CHAPTER 4
The door to the nursery opened two guards walked in ready to collect JJ and Emily. JJ threw the baby rattle she held in her hand at the baby powder bottles perched on top of the door jam. A major league baseball pitcher would have been proud of her pitch, the baby rattle struck the baby powder bottles spilling the fine powder over and around the guards with the aid of the swirling breeze from the desk fan behind the ladies.
Emily waited for a few seconds before she turned on the two switches in her hands, The spark created from the exposed wires ignited the fine powder floating around the two surprised men. Emily witnessed the huge flash around the men. She grabbed hold of Ellie after she had uncovered her from her safe place. Looking down Emily noticed the young lady slept oblivious to anything. The two guards screamed on the floor both holding their burnt faces.
The two agents with the babies ran out of the nursery and back down the hallway they had transited earlier. They reached the front door and to their surprise found it unlocked. Darting out the front door they sprinted across the entrance holding their precious cargo safely into the trees. Running away from the house, they paused to listen and catch their breath.
"Which way?" Emily asked her wife
"That way, they will expect us to make our way towards the main gate. We go towards that building." Smiled JJ
Emily looked closely at the building finding no obvious sign of danger.
"Good plan, we need to get these little Ladies in the warm. If we're lucky we might find a phone." Smiled Emily "But we are Jareau's, so not gonna happen." She smirked
They slowly made their way towards the building trying to keep the baby's quiet. Suddenly lights around the gardens snapped on illuminating a large portion of the grounds. Looking back towards the house 6 or 7 men stood gathered around the obvious leader. He barked orders and gesticulated to his men and they all split up and started searching for the four of them.
Using hand signals they silently made excruciating slow progress towards the building. Fortunately Vanessa and Ellie remained asleep oblivious to the danger they were both in.
What seemed like hours for the two Jareau's took them a further 40 minutes, until they arrived at their destination. JJ pushed open the door and slowly entered, leaving Vanessa with Emily. JJ slowly surveyed the darkened interior, finding nothing she signals for Emily to bring the babies inside.
They moved away from the door and surveyed their surroundings. They stood in a reception area surrounded by two corridors containing numerous doors. JJ looked around and indicated the third door down the left corridor. Both babies started to fuss in the arms of the ladies, opening the door Emily walked in and gasped. She was looking at a supersized nursery the crib was almost the size of a double bed.
Emily and JJ climbed into the supersized crib and started to feed the hungry girls hopefully a feed would keep them quiet. Looking around the walls while she fed Ellie, Emily started to shake. Around the walls hung various nefarious items to inflict pain. At least five cameras surrounded the crib, obviously they used this nursery for filming their evil acts.
"We need to search around to see if we can find a phone and the back door." Emily whispered to her wife.
"One of us will stay here with the girls hidden in here. If they only glance in they will miss us under the covers. You stay here Emily whilst I look around." JJ told her wife
Emily just peered at her wife making JJ feel like a school girl stood in front of the principal. No words where needed. JJ smirked and raised her fist ready for rock, paper and scissors. The Jareau's solution for all difficult decisions the result was final and irreversible. Emily produced rock but was beaten by JJ's paper.
"Paper wraps rock, you loose." Smirked JJ in a subdued celebration so not to wake the girls.
"Fine! Just keep your ass safe." Warned Emily as she kissed JJ before being covered with the large baby blanket.
JJ opened the door slowly and peered into the corridor to check it was clear. She slowly walked to the end and opened the door at the end of the corridor. Turning on the light she stood in a windowless room, the walls painted black. JJ paled as she recognised the instruments of torture secured on the walls around the room. Like in the nursery several cameras surrounded the leather topped table in the middle of the room. You didn't need to be a profiler or police officer to know what went on in this room.
Selecting a thick leather strap from the wall she swished it to test its use as a makeshift weapon. Whilst no match for a gun but for a sneak attack it would work well enough. JJ continued to search the other rooms finding each room designed to cause extreme pain to the occupants while being filmed. JJ was feeling physically sick by the time she returned to the supersized nursery
EJ
Approaching the compound entrance Morgan, Reid and 4 members of the state police SWAT team watched carefully for any sign of an ambush. The lead SWAT team member disarmed a sleeping gate guard without any gunfire. The young man had been sleeping at his post causing them no problem. The team continued on to the house following the directions given to them by Garcia.
As they covertly approached the house they heard a massive explosion in the direction of the underground complex.
"Breach! Breach! All teams," announced Morgan into his radio
Reid and two SWAT team guys searched the spare bedroom finding nobody. He was about to shout clear when he noticed a piece of cloth protruding from the wall. Holstering his weapon Reid knelt down and examined the piece of material protruding from the wall. He pulled on the piece of material and a well hidden door swung open in the wall.
"Don't shoot! I am unarmed, I have my son with me." A female voice shouted
"FBI! come out with your hands on your head, slowly," Warned Reid
The woman complies with his instructions and is immediately taken into custody by a SWAT team member and taken out the house. The boy walked out with his hands on his head looking petrified his whole body shaking.
"Henry?" Asked Reid
Henry stopped and nodded. Surprised that he knew his name.
"Hi, my name is Spencer, I believe you know my friends, Emily and Jennifer? I am a huge Star Wars fan just like you. I also like Dr Who and Star Trek and play chess. Do you know where Emily and JJ are?" Reid asked his new little friend
"J-Jennifer told me you are a very nice person and I can trust you. I think they were moved to my dads house." Henry honestly told him.
EJ
Morgan approached the area were the explosion occurred, smoke escaped through a smashed door. The earth was cratered around the above ground entrance indicating the underground structure had collapsed. Morgan noticed two people running away towards the trees.
"Over there, I want them alive!" Ordered Morgan.
The SWAT team members and Morgan chased after the escaping men. The two men entered a building at the lower end of the compound. Morgan and his team slowly and carefully entered the building to find themselves stood on a mezzanine floor looking down at trees and water surrounded by plush foliage. Morgan can hear movement down below, he leans over the railing and looks to see if he can find the fleeing UnSubs. Suddenly he jumps back as a rather large alligator runs forward from a bush mouth open hissing.
"Damn, she's fast." Smiled Morgan.
Morgan wants the two fleeing men that have just buried Emily and JJ alive in the underground complex. He picks up a board and starts down into the alligator enclosure. Morgan remembered watching something about using boards on discovery. He entered the enclosure with a SWAT team member with his gun at the ready.
"Argh!...Help Me!"
Morgan turned towards the direction of the scream to see a man running towards them holding his profusely bleeding right arm.
"Bang!.. Bang!"
The SWAT team guy shoots dead the chasing alligator
"Help Cody please, he is over there." Points Zack
Morgan followed the indicated direction but arrived too late to save Cody. Three alligators had hold of a limb each and were trying to pull it off a thankfully dead brother, Morgan carefully backed out the compound, animal control can handle the walking killers before they recover Cody's body.
Morgan returned to the house to check on Reid, he found the genius discussing his favourite Dr Who episode with a young boy sat crossed legged on the floor. The confirmed germaphobe was totally oblivious to the dirty floor he sat upon. He was totally engrossed and thoroughly enjoying talking to this young genius. Henry reminded Reid so much about his own childhood.
Reid noticed Morgan smiling at him
"Morgan, this is Henry. Henry this is Derek Morgan." Reid handled the introductions "Henry thinks JJ and Emily have been taken to his fathers house, I've let Hotch and Rossi know."
EJ
JJ opened the door into the nursery quietly so she didn't wake the girls her heart almost broke at the sight before her. She listened to her wife singing in almost a whisper a lullaby to the two sleeping girls laying on her chest. Even with the current danger, JJ took a moment to memorise this magical moment.
JJ whispered "Emily," as she climbed into the crib
JJ helped place the sleeping girls onto the mattress and moved away a little so they could talk.
"I found the back door, but it has an electronic keypad lock. This place is one big torture tv studio. I found a room with over 60 mounted sets of female underwear surrounding a chair. Emily! This place must have been operating for years. God knows how many women have died here." JJ informed Emily
"I think we need to get the girls out of here. We can try and slip out carefully and work our way towards the perimeter fence and find somewhere to hunker down." Answered Emily
JJ just nodded her agreement "you stay here with the girls whilst I go and check the coast is clear" she told Emily as she walked out the nursery
JJ runs back into the room with dread on her face. " We have 4 men walking this way, I think they know we are in here." She announced calmly
"We barricade ourselves in here using the big ass furniture and move the crib into the corner. We make the bastards work hard. They might take it slowly after our little fire bomb earlier. We protect the girls as much as we can sweetheart." Answered Emily
"Agreed,"
Nothing else needed to be said the two FBI agents just started fortifying the Nursery door with the oversized furniture. Happy with everything they snuggled in together with Ellie and Vanessa waiting for the guards to find them.
"Shh, little lady." JJ told Vanessa and put her pacifier back into her mouth. Emily quietly sang 'Hush, little baby' to calm them down, hopefully keeping them quiet.
EJ
Hotch dived for cover as the lead SWAT guy was hit by a burst of automatic gunfire from the the trees by the main gate. The state trooper had taken multiple hits to his bullet proof vest unfortunately, the final round hit him in his mouth and penetrated his brain stem killing him instantly. Rossi and his team of SWAT guys moving down the opposite side of the road returned fire and killed the guard. Leaving the SWAT team medic with their fallen comrade they continued on to the house.
"Stop! Two armed men ahead to your right Rossi, behind fallen tree trunk," Garcia warned over the radio. Garcia watched the raid from Quantico using the feed from the state police's mini drone complete with infrared camera. Unbeknownst to the guards hiding was useless, Garcia was literally the all seeing guardian angel of the FBI agents and state troopers raiding the house.
"FBI! Drop your weapons, place your hands on your heads." Warned Rossi weapon pointed at the two prone guards
"Now!"
"Do it, NOW!" Demanded an obviously angry state trooper
The two prone guards hesitated for a moment but neither man had a death wish and dropped their weapons. The two men were taken into custody, Rossi approached "where are the two FBI agents?" He demanded
"They both escaped with those little brats after burning Carl and Mark's faces. I don't know where they are, we are out here searching for them." He told Rossi. Observing the dejected man Rossi found no deception on his face.
Rossi and his team continued towards the back door of the house.
Hotch announces "House clear, the Jareau's are still in the wind. Regroup outside the front door."
Ten minutes later Rossi stood discussing what to do next.
"Garcia, can you find any other heat signatures on your thermal cameras?" Hotch Enquries
"Oh no! I have four heat signatures in a building 300 meters to your North West. Hotch they are all huddled together, I think they are Emily and JJ hiding with the babies. I have 4 heat signatures converging on the building. Please hurry," begged Garcia concern growing for her two friends and those little babies.