Chapter 8
Emily felt humiliated sat handcuffed on the back seat of the unmarked police car after her arrest. She had instantly switched her ambassadorial face mask on showing no sign of emotion. Internally she was an emotional wreck. Emily replayed the attack on Jennifer and Ellie in the park over and over in her mind. The more she contemplated things the more concerned she got and concluded she had been set up but for what purpose?
"Agent Jareau! I hope you are ready for your 5 minutes of infamy?" Detective Tony Curtis snarked
Emily looked up and instantly realised she was in deep trouble, at least 5 news camera crews awaited her arrival. Her arrest had obviously been leaked to the press, whom ever had set this whole thing up had planned it well.
The detectives made a show of getting the handcuffed FBI agent out of their car for the cameras. They slowly walked Emily towards the stations main entrance
Emily was bombarded with questions from the reporters. She just treated them like white noise and ignored them until one question felt like she had just been stabbed in her heart
"Agent Jareau. Did you hit your foster daughters?"
Unfortunately for just a millisecond her mask slipped when she heard the allegation of child abuse, anger flashed across her face directed at the idiot reporter. That small slip had been captured in full HD and would be on the air in minutes for all to see.
EJ
JJ watched as the two detectives drive away with Emily, she was annoyed with herself for letting her run after that woman this morning,
"Damn you Emily!" JJ turns and retreats back into the mansion to phone their family lawyer. David Strand promised JJ he would attend the police station immediately, David had been their family lawyer for 12 years and was a very dear friend.
JJ wandered up to the nursery to sit with her sleeping foster daughters while she replayed this mornings attack. It was on a constant loop in her brain while she rocked in her chair. Something was wrong, she felt it in her gut but couldn't put a finger on it.
"Jennifer, come quickly!" Elizabeth shouted.
JJ walked into the living room in time to watch Emily walk into the police station between the two detectives. The ticker tape at the bottom of the screen informed the viewer
'FBI Agent Emily Jareau daughter of U.S Ambassador arrested for aggravated assault and possible child abuse allegation.'
"What! No!" Cried JJ "Emily would never."
She started pacing the room, her anger growing just waiting for her to find someone to let it loose on.
"Elizabeth. I am going out for a while. Will you watch the girls for me?" She asked her mother-in-law
Elizabeth nodded "go to Emily sweetheart. I'm here if you need me for anything,"
EJ
Emily sat in the interrogation room dressed in a paper jumpsuit after she had been processed by the crime scene techs. They had taken her clothes and shoes for evidence and they had swabbed her scratched cheek for any trace evidence. Detectives Curtis and Rickard had not shown her any professional courtesy as instructed, she remained handcuffed and secured firmly to the eyebolt secured into the interrogation room table. They were making it as uncomfortable as they could for Emily.
The two detectives returned to the interrogation room with David Strand following them.
"Emily. Jennifer is on her way down to the station. Detectives can ..." Emily interrupted him
"No David, let's get this charade started. The sooner we can get out of here." Emily calmly told her friend.
Emily looked calm while sat cuffed to the table in the interrogation room eyes squarely fixed on detective Rickard. While she locked eyes with the detective she profiled him. He unnervingly had no signs of worry or concern he was confident, calm and unconcerned.
"Watch this agent!" Detective Curtis slid over his iPad and pressed play.
Emily watched herself run after the red head woman that had spat at Jennifer and Ellie.
"That's not how it happened! She spat at my wife and daughter. That's why I started chasing after her." Emily calmly told the detectives
"I didn't see that on the video Agent. A film is worth a thousand words." Smirked detective Rickard "shall we continue?"
Watching the remainder of the video she watched a brunette woman from behind assaulting the red head that had spat at Jennifer. The video was compelling viewing and very compelling to the untrained observer. Emily's trained eye had spotted three abnormalities in the footage.
"All I can see is a brunette woman attacking a red headed woman that had spat at my wife. That could be anyone. Detective." Observed Emily, she would allow him to bring up her facial scratches to let him think he still had control of this interrogation
Both detectives smiled at the FBI Profiler.
"What I see Agent is you chasing Miss Bride into those trees and assault her. She scratched her attacker on her cheek during her attack. We have scrapped her nails and recovered skin from underneath her nails. We are currently testing the sample for any DNA trace. How did you scratch your face Agent?" Detective Curtis asked Emily
Emily started to answer "Emily!" Scolded David
"My client has already explained how she received her facial injuries. She was attacked once she fell to the floor inside the tree line." He told the detectives
"Your a smart woman Emily. You attacked Miss Della Bride, your skin is under her nails. Your going to be charged with aggravated assault! Your little fabricated story of you being assaulted is pity full. I would of thought a federal agent might of come up with something better." Smiled detective Rickard
EJ
Three cars parked outside the entrance to the Prentiss mansion, one marked police car and two cars from child protective services had arrived unannounced to speak to Jennifer Jareau. Allegations of child abuse against Emily had been made by an anonymous caller to the child help line.
"Ambassador Prentiss? I need to speak to supervisory special agent Jennifer Jareau. I have an emergency protection order for the removal of Ellie and Vanessa Straddler." Kate Mulgrew the head social worker informed the ambassador
"Jennifer has gone to the police station to be near her wife. The girls are in the nursery follow me." She reluctantly showed them up to the nursery.
The group walked into the nursery and found it to be empty, Ellie and Vanessa had disappeared.
"Ambassador Prentiss where are the twins?" Kate asked her
"I checked on them 30 minutes ago with Jennifer before she went to see her wife. Let's look at the baby monitors camera footage." A very worried ambassador told them.
Rewinding the recordings they started watching JJ return to the nursery after Elizabeth had left. JJ quickly packed some clothes for them and quickly carried both girls out the nursery. JJ had avoided the majority of cameras but had been caught leaving the mansion by a back gate in her new SUV with the girls in their baby seats.
"Oh Jennifer, what are you doing?" Elizabeth asked the recording on the monitor
Elizabeth dialled her Daughter-in-laws cell phone only to hear it vibrating on the side table in the corner of the room.
"Officer, I want SSA Jennifer Jareau found and arrested she has kidnapped Ellie and Vanessa Straddler. They are wards of the court, I want an amber alert issued for the child abduction of Ellie and Vanessa Straddler by FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer Jareau. I will contact the FBI personally." Ordered Kate Mulgrew.
EJ
The Amber alert was issued as ordered. Within 15 minutes SSA Jennifer Jareau's and Ellie and Vanessa Straddler's pictures and descriptions were everywhere in cyberspace and on every commercial electronic billboard and road sign.
Jennifer Jareau was now a wanted fugitive, her face everywhere.
EJ
"Detectives! We teach these tactics to law enforcement. They! Are! Not! Going! To! Work!" Smirked Emily.
Eventually the two detectives returned to the room
"Why did you attack her Emily?" Round 2 started
"I did not attack her! That is not me! Any decent detective would recognise the subtle differences. But unfortunately I seem to have gotten you pair of overachievers." Smiled Emily.
She noticed with glee her last little barb had struck home. The faces of the two detectives had changed now they showed a little doubt and of course annoyance.
"You think your so smart, don't you Jareau? Your a special Profiler, please enlighten us to our errors!" Asked detective Rickard
David leaned across to Emily
"Play nicely with them. Do not! Taunt them up." David warned knowing what was coming.
Emily smirked and raised her eye brow at his warning a devious smirk appeared on her face. David just sat back and waited for Emily Jareau to school the two arrogant detectives on correct procedure.
"Can you stop the video when you can see the right side of her neck by her ear." Emily simply asked
The two detectives looked puzzled but complied with her request wanting to know what she was up to. Checking Emily was happy with the paused video he slid the iPad over to Emily.
Emily started manipulating the size of the picture. "I also need the photographs of my neck you took while your crime scene techs examined me." Asked Emily without looking up. She worked slowly just to annoy the detectives.
Emily selected the appropriate picture from her earlier photo shoot.
"Now detectives might I bring your attention to the skin of the attackers neck. Do you see anything?" Emily enquired
Both the detectives studiously studied the area on the screens of their iPads manipulating the size. After five minutes of examination both detectives agreed they couldn't see anything.
"Now look at my neck from this afternoon." Emily asked
The detectives noticed a bruise underneath Emily's right ear.
"When they kidnapped me I was injected in my neck causing a rather large and painful bruise. I don't seem to be able to find my bruise on her, can you detectives?" Smiled Emily
"You could have used concealing makeup to hide the bruise." Detective Curtis countered
Emily smiled "I have to use concealer a lot detectives, occupational hazard. I have yet been able to find a concealer that would cover this up that well."
Emily looked across the table and noticed how underwhelmed they both looked
"Daith piercing." Both detectives looked confused "google it!" Smiled Emily
Emily observed the two detectives looking at their search results still looking blank and confused
Shaking her head Emily enlarged the picture taken earlier and points out her Daith piercing in her right ear. It was easily missed as the piercing was in the innermost cartilage fold. In her picture Emily had a gold curved bar with red rose heads at either end. It had been a valentines gift from Jennifer.
"Do you see the piercing on the attacker? Look at the hole in my ear." Emily was annoyed that she had been made to remove it. "It is very noticeable wouldn't you say detectives? Unless I filled it in with my magical conceal everything product.." mocked Emily
Emily just couldn't stop herself. "Now detectives you are both men? What size boobs would you say our attacker has?"
The detectives didn't answer her question in fear of being caught out about something. Emily was enjoying herself now.
She opened up the Picture of her standing in her underwear facing forward and split the screen with her side on aspect.
"I was injected with hormones to stimulate my production of milk so we could wet nurse the twins. My boobs are huge now they are engorged with milk. Don't you think my boobs are much larger than the attacker?" Top trump played smirked Emily
Emily smiled at the two dejected detectives across the table with her best shit eating grin. They both walked out the room to confer with their captain.
"A bit much Em? You know they will make things as difficult as they can for you as you have shown them up as inept and metaphorically gave them the finger." Smirked David
"You know what they say, a tiger never changes his stripes but gets a brand new shiny set once a year." She smirked. "Now do your lawyerly shit and get me the hell out of here. My boobs are killing me I need to express some milk."
EJ
"There you go sweetheart." JJ cooed as she changed Vanessa.
She placed Vanessa into her travel crib and gently rocked it until she drifted off to sleep.
She was watching the news on her new tablet. Her face was everywhere and she was being hunted by the police and most certainly the FBI. Child abductions would normally be handled by her own team as they were the No 1 team. JJ pondered for a while trying to decide which team would be allocated to her case.
Flashback (Prentiss mansion just after Emily's arrest)
JJ still felt uneasy about seeing her wife arrested, something bigger was happening. As JJ walked out towards her car her cell buzzed with a text message. Thinking it might be a message from David with news about Emily
Her eyes widened when she read her message.
'Chetto Breath
Emergency protection order issued. CPS on route to remove Ellie and Vanessa from your custody. Storey city's Eleanor Bishop involved. Run JJ Run take the girls keep them safe.
A friend
P.S
Ditch cell, borrow cooks cell phone I will contact you again later'
Reading Bishops name just made JJ turn full Mama bear mode on. She rushed up stairs and she threw some of the girls stuff in a bag and rushed the girls out the house into her new SUV. She drove out a back gate and started to run.
"What am I doing?" She asked herself. Jennifer looked in her rear view mirror and smiled at the sight of her two girls sleeping blissfully unaware of how much trouble their mother had just gotten herself into.
She drove for a few minutes and pulled over to the side of the road and deactivated her cars GPS.
End of Flashback