Chapter 11 unhappy relatives
"Ma'am, I can assure you, you are safe. Your hairdryer and straightening tongues are not possessed and are not trying to kill you. You need to check the temperature first and not burn yourself. Here is my card ring any time if you're frightened." JJ hands over Emily's card with a smirk
Emily is smirking, thanking god she had won the Rock, Paper, Scissors they had before entering her house. The woman looks at the card and then looks up at JJ, puzzled. "Emily, my partner, specialised in the occult in England before she became an American. She would be happy to discuss your poltergeist fears." JJ told her with a solemn face.
With the agitated woman placated, the two officers returned to their RMP, "that's how it's going to be. The occult? You, woman, are so, so in trouble. Revenge is best served chilled." Emily tells JJ with an evil smile plastered on her face.
"Why are you going to set your possessed hairbrush on me?" smirked JJ
Emily raised her eyebrows at JJ's taunt, starting to think how she would get her payback.
'35-Edward investigate reports of unusual noises in building basement 3546 Williams avenue.'
"35-Edward on the route."
"I swear to god I'm going to kill Morgan if it's another wacko, so much for breaking us back in slowly." JJ just smiled at Emily, "come on, the woman, let's go and find out."
They pulled up outside derelict house windows, all shattered front door hanging by a single hinge.
"This doesn't feel right, partner; something is off. How the hell did they hear an unusual sound around here?" Emily tells JJ she nods and puts her right hand over her weapon as she exits the car.
They both enter the house through the broken front door and hear what sounds like a baby crying coming from the basement. JJ indicates for Emily to clear the right side of the house. Both Emily and JJ clear the ground and first floor, finding no one. They slowly descend the staircase down to the basement, careful to check each step on the way down. They stand on the tiled floor of the pitch-black basement using their torches.
Emily whispered to JJ, "I don't like this, Jen."
They started making their way towards the sound of the crying baby. Emily's spider-sense was warning her something was wrong. They reached the sound to find an old tape recorder taped to a doll. JJ came across and turned the tape recorder off. The basement went silent, Emily's spidey
Sense sent into overdrive. She sensed someone behind her. She ducked just in Tim for the baseball bat to miss her head. She dropped to one knee and rammed three straightened fingers into her assailant's kidneys. Dropping him to the floor, she rammed her palm into his nose before she turned him over onto his front so she could handcuff him.
JJ had been grabbed from behind, trapping her arms down her sides, making sure she couldn't reach her weapon. The giant of a man had lifted her feet off the floor, and the assailant was pleased with himself subduing the woman. He had soon loosened his hold on JJ after she had crashed the back of her head into his nose, breaking his nose. His hands instantly went to his nose. JJ took this opportunity to slam her right shin into his groin, dropping him to the floor immediately. He was flipped onto his stomach and handcuffed.
"BITCH!, She said you both would be easy money." The man said nasally. "Who said we would be easy?" JJ asked
"I never met her. We communicated by text messages. She texts us your photos and this address telling us about the tape recorder and doll. She said you would be here around this time." He handed over his unlocked cell phone to Emily and JJ
Emily flicked through the phone to find the text messages and photos. Showing JJ the pictures "Bastard!. It's going to haunt us forever. Can't they get it into their heads? It was all FUCKING FAKE!" JJ explodes, punching some nearby shelving.
"Jen, calm down. Let's go and talk with Morgan and Strauss. The call that got us here was from an official dispatcher, meaning someone within the NYPD is responsible." Emily tells JJ as she walks out of the basement
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Emily and JJ leaned on the side of their RMP, talking to Strauss and Morgan about the last call, showing them the cell phone. The pair had spoken to the two prisoners and heard their storey.
"I've talked with the duty chief, and you will not respond to your radios you have been taken out of service. As neither of you will go home, you will respond to only myself or Sargent Morgan. We will use our cell phones to dispatch you to incidents. You will not go anywhere that we haven't sent you. DO YOU BOTH UNDERSTAND!" Lt Strauss ordered
"Yes, Ma'am!" Both Emily and JJ responded
"We have investigated and found the radio call came from our dispatchers. We're pulling CCTV footage and checking who was on duty to see if they had anything to do with Marcel and Simeon. You should know Simeon died a month ago at Rikers. He was beaten to death with a dumbbell in the exercise yard. We didn't tell you at the time because you had your demons to sort out." Morgan informed Emily and JJ.
Emily's cell phone rings "Hello!"
'Officer Prentiss? My hairdryer is acting up again, and I'm sure an evil spirit possesses it. Can you help me?" Mrs Archer asked desperately
"We will be with you shortly," Emily tells her
Emily fills Strauss and Morgan in on their call this morning with the lady who thought her hair tongues were trying to kill her because they were possessed.
"Fine, go help the crazy lady, be careful. I'm not going to tell your wife's your hurt because they scare the hell out of me." Laughed Morgan
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Emily pulled the RMP over to the side of the road and turned to look at JJ " you are so paying for this, Jen, Occult specialist", Emily warned JJ
JJ smiled and opened her car door, and walked down the path to the front door. Emily followed, muttering to herself under her breath. JJ knocked on the door 'it's open, come on in'
JJ pushed the door open and heard Mrs Archer shout she was in the front room.
Entering the front room, Emily stopped suddenly, seeing a woman standing over Mrs Archer kneeling on the floor with an older woman holding a knife to her throat.
"Come in, Officer Prentiss and Jareau, or she dies. Hands-on your heads and on your knees, or she dies." The stranger ordered
Emily and JJ looked at each other, and their hand started to move when a shotgun was racked behind them. Emily and JJ complied, knowing they didn't have a chance if either of them went for their weapons.
"Officer Prentiss, handcuff your hands behind your back. Any deviation from my order will result in you wearing Officer Jareau's brains. Do you understand me?" The older woman asked
Emily nodded as she saw a younger woman dressed as a paramedic push the barrel of her shotgun against JJ's head. Emily complied and removed her handcuffs and secured them around her wrists behind her back.
"You now, Officer Jareau. Any messing about or hero complex and Officer Prentiss loses those pretty brains." Am I clear?
JJ nods and secures her hands behind her back. After JJ had finished, she has roughly pushed to the floor, and her elbows were masking tapped together, and her fingers tapped into a boxing glove, making them useless. The same was done to Emily. The two women pull the two officers up onto their knees, so they are looking at them.
"My brother is dead because of you pair BITCHES! I've been planning my revenge on you since you had them arrested. Since he died, I'm going to kill you very slowly now, my brother wasn't an angel, but he didn't deserve to be beaten to death. Angela, bring the ambulance around the front and bring the body bags in." She snarled at the old woman " yes, mother." Her daughter replied
Angela returned ten minutes later with the body bags. She unzipped each one and laid them down next to Emily and JJ. They are both injected in the neck with a sedative for their onward journey. While they wait for the sedative to take effect, they remove the girl's boots and masking tape their feet and ankles together. Apply wide zip ties to their ankles, knees, wrists, and elbows, making it almost impossible for the two officers to escape. They wrap a wide bandage around their head, covering the eyes securing in with masking tape.
"The sedative will have taken full effect now mother, roll them into the bag now, and we will get them into the ambulance," Angela tells her mother
The two sedated bodies of Emily and JJ are slid into separate body bags and lifted onto the ambulance trolley. JJ's body bag is placed onto Emily's bag and secured to the trolley, and taken to the ambulance.
Angela pulls the door closed.
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The ambulance pulled into the derelict factory, and the trolley was removed from the back with Emily and JJ strapped on top of each other, still in their body bags. The trolley was wheeled through the factory into a room with a large metal tank lid on the floor next to the tank's opening. Without any warning, after removing the straps, they upended the stretcher spilling both body bags onto the floor. Both women smirked when they heard grunts coming from both body bags.
"Let's have them out, sweetheart." The older woman asked her daughter
Angela opens the body bags and pulls out the bound and blindfolded bodies of Emily and JJ. She pulls the bodies over to the entrance of the tank.
"I. Sooo wants to slice you open like all those other cops, but the mother wants your death to be slow. I hope you enjoy it." Smiled Angela stroking Emily and JJ's cheeks
Angela slides a dental gag into each mouth and ratchets it open, and she crams gauze swabs into their mouths once she is happy they are both packed enough. She removes the dental gag and raps masking tape tightly around their mouths.
Emily and JJ can't see a thing or utter a single sound, and they can hear everything now as the sedative has now worn off. JJ's legs are bet backwards and tapped to her thighs, making it impossible to move them, to make doubly sure both legs are bound together with the straps used on the stretcher. Once they have finished securing Emily's legs, the older woman kneels between and starts talking
"Angela wanted to butcher you both for what happened to her uncle, and I decided you should die slowly. Unable to see or talk to each other, you can hear everything that happens. Even your abilities to get yourselves out of trouble won't work. This tank is airtight. It will take you days to die. You deserve a more painful death. I will have to settle for mental anguish." The older woman tells the girls. She drags Emily to the tank entrance and unceremoniously drops her into the tank. JJ is dragged across and dropped on top of Emily.
"Let's get the lid fastened, and then it's time to disappear. It won't be long before they find my relationship with Simeon, and then they will know about you, sweetheart." She stroked Angela's cheek, wiping away the tear that was falling.
Emily and JJ listened to the noises of the tank lid being fitted and the muffled noises of the nuts being fastened by the impact wrench. JJ lays listing to the twist fastening the bolts to the lid, her only escape. She can feel Emily but can't draw any calm or strength from her best friend by seeing her unflappable face or touching her. 'This old bitch certainly knows us', she thinks to herself.
JJ just start smiling to her self knowing Elizabeth and Tracey will move mountains to find them.
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Morgan and Hotch pull up outside Mrs Archer's house. They tried to contact Emily and JJ for the past three hours without any success. They see their RMP sitting outside the home, locked. Hotch knocked on the door and got no reply. Morgan looked through the front window. The curtains were drawn, but he found a gap. He pulled his weapon out at the sight of a dead body on the floor. Hotch looked at Morgan and pulled his gun out, and on his signal kicked the door. The door flew open, and the two officers entered, carefully clearing the house before entering the front room. Neither officer doubted that she was dead as her organs were spread about the room.
"Look, Sarg." Hotch points to two utility belts, radios and service weapons lying on the floor.
"What have they got themselves into now? Damn, you tell Strauss I will let Tracey and Elizabeth know." Morgan sighed, "they going to kill me."
As more officers arrive, they start a door to door to find witnesses to what had happened. They had found a witness who had seen an ambulance outside the house, telling them about the body bags. Penelope Garcia and her CSU team were ripping the place apart for clues. The house across the street had CCTV cameras, so pictures of the two women pushing the stretcher holding the body bags. They had asked the private ambulance company for the GPS coordinates, only disconnected.
Lt Strauss arrived on the scene with Elizabeth and Tracey. The newly arrived group walked over to Morgan and Hotch.
" her name is Millicent Clop, and she is the younger sister of Simeon. She goes by her married name Curran. She works at central dispatch, so she had no problem getting them where she wanted. Her daughter is now missing. We have searched both properties and found everything you ever wanted to know about you two, down to your underwear size. An APB has been issued." Strauss informed everyone.
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Angela and her mother had split up to pick up certain items around the city they would need to start over again in the Deep South. Angela wasn't paying attention fully to her driving. She hadn't seen the red light and rear-ended the car in front. She got out to exchange her insurance details, but she started to feel a slight panic beginning to set in. This increased tenfold when she heard the siren of a police car from behind that was pulling over to investigate the accident.
"What happened, Ma'am?" The officer asked. The officer could see the woman was panicking, but more than she should be just for a fender bender. He asked her for her insurance and driving license. She handed them over, her hands visibly shaking
"Are you ok, Ma'am? You look shaken. Do you need an ambulance?" The officer asked
"I'm just a little..."
"Miss Angela Clop?" The officer's partner shouted from the RMP, interrupting their conversation
"Eh, No, my name is..."
"You are under arrest Angela Clop." He tells the shocked woman and handcuffs her
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Angela Clop sat handcuffed to the table in the interrogation room of the 35 precincts. Hotch walked into the interrogation room with Morgan. He placed three folders onto the table and sat down, not saying a word. Angela looked frightened but was trying to hide it. Hotch picked up a file and started to read. "This is all a mistake..." Hotch raises a finger and Continues to read. After ten minutes, he decided she had stewed long enough
"Angela, where are officers Prentiss and Jareau and your mother? It is in your best interest to tell us, and we can tell the D.A you helped us it will reduce your sentence. He opens a file and shows her four pictures of her wheeling the stretcher with the body bags onto the ambulance. Your fingerprints are all over Mrs Archer's house, putting you at the scene of the kidnapping. It's in your best interest to tell us before we arrest your mother." Hotch tells her. Hotch hears a knock on the two-way mirror.
Hotch and Morgan enter the observation room to find Penelope Garcia bouncing as she had just won the lottery.
"I've found them, well what derelict factory they are in. The paint dust under her fingernails and hair had a high lead level. Long story short only factory within 70 miles radius is the old Indian factory with the appropriate lead levels. I'm coming with you, and you might need my expertise to help find them." Garcia excitedly told everyone.
Elizabeth and Tracey envelopes Garcia in a big hug " thank you, Penelope."
Strauss thanked Garcia and told Morgan to go. She would arrange help. "I'll see if I can get their exact position from her, and I'll radio through any pertinent information," Strauss informed the group
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The convoy of police vehicles pulled up outside the derelict factory. Everyone surrounded Morgan's hood on his RMP, where Garcia stood with her iPad with blueprints on.
"The dust had rust as well as the paint dust, and the paint was used on bolts that secured water tanks. There are twelve in this factory. Check the bolts to see if they look like they have been used. Time is important as the tanks are airtight." Garcia tells the group
After Morgan has allocated search areas, they all split up, and Morgan takes Garcia and Elizabeth as they both refuse to be left behind. They are arriving at their destination—Tracey and Elizabeth run-up to the tank lid, noticing the recent scratch marks on the bolt heads. The next twenty minutes seem to take forever as they watch Morgan and Hotch unfasten the tank lid nuts. The last nut is thrown down to the floor. The tank lid is removed and noisily dropped to the floor. Morgan leans down into the tank shining his torch into the gloom. His heart sinks as he sees the two lifeless bodies of Emily and JJ.
"Therein this one." He yells, "call ESU." He screamed, and he started ascending the tanks ladder
Morgan reaches the bottom of the tank, and he can still stand upright as the water tank is huge. He knelt between his two officers and gently placed a finger on their necks, praying to find some form of life. He is ecstatic to find a steady pulse beating against the pads of his fingers.
"They're both alive. HOTCH, come down, give me a hand. ELIZABETH, TRACEY, come on down, I think they are going to need to see you both." Morgan yelled
Elizabeth and Tracey didn't need any more encouragement. They flung themselves down the tank ladder and knelt beside their wife, removing the tape from the blindfold and gag.
"Oh, Emily sweetheart, I've got you. Let's get this tape off you." Tracey told her wife
Tracey was concentrating so much on removing the tape she hadn't seen her wife's hands were free. Tracey felt hands rubbing her cheeks gently. Emily caressed the cheek knowing from the feel it was her wife.
JJ and Emily were now completely free from their bindings and sat leaning against their wife's in the tank. They were waiting for the paramedics to check them out before they moved. At their wife's insistence, with medical clearance, Emily and JJ were helped out with the use of a sling, much to the annoyance of the two rescued women.
"You two are being chained to a desk in future as neither of you can keep yourself out of trouble. DON'T EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!" Shouted Elizabeth
"Sorry," JJ told her, pulling Elizabeth in for a long slow, loving kiss.
What had only been five hours had seemed like days to Emily and JJ. That was irrelevant now being in the arms of their wife's.
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Emily and JJ sat in Rossi's office with Strauss. "We haven't found her yet, and she must have gone to ground somewhere. Don't worry, your girls have an Officer each on a protective detail and you and your wife's will ha a protective detail, no arguments." Strauss tell them both
"Thank you, Ma'am, no arguments from us. Lots of time to think while you tied up and left to die in a water tank." Emily tells Strauss
"We've decided that all 6 of us are going to England to visit Emily and Tracey's family." JJ tells everyone, "as long as we can get the time off?"
"Granted." Smiles Rossi
"Don't worry. I will protect them in England. My mother will help us." Emily tells Rossi
Chapter 11 England trip