She was dragged from the van and thrown down some stairs, she heard Jack cry her name. She moved slowly, nothing was broken, she was just sore. Jack came running down the stairs, sitting beside her.
"Iz, are you okay?"
"I'm fine Jack. You're a brave boy, you know that your dad and his entire team is going to find us right?"
He shook his head yes. "Lay down by me and rest. Don't cry, it's going to be okay." He curled up next to her and went to sleep, she prayed that they found them soon. She wasn't sure how much abuse she could take, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
She woke up to Jack crying, she sat up fast, it was a mistake but she was in protective mode. There was a man trying to drag him away from her, she grabbed a hold of him.
"Leave him alone." She was slapped across the face, she threw a punch back. Grabbing Jack up in her arms. "What do you want?"
"For Agent Hotchner to feel as much pain as I do."
"Leave this innocent child alone. He's done nothing to you."
The man pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Say hello to your dad Jack."
Izzy whispered something in his ear, Jack buried his face into her neck. "Say hello or I'm going to hurt Izzy." The man said sadistically.
Again Izzy whispered something in his ear, Jack pulled back and looked at her, she shook her head no at him. He laid his head down again. The main pulled out a knife and cut Izzy's arm, she let out a little whimper.
She could hear Aaron calling her name, she hoped she was wasting enough time for Garcia to trace the call, she whispered something to Jack. He lifted his head up.
"Daddy?"
"Jack, buddy?"
"Daddy, he cut Izzy. She told me I was brave and that you and your team are coming for us."
"She's right. Is she okay? He threw her down the stairs yesterday and hurt her."
"Awww, Agent Hotchner proof of life. As you can see your son is a life and well. I can't say Agent Cooper will stay that way. She is a brave one." He hung up the phone.
XXX
Aaron laid his head down on his desk, Garcia was going through all the old case files to find the connection for the name Mc Clure. So far Marlowe and Thompson were not cooperating, they didn't get a trace on the phone.
Rossi sat down beside him. "Morgan and Cruz will break them. They will give up the information on Mc Clure, Garcia will find the connection. We will find them and bring them home."
"I'm in love with her Dave. She doesn't know, she left here thinking..."
"Aaron, then when you see her, you have to set it right."
"I plan to."
XXX
Jack was curled up next to her, she had a horrible headache, she knew he'd be coming down stairs soon. She made another mark on the wall, they'd been here a month already. She slowly started to wake up Jack, she couldn't take another beating today. He whined a little bit in his sleep.
"Come on Jack, time to wake up. Breakfast will be here soon." He rubbed his eyes and sat up.
"Iz, will daddy come today?"
"We'll have to wait and see."
The door opened and the man walked in, he threw a small box of cereal at her, a piece of fruit, and a carton if milk. He left the room, she fixed Jack his breakfast.
"Aren't you going to eat Iz?"
"After you eat what you want pal." She was tired and hungry, she didn't know if she had the strength to fight. A part of her knew she had to for Jack, what would happen if she wasn't here.
"I'll eat the cereal, you eat the banana?"
"Sounds good pal."
They ate their breakfast, she walked over to the sink and washed the bowel and spoon. She washed her face and then washed him, they sat down on the pallet and waited to see what the day brought.
XXX
Morgan was tired of it, Jack and Izzy had been gone for a month without a trace. Mc Clure called once a week to torture Hotch, it was starting to drain him. Garcia found the connection two weeks ago, to a case they worked three years ago. Hotch had killed Mc Clure's son in a shoot out, now he was looking for revenge.
"Tell me what I want to know Marlowe. When you go back to holding, you'll be put in Gen pop, how well do you think a Fed will do?"
"You can't do that!"
"I can and I will! You have ten minutes."
"He has them in the historical district...in a townhouse. He wrote down the address."
"You better hope it isn't too late."
He slammed out of the interrogation room. "I have an address, get SWAT, and the team together." He told JJ, he walked into Hotch's office and told him the news. "You can go, but I will handcuff you inside the truck."
Hotch stood up and followed him down to the garage, Rossi slapped him on his back. "Let's go get your family."
XXX
"Iz, wake up! Do you hear that?"
"What pal?"
"The sirens?"
She sat up and strained her ears, she didn't ear anything. "I don't hear anything."
"I hear them, daddy is coming for us."
"Then you have to promise me something. You have to do exactly as I say!"
"Okay Iz!"
"Let's just lay here and rest for a bit longer."
"Okay. I can't wait to see daddy, and uncle Morgan and Dave...and everyone."
She let tears slide out of her eyes, she couldn't get her hopes up.
XXXX
Morgan got on the radio. "No lights or sirens! We don't want to give him warning that were coming!""
"Copy that!"
Aaron sat in the back of the SUV, his nerves were shot. He had no idea what they would find if anything, he really didn't want to get his hopes up. They pulled into the neighborhood, the local police had blocked off the street. The SWAT team, BAU, and FBI climbed out of the SUVS and surrounded the house, in preparation to enter the house.
They kicked the door in and started clearing rooms, from top to bottom.
XXX
Izzy sat up when she heard heavy footsteps, she pulled Jack to her. "Jack I want you to stand in that corner. When I tell you to run, I want you to get out of here and find someone from the FBI, tell them who you are and have them take you to your dad. Don't look back or wait for me."
"But Iz..."
"Promise me Jack!"
"But Iz.."
"Jack Hotchner!"
"I promise."
"Be brave!"
He went to stand in the corner by the door, it busted open and the man that had been holding them came running in. She ran full force at him. "Run Jack!" The man turned to grab Jack, but Izzy pushed him away from the door. The man came at her with a knife, she used all the energy she could to fight him, to give Jack tine to get away. The man brought the knife down into Izzy's chest she pushed him away, falling backwards. The knife still impaled in her chest, he started to walk towards her.
"Freeze FBI!" He started towards her, she heard gunshots. He fell right beside her, taking his last breathe.
Morgan and Rossi were standing over her. "Izzy, you hold on. We need a medic down here now! We have a stab wound to the chest!"
"Jack?"
"JJ, took him to Aaron."
"Tell Aaron. I'm sorry." She closed her eyes.
"Damn it Izzy!"
XXX
JJ opened the SUV door and Aaron slid out, he took Jack in his arms. Jack wrapped his arms around his dad's neck. "Daddy! She made me run! I wanted to stay and protect her, but she made me run."
"It's okay Jack!" He carried him to the waiting ambulance and got in with him. He looked at JJ. "Izzy?"
She wouldn't meet his eyes, she looked down and wiped away a tear. He looked out the back of his ambulance and saw the medics rolling her out on a gurney and putting her into an ambulance, slamming the door and rushing off to the hospital.
Rossi climbed into the ambulance with Aaron. "She was stabbed in the chest, she lost a lot of blood, she's weak..." He looked at Aaron with tears in his eyes. The medics shut the doors and they rode in silence to the hospital to have Jack checked out. He looked at his friend. "Her last words were to tell you she was sorry."
Garcia met them at the hospital, she sat with them in the waiting room once Jack got a clean bill of health. Izzy was rushed to surgery, Morgan, JJ, and Spencer joined them as soon as they could.
XXX
"We need to control the bleeding! She's lost a lot of blood!"
"Clamp!"
"We're losing her doctor! Starting internal chest compressions"
"Charge the paddles to 250"
"Clear"
"Asystole. charge the paddles to 300."
"Internal chest compression!"
"Clear! Asystole! Charge the paddles to 350, internal chest compressions."