*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
The team had gathered into the conference room shortly after Emily had gone in to sit down. She had her feet in one chair and her arm up holding her head. "Emily..." Hotch said getting the woman's attention, "Do you need to go back to the hotel?"
"No...I'll be okay. That smell outside just got to me. Didn't any of you smell it?" She asked and looked around as they all shook their heads no. "Well maybe it's just me I guess." She said dismissing it.
"Okay let's go over what we know." He said looking at her to start since she had the information from the first victim.
"We thought that Nuha was the first victim but that is not the case. She told me there was an older girl in the van with her that helped with her escape. From what she said we need to look for any girls between the ages of eleven to thirteen who are missing. I hate adding this to the mix but we also need to look at any Jane Does for that time as well both in Philadelphia and New Jersey. It seems after being taken that the unsub takes them to New Jersey and from what she told me he was panicking on being caught and needed to dispose of them."
"Amna said that the family was traveling on vacation and stopped for gas somewhere on I-95." JJ said adding to Emily's information.
"Yeah...Nuha remembered that police officer talking to her father and she said he was loud."
"Amna remembered that the officer was from Philadelphia. She was animate about that fact even."
"We need to alert the New Jersey police force to be looking out for our new victim." Rossi said after processing the information.
"I took care of that when Emily first called me." Hotch announced then looked up at the brunette and became concerned, "Was there anything else?" He asked sensing that Emily was troubled about something.
"No...that was pretty much it."
"Now hold on a minuet." Morgan said looking at Emily, "There's more or you wouldn't have called you god friend who then called Raphy. Now spill it woman...none of that spy stuff because we do not have time for it."
"Morgan..." JJ said in a warning tone.
"No JJ he's right. There is something I'm holding back and I have called in a friend to watch the Nejem's. I believe who ever our unsub is, either works for the police department or has access to information they have. I believe the Nejem's are in trouble since the information of their return to talk with us is public knowledge in this precinct. I do not want any one from here watching them since I can not trust them in this matter.
Pen said the virus that cleared the files we need were very sophisticated and had encryptions like JJ and my phones. This tells me that we are dealing with more than just a sick son of a bitch but a network of evil bastards!" She said as she grabbed her head like a pain shot through it.
"Emily!" JJ yelled moving towards the woman who had bent over like she was in pain.
"I'm okay love..."
"Move..." Spence said bringing the sack of supplies Maura had ordered for Emily, "I'm going to take her blood pressure." He said as he tried to slip the cuff on her arm.
"I'm okay." She said fighting him putting the cuff on.
"Let the man take your blood pressure or I'm taking you to the hospital." JJ said with her hands on her hip and Emily looking at her like it's not going to happen. "Do not make me call Maura." JJ said raising and eyebrow.
"e lohai Adonai oz rei ni" (my God Lord help me) Emily said looking up to the ceiling then closed her eyes extending her arm. JJ really became worried at the the familiar phase that she hadn't heard in years flowing off of the woman's lips. She knew that phrase was spoken only when Emily was at a point of exhaustion and felt helpless or cornered.
"Well it's elevated but not in a dangerous zone. At least not yet that is." He said looking at JJ.
"Emily... You and JJ go back to the hotel. We will call you if Raphy or Garcia find anything."
"I'm fine Hotch."
"That wasn't a request... I will not be responsible for explaining your health to the Ambassador or your wife."
Emily looked at her phone for the first time since this morning. She had been using her other one and the ringer was off on both phones so she wouldn't be interrupted interviewing the girl. She touched the screen and saw that she had a text from Maura.
"Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.* Come home Pretty Girl you know how I just love a mystery."
Her heart melted and so did her resolve...okay but call when you have something." She said extending her hands for JJ and Reid to help her get up from the chair.
JJ pulled into the parking garage at the hotel and got out to open Emily's door but never made it. She was stuck in the neck from behind with a needle and collapsed onto the concrete. Emily was wrestling with a man trying to take her from the SUV. She stopped struggling when the man who stuck JJ opened the drivers door and drugged her too and passed out moments later. The two men put her in a van and JJ in the driver's seat of the SUV they had drove to the hotel in and left her as they drove off with Emily.
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Jane and Maura were sitting in the court room the next morning. Maura was getting antsy since she hadn't heard physically from Emily, JJ or anyone since the answer to her last text. She was trying to be good and not interfere with her wife on a case but she was going to call during lunch break if she hadn't heard from them by then. She was zoning out in that thought when a note came to the judge who looked straight at her after reading. He waited till after the defense finished his cross of Jane to say anything, "Dr. Isles and Detective Rizzoli please approach the bench." They looked at each other wondering what was happening. "You two have been ordered to the air strip where a jet is waiting to fly you to Philadelphia."
"Objection...Your honor... the defense objects to not having these women in case of more questions!" The lawyer of the defendant yelled.
"Sir you have crossed both the doctor and the detective extensively..."
"Yes your honor but..."
"Over ruled."
"Your honor!"
"I said over ruled. Unless you want to explain to the governor, the heads of the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security why their request was denied?"
The whole court looked up at the judge then at the two of them stunned. "No your honor. It sounds like it is important. They are free to go on your orders." The young man said dejectedly.
"Well thank you for allowing me that privilege in my own court room." He said in a very sarcastic voice, "Dr. Isles here is the message I was given and I hope everything turns out okay. You are free to go and handle your affairs."
She took the note and read it and yelled, "No!" Then took out running with Jane on her heels and the whole court room looking and wondering what was going on.
"Maur... MAUR... MAUR..." Jane yelled getting louder with each time she called to the woman. She finally caught her by the arm just outside the courthouse doors. "What's going on?"
"Emily has been kidnapped! We got to get to that jet!"
"Okay...okay." She said pulling the frantic woman in and hugged her.
"Mam..." A man in a black suit approached them."
Jane looked at him, "What do you want?"
"I'm here to take you and the doctor to the jet." He said as he showed his FBI credentials.
"We are going to need to get our bags." She said because Maura couldn't talk for crying.
"Mam...The Ambassador has taken care of everything and if you need anything else she said to just call her. She will be arriving in Philadelphia tonight as well. She said to tell you that Raphy and Jaclyn are there already and are expecting your arrival." He said as they both started walking with him towards the black SUV to head to the air strip.
Maura was in shock and could only focus on the last text message she received from Emily the night before.
"I have left my beautiful rose without sunshine far to long in the past. That will "NEVER" happen again love. JJ and I are heading to the hotel so I can get some rest. I just want to sleep some but I would stay awake forever if it meant I could see you right now."
She touched the phone like she was trying to reach through and hold them wanting to pull the woman through the phone to her chest. Jane saw it and patted the woman on the arm, "She will be alright...remember she is Wonder Woman." She said trying to comfort the scared woman.
Maura looked up at Jane and Sister Kate's words came out, "A warrior fights until they can see there family again. Emily is a warrior and I have to trust that."
Jane noticed after she said those words Maura's face changed. It was like a resolve came over her. Maura had what she called the thousand yard stare for the lack of a better word. She had seen that resolve before but never on Maura. It was amazing and unnerving at the same time.
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