Chapter 24: We have a hostage situation part 2
Max took some pictures with her phone, trying to not be obvious about it. She decided to sent them to Prentiss.
Before she sent them, she added some information like adding a Russian on the man who was leading the operation and then a Spanish flag to let them know he must speak that language.
She sent it and put her phone back in her pocket. She just prayed it help them a little.
Back with Spencer and Ashley they were looking every list of the Interpol looking for someone.
"Hey Reid" he looked at her "I know how you feel, once my ex boyfriend got kidnapped and my unit saved him bit them... well he started to get nervous because of my job even though I'm not a field agent so I ended it up"
Spencer smiled softly "yeah this job is tough, especially for our loved ones" Reid saw a picture of a man and something clicked "this guy looks familiar. Who is he?"
"Nikolai..." she made a dramatic pause and said "...Krasinski! He is the big brother of Ivan, both are from Saint Petersburg and their parents were members of the KGB and they are part of this terrorist organization since 2017 causing troubles around the world" she read excited.
"Excellent, we have the name of the man who spoke with Prentiss now we need the rest of his team. I will tell Emily and Rossi" he said "you keep looking Dawson" she nodded and he left.
He walked in the trailer "Emily, Dave..." he said and looked how they were focused on her phone "what's up?"
"Max" Emily looked at him "she sent us some pictures from inside" Spencer walked to them "apparently there are four members of this terrorist group. And she put a Russian flag on this man and a Spain flag on this other"
"I think that's mean this man is Russian and this other speaks Spanish" said Spencer looking at his supervisor's phone "Dawson and I found out who the leader of the team was. Nikolai Krasinski"
"Like the man we have in our office?" He nodded "we finally have some advantages today"
"Let me speak with him. Maybe with the new information I may get him to negotiate with me"
"Spencer..."
"Trust in me, Emily, you know I'm completely focused in the case. Yes my fiancee is in there but I'm a professional and I won't risk 132 life there because of one person"
"I know Spencer but first... we need something to negotiate. Ask Dawson to look all the people who work in this school" he nodded and walked out.
Meanwhile Max was helping the kids to remain calm singing softly some of there favorite songs.
"Sir I'm worry, the FBI is so calm outside, shouldn't we negotiate with them?"
"You never watched those Americans films? The moment we accept a deal, the will fool us and them... prison... dead penalty"
"And what are we gonna do?" Asked the guy at the other end of the room "wait till they decide to kill us? I bet you watched Captain Phillips. They kill the pirates on a ship... moving... we aren't better dudes" he sounded American. So they have a Russian, a Latin kid and an American. There's only one guy who has not spoken yet.
She informed this to Emily. Via WhatsApp, she put her phone back in her pocket, one of her coworkers noticed this and looked at her shocked and Max put a finger on her lips saying to her to stay quiet.
Her coworker nodded and looked as the men kept fighting about negotiate or not.
At the FBI camp outside the school Ashley found something important "Reid... come over" the young doctor walked to her "I found something important, Darcy Johnson is a teacher in that school, she has type 2 diabetes and if she does not have her insulin in time, she may die"
"That's perfect for our negotiations" said Spencer, then he walked to Emily "Emily, Dawson found there's a teacher with diabetes in there"
"And inside we have an American citizen" Spencer lifted his eyebrow "Max heard him, and she informed me"
"Ok. Emily I think we have something to negotiate with them"
"Yeah but we don't have anything they want" said Emily looking at Spencer.
"We have Ivan, maybe we can use him" Prentiss made an unsure face "Maybe food? They had been there like an hour and thirty minutes"
"Let's see if this work" he looked at her and nodded "I know you want it to work somehow but use that logical brain we all love and want to work at it's full speed"
He sighed "I just... can't lose Max, I wouldn't forget myself if that happens again" he looked at her "let me talk to him, I will block my emotions"
After some minutes of silence Emily nodded "ok Spence. But if I notice any indication of anger or frustration, I will give the order to hang out the call. Is that clear?" He nodded "ok good".
They walked out the trailer and Prentiss ordered to call the kidnappers again and she handed the phone to Spencer.
He decided to speak in Russian, he worked on his pronunciation and now was perfectly fluent in the language. He called him by his name and the man sounded surprised.
Then Spencer explained there was a woman in there with diabetes and she will soon need her medication also he asked for any person who may be hurt. They know a teacher had some bruises thanks to Max but he never mentioned they already knew.
The man said yes and Spencer started to negotiate. He said they will send food and drinks for the kids, teachers and theirselves if they released the two teachers that needed medical treatment.
"Ok Doctor Reid, we have a deal but only if you come here, unarmed" said him with his thick accent.
Emily looked at Spencer "Deal... I will go in" then they hung out.
"Spence... why did you do that? I won't send you there unarmed, with four unsub alone"
"It's the only way we can get the critical hostage out of there" he said looking at her "I know you think I didn't use my logical brain but I did and that's the only way Emily"
"I will thrust in your decisions Spencer but if some go the wrong way, I will have the judgment of the NSA and the politicians"
"I understand" he nodded "and I won't let it happens" he turned to Ashley "did you find something else?"
"Yes the same day Nikolai Krasinski and his brother arrived, a flight from Colombia arrived, a man called Carlos Ramirez got in the country. He was accused to work with the FARC- EP as a drug dealer. Never used a gun and the authorities of Colombia forgave him for saying the authorities everything he knew about the narco traffic. That's why he walked in our country so easily" she said "and the Krasinski brothers and Mr. Ramirez had several chats with Andrew Davis, an American citizen who was anti capitalism and all the antis you can imagine"
"They met here to cause a riot in the nation and also kill an opponent in the inclusion of Crimea in the Russian territory" said Emily "killing two birds with one stone"
"Yeah but we need one more name, because according to Max picture, there's one more person in there" added Rossi.
"I know but I'm not sure how we will find him. Because they only test between them" said Ashley looking at her computer.
After that they made the call to ordered the food and water for the negotiation also ordered some ambulance to take care of the two patients.
"What make you think everyone is safe in there?" Asked a man from the DCPD.
"Normally if there's not a murder, it's mean the men inside don't want to kill and we will have some good negotiations" explained Spencer "now what's bothering me is that they haven't said their demands"
"Like?"
"Like 'we can 10 billion dollars without marks' or 'we want an airplane' they haven't asked for anything"
"What would that means?"
"They don't have a backup plan and this was improvised, which turn this into a trap or it's just a fail"
"Let's hope it's the first one"
"Yeah..." that makes Spencer's brain works. He was happy his brain was a lot better from his nearly death experience and could think faster.
"I can hear you thinking kid... what's up?"
"This hostage situation isn't normal. They haven't kill someone or even shot, like when Will got in the bank and got shot"
"Don't remember that Spence" said JJ "I still have nightmares"
"They haven't set their demands or ask to make public statements about their cause" Spencer opens the website of this group "see this? They have an agenda and I can't see that in this situation, they are a political group that caused troubles around the world and now they haven't made it public?"
"You are right but what's their plan?" Said Rossi.
"I don't know..." said Spencer. His brain was working as fast as usual.
The team tried to make connections when the food arrived. And Spencer call Nikolai to let him know he will approach them with some people of his team to help him with the food. He was a little reluctant at first but then accepted.
Inside Nikolai said "ok who will be a good human shield for me?" He looked around "um... what about pretty art teacher?" He points Max "come here you will be my protection if they want to shot me"
Max stood up shaking and walked towards him then the man walked to the main door with another guy from his group.
When they reached the door she could see Spencer with JJ and a woman she did not know, maybe the new girl bringing each woman some boxes of pizza while he carried the bottles of water.
She could tell he already saw her, she could read his eyes but his poker face remained still to not give information to her kidnapper.
"Well... well... well... Dr Reid bring two beautiful women with him" he laughed checking out both of them. Max felt disgusted "pretty art teacher, before he gets in, check if he doesn't carry a gun" Max did it shaking.
"He doesn't have any gun" Max said using her poker face too, the same that fouled Cat Adams.
"Good" then Nikolai said "since you most know my conrad's name... Ramirez check him just in case miss pretty art teacher didn't want to say the truth" the Latin boy did it.
"Nothing Nikolai"
"Ok let's go so you check those women you wanted" Spencer nodded to JJ and Ashley and they handed a box to Max and the other to Ramirez then they walked inside the gym.
They put the food on the floor and Spencer checked the two women and with his eyes tried to find a way out or a way to hit them with hurting the children or the teachers.
"I will take them with me. This woman needs her medication and this other needs medical attention"
"Yeah she was very rebellious and Anderson got... violent" Spencer had to close his fist tight and count to ten so he did not punch him.
"Let's go" he looked at Max from the corner of his eyes and she looked back then he lifted the two women and take them out of the gym.
On his way to the door one of them said "so you are Max's boyfriend right?" He nodded "nice to meet you, we were asking for her to bring you here but she said 'no yet' and now a very unpleasant situation brought you here"
He laughed softly "yeah I think this is my way to meet her family and friends" he looked at them "maybe some other day I will come over" they reached the door and there were his coworkers waiting.
JJ helped him with one of them and Ashley helped with the other.
He explained what he saw to them and Ashley said she will call for some drones. Maybe they could attack by surprise.
They took the women to the ambulance to get help them went back to work. Spencer told the rest of the team what he saw.
"Why did he pick Max as his human shield?" Said Spencer getting a cup of coffee.
"Spence... relax they don't know your connection with her, so I doubt they did it on purpose. Maybe because she is pretty and they thought she might distract you. That man is misogynist and I bet he hates women so he got comfortable when you volunteered to be the negotiator"
"Sounds logical" she nodded and held his hand softly.
"We will catch them"
"Thank you JJ" she smiled "I really appreciate this"
"You know I will be there for you Spence" he smiled and squeezed her hand "take a little break here, clear your mind and you can continue" he nodded.
"Ok, mom" he teased her and she laughed softly and hit him gently.
Then she left him in the trailer, a DCPD brought him some pizza and water for lunch and then he walked out to meet the team.
"Do we have something new?"
"No, the forth man is still a mystery for us"
"And he haven't talk cause Max hasn't heard him to informe us" he nodded as Emily talked.
"There's something that keeps bugging me... they haven't give us their demands" he looked at them "that's always something we can expect from this kind of situations" they all nodded. Then Spencer started to drop facts about other hostages situations where they all asked from very important requests to absurd requests.
"You are right Spencer, but we are in an dead end" said Emily "our witness can't say anything because those men covered their faces so we can identify them. But then we found a conversation between them. This is so weird"
That's when something clicked in Spencer's head "where is Mr. Dyatlov?"
"He's with Agent Flanagan. Why?"
"I want to ask him something"
"Come with me" Emily could hear his brain working so she took him with the NSA agent "Agent Flanagan. This is Dr. Spencer Reid and he wants to talk with Mr. Dyatlov"
"Sure, we have a private room here" he lead them in and they sat down.
"Ok Mr. Dyatlov I would like to know, what are you going to say in court?"
"Well I'm going to talk about corruption in Ukraine and I also provide information about the Crimea case. The government is making a deal with Russia to give them money in exchange for their silence"
"Ok and why are you attacking your government with this kind of scandal? The world supports Ukraine, right?"
"Yes but our president is corrupt"
"Ok I understand" then Spencer says something in Ukrainian and the man looked confused.
Spencer read his expression and smiles a little and talked in Russian and Mr. Dyatlov got pale.
"You see this man isn't from Ukraine. He faked his identity. He is from Russia. The thing is, the Ukrainians won't be agree about Russia took part of their territory. Something they fought for after their independence from the Soviet Union, not even if they are opponents of the government"
"I...I..." the man was speechless.
"You put the life of thousands of kids, 32 between teachers and administrator members... for what?"
"I... I was looking to get into the witnesses protection system. I wanted the United States to think I was an important target to Russia. I hired this guys to create a distraction and if the thing went wrong then 'fake kidnap' my son. They sent a manifesto attacking your president and I would end up being a victim of the Russian government"
"You used this kids to have protection?" He nodded and agent Flanagan signed "I'm sorry agent Prentiss and Dr. Reid... I will put this man under arrest"
"But first we need him to call the kidnappers and tell them to surrender" said Emily. Dyatlov nodded and got out his phone and contacted them. He spoke in Russian, Emily and Spencer noticed he was giving the order and then the agent cuffed Dyatlov and left.
Spencer and Emily sighed "good job Spence" she patted his back.
"Thank you Emily" he smiled.
They walked out of the NSA tent and they could see how everyone walked out of the school the SWAT team got the hostage takers.
Spencer walked to one of the ambulances and saw Max helping some kids. He smiled and walked towards her.
"Hey" he said softly touching her back gently. She turned and hugged him he hugged her back "are you ok?"
She nodded "y...yes, I'm still a little shocked but good" she rubbed his cheek with some tears in her eyes.
He rubbed her cheeks "good, do you want to leave?" She nodded and hugged him tightly with her head on his chest "ok let's go"
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That's all for now, I was a little stuck with this one but I read a lot about negotiations, also I had the plan to make Dyatlov the real unsub. So I had to look on internet if the Russian and the Ukrainian languages were different from each others.
And I found out they are. Like Spanish and Portuguese or even English and German. They came from the same language family but they added different words or even meanings of the same word. It was quite interesting but I'm rambling, sorry.
Thank you for reading. I think the next chapter should be their wedding, don't you agree?
This little plot came to me when I was in the kitchen and I hope I did it well.
We will read in the next one.