JJ and Emily's argument will be addressed in this chapter. I am going to do an alternative thing to the season 7 finale. Instead of Will being the one that takes Izzy home, it will be Emily. She will also be the one that goes in the bank. This will start right after the explosion.
A/N 1: In order for this to work, Anah, Addiesan, and AJ are all home with Henry as well.
A/N 2: Emily was shot in the same place as Will. Whatever they did to him to stop the bleeding, they do to her.
P.S. Did you know Henry is left-handed, and he does not have blue eyes? He has hazel eyes? Just found that out. Pretty cool.
Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds. It belongs to its rightful owner(s).
Spoilers: Season seven, episodes Hit & Run.
Rating: T for violence.
Here we go.
*Explosion.*
After the explosion it was utter chaos. JJ looks up from the ground to find Morgan's distorted voice.
"JJ? JJ, are you okay?" He asks. She nods and stands with his help.
"Where's Emily?" She asks. Around them there's smoke, debris, and other officers standing from their laying positions. Looking around and not seeing Emily, JJ panics.
"JJ, don't do it." Morgan tells her knowing she's about ready to run inside the building. All thoughts of the fight she and Emily had the night before, and the staying out late, and calling James so she didn't have to talk to her, she regrets. Emily's hurt and the last thing she said to her was something hurtful, something she didn't even mean.
JJ ignores Morgan's calls as she runs into the bank, gun drawn.
Inside they call out for Emily.
"Emily! Em, are you in here?"
An officer draws their attention to the side. JJ and Derek come running over.
"I found them hiding in here." The officer tells them.
JJ glances around and can't see Emily in the smoke. "I can't find Emily." She announces.
"They may be down below." The officer answers. JJ runs off with Derek following her. Down below they find tunnels.
"This tunnel is parallel to the metro. There's a good chance it branches off."
"All right, then we'll split up."
"Unless it's a trick."
"Well, then we're screwed."
Outside with Izzy, her partner, and Emily.
Outside, Izzy and her partner steal an FBI cruiser and force Emily in the backseat. Then they speed off.
Around front Rossi answers questions from the press. They tells the press to admire them, that leaving the cameras on was their way of creating fear.
"Morgan and JJ said that the blast created a hole between the underground vaults and these tunnels." Hotch says as he and Reid look over a map of the bank.
"Yeah, most of these older banks were made from granite or limestone for longevity."
"So she needed to use a combination of C-4 and Semtex to open her escape route?"
In the bank, JJ and Morgan come out of the tunnel into an alley. They look around and JJ spots Emily's wallet. She picks it up and flips through it. Pictures of her, AJ and Henry, and the twins.
"What do you got?" Derek questions.
JJ sighs. "Emily always says if you can, you leave a bread crumb."
"Okay, so she was here and clear-headed enough to leave us a clue."
"They shot her, Morgan. Why would they take her?" JJ snaps.
"JJ, I don't know, but we didn't see any blood down there, and she's not here, both are good signs."
"Yeah, but they have her. God only knows where or why, how's that good?" JJ asks as she runs off. Pieces of the argument flash through she head. Emily trying to get her to talk, her storming out, JJ snapping at Emily over the phone.
Back with Izzy, Chris, and Emily.
Emily lays her head back against the headrest of the seat. She can hear faint sounds of panicked hostages and gunfire from Izzy's tablet.
"What the hell is that? You recorded it?" Chris asks. When she doesn't answer right away, he says more aggressively. "I'm talk to you, Izzy."
"You planned this whole thing. You didn't tell us any of it." He says angrily. "You set us up. You killed my brother."
"No, that would be her." Izzy finally replies, referring to Emily. "How do I know she isn't your partner?"
"Why would I work with her?"
"Why would you do any of this?" Chris fires back. Izzy gives him a look. "FBI said…you've got somebody else."
"You sound jealous."
Chris pulls a gun out and points it at Izzy. "Who is it?"
"Put that away." Izzy says. "This isn't about revenge; it's about survival. If you haven't figured that out by now,I'm your only way out of this mess."
Back with the team.
After Garcia pulls up the view surveillance of the alley way, she notices the tags a federal issued.
Morgan and JJ come back to the van. "Emily's with them. I found her wallet."
Everyone glances worriedly at JJ. "It benefits them to keep her alive." Hotch tells her.
"They must have a safe-house set up." Derek says.
Back with Izzy, Chris, and Emily.
They stop at a firehouse and force two paramedics to fix emiyl gunshot.
After that, they're back on the road. When Izzy suddenly decides to change destinations, Chris gets irritated and refuses to do anything further until she tells him what is going on. Izzy gets pissed at Chris and shoot him, then forces Emily to throw him out and get in the driver's seat.
After they pick up Izzy's other partner, they go to, of all the places she could choose, JJ and Emily's house.
Emily hates that she has to this and as she and Izzy walk up the driveway she contemplates trying to disarm her. They go inside and Emily lets the babysitter know that Izzy is her cousin and that she will watch the kids.
Inside, Izzy gets pissed at the number of kids there.
"Four?! What the hell! I disn't sign up for this many little brats."
"You touch my kids, or my niece or nephew, I swear to God I'll kill you." Emily threatens.
"You touch me, he kills her, then you. You really want to be the reason those kids are motherless?"
AJ comes running over to Emily. She bends down to the first grader's level. "Aunt Emmy, come play with us, please!"
"I can put right now, sweetheart. Emmy has to work, but Izzy is going to watch all of yall. So be extra good, okay guys?"
"Yes, ma'am." AJ replies.
"Okay, Momma." Addiesan says.
"Hey," Emily says, capturing the kids' attention. "I…love…you."
"Te amo, demasiado, mamá." The twins reply.
"Love you, too, Aunt Emmy." Henry and AJ say.
Emily stands and walks to the door. She hates herself for her and JJ's children in danger.
With Rossi and JJ.
"Of course Emily though Matthew was a hostage. Why wouldn't she?" Derek says over the car speaker.
"There's a good chance Emily tried to help him out. She told him when to go for the doors, or offered to be a hostage to save the others."
"I'm sure she did." Rossi agrees. Beside him, JJ is going through Emily's wallet. She notices Emily's license is missing.
"No, no, no…" she whispers.
"What's wrong?" Rossi asks.
She sighs. "Emily's license is gone. They know where we live."
Emily gets into the car with Izzy's partner. He shows her the police badge around his neck.
He tells her that if she does everything he says, the kids and JJ will be fine.
Rossi speeds down the road to JJ and Emily's house. He notices JJ being quiet, a very bad sign.
"Don't do that."
"Do what?" She asks.
"Go all quiet."
"What am I supposed to do?"
"Yell." He offers.
"I can't."
"You can't blame yourself."
"Want to bet?" JJ tearfully asks. "Rossi, the last thing I said to her was something really hurtful. I was upset and all she wanted to do was know what wrong. I snapped at her and then stormed out." She says, her voice breaking and tears rolling down her face.
"I didn't even come home. I stayed with a friend and then called her father to watch the kids this morning."
"Emily is going to be okay, JJ. You need to believe that."
"How do you know that, Rossi?"
"Because I know she has two beautiful little girls waiting for her at home. And she has a niece and nephew. She has you, her best friend. I know she sees it. And if she doesn't, then the rest of us have told her."
"What are talking about?" JJ asks confused.
"How happy she makes you." Rossi answers. "Before, when she wasn't here, you were just…a little happy. Like, Henry was the only person that could make you smile. Then, Emily showed up. Her first day, when you screamed, I stuck my head out of my office. I saw you tackle this brunette stranger, and I looked over at Hotch who was also smiling."
"That entire day, except when it was appropriate, your face was lit up with a smile. I heard it in you voice when you were talking on the plane, in Spanish might I add."
JJ smile at the memory. "Yeah, she taught me that at an early age. It was something for just the two of us."
"How did you two meet?"
"I was 5 and she was 10. First day of kindergarten. She came over, introduced herself, and from then on it was the two of us against the world. Then, when I was eleven and she was fifteen, she had to move. Except for three visits, I didn't see her again until she came to the BAU."
After Rossi and JJ get a hold of Izzy and make sure the kids are okay, Hotch finds Emily in the bank with bombs attached to her. He disarms them and then the medics take her to the hospital. After the kids all hug her and the twins know she's okay along with James, Emily's dad takes them to the vending machine while JJ and Emily talk.
JJ steps in the room and is immediately in Emily's arms.
Emily wraps her good arm around JJ. "Hey, it's okay. I'm okay." JJ buries her face in Emily's shoulder.
"Hey, Jen, look at me." Emily waits for JJ to raise her head. "I'm okay, I promise you."
"I'm so sorry, Em." She whispers.
"What are you sorry for, sweetheart?"
"For storming out last night. For snapping at you. For not coming home. It was stupid, I know that now, but I just…I was upset and I guess I needed someone to snap at. So I'm sorry."
"It's okay, baby. I know you'll talk to me when you're ready. Okay? But next time, just take a deep breath and remember that I'm only asking because I care about you. Okay?"
JJ nods. "Okay. I know that this is really selfish, and I understand if you don't want too, but…" she trails off.
"Hey, what's up? You know you can ask me anything."
"Can we maybe drop the kids off at James' and have a night just you and me? Like we used too? I really need it after what happened to you today."
"I'll see if they want to go. Maybe we can talk about what had you so upset? If you want?" JJ agrees. The twins, AJ and Henry agree to go to James' house and afterwards JJ and Emily lay in her room.
"Are you ready to talk, bug?"
JJ shrugs. "What Maggie told me was something really, really big, Em. It's going to affect all of us."
"What do you mean when you say 'all of us'?"
JJ takes a deep breath.
Here it is. Let me know how I did with Emily being the hostage and not Will.
Please review! I may be longer with the next chapter. I want to get the story When Will Help Come? all caught up with what Maggie told JJ in this story before I reveal the huge secret.
What do you think the secret is? And what exactly did JJ mean by 'all of us'? Let me know!