Chapter 4
JJ was suddenly blinded by the bright light when her doll box was pulled out from under the bed. JJ slowly reopens her eyes to see Angie looking down at her.
"Oh, Jenny, I'm sorry we had visitors. CC brought someone, and Mave said you had to be locked away. Take your gag out and lay on the bed with me." Angie tells her.
JJ removes her gag and thankfully moves her jaw, relieving the ache. Her heart is hopeful that Macy has passed her message onto CC. She puts that hope into a compartment and locks it away for now, and smiles as she lays down next to Angie.
"Mummy, I was scared in that box. Can you cuddle with me? I love you." JJ smiled as she played her dolly roll to the max.
"I'm sorry, Jenny. I promise not to lock you in your box as long as you behave. You are the best dolly I have ever had." Angie hugs JJ
JJ smiles but hopes they come and rescue her soon. She snuggles into Angie's side and starts to fall asleep with her head on Angie's tummy.
EJ
Garcia is sat at 5,000 ft in the air national guard Blackhawk searching the area she thinks Emily's been buried. They have been searching for two hours with no luck. Garcia is feeling the pressure of the search for her friend. She feels a hand on her shoulder. Reid smiles and hands her a can of monster over to keep her spirits up
"Garcia looks, there's JJ she's cuddling with Angie Luttrell. Look at her hair. They have dyed it blue." Reid points to the laptop screen
"WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU, GUMDROP!" Garcia was getting more and more annoyed with the Luttrell family. She looked at her display, promising herself they were going to pay.
"Contact Ma'am. We have a heat signature similar to an exhaust. Ten meters west human heat signature 2 meters down." The FLIR camera operator told her.
Reid informed Hotch of the location of Emily, and the helicopter continued to circle. Garcia prepared to loop the cameras feed once Emily had been removed.
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Hotch, Morgan, Rossi and the detectives arrived quietly with a mini digger to keep their discovery of Emily's burial spot as quiet as possible, so they could dig her out and extract her before the Luttrell family noticed so they could protect JJ.
Morgan paced around the burial site like a caged lion, unable to do anything whilst the mini digger excavated the site. It slowly and carefully dug down until the operator told them he had hit something solid. Once the digger driver retired, Morgan and Hotch started using shovels to reach the casket's lid
'BANG!' Hotch hit the top of Emily's casket and dropped down to his knees to clear the top off by hand with the assistance of Morgan. After five minutes of the frantic clearing, they both looked down on a casket lid. "Garcia, loop the camera feed and tell us when we can proceed," Hotch told Garcia in the helicopter
"The feed is looped. You are clear to proceed, sir, bring her home safely." Garcia asked.
Morgan attached the lifting loops around the casket's handles and jumped out the hole. The digger driver lifted his boom, pulling Emily's casket out the hole and placed it down on the surface. Hotch and Morgan used pry bar's to open the lid. A putrid smell hit them as the top opened. Emily appeared to be shivering a lot with her eyes closed, mumbling, 'I'm sorry Jennifer' over and over again. Hotch felt her head. "She's burning up. Bring the paramedics over." He ordered. Shaking Emily's shoulder and calling her name, getting no response.
Morgan opened the lower lid of her casket, and the putrid smell was so overpowering he nearly lost his dinner. Looking down, he noticed puss oozing out from her left shin where they had removed her foot and a portion of her shin.
"She needs to get to the hospital soon Hotch, whatever they used to take her foot was not sterile. I think she's going into septic shock." Morgan worriedly told Hotch
The paramedics rushed him out to get to Emily. One look at her, they decided to scoop and go. They lifted her out of the casket and loaded her onto the stretcher, then into the ambulance with practised efficiency. Morgan jumped into the back and took Emily's hand, and started to tell her JJ was still alive.
Five minutes later, Emily arrived at the prepared ER. The doctor's looked her over after stripping her. They only found the traumatic amputation of her left foot and partial shin. The infection had tracked past the applied tourniquet and need surgery.
"I need consent to amputate her lower left leg to prevent the infection from spreading further and repair crushed bones of her lower leg. Do we know what they used to amputate it in the first place?" The doctor asked.
"I'm afraid we don't Doc, I'm her medical proxy as her wife is unavailable at present. What do I need to sign?" Hotch signed the consent forms, and Emily was rushed away for surgery.
"Time to get JJ Hotch. It's so going to take all my self-control not to kick the crap out of someone for what they've done to Emily." An unusually emotional Morgan told Hotch
"I know what you mean." He replied
EJ
"Would you like some more cake, Mommy?" JJ asked Angie
"No thanks, Jenny, I think it's bedtime. I'm tired too much running about." Angie smiled, taking JJ's hand and pulling her towards the bedroom
"PLEASE! Don't make me sleep in the box again! PLEASE, MOMMY!" JJ begged, hating the confined space
"Oh, my sweet dolly. Come here." Angie opened her arms for JJ "we're going to cuddle in bed again. You're always going to be safe with me, and you understand that, don't you?" Angie asked, gently hugging JJ
"I'm just scared of that box, and Mave, she's so mean to me," JJ answered, leaning into Angie's shoulder.
Angie smiled and pulled JJ onto the bed, pulling the quilt over the top of the two of them and cuddled into JJ. The pair soon fell asleep.
EJ
Hotch briefed the detectives and the BAU team about the plan to raid the funeral home. Garcia reported the Macy was asleep in her bedroom. Angie and JJ are in bed sleeping; the other members of the family are watching tv in the family room.
"Myself, Dave and Morgan and the officers will take the family room and arrest Andy, Robert and Mave Luttrell. Detectives, you take Angie Luttrell and Reid you make sure you get Macy Luttrell to a safe place. Is everyone clear with the plan? We go on my command, and everyone is careful." Hotch briefed his team.
Morgan bypassed the alarm on the front door and picked the lock using his special machine. He slowly opened the door and raised his weapon to clear the hall. He could hear the tv in the family room. It sounded like they were watching Blue Bloods. Rossi took two officers around the side of the family room to block off the escape route.
"Take them!" Hotch announces over the radio
"FBI, YOUR ALL UNDER ARREST RAISE YOUR HAND" Morgan and Hotch yell, weapons raised
The three Luttrell's are entirely taken by surprise by the FBI raid. All three raise their hand and allow Morgan and the officers to handcuff them.
CC and Jim just grabbed hold of Angie while she slept. They had her in handcuffs before she was fully awake. JJ laid awake watching Angie scream while sitting at the end of the bed
"Thanks, CC. I'll take her. It might keep her calm and stop her from injuring herself or someone else. JJ asked
Jim just nodded and told JJ to take her to the family room.
"Come on, Mommy, let's go; I'll make sure your safe. Is that ok?" JJ asked Angie in the calm, friendly voice she had been using for the past few days.
Angie just nodded and grabbed JJ's hand, and allowed herself to be pulled gently towards the family room. JJ entered the family room to be welcomed by Hotch and Morgan
"It's damn good to see you, Blondie. We need to get your statement at the station quickly, and then we can take you to the hospital. She is still in surgery." Smirked Morgan hugging JJ
JJ nods.
The detectives leave some officers and CSI teams to search the property and funeral home for evidence. The only witnesses they had at present were Emily and JJ. The evidence from JJ was vital so they could charge the Luttrell's with her kidnapping and false imprisonment. They could add further charges after Emily had recovered from her surgery and been interviewed. Hopefully, the search teams could find evidence linking them to the remains of the federal witness.
EJ
JJ sat in an interview room still in her doll clothes, looking anxious to get things done so she could leave. Hotch had updated her about Emily. She was still in surgery and most likely had a further 45 mins to go. She had not said a word to anyone since she arrived. JJ looked like she was about to explode with bent up emotions. It had been a rough few days.
Detectives Kline and Cato walked in with the case file and sat down.
"Don't worry, Jennifer, we won't belong. We need your statement about your kidnapping and false imprisonment. You told us at the house you hadn't been raped or sexually assaulted. We can also get them for assault because they dyed your hair blue without your consent." CC told JJ and smiled, trying to settle the anxious agent
"You have it the wrong detective. I agreed to my transformation and even signed a legal and binding doll contract with Kevin Luttrell. He, as you might know, is the families lawyer, and I would like to go back to my mummy now." JJ asked smiling
The two detectives looked shocked and left the interview room to speak to the FBI agents watching from the observation room.
"What the hell just happened? Is she serious, or is she loopy? Without her statement, we have nothing to charge them with at the moment. Agent Prentiss is still in surgery, and we can come up with some charges for her. They will be out on bail within the hour unless you talk sense into your agent." CC asked, totally confused,
Hotch and Morgan both looked confused and angry at the usually impeccable agent. JJ would normally be beating the door down to get to Emily's side.
"I've got an idea we need the crime scene photos of Emily and the casket. We need to shock her to try and bring her back. In the meantime, let's get the doctors to check her out." Hotch told Morgan, hoping his plan worked.
Twenty minutes later, the doctor closed the interview rooms door and walked over to the assembled detectives and agents
"She is mentally and physically fine. I cannot detect anything wrong she is fully aware of everything and mentally stable. I cannot justify a psych hold, sorry." The doctor explained to Hotch
Hotch entered the interview room with CC and sat down opposite JJ, and smiled, placing a pile of pictures face down on the table.
"Agent Jareau, look at these pictures of your wife's injuries. You do remember your wife, Emily?" Hotch tells JJ in a stern voice
"Of course, I remember my wife silly," JJ replied
Hotch started to lose his temper and slammed the pictures down face up of Emily in the casket when they found her. JJ picked each image up and looked at them, then placed them neatly on the table and smiled at Hotch, shrugging her shoulders.
Hotch slammed his hands down on the table. "DON'T YOU EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW YOUR WIFE IS?" He screamed just in front of JJ's face
"That's enough. Agent step back away from my client. I am Kevin Luttrell, Jenny's attorney. Here is her consent and doll contract, all witnessed by judge Smyth from New Orleans. As you are aware, it's all legal and above board. Jenny will take all accrued leave days and then will resign from the FBI. Now you have failed to have my client held for psychiatric assessment, and we are leaving Agent. Come on, Jenny." Jenny's attorney told Hotch standing up and taking JJ's Hand, and walking out of the interview room.
EJ
"MOMMY!" Screamed JJ running to Angie Luttrell and throwing her arms around her for a hug. " I missed you, mummy. I was terrific like you told me to be." JJ smiled, snuggling into Angie's neck.
Hotch, Morgan and Garcia watched JJ sprint to Angie Luttrell and immediately snuggle into her and telling her she had been good.
"What have they done to her? That's not my JJ; my JJ would be glued to Emily's bed. What can we do?" Garcia asked in tears.
"I don't know, baby girl. I don't know." They all watched as JJ climbed into Luttrell's SUV and drove off.
"There was no sign of concern when I showed her the pictures of Emily in the casket. Nothing at all; she just acted like a soulless unconcerned person. We all know that's not JJ. Hopefully, when Emily wakes after surgery, she can give us answers." Hotch answered
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Emily slowly opened her eyes, looking up, finding she was blinded by fluorescent lights and not the darkness of the casket. She remembered the sadness of losing her Jennifer and started to sob uncontrollably in her hospital bed
"Welcome back, princess. You had us all worried." Garcia smiled, grabbing Emily's hand
"Oh penny, I killed Jennifer." Sobbed Emily
"EMILY, LOOK AT ME!" Garcia ordered. Emily turned and looked at Garcia. "She's alive, emster they made you think you did, but she is alive and well." Smiled Garcia
"Where is she?" A desperate Emily asked.
Garcia showed Emily on her iPad the interview from earlier at the station, watching JJ walk out and run to Angie Luttrell. Emily paused the video and zoomed in on JJ's face, and stroked her face on the screen.
"Oh, thank god she's still alive. Can I talk to Reid?" Emily asked, not caring about her injuries looking down at the cage around her lower left leg
Garcia noticed Emily looking at the protective cage over her leg, looking confused.
"They chopped your left foot and part of your shin off. It got infected while you were buried in your casket. The surgeons had to amputate your lower left leg below the knee to stop the infection from spreading. Some of your tibia and fibula were too damaged to repair. I'm so sorry." Garcia sadly tells Emily
Reid walks into the room and smiles at Emily "good to see you awake, Emily. How do you feel?" He asked
She holds her hand up. "Reid, we both inhaled a powder sprayed into our faces. Instantly I couldn't do anything without being told. I got told to start the crematorium even though I knew Jennifer was in there. I just did as instructed. I watched her cut my leg off using an alligator jaw. I couldn't even move my foot. Could that be why Jennifer is acting like she is? Please tell me you can reverse it?" Emily asked desperately " she called it devils breath."
Reid searched his eidetic memory for a few moments and then grimaced. "It's not an exact drug. It has many versions dependent on who is making it, but it is mainly based on scopolamine. That's what turned you into a mindless zombie. 'No offence,' but that could explain what's happened with JJ. Her mind could have reverted to the doll fiction to help her sound mind if she knew you were buried alive, and I have no doubt been taunted. It's her safe place. We might be able to shock her out of it if you can bring yourself to actually and wholeheartedly physically attack your wife." Reid tells Emily.
"What if that doesn't work? Have I lost Jennifer forever?" Reid and Garcia barely hear the questions from a distraught Emily.
Reid thinks about lying to his friend but can't out of respect for her. "I am not sure, Emily, but I think that is almost a certainty." He answered, "she has reverted to her safe place. She feels comfortable and loved. I don't think she wants to come back."
"Are you ok, Emily, with your leg?" Reid asked, concerned about his friend
"I'll worry about it when I get Jennifer back." She sighed
Hotch and Morgan visited Emily to see how she was and asked her to give a statement about what happened. She walked them both through everything and who did what and when.
"I also want my wife arrested for conspiracy to commit murder!" Emily announces to everyone
The team stop and look at Emily as she has lost her mind. she looks at everyone and nods, "trust me on this, please. I want her handcuffed and put in a cell overnight. It's a theory Reid thinks might help get her out of her head. I'm going to need to cause her some physical pain to I hope so much to help her. Can you arrange it, Hotch?" Emily informed everyone
EJ
Hotch had arranged for three arrest warrants for Robert and Mave Luttrell and Jennifer Prentiss. The team entered the funeral home and arrested Mave and Robert whilst having a coffee watching tv.
JJ was arrested in Angie's bed while cuddling, "Jennifer Prentiss, you are under arrest." CC told her, pulling her off the bed suddenly. Emily had instructed everyone to be hard on her, treat her as a criminal, not an FBI agent. JJ was face down on the floor, handcuffed with CC's knee firmly pressed into her back.
" MOMMY, HELP ME! Mommy." JJ screamed. CC smiled as this was the reaction Reid hoped for. JJ was picked up, and the two detectives walked her out quickly and into the back of a patrol car that was made to be very smelly. Morgan was pleased with his new fragrance, day-old vomit and urine covered clothes under the back seats. By the time Emily got to see her wife, she would be highly uncomfortable.
JJ sat in the police car crying for her mummy, not looking at the police officers. After she arrived at the police station, she was booked in and had the indignity of a full-body search, including all her orifices by a female officer who handed her a paper boiler suit to get dressed in on completion. Her hair was searched and put in a ponytail.
They had removed all her doll clothes to try and shock her out of her safe place. Only her blue hair remained, but they could not legally do anything about that. JJ now sat in the cells with three other occupants, all drunken hookers. Emily insisted they be police officers undercover to keep JJ safe. They had been instructed to be a little naughty over the next few hours.
Emily watched proceedings from her wheelchair, her eyes never leaving JJ. Emily was still trying to come to terms she was alive. A little over a day and a half ago, she laid in her casket wanting to die so she could be with Jennifer. Looking at the blue-haired woman made her horrified and happy at the same time it was so confusing. Emily was so conflicted about her next course of action. She could lose her soul mate for good. She had compartmentalised her injuries and leg loss so she could help Jennifer. If she rejected her help, that would devastate her. Mave Luttrell would have won, Emily would be dead.
JJ was escorted into the interview room, handcuffed and sat down, her handcuffs secured to the tables eye bolt. The door suddenly opened, and Hotch wheeled Emily in and parked her wheelchair next to JJ
JJ didn't take her eyes off the tabletop after Hotch left the room.
"How are you, Jennifer?" Emily asked, turning JJ's head to look at her
JJ opened her mouth to speak but said nothing.
Emily unfastened JJ's cuff from her right hand, ensuring she was still secured to the table. Lifting the blanket covering the bandaged stump of her left leg, reaching up, she took JJ's right hand and placed it on her stump
"I'm fine thank you for your concern, sweetheart. My leg hurts like hell, and my left foot is still itching thanks to that bitch Mave. All the time buried alive, I wanted to die. I kept replying to the flames igniting and your screaming. My heart shattered over and over again, thinking I killed my soul mate. I just wanted to give up and die, but she kept taunting me, telling me she would keep me alive for weeks with you between my legs. I survived only to lose you anyway to Angie Luttrell. You are my only reason to live. I see no reason to go on without you." Emily jabbed JJ's arm with an adrenaline auto-injector
'5 minutes Emily' she heard on her earwig
Emily placed divorce papers in front of JJ " sign these, please, Jennifer, the judge has granted us a special circumstances divorce, one signature you will be Jennifer Jareau again so you can be your JENNY DOLLY." Emily snarled at JJ. She still hadn't looked at Emily. The only sign of emotion was a slight tremor in her hand on the divorce papers.
'Prentiss, go with the flow, trust us. It's a hail Mary time,' Hotch told her in her earwig
The interview room door opened, and CC walked in dressed in a doll outfit similar to JJ's, wearing a fluorescent pink wig.
"MOMMY, MOMMY! I missed you when I woke up. I got scared." CC told Emily just like a child. She leaned into Emily, careful to avoid her leg and planted her lips onto Emily's. Emily pulled her arms around CC's shoulders and pulled her closer.
'More ladies, please, she's starting to react', Hotch informed CC and Emily
Emily guided CC's hand under her hoodie and placed it on her Brest and groaned into the kiss.
"BITCH, ARGH... " JJ screamed, her right hand holding her head