Story: Emily Unveiled
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Author: hippolover1326
Chapter: 11 (Favor)
I do not own Criminal Minds.
Here's the next chapter! Let's see what Raven/Emily is up to now...
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't shoot you right now," Emily hisses into Alexei's ear.
"Well, I'm standing behind you, and I have a gun also," Alexei points out.
"How dare you show up at my work like that?"
"Raven, we need you. You're our best assassin! Not only do you have the skills, but you work for the FBI, so you can give us the intel, too. Why do you think we let you work such a high risk job? We needed the info, Raven, we still do. Come back and work for us, and I can straighten it out with the FBI."
"I will not."
"Well that leaves me only one choice," Alexei says, and for one horrible moment Emily is certain this is the end.
"I'm going to inform the FBI of what you've done."
Emily breathes a huge sigh of relief. She'll live, at least for now.
"What can I do?" she asks.
"Nothing. Join us, or we'll tell." He pins Emily up against the building. "Got it?"
"Got it." Emily chokes out.
She walks back to her house, not feeling able to face Hotch and the team just now. Royally screwed? That's an understatement.
Anastasia is majorly pissed. "Alexei, what are we going to do? We need Raven!"
"She refused," Alexei says simply. "I told her we'd inform the FBI of what she's done, but..."
"We cannot prosecute her," Anastasia says.
Not catching on to her meaning, Alexei asks, "The US court system, can, can they not?"
"Some of the people Raven killed were in the United States," explains Anastasia, "so feasibly, yes, they could try. But we cannot let that happen."
"Why?"
"I didn't think I'd ever be saying this, but I owe Raven a huge favor."
"Really?"
"How do you think she got into this group, Alexei?"
"Vladimir found her."
"Well, sort of. But what really happened was she saved my life. She was on the wrong side of town here, when she was 17. She got into the middle of a shoot-out that I was in. Picked up a gun, killed a guy. Saved a lot of us. He was a target, a hit. So I asked her, Vladimir and I, to join us. Some threats, such as prosecution for the man she killed, may have regrettably been involved." She pauses. "I may have taken lives, but it was for the good, Alexei. And I always keep my promises. I owe Emily my life. Help me convince America not to prosecute."
"I can try to talk to some people," Alexei concurs. "I know you're not in good with the President, but I am," he explains. "I'll tell him to inform the FBI that Raven should be allowed to continue her job, because she's saved thousands of Russian lives by taking out these people. I'll tell the President to say that if they don't let Raven back in, Russia will..."
"Russia will begin vetoing America's propositions on the Security Council."
"Would they really do that?"
"No, but America doesn't know that."
"Will this work, Anastasia?"
"I sure hope so."
Wow! Some might say Prentiss is a very lucky lady...what do you think of Anastasia wanting to save her?