Chapter 6
Emily started to regain conciseness slowly, she recognised the familiar feeling of her bunker gear. Opening her eyes she looked around to find herself in an empty room. Looking down she was dressed in fire fighting bunker gear chained to a very stout wooden chair.
"Oh welcome back Emily, I didn't realise how hard I hit you." Andrew smiled "My name is Andrew Clark. And we are going to have some fun running some drills." He smirked
Turning the chair around to face the opposite wall Emily could see burn patterns. He obviously used this room to test his fire techniques out before the real ones.
For the first time Emily noticed Andrew was dressed in his full bunker gear with a breathing apparatus set secured to his back. He placed his mask on and pressed a button on a remote control.
He placed some wood in the Far corner and used a blow torch to set them alight. Within minutes smoke started to fill the confined space. Emily started to cough and her eyes started to stream
"Deep breaths Emily, suck all those nasty things into those beautiful lungs. Smile at the camera." He grasped her head and pointed it at the camera
Satisfied with his first session he initiated the room's extraction fans and extinguished the flames.
He pulled Emily out of the room coughing, he untied her and shackled her hands to the wall and placed an oxygen mask over her face.
EJ
JJ's cell phone rang and she answered it without looking at her caller display
"Agent Jareau."
"Jennifer, …..cough….cough..I'm so sorry…" Emily breathlessly spoke to JJ
"Emily? Where are you?" JJ asked in a steady voice
"I am sorry Jennifer, Emily isn't able to continue her breathing looks very laboured and her lips look a little blue." Andrew laughed "you can end her suffering, give yourself up and I will release her." He taunted as she could hear Emily coughing in the back ground.
JJ looked around to see if any of her team were in ear shot of her call. She could see Emily and signalled her to start a trace on the call.
"How do we do this?" JJ asked him
"I will contact you with details, bye for now Jennifer." He ended the call abruptly.
Emily ran back to JJ with a smile on her face. "Garcia has a location." She smiled
JJ ran into the conference room after Emily
"His call lasted 2 minutes 59 seconds, he obviously thought I wouldn't be able to trace his phone if he kept the call under 3 minutes. Oh how wrong could he be, the omnipotent Garcia nailed his ass in 1 minute 39 seconds. He is in this abandoned garage, for an abandoned garage it is certainly using a lot of electricity. The building layout is on your tablets. I might of overstepped sir, but I contacted Emily's battalion chief and asked for DCFD assistance. I don't want any of you to get a single hair burnt." Garcia unusually told him sheepishly
Morgan and Rossi looked across the table and smirked at Hotch and both shrugged their shoulders.
"Penelope, you always have our safety at heart, good idea."
"JJ, I can not let you enter that garage, it's too personal for you. Against my better judgment I'm letting you travel with us. Give me your word you will not enter until we have cleared the building." He asked his blonde agent
JJ looked like she was about to argue but decided outside was better than staying at Quantico
"Fine, I will stay outside." She reluctantly answered.
EJ
Andrew lifted Emily's head up and looked at the Brunette fire Captain's blue lips and listened to her wheeze as she breathed. Her lungs had been damaged from her repeated exposure to smoke over the last few hours. Pleased with himself he dragged the semi conscious women back into his burn chamber.
"Wake up! Wake up! Emily" he slapped her face forcefully
Her brown eyes opened and locked onto his.
"What ….[cough, cough]….do yo want?" She gasped
He slapped her across her face and started spreading his gel down the legs of her bunker trousers from each knee.
"As you well know Captain Prentiss your turn out gear is rated to 1100 degrees F before breakthrough. Oh what about compression burns?" Andrew is very excited about his human experiment.
He leaves the room and returns dressed in his own fire gear and breathing apparatus with his mask secured over his face. He placed a gel grenade on the shelf, he had no intention of handing Emily over to Jennifer, she died today once she had suffered enough.
He lit his gel on Emily's bunker trousers and stood back watching her for the first signs of pain.
EJ
The BAU team accompanied by members of Emily's fire house arrived at the deserted garage, As promised JJ stayed outside as the remaining team members made entry. JJ unhappy with Hotch's decision started walking to the side of the building as she needed to be able to take her mind of everything.
'Clunk!'
She lifted her foot to examine what had made the metallic sound. Looking down she had stepped onto a sheet of corrugated iron painted to Match the surrounding area. Drawing her Glock she slid the sheet to the side to reveal a set of concrete steps leading into a buried concrete structure.
JJ turned around to see the remaining crew members of Emily's fire truck.
"One of you please go tell your battalion chief we are going down here. Stay well behind me, do you all understand?" She asked knowing she couldn't stop them from following her.
They all nodded. JJ smirked as she looked at them carrying fire extinguishers and various items of firefighting Equiment including fire axes.
She descends the steps one by one very carefully so not to make any noise
"Argh! Please …..[cough, Cough]…stop!" JJ heard Emily beg
Slowly entering the room she can see a glass window, looking into the room she can see a person with their back to her watching Emily with her legs on fire.
Without hesitation she walks down the side of the room and pulls open the door
"FBI freeze!" She yelled
Andrew Clark looks across at the door with JJ stood in the entrance gun raised at his head. He looked shocked and then surprised JJ and laughed at her. What JJ couldn't see was the gel filled jar sat at his feet. He lifted his right foot and kicked the jar at Emily.
The kick dislodged the Rubidium out of its mineral oil igniting the gel. The plume of flames engulfed Emily's legs.
"Argh!" She screamed
JJ raised her weapon and shot Andrew in his shoulder. She instantly ran into the chamber and grabbed the back of Emily's chair and pulled it out of the room. Three fire fighters used the extinguishers to put the flames out on Emily's legs. JJ slammed the burn rooms door shut and let the locking mechanism engage.
"Emily! Emily!" Shouted JJ
Emily had passed out from the pain thankfully. Her bunker trousers had suffered severe burn damage from the prolonged fire damage. JJ sat down and moved Emily's head to lay in her lap.
Morgan and Emily arrived followed by Hotch.
"Report Agent Jareau." He ordered
"I found access to this room, I initially just popped my head in to look when I heard Captain Prentiss screaming. I made entry to find her legs on fire with the UnSub in the room. He
kicked some inflammable substance at her, I shot him in the shoulder and dragged Captain Prentiss out the room. The fire fighters extinguished the fire on her legs, I kicked the rooms door shut to prevent this room catching fire." She reported
The DCFD paramedics took Emily straight to the hospital burns unit for immediate treatment.
"Agent come with me and let me treat your burnt hands." Asked the paramedic
"What burns?" She asked as she lifted her hands up "Oh."
JJ looked at the burns on her hands after pulling Emily from the room, her adrenaline obviously hadn't disappeared yet as she felt nothing.
EJ
JJ sat in her dark office in Quantico with her bandaged hands, feeling guilty about Emily's injuries. She wanted so much to go and see her new girlfriend, but would she want to see her now? She was racked with guilt and she was so confused. She had hoped sitting in her office would help but it had just made things worse.
"Jennifer Jareau, woman up go and see how she is at least you owe her that much for saving the kids."
She grabbed her bag and car keys before she changed her mind and suddenly changed her mind and sat back down with a sigh.
EJ
Emily lay in bed with a nebuliser bubbling away in her oxygen mask. Her lungs had suffered significant damage from the prolonged smoke inhalation he had subjected her too. She knew without being officially told she would never be an active fire fighter again. The burns she suffered to her legs while not severe would require skin grafting in certain areas.
"Aunty Emmy." She heard from the side of her bed
Emily was too distraught to even turn her head to look.
Henry lifted Addison up onto the bed and climb up himself. They both snuggled into Emily's side, she pulled them into her sides and started crying as they both snuggled in. Henry reached up and wiped the tears from her face as they fell
"Don't cry Emmy, Mama will make it all better she is great like that." Addison told her
"Yeah your Mama is great like that." Emily smiled and dropped off to sleep her morphine kicking in
The two children lay snuggled into Emily as if they were on guard duty. Garcia who had brought the kids at their insistence to see their aunt Emmy watched through the window at the heart warming moment, all recorded on her cell phone for JJ to watch.
EJ
JJ had opened her new text message and opened the enclosed video file from Garcia.
She watched Emily crying in her hospital bed with Henry and Addison trying to calm her "Don't cry Emmy, Mama will make it all better she is great like that." She watched her daughter trying to calm Emily
"Yeah your Mama is great like that." She heard Emily tell her children as she dropped off to sleep her morphine kicking in
Holding the cell phone tightly in her hands she played the video again and again. She dropped her cell phone as her burnt hands started to protest in pain.
She buried her head into her hands and screamed.
"She needs you, move your ass!" She chastised herself.
She picked up her handbag and keys and ran out of her office.
"It's about time, Blondie" smiled Derek as he leaned on the hood of her car.
"Get in we will take you to the hospital." Emily smiled as she pulled up to her husband and a shocked JJ
"Thank you." Smiled a very determined Blonde
EJ
JJ Walked into Emily's room and smiled at the sight in front of her. Henry snuggled tightly into Emily's side and Addison asleep on her chest with Emily's arms protectively holder her. She took several snaps on her cell phone before she approached and ruined the heartwarming sight.
"Hi." Smiled a sleepy Emily
"Mommy, are you here to help Aunty Emmy?" Asked a sleepy Addison
"Yes baby, will you go with Henry and Aunty Penelope will take you for some ice cream? I need to talk with Aunty Emmy." She asked her children
The kids happily walked out to their Aunty Penelope to get some ice cream. JJ sighed and turned to face Emily
"I didn't mean to leave you alone, Emily. I was afraid you would blame me for what he did to you. Penelope told me outside you can't work as a fire fighter any more, your lungs are too damaged." JJ stopped as her emotions got the better of her as she burst into tears.
"Come Here." Emily pats the edge of her bed
JJ sits down carefully avoiding Emily's burnt legs. Emily pulls JJ into a tight embrace, her morphine drip alleviating the painful neck burns.
"You're here now Jennifer." Emily bursts into tears " I can't be a fire fighter….any more Jennifer!, my lungs are bad and after skin grafts.." Emily's emotions get the better of her, she buries her head into JJ's chest
"I will help you through this, the three of us will. Your stuck with us, as we have no where else to go." Laughed JJ
EJ
JJ sat holding Emily's hands as the nurses removed the burns dressings from her legs.
"Arghh! Please stop! Please stop!" Begged Emily to the nurse
The nurse was trying her hardest to do this as quickly as possible. Emily started thrashing about fighting JJ's hold. Suddenly two sets of hands secured the thrashing women to her bed.
Hotch and Morgan had heard the ruckus from outside her hospital room in the burns unit.
Emily had passed out from the severe pain she felt as her burnt legs were exposed. The burns dressings had stuck to portions of the burnt skin. JJ looked aghast at the damage the fire had done to her legs.
"Blondie, her bunker gear saved her, this could have be a lot worse." Morgan hugged his distraught friend.
"He is correct Jennifer." Announced the ambassador from the door
"Hello Mother."
Every one turned to look at the now awake Emily.
JJ walked up to her bed and kissed her. She whispered something into her ear." JJ smiled at the sight of Emily's bright red face.
"That's most defiantly a very good incentive." Smirked Emily.