Chapter 11

Stood looking at her wife from the door she cast her eyes slowly from her head to her toes. Her face looked like someone had used it as a punch bag, it was swollen and a myriad of colours. Her jaw covered in bandages. Her right forearm sported a black fibreglass cast resting on some pillows. Her lower legs look like someone had gone mad with their meccano set.

Four metal rings connected together adorned both her lower legs with metal rods stuck into her leg. JJ gasped it all looked so painful. The man responsible sat in a police cell waiting to be charged. The blonde mother wanted so much too repay this man in kind and break all his limbs three times over.

"H…H…H." Was all Emily managed not used to her restricted jaw moment

"Hi sweetheart, you jaw is wired to help the fractures heal. Take your time and you will get used to talking, do you want some water?" Asked JJ

Letting her to carefully drink using the straw to help quench her parched and sore throat. Emily tried to speak again without producing anything but a hoarse sound. In utter frustration she used her left arm and traced an E

"Ellie has a broken Left forearm and is in a cast like yours. Her lacerations on her thighs have Been sutured. Her baby is fine everything checked out when we arrived here…thank you for protecting our girls." JJ smiled waiting to see if Emily noticed what she had just told her

Emily looked tired and was starting to fall asleep, her eyes shot open as she realised she had said 'girls'

"They did a test and Ellie is having a little girl." Smirked JJ watching the tears roll down Emily's colourful cheeks.

Ellie and Vanessa walk into the room and smile at their mothers.

"I have chosen a name for her as well would you like to know?" She smiled

"Yes please." Answered JJ as Emily interlocked their fingers together and pulled it close to her heart.

"I have named her after her very protective grandmother, Emily (Emmy) so we don't confuse everyone. Her middle name is Rosalind. Emily Rosalind Prentiss." Smiled Ellie.

Sandy and Reid stood outside the door allowing the family this magic moment, not a single dry eye around.

EJ

Emily had been in hospital for a month now and was being a difficult patient. She had mastered talking with her jaw wired. JJ was happy she couldn't self discharge as she would need a wheelchair for the next few months due to her 'Meccano Legs' as the girls had been calling them. The cabin needed to be adapted for her before she could leave much to the brunettes chagrin.

Reid walked into Emily's hospital room pushing a wheelchair with a cheeky smile on his face.

"Are you ready to get out of here Emily?" He asked a puzzled looking brunette

"God yes! But I can't at the moment Reid." A slightly deflated woman replied.

"Do you trust me? Mom!" Smirked Reid

Emily narrowed her eyes at Reid still not sure if she would ever get comfortable with being his Mother-in-law. She definitely knew she would never get used to being called Mom by the brainiac.

Bitting the bullet for now "Yes!" She replied hoping it was not an elaborate joke.

With the help of JJ they managed to manoeuvre her into the wheelchair and attach the leg supports to keep her meccano legs elevated and safe from further damage. JJ placed a blanket over her legs to keep her warm.

"Ready Emily?" Reid asked his friend

"You'll never know Spencer, now don't spare the horses." Emily signalled or them to move on

Reid pushed Emily out through the hospital main doors to be met by the sheriff and Morgan stood by a police SUV.

"Now deputy don't shoot anyone, we are going to lift you up into the back of the SUV." The sheriff told her

To accommodate her metal work on her legs they had to seat Emily on the rear row of seats with the seat down in front to rest her legs on. To everyone's surprise especially her wife Emily allowed everyone to lift her and manoeuvre her into the SUV without a single complaint.

"What!" Asked Emily looking at JJ "I hate hospitals." She laughed as JJ sat next to her

"Ready when you are bossman. Get me away from this place of healing, pretty please." Emily asked

EJ

"Emily! Sweetheart where home." JJ gently shook her sleeping wife's shoulder to wake he gently

As she tried waking her sleeping wife JJ's eyes were fixed on the new ramp leading up to there cabins front door.

"Hi," yawned Emily still feeling tired.

The cabins front door opened and Vanessa sat in a power chair driven out the newly widened door to greet her mother. She was followed by her sister both happy to have their mother home.

Once again Emily allowed everyone to remove her from the SUV into the seat of her new power chair without a single complaint. Her legs now sat on specially ordered foot and leg rests. She drove herself back inside the cabin.

While Emily had been a very cantankerous patient her cabin had been adapted to allow her power chair to move around. Her colleague's and members of the Woman's Bay fire department with help from Morgan had been very busy.

Emily and JJ walked and drove around looking at everything that had been done to their home to allow her home. They returned to the living room astounded by all the work, Emily and JJ both felt very humbled and a little emotional.

"Thank you, it means a lot you would do all this for us both." JJ emotionality thanked everyone

"Yes, Thank you doesn't seem enough." Smiled a very emotional Emily

Garcia and Trina walk over and hug Emily "Everyone wanted to do it for you Princess." Garcia kissed her on the cheek

"No!" The sheriff told Emily as she looked at him

"What?"

"Your not coming back to work until the doctor says you can. Just getting it out the way early." Laughed the sheriff.

The whole room bursts out laughing all knowing the brunette would soon be pestering the sheriff to let her go back to work.

Morgan walks across to JJ and Emily and smiles

"I'm glad we found you Princess," a contrite man smiled "Emily, Jennifer, I am so sorry for being such a knucklehead. I had no right to act like I did you are entitled to live your lives as you see fit." He smiled as if a load had been removed from his shoulders " I'm still pissed at the way you told us though."

"Yeah sorry about that buddy, we took the easy way out on that one." Sighed Emily " look Derek, our life is good in 'Hicksville' I'm glad you helped save my ass." Emily sniffed as a few tears rolled down her cheek "Damn painkillers, Thank you." She eventually managed to tell her friend.

EJ

Exhausted Emily had gone to bed for a nap before dinner. Finding it difficult to sleep on her back it took a while for her eventually to drift off to sleep. Partially due to the pain but Emily was frightened to sleep, her nightmares were too vivid due to her painkillers. She had tried not taking her medication once finding it impossible due to her high pain levels.

Start of Nightmare

"Please don't hurt me." Begged Emily

A figure dressed in black wearing a hood just laughed and walked across to JJ whom sat tied to a chair opposite Emily. The figure attached bands around her fingers on her left hand and wrist.

"Which finger Emily? Ten seconds." asked the black figure

Emily shakes her head refusing to answer the question.

"Arghh!" Screamed JJ as all her fingers of her left hand broke as the bands tightened.

"Please stop Emily, please no more, what have I done?" Begged JJ

"You can do better than that. I want, no need more screaming." The figure turned around and pressed a button.

The band around JJ's wrist started contracting, JJ screamed her head off as the sound of cracking could be heard loud and clear.

"Emily! Stop please!" Begged JJ

"Stop!" Yelled Emily

The hooded figure approached Emily in her chair and removed the hood to reveal Her own head looking down at her. She tightened the wires in her mouth closing her jaw completely.

"Shh, I can't hear Blondie scream." Her black clad-self told her.

Picking up a baseball bat she repeatedly hit JJ's broken fingers until they were flat.

End of nightmare

"No! Stop!" Screamed Emily

Thrashing around in bed her left leg impacted her right leg causing severe pain in her fracture sites.

"Arghh, Arghh!" Emily passed out with the pain. Her breathing laboured due to her wired jaw.

JJ, Vanessa and Garcia ran into the bedroom after hearing the screaming from Emily.

"Oh my god." Vanessa gasped "Spencer, I need you and Derek now!" She yelled

Emily had almost fallen out of bed whilst she thrashed in bed JJ supported her body while Vanessa and Garcia held her legs steady. Morgan and Reid lifted her back into bed and supported her legs with pillow. Emily had a small trickle of blood on her jaw just below the bandage.

Emily was out cold from the pain she could only be heard occasionally muttering

"I am so, so sorry Jennifer."