Chapter 8 – Type, Call, Pray

"What do you mean?" Morgan asked shaking her shoulders. "What do you mean?" Garcia walked forwards, took the remote from the table and linked it to her computer wirelessly. There, sitting in the chair with blood on her head and a black eye was Emily Prentiss. Standing over her, hands bailed into fists and with a serious look on his face was Will. "But... why?" Reid stammered.

"JJ," Hotch replied before he took out his phone immediately waiting for Carina or JJ to pick up the phone. Carina did. "Carina its Hotch, we need you JJ and Henry down here now."

"Have you found Emily?" Carina asked on the other end of the phone causing another tear to roll down Garcia's cheek. "She's alive; I'll explain more when you arrive." And with that Hotch hung up his mobile and stared at the image in front of them.

"Come on then Emily, where is JJ?" Emily began to laugh slightly. "What's so funny?"

"You are," Emily smiled. "Because if you think that I am going to tell you where JJ and Henry are, just so you can hurt them, then you are more of an idiot then I thought you were."

"You little Bitch!" Another punch to the face wiped the smile from her face. "Didn't like that did you? Now where is JJ?"

"I'm not telling you!" A hit to the head again caused her head to drop again as she grimaced.

"If you won't tell me, then I'll just have to get the God Parents to ask them."

"Don't do... that," Emily sighed taking in more deep breaths. "Leave them alone they don't know where she is... only I do."

"Ah so she must be in your house then," Will smiled. "See was that so hard Agent Prentiss?"

"JJ doesn't deserve you!" Emily screamed. "She deserves a man who can watch over her, who won't hurt her, someone who will protect her and her son."

"I DO PROTECT THEM!" Will screamed. "But do you know what it's like to feel useless, I spend more time with him then she does."

"You can't even say his name!" Emily yelled. "What kind of father can't even say his own son's name?"

"That's it," Will sighed before he removed the taser from his belt and aimed it at her. "You brought this on yourself."

A flash of electricity on the screen caused Garcia to fall to her knees. Morgan holding her as tightly as he could even though tears were forming in his own eyes. Hotch watched in disbelief before he walked out the door to phone Strauss and tell her the situation while Reid stared at the now unconscious Emily with disbelieving eyes. Had Will gone insane?

Jennifer Jereau had never run so fast, driven to quickly, or worried so much. What was 'she's alive' supposed to mean. She's in hospital on the bridge of death, she was shot, she had injuries, she was still missing but someone saw her, she was alive but only for now and she would be dead sometime soon? Thousands of questions rolled around her head so quickly that she forgot the world. Carina, she guessed, would be feeling the same way.

Carina sat in the passenger seat and stared out the window. It didn't matter what happened, what she saw or what she felt, the concern that she had for Emily was so strong that she felt like a veil had been placed in front of her face. She could not think about anything or anyone else. They reached the BAU Headquarters to see Emily's car in the parking lot, surrounded by yellow police tape and forensic investigators. "What?" Carina sighed. "What happened?"

"We'll find out," JJ replied taking off her seat belt, getting out of the car and then lifting Henry and his carrier from the back seat. Carina got out of the car before they raced to the front doors. Two security guards checked them both to make sure they were who they said they were. JJ used her badge as evidence. The two guards said that they needed to be taken into FBI custody for their own protection. "But why?" JJ asked.

"Your Supervisor, Agent Hotchner, has stated that he is the only one to brief you."

"Okay." JJ sighed before they entered the elevators and arrived at the bullpen. They looked around to see agents in a frenzy the phones were ringing off the hook, computer keys were tapping at twice their normal pace. They knew something bad had happened for the BAU to be in full battle stations. Hotch saw the two standing at the end of the elevators and from the stairs called them to his office before closing the door.

"Take a seat," Hotch instructed.

"No," Carina replied. "What happened? Where is Emily?"

"Emily was taken last night from her car after she told me about your situation JJ." Hotch explained. "We have no idea about her location but Morgan and Reid are working feverously on the possible geographical profile. Thing is that we need you to help us JJ."

"Why?" JJ pondered. "Please Hotch I'm sick of this just tell us!"

"Will was the one who took Emily. He set up a one way video feed, he asked her where you were, and he's looking for you and for Henry."

"What?" JJ stammered.

"Emily refused to tell him your location but he figured it out. He will be on his way to Emily's house, I have already organised a tactical team to set up inside the house in case he tries to find you there. If he doesn't find you, he will no doubt interrogate Emily again to find your possible location. Emily knows that it would be with us. Will probably does too."

"So what do we do?" Carina asked, her arms crossed over her chest.

"Hotch, we need you over here!" Morgan yelled over the bullpen. The sound was so loud it reached through the closed door. "JJ we need you to help us profile him."

"Profile Will?"

"Yes, we need to know everything. Everything he does relating to Henry, why he left the force, everything. But no one knows about what happened between you too. Emily told me to keep it to myself and I did. No one in the office knows that he hurt you. But you will need to tell the team about it to help us find Emily and to bring her home."

"I want to see her," Carina added. "I want to help."

"That isn't a good idea."

"Why not?" Carina almost yelled. "You have put JJ, Henry and I into protective custody here at the BAU until we get Emily back. Why can't I do something while I am here?"

"Fine," Hotch conceded. "I need to go but Strauss is due to come down soon and so is Emily's Mother."

Emily knew that her body was not in the best place or the best condition at the moment, she knew that she was hungry and hadn't had anything to eat or drink because he attacked her before dinner. Why couldn't he have waited until she had a full stomach? She dreamt of a piano, Carina playing it on centre stage, one single beam of light on her as the audience was wowed. She saw the team eating a meal together, talking, laughing, and doing what they normally did. Behind Carina, lit on the stage, a montage of images, of moments been and gone; from her childhood, teen years and all to today. Yes, it was something strange, and yet, at the same time, something beautiful. Until Emily heard the sound of the door opening again.

"I hope you are watching this Agent Hotchner," Will spoke to the camera with a grin of pure evil on his lips. "Because I am willing to make you a deal. I know that you have JJ and Henry at the BAU, it would be the only logical solution once you found their location at Emily's house had been compromised. So here is the deal, Henry in exchange for Emily. I think you'll find that the correct choice will become obvious," and with that he used the knuckle buster he now fastened in his hand and used it against Emily's face.

AN: So any thoughts? Do you think Hotch will do the deal? Will the team get Emily back?