Why is he still allowing her to come? Why doesn't it feel like he is listening? They already know I was right on the phone call but why won't they listen or anyone question why JJ is joining us… so many questions that I know Gideon and Hotch will not answer until the day is done Reid thought, no one saying anything in the SUV on the drive over. Except for Hotch and Gideon's comments about keeping their guard up as there is bound to be traps. Everything playing out the way it had yesterday and Reid cannot figure out why it is happening again.

The SUV now pulling up to the front of the house and everyone piling out. Pulling out the bulletproof vests, putting them on, being handed the headsets and Hotchner checking that the sets are working. Reid nearly rolling his eyes at the repetition going on before him as Hotch sets them all up the same way as before. In the corner of his eye he can see Morgan looking up at the roof top behind them for a small glance and turning his attention back to Hotch to accept the orders.

Just as they began to set out, Reid moved his eyes over to JJ who has taken her position, looks a little nervous but then again – they always look nervous before confronting their enemy. Please JJ… don't die on me a second time…. I won't be able to handle it he thought just before he went around the corner to see Morgan is waiting for him as is at the door.

Morgan quickly motioned to Reid about the ear piece and they both turned theirs off, "Reid, I need to know – is everything playing out the way it did before?" he asked, obviously not wanting the other's to hear in on their conversation as Reid walks up to him.

Reid blinked at him, "yes… yes it is, might want to kick open the door soon though" Reid said and they right then turned on their sets just as Hotch ordered, "NOW!" in their ears and Morgan kicked open the door and after a few seconds said, "clear" before turning off his set and looking at Reid.

He quickly turned off his own set so the others can't hear their conversation, "Reid I need to know… do you think there is a way of saving JJ? I don't want to continue in this house knowing that our guy isn't in here and he will do what you say he will do" Morgan quickly said, knowing that time isn't on their side.

"Yes… I know that Hotch had just entered the family room just before the shot was fired. And by the look in your eyes you believe my story" Reid commented and Morgan nodded, with that they rushed out of the house and up to the front corner, but not coming out into clear view yet.

Morgan's attention on the building across the road from the house, looking up at the roof for any sign of a reflection from the sun to indicate the scope being used. "I can only hope that you're right Reid…" Morgan whispered to his friend behind him.

Reid covered the microphone part of his head set as he turned it on, listening intently, "clear" sounding from Prentiss as he then heard a door creek.

Morgan then caught sight of the scope, "he's about to do the job – tackle JJ to the side!" he informed Reid and both came charging out from around the corner, Reid running as fast and hard as he can towards JJ. Morgan just behind with his gun aimed for the spot, wanting to get a good shot to scare him up.

JJ shook her head to Hotch as her ears told her to look to her left as someone is running at her full throttle, looking over she sees Reid, a look of confusion on her face as he comes right at her, "Reid what-" she started to say. Expecting he would stop when he reached her but instead slamming his shoulder into her side to tackle her just as the bullet shot went off to get Reid in the back of his bullet proof vest.

Hotch inside of the family room just shocked to see Reid tackle JJ and then hear the sniper shot just as it happened.

Morgan then taking aim and firing three rounds up at the man.

The man instinctively jumped back to sit on his butt with his hands stopping him from falling back, "the hell? How'd they know I was here! There is no way they searched the whole house already!" he said outraged that his plan didn't work. How did they know? The guy just saved her, as I would have taken her out… I refuse to be outwitted by a team of FBI agents! He thought to himself as he scrambled to his feet while he watched the agents come running out of his house.

Hotch immediately going for Reid as the impact of the bullet still hurting his back, "Reid, are you alright?" he asked as JJ and Morgan are already on their way across the road for the man on the rooftop. Morgan quickly turned on his headpiece, now able to hear what is going on behind him.

"Yeah… its just been a while… since I was shot wearing a bullet proof vest is all" Reid responding, sounding as though he had the wind knocked out of him in their heads.

"You alright there JJ?" Morgan asked as they took off through the front door of the building and went for the nearest set of stairs to go up. JJ nearly on his heels, "yeah, just a small scrape on the arm" she answered.

"Prentiss, go after them for back up and to keep the office people calm" Hotch told her as she got to the doors, Gideon standing next to Reid as he is slowly getting to his feet. Gideon turned his attention to Hotch then, "I'll take care of Reid, we may need a negotiator up there Hotch" he informed him, taking it as a hint Hotch ran across the road and followed after Prentiss.

Adrenaline pumping in Morgan's legs as they carry him to the top floor, a stair case off to the side leading to the top, he finally pauses and turns to look at JJ who stopped just behind him.

"You ready?" Morgan asked, both of their guns aimed low, seeing the sheer determination in one another's eyes.

"I am" JJ responded, Morgan nodded to her while they can hear footsteps coming up from behind, both of them knowing it must be Prentiss as she was the next one sent up after they came in.

Morgan looked up at the door, beaded sweat on his forehead and neck from the rush up the stairs. Fingers holding the hand gun steady in his hands as he takes two steps up and opens the door with his gun pointing out in front of him, he takes another step, eyes skimming around the roof top, big ventilation boxes ahead, generator to his right and large fan to the left. Gun following the movement of his eyes as he takes another step and his foot touches the pebbled rooftop ground finally.

JJ coming up from behind, heart racing, eyes carefully looking over the rims of the boxes, slow and steady steps as Morgan is just two feet away and her feet are now on the pebble ground. "Its over… come out with your hands behind your head, don't make it harder on yourself" Morgan stated to make sure their presence is known.

Taking a few more steps forward he looks over his shoulder at JJ who looked at him right away, Morgan motioned his head for her to go to the right while he'll take the left. Now both of them easing their way behind the tall fan that is pushing air up and behind the generator.

Prentiss now just coming up the steps and moving cautiously. The man behind the furthest vent, a duffle bag to his right with ammo, a few other guns and a shotgun in hand that is fully loaded. Moving the gun so he pokes the double barrels just over the rim he uses his thumb to pull the trigger.

Morgan and JJ seeing this before Prentiss both shout, "DUCK!" at the same time, Prentiss reacting with pulling the door shut and crouching just as the shells shot off spraying a limited range.

The two agents quickly going for the ground, nearly laying on their sides to make sure they aren't within firing range, the man turning around while standing, shot-gun aimed just ahead of him, eyes going between the generator and the fan. Wanting to go for the man, as he was the one who first shot at him he turns the double barrels of the shotgun to aim at the fan.

JJ having moved to she can shoot around the generator, moving around to the right side of it while Morgan is thinking of moving his gun around one of the sides to shoot back. "Your only making it-" Morgan started, the man fired his shotgun to cut him off.

Taking this as a chance JJ quickly moved out from behind the generator onto her right side, gun out and fired two rounds at him in each of the shoulders just as Prentiss opened the door with Hotchner behind her. The man turning his attention to JJ, shock on his face.

I had them…I swear I had them for a minute there…. he thought, Morgan now poking his head out from around the fan to see the look of shock on his face. The man turned his attention to Prentiss and Hotch, then to Morgan.

A grin spreading across his lips.

"Drop the gun, you don't want it to end this way" Hotch stated, four guns aimed at the man grinning at them like he's going to pull the foolish attempt.

Morgan now on his one knee, JJ still on her right side, Prentiss just off to the side from Hotch who is now standing next to her.

"Who says?" the man whispered as he slowly began to raise his gun in just his right hand now.

"Drop your gun! We will shoot if necessary!" Prentiss warned him but he continued to raise his gun until nearly level. Watching as his right arm tightens to pull the trigger, Morgan fired his gun, a millisecond later JJ did the same – both hitting him square in the chest. Dropping the shotgun after the fourth bullet entered him.

Prentiss and Hotch advancing directly to him as the man falls to his knees before them, Morgan getting to his feet and sidestepping his way over to JJ who is still laying on her right side, turned her attention to him as he approached and looked at her. The man falling face down onto the vent in front of him, Hotch leaning over first to place his right hand onto the man's neck to feel for a pulse. While Morgan lend out his right hand to JJ, giving her a weak smile, she gives him a weak smile back as she takes her left hand off of her gun and reaches up to take his hand.

"He's gone…" Hotch informed, removing his hand from the man's neck to holster his gun, Prentiss doing the same right after while Morgan pull JJ to her feet.

Hotchner turned to face the three of them, "well done team," he commented, Gideon and Reid having heard them in their heads. Gideon then pulled up his walkie-talkie, "the threat has been taken down… he went the hard way."

Reid is leaning against his right shoulder on the van, the pain gone from his back now, smiling to himself that he was able to stop JJ from being killed and that they took out the threat without anyone getting hurt.

The BAU team is back at the office now, Gideon going straight to his office, Hotch doing the same, Garcia having been informed over the phone by Morgan of what happened.

Each of them heading to their desks, except JJ is following Reid to his desk, hearing the footsteps from behind follow him. Turning he is slightly surprised to see it is JJ, her smiling at him, "today while at the house, you tackled me to the side just before I would have been hit. I wanted to thank you Spence."

Reid felt his heart warm up again, seeing her standing there before him put a smile onto his face, finding it hard to think up the right words to say, "look, JJ – I wasn't about to let the guy get you. Morgan grew worried and believed me; he didn't want to take any chances" he tried to explain, not wanting to take all of the credit.

JJ then turned her attention to Morgan who is sitting on his desk with one knee up and the other one down, "thank you Morgan" and then looking between the two of them, "thank you both."

Morgan then had a smile cross his lips, "your welcome" he said back as he then put his right arm onto his knee to lean onto it lightly, "actually, you did really well up on that roof JJ, shooting the guy after he'd shot at me was quick action into taking him down" he commended her.

JJ then used her left hand to pull a few strands from the side of her face to being behind her left ear, smiling back at him, Reid raising his right brow at this information, Prentiss had just opened her files and turned to them, "if you look at it, everyone did their part. Reid you tackled JJ. Morgan you shot at the guy to scare him up that you knew his whereabouts'; JJ shot him to render him a chance to give up, Hotch attempted to talk him down, I then attempted to talk him down and then Morgan and JJ took him out before he could pull the trigger. While Gideon took care of Reid."

The three of them nodded in agreement just as Gideon opened his office door, "Reid, can I have a word?" he said and Reid turned to head for Gideon's office. With that notion, Morgan got off of his desk and JJ turned to head for her own office, Morgan following her into her office door wanting to have a word. "Hey JJ, can I talk to you about something?" he asked as she reached her door, turning around partly to look at him, "sure, come in" she accepted while holding the door open for him to enter first. Prentiss going to work on her report just as Reid turned to leave.

As Reid walked into Gideon's office he found Gideon wish his back to him and looking out the window, closing the door behind himself, "sir?" Reid asked. Gideon turned to face him still standing at the window, "take a seat," he offered as he strode over to his own chair, and Reid took the one across from him.

"She would go to Spencer for facts or just general knowledge of something, she got along with everyone, knew when to relax and lighten up" Gideon said calmly, Reid feeling as through a pile of books have just landed onto his lap. Recognizing those words from the funeral, blinking and opening his mouth to have fifty questions come to him at once, Gideon raised his hand slightly to silence him. "Yes Spencer, I remember… somehow when JJ looked at us for one last time and you and I were the last ones to look into her eyes. A phenomenon happened that linked the three of us. I don't know of how to explain it, but I remember everything."

Reid leaned forward in his chair, feeling anger rise up in him and confusion, "but – but if you knew… how come you didn't back me up on it? How come you let JJ come with us to the house?" the questions coming out of him before he could stop them. Gideon still calmly looking at him as when he first sat there to look at Reid.

"Well Reid I didn't see need to panic everyone, I knew if I were to speak up saying I knew that the events would take place that we would have to come up with a new plan on how to approach him. But doing that would change the order of how she would die; we would be blind to how he would kill her next and then we would both be filled with more grief than before. I had to make sure of it most of us stayed calm and continued with how the events took place before, I knew you would do something to stop it as when Hotch gave his instructions I could see how Morgan was questioning what you had said. Hotch was just following my lead of keeping to the job, Morgan and you knowing JJ better than Prentiss felt the obligation to stop what could have happened from before. You saved JJ just in the nick of time and took the bullet yourself technically, and if I had of stopped JJ from coming with us he would have killed someone else on our team" Gideon paused his explanation to be sure he has Reid's attention.

"To have moved off track of what was going to originally happen was what needed to be avoided" Gideon said, Reid now leaning back in his chair, letting it all sink in.

While Gideon was explaining Morgan felt the need to get some guilt off of his chest, JJ slightly leaning on her desk with her legs, hands folded together and sitting relaxed near her waistline. Morgan standing in front of her just two steps away, hands in pockets looking at her. "I've been meaning to apologise JJ, and it wasn't until today that I felt the importance to tell you" Morgan started, she creased her brow, looking at him wondering what he could be apologizing for.

Seeing the questioning look on her face he decided to get right to the point, "JJ, the night we found you in the barn, having been attacked by the dogs and us finding out that Reid was kidnapped" he paused looking for the right words to describe the situation, JJ opened her mouth to say something but he pushed on. "When your mind was still wrapped around what had recently happened to you, you were filled with worry for Reid and guilt that it was your fault that he was taken. You turned to me, only I was just so upset about loosing track of Reid that I put my anger onto the only person I could think of at the tie that saw him last… you" he said with guilt written all over his face.

"I blamed you, when it wasn't your fault… and my accusing you when you needed comfort from the ordeal you were still going through didn't help you… I believe that with me telling you it was your fault dug you deeper into guilt" Morgan said and he took a few steps towards her, JJ taking in the words he'd been saying and looking at him. Still giving him her full attention, he reached out and placed his left hand onto her hands that are still folded together and gave her hands a little squeeze.

"I'm sorry JJ, I'm sorry I blamed you" the words came out so soft, she could hear the sincerity in his voice, the memories had flooded back to her, but hearing Morgan say that to her she felt tears come to her eyes. JJ stood up from leaning on her desk, still looking up at him, "I forgive you" she said.

With that Morgan put his arms around her, right hand going onto the back of her head while left hand resting on the middle of her back, she turned her head and pressed the side of her face to his chest. Putting her arms around his back, his head bent down and eyes closed while her's close as well, giving one another a full-hearted hug.

Reid cocked his head at Gideon, "what will happen tomorrow? Will we remember the day that JJ died?" he enquired and Gideon thought for a moment. "I don't think we will Reid, I believe we were only meant to remember it to see if we could stop it from happening" Gideon answered truthfully and Reid nodded in acknowledgement.

Both knowing well enough not to write notes to themselves to remember the events, as the events did not want to be remembered. Not wanting the memory of a close friend dieing before them, Reid stood up and left Gideon's office to go to his own desk and work on his paper work. Gideon opened his own files to do the same, just as Reid opened his file folder, he turned his attention to JJ's office to see Morgan and her hugging. Smiling to himself knowing that Morgan finally got off his chest what he wanted to do for a while, and the thought of losing JJ that day was a wake up call for him to make things right between them.

The End

I hope you enjoyed this story. And I also hope questions were answered in it as well. Please review!

Finished: Thursday October. 19, 2007 1:13 a.m.

By: SLITH