Chapter 4
Emily was released from her bonds at 6:00 and she hurriedly changed and drove off in her SVU to a long term car park and stole a car and drove away to a designated area that Edith had text her over night. She disconnected the cars GPS and smashed her burner phone and removed the battery and threw it into a storm drain. Emily knew Hotch was onto her and no doubt this morning would enlist Jennifer's help watching her. She couldn't risk them from stopping her attempting this procedure so she was locking herself into the trunk for the next four hours. Garcia was too good to risk walking around waiting and her condo was a no go area.
"What a fucking mess my life is." Emily moaned out loud
EJ
Jennifer Jareau was heart broken she had returned to Emily's condo finding her gone. She walked out to her car her heart broken. She regretted her reaction to Emily's confession last night she was obviously hurting. In all the time JJ had known the Profiler she had been the perfect friend and her children loved her. Emily needed her help and all she could do is run.
"You're never going to see her again now, good job Jareau." She taunted herself
Despondently she returned to her car to go to Quantico and find out what Hotch wanted her for. She listened to the car radio as she drove along when suddenly her car was forced over to the side of the road by three black SUV's.
"What the Hell!" Screamed JJ
Three men stepped out of two of the SUV's with weapons raised, looking in her rear view mirror she noticed two other men stationed at the rear of her car.
"SSA Jareau, place your vehicle in park and turn off the engine. place your hands on your head and interlock your fingers." One of the black clad figures told her
A shocked JJ complied with his order and placed her hands on her head and interlocked her fingers. Her drivers door opened and she felt her seat belt release and they removed her weapon and then she was pulled out of her car and forced face down on the road. Her hands where forced behind her back and secured in plastic cuffs.
"I need to phone my FBI supervisor SSA Aaron Hotchner in the BAU at Quantico." JJ told the man
"You under arrest under the patriot act, you not getting anything apart from a lovely orange jump suit that will enhance your lovely blonde locks and a windowless cell some where very secret." Smirked the black clad figure
She was transferred to one of the SUV's and a hood placed over her head.
EJ
Hotch was annoyed JJ was now one hour late for her 08:00 meeting with him. He looked across at Rossi when he got no answer from her cell or home phone.
"Reid and Morgan have matched the finger prints from the Texas and New York cases we definitely have the same killer. They are partial prints but they have seven points that match, they found a hair follicle that has some material they think they can get a DNA sample from but will have to outsource it to a specialist laboratory. A witness completed a e-fit of a person of interest." Hotch told Rossi handing over the e-fit.
Rossi examined the printout and just shook his head. "That looks like Prentiss in a blond wig with blue contacts. Could we be that off with her?" Questioned Rossi
"I think so Dave, she never felt right to me. Her little facade fooled us all, we need to get them to re-question everyone here. Where the hell is Jareau?" A unusually Pissed off Hotch asked
"Garcia, can you trace Jareau's cell phone for me please?" Hotch asked
He heard her typing away "it's turned off but her car is parked in the long stay car park outside Reagan. Hang on a minute, she hired a SUV from the airport. It's GPS is disabled. What's going on Hotch is she Ok?" A worried Garcia asked
Strauss walked into Hotch's office looking concerned " do you know where Agent Jareau is? her nanny can't get hold of her she left her purse behind at home. She said she was upset after a argument with agent prentiss last night."
Rossi looked at Hotch "bring Prentiss in for questioning and put a BOLO out for JJ and her rental vehicle, my gut tells me she is hiding something." Rossi told his friend
Hotch nods in agreement and begins to fill in Chief Strauss on his feelings about Prentiss and what they have found out in Washington, Texas and New York.
"Anything you need, keep me informed." Chief Strauss tells him
EJ
Emily was strapped to the operating table covered in cooling blankets, her body temperature was now 34 degrees Celsius and slowly dropping. Edith came into view and showed Emily a syringe full of liquid
"I will inject this now Emily you should start feeling it's full effects by the time you reach the required body temperature. Last chance to stop the procedure." Edith warned her patient.
"Please proceed Edith." Emily stuttered her teeth chattering
Emily started to feel drowsy and felt like she was leaving her own body. She could hear Lauren laughing at her while she floated over the top of her own body.
Emily's body temperature dropped down to 33.7 degrees Celsius so Edith started her treatment.
"Laureen, Emily can you both hear me?" Asked Edith
Emily opened her eyes and looked at Lauren Reynolds standing in front of her in a blond wig and blue contacts.
"Am I as pretty as your Jennifer?" She asked. Stabbing Emily in her shoulder with a ice pick
Edith watched Emily shivering on the operating table looking at the monitor she had connected to her patient her heart rate was slow and she was breathing rapidly. Emily had reached the state she needed to be in. After a few suggestions whispered into her ear she started slurring her speech starting her mental battle with Lauren
Psychedelic dreamland
Emily fell to the floor with the ice pick in her shoulder. She started to pull the ice pick out when Lauren hit her with a cricket bat knocking her to the floor.
"Your not leaving here Emily, I will not allow it let go of me NOW!" Smirked Lauren
Emily strangely felt no pain just light headed, she had a headache that made it feel like her skull was going to explode. The normal logical Emily was confused, Lauren was free, How?. She remembered Edith but that was it.
"You're Pathetic and weak, Prentiss. Let go of your control, I win. Jenny will be mine and you can't lift a finger. How pathetic you might as well do us all a favour." Lauren told the confused Agent, throwing her a shotgun
Emily grabs the gun and points it at Lauren but she can't pull the trigger. She throws the gun down and charges at her nemesis but she stumbles and falls at Lauren's feet,
"Bow down to me Prentiss," snarled Lauren as she fastened a collar around Emily's neck securing her to the floor with a humongous chain "you can be my pet now, never ever to resurface."
"NO!" Screamed Emily
The metaphorical fight for the right to be the dominate personality was not going well for Emily she was slowly slipping away.
"JENNIFER, JENNIFER, JENNIFER." Emily repeated.
Emily disappeared from her collar and reappeared in the Jareau blanket pirate fort. She remembered her safe place. Jennifer sat dressed as a female pirate captain with Henry and Lizzy dressed as her crew.
Both children ran over to Emily once they had seen her.
"Mama's here mom." Smiled Henry
JJ smiled and sat in Emily's lap and waved her hand over her injured shoulder and bruised face. Everything returned to normal and Emily seemed to be centred. Things still felt weirded she couldn't remember anything but 'ice'.
"I'm your safe place sweetheart, remember you can do anything in this drug induced dream. You are stronger than her, she is you. Lauren Reynolds is Emily Prentiss not a separate individual. Look at Henry and Lizzy they both adore you, you would give your own life to protect them. That's not the actions of a psychopath. You have done evil things to protect the many without any fanfare. It cost you your soul but Jennifer is your soul mate, she has a heart and soul big enough to heal you with her love. Now go and make that usurper walk the plank, kill her and end it all." JJ told Emily giving her a mind blowing kiss
Emily is now stood on the wooden deck of a pirate ship all alone.
End of Psychedelic dreamland
Edith stood watching the struggling women on her operating table, she was worried Emily's body temperature had dropped a little her heart was only beating 7 times a minute soon it would stop. She decided to give Emily more time, after all she agreed to the procedure and knew the risks.
Alfred turned on the warming blanket and made sure the warmed IV fluid was ready when they started to warm Emily. Emily suddenly stopped moving and her heart rate dropped again she was close to going into PEA her heart was about to stop. They could reverse it once they had brought her core body temperature up, he hopes.
"I'm bringing her out of this Edith before she dies." He told his wife
"Give her five more minutes, if we bring her back now god knows what the state of her conflicted brain will be. We could bring her back just for her to go homicidal. Remember Tina and Alan who died because we panicked our first time?" Edith argued with her husband
They both stood looking at the monitors rather than Emily waiting for her heart to stop.
Psychedelic dreamland
Emily stood on the moving wooden deck of her pirate ship thinking about what her Jennifer had told her
"Lauren Reynolds is Emily Prentiss!" Emily kept repeating to herself
The dark haired FBI agent for the first time in almost 4 years felt alone, she couldn't feel the presence of Lauren trying to dominate. She felt different, nothing could cleanse her soul.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Screamed Lauren as she jumped down onto the deck.
Lauren smirked at Emily and pointed up to JJ hanging by her neck from the mast.
"No! You bitch!" Emily charged at Lauren with utter hatred on her face.
Lauren side stepped the charging women and swung her sword, taking her arm just below the right elbow. Emily screamed in pain and blood spurts out from the sword cut. She could feel everything this time.
"Remember Emily? You die in here you die out in the real world. Now hurry up and bleed, your pathetic loosing your heart to that blonde. I can feel you dominating me now, you need to die." Lauren knew Jennifer, Henry and Lizzy where her Achilles heal. She needed to push her hard before she was lost
"Look at her swinging." Smirked Lauren into Emily's pained face
Emily just laid on the deck distraught she had nothing to fight with, she was mentally empty. Perhaps death would be peaceful, she did deserve peace the brunette thought to herself.
"Don't you dare give up on me Emily Elizabeth Prentiss. Look at your arm it's fine she knows your taking full control again. Now get that fine piece of ass up from that deck and finish this." JJ whispered into the fallen agents ear.
Emily turned her head and her hand was still attached to her arm. She stood and faced her nemesis Lauren and grabbed her by the throat and lifted her from the deck walking towards the side of the ship. She hung Lauren over the side of the ship looking down at the black shark filled water.
"Go on Emily murder me, your good at that, just drop me!" Taunted Lauren
"No! You're right I am a murder but never again. I forgive you." Emily tells her alter ego.
Emily pulls Lauren into her chest and she is absorbed into Emily. Suddenly everything goes black.
End of Psychedelic dreamland
Alfred removed the cooling blanket and replaced it with a warming blanket. He injected a reversal agent into her IV portal and inserted a warmed bag of saline into it. Emily's heart had stopped 2 minutes ago. Edith stood compressing her chest to circulate her blood supply. They had to re-warm Emily before they could pronounce her dead, she had to be warm and dead.
EJ
Hotch sat in the round table room with the members of the BAU and Garcia all concerned about JJ.
"We have issued an arrest warrant for Emily Prentiss on suspicion of 8 murders and the kidnapping of a federal agent." Hotch informed the group
Garcia took a deep breath "Is JJ still alive?" The distraught women asked
Morgan stood and walked around to Garcia and pulled her up into a hug "we don't think so, but until we find a body we can only hope." He consoled the now crying Garcia
"The whole of Washington's PD are looking for her we will get her soon."