The Tattoo Incident-Ch 36
Penelope wasted no time in calling Derek, after a couple of rings she heard, "whatcha got for me goddess"?, she said, "Derek I was just talking to Hotch and we got disconnected". Derek laughed and said, "baby that isn't unusual, maybe his signal was lost", she said, "no handsome, I called him to let him know who the unsub was".
Derek said, "what did you hear when you called him baby"?, she said, "I heard the sheriff who is the unsub by the way tell him to hang the phone up and then we got disconnected". Derek said, "can you send us the address"?, she smiled and said, "done and done handsome, now please just be careful and come back to me".
He smiled and said, "I will baby girl, I love you", she sighed happily and said, "I love you to, now go and save bossman and my italian stallion my love". He laughed and said, "we will silly girl, we will", the call ended and she sat back in her chair and rubbed her temples as she couldn't help but wonder what was happening with Hotch, Rossi and the sheriff.
Derek looked at the team as they headed toward the address his baby girl had sent to their phones, he glanced up to see the look on the face of his good friend and Hotchs wife and said, "it's going to be alright Em we will get him back, we will get them both back". Emily nodded her head and said, "I hope so Morgan", JJ gently squeezed her friends hand and said, "it's going to be alright Em, you'll see".
Dave swallowed hard as he felt the barrel of the gun hit his temple and said, "you don't want to do this, what you are doing is suicide and you I didn't take you for a fool". Hotch started to get up and the sheriff said, "SIT DOWN AGENT HOTCHNER OR I WILL KILL AGENT ROSSI", he sat back down and put his hands across his lap.
The sheriff said, "you two think that you are soooooo smart don't you"?, Hotch said, "we aren't here to hurt you, we are", the sheriff looked at Hotch and said, "SHUT THE HELL UP, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER LIE COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH". Dave said, "what are you going to do with us"?, he laughed and said, "well since you broke up my killing party I guess I will have two more victims before I disappear".
The sheriff said, "it all started out so easy, when I saw the first victim she was so beautiful, so innocent and she reminded me so much of my first wife and then everything came flooding back, all of the bad memories, the verbal abuse and then when she turned and smiled at me I snapped, I just fucking snapped"
Hotch glanced down at his watch and hoped that help would soon be there, he and Dave listened as the sheriff told them that the reason he was killing those women and why. Hotch said, "we can get you help, it doesn't have to end this way". He laughed and said, "the only way this is going to end is when I kill you two and get the hell out of this god forsaken town".
Dave said, "I'm sorry for the way you were treated, hell we both are but you need to let us help you before it's to late", the sheriff looked up at him and said, "it's already to late". Hotch opened his mouth to say something and that is when all hell broke loose, one second he was sitting on the couch and the next second the team were making their way into the room with their guns drawn.
Emily felt her heart beating faster and faster as she watched her husband struggling with the sheriff and wrestling him to the floor, Derek and the team surrounded him and kept their guns drawn and it didn't take long before the room was filled with the loud booming sound as one of the guns went off.
Hotch rolled off the sheriff and Emily ran over to him and screamed when she saw his stomach covered with blood, Hotch looked up at her and said, "it's ok Em, the blood isn't mine, I'm alright". She dropped to her knees and wrapped her arms around him and whispered into his ear, "I love you" over and over as the police officers filled the room.
Reid quickly checked for a pulse on the sheriff and when he shook his head no the team put their guns away and after helping Hotch up off the floor they all made their way outside to debrief to the head deputy. The debrief didn't take long and soon Derek was sending his baby girl a text letting her know that the case was over and that they were heading to the station.
Penelope sighed happily as she sank back against the chair and started shutting down her babies so that when the team made it back to the staion they could all head back toward the jet and back home.