Chapter 5
CC stood up and unfastened JJ's left hand and suddenly got punched by JJ on the chin knocking her on her ass.
"BITCH, HANDS OFF MY FUCKING WIFE!" JJ screamed like a demented woman.
Her heart rate had spiked with the emotions on top of the shot of adrenaline Emily had given her. They just hoped it would work.
"Sorry, Emily, Rossi and Morgan figured if I acted doll-like with the sexual aspect, it would hopefully push her over the top. Dam Jenny, that's a mean right hook." CC told her, holding her aching jaw
"Don't fucking call me Jenny..." JJ burst into uncontrollable sobs, her body shaking violently.
Emily pulls her onto her lap, just cradling her sobbing wife whispering into her ear, calming her down. JJ looked into Emily's eyes and smiled.
"They told me if I didn't embrace being Angie's dolly fully, they would kill you. They had me gagged watching when she taunted you. I heard you begging to die, Emily. I knew they were going to torture you and then kill you. I couldn't help you, so I reverted to being her dolly; it was less painful. Being told what to do made things easier. By the time they came and rescued me, my conversation was complete, I enjoyed it, and I had shut out anything else. Sorry CC, please forgive me." JJ hugged Emily as tight as she could
"Emily, look at your leg. Are you doing ok?" JJ asked, holding her cheeks in her hands
"You woman are going back to the hospital now. Don't make me force you." JJ stares at her wife
"Yes, Mommy. It's good to have you back" Emily smirked
"Too soon, smartass." JJ smiled.
JJ wheels Emily out of the room to find the team waiting for her.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again, jayj, Garcia admonished. I'm still not going to speak to you for five minutes." Garcia hugged her friend.
Morgan walks over, grinning, "I swear to god Derek if you make a doll joke, I will punch you!" JJ warns
"As if I would dare Blondie no sorry blueish Blondie." Smirked Derek giving her a hug
Rossi and Reid just hugged her. Hotch walked over and asked her to wheel Emily over into an office.
"We have a problem, JJ. The contract you signed is binding and legal. We have to prove you were coerced into signing the contract. Their lawyer has supplied CCTV footage of you signing it. I've viewed the footage. It looks very compelling. The contract was particular, and you agreed to wave certain rights. The contract can only be broken by Angie Luttrell's consent or when it expires in five years. You can't change your hair without written consent. I'm sorry, JJ. We need your side of things down on paper." He told Emily and JJ
"Give out family lawyers a ring JJ; they can file injunctions as needed," Emily tells her wife
"JJ, you can't work the case your too close. Help Emily when you both get back to D.C. we are staying here. Andy Luttrell has made a deal with the federal prosecutors. We found evidence they kept on their business. They killed and disposed of hundreds of bodies using the funeral home. We are exhuming 45 graves at the moment. The family have disposed of bodies for three generations. Andy Luttrell has made a demand of you both as part of her plea deal. The local district attorney and a federal prosecutor have made a formal request for you both to look after Macy and Angie Luttrell as guardians. This is the only way she will fully help us with all the files she kept on their clients. She cleverly kept things separate names, client, victim, blackmail file separate it will take us years connecting them all." Hotch steps back, ready for the two Prentiss women to explode
Hotch is not the least bit surprised at the pair's responses and language. He has kept one request from them as he does know JJ will hurt him once she has heard it. The two women calm down and look at Hotch with questioning looks
"What are you not telling us?" Emily asked
Hotch looks very apologetic as he looks at JJ " you must dress as requested by Angie for the first three months, but that is all, and she will release you from your doll contract. It will help her settle in with you both quicker if you agree to her conditions." He tells Emily and JJ
"Are you fucking kidding me! Absolutely NOT! I am going to help my wife heal. I am not going anywhere near that mad bitch again and yes, that is my FINAL ANSWER!" JJ told Hotch in no uncertain terms.
EJ
JJ had still not calmed down by the time she returned Emily to her hospital bed. She sat holding Emily's hand as she slept. She was exhausted by her time at the police station helping reach her. JJ was still mad at Hotch for even having the nerve to ask her. He should have told them to screw themselves. All JJ could worry about now was getting Emily through her rehabilitation and walking again.
"I can hear your mind overheating from here, sweetheart. Are you still pissed at Hotch? You know he had to ask us to help." Emily tiredly told her wife
" No, Emily, he didn't; he knew we would both blow up at him. That's why he saved the worst for last. He's seen how badly it affected me, and I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there, Emily. It's was totally out of order. I am so mad at him." JJ frowned
"How are you feeling? You've put everything into a box until you sorted me out, haven't you? So tell me, sweetheart, how do you feel about your leg?" JJ asked her wife
JJ climbed onto Emily's bed and snuggled into her right side, pulling her into a tight hug. Emily snuggled into JJ's neck, and the flood gates opened, and she started crying, her body shaking, releasing some of her emotions from the past few days.
"Let it all out, Emily, let it all out. I'm here for you now and always." JJ held onto Emily as she cried
Emily finally cried herself asleep in the comfort of JJ's arms. JJ rested her head down onto Emily and closed her eyes, drifting off to a troubled sleep.
'Jennifer, Emily, wake up. Jennifer, Emily'
JJ opened her eyes slowly to see Rossi gently shaking her shoulder. JJ slowly slipped out of bed while Emily stretched and raised her hospital bed with the control.
"Dave, Derek, Reid, Garcia, don't even dare ask us to reconsider our decision from yesterday. The answer is still HELL NO!." JJ answered, very annoyed, "I'm sorry, guys, but we both need our sleep. We have had a difficult few days."
The team thanked them both and left Emily and JJ to sleep.
EJ
Detective Cato stood alongside Hotch with the federal prosecutor talking to Andy Luttrell in her cell.
" Neither Emily nor Jennifer Prentiss is prepared to accept your request for them to be guardians of Angie or Macy Luttrell. Is there anyone else we can get to look after them? Legally Angie can look after herself, Andy. If you don't agree to help us, we will have Macy put in a group home, and Angie can have a psychological assessment, then we will decide what to do with her. How does that sound to you? We don't respond well to threats." The prosecutor warned her
"Really! How about a little taste of my worth? An old church out past Willis parish, gravestone Mathew Green Died March 6th 1988. We put Judge Gavin Pride into the casket. He was the judge on the Puppet Queen extortion case. The case was a miss-trial, and the defendant and 68 million dollars disappeared, never to be seen again. In case you think I'm making it up, the reason my records don't make sense is the key is in my eidetic memory. Comes in very handy, wouldn't you both say?" Andy Luttrell smirked at the prosecutor.
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Emily snuggled into JJ's side, resting on the hospital bed. "Jennifer, I keep dreaming about being in that coffin. I'm afraid as soon as she closed that lid, it felt like my heart was going to explode. I start hyperventilating and..." Emily stopped and started whimpering, burying her head into JJ's neck.
"Whatever it is, you can tell me, Emily!" JJ just pulled her wife in tighter to her side and waited for her to start talking again. JJ knew Emily would only start when she was ready; all she could do was support her until she decided she was ready
Emily started sobbing, "Jennifer, I wet myself. I was petrified and couldn't help myself. What made it worse was she told me your ashes were between my legs, so I was peeing on you. Emily sniffed
"Oh sweetheart, your worse nightmare was being buried alive. Even the dynamic Emily Prentiss has her breaking point. Yours is 5ft down buried alive. I don't think anyone could handle that, whatever they say." JJ smiled, kissing her on her temple. "Wetting yourself is nothing to be ashamed of. It is part of your panic attack. You lose control of your bladder, so what. But peeing on me..." JJ is interrupted by Emily giggling into her hair.
"You are a goofball. You know that, don't you?" Emily continued giggling
"You're having nightmares about it, aren't you?" JJ asked
"All the time, sometimes I have flashbacks during the day and start hyperventilating, thinking I'm still in my coffin," Emily answered
"I'm here now, and we will get through this together, lean on me, sweetie." JJ smiled at Emily, kissing her slowly on her lips, trying to pass on her loving support for her wife.
"The doctor said he will discharge me tomorrow to complete my rehab in Washington. That will help to be back in the condo." Smiles Emily
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The M.E turned to the gathered crowd around his autopsy table containing a set of skeletal remains.
"I can confirm the identity as Judge Gavin Pride. He died approximately 33 years ago. The cause of death was either the two 9mm bullets I dug out of the skull, or the knife wound dissecting the left and right ventricles of his heart. You will have to take your pick. Do you have any further questions?" The M.E asked the assembled group
The D.A looked across at the federal prosecutor and grimaced. " we need her co-operation. We can't exhume every grave around our state just In case they added a squatter. Hotchner, you need to persuade your agents to comply with her request. Or we are going to have to force their hand there is too much at state here." The D.A stated
The D.A looked across at CC. "Detective, just in case it pains me to do this. I'm issuing an arrest warrant for Jennifer Prentiss for assaulting a police officer. If she fails to agree to the terms of Luttrell's request, arrest her and leave the rest up to me." The D.A looked around at the group. "I'm sorry, the needs of the many outways her interests. I'm a bastard, but so be it. I'll make it that she follows the request to the last little thing, or she will be in prison without access to the phone or internet cut off from her wife. Needs must the judge agrees he wants the Luttrell's to pay for judge pride." CC just looks at him with contempt and shakes her head.
Hotch looks across at Morgan and Rossi, seeing utter contempt on their faces.
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Emily looks up as CC and the D.A walk into her hospital room.
"What do you want?" Emily asked the D.A
"I've come to ask you to reconsider your answer to our request on Andy Luttrell's requests on you becoming the guardians of Angie and Macy Luttrell." The D.A asked very politely
JJ walked out the bathroom door after listening to him through the door "what part of hell no, did you not understand?" JJ growled at him, taking Emily's hand
"Detective!" The D.A sighed
"I'm so sorry, Jennifer, I've got no choice. Jennifer Prentiss, you are under arrest for assaulting a police officer. Stand away from your wife and place your hands behind your back." CC told JJ in a calm voice. "Please don't resist, this is on the D.A..." CC got interrupted by the obnoxious D.A. "Enough Detective, get her in cuffs and back to the station."
JJ complies and allows CC to arrest her without any fuss. The whole BAU team are stood outside the hospital room as JJ is lead out.
EJ
JJ is sat in the Covington police stations interview room handcuffed to the tables eye bolt. Sitting across from the seriously pissed of FBI agent is the D.A and federal prosecutor and Hotch. JJ was shown a recording of her punching CC knocking her on her ass.
"We take an assault on any member of our police force seriously and have a zero-tolerance policy. All perpetrators are prosecuted as per my orders. You will be charged in a minute and go before judge Tait after. We pride ourselves on speedy justice for fellow law enforcement personnel." Smirked the D.A
The only thing saving the smug lawyer a life-threatening beating from a tremendously pissed JJ was her stainless steel bracelets securing her to the table. JJ was already imagining ripping his head off.
True to his word, JJ had just been charged with assaulting a police officer and was now being transported to the courthouse.
JJ sat in the courtroom next to her lawyer, whom Emily had arranged for her. He had tried postponing the case until a later date to allow him to prepare his defence properly. Surprisingly all were denied. JJ realised the only thing to do was go with the flow. Emily and herself had to agree to the stipulation of Andy Luttrell. Emily needed her.
The judge read the charge sheet out to the court
" Mrs Jennifer Prentiss, you are charged with assaulting a police officer in Covington police station, punching her and knocking her to the floor. How do you plead?" Asked the judge
JJ indicated to her lawyer she would answer. Standing up, she turned to look at Emily sat in her wheelchair and mouthed, 'I'm sorry, sweetheart'. She turns and faces the judge
"GUILTY, YOUR HONOUR," JJ replied to the judge
"The court accepts your early plea. Are you willing to accept sentencing today?"
"YES, your honour."
"You sentenced to six months detention with the federal investigators at the silent night mortuary complex. You will be released to the custody of your wife, who will reside with you in the silent night accommodation. You are also ordered to sign with your wife Plea agreement FED 89 and comply with all stipulations. After the completion of your six months, your record will be deleted. Mrs Prentiss, you will be electronically tagged before you leave this court. You will find Angie and Macy Luttrell at home when you arrive. Failure to comply with this court's judgment will result in a six-month stay at Woodbridge women's prison camp, where you will serve on her chain gang. Any clothing or possessions you need from Washington, please tell Agent Hotchner, and he will arrange for them to be transported here. Bailiff tags here and takes her to her new home." The judge finished sentencing
JJ sat down, shaking her head as she had her electronic tag fitted on her left leg. Emily rubbed her shoulder as she was allowed through to her wife
"Well, Em, is it Momma or Mammy?" Smirked JJ, "I think I'm going to dye your hair orange." JJ smiled
"Over my dead body, woman. This doesn't seem right, Jennifer, so wrong." Emily hugged JJ
"Our legal system at its most corrupt. I bet the D.A is going for higher public office. This would be a Hugh gold feather in his cap. At our expense." JJ sighed and walked towards CC for her ride to the funeral home
CC was about to speak when Emily raised her had to stop her
"Don't apologise. This is on that little idiot, not you. He would have done anything to force us to sign. I need to concentrate on Emily, not trying to avoid this [pointing to her tag]. Please don't be a stranger, Clare. I want to be friends if you don't mind associating with a convicted felon." Smirked JJ
"I would like that. I'll keep my hands of Emily so you won't have to assault me again." Laughed CC