Meant To Be
Chapter Twenty-One (21): Vengeance
"Em! Come here, quick! I think he's going to walk!" Jess called out to Em, who was putting the now clean dishes away.
The older woman quickly entered the living room, using the camera side of her phone to film the event. Matthew was using the coffee table to keep his balance, while he was looking at his mother's. Grey was on her knees, her arms reaching towards her son, hands clapping in an encouraging matter and was encouraging him to walk to her.
"Come on sweetie, walk for mommy and mama" Prentiss cooed at the little dark haired child.
Just when they were about to give up, Matty charged towards his mama Jessie and ran into her arms. Jess immediately wrapped her arms around her son and lifted him in the air, before plating many kisses on his head and face area, and kept telling him how proud she was of him for taking his first steps. Emily was filming the entire thing and had a soft smile on her face and soon sent it to JJ and Garcia.
Prentiss had really thought that she would never had been married and have a child, after what happened with Doyle. She had really thought that she would have spent the rest of her life alone. The longhaired brunette was glad that she was wrong, because she had never felt this happy before and knew that it would only get better and better.
"What're you thinking about?" Grey asked, still holding Matty in her arms. Matthew was smiling and waving at his mommy, who just smiled back and held his tiny hand in hers.
Just how wrong I was about how I'd spend the rest of my life" she answered, earning a concerned look from her wife.
"How did you think it'd turn out?"
"That I wouldn't have you or Matthew… that I'd spend the rest of my life alone and that I'm glad that I was wrong for thinking that way" Em explained, with a soft smile to her soul mate, whom she knew would understand where she was coming from. Especially when received a silent nod from her.
"Morgan and JJ should be here soon, so that we can have the night to ourselves" Grey said with her eyebrows wiggling up and down.
"Ah ha! Take me dancing, and then we'll where the night goes" Prentiss teased as she took Matty in her arms and walked over.
"Mama!" Matthew said happily and reached for Em's lower lip.
"Nice try little man" Em said before placing a kiss on Matt's head. She then placed him in his playpen and kept an eye on him.
Just as both women were finished getting ready and had made their way back downstairs, someone was knocking on the condo front door. The Godparents are here and ready to kick them out. Both cats were looking at Matty playing in his playpen, as if he was an animal being exhibited like a zoo: a comment that couldn't help to be said by Jessie, earning a playful swat from her wife before opening the door.
"All right you two, out!" were Morgan's first words as he entered the condo, followed by a smiling JJ and Henry.
"I hope you don't mind that I brought Henry with me. Will had night shift for the next couple of nights" the blonde agent explained.
"Sure, I don't see the problem" Jessie responded with a shrug, not seeing the issue.
"You sure?" JJ asked again.
"JJ, you know that it's never an issue" Emily answered, while giving a comforting squeeze on her friend's shoulder.
"Thanks guys… Now get out of here and have fun tonight, while we spend time with our godson. I'll bring him back in the morning at around ten?"
"That's perfect" Prentiss said as she put her coat on and went to see Matt once again, who was already in Morgan's arms, "Have fun with your Godparents… and squirt uncle Morgan real good" she joked and Matty still laughed, as if he had understood. Then Jessie kissed her son's head, said her goodbye and all of them walked out of the condo. They talked on their way to the garage, but eventually went their separate ways and now… the night out could start!
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After they had eaten at a fancy restaurant, which Jessie paid and had surprisingly planned for Em, the couple were now making their way to a nearby club, which was suppose to be really good in service, drinks and music. They still had a block or two to go, before reaching the club, so both women were talking and holding hands as they walked. Em leaned onto her wife and took in a deep breath before sighing out happily.
"You okay love?"
"More than okay. I'm glad we went out tonight"
"Me too. I mean, I love Matty but we really needed a night for just the two of us"
"I know what you meant baby… Is this is?" Prentiss asked as she pointed to the lite up sign and the stairs that lead down below.
"Yeah, from what Garcia described to me" Grey answered, as they both walked down the stairs. They paid the entry fee and walked inside and were amazed how beautiful it looked on the inside.
The club was halfway full. So Prentiss grabbed a table, while Jess went to get their drinks ordered and paid the nice bartender.
Both women sat at their table drinking, talking and laughing. Just having a good time, until a song with a good rhythm came on. Emily stood up from her seat and asked her wife for a dance, to which she immediately agreed and followed her wife onto the dance floor.
They started dancing with some distance between them; the beat was fast and very intoxicating to the women and other people on the dance floor. Emily had her arms around Jessie's neck, while the younger woman had her hands on her wife's hips slowly pulling her closer and closer to her. Just when there was barely any space left between them, Prentiss turned around, facing away from her wife and pulled the younger agent's body right up against her back. Grey inhaled the sweet scent of Em's perfume in her nostrils and let her body move to the beat of both the music and the movement of her wife's body.
Eventually the fast-beat song faded and in came a slow song, but it was anything but a slow, romantic, dance song. Both women smirked and remembered that song playing a long time ago when Emily had given her first strip dance to Jess. As she thought back to that night, the longhaired brunette pushed her pelvis back making her butt push right into Jessie's, earning a slight growl from her before feeling her lips wandering on her neck. Then the hands that had been resting on her hips soon moved to her stomach area and felt Jess push back against her behind.
"Whenever I hear that song, I get soo wet" Jessie whispered in Em's ear. Making the older brunette moan.
"Really now? How wet?" Prentiss asked as she turned around to face her wife and saw how black her eyes were, before placing a sensual kiss, with tongue, and only pulled away when her lungs needed air again.
"Let me show you" the young agent said, before pulling her wife off the dance floor and into the women's bathroom, pushed her into the farthest stall and locked the door.
"What if we get caught?" Em giggled out, as she stroked her wife's hair.
"We'll just pull out our badges"
"Yeah sure, the badges that's in our home"
"…Fuck" Grey exhaled making Emily giggle again, Em was partially drunk, "I just need you so bad Emily"
"Then let's go home and we can have another date night" Prentiss told her as she gently and lovingly stroked her wife's cheek. Her smile widen when she saw Jess lean into her hand in an affectionate matter.
"I'm sorry I ruined tonight" the short haired lieutenant said.
"Hey, you didn't ruin anything. I had a great time tonight. Now let's get out of here and get on home to continue this" the older agent suggested, before cupping her wife's mound, making Jess moan.
"God, you're such a tease!" Jessie said as she unlocked the stall door and both women made their way out of the washroom and club.
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It was almost midnight by the time the married couple entered their home, one was still partially drunk and making out like teenager. Both felines, who had ran towards their masters, immediately ran away from them as the humans were stumbling all over the place scarring them.
Prentiss threw her coat somewhere in the dinning room, Grey had done the same but her jacket had landed right onto Sergio, who howled in annoyance at his master's wife. But neither had broken from their passionate kiss when the black feline had howled. Em then jumped onto her wife and wrapped her legs around the hips, before continuing the steamy and hot kiss.
Jess was quickly making her way towards the stairs, when she lost her balance and fell onto her butt, and quickly laid onto her back, all while never breaking the kiss the women were sharing. Em was now straddling her wife and lifted the long black sleeve blue shirt, threw it somewhere in the room, while Jessie was unbuttoning Prentiss' red blouse and kissing every new patch of skin that appeared as the blouse opened.
Sadly their passionate moment was interrupted by the ringing of Em's cell phone, which was on the right side of Jess, on the floor. Both women groaned out in annoyance and slowly pulled apart. The longhaired brunette went to pick her phone from the floor, but her wife's hand and stopped her from reaching her cellular device.
"Leave it" the spikey haired agent begged.
"It could be about Matty" Prentiss answered sternly, as she pressed the accept call button, "Is Matty okay?"
"Hey Em, Matty's fast asleep in his car seat. Bad news is that we have a case, but Garcia said she'll babysit Matty until your dad gets back in town tomorrow… or today I should say. Sorry" the blonde field agent said to her friend.
"It's alright JJ. We'll be there in about half an hour" the longhaired brunette hung up and turn to look at her wife. Grey didn't look too please, "You know I had to answer in case it was about Matty"
Jessie unhappily sighed out, before helping Em up on her feet, "You owe me. Big time!"
"Such maturity" Prentiss sarcastically said. Her wife's response was to stick her tongue out, making them both laugh as they went up to get change in their work clothes, grab their go bags and were out o the house in under ten minutes. Emily would leave a message to her dad about where to pick Matty up and feed the cats while they were away.
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"I'm sorry to have to call you all here this early, but we have a top priority case in Joliet. Garcia" the team leader said as he let Garcia explain the case to the team.
"Thank you, oh great leader of scary stares. Here's what's happening: 53 years old farmer, Joseph Green was going to collect the hay, when he discovered not one, but five bodies in his field of hay. The farmer and his wife have an airtight alibi, in case you're all wondering. The final assessment on all five victims were that they were starved, dehydrated and were tortured to death"
"Victims age range?" Morgan asked.
"All were in their early to mid thirties. There was a mix of blond hair, red hair, brunettes and black haired victims. So no specific hair color pattern." Garcia answered.
"That's odd, unless he's just practicing and still figuring out what's his hair type or if that even matters" JJ added.
"How long did they survive?" Rossi asked.
"The maximum the body can endure lack of food and water, with their body types would be about three to four days" Reid guessed.
"That's creepily right" Penelope said as she clicked on the remote to go to the next picture, "The gang were going out to celebrate victim number three's promotion, her name's Amy Smith age 36"
"Any sexual assault?" Jessie asked.
"No sexual things happened to the women or men" the tech analyst answered, while she clicked to the next group of victims, "That was the first batch of victims…" this earned the team's attention.
"How many groups were victimized, before we were called in?" Morgan asked his tech goddess.
"Three. First had five people, the second had three and the latest one had six. All with a cooling period of a week" Blake answered as she made her presence known, "He going to strike in less than four days from now and I need you all to stop him"
"We'll do our best" Hotch answered as he gathered his thing, "We leave in ten and wheels up in thirty" with that the team disperse and went to grab their go bags and anything else they needed for the case.
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The team had immediately gotten to work as soon as the jet landed on the airstrip. Reid was in charge of geographical profile, but would first visit the first dump site with JJ, Rossi and Grey would go to the second and Prentiss and Morgan would go to the third, while Hotch got the board room ready for whenever his subordinates returned to the station.
The media was gathered outside the precinct and kept hounding questions to anyone who would approach the station. Morgan and Prentiss were the first to return and told Hotch that the area was semi-populated, which meant that the UnSub wanted the bodies to be found. Both Rossi and Reid said the same theory through the phone to their boss.
Once the entire team was gathered back together in the boardroom, they started to try to build their preliminary profile for the police squad. They knew that there was certainly more than one assailants, probably a group of three to four men in there forties to fifties. They were definitely white, strong build and following a belief. The torture was done in an almost ritual matter. It wasn't until Reid looked at the victim's medical record and the slashes, cuts and stabs that he had made a connection, but he needed to inform Hotch privately.
"What is it Reid?"
"I have an idea of who they might be following and know who else they might be in connection with"
"Who"
"Dr. Thomas Fielding"
"What? The man's in a federal prison; he's not permitted any visitors and all mails to and from him are checked" Hotch told the young genius.
"I know but remember the Angel Maker case? He wrote in a code by Sir Francis Bacon to the woman that would carry his child all of his secrets and significant of his kills. You live in a small town, you grow up with everyone and they become part of your life, especially when you're best friends. One of them is a doctor and a doctor who saves soldiers, what a better hero to look up to!" Spencer explained to his boss, "Now you hear about everything through him, in a special friendship code of course, and you take his side and then he goes to prison because of the same person they all blame for his life and career for falling apart. How do you get that person and prepare for the main event?"
"… Practice and make a show" Hotch answered as he left Reid alone, "Grey come with me for a minute, Reid explain to everyone what you just told me, while I talk to Jessie" This caught Jess off guard. Hotch has never called her by her first name during a case.
"Hotch, shouldn't I be listening to Doc?"
"You're off the case" he told her.
"What!? What for?!"
"Fielding might be involved in this. You're staying here at the precinct and you'll be escorted by all of us when we head to the motel. If we leave to check a lead, you remain at the station"
"This is bullshit! What makes Reid think that he's involved?"
"This is his hometown. The victims were tortured the same way you were. Same utensils. We're not taking a chance. You're off the case until Reid's theory is proven wrong"
"Fucking fantastic!" Jessie sarcastically spoke as she walked back into the boardroom and was met with sad eyes from the entire team, "Oh for fuck sakes! It's not him!"
"Denial is normal for victims of PTSD when there's a chance of confronting their—"
"Shut up Reid!" Grey snapped at the young doctor.
"Jessie, you know he means well" Prentiss calmly told her wife.
"I need time alone" was all the short haired agent said, before walking out of the room, but was followed by Hotch, and out in the back of the precinct, "Leave me alone"
"No. You're in possible danger and I'm going to be your escort until proven wrong or that we have them in custody" the team leader explained in a caring tone to his subordinate and friend, "You're not going to be left alone again"