*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
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(Chapter Eight)
It was JJ's turn to pick Maura up but she had gotten a texted from Jane saying she would. They had found out that Raphy was just running to catch up with Jaclyn who was being cornered by a preacher who had seen JJ and her kissing. He was trying to save the man from getting hurt by the assassin, who he could tell wanted to kill him. When
JJ got to the park, she saw Jane talking to Jaclyn dressed as Emily. She ran up to the two in a panic. "Where's Maura?"
"You have her don't you?" Jane retorted back sharply.
"No! I got your text that you were picking her up."
"WHAT TEXT?" Jane yelled as they all started running to their cars when three SUV's pulled up and Emily got out of the middle one. They could see that Maura was in the back seat with her. They blew out a breath of relief as their stomach cringed at what was going to come out of the angry woman's mouth standing before them. She took a look at Jaclyn, "Where is Raphy? Get him here now!"
"Em..." JJ started but shut up when the woman just held her hand with a look of "Don't." They all knew the crap was hitting the fan.
Raphy made it there in seconds from where ever he had been hiding. She looked at the two, "I would ask what is going on here but I already know! Your little charade almost got Maura kidnapped this morning!" She started but Jaclyn interrupted her.
"If you would just let us kill the son of a bitch..."
"Shut up Jaclyn!" Raphy yelled giving her a look, "Just...let it be." He said to her then turned to Emily, "I'm sorry Emily we just wanted it to be over so you can have a great wedding and life."
"I know you do... but you also know I have to be the one to face this...right?"
"Yes." He said sadly.
"We'll I don't understand it. A dead son of a bitch is dead son of a bitch and can't hurt anyone." Jaclyn said angrily looking at Emily, "But I am sorry that Maura was put at risk. I was the only one who was suppose to be in any danger."
Emily took in a deep breath of air calming her anger down, "Raphy you and the three guards in that SUV..." she said pointing at the back one, "...will escort Maura to her court date today and will stay with her until she returns to mother's this evening. Is that clear?"
"Very..." He said as he got in the SUV and they drove off.
"Jaclyn you will return to my mother's and wait for me there." She said in a firm but controlled voice. The woman looked at her and shook her head yes and left but they could tell she was still angry.
"Em... I'm so sorry." JJ started to say but Emily stepped up to her and hugged her.
"I have been watching and knew that he would make a stupid move soon."
"You knew what Jaclyn and Raphy were doing all along." Jane said more than asked. "We didn't know until the other day. How did you know?"
"I know them."
"What happened?" JJ asked wanting to know everything.
"Both of you meet me at mother's in an hour and I will tell you. We need to talk about security from now until the wedding." She said as she got into the first SUV and left.
"That woman..." Jane started.
"That woman is under so much stress Jane." JJ said giving her a "Don't start" look.
"I know you love her but she isn't alone she has all of us to help. Why can't she see that?"
"Jane... this is personal for her. It's very deep and she hasn't even told Maura anything about it either. But I will tell you this, who or whatever it is better watch out because she will handle it that I am sure of and it will not be pretty either." JJ said as she walked to her car, "Do you want to come over to my house and change? Something tells me we shouldn't be late to the ambassador's house."
"Yeah... I'll meet you there." She said as she went to her cruiser.
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Jane and JJ walked into the ambassador's house an hour later and saw Pen walking towards them with her hands over her ears. They noticed the sound of drums in the distance. "What is that?" JJ asked looking at her friend.
"Emily came home and the slut was here and told her something that piss Emily totally off and ten minuets later she and the house have been in the Congo." She started saying but stopped talking when she saw Elizabeth approaching.
"Hello dears." She said in a elevated voice.
"You look nice. Where are you off too?" Pen said admiring the woman's dress.
"I am going to the seamstress for final proof of my dress for the wedding then lunch with Dave."
"He is a lucky man getting to have such a beautiful woman to accompany him for lunch."
"Thank you dear.' She said to Pen then turned to JJ, "Jennifer dear..."
"Yes ma'am." She had to elevate her voice too because the drums got louder.
"Who does my daughter want to kill?" The woman asked a stunned JJ.
"Ma'am?"
"The last time I heard those drums or ones like them is when Emily wanted to kill me for pulling her out of boarding school. I think I possibly got a pass because I was her mother." They all smiled at the comment. "I haven't done anything lately to make her that angry so who ever it is you might want to warn them because from what I understand she doesn't miss when she needs them dead." The woman said giving JJ a look of concern. "Please do something because the last time I lost half of the staff because of those damn drums. Talk to her before the same happens again." She said as she hugged the woman.
"Yes ma'am I will give it my best effort."
"Good... I'll see you all for dinner tonight then." She said and left.
"Dinner... is there a dinner tonight that I've forgotten about?" Jane asked trying to remember.
"No... but every time she see's one of us it's an invitation." Pen said clarifying the issue.
"She's been around my mother to long." She said as they laughed until the drums got louder again.
"JJ! Go!" Pen shouted as she pointed towards the new workout room showing JJ where Emily was. She took in a deep breath and gave them a look of "here goes nothing and wish me luck" all in one.
She opened the door and saw Emily stripped down to her bra and panties beating the hell out of a punching bag with her bare fists. She saw a bamboo fighting stick in two pieces on the floor. Her blood curled when she heard the woman let out a scream of pure frustration and pain as she hit the bag over and over. Emily didn't hear or see JJ come in just as the women hadn't heard the screams because the drums drowned every noise out.
JJ understood this pain and the need to beat something or to hit an unseen enemy. She slipped over to the side so she could get out of her clothes like Emily. Slowly after undressing she made her way over to Emily. Jane slipped into the room so she could help if needed but was totally taken back at the picture of rage before her. She finally cleared her head and made her way to a dark corner so she could just watch and see if JJ needed any help. She had been mad before but sweating on a basketball court looked like fun compared to this torture chamber.
She watched as JJ called to a sweating woman who was beating the punching bag so hard that it was turning red from the blood of her bare knuckles busting with the force of the blows. "Em... it Jennifer!" JJ yelled but it didn't stop anything. She yelled it again then again as she slowly approached the woman. Finally close enough she caught the woman by the waist with her arms and placed her cheek into the woman's shoulder's as Emily continued to beat the bag. They stayed that way for several moments until the drums stopped. The cd had come to an end.
Emily fell to her knees taking JJ with her to the floor with a scream of pure rage. "That's it baby let it out... I got you." JJ said as she held her. More screams ensued until nothing was left but sobs. "I got you Em... I got you... let it go..." When the punching stopped Jane could see all the blood on Emily. She didn't know if the woman was really hurt or if it was from wiping sweat off her face and body. She hoped it was from the later.
"Em... honey talk to me." JJ softly said trying to focus the woman back into the present. "I know it hurts but it's me. It's your blackbird...talk to me."
"Jennifer..." was whispered out finally.
"I'm here Em. Tell me."
"I can't." Was sounded on a pant between a sob.
"Em..." She said as she came and faced the woman. She took the bloody hands in hers and looked at them, then looked up at the woman, "I understand this Em." Emily's head fell down in shame. JJ lifted the woman's chin up, "Askari..."
Emily felt on the floor until she found one piece of the bamboo stick that was by her leg and rose up and with the venom of a warrior swung around and hit the bag with the stick yelling over and over until she couldn't hit any more. JJ took the stick from her bloody hands and engulfed the woman in her arms and held her tight. Emily couldn't stand anymore so JJ took them both to the floor again.
"e lohai Adonai oz rei ni" (my God Lord help me)" Emily said looking up. JJ took heart at the saying knowing that the woman was breaking and would start talking soon she hoped.
"What does God need to help you with Em?"
"I need help not to kill him." Was said like a little child scolded.
"Who do you want to kill?" She asked trying to keep the woman talking. But the room grew silent again. "Em..."
"I have prayed and prayed for years Jennifer!"
"What have you prayed honey?" She asked wiping tears from Emily's eyes.
"I prayed for God to help me but now he is here trying to take Maura again."
"Whose here sweetie?" She asked while putting loose strands of hair back behind the woman's ears. "Whose trying to take Maura?"
"I call him Hades but Maura calls him Ian Faulkner. He also goes by Ian Walters, Ian Smith or Ian whatever. But his real name is John Ivan Smith."
Jane smiled, "That was him in the park the other day... I knew it." She thought as she listened harder needing to know more.
"Maura met him in Ethiopia when she went to do relief work. He said he was a doctor from Australia but the only true part was he was born and raised in Australia. He was a drug smuggler but he posed as a relief doctor trying to get medical supplies for refuge camps. It was his cover for his drug smuggling operation.
See...I found out that Maura didn't marry Garret and then about her trip to Ethiopia from a friend so I went there hoping to talk with her. But when I got there I found out about Ian and ran him through my office checking him out. They informed me that I had to arrest him. When I did he had Maura kidnapped by his gang. He knew who she was to me because she had talked about me.
He would taunt me by telling me she would call out for me in French in her dreams and during sex at times." She stopped and bent back with her head almost touching the floor and yelled/ growled with the pain of the memory. JJ caught her when she came back up in her arms.
"I got you...I got you." She said as they waited a moment so Emily could regroup and finish.
"He told me he was going to do it anyway..."
"Do what?" JJ asked when Emily lost her voice in the flash back.
"He said he had planned on kidnapping her anyway and extorting money from her parents. He said he didn't know what a valuable asset the bitch was until I showed up. I had to make a deal for her life... if I held him his gang was going to sale her into the sex trade. He also knew I couldn't trade her because of Interpol. So he gave me a few names so it was like he was my informant. His other condition was that I was never to have contact with her again. I was a young agent and I couldn't let him sale Maura so I made the deal. He went back and acted like he saved her life and I left Ethiopia."
"That's when you put Z-man on her isn't it?" JJ asked as the pieces started falling into the puzzle.
"Yes... She told him that Ian was the love of her life. How can I protect her when she is the loose link? How can I tell her that he used her and have her feel like a victim or worse hate me for telling her? But how can I not? He can come up to her anytime and she would hug him or go with him. I can't kill him either because she loves him and it would be murder... God I want him dead!" She yelled."
"Let Raphy or Jaclyn do it then!" JJ said being at her max seeing the pain in the woman she loved.
"I can't... it still would be murder."
"Wait... you think it will be murder if they killed him because you want him dead?" She asked in disbelief.
"Yes... but even if I didn't I can't because she loves him and I loose in every scenario." She said falling into JJ's arms.
"Shhh we will figure this out honey... I got you." JJ said realizing Emily couldn't see past the rage and shame of everything. She started kissing Emily's ear then cheek.
"Stop Jennifer..."
"No..." She said as she continued.
"I can't with so much darkness in my heart."
"Em... you have taken me from stone frozen numb to warm feeling love so many times... let me take you from dark to light."
"Jennifer..."
"Don't make me leave you in the dark Em..." She said as she started kissing down the woman's neck, "Let me fill you with the light of my love for you." She said as she place her hand down inside Emily's panties.
"Jennifer..." was sounded on a caught breath as JJ's fingers started a loving rhythm around her core.
"I got you... your blackbird has you." She said kissing the woman's cheek. "Let it go and let my love fill your heart with light."
Emily's breath was erratic as the coils in her were starting to tighten. JJ could tell it wasn't going to take too much more so she entered the woman causing enough friction to set them spinning... freeing Emily into a world of warmth and light for a few moments. She fell forward onto JJ's shoulder, "I love you Jennifer."
"I love you too." She said as she held the woman tightly.
"Ouch..."
"Em... I need to clean your hands and wrap them." She said to the woman who tried to push up with her hands off of the floor. JJ realized that Emily was truly with her now because she was feeling the pain of the beating her hands had taken.
Emily looked down at her hands and noticed the bleeding. "Maura is going to kill me. What am I going to say to her?"
"We will think of something but we need to take a shower before someone calls an ambulance on us." JJ said looking at all the blood now on the both of them.
"There are robes over there. We can get our clothes later." Emily said pointing to two robes hanging on a hook.
"Good idea..." She said walking over to get them when she stepped on a remote that started the drums playing again. She quickly switched it off as they both started laughing. "Where did you get that cd?"
"Had it made by the Queen's drum core."
"Your mother said you played something similar when she pulled you out of boarding school."
"I did but this has a better quality of sound than the high school drum core did."
"I'll say... she said "she lost half the staff when you played it before."
"That's about right... I played it everyday for hours until I started shooting."
"I'm surprised you aren't deaf." JJ said looking at the woman shaking her head.
"What?" Emily teased like she couldn't hear.
"Come on we have a shower waiting on us." JJ said helping Emily up and into her robe.
"Tu m'as manque" (I've missed you) Emily said hugging the woman.
"Tu m'as manque' aussi ( I missed you too.)" JJ said kissing Emily on the lips before they left out the door.
Jane stayed planted in the corner until they had clearly gone and were heading up the stairs. She was on her way out when she saw Pen. "Thank God JJ worked her magic and the drums have stopped." The woman said as she approached Jane.
"Yeah they headed up stairs a few moments ago." She said as she looked up the stair case. "Pen how can I get in contact with the slut?"
"Well you don't have to go far because she is heading this way." Pen said looking down the hall. "Julie dearest... you remember Jane?" Pen said in a sweet voice.
"Not really... I would remember a pretty face like that. Pity though you look too much like Emily's dead wife so I can't have you."
"She's straight..." Pen started in until Jane interrupted her.
"Julie let's go to the rose garden and have a nice chat." Jane said putting her arm around the woman's waist. Pen gave her a "what are you up to" look that Jane ignored as she ushered the woman out of the room. She needed more information and Julie had it.
Okay at least one more chapter before the wedding.