Chapter 7

JJ was awake and she wasn't sure where she was but she was chained to this bed. She hollered to see if she could find out who was holding her captive. "Hey, where are you? What do you want?" No answer. She was wondering what was going to happen. She was having pain and she could remember bits of what happened. Her mind was still fuzzy and she fought to recall all she could. The problem was she didn't remember much. She didn't know how long she waited and she fought not to fall asleep again but the urge was to strong.

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Will was waiting for Hotch; he paced the hall until Hotch was done reviewing the file. Stephen Brody was the CNA that took JJ and they were faxing the information to Garcia. When Hotch came out to Will he was stone faced as always and Will wanted to shake him, this was the mother of his child that they were looking for and Hotch's friend, why couldn't he show a little emotion?

"What about her stalker is this him?"

Hotch looked at Will, "Falcon? No I don't think he took JJ."

"But the flowers and candy, he was here!" Will paced more, flailing his arms as he spoke.

"Will, we don't even know who Falcon is, and I don't think he is a threat to JJ. He has never done anything but send her gifts."

"Bullshit he is following her, and he can be this guy! How else did he have contact with her?"

"Will, Stephen Brody was employed here six months ago. How would he have known JJ would have been here?"

"He could be the shooter!" Will rationalized.

"I think you are just trying to grasp things and make them fit. You are too close to this, Will. I want to be sure you are not going to interfere with this investigation."

"Is that what she is to you, Hotch, an investigation, just another case file?" Will was furious and he pointed at Hotch.

Emily stepped in between Hotch and Will. "Let's get some air." She took a step towards him and Will took a step back.

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After Emily removed Will from the argument Shawna stood next to Hotch. She wanted to wrap him in her arms. She felt he would not want her to show such an intimate public display of affection. Instead she put her hand on his shoulder.

"How are you holding up?"

Hotch looked at Shawna's face, he could see she was concerned for him and he longed to touch her. Not thinking about who saw him or what would come of this, he pulled Shawna into JJ's now empty room. He gathered her into his arms and held her. Some how Shawna cracked his tough shell and made him want to feel instead of react. It unnerved him to know this about her. He was use to hiding his feelings. He could feel tears of frustration and fear well up in his eyes and he tried to fight them. Shawna released her hold on him a bit so that she could look into his face.

"We are going to find her. We will." She kissed him tenderly and he hugged her tightly. A knock on the door startled them both. Morgan was standing just outside the door way looking anywhere but directly at them. Shawna's face got red and Hotch switched emotions instantly. If she didn't know better, she would have thought that the part of him he just shared with her was phony. She knew this job, and the way you had to distance yourself from it. Hotch went to the door and Morgan looked at him finally.

"Haley's here."

Hotch walked past Morgan who barley moved out of his way. When Shawna tried to pass Morgan, she could see disgust on his face.

Morgan was furious. Hotch did not need to be distracted by a woman right now and what he just walked in on made him want to shake both of them. What were they thinking? The focus of everyone on this team needed to be on JJ. Hotch was his boss and he wouldn't feel right saying anything to him at the moment, but Shawna, she was a co-worker. He reached out and grabbed Shawna's arm as she passed him. She stopped, turning to look at him. "His mind needs to be on this case and not on sleeping with you!" Morgan said in a slow steely voice.

Shawna was stunned. She wanted to understand where Morgan was coming from, but the way he said that, made her angry. He implied all Hotch wanted from her was to get in her pants. She yanked her arm out of his grasp.

"I am not one of the criminals we arrest, Agent Morgan, so get your hand off of me. And that, she motioned to the room they were just in, is none of your business."

She walked away and went in the opposite direction down the hall away from where Hotch stood.

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Falcon walked into the lobby of the hospital, there seemed to be a heavy presence of security and that unnerved him a bit. He lowered his head and walked to the elevator and pressed the up button. He wanted to see JJ a bit and then he would be out of here and watching from a distance once again. The doors opened, he stepped inside and pressed number two. Right before the doors closed a woman's hand reached in between them and stopped the elevator. The doors opened up again and Falcon felt a wave of panic wash over him. Standing on the other side of the doors was Will and Emily. They got on, saw the button was pushed for two and waited for the doors to close. Neither of them looked at him and he was relieved a little.

She spoke softly to Will and Falcon listened to what she was talking about.

"We will find her, I know we will. Please you have to let us do our job. We will get JJ home, if you don't interfere."

"I just don't want Hotch to ignore Falcon! He seems to be sure that he is not the unsub."

Falcon's eyes got wide. What happened to JJ and they thought he was involved.

The doors opened and they got off the elevator. Falcon stopped at the vending machine at the waiting room and pretended to be buying something. The last thing he heard Agent Prentiss say was, "…and I have to agree with Hotch."