Chapter 23: We have a hostage situation part 1

Max decided to visit Spencer the next morning to show him the design of their invitations for the wedding.

She knocked the door of his apartment, he walked to the door with his tie undoes and opened the door "hey handsome" she walked in and kissed him.

"Hey Max, how did you sleep?" he asked tying his tie.

"Good but missing you" she pouted and helped him with the tie "when did you arrive home?"

"We arrived to DC at 11:30 and then the new girl, our technical analysis invited us to eat something so I returned home at almost 1 am"

"Is she nice?" He nodded "good and I'm happy you all are getting along with this new person" he smiled.

"Yeah, we still miss Garcia but Ashley Dawson is pretty cool too" Max smiled.

"Good, I came here to show you the designs I made with my friend" she unlocked her phone and showed him the invitation's design. It was a white card with golden designs on it, super over the top for his taste "so what do you think?" She asked excited as he used his fingers to zoomed in the picture, she did not need a profiling course to know he was not pleased with it "you don't like it, do you?"

"I...it's not that... I think they look cool..."

"But...?"

"But... don't you think it's too much?" He looked at her "why golden? And shiny?"

"Actually I don't think so" she said crossing her arms "Spencer, getting married just happens once in a life time" she continued and added "and no... Rossi and his 3 wives don't count"

"Max... I know it's something important to you and you want it to be super especial but I'm not a fan of big events and as I told you my personal life is boring, unlike my professional one"

"That's why I want it to put something extravagant in your life"

When he was about to talk his phone rang. He thanked whoever was up there for saving him "hello?"

"Hey Spencer? It's Ashley, we need you here. There's a case here in DC"

"Ok, Ashley, I will be there soon. See you" then he hung up.

"Work?" He nodded "you are the luckiest man in the world..."

"What about we talk about this tonight? The case will be here in DC so I will be able to come home after that" he held her hand "you can order your favorite food and we can even have wine"

She sighed "you are lucky you are adorable. Go get your bag and we can leave. Today we will have the visit of the president at the school. My kids made some draws of him" he laughed softly as he got his jacket and messenger bag.

"I would love to see them" he smiled and held her hand and then they walked out of the apartment and walked outside.

"I will get some to show you tonight" they reached her car "well see you tonight" she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him "I love you and I understand that you don't like it but we have to find something that we both like" he nodded.

"We can keep talking about this tonight" she nodded and left to her car "I love you too" he said looking as she got in her car, she waved and drove away.

Then he left to the office. When he arrived they were already at the conference room, waiting for him "ok we are all here. Thanks for coming" said Ashley "ok guys I called you because the NSA sent us a terrorism alert, they thing someone is after President Trump"

"What made them think it?" Asked Rossi.

"Because they found this..." Dawson showed then a box with a bomb in it "this bomb was found in an school close to the White House. President Trump was heading there to an event he will have there" Spencer felt a cold feeling while she explained this "they don't know why they are attacking the president so they called us. In an hour the NSA and even the CIA will come here"

"And... d...do we know the school they may be targeting?" Asked Spencer.

"We only know the schools the president was going to visit but we don't know if they were already in one of them" Spencer gulped and JJ noticed that.

"Spence... are you ok?"

"Max... Max said they will have the president at her school today..." the whole team covered their mouths.

"Who is Max?" Asked Ashley confused.

"She's Spencer's fiancee, she's an art teacher"

"Oh my..." said her then looked at Prentiss.

"Ok guys, we have to move quickly. Ashley call each school on the list. Tell them they need to evaluate because we think there's a gas leak" Ashley looked uncomfortable with the lie but she knew she had to lie so they did not panic "Spencer you can't call her" he was nearly in tears "you know if there's a bomb, a cellphone call could activate it" he nodded and rubbed his face desperate "JJ and Tara please go with these schools" she handed them a piece of paper "you can go with a SWAT team" they nodded "Matt and Luke will go with the rest also with a SWAT team" the two men nodded "Dave, Spence and I will stay here working on a profile"

All of them leave to do what they were asked to.

"Emily I'm not sure if my brain will work at all in this situation"

"Spencer I thrust in you and so does she" he had tears.

"Maeve also did and she is..."

"Nothing will happen to Max, ok?" She held his hands "we will find those men" he nodded and hugged her "everything is going to be fine" she rubbed his back.

Meanwhile in Max school. The power went down and the kids screamed "hey kids... Calm down, I will ask principal Coleman to call our janitor and fix this" she said and to her students, then she walked to the door and she could heard gunshots "Oh my..." she whispered and looked at the kids panicked "calm down and get behind my desk, now!" All the kids did it and she ran to hide with them.

She had to remain calm for her students. She was praying for Spencer to find her before these man arrived.

Back at the FBI. Dawson walked to Prentiss office as quick as possible. Spencer followed her with his eyes "hey kid... focus on the profile"

"I can't... the only thing in my mind is Maeve and Diane, on that rooftop"

"I understand but we still have a chance to find this men" said Rossi "concentrate so we can find her soon" Spencer nodded and returned to the geographical profile.

In Prentiss office

"Boss... bad news"

"What's up Dawson?"

"Well... every school had been alerted and they called the parents and they are empty now... the problem is... one of the schools isn't answering"

"Max's workplace right" she nodded "Gosh... well that help us because we know where they are. Ashley I will need you in the field. We will go to that school and close the perimeter, put a tent and try to make contact with them"

She nodded "ok, should I tell Reid and Rossi?"

"No I will talk with them"

"Ok I will get ready my equipment"

Emily sighed and called her team to let them know what they found there and they also informed what they found in the field. JJ and Tara captured a man hiding in the locker rooms and they are heading to their office.

Matt and Luke went to Max's school and set the perimeter.

Back to the school Max listened some footsteps outside the classroom.

"Number three... look inside" said a man outside the door.

"Ok boss" said the other a little nervous.

"Don't be nervous bro... you decided to do this with us, now you have to follow my orders" the man had a thick accent, she thought he sounded Russian or something like that the other sounded like a latino man.

"O...ok" he walked in and the children jumped and Max has to put a finger on her lips to keep them quiet but she was not lucky enough to stop a little girl to gasped and that called the men attention.

"Look like we found more kids here" said the Russian man "oh and look their pretty teacher protecting them" the man smirked "come on let's take a walk"

Back at the BAU. Ashley handed Emily a paper.

"This is Ivan Krasinski, Russian citizen, he got in the country a week ago. He belongs to a group called Up... I can't pronounce this"

"Upolnomochennyye kommunisty" Emily said in Russian "meaning Empowered Communist. When I was in the Interpol this group caused lots of troubles in some countries. Like Bolivia, Venezuela, Chile and Turkey. They are trying to show that the capitalism is bad so they caused troubles and blame the opposition of those countries"

"Oh... I understand" she looked at her boss "so they are trying to do the same against our government"

"Yes and I think it's because the restriction President Trump put on Huawei and China" Ashley nodded "I will interrogate him to confirm this"

Emily walked in and interrogated him. The man's English was not good so she communicated with him in Russian. The man was surprised at first but then he confirmed her theory.

This was a plan to damage their president image, but everything got wrong when the new members made a mistake and the American government found out.

When she asked him to write the names of his team he asked for a lawyer.

Emily sighed and walked out "he knows something" said Spencer who walked in while she was interrogating "I can tell by his body language"

"I know but we can't interrogate him again without a bilingual lawyer"

"I know..." he undid his tie "what can we do? The clock is ticking and we are in a dead end"

"Don't worry I will work some digital magic to find them" Ashley commented "I will work hard to find them" the two agents nodded.

"Go on Dawson" the TA walked outside.

Meanwhile in the school Max and her students were taken to the gym where there were other teachers, some of them with bruises and cuts on her eyebrows.

Happily the kids were unharmed, they were scared but fine. Max looked at them. They were using mask so she only could see their eyes.

"Ok we will be for a while so be quiet and maybe we will let you go" said the Russian man. Then one of the other approached him and whispered something "ugh... Iva... number ten is an idiot!" Screamed him "if he opened his big mouth I will kill him!"

So the FBI found one of their members, so maybe they will found them there.

Emily with Spencer, David and Ashley drove to the school with JJ and Tara.

They already set the perimeter and got their equipment ready for any communication.

"Agent Prentiss, hello I'm Andrew Flanagan, I work with the NSI and we found Mr. Stanley Dyatlov, he is a protective witness against some cases of corruption in Ukraine government and his son studied here"

"Oh... that's why they attacked this school" she said looking at him "we thought this was a direct attack to the president but after we found out that, they came here to attack this school but how they found you?"

"We think one of their members, a hacker called Felix Rodriguez found a way to look into our data bases and found Mr. Dyatlov" said agent Flanagan "we can't find him but he most be here in DC"

"Ok I will ask my TA to find this man meanwhile we have a hostage situation in there" she looked a them "so we need your collaboration in this investigation" both men nodded.

Meanwhile the men inside got a call from outside, the leader of the team answer the call "who's there?"

"Hello this is Agent Emily Prentiss from the BAU, a FBI department"

"Hello Agent Prentiss. You sounds familiar did we meet before?" The man asked.

"Maybe I was part of the Interpol and I faced your team"

"Oh yeah!... I remember you now... you killed one of my men"

"And you killed three of mine"

He laughed "oh yeah... I enjoyed that" the man said with satisfaction "I guess you called to negotiate, right?"

"Yes, those kids don't deserve this situation. You made a point and you found the son of a traitor, now leave those kids go"

"No, they are my protection, while I have them, your weak government can't touch me"

"But you have your target and we can't hurt you with him either"

"You may be right... but I like more having a bunch of kids instead of one. Bye Emily" he hung up.

"Damn it..." said Prentiss "his voice sounded familiar but can't remember his face" she rubbed her forehead "Ashley find men that are part of the most wanted list of the Interpol or any men from that group from 2012 to 2016 when I was chief of the London Office of the Interpol" she nodded "Matt, Luke look for any possible way to get in and surprised them" both men nodded "Tara, I need you to interrogate Mr. Dyatlov to know who could be looking for him" she nodded then she looked at Spencer.

"Emily please give me something to do... or I will got crazy"

"Spence, help Ashley looking for connections" he nodded and walked to the the computer to sit to the new member "Dave come with me"

He does it and they walked in a trailer set for them "poor kid..." said Rossi "I don't know what we are going to do"

"Me neither, our only lead is the name of their organization and that one of their members made a mistake"

"And their leader doesn't want to negotiate with us"

"I hate this situation and it's worst when there's involved a friend" suddenly Emily got a message, when she checked it, that was a photo from the inside of the school, she smirked when she saw who sent it "Reid picked a tough woman... look at this" she showed him the picture.

"Well when your couple works for the FBI you need to be tough to support him or her" said Rossi.

To be continued...

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I will leave it here for now, the next chapter will be the conclusion of this case. What will happen? Throw some theories.