AN/ Sorry this took so long to update. I kind of lost track with this story. I think there will be one or two chapters after this one, but I haven't forgotten about it--it just took a while.

He saw her enter through the large warehouse doors. He felt her before he saw her, their mutual attraction seemed to notify him the moment that she got near. He could feel of her love for him, and her compassion for others if she were willing to try to protect this man that sat bound to the chair next to him.

"Jennifer. You came." He said lovingly, feeling her searching gaze scan the area for threats to their relationship. James quickly pressed a large button before approaching the woman of his affection.

"James, let Aaron go." JJ addressed him, trying to keep the fear out of her voice. Hotch looked like he was barely conscious. James was holding a gun and waving it in Hotch's direction. The team was listening to everything they said, and had SWAT waiting for her signal to storm the building.

"You just called him Aaron." James said angrily. Surely she couldn't love this idiot. She was in love with him! He was supposed to live with her for the rest of their lives, her every wish being to make him happy.

"Aaron isn't important. We're together, let him go." She lied, fearing that if SWAT entered now James might shoot Hotch who seemed to be bleeding heavily from a cut above his eye that seemed to drip and the only evidence he was still alive was the steady rising and falling of his chest.

"Prove it." JJ looked at him dumbfounded as he circled to come closer, putting his arm protectively around her and handing her a gun that he had pulled from the back of his pants.

JJ frantically thought for a reason to defy the unsub that he would believe. "James, I can't kill someone." She finally settled on.

His face softened slightly as he withdrew his arm and stood to face her, countering "But you killed Jason Battle, that must have been hard for you since you are such a wonderful woman."

"He was threatening my family." JJ said, unsure as to what she could do to talk down the unsub. Once assessing that James was safely distracted and away from Hotch she whispered into her mic "GO!"

When there was no grand SWAT entrance, she looked over at James, surprised to see him smile at her.

"Jennifer. I always knew you were resourceful. I knew that your friends wouldn't let us be alone, but we are meant to be together. I jammed the signals so that you wouldn't have to leave the happiness that we share together. There's no way for them to steal our happiness from us."

His eyes held a murderous glare that terrified her, and knowing that the team couldn't hear her made her feel even more scared. "James, why don't you let Aaron go, and then we can talk alone." She suggested finally as Hotch moaned and stirred.

"NO! I have proved my love for you! I met your mother, I did it for you!" He shouted at her, coming ever closer but keeping the gun trained on Hotch who seemed to be waking.

"JJ?"

"James, we are going to be together, I promise. We just need to let Aaron go." She could feel tears beginning to well up in her eyes as he put his arm around her held her close to him.

"No! He needs to die. Once he's gone, no one will find you. Your ties to them will be gone, and we can live happily and raise our children." She shuddered as he patted her growing baby bump.

"James. No. We need a fresh start. Let him go, and it will all be ok, we'll be together if you just let him go." She pleaded, knowing her FBI training was failing as her emotions seemed to get the best of her. He felt the shudder run through her and suddenly knew that she would never be free to love him until Aaron Hotchner was dead.

"NO" He was obviously seperated from reality and was now pointing the gun between JJ and Hotch. "You prove to me that we will be together, SHOOT HIM!" he positioned the gun next to her stomach. "SHOOT HIM, or the parasites inside you will die!"

The tears flowed freely now, as Hotch moaned "JJ, just do it."

BANG! The shot went off quickly. James extastically turned to see what he anticipated would be a very dead Aaron Hotchner. To his dismay, the only injuries on Hotch seemed to be the ones James had inflicted. In this momentary lapse of concentration, JJ quickly knocked the gun out of his hand, sliding it across the room towards Hotch and punched James hard in the nose, sending him backwards.

The team, unable to communicate with JJ had waited, hoping that communication would quickly be reestablished as Garcia worked furiously. Upon hearing the gunshot the team and SWAT members rushed the warehouse, surrounding JJ, Hotch and James. They quickly apprehended James, and carried him away as he screamed, "JENNIFER! WE WILL ALWAYS BE TOGETHER! I WILL FIND YOU!" repeatedly.

JJ ran to Hotch as Rossi called for a medic. Freeing him from the bonds which held him to the chair, he smiled at her. "I thought for a second you really might do it."

She laughed as the tears rolled down her cheeks. "Are you kidding? I'm one of the best shots in the FBI, it went 3 inches over your right shoulder."

Once his arms were free, he kissed her passionately. "I thought I may never see you again."

"I know. Let's get you to the hospital."