A/N I love reading all your reviews they make me SMILE!
just to let you know i dont write ships. I read them, almost all of them but i cant bring myself to write them. sorry!
WARNING: theres a tiny little bit of the bad word stiff but not a lot!
This fic is NOT over yet!...
Morgan sat at his desk the next morning. The whole team had been given time off but Morgan couldn't sit at home doing nothing anymore. His thought kept drifting back to the blonde he had grown extremely close to over the year and what he had seen in the bunker. So he decided he was going to go into the BAU and catch up on the pile of paperwork he had stacked on his desk.
He had read the same line of the sheet of paper in front of him about 7 times when a cup of coffee was placed in front of him.
Morgan looked up to see Rossi perched on the edge of the desk.
"What are you doing here?" Morgan asked the older profiler.
"I could ask you the same thing." Rossi raised an eyebrow knowingly.
"I couldn't sit at home Rossi, every time I stop I can see her in that damn bunker." You didn't have to be a profiler to know he was getting mad "with him on top of her." Morgan was almost growling when his fists came in contact with his desk.
"Morgan" Rossi put a hand on his shoulder.
"No don't give me the 'it wasn't my fault speech' ok. Just don't. I know that but I promised her. I promised her I would never let him lay a hand on her again and I go and let him destroy her."
"None of us saw this coming…"
"Yeah but we should have. We all knew that he wouldn't just stop trying to get to her. It was in the profile for crying out loud. I promised her!" Morgan's fists made contact with the desk again and took a deep breath "about a week after JJ left Emily's she called me at about 2am frantic." Rossi stayed silent and let Morgan get what he needed to off his chest. It was what he did, Morgan would get mad and lash out at something then talk for a little before locking everything back up again and getting on with what he needed too "I got over to there as fast as I could and I found JJ huddled in the corner of her room, crawled up onto a little ball." Morgan looked up at Rossi with tears in his eyes.
Rossi hadn't seen the grown man cry before this case; JJ's case was bringing new types of emotions to the front of every member of the team.
"I held her in my arms till she calmed down and that was when I told her I would protect her from him. We spent the rest of the night talking about…everything." Rossi didn't need to ask what everything meant. He had read Morgan file when he arrived and knew about the abuse he had suffered "I let her down. I'm just another person in her life that has broken her trust."
"Morgan surly you don't…" Rossi was about to comfort the dark agent when the phone rang and Morgan answered.
"Morgan…" His eyes filled with concern "Princess calm down, what is it what's wrong…what…" Morgan stood from his seat quicker then Rossi thought possible "She WHAT!...I'm on my way just tell Emily to keep talking to her." Morgan hung up the phone and grabbed his jacket.
"What happened?" Rossi asked running with Morgan to the lifts.
"We need to get to JJ's now!"
"Ok…I'll call Hotch and Reid on the way…"
15 minutes later Morgan and Rossi reached JJ's apartment door with Hotch and Reid close behind.
They didn't need to knock as Garcia was stood in the door way a look of pure fear in her face and a few blood spots on her hands.
Garcia unlocked JJ's front door with the key she had been given almost 2 years ago. She was juggling Coffee and bagels for herself and her best friends; well juice for JJ.
She closed the door quietly and placed the offending items down walking into the living room to see JJ and Emily asleep on the couch.
They weren't in the same position as they were when she had left and by the tissues and glasses of water it was obvious that the blonde and brunette had been up in the night because of one of JJ's nightmares.
Garcia sat there watching her friends sleep. They both looked so peaceful in their slumbered state and Penelope wished she could keep them like that forever. When she lost her parents and lived on the streets as a teenager she never thought she would have a family again but now she did and it hurt her so much to see any one of them in pain let alone the whole team.
You see JJ being kidnapped didn't just affect the blonde it had a ripple affect on everyone. There was no doubt in the tech's mind that every member of the team was having nightmares about what the monster did to their friend. She knew Morgan would go home and spend hours working out trying not to blame himself for what happened. Rossi spent most of his free time writing because it was something to keep him mind of everything. Hotch would go home at every chance he got and hold his son, trying to understand why anyone would hurt a small innocent child. Reid buried himself in case files looking over other horrific crimes refusing to go over the case that hit too close to home and Emily attached herself to JJ to give the help and support she needed so she didn't have to think about what he had done to JJ. And that's what families did. They shared their pain and troubles as well as the smiles and celebrations.
Garcia was brought out of her thoughts as Emily started to stir. The brunettes hand started to stroke JJ's soft blonde hair. Her eyes flickered open and looked confused and worried for a second. Garcia witnessed Emily Prentiss in her full fragile state. In the few seconds between the world of sleep and the world of the living Emily had her walls down and as quick as they came down they went back up again and Emily gave Garcia a warn out smile.
"Morning cupcake." Garcia whispered and sat next to Emily on the couch handing her the warm coffee "How was the night?" Emily just shook her head as she sipped the coffee "That bad?"
"Yeah. She started string a few hours after you left. She was begging him not to burn her again." Emily was struggling to keep the tears of exhaustion at bay "I couldn't stop it from coming and the next thing I knew she was screaming." Emily looked at her watch "I only managed to get her to sleep a few hours ago."
"Did you try and get her into bed?"
"Yeah but she freaked out. I managed to calm her down enough to ask her why she was so scared of her bed and she said it reminded her to much of the bed he kept her chained to."
Garcia nodded her head in understanding and let Emily rest her head in her shoulder.
They both fell into a comfortable silence with Emily still stroking JJ's hair.
A gargle came from the sleeping blonde and startled her two best friends.
"JJ?" Garcia sat forward once Emily removed her head.
She could see the look of pure anger and hate in his eyes. She could feel his cold, rough, blood stained hands clinging tightly round her neck.
"Emily what's happening?" Garcia asked panicked as JJ's hands circled round her own neck.
Her lungs were burning and her vision started to blur. She tried to beg for him to stop but she couldn't. She tried to pry his fingers away from her bruised neck but he didn't move.
"It's a nightmare." Emily looked just as panicked as Garcia "JJ wake up. It's a nightmare. He can't hurt you anymore."
But Emily's words didn't bring JJ out of her subconscious,
"Em…She's bleeding." She touched the wounds JJ had made. As soon as Garcia said it Emily's gaze went to JJ's neck and sure enough she blonde was creating new scratch marks on her neck trying to pry away the unknown source.
The pressure round her neck got tighter and she could feel her body going weaker.
"Shit." Emily cursed "She's going blue."
JJ's face was slowly changing colour and was going from a light purple to a light blue then darker. Emily knew what she had to do and also knew it would hurt and scare JJ but it was the only way to stop the blonde from strangling herself.
"Garcia hold her legs…" Emily jumped of the couch and grabbed JJ's hands.
Garcia didn't moved, she was frozen in fear from what she was witnessing "Penelope now!" Emily shouted and Garcia jumped into action holding JJ's legs to the couch.
Emily knelt by JJ's side and pried her hands away from her bloodied neck "I'm so sorry JJ…" Emily whispered and pinned JJ's arms above her head much like they were when they found her in the bunker.
When Emily removed JJ's hands the blonde started to gasp for breath but the colour on her face didn't change, it was as if there was still something blocking her air way; like there were hands still round her throat.
JJ was still in her nightmare and started struggling against Emily and Garcia's hold.
"JJ listen to my voice, you need to open your eyes for me…." Emily's voice portrayed complete calm, unlike her face which showed pure and utter fear.
It took a few seconds of JJ still struggling against their arms and for air but her eyes popped open.
Blue eyes met brown and Emily waited for a few seconds for the fear to leave JJ's eyes but it didn't. The fear seemed to get more intense the longer they both stared and JJ's body started to shake involuntary and tears filled her eyes. She was still struggling to breath but slowly the colour was coming back to JJ's face.
"Pl…please get…" JJ to as deep a breath as her body would let her "Of me Ple…please." JJ begged.
Emily and Garcia removed their hands from JJ and took a step back.
She just lay there for a minute trying to steady her rapid heart beat and her breathing but she couldn't. All she could feel were hands holding her down and burning in her chest. Then out of nowhere an over whelming need to vomit over came the shaken blonde and she ran to the bathroom quickly locking the door behind her before emptying her stomach in the toilet.
Emily and Garcia ran after JJ but the door was slammed and locked before either could reach it. Emily slammed her fists against the white wood.
"JJ open the door." Emily waited till she heard JJ stop vomiting and the toilet to flush "I'm so sorry we had to hold you down Jay you were choking your self sweetheart. Please open the door and let me make sure your ok, Jayje please." She pressed her ear to the door and could hear the sounds of JJ sobbing and it broke heart to know she had been some of the cause of JJ's new pain.
Garcia stood behind Emily and watched the brunette slide down the door whispering quite words to their friend.
"Please Jayje, it's just me and Pen were not going to hurt you."
She flipped open her phone and called the number she knew off by heart and waited for him to answer.
"Morgan you need to get here now, I don't know what to do…" Garcia tried to hold back the sobs till she knew her man was coming.
"Princess calm down, what is it what's wrong" Morgan asked over the phone.
"Something happened and we need you…please help." It was no use the tears and sobs escaped.
"What" Morgan asked confused.
"She tried to strangle herself Morgan." Garcia cried and slid down to wall to the floor, she shaky legs unable to hold her anymore.
"She WHAT!" Morgan yelled making Pen jump a little.
"She's locked her self in the bathroom now. Em's trying to talk her out but it's not working." Garcia looked over to see Emily crying too and begging JJ to open the door.
"I'm on my way just tell Emily to keep talking to her." Morgan hung up the phone and Garcia just dropped hers to the floor.
The red head sat there with her knees pulled to her chest praying and hoping that they still had a chance to save their family member.
A/N... much longer than the last and i hope it lived up to your standereds!
more to come soon but before i do please tell me what you thought of this chapter!
AJ xx P.S I've changed my pen nme because my last name has changed but is still me hope it wont confuse anyone too much!