"Move it! Let's go!" shouted the man as JJ was roughly shoved through a building. She had just been searched by whoever took her but thankfully they hadn't found the wire. JJ stumbled along, there was a sack over her head and her hands were tied together.
"I don't understand! What's going on? Who are you? Why am I here?" asked JJ, pretending to be the innocent victim.
"Shut up." Answered the man, JJ was thrown into a room and she heard the door close shut behind her.
"Where am ii?" she asked.
"A bad place, let me help you." Said a woman with a thick accent that JJ couldn't place. The sack was carefully slipped off her head and her hands were untied within minutes
"How did they get you?" asked the same woman, JJ could now see her clearly; she was tall, strong, with tan skin, dark hair and dark eyes.
"I met this guy online, told him I was kicked out of my house and that I needed a place to stay, he asked me to meet him in a café. I figured that if we were in a public place then I would safe.
"You were wrong, that's how most of us came to be here ourselves, but some, like me, were kidnapped or sold from their native country." Said the woman.
"What are we doing here?" asked JJ.
"Have you ever heard of human trafficking?" asked the woman, JJ shook her head no "they're selling our bodies, forcing us into prostitution" explained the woman.
"What's your name?" asked JJ.
"Melissa, but they changed it to Michaela, they'll change yours too. What is your name?" asked Melissa.
"Jennifer" said JJ
"Well Jennifer, I hope you said goodbye to your friends, because the only way you are leaving this place is through a body bag." Said Melissa.
"Have you tried to escape?" asked JJ, Melissa nodded.
"When I was first brought here, I tried several times, every night until I realized that there was no way out." Said Melissa, JJ watched Melissa's eyes and body language, looking for signs of deceit. But all she saw was defeat and sadness. JJ wanted to tell Melissa who she was, that there was still hope, but she knew she couldn't breathe a word. Suddenly a large alarm went off.
"What's going on?" asked JJ.
"It's time" said Melissa.
"Time for what?" asked JJ.
"To be bought." Said Melissa.
Emily arrived back at the station soon after making sure JJ found the Unsub.
"She's in" said Emily to the team and officers present.
"Why didn't she have the cell phone with her?" Hotch asked Emily, holding up the phone she was supposed to give JJ.
"Hotch you don't know what it's like in there, the moment she gets to wherever they are holding the girls, she will be searched and the cell phone confiscated and destroyed, there was no point in sending her with one. She is wearing a wire sewed into the waistband of her jeans." Said Emily.
"And if they find the wire?" asked Hotch.
"They won't, I just told you I've done this before, and if it's the same guys from the time I was in, they won't think to look in the waistband of jeans." Said Emily.
"Wait you really went through something like this before?" asked Garcia, who was listening via video chat, Emily sighed.
"Yeah when I was working for the CIA I was sent undercover into a human trafficking ring like this one in this same area. Once I had enough evidence I called my team in and got all the girls out, but a few of the men escaped and my cover was blown, they could've started up again." said Emily.
"Wait if you've encountered this ring before, can't you just tell us their names or do you not remember?" asked Reid, Emily shook her head.
"I was only a foot soldier, there to get in and out, no questions asked. I never knew their names, and the names I heard on the inside were codenames that they called each other, and those were changed every week." said Emily.
"That's why JJ went instead of you, you told her about your past." Said Rossi.
"Actually I told Derek, who called Will and told him to make sure he didn't try to get JJ to not go and I assume Will told JJ since those two don't have any secrets." Said Emily
"Sorry Princess." Said Morgan sheepishly.
"I understand why you did it, it's fine." Said Emily.
"So JJ went in because she knew if you were recognized then you would be killed instantly" said Hotch, Emily nodded.
"Garcia can you get JJ's feed up so we can listen?" Reid asked.
"Yeah of course" said Garcia, a moment later the feed was up and the team heard a siren blaring.
"What's happening?" asked Rossi.
"It's telling all the girls to get ready to be bought, they'll be taken into the room once the siren stops." Explained Emily.
"So JJ's about to be raped." Said Garcia.
"If she's chosen, only one girl gets bought per day, and well, if she does what I told her to, she might be able to avoid it altogether, but at a price." Said Emily.
"What did you tell her to do?" asked Hotch.
"Fight, be insubordinate, yell, scream. No perp wants a girl who won't submit. The price is a beating, usually worse than the one I got from Cyrus at that church, that's how I was able to take Cyrus' beating, I was used to much worse." Said Emily, no one said anything.
"She begged me to tell her any way that could prevent her from being chosen, that is the only one I know." Said Emily. again no one responded, the team and officers listened as the sirens stopped and JJ's voice as she played her part.
"Where are you taking us? NO! Leave me alone! Let go of me you fucking dirty bastard! LET ME GO!" screamed JJ, they could hear her grunting with the effort to struggle and fight.
"Leave her, she will get her lesson later but we can't bring her in, are guest is already in a bad mood." Ordered a man's voice, JJ grunts in pain as she is thrown into the ground.
"I'm ok guys." She says softly once she is alone.
"Em? You ok?" asked Morgan, all eyes turned one Emily, whose face was white as chalk and she was clutching the edge of the chair she was standing behind.
"Emily?" asked Morgan again, slowly panicking.
"It's the same guys. I'm sure of it." said Emily.
"You're positive?" asked Hotch, Emily nodded.
"JJ's in for a rough night." Said Emily.
"Why what's going to happen to her?" asked Rossi.
"She'll get beaten, she won't be allowed to sleep or eat for 24 hour, but she won't be raped, not by her captors, they have a strict code, 'don't touch the merchandise.'" Said Emily.
"Is there anything we can do?" asked Hotch.
"Not for JJ, not tonight." Said Emily.
"What about you? You're still pale" said Morgan.
"I'm fine, just a little shocked." Said Emily "And ashamed." She added after a minute.
"Why ashamed?" asked Reid.
"If the CIA had done the job right the first time, then there wouldn't be a ring now, those girls would still be alive and JJ wouldn't be in this mess."
"It's not your fault." Said a voice behind them. They all turned to see Will, Hotch rushed to introduce him to the confused officers who were drawing their weapons.
"Officer's, this is Detective William La Montagne Jr, he is Agent Jareau's husband." Said Hotch.
"Where's Henry?" asked Reid.
"With his grandma, JJ's mother was visiting when she got this case. After she told me what she was doing, I couldn't stand to be away. Has she already left?" asked Will.
"Yes, I'm sorry." Said Emily.
"You have nothing to be sorry for Emily, you were doing your job, she was doing hers. We agreed the last time we talked on the phone that we already lost you once, we weren't gonna lose you again." Said Will as he pulled Emily into a hug.
"Thank you." Said Emily softly.
"How's she doing?" asked Will when they broke away a moment later.
"Well she's not getting bought today…" said Hotch.
"She's getting beaten." Finished Will with a sigh, "alright, how can I help?"
That's it for this chapter! Please leave a review with your thoughts. I love Jennifer Love Hewitt's character (sorry if I misspelled her name) what do you think about me bringing Will to California? I understand the time table may be a little mixed up, just roll with me here, please? Thank you all for reading and stay tuned for the next chapter!
BTW the stuff I wrote about the CIA was total bullshit, I have no idea how that agency is run.
Till next time,
Daughterofathena2
