Hi! Sorry for not updating yesterday but I got really busy. I will be posting twice today!
As soon as Devona took in what was going on, she dove to the ground to avoid being hit by any bullets. Her heart pounded against her chest, was her family OK? Was Henry OK? Was Alec OK? What was going on? How had automatic guns gotten into the building? The shots finally stopped. Devona stayed down, not daring to get up and look around. The room was quiet, was everyone dead? Devona kept coming up with the worst scenarios of what she would see if she looked up.
Devona was about to get up when someone did that for her. She heard someone move, whomever it was stood up and hobbled around a bit before shouting.
"It's OK. They're gone!" It was Alec's voice. After hearing it, Devona stood up immediately.
"Alec," she said, "are you alright?" Devona stepped out of the witness box and walked over to Alec, slowly because of her crutches, as some other people were getting up.
"I'm fine," he said, grabbing her arm, and steadying her.
"We need an ambulance in here!" Someone shouted from across the room. Almost the whole room turned towards the voice, it was an older man, crouched over a young boy who had a bloodstain on his chest. He had been shot. About half the people in the room pulled out their cell phones to call an ambulance.
Devona let go of Alec's hand and ran towards where the team had been sitting. She was glad to see that her father and Morgan were OK but JJ was crouched down over a body. It was Prentiss, she was breathing, but there was a huge bullet wound in her shoulder from where she had been hit.
"Emily! Emily stay with me! An ambulance will come!" JJ shouted. Prentiss' face was pale and she seemed hardly able to hear JJ.
Henry stood up and made his way over to Devona, "Are you OK?" he asked.
"I'm fine. What happened?"
"I have no idea."
Devona looked around the room. Many people were bleeding on the ground but all the jury members were fine. The judge and crown prosecutor were fine, and so were most of the people on the right side of the room, which is where Devona had been sitting. Alec had been sitting on the left and that's where most of the injured were. Something clicked in Devona's brain and she realized that the shooter or shooters were trying to hit Alec. She quickly turned to Alec and grabbed his arm.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Notice how almost all the people who got hurt are on the left side of the room. The shooter was aiming for you. We need to get you out of here, there's no guarantee that they're gone."
Devona guided him over to the witness' box.
"I can't leave my family while they're still here so just stay back here until someone gets here," Devona said.
"Who exactly is someone?" Alec asked but Devona was already heading back to Reid and Morgan. Alec sighed and ducked down so that he was out of sight. Devona hobbled over to Reid and he brought her into his arms. When he let her go, he continuously asked, "Are you hurt?" and Devona replied "No."
Within minutes, the police and many ambulances arrived. They sent Prentiss and many other injured off to a hospital, and checked everyone else for injuries. Once the police check around and verified that the shooter or shooters were gone, Alec came out from his hiding place.
"We need to go to the hospital, Prentiss shouldn't be there alone," Hotch said. Devona, Henry, Jack and the team got out of the building and into their SUVs as fast as they could. They arrived at the hospital and demanded to see Prentiss, but they made them wait in the waiting room as she was being treated. The waiting room was becoming only too familiar. After an hour or so, Hotch asked how much longer until they could see Emily.
"It could be a few hours, sir," the nurse replied. Hotch turned to the team.
"We have a case to get too. We'll have to go without Prentiss and we need to go as soon as we can. We can't leave her alone, so while we're gone, Devona, Jack, Henry, Gideon and Rossi you need to stay here. We shouldn't be long."
"I'm here, I'm here! Is Emily OK?" Garcia said as she ran through the doors into the waiting room, with a laptop bag slung over her shoulder.
"We haven't seen her yet. Garcia do you have the address of Sam's brother?" Hotch said.
"What? Sam has a brother!" Devona exclaimed.
"Yes, sir. I thought you'd ask, which is why I brought my laptop, which is also why it took me so long to get out here and I can open it up now," Garcia said, ignoring Devona. She sat down and pulled her laptop out of the case.
"Excuse me, no laptops in the waiting room please!" A nurse shouted. Morgan looked over then pulled out his credentials.
"We're FBI. We need to check something quickly and we promise to have it put away as soon as we can," Morgan said. The nurse pursed her lips then turned back to her work.
"OK so his name is Alexander Greene, which I'm assuming is where Alec got his name, anyways he is married to Marissa Greene and has a 13 year old daughter named Avery Greene," Garcia turned her laptop screen for everyone to see. On the monitor was who must have been Alexander and his family, a blonde male, almost exactly like Sam, an older woman and a young girl.
"Address?" Hotch asked.
"23 Hill Avenue."
"Not far. We're leaving. Now," Hotch strode out of the hospital, followed by the team but not Garcia. The team hopped in their SUVs and drove away. Garcia closed her laptop and placed it back in its bag. Devona, Jack, Henry, Rossi, Gideon and Garcia all looked at each other.
"So when were you planning on telling me that Sam has a brother?"
"Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it."
-JK Rowling
