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To KarenDani4Ever
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DoctorMs
Chapter 1
The whole team had been chasing their UnSub for two weeks in Key West Florida. The UnSub had been praying on tourists for just a month, he would kidnap a couple and throw them into the sea with their arms and legs bound together facing each other leaving them to drown together. The mayor of the local town was desperate for the FBI to catch the killer before it affected the towns tourist trade. The town had just started recovering from the local lock down due to COVID 19. They had eventually tracked him down to a boat moored in a local marina.
"Morgan, Prentiss you take the main cabin entrance. Myself and Rossi will enter from the bow. JJ and Reid you cover us from the slip." Hotch detailed his plan. The whole team nodded and approached the darkened boat.
Emily and Morgan stepped over the railing slowly to avoid making any noise onto the main aft deck. They slowly approached the sliding door into the main cabin. The sleeping berths where both situated one deck down under the main cabin.
Derek indicated he would slid the door open. He slid the door slowly to open it just enough for Emily to enter the main cabin. Emily entered the cabin slowly and looked around checking it was clear.
"Clear." She whispered so her partner could follow
Suddenly Emily screamed as a speargun shaft protruded through her left thigh, a second shaft penetrated her left shoulder. Emily screamed as she dropped to the floor. Morgan scanned the room with his torch unable to find were the UnSub stood. Emily sat up and pointed towards a shelving unit. A third shaft slammed into her right forearm. Derek raised his Glock and fired three rapid shots hitting the UnSub dressed completely in black wearing what looked like night vision goggles.
"Clear!" Announced Morgan into his radio Microphone.
"Emily! Emily!" Screamed JJ as she ran into the cabin
Kneeling down next to her prone wife. "Oh sweetheart, the ambulance is on the way." She leaned down and kissed her wife on her forehead. Emily brought her right arm up to her face with a hiss and cupped her wife's cheek.
The paramedics arrived and loaded Emily onto there gurney ready to take her to the hospital.
"Don't leave me!" Emily hissed out through all her pain.
"Never sweetheart, I will be with you in the ambulance." Smiles the blonde agent hand rested on her uninjured leg.
EJ
JJ stood outside while they loaded Emily into the ambulance.
"Derek, go with Emily to the hospital, JJ you need to go and give a press conference straight away. We need to let everyone know we have killed the UnSub so we can alleviate the fears of the town. You can join us all at the hospital once your finished. Don't worry we will look after her for you." Hotch ordered
"You what!" Questioned JJ abruptly
"You heard agent Jareau. Remember the promise you both made, to stay on the team? Neither of you would let your marriage affect your professional life." Hotch reminded his blonde Media liaison.
"Unfucking believable, don't you mean the towns major is pressuring you to give a press conference so the tourists keep coming. I watched you make a call as soon as we got off the boat. We wouldn't want the good people of where the hell we are, too miss out on all those dollars would we?" Snarled a very pissed off Media Liaison "If anything happens to Emily, I will hurt you badly."
"I'm not standing here debating with you Agent Jareau, that's an Order!" He told her ending her protesting
A very angry FBI agent watched her wife disappear in the ambulance as she drove off in the FBI SUV toward the police station for…a unnecessary FBI press conference, the towns Major would have been delighted to deliver the good news.
EJ
Morgan arrived at the hospital with his partner unconscious from the severe pain she was in from her three penetrating wounds. He waited in the waiting room of the E.R after handing over the medical proxy form for Emily that Hotch carried. He held medical proxy for his whole team in case medical decisions had to be made in a timely manner before their relatives could arrive.
Rossi, Reid and Hotch arrived in the waiting room and walked over to Morgan for any updates on Emily.
"They have taken her to O.R 3 to remove the speargun shafts. The doctor will send some one down to let us know how long the operation is likely to take." Morgan told Hotch
'Code Blue O.R 3' announces the speaker above them
Hotch pulls out his cell phone to phone JJ but stops when he sees her appear on the tv with a live in the top corner of the screen.
EJ
Jenifer Jareau stood behind the podium looking out at the reporters that had gathered for her press conference. They looked like a bunch of vultures circling a piece of carrion.
JJ let her mind wonder and could envision Hotch laying dead on the floor his body penetrated multiple times. The speargun shafts protruding from every inch of his body, sun glistening off the metal shafts.
JJ stopped her wishful thinking and switched into media liaison mode
"Good evening.
I am SSA Jennifer Jareau with the BAU. I can confirm earlier this evening the BAU raided a boat moored in the Blue Quay Marina. We identified Mr Alfred Thomas as our UnSub, during our raid Mr Thomas fired three speargun shafts injuring a fellow agent. We returned fire unfortunately Mr Thomas was fatally wounded. We can confirm he was responsible for the deaths of the 5 couples found drowned.
Any question?"
JJ picked a local reporter "The Mayor briefed the press 35 minutes ago with the news. Could you tell us how the injured agent is doing?" She asked
Hearing that the Mayor had briefed the press on the news that Mr Alfred Thomas had been killed earlier, the fact he was their UnSub just made her furious. She could be at Emily's side.
"I don't have any information on the injured FBI agent…[screw you Hotchner]…..My wife was shot three times by shafts from a speargun. I watched her drive off in the ambulance whilst I was ordered to drive here and tell you…" JJ paused her mind spinning, and most certainly not thinking straight. " With Mr Alfred Thomas dead it is safe for all you lovely tourists to come here safely with a huge FBI stamp, and spend all your hard earned dollars. I will not be taking anymore questions as I will be going to the hospital to check on my wife's condition, thank you have a nice evening." JJ finished and stormed off to her SUV.
The assembled press watched JJ storm off and drive off in utter silence.
The vultures all packed up and set course for the hospital
EJ
The team stood listening to the doctor.
"She went into anaphylactic shock when we used the coagulation bandages on her bleeds. Her reaction caught us by surprise. Her airway closed completely so we had to do a tracheotomy. We have removed two of the shafts. The one in her right forearm should be out soon. As long as she doesn't have any more allergies you haven't told us about." The doctor told Hotch.
"No her only allergy is the bandage, we discovered it last weekend when we went to the E.R at home. But if her wife was here she would have told you that. How is my wife?" JJ asked from behind Hotch
The doctor opened his mouth but JJ stoped him with a raised hand.
"Can we go somewhere private?" JJ asked him
The doctor just indicated for her to follow him.
Hotch, Morgan, Rossi and Reid looked gobsmacked as JJ asked to see the doctor in private.
EJ
The doctor escorted JJ to his office and closed the door
"Mrs Prentiss your wife reacted badly to the coagulation bandages. Her reaction was severe because we had to use so many. We had no idea she was allergic, we had to perform an emergency tracheotomy to enable her to breathe. She is in ICU at the moment we are trying to bring her reaction under control. We think some of the bandage might still be retained in one of her wounds. If she doesn't respond to the adrenaline and steroids we might have to open her up again and go looking for fragments. It's not ideal but needs must. Otherwise Mrs Prentiss all her wound sites are clean. It will take some time for her to recover but she should have no problems returning to full duties. I will let Agent Hotchner know." The doctor smiled pleasantly
"That won't be necessary doctor, I would appreciate you only informing family members of my wife's condition. I feel you have unnecessarily informed too many people of my wife's condition. My definition of family doesn't include work colleagues." Warned a furious JJ
She handed the doctor a sheet of paper with Chief Strauss contact information. The doctor took the sheet of paper
"Only my section chief needs updating of my wife's condition, do you understand me doctor?" JJ warned him
The doctor stepped back moving away from the ferocity of her command. He nodded in confirmation of her request/command.
EJ
JJ looked for Hotch in the waiting room. He stood with Rossi talking, she marched over to him
"You nearly killed my wife! Do you want to explain yourself Hotchner?" Snarled JJ, she was in full Mama bear mode now.
Hotch was taken back by the usually calm media liaisons combative attitude.
Hotch's prolonged pause just enraged her more
"For your information Hotchner, the Mayor had already briefed the press on our success. The only new factoid they discovered is I am married to the injured agent. Still nothing to say!" She glared at Hotch "You never used to let people dictate your actions, are you spineless?"
Morgan stood up approaching the furious Blonde.
"JJ? Calm down." Morgan tried to calm the emotional blonde
JJ turned to face Morgan "Don't you dare Derek Morgan! you could of stood up for me but no, you were useless. She nearly died because I wasn't at her side, like I promised her I would be." Snarled a furious blonde agent.
Rossi turned about to enter into the fray.
"Sit down old man and shut it." JJ warned him with an evil glare.
"That's enough Jareau, with me now!" Hotch pointed to an empty office.
JJ tramped after Hotch.
EJ
Reid sat in the chair watching his best friend, he had never seen her so mad.
"Do you think Hotch is safe with her in that office all on his own?" He asked very seriously
"Not really, she's going to get written up for this." Rossi tells Reid
Emily's doctor walked past and Morgan asked him how Emily was doing.
He sighed "I'm sorry Agent, I can't disclose that information without her wife's permission." He sadly replied
The three agents looked aghast at that news
"I am her FBI Supervisor, we need….." Rossi is interrupted by the doctor
"I am only allowed to inform Section Chief Strauss back at Quantico. By order of her wife and confirmed by Chief Strauss." The surgeon informed him
"Shit! This is serious." Sighed Morgan
EJ
Hotch looked at his young agent, he didn't need to be a profiler to see how pissed off she was.
"Your behaviour is totally unacceptable SSA Jareau. What do you think you….." Hotch suddenly stopped as he watched JJ reach for her Glock. He froze for a moment his hand instinctively going to his own pistol grip.
JJ pulled her weapon and ejected the loaded magazine as she raised her weapon. She ejected the chambered round and locked her slide open. Placing the gun and the bullet on the table in front of him. She launched her credentials at his chest.
"Hotchner, I know best, you nearly fucking killed my wife tonight. I can no longer work with you or any one else on your team. I quit." Snarled JJ, ready to explode
"I do not except your resignation SSA Jareau." Hotch unusually shouted getting annoyed at JJ
"Oh Aaron, I resigned over an hour ago to Section Chief Strauss. She told me to hand my hardware to you." She smirked "none of you are to see Emily. Strauss will be informed of her condition. I am flying her back to Washington when the doctors will allow me." Smiled JJ for the first time since Emily got speared
Hotch just looked aghast at his former agent
JJ walked out the office and ignored her former colleagues and made her way to Emily's ICU room.