*Okay as always I own nothing of Criminal Minds or Rizzoli & Isles just enjoying using the characters.
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JJ walked into Emily's and Jane's room at six am and smiled at the sight of Emily's head on the woman's chest and her hand on Jane's boob. She pulled her phone up and took a picture and promptly sent it to Maura with the words:
Emily found the language to make peace... Funny... it was love all along."
typed underneath the photo.
She got an instant reply:
It has always been the best language she speaks. Thank you for sending this to me.
"No problem... I've got your back... always."
"Thank you Jennifer... those two are a handful... I need all the back up I can get."
"Talking to the choir on that one. Call you later."
"Be safe."
"We will."
She started to go and wake up the two when Pen walked in. "Did they kill each other?" She asked JJ because it was so quiet. Then she saw what had stopped JJ in the door way. "Awww... too cute for pumpkin pie." She squealed out... which woke both the women up.
"Don't look now but Peppy Panda is up and in our presence." Emily growled out to Jane.
"Yeah... got that one." Jane rasped out as she looked down and giggled at Emily's hand on her right breast. She looked back at the woman like "really."
Emily looked down and squeezed it just for the fun and asked, "What... you knew that's how I'm wired, " and laughed causing the two standing women to join in laughing thankful that the two brunettes weren't going to kill each other.
"Yeah... I did. I'm just happy your not throwing my out this time." She said joining the women laughing.
"Okay... you two love birds we have less than an hour to be down stairs. Emily stood and stretched making her way towards JJ, "Emily I'm going to express your breast again this morning so you are not in pain." Emily turned towards Jane and kissed her cheek, "Thank you for the peaceful sleep." and pulled her shirt off throwing it at JJ, "sadist!" Then turned to walk into the bathroom leaving JJ to put the shirt on the bed and smile as she followed the topless woman into the bathroom.
"I think I'll just use your bathroom Pen." Jane said shaking her head at her friends.
"Wise woman." Pen said giggling.
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They met the rest of the team in the lobby by the continual breakfast bar. "Listen up..." Hotch said trying to get everyone's attention from grabbing muffins and coffee. "Emily you and your team go on into West Memphis. It will save time and just maybe we will get a lead. The rest of us will head into MPD and work on trying to unearth anything on this side of the Mississippi." He said giving everyone there assignments for the morning. "Unless anything comes of your plan in West Memphis we will all meet back in Memphis at two pm." They all shook their heads in understandment. "Good luck... let's catch this man today before he kills another little girl." They all nodded and headed to the proper SUV.
"Jane why don't you drive since you know the way." Emily suggested as she got in the back seat with JJ and started getting the woman wired up. "I'm going to be in the office honey. I'll guide you from time to time even though I know you have handled children interviews before but this one will be different."
"Em... what's got you so sure on that?" Pen asked the question that her and Jane wanted the answer too. JJ already knew the answer since she asked it in the shower the night before.
"The little girl had a look on her face that I understand the feeling of and that's all I'm going to say." JJ took Emily's had and brought it up to her lips and kissed it. "Now... Pen you will need all your babies set up. I do not want to run that girl's real name until we are sure she is not in witness protection. We do not need that red tape breathing down our throats. But I want to be ready to run multiple searches if we need to quickly."
"Aye... aye captain." She said saluting the woman.
"Jane... you are with me in the office."
"Got it." She said as they pulled into the school. Jane and Emily both took a moment to scan the area for the blue truck but it wasn't there. They proceeded towards the school hoping that Emily was right and that they could find the girls alive today. Emily's phone rang before they made it in the school.
"Prentiss" The women gathered around her hoping it was good news.
"Thanks Hotch." She said and hung up the phone. She looked at the three, "The girl in the water was Kim White. We need a lead and quickly... hopefully Brandy and Jessica are still alive." They all swallowed hard and nodded as they went into the school.
They went to Ms. Hemmer's office and explained what they were needing and she understood calling Amanda's teacher to the office so the women could get her in the loop of what was going on. Mrs. Greenfield was told that JJ was a grief counselor and would be pulling individual students up to a table to color pictures and talk so she could gauge their emotional responses about Jessica's disappearance to help them. The woman understood and they went back to her class.
JJ was introduced to the class and Ms. Greenfield explained that JJ would call certain one's up to the table in the front for a few moments of coloring. JJ picked a very active young man to be the first one she interviewed knowing it would be quick and they could make sure the wire was working properly before she called Amanda up. It only took ten minutes with the young boy name Troy and he was finished.
"Amanda..." JJ called to her but got no response. She decided to go to the little girls desk and talk. The little girl looked up at her with those hollow eyes that Emily had seen. JJ totally understood why Emily felt the way she did. "Amanda..." she said softly.
"Don't touch her just extend your hand out and let her take yours." Emily said into her wig.
She did exactly what Em had said and extended her hand out, "Can we color for a few moments?" The little girl placed her hand in JJ's and walked with her to the table. She showed her three pictures that she could choose from and JJ would color another one.
"That is going to be such a lovely flower Amanda." She said and got no response. "Can I borrow the yellow crayon?" She asked pointing with her finger in front of the girls face and the girl smiled and handed it to her. "Emily is right... the girl doesn't respond to her name." She thought to herself. She lent down and cupped her hand over her mouth like she was telling the girl a secret. "Amanda... I have a secret. If I tell you will you keep it?" She whispered in the girl's ear. The little blue eyed girl looked up wide eyed and shook her head yes.
JJ looked around showing that she was making sure now one could hear her and cupped her hand around the girls ear again. "I have two first names. JJ is what my co-workers call me but at home my name is Jennifer. It's hard to remember to answer to JJ sometimes." She said as the girl looked up and had some light come into her eyes. Like she finally found someone who understood her dilemma.
JJ started coloring again waiting for the girl to make the next move which came quickly as she felt her shirt being tugged on. She turned and looked at the girl who was motioning her down so she could whisper into JJ's ear. She leant down, "I have two first names too..." she pulled away and looked around like JJ did almost making JJ smile, "...my first name is Amy."
"That's great JJ... try for a last name." Emily encouraged in her wig.
"Wow..." JJ said looking surprised. "Your secret is safe with me." The little girl was so happy that she motioned the woman back down to her. JJ leant down, "I have two last names too."
JJ pulled back looking at the little girl surprised again, "At school my last name is Jackson but it was Johnson before momma got married and died." JJ just let the girl talk to her sensing she hadn't had anyone to talk too for a very long time. Pen had already put the name into one of her babies just waiting for Emily's word to run it. "I miss her." She said hanging her head down.
"I know you do honey. But don't you have friends that you have met like Jessica?"
"My new dad doesn't like it when people come over." She said down cast and sadly.
"Prepare yourself JJ... this little girl is going to tell you her nightmare." Emily said as she brought the trash can nearer to herself. Jane and Penelope saw the action and looked at each other. "Pen get ready to run that name." She said looking at the woman with the blackest eyes that Pen had ever seen.
JJ continued to color letting the girl guide the conversation. Amanda went back to coloring but stopped and looked at JJ, "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure." JJ said putting down her crayon and giving the girl her full attention.
"Will I ever like it?"
JJ took in a deep breath, "Like what?"
"I watch TV and older women seem to like it but I don't... and sometimes it hurts..." She said hanging her head down with her words fading into her chest.
"Gather yourself JJ... We will catch him but we got to get her to say it then we will get her in a safe environment. I know it's hard but you can do this." Emily said into the wig while looking and nodding at Pen to start running the search inquiry.
"Honey..." She said and placed her hand under the girl's chin lifting it up. "Tell me everything. What hurt's?"
"My dad says that since momma is dead that I have to step up and do what she did like clean house and..." She stopped refusing eye contact.
"JJ we need her step dad's real name the one he gave to the school is bogus." Emily said in the wig.
She understood and saw this as away to give the girl a moment, "Honey... does your step dad have a second name too?"
"Yeah... in Memphis his name was Hunter Stevens but he goes by Hank Jackson here." She said trying to hang her head again but JJ wouldn't let her.
"Honey... I know it's hard but I need you to tell me what else your dad said and does."
"He does the same thing that man across the street does to Jessica..." She paused as JJ had to swallow hard. "You never answered my question... will I ever like being touched?" The little girl said with a blank face.
"Okay JJ listen to me... give her this answer."
JJ started repeating Emily's words to the little girl as Pen's fingers flew over keys getting addresses and calling Hotch.
"Honey... the best answer I can give you is this. It's like driving a car. If I place you behind the wheel of a car right now your feet wouldn't reach the gas pedal but if you scoot down and hit the gas you wouldn't be able to see where you were going and would crash and get hurt. The touching you are talking about is for grown people that can touch the gas pedal and can see where they are going and like to drive. But honey right now you are too young for that touching and that is why it hurts. Does that make sense?"
(Jane listened to Emily and was in total amazement. "She is really good with children." She thought.)
The little girl shook her head yes... that what JJ said made sense.
"Amy... the man that has Jessica what does his house look like?" She asked knowing they need more to go on.
"It's the one directly across from my house. He use to scare me because he would watch me at night from the window across from mine. I would see him watching dad touch me and he would just smiled at me. Then one night Jessica was there and he pulled the blinds and stopped watching." She said and paused starting to shake, " JJ..." was said in a small whisper.
"What honey?" She said trying to quail the anger inside of her so the little girl wouldn't think she was mad at her.
"Am I old enough to be hugged?" She said looking up hopeful that JJ said yes. She just opened her arms up and cradled the young girl in them.
Emily threw up in the trash can but went right back to directing everything afterwards, "JJ... I'm leaving Pen here with you. Bring Amy up to the office away from the other kids. We have medical help and social services coming. Pen has found the girls mother and is trying to get her here. Jane and I are meeting Morgan so we can get both of these son of bitches. Hotch and Rossi are going to Hunter Stevens work address in Memphis. Hopefully we will meet you at the hospital with two more girls." She said as her and Jane ran to the SUV to go to the address Pen had sent them.
"Okay crime fighters you are going to two homes that are two stories with basements..." Pen started.
"Great..." They all heard Emily say.
"You okay there Princess?" Morgan asked concerned.
"Peachy Derek... just get your ass here so we can get those girls!" She yelled back.
"That's my sassy Princess." They heard him say. "What else are we walking into baby girl?"
"The man across the street's name is Darren Cross. He seems clean on paper but has been brought in on peeping charges that were dropped five years ago. There is a stretch of woods behind his house that you will not have to deal with on Steven's house."
"Cross must of snapped when he saw Stevens with Amy and decided to play the game too." Morgan said profiling.
"Yeah... Pen what does Cross do?" Emily asked wanting more information on the man they were on the way to arrest.
"He works at a salvage yard that his grandfather owns and guess what is registered in grandpa's name?"
"A blue Ford truck." Emily said.
"Bingo..."
"Thanks Pen..."
"Go get those girls!"
"That's our plan baby girl." Morgan said as he pulled up beside Emily and Jane while they were vesting up. "How we working this?" He asked getting his vest on.
"Let the leo's take Steven's house and you cover the front of Cross's house... Jane and I will take the back." Emily said checking her gun.
"You got it." He said going to the front to get ready to move.
They got into position on both houses and hit them at the same time. No one was at the Steven's house which is what Emily figured and why she wanted Derek on the Cross house. Derek yelled "Clear" in the front of the house while Jane yelled it from the kitchen. Derek took the up stairs as Emily pointed out a basement door. Jane opened it as Emily went down the stairs. She saw a little girl chained on the floor. She went over and found that the girl was alive but unconscious. "We need a medic down here." She yelled and pulled Jane back up the stairs when help arrived. She went outside and threw up... but noticed movement in the weeds about thirty yards in front of them when she came up from heaving. "You ready Jane." She said as Jane looked up and saw Emily running towards the woods that she had seen the movement in and tore out behind her trying to catch up. She heard Emily talking to someone and held up a moment to get direction.
"You don't need her. Take me... I'm a much better barging chip. I'm a FBI agent. I'll turn around as soon as you let the girl go."
"Your trying to trick me." The man said holding the scared girl.
"That's not true... look I'm putting my gun back in my holster. See..."
Jane came up behind Emily thinking the woman had lost it. "See you are trying to trick me... why is she here?"
Emily looked at Jane, "She is here to take my gun and the girl." She said handing her gun to Jane who put it in her own holster looking at the woman like "are you crazy?"
"Now Darren... I'm going to take three steps towards you and turn around so you can walk up and let the girl go." She said stepping forward and turning with her arms extended out in a surrendering manor. The man came up behind her securing her. Then he let the girl go and she run to Jane and clung to her leg.
"Take her to the bus Jane."
"I'm not leaving you with him." She said pointing at the man with her gun.
"I got it Jane." She said rolling her eyes.
"No... you don't. Let us take him in."
"Shut up you two!" Cross yelled waving his gun in front of Emily's face. "I'm the one in charge and I have her... now go..." He said motioning for Jane to leave.
"What you've got is a live hand grenade and I'm checking to see if the pin has been pulled you stupid son of a bitch!" Jane yelled back at him.
"Jane... has Frankie learned to remove the safety?" Emily asked letting her know exactly what she planned on doing as the man waved the gun one more time in front of her. She came up with her right hand blocking the gun and stomped his left foot at the same time. Then elbowed him in the stomach bending him over where she promptly broke his nose with her elbow. She then took the gun from him and put it in her pants pulling her handcuffs and cuffing him and walked away with him yelling that she had broken his nose.
She walked over to the little girl, "Jessica..." The girl looked up at her. My name is Emily and I have a daughter about the same age as you. Do you mind if I carry you out to the ambulance so they can make sure you are okay? Then we can get you back to your mommy and daddy.
"No!" The girl screamed and held on to Jane's leg who still had her gun on Cross.
"Why not?" Emily asked gently.
"They are going to be mad at me. I'm not suppose to talk to strangers... but he had puppies and that's what I want for my birthday... so I..." She clung to Jane's leg like her life depended on it.
Emily bent down to the little girl, "Jessica... honey... I know they aren't going to be mad. They will be so glad to have you home and safe." The girl wasn't budging. Emily changed gears, "Would you like for me to talk to them first."
The girl released Jane's leg and looked at Emily, "Would you?" She asked with hope in her tear filled eyes.
"I sure will." She said smiling at her. The girl wrapped her arms around Emily's neck as she stood up. "Jane... get him and I'll cover you. If he tries anything I'll shoot him and save the tax payers some money." She said looking at him letting him know she meant what she said.
Jane went and got the man to his feet and they walked out of the woods about the time Morgan was starting in after them. "You just couldn't wait could you Princess." He said grinning at Emily as the man kept yelling about her breaking his nose.
"You'll live... she aimed high." Jane said almost laughing at the words that were said to her brother. "I've seen that move from both right and left now... I got to let Frankie know how lucky he was." She thought walking the cuffed man to the ambulance for him.
"What's your problem? I had good back up in Jane." Emily said as they started to the ambulance that was there for Jessica.
"Yes you did." He said as he looked at Jane who had a big smile on her face at hearing Emily's comment.
Okay this section is almost finished... My eyes are burning so this section will be finished hopefully by tomorrow then we get into the wedding week on into the wedding itself.