The unsub turned to Reid furious.
"Well, we know what hostage I'm shooting first." He said angrily. He pointed the gun at Reid. Reid stared down the barrel of the gun before looking the unsub in the eye. He decided quickly if he was going to die, he was going to die with dignity.
Emily saw the resolve form in Reid's eyes and felt her stomach drop.
"Wait!" she yelled.
"What?" snarled the unsub turning his attention to her briefly. She thought quickly and decided, since he hadn't planned for cops to become involved, he wouldn't know procedures. She came up with a lie quickly and hoped it was enough to save her co-worker.
"If you shoot him now then the police will storm the building. The SWATT team is probably already outside! Once they hear a gunshot they come in and you're as good as dead."
The unsub, although he was panicking, saw logic in her lie and looked back to Spencer.
"Fine. You're safe for now but if I start shooting hostages, you're first on the list." Spat the unsub at Reid before going to lean against the counter and observer his hostages.
He started pacing and Emily knew he had no plan. Spencer turned to Emily and the look he gave her made her certain he was thinking the same thing. She saw him open his mouth to start to speak but then her cell phone started ringing.
Everyone in the room stared at her. Everything was silent except for the ringing. Emily knew it was Morgan; he was the only one who knew they were at a coffee shop although the others had probably figured it out. She decided to rephrase that, he was the only one who would go off orders and phone her. Emily knew that they needed to find out what was happening inside so she tried to get the unsub to let her answer.
"Sir? Can I please answer that? My husband needs to go pick up my little girl and he doesn't know where to go." She saw him deliberate it for a second then decide it wouldn't cause any harm.
"Fine, you got less then a minute." She quickly opened her phone but didn't have a chance to speak before Morgan started talking.
"Prentiss please don't tell me you're in the coffee shop."
"No can do Derek."
"What's your position? Is everyone okay? How many hostages?"
"Well I left Molly at Jane's house. Jane is the pregnant lady down the street who has two daughters, a 6 year old a teen. Her husband is there too. I dropped her off at 6 this morning. She was fine then." Morgan translated it for a second before repeating it.
"Okay, there are 6 hostages. A pregnant lady, a little girl, a teenage girl, a man, you and Reid and everyone is fine. Is that right?"
"Yes, pick Molly up soon, we are really worried because their family has no idea what to do." Emily hoped that made sense to Morgan and didn't tip off the unsub.
"He has no plan got it, stay safe were coming. Bye Emily."
"Bye." She said hanging up and hoping the team had a plan. She looked at the unsub and let out a breath when she saw he didn't look suspicious.