Emily was cut off when JJ crossed the last few steps before capturing her lips in her own. After a moment of losing themselves to each other JJ finally pulled away. Her blue eyes met brown and she saw nothing but love in them.
"I don't doubt your love for us Em, I just don't want you dying to prove how much you love us. I want us to have a life together. That's all I want" JJ told the brunette
"JJ I just don't want anything to happen to you" Emily told the blonde quietly
JJ just nodded before she turned and noticed Morgan still standing there staring at the two of them with a huge smile on his face.
"Oh shut up Morgan" JJ said playfully as she turned to look at Emily, but Emily could see JJ slightly blushing
Morgan held his hands up saying, "I am not saying anything. I just didn't realize that you two were actually…you know…in love"
"Well now you know" Emily said as she walked away from JJ
"So what are we going to do?" Morgan asked looking from JJ to Emily
"First JJ I think you need to get rid of your cell phone. I am pretty sure that Doyle has been tracing calls or listening to them…or both." Emily said
"Well how did he bug our phones? I mean I work at the Pentagon and you guys are FBI agents" stated JJ
Morgan and Emily both looked at each other at the same time coming to the same realization.
They said simultaneously, "He has a man on the inside"
A/N: Let me know what you guys think! More action is on the way!
