Don't Ever Look Back
Cars quickly stopped right in front of Emily's building, Hotch, Rossi and Morgan had just gotten off the elevator, when four gunshots were heard.
"Move in now!" Hotch ordered through the mic on his cuff.
"Morgan didn't hesitate for even second; he kicked down that door and saw two of three UNSUBS on the floor. Rossi tried to find a pulse on both men, but shook his head, telling them that both were gone.
Derek ran up the stairs and stopped when he saw a leg just around the corner of the staircase. He lightly nudged the leg but got no response from it and moved into the small corridor, where he saw the third UNSUB lying on his stomach. He quickly flipped the body and saw that the bullet had hit him straight in the head, killing him instantly.
Both Hotch and Rossi had just reached the top of the stairs, when they heard Morgan shouting for an ambulance. Rossi Hotch was already on the phone, asking for EMS, while Rossi hurried to the younger agent, who looked angry, yet sorrowful.
He finally reached the only door that was opened in the hallway and stopped dead in his tracks at what he saw.
"Spencer, wake up!" she cried, while holding him against her, not caring that his blood was getting on her. Reid had several cuts and some stabs on his body, along with bruises, they knew that he needed to be taken to a hospital and soon. She then felt a squeeze on her hand and saw that his eyes were barely open, but it was better than to have them shut at the moment, so she breathed out a sigh of relief.
She then saw both of coworkers standing at the door and slowly moved out of the way when the EMS came in, and put the both of them on different gurneys, took them all the way down and out of the building, each went in their own ambulance and both vehicles drove off.
"Can you tell me your name?" one of the paramedics asked.
"Emily Prentiss-Reid"
"Is there anywhere else that you feel pain?"
"No… but I'm almost six weeks pregnant"
"Alright, we're going to treat the cuts and bruises here first okay, now does it hurt when I do this?" she asked, as she applied pressure on her legs and received a small hiss from her. As she lightly went up the leg, she noticed that the button from her jeans had been torn off and immediately paged for a sexual assault kit at the hospital.
"What, no! He didn't do anything to me I swear! My husband interfered!"
"If this is true Misses Reid, then you should have no issues to do this when we arrive at the hospital" were the last words she said, before the door swung opened and she was taken inside the hospital.
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JJ had arrived last in the waiting room and saw the rest of the team waiting as well.
"Hey, any news on either one of them?" she asked.
"We just got here ourselves, so no" Morgan answered.
"Emily Prentiss-Reid?" a lady in a white coat asked.
"I'm her supervisor, as well as her husband's" Hotch answered.
"Well, she's going to be alright, both she and the baby" the whole team sighed in relief, "the sexual assault kit result came back negative and she only has a few bumps, bruises and cuts. She check herself out tomorrow morning and I would suggestion a therapist after the trauma she and her husband had just been through"
"Do you have any news on him?" Rossi asked.
"As far as I know, they're just stitching the last of the cuts, they will scar and for the stab wounds he has, they weren't as serious, no artery or organs were damaged. We would like to keep him in a little longer than his wife, but other than that you can go see both of them. We made sure that they were put in the same room" she told them while walking them to the room.
Garcia practically ran in, leaving the team to hear Emily quick yelp, from being startled.
"Garcia… Pen, I'm fine"
"And my G-man!" she hugged him, but not as hard as she had hugged Prentiss. Morgan, Rossi, JJ and then Hotch came into the room and smile at the three of them having a small friendly banter.
"Hey kid, how you holding out?"
"Alright, just tired"
"How are you feeling Em?" JJ asked.
"I have to admit I'm exhausted… is it okay if I go on and rest?"
"Since both of you are tired, we'll let you rest… we'll leave" Hotch said in his boss voice and was the first one to leave.
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After sending the team home, Rossi knew that his friend would have stayed behind and try to find a way to give them a piece of his mind. When he turned the corner, he saw Aaron Hotchner, starring inside the room and slowly made his way to him and peeked in and smiled.
Emily had snuck in her husband's bed and they were comforting each other by talking and holding onto one another. Suddenly she slightly backed away, removed a small chain around her neck and placed it around his. She had given him back his wedding band and she then leaned onto him slightly, while he kissed the top of her head, and his hand on her stomach.
"What are you going to do Aaron?" he asked his old friend.
"Once everything calms down… then I'll call them into my office. For now, i'm letting them alone with one another"
"You see yourself in there don't you?"
"It almost ended the same way, except Reid would have paid the price… I can't just walk away from this Dave"
"And you're not, you're just going to let them have some time to recover and when you see it's time… then you can deal with it, the way you think it should be dealt, now come on Jack's waiting for you at home"
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"You're in big trouble Spencer Charles Asimov Reid"
"I knew this was coming" he chuckled.
"I get it that you have the obligation to protect me and our child, but you don't leave me out. We protect on another, not lock you in a room and get tortured kind of protection"
"I'm sorry Emily" he really looked sad.
"Just don't go to that extreme again… please?"
"Promise" he then softly kissed her, "I love you" he gently held her tighter against him and both silently drifted off to sleep.