Hey guys, I'm back with this. Part 3! Will Emily save Rachel? Will she die trying? Will she end up in a coma? Will Rachel? Read and see!

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It Wasn't Supposed to Happen Like This - Part 3

Previously

Just as Emily sees Rachel make it to the doorway and squint through the daylight, Rachel's arm is pulled from the side. She lets out a surprised shriek. The bank door closes.

"Fuck!" Emily shouts. She stalks back to home base and picks up the phone.

Inside the Bank

Brrrriiiiiiiing. Briiiiiiing. Briiiiiiinng. Brrrriiiiiiiing. Briiiiiiing. Briiiiiiinng

The sound echoes through the bank.


"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Keith said to Rachel. "I can't let it end like this. Not after everything." Keith pulls Rachel farther into the bank and sits her in a chair. He starts pacing.

"Keith, you have to talk to Emily," Rachel says trying to remain calm. His pacing is agitated and quick. She can't think of any way that is a good sign.

Keith rubs his face over the black ski mask he still wears. The phone continues to ring in the background.

"If you don't want to pick up the phone, let me do it. She just wants to know that we are both okay."

Keith stops pacing as if he's realized something. "She didn't say she loves you."


At Home Base

"He's not answering," Emily says frustrated. She looks over to the monitor showing the active camera they have. "He stopped pacing," Emily observed.

"She may be calming him down," Rossi added.

"Do we have more cameras yet?" Emily asked.

"Garcia wasn't able to get the other ones online. She says she'll keep working on it." JJ says rubbing Emily's arm.

"We need to get audio in there." Hotch says. "Reid, see if Garcia can grab audio from the camera, if not, we need to see if HRT can position one in a vent."

"We were so fucking close," Emily says.

"We'll get her, Em." Morgan says.

Emily watches her girlfriend through the surveillance tape talk to her hostage taker. Emily groans as she remembers something. "I need to call Rylan, Rachel's brother."

"I can do it," JJ offers. "You need to focus on getting her out of there."

Emily hands the blonde her cell phone. She focuses back on the monitor. She picks up the phone again.


Inside the Bank

"What?" Rachel asks. A phone in the bank rings again.

"You told her you loved her and she just said I know."

"She hasn't said it to me yet."

"And you say it to her?"

Rachel nods. "I know I love her. She's just not ready to say it back."

Keith scoffs. "You're being held at gunpoint and she can't muster up the courage to tell you she loves you? She may not see you again." Keith leans his back against the tellers' station opposite Rachel.

Rachel's heart stops for a moment. "Whatever is going on, the reason you're doing this, Emily will do whatever she can to help," Rachel deflects. The phone rings again.

"No one can help, Rachel!" Keith shouts at her making her jump in his seat. "I'm dead no matter what. He's dead." Keith pulls off his ski mask. The phone stops mid-ring.


Home Base

Emily slams down the phone and runs toward the barricades as she tightens her FBI vest. The BAU team chases after her.

"Prentiss!" Hotch calls from behind her as he chases her. "What are you doing?"

"I need to get in there. You can't stop me, Hotch. He took off his mask. We all know what that means. I'm not letting that happen. You said you had my back, so have it."

"Friendly going in! Hold fire!" Hotch calls to everyone in the area with a gun. "Repeat, hold fire, friendly going in!"

Emily hands Aaron her gun. "Thanks." Emily runs toward the bank. She knocks hard on the bank's door. "Keith, it's Emily. Can I come in?"


Inside the Bank

Keith and Rachel both jump at the noise. Keith quickly shifts his gun toward the doors. "What the hell?" Keith says.

"I'm alone and unarmed, Keith." Rachel and Keith hear Emily say. "Can I come in?"

Keith looks at Rachel. "See? She really wants to help," Rachel says.

"Come in," Keith says in a gruff voice.

The bank's door opens slowly. Emily appears in the doorway with her hands raised in surrender.

"Hi, Keith," Emily says as she makes her way further into the bank. She looks at Rachel sitting in the chair across from Keith. "Are you okay, Rach?"

Rachel nods to Emily and then looks between the two as Emily comes closer to the her and Keith.

"You can hug her," Keith says. "But you both stay in here."

Rachel launches out of her seat and into Emily's arms. Emily wraps her girlfriend in her arms tightly. Emily kisses the side of Rachel's head. "I'll get you out of here," Emily reassures her. Rachel nods against Emily's shoulder.

Emily looks at Keith as she pulls away from her girlfriend. She starts toward Keith putting her body between him and Rachel, her hands raised once again.

Emily gets a good look at the face of the man who has been holding her girlfriend hostage. He is not at all what she expected. He is Caucasian, late 20s to early 30s with green eyes and olive skin. His hair is cut short and neat. He was attractive. Take him out of his all dark clothing and put him in a suit and he could be a teller at the very bank they were in.

"Thank you for letting me come in," Emily says to him. "I meant what I said when I was out there. I just want to help you."

Keith shakes his head. "You can't."


Home Base

"What's happening with audio, Reid?" Hotch asks.

"Garcia, says the cameras don't have sound capability."

"HRT Second and Rossi are looking over blueprints," Morgan tells Hotch. "They are trying to determine the best vent to hook up the audio."

"Tell them we need it now." Hotch says. Morgan runs off.

"What are we looking at here? How is this going to end?" JJ lets out.

"It's hard to say. We don't really even know Keith's mental state," Reid answers.

"True, but removing his mask was not a good sign for Rachel. For whatever reason, he's identified with her, and letting her see his face made it personal. He was connecting with her. He may have wanted her to truly see him before he killed her or himself or them both."

"And now that he has Emily too?" JJ found herself asking without really wanting to think about the answer.

"Emily can talk him down," Hotch says. Reid and JJ look at each other. All three know that answer is a deflection.


Inside the Bank

"Why don't you give me the chance to try, Keith?" Emily says softly. "Let Rachel go, and I'll stay here and help you."

Keith shakes his head frantically and raises his gun to Emily. "No. No, Rachel stays."

"Okay, okay. She stays" Emily placates, even though she hates it. "Why don't you tell me why you're doing this?"

"It doesn't matter. I already messed this up. He's dead."

"Who's dead?"

Keith doesn't answer just slumps against the tellers' station.

"Did someone put you up to this?" Emily asks. "Did they threaten someone you love? I can get whoever did this to you, Keith. You just have to tell me who."

Keith pulls the gun up quickly and points it at Emily. "You can't! I ruined it."

Emily looks right at Keith. "You don't know that. He could still be alive."

"Keith," Rachel spoke up from behind Emily, "if there's even a chance he's still alive, don't you think you should let Emily and her team get him to safety?"

Keith looks at Rachel. The silence seems to stretch on and on before Keith speaks. "My boyfriend, Matthew, they took him. They said he owed them money and said I had to pay."

"Who?"

"The Full Riot Bikers," Keith says. He sinks down to the floor against the tellers' station. The gun sits across his lap.

"Okay, that's good, Keith. I'm glad you told me," Emily says. "I'm going to reach behind me and grab my cell phone. I'm going to call my team."

Keith nods.

Emily pulls her cellphone from her back pocket slowly and quickly looks at the camera she knows the team is watching before she dials a number.

"Emily! What do you need?" Garcia's voice says immediately from the other end.

"Can you patch Hotch in?"

"Of course." Garcia dials the conference call with Hotch.

"Garcia, what do you have?"

"Hotch, I need you to look into the Full Riot Bikers," Emily says. "They are holding Keith's boyfriend, Matthew. Matthew owes them money and Keith is supposed to deliver.

"I'm on it," Garcia says. The other two on the line hear quick keystrokes. "Oh, my, these boys are devious. They have their hands in a ton of cookie jars and none the good double chocolate chip kind."

"Do we know where their base is, Garcia?" Hotch asks.

More keystrokes are heard. "Uh, looks like they have a couple places in the club president's name. But they have 38 members and all have property. Can we narrow it down?"

Emily turns to Keith. "Do you know where they have Matthew?"

"They took me to a place around 35th to show me they really had him. I don't know the address," Keith says.

"Narrow it down to places around 35th street," Emily says into her phone.

"Okay," Garcia says as she types. "We're actually in luck. There's only one place within 5 miles of there." More keystrokes. "Sent to your phones, Sir."

"I'll get a team out there."

"Sir, I want the team to go," Emily tells Hotch.

"Emily, we're not leaving you here," Hotch says.

"You're the only ones I trust with this, Hotch."

"Rossi stays behind in case you need something."

"Deal," Emily says.

"You'll be first to know when we have anything."

"Thanks," Emily says to both Hotch and Garcia.

"Stay safe, Emily," Garcia says.

"I will." All three hang up to do their jobs. Hotch and Garcia to get Emily and Rachel out safely. Emily's to get Rachel out of there alive.


Okay guys, you've reached the end of this chapter. Everyone still okay? I had hoped to have this resolved by 3 chapters but Keith is holding me hostage now. If you follow me you'll probably see that I will add this section of Private Life to it's own story when I finish this.

Review and tell me what you think. Do you hate it, love it, whatever. Tell me what you think of Rachel and all the characters really. I really try to get the characterization of everyone right so if you think I'm off the mark let me know.

Also I'm sorry if the horizontal lines don't show up in some places. I don't know why they disappear sometimes.

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