A/N: This story will be complete by the end of the work day today. But I'm going to break in between uploading chapters. I leave for vacation tomorrow and I don't wanna leave you guys hanging. Enjoy. JG

CHAPTER 14

JJ'S ROOM- 5 AM

The nurses had been in every hour or so to check up on her vitals. JJ's fever had gone down to 99.8 by midnight, and was normal by 3 AM. Her oxygen levels were in an acceptable range, and they weren't too worried about them getting worse, as long as they kept her pain under control. Will didn't move, but did look away while they stitched up the cut on her face from where she was hit with the pistol. She was so passed out from the drugs that she didn't even flinch.

JJ had a black eye on the right side of her face where Kevin had punched her, but the orthopedic surgeon assured him that no bones where broken in her face. On the other hand, she did break 3 bones in her left hand. His theory is that this was because she was unable to make a proper fist when she hit Kevin, and it hurt her hand more than usual. Unfortunately, it was going to hinder therapy to repair the nerve damage done. She had some bruising on her body from various things, being hit, falling, being thrown against the wall…and more than a few bruises from where Kevin was grabbing her and she struggled during the attempted rape. As far as the doctors were concerned, it could've been much, much worse for her.

As 5 AM rolled around, Will had dozed off for a few hours. It was still dark outside, but the glow of the TV still filled the room, as Will had been watching infomercials all night.

Will woke up to light pushing at his chest. As he looked over at his wife, she was still asleep, but with a grimace. She was lightly crying and pushing her broken hand against his chest. JJ looked scared even in her sleep, he knew she was having a nightmare, but wasn't sure of what.

JJ, quietly, almost a whimper: "Let me out" She pushed him again. "Lemme out!"

She got louder as she continued, obviously coming out of her drugged stupor.

JJ: "Let me out of this DAMN CAR!"

Will got up off the bed instantly and gently held her left arm so she didn't hurt her hand even more.

Will: "JJ! Amor. Wake up Sweetie! Wake up, your dreaming. Baby you're dreaming! Shhh, shhhh…"

JJ: "GET ME OUT OF HERE! WILL!" She also screamed, as her fearful eyes popped open, red, glassy and full of tears. She stopped for a second, looking around and getting her bearings. Then in one look to Will, she took a deep, shaky breath to calm herself. That was clearly a mistake.

JJ gasped and let out a small cry of pain, clutching her chest. A slight noise was all she could muster at the time.. "Ah."

Will: "JJ, shhhh it's okay, you're okay, it was just a nightmare."

JJ looked up at him and he saw how much pain she was in, she could barely breath. On cue, the nurses ran in with a shot, they had been alerted by her heart rate, which Will just realized had started beeping erratically. One of them shut the alarm off, the other plunged the syringe into her IV and squeezed the bag to push it through a little faster.

Will laid her back down as best he could with her still clutching her chest and gasping for air. He noticed she was shaking and sweaty, not from a fever this time, but from residual fear from her nightmare, which he assumed was something about being in the car.

JJ calmed back down when the morphine took effect and relaxed back fully into a laying position. It took another couple of minutes for them to get her breathing under control. Her adrenaline had taken hold and she needed a moment to calm down. Will put his hand over hers at her chest, and slowly made deep in and out breaths for her to mimic. He tried to keep eye contact with her, and gently gave calming words of encouragement. Eventually, she laid her head back, closing her still bloodshot eyes. She exhaled a couple more deep breaths, then nodded her head that she was ok.

JJ said quietly, not using her full voice: "I'm alright. I'm okay. I got it." She exhales again, still wincing a little each time.

She didn't cough once, which was vast improvement from the night before. The nurses had told Will that in between Garcia's visit and when she passed out, she had one or two coughing fits in just a minute or two time. That's when they gave her the stronger sedative causing her to be out for so long.

Will: "Good morning, Love. Are those pain meds kicking in fast enough?"

JJ, roughly: "No. Can't they do what they did yesterday?" She let out another soft, but deep exhale through her mouth. Her eyes were still closed and brow still furrowed.

Will: "Sorry chere, they can't be lightin' you up on morphine forever. They had to lower your dosage. It's some pretty strong, addictive stuff."

JJ: "Sucks." she breathed out.

Will let out a sad laugh: "I know baby. Doc said it'll probably hurt to breath for a while. Kind of like a really bad chest cold."

JJ: "Whatever...stupid Anthrax." She winced again, and opened her eyes.

Will could see instantly how much pain she was in as she looked over at him.

JJ: "Good morning. Sorry. That was unexpectedly rough." She sat up a little..very slowly. Her whole body still hurt and movement was pretty difficult. How she got up and was walking/running/getting dragged yesterday she'll never understand. She tries not to think about the pain it caused.

Will: "Obviously understandable, everything you been through, bound to have some nightmares."

JJ: "I was talking about the coughing and breathing thing, but now that you mentioned it, those were pretty crappy, too."

Will: "You wanna talk about it? From what I heard it was either elevator or car right?"

JJ: "Car. And what did I say? No, you know what? I don't care, I'm not ready yet. I'm sorry."

Will: "Baby that's fine, you don't have to talk at all if you don't want. Can I get back into bed with you? You should get back to sleep."

JJ: "You were in bed?"

Will: "Haha, yeah, been laying next to ya for 'bout 12 hours now. You were out like a light. By the way, they stitched up your face real nice."

JJ surprised, lifted her left hand to her face to notice a thick Ace bandage, and brace. She looked at it, then at Will confused.

Will: "Broke yer hand when you punched him."

JJ tried to remember punching him, it was pretty blurry, but it came back to her in a few seconds when she thought hard.

JJ: "Oh…forgot about that…that's right. Not cool."

Will: "I know. It sucks. They need to put a real cast on it today, but they figured it could wait until you were more lucid so they could give you instructions just the one time."

JJ: "Been repeating some stuff, have they?" She laughed slightly.

Will said sarcastically: "Just a tad."

JJ: "Yeahhhh it's all pretty fuzzy."

Will: "Come to think of it, I think this is your first non-feverish, non-medically induced high conversation you've had since the car. What exactly do you remember?"

JJ: "Ummm…things? I have no idea if some things were real or not, and everything from the tent at the house, pretty much to this room is non-existant. Thank god. Fever I guess?"

Will: "Yeah that would be the fever, how about the abduction?"

JJ: "I remember more of that, but not everything. A lot was said…and I think yelled, but I'm not exactly sure what Kevin's motive was again..? I DO remember it was Kevin. Um…I ninja-ed the gun away and shot him. Then I hit the ground. That's it until the nightmares. What happened after that? Did he die? I have no clue where I shot him, I don't remember. I remember the act of getting the gun, focusing and firing, but I can't visualize it right."

Will: "Oh you hit him. Even fevered, in pain, and with one good arm, you're still the best shot in the room. Got him right between the eyes at close range. And quick too, he didn't even have time to react to you 'ninja-ing' the gun. To use your wording."

JJ: "Good word right? Garcia word."

Will: "I really like it actually."

JJ: "Me too, I might keep it. Soooo, who is this face that keeps popping up all over the place in my head? I don't recognize him from before, and I don't remember meeting him, but I seem to know him? A Doctor?"

Will: "Ahh that's probably Dr. Kohr, he saved your life like 2 or 3 times since you've been here. And please do me a favor, when he comes in, make him introduce himself again, cause he's had to do it 'bout 4 times so far, and I think it's getting on his nerves."

JJ swats him with her right hand: "Jerk, that's mean. I mean, in my defense I still might not remember his name when he gets in here, I still AM on pain meds, and his face is hazy in my brain. I hate that."

Will: "Get used to it, he's probably going to be doing a bunch more cognitive functionality tests on you in the next few days, so you'll have to be trying to recall those memories the best you can."

JJ lets out a painful sigh and pouts: "I don't wanna."

Will: "I know, it'll be tough, but you've made it through everything so far, I'm sure you'll get through that as well."

JJ: "Yeah, but that stuff happened while I didn't really know what was going on, so it was easy, now whenever I remember stuff it's so…real. Like it actually happened you know? It's highly upsetting."

Will: "I know what you mean, you're probably gonna cry. I cried."

JJ: "I will not!"

Will: "You cried in the car, and you cried last night."

JJ: "Aww man. Nobody saw right?"

Will, laughing: "Yeah most of us saw. But nobody blames you. Garcia cried for like…a day. And don't tell him I told you this, but I think I saw Hotch with red eyes at one point after he turned away for a while."

JJ: "Hotch!? No way!"

Will: "Not confirmed, but it's possible. He feels responsible for the whole shebang. Especially your kidnapping, he walked away from your door and left me to watch over your room. If anything, I'M responsible for him getting to you and Dr. Kohr."

JJ: "That's where I remember him from the most! He got clocked! And babe, stop being an idiot, you're not responsible any more than Hotch. Kevin was a crazy person. And the more I think about it the more I remember from the elevator and it makes me feel all…gross." She shutters. "Like I need a shower… OOOOOO! CAN I GET A SHOWER!? I've wanted one since yesterday morning!"

Will: "Haha, sure you can, assuming you can move."

JJ: "Right…movement. Can't you just walk me in there and sit me down or something? I still feel all Anthrax-y."

Will: "Did I ever tell you how hilarious you are on morphine? I mean, don't make it a habit or anything…but it's damn fun."

JJ: "I think I just say whatever, I don't really have much of a filter right now."

Will: "Oh I remember from last night." He burst into laughter suddenly remembering her crazy trip.

JJ: "Whoa, what am I missing, what did I say? HOW LONG WAS I HIGH?"

Will: "Oh girl, it was some crazy night. Hahaha!"

JJ: "Stop! Come on! What did I say! Wait…who saw me like that?"

Will just laughed harder.

JJ: "Who did you let in here with me all looped out!?"

Will: "Just Henry for a short visit to see his Mama, and your 'Little Treasure Troll'…a.k.a. Garcia."

JJ: "Are you serious, she's gonna use this forever. I shall never forgive you for this. She doesn't have video does she? Oh my god, please tell me she doesn't have video."

Will: "Nah, nah Sug, no worries, she was just as sad to see you all beat up, than she was happy to see you high for the first time. She came back crying half happy, half sad tears."

JJ: "Awww PG."

Will: "Oh, and she said Henry called her PG, she will be scolding us later."

JJ: "Damn."

Will: "Speaking of scolding, she said you tapped her on the nose with your finger like a puppy, and told her she wasn't responsible for any of this."

JJ: "Well, I'm assuming I was right, because how could she be responsible for anything so disgusting. But what's the story? Kevin was crazy I get, but details?"

Will: "Well, Morgan tells me he took something PG said when they broke up, warped it in his head and made it our fault somehow. Us, specifically, and also the rest of the team. Something about…"

JJ cut him off: "She doesn't want to raise a family in this world yet, we ARE her family, we're good enough for her, Henry is her Godson…yada yada. Ok I get it now. Yeah he was freaking out in the elevator, but I couldn't put it together until you said that. He had devolved by the time he took me, he was desperate, he wanted to make a family with me so he'd be accepted into the team. Creeper threatened to take make AND Henry and make our own family. After that is all red vision on my part. I started freaking out on him. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I know I gave it to him for insulting you and threatening Henry. And I know I made him mad, I think that's when he hit me."

She started to get noticeably more upset recalling the previous day's events and let a couple of tears fall.

Will: "Probably, if you were as angry as you say, I can just imagine what could come out of your mouth in that moment. You won't like Mama when she's angry."

JJ laughed through a couple of tears, Will saw she was getting upset at the memory so tried to make a little joke out of the situation to get her back into an ok mood.

JJ: "Ha. Yeah, I pissed him off pretty good."

Will: "From what I hear, Garcia and Reid watched the whole thing in the elevator play out, but without sound so they couldn't hear what was being said. It scared them to death. They were on the phone with Rossi the whole time so that the team in the ER knew what to expect."

JJ: "NO! WHY did it have to be THEM! They'll never get over it! I can just imagine how it looked to them. I have to talk to them."

Will: "Well darlin' it's 6 am, if you think they'll be up, feel free to give them a call. PG's got Henry, they might have stayed at Blake's, I'm not sure of what their plans were. I trusted them so I didn't really get too much into it."

JJ: "If I know my baby sister, she'll never sleep again after seeing what she saw. And Reid, I don't want him to get too upset either, with everything he's been through…"

Will: "Here's the phone then, Love."