Chapter 7
Emily leaned against will support herself, trying to think how she could save Jennifer's life. The boxes he wanted the team had to look through them. The longer she stalled, she couldn't lose her soulmate, but what could she do?
"Well, where are we going?" Will asked, annoyed. "She doesn't have all afternoon, you know."
Suddenly her only idea was the rotten floor, and she hoped she got back in time.
"Through here on the left," Emily told him, sounding scared. She was petrified about losing her soul mate.
Will walked around the corner when the floor gave way under his left foot. His foot twisted as it fell through the rotten floor up to his knee. Emily fell to the floor, banging her stump. She managed to stand upright using the wall. She still felt slightly breathless from Will trying to strangle her. She sucked in a deep breath and started hopping towards JJ, and sheer determination was driving her on to save her wife.
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JJ could feel her legs starting to tremble as she fought to keep them held up. Her shoulders ached and felt like they were burning.
'Emily, please forgive me! I love you.'
JJ started losing her fight for life slowly. Her legs began to drop, tightening the zip tie around her neck. The lower they descended, the tighter it got, slowly suffocating her. She rolled onto her side, hoping for some relief. It stopped her legs from falling, but she was slowly suffocating as her legs and shoulders were tired. She was stalling the inevitable as there were no boxes for Emily to show him the guys had them.
'Bye, my love, see you soon, JJ thought and just relaxed her legs, fully tightening the zip tie around her neck
JJ was severely struggling to breathe now, and suddenly she felt her legs supported and the zip ties cut.
"Mama Jenny, hold still while I cut this around your neck." JJ looked up at Angie or Nicole
"Angie? Nicole?" JJ asked in a croak
"It's Nicole Mama Jenny. You saved me. Where's Mama Emmy?" Nicole asked with concern in her voice.
"Mama Emmy took him to the old office bit with the rotten floor. Help me up!" JJ replied
Macy ran across, giving JJ a bottle of water, hugging her legs. JJ emptied the water slowly as her throat felt raw.
"Macy, stay and keep CC safe, please. If that man comes back, you run and hide do you understand me?" JJ ordered her charge
Macy nodded at JJ "mama Jenny CC's moaning."
"CC, can you hear me?" JJ asked. CC pulled her down so she could whisper.
JJ smiled, lifting her dress on her left leg to find the thigh holster containing her service weapon.
"Macy, make sure your Aunty CC doesn't move. You are such a big brave girl. Remember what I just told you about that man, promise me!" JJ had entered full Mama bear mode, and one William LaMontagne Jr was the single target of her anger.
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Emily was furious with herself as she struggled back to save her wife's life. Emily was gasping as she exerted herself, hopping back to the hall to save Jennifer. Emily was so concerned about her wife she didn't hear the approach Will. The furious D.A hobbled on his twisted ankle and kicked Emily's leg from under her causing her to fall, striking her head on the wall cutting her forehead open.
"You're going to pay for that BITCH!" Will screamed into Emily's face as he straddled her hips. He started punching her head.
"GET OFF MY MAMA, EMMY" screamed Nicole was rapping Emily's crutch around the unsuspecting D.A's head.
Will groaned on the floor, holding his head. He turned around to grab Nicole as JJ pistol-whipped him knocking him out.
"Good work, Sweetheart. I'm proud of you. You saved both of us." JJ sniffed and hugged her kissing her on the forehead.
" can I get in on the group hug?" Emily asked, swaying sat on the floor
Nicole and JJ knelt and hugged the unsteady pink princess on the floor.
Morgan, Hotch and Reid burst through the door, weapons raised. CC had got Macy to call for help and medical assistance.
"Good job, princesses. Medical aid is on its way. You both look terrible." Smiles Morgan
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Emily and JJ laid in their hospital beds. They both had bruised throats. Emily needed stitches in her head wound and had a minor concussion. JJ had a bruised kidney and had to wait until she had no blood in her urine. CC suffered the worst she had a couple of skull fractures easily repaired, but her optic nerve had been damaged in her right eye, severely affecting the vision in her eye.
Garcia walked into the hospital room holding Macy's and Angie's hands. The two girls walked over and climbed onto Emily's and JJ's beds, snuggling into each woman.
"Please don't scare us like that. You are all we have now. Please don't leave us!" Angie pleaded
"Yeah, never do that again, MAMA's", Macy cried
"Shh, Mama Emmy has a bad head. Use your inside voices. We're going nowhere; you're stuck with us now." Smirked JJ
"Where is Aunty CC?" Angie asked
"I don't know, why don't you go with Penny and find out. I'm sure she could do with a hug about now." JJ smiled. Garcia and the two girls walked out in search of CC.
"I wonder what's in those files he was willing to kill the five of us over?" Asked Emily
"The guys are questioning him now. Hopefully, he will tell them." JJ answered.
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Disgraced, D.A William LeMontagne Jr sat opposite Rossi and Morgan in the interrogation room, being watched through the one-way mirror by Hotch and Reid.
"What is so important to protect in these files? Are you willing to murder two FBI agents and a Covington Detective over? Ballsy for a mere pencil pusher, you must fear your boss?" Morgan asked
"I'm my boss, Agents, and you can't intimidate me," Will answered
"This isn't your courtroom, and we are not defendants Mr LeMontagne Jr. We have seen the file about your father using the Luttrell's services to cover up to two murders, one being the grandfather of detective Cato. I'm betting Andy Luttrell has you in her eidetic memory blackmail files. What happened to your boyfriends do something wrong?" Morgan teased him
"NO! I'm a heterosexual man!" Yelled Will slamming his hands on the tabletop
"I think you struck a nerve, Agent Morgan. He's just a monkey and not the organ grinder. Let us know what we need to know to take them down with you. The attempted murder of two FBI agents is 15-30 years each in federal prison, and the attempted murder of Detective Cato is a further 15-30 years running consequently. That's a minimum of 45 years. Will if you cooperate, I will keep you out of a federal prison. Think about it." Rossi told him, hoping he was stupid enough to stay quiet.
Morgan and Rossi had only been out of the room ten minutes when an officer told them he wanted to speak to them. Waking back into the interrogation room, they found a broken man looking up at them. The bravado had gone, and a petrified man sat in his place.
Will told them he had been approached by a group of high powered men in Washington about funding his run for District Attorney. All they had wanted in return was protection for the Luttrell's business from law enforcement meddling. They would facilitate his run for congress. He just had to have safeguards in place. He had read Judge Paul Taits file and Detectives Thomas Kline file on the murder of three drug dealers as vigilant justice, so He blackmailed his son.
Hotch, Rossi and Morgan listened for three hours to Will. He told them the VIP files were hidden alongside the crematorium in a heat resistant chamber and box. The Luttrell's were blackmailing some senior members of government and high profile business executives, and even some Hollywood types. This had been very lucrative over the years. Hidden bank accounts held millions of dollars.
"I'm in the wrong business." Sighed Morgan.
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Emily and CC sat uncomfortably in their wheelchairs with JJ pushing her wife waited in the entrance of the Covington courthouse for Hotch. Hotch arrived with the arrest warrants for Judge Paul Tait and Detective Jim Kline. Earlier the appeals court had squashed JJ's sentence and criminal record. She was now a fully reinstated FBI agent.
"JUDGE TAIT AND DETECTIVE KLINE! I have arrest warrants for you both, and please stand." Morgan commanded
Rossi and Hotch arrested Jim Kline with his partner looking on in disgust, only wishing she could be the one snapping the cuffs on.
"All these years, Jim, you disgust me." CC snarled at her old partner
"JUDGE TAIT STAND UP PLACE YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.!" Commanded an extremely pissed off JJ.
JJ approached the judge and secured his hands behind his back. She leaned in and whispered into his ear, "you are a disgrace to your profession. The convicts will love you and the detective." JJ laughed, ratcheting his cuffs a little tighter.
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After the detective and judge had been processed and locked up, everyone returned to the funeral home. Emily and JJ cuddled on the settee with Angie, and CC had Macy on her lap asleep.
JJ looked across at Emily and just nodded to her
"CC, I know you have a lot to think about after your assault. Jennifer and I would like you to come back to D.C with the girls and us. Your eyesight prevents you from working on the streets as a detective, and you have no family here. Let us help you recuperate. We are buying a house as we need the extra rooms for the girls so four beds instead of three. What do you say?" Emily asked CC
Macy cuddled into CC side and smiled. "Aunty C, please, we can help you just like with Mama Emmy, Please!" Begged Macy
CC looked down at Macy and then across to JJ, Emily and Angie blinking hard, trying to stop her tears from falling. She wiped a stray tear away as it tricked down her cheek.
She nodded. "Y...Yes, I would like that as long as you don't mind?" CC replied emotionally