Who Knew, Huh?

Chapter Fifty Four (54): Retaliation

Alright I wanted to try something for this chapter, but have no idea if you'll like it or not, but please let me know.

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"Alright listen up!" Hotch called out in the bullpen, interrupting the slow day the rest of the team was having at the office, "Schradder was released from prison, but he not only killed someone, he also kidnapped his daughter Jenny. We're heading to the precinct in order to cut him off from reaching the Canadian borders. The Jet is leaving in ten, so grab your go bags and let's move!" the Unit chief told his team. This was his first case, since he's been back as the leader of his team.

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It hadn't taken long for the team to lock on a possible location on Schradder. Spencer had volunteered to go, but Hotch refused and sent Prentiss and Morgan instead. He waited patiently for her to call his cell. And eventually it did ring, so he answered quickly.

"Emily?"

"Who else would be calling you at this hour?" she teased him.

"Is Schradder caught?"

"He is, you can let Hotch know"

"Hotch, Emily and Morgan have him"

"Ask who's going where" Hotch told the young genius.

"Did you hear what he asked?"

"Yeah, Morgan is going with Jenny to the hospital, while Bunting and I are taking him to the station"

"Okay, I'll see you soon then" he smiled softly.

"Yes, you will doc" she lightly laughed, before hanging up.

Reid then turned to Hotch, "she and Bunting are coming back here with Schradder, while Morgan goes to the hospital with Jenny"

"Alright… Everyone pack the evidence, we're leaving tonight" he called out in the bullpen.

Twenty minutes went by, and there was still no sign of Emily, Bunting and Schradder. Just when he was reaching for his phone, it buzzed. Telling him that he had just received a text message. It was from Emily.

~Scader as partner..,., esape ~

Something wasn't right. He dialed her cell number and waited for her to answer, but she never answered. That's when he knew he had to get Hotch and tell him.

"Hotch!"

"What is it Reid?"

"I got a text from Emily, but it's not making sense" he handed his cellular device to his boss, who took a look at the message. About a minute later, his eyes widened.

"Schradder has a partner and he escaped!" he turned to Rossi who immediately went to the chief, while JJ knew that she had to put out photos of Schradder all over the news and to the Canadian border control. The Unit chief then turned back to Reid and asked, "Reid, have you tried to contact her?"

"She's not answering"

"Try again" he ordered.

So Reid dialed the number again and waited for an answer, and just when he thought that it would go to voicemail he heard someone answering, "Emily?"

"…"

"Emily are you there?" he asked again.

"… Everything… hurts" were her words.

"Emily… Emily I need you to focus for me please. Do you know where you are exactly?"

"N-no… AAAH!" she screamed in pain.

"Hotch, I have her on the line, get Garcia to trace the call!" he told his boss. And without a second to waste, he speed dialed Garcia's number.

"Empress of all knowledge!"

"Garcia I need you to trace Prentiss's phone for me"

"What happened?"

"From the text that Reid received, Schradder has a partner that helped him escaped and now Emily is very disoriented. So please locate her and send us the coordinates"

"Already on it boss man…"

Meanwhile back with Reid, who was trying to keep Emily talking, was trying his best to remain calm.

"Emily, keep talking alright"

"I'm sorry Bunting…" then the sound of glass breaking caught his attention, seconds later gunshots were heard… then nothing but pure silence.

"Emily… EMILY!" he looked to Hotch who was currently writing something on a piece of paper, before hanging up and running to his boss.

"I've got her coordination and sending paramedics"

"I'm going"

"No, we need you here!"

"That's what you said before sending her and Morgan out there! I'm going!" he snatched the paper and left the precinct. Rossi slowly approached his friend.

"Don't reprimand him Aaron. The last time we heard a conversation like that…"

"Was with Foyet and Hayley's murder… I know, and that's why I wasn't going to let him go"

"Because of Foyet?"

"Because I let it get to me and I killed him with my bare hands Dave… Things like this change you" the Unit Chief said before going after Reid, "Reid!"

"I'm going Hotch!"

"No you're not! We need you here to help everyone catch Schradder. We never profiled him as having a partner so there's something we missed and have to go over as detailed as possible" he reasoned with his youngest subordinate.

"… She better be alive" he growled out before walking back inside.

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After Emily broke out of the vehicle, she pulled out her Glock and started firing at the truck, but soon collapsed from the immense throbbing pain in her head and soon passed out.

The next thing Emily felt was someone putting their hands onto her neck, which immediately got her FBI self defense kicking in. She grabbed the person's wrist and twisted it in an odd angle, making him cry out in pain, before hearing a familiar voice.

"Prentiss! It's okay! It's me! Morgan and some medics! Calm down, Princess" he reassured his field partner, whose face was partially covered in blood, from her head wound. She soon released her grip and fell back onto the gurney.

"I'm fine"

"…Here we go" Morgan sighed out, knowing that she as going to put up an fight now.

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"We gotta find Schradder!" she argued, as they pulled her into the Emergency room.

"The team has it covered" Morgan told her.

"Don't make me stay here! I'm fine!" she stated as she removed the neck brace, "Honestly pull this thing over!" she ordered.

"Prentiss you can't even focus! You have a concussion!"

"I saw the guy"

"White guy, early 40's. I know"

"Then give a cognitive interview"

"Your adrenaline's pumping" he countered.

"Exactly!"

"Emily, you're in shock!"

"It just happened, it'll never be clearer"

"How many shots did you fire?" he knew that she would get the answer wrong.

"Three!"

"You emptied your clip" he told her truthfully.

"No… I did?" she was utterly confused, then she had a momentarily flashback. She remembered hearing her husband's voice, "Where's Spencer?"

"At the station"

"I heard him though"

"He dialed your number and kept trying to keep you talking. You scared the living hell out of him, by the way. So stay put!"

"…Fine" and with that they took her away, while Morgan called JJ.

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As soon as he saw the shape the vehicle was in, his worry for Emily came back worse than before. He needed and should be by her side at the hospital, instead of Morgan. He couldn't focus!

"How's Emily?" Hotch asked JJ.

"Apparently she's arguing with the doctors" JJ answered in a tone that sounded not very surprised.

"That's good" he said. He knew that if Prentiss was arguing with the doctors, it meant that she was going to be okay, but he saw that Reid's mind wasn't in the case.

"Hotch…"

"She's going to be fine Reid, now focus" he ordered.

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"Emily don't do that"

"He was right there… and I couldn't stop him"

"Your head was adjusting to the aftermath of the crash. This isn't your fault princess" Morgan told her again. He pushed her all the way to where he was currently parked and helped her into the SUV. While he went to return the wheelchair, Emily felt around her pockets to try and find her phone but could not find it.

"I must have dropped it in the car" she muttered to herself.

Then the driver side of the door opened and in came Derek Morgan. He revved up the engine and sent a text to JJ to let the others know that they were heading back to the station.

"Did they find my phone in the car?"

"Yeah, but they bagged it for evidence… but not before I got your sims card, with all your contacts and photos on it" he said as he handed it to his friend.

"Thank you" she softly told him.

Then Morgan's phone started ringing and saw who it was. Garcia.

"Here you go princess… good luck"

"…I hate you some times" she glared at him, making him laugh out loud.

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"Hey!" Reid said happily as he spotted his wife walking… well limping, towards them.

"Hey" she smiled at him and gave him a stare that only he knew. It was the 'I's not as bad as it looks' stare.

"How are you feeling?" JJ asked worriedly.

"Like I was hit by a truck" Emily answered, earning a light shove from Morgan, while everyone else just shook their heads at her dark sense of humor.

"Here have a seat" the media liaison offered.

"Uh, Garcia, tell everyone what you told me"

"Here's more to Schradder's past. What we do know is that he robbed 15 banks in safe New York in 90's. However, what you're resident glamour post smarty pants just found out was that money was never recovered"?

"Where is it?" Reid asked.

"My best guess, only he knows"

"Good reason to stick around" Rossi said.

"The last robbery is what put him away, it should have been routine. So what happened?" JJ asked.

"Someone turned him in" Morgan said.

"He said he kept to himself and worked alone. Who would turn him in?"

"We're missing something here" Rossi declared.

"Garcia…"

"Yes checking… Okay, records leading up to Schradder's arrest show this other bank robber named… Dan Hody. And he was at copious time in prison and he strikes a deal and Schradder's arrested"

"Can't be a coincidence"

"You know it's not uncommon for to buy jobs off one another, maybe that's what Schradder did but Dan Hody sold him out for a much lesser sentence"

"It doesn't make sense, Hody was a rat and now he's the partner?" JJ questioned out loud.

"You're right… Schradder wouldn't trust him, he'd want him dead" Reid said.

"Probably but he'd use him first, tell Hody that he owed him one and save his life if he helps him get out of this jam" Morgan explained.

"Where's he now Garcia?" Hotch asked.

"Uuhh… yeah Hody is still local he lives off of Route 07"

"Send us the address to our phones Garcia. We're heading out!"

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"You just killed my family… YOU JUST KILLED MY FAMILY!" Joe lost his temper, got out of the truck and stepped up in Emily's face.

"CALM DOWN!" she yelled back at him, while still pointing her gun at him.

"YOU KILLED MY FAMILY!" he yelled at her, while still getting in her face.

"CALM DOWN!" she yelled again, but stepped back, but Joe was still getting in her face.

"YOU KILLED MY FAMILY" as soon as he saw her quickly looked behind her, he attacked her but not before Morgan, caught him and pinned him to the hood of a car. But Joe had still shoved Emily hard into the side of a car.

"EMILY!" both JJ and Reid called out.

"I can't get a break on this case" she muttered out in annoyance, as she slowly stood up.

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Joe had stopped by the station to apologize to agent Prentiss for not only attacking her in the parking lot, but for the crash that he had to cause. As he spotted her, Joe approached where she sat and was about to say something when he heard children voices. She had the kids on speaker on her cell phone; that she had gotten back from evidence.

"So you've all been good to Garcia and Grandma?"

"Yes mommy!" Cassie sounded happy.

"Yeah!"

"How were Aria, Will, Matty and Archer?"

"They were talking funny mommy. It funny!" Ale laughed.

"Oh really now. Well I'll get to see that when I get home tonight"

"You okay mommy?"

"I'm just a little bruised up sweetie"

"Me and Ale give you lots of kisses and hugs! And you feel all better, right?"

"That's right sweet pea" she laughed, while trying not to shed any tears. She knew how close she had come to not make it back home, "Listen, I have to go and get ready for the Jet alright. So I'll see you soon"

"Bye mommy!" she heard her two eldest say at the same time.

"Bye munchkins" she then disconnected the call and put her phone back in her jeans. But as soon as she turned to leave, she saw Joe standing not too far from where she was standing.

"Hey…" he said.

"Hey…"

"I came here to apologize for what happened in the parking lot and for the crash I caused" he told her.

"You did what you had to do to get your family back"

"I almost cost your kids, their mother… I am really sorry"

"Listen, you did what you needed to do to get them back from Schradder. You could have let him kill me or even kill Hody's family but you didn't… you helped them and for that I thank you and forgive for the bruises. For what happened in the parking lot… I would have done the same. So don't worry about it, okay? Now go back to your family, while I go back to mine" she smiled at him, before walking out with her go bag.

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The triplets and Archer were fast asleep, as was Alessandro. Cassandra on the other hand, refused to leave her mother's side. Ale was still too young to understand, but Cassie knew that her mother almost did not make I back home. But right now Spencer and Emily were soo exhausted that they just changed into their PJ's and went right to sleep.

"Mommy?"

"…Cassie?" Emily asked, while rubbing the sleep from her eyes, "What are you doing here at this time baby girl?"

"Nightmawe… Can I sleep with you and daddy?"

"Of course baby girl" Emily moved back until there was enough room for Cassie to get into, "Now, what were the nightmare about?"

"… Daddy said that you with Hayley now… you're not right mommy?"

"No, I'm not going anywhere" she pulled her into a hug, and soon both went back to sleep, and Cassie did not have anymore nightmares that night.