A/N: This chapter has the Raven in it, and she's far more psychotic than she's been previously… which should tell you how bad she'll be here. Fair warning, it's not pretty.
Baltimore, MD
Abbie watched from the backseat as Julia drove through downtown Baltimore. The area they were in wasn't the greatest but within a few minutes they pulled up on a building that was surrounded by chain link fencing.
"Right over there." Colin said as he pointed to a gate that lead to underground parking. "Pull up and leave the lights on."
Julia nodded and complied as Colin put a white hard hat on his head and an orange safety vest that held a construction company logo on it that matched the one on the fence.
He looked around carefully before climbing out of the black Suburban that they'd just gotten back at Quantico. Colin pulled a set of keys out of his pocket and unlocked the gate before swinging it wide.
Julia pulled in to the lot and Colin resecured the gate before climbing back in to the truck. Both Jane and Kate had their weapons up, ready for anything, while Julia drove into the parking garage. There were several work trucks of various uses parked there already.
"Near the elevator?" Julia asked.
"That should be good." Colin agreed, "but back it in."
"Isn't this a risk?" Booth asked, "I mean, this looks like a very serious work zone here."
"Not really," Colin said as Hill shut of the truck, "The investor in this building got caught doing something naughty so the contractor stopped the job until its straightened out."
They climbed out of the truck and the first thing Colin did was open the back doors and pull two door magnets out and stick them on the sides of the truck. Proclaiming it the property of Bartlett Security Solutions.
"Grab the cases and let's get them into the elevator." He said as he handed Hill a work order to stick on the dashboard.
He turned around in time to see Abbie carrying one of the boxes with Jane right behind her. Over the last few weeks he'd been incredibly impressed with the lawyer who looked so much like his friend. She'd never once failed to jump in when things needed to get done. She never complained about her situation or that she'd been moved around like a paperweight. She faced the very real possibility that she could be killed with a strength and determination that rivaled the partners and never flinched.
The only thing she'd mentioned that could be a complaint was having to wear the graphene armor all the time from the time they left the mining warehouse. But even so she bore it without fail.
Again as he let his mind drift to their few conversations, he found an intelligent woman who didn't take crap and didn't give in to fear. She was both beautiful and brilliant. More often than not Colin had found himself watching her in the courtroom instead of watching for threats. As she moved, he'd remembered how perfectly she fit into his arms when he fitted her with the body armor.
Colin pushed his thoughts down as he joined the others in the elevator and rode up to the top floor. Quickly Jane and Kate cleared the floor and reported that there was no one around.
"There are three private bathrooms with showers in the north end offices." Kate said quickly. "Looks like they're for the top people here."
"Ladies, set up in the north east office." Colin said and looked straight at Abbie, "You have the best facilities I have to offer."
He turned to booth and Griggs, "We're in the Northwest office so let's get the gear moved and get the beds set up."
Julia and Griggs stayed behind and started moving the boxes out of the elevator. Each of the women grabbed a case and headed off.
Booth grabbed one as did Colin before they headed to the northwest office.
"So what's the deal on this place?" The fed asked.
"Initially a foreign Security firm was going to set up here but they got flagged by the NSA on some terrorist activities so the Government pulled their permits." Colin looked over at Booth "It's not public yet but This is going to be the head office for Springfield's overseas sales as well as their accounting office."
Colin's burner phone rang loudly and he grimaced as he pulled it out of his pocket and checked the ID. He frowned as he answered.
"Aye." He said and listened to who ever was on the other end. He listened from long moment. "Everyone okay?"
Another long moment before he glanced around and looked at Booth, "Yer Father in law." Colin said quietly, "Can he be trusted?"
Booth pinched his eyebrows, "With what?"
Colin glanced over his shoulder at the elevator to locate his friends, "Their families?"
He narrowed his eyes at Booth, "Can he be trusted."
Booth nodded, "I trust him with my wife and children.'
Colin went back to the phone, "Get it cleared and go to code red."
He disconnected before pulling the battery out of his phone and smashing it on the floor.
"Jane, Kate!" He shouted. "Get those cases back in the truck."
"What's up?" Kate asked.
"This site is compromised." He said to her, "Get her back in the truck."
Jane brought her rifle to bare and lead the AUSA back into the suburban with Kate right behind them. Griggs and Julia ran for the cases and hauled them back into the suburban with all the efficiency of a well trained unit.
"What's going on?" Abbie asked Colin as he climbed into the armored vehicle.
"Fort Justice is where I've been keeping your families." He turned back to look at them, "It was just attacked."
Somewhere over Florida...
"We may have a problem with Blackbird."
Ravenna opened her eyes and glared hard at the only other passenger of the small Learjet. "Probably not the best way to open a conversation." She replied coldly.
Ignoring her veiled threat, Mango continued, "They haven't reported in and i can't get Acevedo to answer his phone… or any other member of the team."
Ravenna straightened up in her seat and touched her fingers to her forehead in thought. "Griffin was the one who came up with the location wasn't he?"
"Yeah," Mango replied, "Acevedo said that Griffin came up with two names that matched up. O'Malley and Rizzoli."
Ravenna's head snapped up and her eyes narrowed. "Jane Rizzoli?"
Mango saw the look on her face and stopped breathing, apparently his Mistress wasn't fond of the name. "Yes Mistress, AUSA Griffin went to see her a few weeks prior to the arrest of the good Senator."
It wasn't very often that Mango worried about being killed for being the bearer of bad news, but the look on her face had Mango wishing that he had someone to throw in front of himself.
Ravenna wasn't capable of any feeling or emotion, she was simply "Death Incarnate" and for her to get a look as cold as the one she had now usually meant someone was going to die, very painfully.
Ravenna unbuckled her seatbelt right before she stood up in the plane.
"Abigail Griffin met with Jane Rizzoli prior to her bringing charges against William Bracken, that means that she also spoke with Kate Beckett." Her calm voice belied the hatred on her face, "Did it ever occurs to anyone that Beckett and Rizzoli are most likely two of the four guards protecting her from her untimely demise?"
She walked past where Mango was sitting and jerked the cockpit screen open, "Change of plans, head to Washington."
"Yes Mistress." The pilot replied.
She turned her sights back onto Mango as she moved to sit again. "Get Romeo on the phone, right now. Tell him we're going to pay a visit to John Griffin."
Mango nodded as he immediately started dialing.
Rapid River, MI
"I don't understand," Maura said as Liv opened the hard shelled case that she'd retrieved from the back of the Jeep. "Why are you leaving? What's happened?"
"I don't know, Maura." Liv said as she yanked off her coat and slid a bullet proof vest over her head.
"What I do know is that when i reported in on the attack, he said to get you and the boys as far from Springfield as I can. Booth says that you are safer here with Max than anyone else he knows. Meanwhile, their in danger and I'm going to help."
Kieran walked in as Liv yanked a tactical vest out of the case. He set her shotgun down on the bed.
"Has anyone been hurt?" Maura asked.
"Not that he mentioned." Liv replied. "I'll know soon enough."
Maura crossed her arms over her chest, "I know that your doing what you think is right, but Liv, can you go back into that again?"
Picking up her shotgun, Liv tucked it into a long duffel bag and added a box of ammunition to it before looking up at Maura, "It's my family. I should have never sat this out."
Maura closed her eyes and tried to think on what she was about to do. "Take Kieran with you."
Liv jerked, "Absolutely not!" She replied before looking at the Irishman, "You need to stay here and protect her and these children."
"She will'na let me." He replied.
"Kieran." She said menacingly.
"He's going with you." Maura said firmly, "If their in trouble, then there is no way I'm going to let you walk into that alone. Kieran will watch your back."
"I said no." Liv barked, "I am not leaving you and these children unprotected."
"You're not." Maura replied, "Rick is here and—"
"He's a writer, Maura!" Liv shouted. "He's a crack shot and a good detective but he's not a cop!"
"And if you don't stop arguing with me and get going. Then he and Max will come back from the store before you leave," Maura replied calmly, "You know he will insist on coming with you."
And that was something that could not happen.
Liv eyed Kieran again, "You should stay with her. You know that."
Kieran nodded his head, "Aye, I know Jane will be right pissed at me but you need a good man at yer back and Maura be safe here. It be Jane who be needin' the help now."
Liv grumbled as she slammed the case shut and picked up the duffel she'd loaded. "How long into you can get a bag together?"
"A vest would be nice but aside from that," He shrugged, "I be packed already and me bag be in the car."
So much for leaving him behind while he's packing. "Then let's go." Liv huffed as she stormed out of the bedroom and out to the jeep.
Alexandria, VA.
"Jesus Christ, Jake. Where the hell are you?" He growled before hanging up his phone and getting out of the car.
Frustrated, he'd managed to track down the building in Baltimore where his wife had been hiding but no sooner had he arrived, they'd pulled out in a hurry and headed away from the city. He'd followed them until they got off the freeway on a two lane country road that would have revealed his presence. So he'd been forced to fall back and rely on the tracer.
When the signal finally came to a stop, he drove as close as he'd dare to find them at an old warehouse just outside Hanover, Pennsylvania. One look told him that there was no easy way to get her away frown them so he'd been forced to back away. His children hadn't been stolen and she'd been insistent that she'd left a note at home so he'd decided to back off for now and go back to the house to search for it. Sighing he just wanted his sons back and in all honesty, at this point he'd happily go back to Border Patrol if it meant that he wouldn't suffer Ella Poe anymore. But that wasn't going to happen and John knew it.
He went to the mailbox and pulled out the stack of envelopes that had grown to overflowing before carrying them into the house where his wife had been raising their children.
Goddamn it Abbie. He thought, I should have been here.
One mistake, that was what had sent him down the path that had landed him squarely into the clutches of a rogue agent. John cursed Ella Poe and the trap she'd set for him.
John shoved his key in the lock and went inside the house. He flipped through the envelopes and dumped them on the table where several of them fell on the floor. Cursing, John bent over to pick them up and found a fridge magnet on the floor. It was the one they never use because it was so weak. He glanced around the floor and saw a single piece of paper on the floor beneath the table. John picked it up and realized that it was the note Abbie had said she'd left him.
John,
I now this is going to make you mad, but the kids and I aren't coming home. It's not because of us, it's because I'm working a really important case and it's a bad one. I sent the boys away with some friends where they'll be safe until it's over. I can't tell you where right now, but I promise they'll be safe. I'm in a safe house for now and I want you to be careful since they could come after you, too. Keep your gun loaded. Hopefully when the case is done, you and I can talk about this. I know that we haven't been the best to each other lately, but I love you and I want to work it out. I'll be thinking of you while I'm gone and more than anything I wish I could see you, but until the FBI finish their threat assessment, I have to stay hidden, even from you. The Agent in Charge said that's protocol.
When I can I'll call you and let you know what's going on and we can make arrangements to see the boys.
I love you, hubby. You and no other.
Abbie
John leaned back against the kitchen counter. And sighed as he realized what a fool he'd been. Abbie hadn't just ran off with her kids in the middle of the night. Then and now, she was still trying to make their marriage work.
"When this is over—" his thought was cut off by a moan from his bedroom.
John blinked in surprise as he set the letter down and walked quietly towards the back of the house.
As he got closer to his bedroom, he heard a voice moaning in pleasure, a moan he knew intimately.
He gently pushed open the bedroom door to see Kim, stark naked, masturbating in his bed. The bed he shared with his wife.
"Ohh," she moaned loudly and looked deeper into the bedroom, her eyes glassy and her words were heavily slured, "I fuck yyour husband, every channnce I can, Abbie. I love it when he comes over angry at you because he fucks me soooo hard. When he comes home, I'm going to fuck him on your bed, and on your table, I'm going to come in every room of your house, like you never have."
He opened the door all the way to see a large blond Latino with a camcorder, laughing silently as he recorded Kim pleasures herself again.
"What the fuck!" He shouted and grabbed for his gun. A slender hand reached around from behind him and held a sharp knife to his groin.
"Move and I'll castrate you right here." came that cold voice.
John froze because he knew that the woman meant every word.
"Ella." He said unhappily.
"Mango." She said.
The man turned the camera off ad set it down on the dresser before pulling out a straight razor from his back pocket. He moved to one side of the bed where Kim continued on as if she didn't have a clue what was going on around her.
He held the razor tightly, the sick grin on his face said clearly he was just waiting for her approval before using it on Kim.
Barely seeing his hips ear her, Kim's glassy eyes focused on the bulge in the front of the jeans and she reached to fondle him through his jeans.
"Kim!" John shouted.
She paused briefly to look around the room in drug filled confusion until she finally saw him. Her face lit in recognition, "OH baby, I've been waiting for you. Come on, put it in me."
John glared at Ella as she stepped away from him, "What did you do to her?!"
Ella merely smiled at him as she picked up the camera, "I called her up and said that I needed a prosecutor for the biggest case in history, one that would make Abbie look like a pro bono court appointed defense attorney."
Knowing how much Kim hated Abbie, that would definitely get his mistress out of her office and anywhere the twisted ICE agent wanted.
"While we were having drinks, I fed her Rohypnol and then a little sodium pentothal." Ella walked over to Kim and cupped her right in front of him, Kim writhed on the bed. "I'd expected her to become compliant and uninhibited but I had no idea what a little sex pot she was."
Ella laughed, "She fingered me twice in the car on the way here and damn near blew Mango when he threw her into the bed."
She let go of Kim and held up the camera, "I knew she hated your wife so we made a little video about it."
"You fucking Bitch," John growled as he jerked his gun out of the holster and leveled it at her. "I swear to Christ, I'll blow your fucking head off!"
Ella straightened and lifted the camcorder, "I drugged her so she wouldn't remember making this tape, however if you'd rather i killed her, I'll start by letting Mango cut off her pretty little titties."
Mango moved the razor to Kim's breast and grinned as he draped the back edge over her nipple.
John heard Kim whimper in pleasure, still unaware of the danger she was in. John hesitated but lowered his gun.
"Good boy." Ella said and pulled a phone out of her pocket. "This phone has a series of locations where your wife may be hiding. Stop her, by any means necessary. Don't bother with your team, they all work for me anyway."
John's eyes widened at that statement.
"That's right." She grinned at him, "I have your children, John. I know all about Jane Rizzoli, Katherine Beckett, Olivia Benson and Colin O'Malley protecting her while she tries this case. If you value your kids' continued health, you'll end the case against Senator Bracken. If you warn her, all three of them will die horribly broken. As will Rizzoli's wife, Beckett's step daughter and everyone else inside that hangar. Don't fail me, John."
He stared at her with murder in his eyes, something that made her smile.
"And if I succeed?"
"Then you, your sweet little piece of ass and your children will be reunited, unless you die." She held up the Camera again, "In which case, I'll use this video to convince Kimberly of the wisdoms of raising your children for you."
She set the camera down on the night stand and nodded to Mango. He moved the blade to Kim's throat but made no move to cut her.
Ella walked over to him and relieved him of his gun and set it on the dresser.
"Let's not make a liar out of Kim here." She said and stuck him in the thigh with a hypodermic needle.
John pushed her away from him but felt his pulse start running, "What the hell was that?"
She smiled at him with an evil grin, "A little cocktail my chemists made to release inhibitions and make you hard as a rock, not exactly Rohypnol because you'll remember everything in vivid detail. If Greylek could remember the next few hours, she'd thank me for what your about to do to her."
Her smile faded as his skin heated to molten, "Take off your clothes, John."
He felt his hands move to his belt and tried to stop himself. He thought he'd had until his pants and underwear fell to the floor, his shirts joined them in a pile. It was like being outside of his body. He had no control, he couldn't feel anything but he could see it all clearly as he stripped naked.
Ella turned on the camera as Mango moved away from the bed, "Now go fuck your woman, John. Fuck her like the whore she is."
He couldn't stop himself as he climbed into bed,
Ella's voice was like a whisper in his ear, "Do you know what I said to get her to come to me?"
John couldn't even respond as Kim wrapped her arms and legs around him.
Ella's voice seemed all around him as she moved closer with the camera focused on where his body joined Kim's.
"I told her that I know who the Raven is, John. Then when she started to feel my drugs, I told her the truth."
John's mind went cold with dread as he began to thrust against Kim.
"I… am… the Raven." She laughed.
John's mind twisted at the revelation, even as his body released itself.