Maggie followed JJ into the round table room where the rest of the team were just starting to settle down; getting ready to here what disturbing case awaits them. Maggie sat down next to Hotch and he gave a worried look, Maggie smiled weakly back.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Hotch murmured, too low for anyone else to hear.

"Yeah, just got a bit close." Maggie muttered back. Hotch nodded and started to read the file JJ gave to him. Maggie did the same. JJ turned on the TV and started to show the pictures.

"Gunman has locked himself in a classroom at the local high school in Las Vegas. He has two female students and a male teacher hostage. It is now entering the second hour of the siege." JJ said sadly. Maggie's head shot up and Hotch noticed how determined she looked. Morgan was frowning slightly at Maggie. Rossi looked up from the file and to JJ.

"What do we have on the gunman?" He asked, worried. JJ shook her head.

"Absolutely nothing, he doesn't speak to the negotiators… he gets one of the girls to do it for him." JJ said. Maggie nodded.

"Doesn't want to give out too much about himself, so he'll hide who he is by making the girls and the teacher do all his demands by talking to negotiators." Maggie put out. Everyone looked at her. Reid nodded.

"She's right, he'll hide his identity until he's ready to give it up….or when he decides to…."

"Crack." Morgan put in. Reid nodded. Hotch stood up.

"Get your bags and meet downstairs in 10 minutes. Maggie I want to talk to you." Hotch said. Everyone else filed out of the round table room to get their things. Hotch shut the door.

"Maggie, are you sure you want to do this case? You can sit out on this one since it's your first day." Hotch said. Maggie looked at him blankly.

"Hotch, I know this has some similarities to what happened to me but I want to help get them out of there alive." Maggie said. Hotch smiled and nodded.

"Good, because I wasn't going to let you sit out." He laughed and left the room. Maggie grabbed her necklace and stroked it for a second before leaving to get her bag.

They were in the BAU jet on their way to Las Vegas. Everyone was reading over the file while Hotch threw out instructions to people.

"If he goes by the profile, he'll crack in at the maximum of 6 hours after we land, so we have to act fast. Reid, Emily and JJ, I want you to go over the hostages backgrounds and listen out if people think that it's their husband or the guy they just broke up with,"

JJ, Emily and Reid nodded.

"Got it Hotch." Hotch went back to the file.

"Morgan, Rossi, Maggie and me will go to the school and learn what we can. And Garcia," Garcia was listening over the computer. "I want you to go over school security footage." Garcia nodded.

"Got it, over and out." Garcia switched off the computer link.

Everyone got familiar with the situation, Maggie sat off in the corner seat by herself reading through the file. Morgan watched as she absentmindedly kept playing with her lady bug necklace. Morgan was sitting next to Hotch and turned to mutter in his ear.

"Hotch, what's the deal with Maggie? What's up with that necklace?" Hotch pulled himself from the file.

"Maggie's background she wants to keep quiet, just like you did Morgan, and the necklace is extremely important to her." Hotch said before going back to his profile.

Morgan nodded. He knew some things you want to keep secret, as he did about his childhood.

Morgan stood up and walked over to Maggie, sitting on the seat next to her. Maggie looked up briefly before going back over the file.

"Can I help you with something Morgan?" She asked coldly.

"Maggie, I didn't mean to pry about the necklace and…. I know about things you want to keep to yourself about your childhood and whatever." Maggie's eyes went blank for a second. Maggie shuddered as she heard a distant gunshot and a scream playback through her head. Morgan placed a hand on her shoulder. He looked at her worriedly.

"Maggie, are you okay?" Maggie shook herself out of it and looked up at Morgan.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." Maggie said, her voice shaking a little. Morgan looked sceptical.

"Fine, Morgan." Maggie smiled at him. Morgan smiled back, starting to warm to Maggie, he settled down and went over the case file with her. Hotch glanced towards the back of the plane where Morgan was sitting next to Maggie, going over the case file with her.

"He finally warmed up to her?" Rossi asked, catching sight of them. Hotch gave a small smile.

"He understands about keeping something hidden that is extremely painful." Hotch said watching Maggie pointing certain things out in the file. Rossi glanced at Hotch.

"What's so painful she wants to keep secret?" Rossi asked gently. Hotch sighed.

"She lost her best friend, and that's all I'm going to tell you. The whole story is for Maggie to tell us."

The plane started to go into descent.

"Already, get ready to hit the ground running." Hotch said. Morgan watched Maggie carefully. It was strange but Morgan was starting to feel protective of her, he was actually starting to like her.

The plane landed with a massive jolt. Two cars were already waiting at the air strip.

"Maggie, Rossi, Morgan with me!" Hotch called out of the roaring of the other plane engines. Emily, JJ and Reid walked to the second car.

"Agent Hotchner?" A detective by the car called out. Hotch nodded. The detective stuck out his hand.

"Detective John Morale, sir, I'm so glad you could make it." John shook Hotch's hand. Hotch nodded.

"This is SSA David Rossi, Derek Morgan and Maggie Robertson." They all nodded in turn. John said a short hi and got back to business.

"We have to get moving." Detective Morale said. Hotch watched Reid, Emily and JJ climb into the other car and drive off. Hotch nodded.

"Let's go." Maggie climbed into the back seat of the black SUV with Morgan and Rossi sitting on either side of her. Hotch claimed the front seat.

"Did anything happen while we were in the air?" Hotch asked. Detective Morale shook his head.

"Just a few calls, demanding food and water." Detective Morale said regretfully. Hotch checked his watch.

"We have 5 hours before he does something… bad." Hotch said. Maggie nodded.

They pulled up at the school within half an hour with the sirens blaring. They got out of the car and went towards the boot. Hotch and Rossi pulled out their flak vests and walked towards the main van.

"Maggie, Morgan, get the rest of the gear out." Hotch called back. Morgan rolled his eyes. Morgan passed a flak vest to Maggie and put on his own vest. As Maggie pulled over her flak vest, the bottom of her shirt slipped up to just bellow the waist. Morgan caught sight of a weird shaped scar on the lower side of her right hip.

"Mags what is that?" Morgan said. Maggie caught sight of what he was looking at and pulled her top back right.

"Mags now, huh?" Maggie laughed trying to pass his question off. Morgan frowned.

"Maggie?" Maggie shook her head.

"It's nothing Morgan." She said as she started pulling out the gear in the boot. Morgan turned Maggie to face him and rested his hands on her shoulders.

"Maggie, did it happen on that day you don't want to talk about?" Morgan asked. "You don't have to go into details. I just want to know how you got the scar." Maggie looked frightened for the first time.

"I was stabbed Morgan, please just drop it now, please!" She begged. Morgan wrapped his arms around her and hugged her. He noticed how frail she really was.

"I'm sorry Mags, I won't ask about it again." He promised. Maggie sighed.

"Thank you." She said, pulling away from the hug.

"Come on, we should get the stuff to Hotch before he goes nuts." She laughed. Morgan smiled at her and helped Maggie carry the gear to the main van.

Morgan couldn't help wonder about that day that probably ruined Maggie's life as she knew it.

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And that's another chapter… I'm slowly giving away hints about Maggie's past but I probably won't go into the full story until I write another thing about Maggie's childhood and her and the BAU going back to her home town…. So don't rely on this to give you the WHOLE story…

Anywayz read and review, I'll try and update as quickly as I can.

Love from HGP