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At the sound of the gunshot both Morgan and Sam turned as if to head back to where they had come from before Morgan remembered who it was that stood at his side and what his best friend would do to him if he let her return to the hell she had just escaped from. When Sam began to struggle to get back to the courtyard Morgan lifted her over his shoulder and began to run towards the cars which were headed quickly up the drive way. As the cars pulled to stop Morgan ripped open the back door before dropping Sam onto the seat that already held her godmother and her brother.
"Stay here. I'm going back but you have to stay here."
"No!" The teenage girl yelled, "What if someone got shot? What if she…" Tears began to pour from her eyes, out of relief, out of fear and out of exhaustion. She finally stopped fighting; falling back into her brother's side she began to sob.
"I've got her Morgan. Go get my mom back." Noah spoke in a voice far stronger than anyone had expected. Once Morgan had left the car was filled with the sounds of Sam's broken crying. The three doctors remained deathly silent, waiting for the time when they would hopefully get their daughter back as well.
Back in the courtyard everybody was in motion. Emily and Schofield had been fighting for control of the detonator as Morgan got Sam away, Reid and Hotch had gone inside the house in search of Sophia and to ensure that there was no one else involved. Rossi and JJ were closing in on the fight between Emily and Schofield hoping to end it before anyone was hurt. It was as Rossi grabbed onto Schofield's flailing arm that the shot went off, Schofield had managed to grab at the gun and pull the trigger before his arm was wrenched sideways. No one had any idea where the bullet had gone but everybody froze for a moment as Emily stumbled backwards into another body, with the detonator clasped safely in her hand.
"Prentiss!" Morgan screamed as he raced back into the courtyard in time to see his friend falling to the floor.
Next to react was JJ, whom was the body that Emily had bumped into. She crouched down beside the brunette finally noticing the blood pouring from her arm. "Em! Em, stay with me." JJ spoke calmly while examining the wound.
"It looks like it went straight through her shoulder," she said quickly to Morgan who was busy requesting another ambulance.
"Yeah, but that is a lot of blood," Morgan commented, pointing out all the blood on the ground as well as the two woman.
Emily, who had only just managed to sit up with a lot of help from JJ, was still looking downwards and cradling her arm, "I don't think it's all mine." She spoke quietly.
"What?" the other three agents asked, not sure what the brunette could be referring to.
"JJ, your leg, I think the bullet hit you." Emily took a deep breath, trying to clear her thoughts, "I think the bullet went through my shoulder and into your leg." She explained pointing out the dark red patch on the blonde's leg.
The three agents as well as the captured kidnapper all turned to examine the agent's leg, "Oh wow," JJ spoke almost in a daze, "I didn't even feel it." She continued before moving to sit next to the brunette as the feeling in her leg began to return with full force.
"God I can't believe this." Emily mumbled almost inaudibly, "How the hell did this happen?" she asked rhetorically.
JJ answered her anyway, knowing that Emily was becoming lost in thought, trying to figure out everything she had done wrong, and everything she had done that had gotten someone else hurt. "You didn't do this Emily. He was just an angry man, he had no idea how to deal with what happened to his daughter and so he needed somebody to blame. You were there that day and then you were gone. Your life continued as though nothing had happened while his was crashing all around him so you were just an easy target. You saved the lives of two very important children today, that is all that you did? You hear me?"
Before Emily was able to formulate a response shouts were heard from the other side of the yard, "Mom!" "Mom!" "Emily!" were all called as two teenagers and three doctors raced into the court yard to find out what had happened. Once they had seen Schofield being put into a police car none of the five were able to remain waiting ignorantly by the car. Just as they came into view Reid stepped out of the house awkwardly holding a young Sophia, with a look on his face as though he were in fact carrying a live bomb. Sophia meanwhile was happily giggling and squirming, glad to no longer be alone in a room with no toys or people to play with. As soon as the young toddler spotted her parents her quiet giggles turned to shrieks of happiness as Callie and Mark both raced to check on their baby while Arizona stood, unsure of what to do between her best friend who was obviously injured and her baby who she hadn't seen in far too long. After a brief hesitation and reassuring herself that her friend was indeed okay she too rushed towards Reid and her family.
"Mom, are you okay?" Sam and Noah both asked at the same time.
"Yeah guys I'm going to be just fine. Just a few new bumps and bruises." She said, smiling slightly at the familiar line she always told her children. "Come here guys." She continued, needing to feel her children close to her and seeing in their eyes that they felt the same way.
Sam quickly launched herself onto Emily's lap in uncharacteristic display of affection inadvertently pulling Noah down on top of both of them as the twins had yet to let go of one another's hands. Once the three had managed to right themselves with Noah now sitting on the ground at Emily side Sam spoke quietly into her mother's shoulder, "He said that you would never find me, that you probably wouldn't even bother to look because you had another kid anyway. Just like you didn't bother looking for Elana because you had other friends. I told him he didn't know you, that you would never give up trying to find me." Sam lifted her head to look at her mom before she said the last part," I told him that you wouldn't fail. Not at this." She paused briefly. "I always knew that you would find us Mom."
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