"Don't worry about me."
JJ swore under her breath as their suspect rounded a corner, momentarily disappearing from sight. She kept up the sprinting pace she'd started in chasing him, hearing Morgan and Emily not too far behind her. Rounding the same corner, she came out onto a busy street and JJ pushed herself harder, desperate not to lose him but he must have gotten far enough ahead, it was like chasing a ghost. "I got him!" she yelled, finally spotting him half a block in front of her as he ducked into an alley.
Barely slowing down as she pulled her gun, she had just stepped into the mouth of the alley when she heard a loud bang, followed by a terrible pain in her chest that knocked her on her back, hitting her head on the ground. Her vision went blurry, but she could see the shape of the unsub who had shot her scrambling over the chain link fence at the end of the alley just as Emily skidded to a stop next to her, shouting her name.
"Go!" JJ shouted, trying to catch her breath again. Morgan sped past them, hopping the fence as well. "I've got a vest on!" the bullet had lodged firmly in the Kevlar under her shirt, saving her life but not from the swollen bruise she knew would be there when she took it off later. Her vision cleared a little and she met Emily's worried brown eyes. "Don't worry about me." She insisted, letting Emily help her into a sitting position.
Emily shook her head and called for an ambulance before saying, "Morgan can get him."