All Thing Happen For A reason
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Chapter 14
JJ was pacing in the medium size hotel room while she was talking to some politicians, trying to pull some strings to get a classified file on Jonathan Rowland Logan that Garcia came across, but was unsuccessfully able to open.
JJ had her phone in one hand and rubbing her swollen belly with the other. Dave watched her and was thinking that she was doing it subconsciously. Which in turn made him smile.
During mid-sentence, JJ grabbed her belly, bent over and let out a moan. Dropping her phone, JJ reaches out for Dave in a panic.
"Dave, something is wrong. Mmm! Oooh! Please, Dave, don't let anything happen to my baby!" JJ says with tears building in her fearful eyes.
"JJ, calm down. I'm not going to let anything happen to your baby. Now, I think we should call an ambulance. That way they can be assisting you while they are taking US to the hospital. They did say to cal them if you had any problems. Plus, they have the flashing lights AND sirens." Dave tries to talk JJ into that option so he doesn't look like one of those freaked out fathers that drive on the sidewalks an cause accidents to get her to the hospital.
"Ok Dave. But don't pretend it's for me." JJ says, smiling wickedly. Then she doubles over again. This time the pain drove her to her knees. "Oooo! Dave! This REALLY hurts! If Will was here, I'd KILL him!" JJ screams deeply the last past as pain was spreading. Dave had 911 on the phone. He quickly hung up and dropped his phone, rushing to help JJ.
Emily slowly opens her eyes. She also feels cold medal around her right ankle. When she opened her eyes and it was still dark, she panicked as she believed she was blind. That was until she saw a little light through a crack in a wall or door. She was uncertain what it was so even where she was. A very confused and groggy Emily tries to figure out where she was. First she reaches down and feels the medal binding. Accessing the situation she was in, getting her mind clear enough to try to escape.
"Emily?" A fragile voice questioned. Emily now knew that she wasn't alone and that made it more dangerous, but also made escaping somewhat easier. The thought next was should she risk it? The odds seemed better with two rather then one, but one of the two was with child. Also if there was only John and no other abductor. Emily would have a fighting chance, but with Meghan she just couldn't risk escape. Maybe if they could find out where they were, they could try it. But Emily was thinking she just didn't want to take the chance.
"Meg, are you ok?" Emily asks, knowing it had to be her. She sounds different, but she knew Emily.
"I think so," Came out so low Emily almost missed it. "Where are we? Is it Master again? We are not in the cabin again. What is this attached to my leg?" Meg asks, talking a little fast. Emily could feel the panic beginning to apex.
"Meg, calm down. No, we aren't at the cabin again, but it sure is sounding good, huh?" Emily says, trying to lighten the mood and ease the panic. "Let's just stay calm. For the baby. We need to find out where we are. That way we can figure out how to get out of here and to the safety of our friends and family." Emily says, trying to hide the fact that she was still feeling the effects of the medicine the doctor gave her after pulling her stitches. She is trying to sober up to protect Meghan, the baby and herself. Emily just knows that John wants to punish her for their escape last time. Would John hurt Meghan while she's pregnant?
"Did he knock you out too?" Meghan asks, her voice shaky with tears that are being held back.
"No. The doctor gave me something to keep me out for a while. I pulled my stitches and the doctor fixed them. He let me say goodnight to Aaron and I started to go to sleep. I woke up to John taking me, but was too out of it. I fell asleep again and woke up here, like we are. So John knocked you out? How?" There was silence for a few minutes.
"I heard you were going to sleep for a while, so I asked my parents to take me to the hotel. I am tired of hospitals. They left to get the paperwork started. I laid back and closed my eyes. I woke up with a stinky cloth over my mouth and nose. I fell asleep and woke up here, like we are. I didn't even get to see where we are." Meghan sounds less tearful. Emily is very proud of Meghan for not letting her fear get the better of her.
"Meghan, I'm so proud of you. You are behaving as in the way a great mother would. AND as a great agent." Emily can feel Meghan blush, even know she couldn't see the blush.
"Thank you Em. But I'm terrified as much as one can be without dying of a heart attack. I might be becoming a mom sometime soon, but I am also a child. Might I say, 'I want my mommy!'" Meghan says in a mock cry out.
Emily laughs. "I know, I feel like that too right about now. No, more like I want my Aaron. He's so reassuring and so calm even in the most stressful times. And he doesn't judge. Mother means well, but I can see her nagging at me to give her a grandchild before she's dead. And I'm in a too dangerous job to become a mother. When am I going to find a man already?" Emily and Meghan laugh. Both knowing it sounds just like Elizabeth Prentiss.
"At least my parents will NEVER cry that out." You can hear the sadness in Meghan's voice. Emily could almost sense Meghan's hand on her still flat stomach.
"What did your parents say when you told them?"
"Well, I think it went better then expected. As far as I know, it could have been an act for my benefit. They seemed ok with it. I told them my options. We talked them over and tried to figure out what's best for all of us. They support me in any of the decisions I make. I just don't know if I could have an abortion. And it seems so absurd to carry it 9 months, go through the extremely painful delivery to turn around and give it up. So I think I'm keeping it. Mom and daddy said we could do it together. They would make sure I had all the help I needed. So for that few blissful moments everything seemed like it was going to be ok. You know, I don't think I will feel that way again. Every time I do, WHAM! Something happens and I feel the floor ripped out from under me. I don't know if I'll ever be right again." The pain oozed from Meghan's young voice. Emily wanted to hug and comfort the cynical child, but it was to dark to do anything. She was afraid there might be traps set to hurt them. A sweet little punishment for 'getting away' last time. But Emily tried to work the manacle off her leg. Kind of the knee jerk reaction of the agent inside her.
"Meg, don't ever give John or any other thing have that much power over you. You do and they win. You take all the bad, evil things they do to you and you turn it around. Do good with what they did. Yes, it will be hard. I'm not saying it will be easy or that you will ever completely forget it all, but come out better from it. Such as helping other youths like yourself that have been raped. Help other young girls that are facing teenage motherhood. Show girls that you might have been a victim of some awful things, but you were able to over come them and are a better person in spite of it. Then you win. You learn important things about yourself. Haven't you ever heard the saying 'All things happen for a reason'? Maybe this all happened because God knows that you are a strong enough person for this to have happened to and would come out even STRONGER then before. Another saying, 'which doesn't kill us makes us stronger.' Not many people believe that anymore. They look at the 'My God would never LET that happen to anyone.' But if I didn't see the hidden little positives from all the tragic things, then I would have given up in my job. Maybe you having a baby and going through all this will bring your family closer and stronger. Maybe this is the path you were meant for so you could meet your other half. I know I believe that for myself. When I told Aaron about what happened in that cabin, he didn't turn away in disgust as I thought he might." Emily has this child like fear that she believed Hotch was going to reject her.
"Why did you think Agent Hotchner would be disgusted? I'm only 15 and can see the love he carries for you. He's not the type of man to be disgusted or reject you because of something DONE to you. But I understand the feeling. I thought my daddy would do the same. But he didn't. There was hurt in his eyes. Deep in his eyes that something of this nature happened to me, his baby girl, but I think he loves me even more then before. So maybe your right. It just might take me some time to see the positive in this whole thing." Meghan says, so wise in her young tender years. Emily couldn't imagine going through all this in her tears as Meghan hers. That is why Emily could see the strong person she is. But that comes with years of profiling people. Getting inside their hands.
"You will Meghan. And you will be shocked at the capacity to see the hidden positives. Then it will seem clearer." Emily says, not wanting to let Meghan get down about the situation they are in. Emily closes her eyes and prays that Aaron, or even Hotch, can feel or sense where she is. Aaron, because of their loving feeling for each other. Hotch, because of their strong bond as boss and subordinate.
John comes back to the farm. With the gasoline, the generator should work. He needed the refrigerator to work. Plus, he wanted to hear what Emily and Meghan talked about. He would use their own conversation against them. But not right away. He would take notes and use it as he went along. With them being here for a long time, he should be able to collect a lot of information.
As John is cleaning up the house, after the generator had shown to be in great working order, he finds pictures of his Grams. He smiles at his memories of her. Then a memory of his grandpa hitting him set off on a rage. He angrily stomps outside to the cellar, unlocks it, and goes to Emily. He unlocks the manacle around her ankle. He drags her out of the cellar, not locking it, and madly forces Emily into the dilapidated house.
"What is going on John?" Confusion and fear setting in fast.
"Some payback and some fun." John says, with an evil grin and violence filling the air.
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