Chapter 9:Ready or not… here I come…

A/N: Here is the new chapter, I hope you'll guys enjoy it, because I loved writing it. I'm sorry for the delay, I had the chapter ready yesterday but my laptop close before I managed to save it (Damn you battery!) and I had to rewrite it. In the end I think it came out even better!

Enjoy!

Disclaimer in chapter 1

Chapter 9

Previously

"Do you need a lawyer? I can call Steve." Hotch's eyes widened, he had expected the man to turn his back. just like almost everyone else had done. Not this, defiantly not this.

"I'd appreciate that." A smile crossed his face for the first time since he was ripped away from Emily. The man smiled as well. It was a sobering moment for both of them…

…till the alarms broke the silence around them.

Chapter 9

"What's going on? Matthew?" Hotch was puzzled as soon as the alarm sounded the young man stiffened.

"Listen to me agent Hotchner. I need you to stay here and take cover till I come back to get you." He reached for his ankle taking off a small gun passing it between the bars "Take this and take cover." Hotch took the gun and nodded to the man who took off fast towards the way he had come few minutes ago. Hotch walked to the corner of the room trying to figure out where to take cover. He was clutching the Glock Matthew had given him, the small cold metal too familiar in his hand. Identical to his backup gun.

He heard gunshots in the distance, and shouting too much shouting and all he could hope was that Matthew was alright… all he could think though was what Emily wanted to tell him before Seaton walked in and how he wasn't going to ever figure it out now…

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Emily got up from the floor coughing; her hands flew to her stomach immediately. "Emily? Are you?" Bern looked at her with widen eyes.

"Please don't… don't ask me… not, not now. I'm alright." She said. Looking around her dust and shattered glass had filled the once clean room.

"We need to move, see if everyone else is alright." Bern had walked to the now open window and looked down, Emily saw his stance changing. "Bern?"

"This was my car. John."

"The director?"

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"Everyone alright?" Dave asked as he got up from the floor. He counted as everyone one by one got up from the floor, first Elle, then Tara and Spencer, then Penelope, and lastly Alex with Kate.

"Yeah, I think we're fine." Elle said "Was this a bomb?" she asked.

"I think so. Okay, Penelope gather all your laptops, we're evacuating." Dave walked to the catwalk, the bullpen was half full

"Everyone! Listen up! I want you to take your jackets and briefcases and exit the building. Please take the stairs and be careful, report to your unit chief in the entrance. There seemed to have been an explosion in the back parking lot so please remain at the front entrance of the building. Thank you." Dave turned around and saw Bern Tolbert and Emily exiting Aaron's office.

"You both okay?" Emily nodded, but Bern was too shocked.

"The bomb was in my car. John took it to go visit Aaron in prison. It's John… it's John." Dave's eyes widened. "We need to figure it out. If that's true who's going to take over, you or Roger?"

"Me, I'm older in the position."

"Alright, we found something, we need to talk, evacuate and we'll meet in an hour at my place, Bern do what you have to do and then meet us there if you can." The man nodded and started walking to the glass doors where the most agents were standing right now trying to exit the building. Emily walked back to Aaron's office, grapping the picture of the three of them in the park, putting it in her bag and the extra jacket Aaron always kept in the cabinet behind his desk wrapping it around her shoulder letting his scent surround her before she walked out of the room and the building.

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When JJ reached Quantico she was greeted with the most chaotic sight she had ever faced in all the years she worked in the building. Hundreds of agents and other FBI personnel all were trying to fit in the small entryway in front of the academy. And the smoke, my god the smoke, from the back of the building there was so much smoke that shocked her. She looked around franticly trying to find her family but she couldn't see anything. Pushing through people slowly and steadily she managed to spot Tara and Kate not too far away from where she was "Tara!" she yelled and saw the taller women scan the crowd around her "JJ?" JJ raised her hand and started waving. "Here!" a sign of relieve left the other woman who started walking fastly towards her.

"What happened? Are you two okay?" JJ asked, frantically trying to check them over and see if there is any injuries on them, she was glad to see that both her completely fine.

"Car bomb, in the back parking lot… we don't know how many casualties but there is the possibility that the director is dead." Kate said. JJ shakes her head not believing what she had heard.

"First Hotch now the director? Who are these people? What do they want?"

"I guess… to see the world burn." Tara said turning her head away from the terrible scene still unfolding in front of their very eyes.

"Let's get out of here; Dave said to meet him at the mansion." Kate said, she grabbed their hands and led them away from the crowd…

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Emily felt like she couldn't breathe. Simple as that, she felt like she couldn't breathe, she pulled the car on the side and took out her cell phone dialing Derek's number quickly.

"Morgan"

"Hey, it's Emily, can you get Jack for me?"

"Sure princess." She heard Derek getting up and walking around Dave's house. She heard him calling Jack, telling him that Emily wants to talk to him, she heard the little boy running to Derek.

"Emmy? Are you okay?" his voice was uncertain, why didn't she call him earlier?

"Yes baby, I'm fine, we both are." She said answering the boy's next question before he even asked it.

"Oh good, did you tell daddy? Can I tell Henry now?" she was amazed at how easily the boy kept his voice down, respecting her wishes to talk to Aaron first.

"No, baby, I didn't tell daddy yet, but I'll make you a deal you can tell Henry, if you promise me to not tell anyone else. Alright?" she asked, she knew that Jack was nodding his head, even though she couldn't see him just by the excitement in his voice when he squealed yes.

"Good, now pass me Uncle Derek again and you can go tell Henry."

"Okay, I love you Emmy."

"Love you too baby." She heard him running to Derek giving him the phone and she could barely contain her tears. She knew that Jack loved her, but hearing it from his lips was different, so much different.

"You are good with him, you know that princess?" Derek says,

"Well he is really well behaved and adjusted."

"Don't sell yourself short Emily, you are a good mother."

"Thank you." Emily said chocking on the tears she couldn't stop.

"Princess are you alright? Are those tears I'm hearing?" he asked.

"If I tell you I'm alright I'll be lying. I miss Aaron, I miss him so much. I don't know what to do without him, I know that sounds stupid and technically isn't true, because I survived without him for years. Almost three years through our separation and then two years in long distance I did, I survived without him and I had a successful carrier as Officer Prentiss, how is it possible that the moment I start introducing myself as Emily Hotchner I feel like I can't breathe without him? And why whenever I try to say I'm agent Prentiss I can't, because I feel like I'm betraying him or something. Aaron never told me that I had to use his last name, or that I should, he never brought it up, because he knew that out marriage isn't about titles, about names or rings. Is about commitment to each other, about the little gestures, the little hugs, kisses, the breakfast in bed after a tough case… it's about all those things we did for each other. But now all I can think of is how he'll never wear his wedding band again. I just want him here with me and Jack… our family." She broke down knowing that her friend was still on the other side of the line.

"Princess, listen to me, Hotch is the strongest man I know, and although I understand your fear, he'll get through this, if anyone can survive this, it's Hotch. You worry, but so do we. We all worry about him, you're not alone your family is around you, whenever you want us. Everything will work out in the end, you'll see."

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Dave was driving to home in silence; Alex was sitting next to him, Elle, Spencer and Penelope in the back seat. They weren't in the mood for small talk, or even of serious talk, they'll have time for that as soon as they reach home.

They were about thirty minutes away from the mansion when all their cell phones collectively beeped.

He heard Penelope gasping, and hit the brakes violently "What's going on?" he asked.

"There is a riot in the prison Hotch is held in." she said, Dave felt the blood freezing in his veins, what the hell was going on. Apparently the bomb was a distraction, but the whole thing made no sense.

"Call the rest, JJ, Tara, Kate, Emily, tell them to meet us there." He turned the car to the opposite direction and ran on the lights and sirens.

In the end there wasn't a speed limit he hadn't broke.

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Emily climbed out of the SUV strapping on the Kevlar vest on her chest, something inside her was telling her that maybe she should sit this one out, maybe she should think of the unborn baby she was carrying and any other time she would. If this was any other prison she would, but Aaron was in this one. Aaron, her husband, was trapped in there with multiple psychopaths with a grudge against him.

She walked to the SWAT captain talking with few other agents.

"Hello captain, agents, what we have here?" she asked.

"Agent Prentiss!" Emily turned and saw SSA James Franklin; she smiled and walked closer to the other man.

"Agent Franklin, nice seeing you again, it's Hotchner now." She shakes his hand and smiles at his shocked face.

"I heard, I wasn't sure if it was part of the rumor mile or not."

"It wasn't, Aaron and I are married."

"Congratulations then." He leaned closer and whispered to her ear only for her to hear "Let's go and get your husband out."

"Let's."

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Hotch was trying to regulate his breathing, the shootings came closer and closer and he started going in his mind how many bullets he had and how long before they find him and plant one on his brain.

His breath though almost stopped when he heard the sound of familiar voices… so familiar.

"FBI! Where are the rest of the imamates?"

"Elle!" he said under his breath.

"Answer me!" he walked fastly to the door and waved his hand through the bars "Elle?" a smile broke in his face when he saw the brunette coming closer to his cell "Hotch! You alright, are you hurt?" JJ and Reid followed her, smiles of relieve on their faces.

"I'm fine, I made a friend, gave me this." He said showing to them the small Glock still tightly clutched in his hand. JJ smiled brighter.

"That's our boss-man!" she said, Hotch smiled wider.

"Agent Hotchner!" Hotch turned and saw Matthew coming down the corridor, he had a gash on his forehead, some blood was still rolling down his temple from it but except that he seemed alright.

"Let's get you out of here." He reached for a bunch of keys from his belt and opened Hotch's door. The older man stood on the same spot for a while, not daring to move. "Aren't you going to get in trouble for that?" he asked Matthew, last thing he needed was to get this young man in trouble.

"So be it. We need all help we can take, some of the prisoners raided the gun safe, and unlike them I know you won't try and kill us." Hotch smiled and walked slowly out of the cell, he still clutched the small gun in his hand, making a move to give it back, although he was secretly hoping he didn't have to. In the end as small as it was it was giving him a sense a familiarity and he didn't want to lose that.

"No keep it. Won't be much of a help without it." Hotch nodded and walked followed his team down the corridor.

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"We've got Hotch, I repeat Hotch is with us." Emily breather in relieve when she heard Elle's voice.

"Roger that, stay safe… all of you." She said, SSA Franklin was with her walking to her left, the SWAT team was leading the way with Dave and Alex hot on their heels, while she, Kate, Tara and Agent Franklin were following them covering their back.

"We're moving too slow." Emily said when they reached the empty hallway that connected Blocks A and B, "We have to clear and secure Blocks A, B and the control room. I say we split. Dave you and Alex take the MCRT and secure Block B, Kate, Tara and I will follow the SWAT team into Block A and the control room." Dave smirked at the tone of authority in Emily's voice; it was just as if he was hearing Aaron, even better sometimes, it was almost sweet that the two of them started mimicking each other that much.

"I agree with agent Hotchner here" Franklin said "We'll cover more ground that way. We've got the gun safe to cover too." the SWAT captain agreed although somewhat reluctantly. "Stay safe guys." Emily said, Dave nodded and turned his back walking towards the opposite direction.

"Let's get this over with." She said, Kate next to her nodded "Amen to that."

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"Alright listen up" Elle said turning to the others "Here we split. JJ you and Reid take these three and go clear Block C, Hotch, Matthew and I we'll take the rest and go clear Block D." Elle said "Everyone alright with that?" her tone made it clear that although it was typically a question she didn't meant it as such. Everyone nodded and Hotch felt a small smirk fighting to form on his face.

JJ and Reid followed the three SWAT agents down the hall, JJ only waving softly to them before turning her back to them and following Reid.

"You okay right?" Elle asked him, Hotch nodded but stayed silent.

"Hotch?"

"I'm fine don't worry, bumps and bruises." He said smiling. It was tight and didn't really resembled a real smile but Elle was going to get whatever he was offering, it wasn't as if they were in a situation that he could smile.

The seven of them walked down the hallway, on the opposite direction from when JJ and Reid went. The halls of the prison seemed endless; Hotch was trying to keep up with them, trying to ignore the burning pain on his side as he was walking fast. The doctor might have said that there weren't any broken ribs but that didn't really ease up his pain level.

The stopped in front of the heavy metal door of the D Block, he heard Matthew taking a deep breath and Elle's shoulders tensed.

"Bad?" he asked, from his position in the back he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside the Block.

"Block D is empty, we've got officers down, I repeat officers down in Block D." he heard the SWAT agent saying, so that was what got them.

"We should go help the others." Hotch said, he desperately wanted to get to Emily. Something was telling him that he needed to be there. It was like back when she was kidnapped by Doyle or when Cyrus was holding her hostage in Colorado. Or when she was in the car crash, or got shot, or almost blown up in that god forsaken bank.

"We should." Elle said. She took a step back, taking a deep breath trying to clear her head.

"I think-" she didn't have time to finish, when Emily's voice was heard through intercom

"We need back up NOW! BLOCK A, I REPEAT BLOCK A WE NEED BACK UP!"

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After they have cleared Block A and made sure it was secure, the SWAT captain left Emily, Tara and Kate back to go and secure the control room. The three female agents wanted to roll their eyes, what a chauvinistic thing to do…

Emily was watching the door leading to the control room, Kate was covering the other door leading back to the corridor they came from and Tara was covering the cells.

"Dr. Lewis?" Emily felt the temperature falling by at least ten degrees in the room, she saw Tara stiffen and turning to the opposite side.

"Ennis?" she walked towards the cell, A8, where the man was held "What are you doing here?" she asked, he was one of the crazy ones, that was for sure but she didn't expect him in maximum security.

"You should know! They sent me here right after you finished talking to me!" Emily almost flinched at his tone, this wasn't good, it wasn't good at all. "I don't appreciate it when my words are used against me Tara." His tone was cold, but the tiny smirk on his lips made the blood in Tara's veins to freeze just a little bit.

"Ennis I had nothing to do." He didn't let her finish before he talked again, his voice colder and stronger now, and as Tara was walking closer to the cell, and Emily could only mutter for her to not get any closer.

"Then why was I transferred here? It must have been because of what you wrote on that report about me that made me think I was like them…"

"Who's them, Ennis?" Tara asked, she kept her voice steady, trying not to show any emotion, maybe only some compassion and empathy.

"Don't you know where you ladies are?" he asked, the smirk was now a full blown smile, teeth and all. "The worse of the worse."

"This is serial killer wing." Kate said. A humming sound was heard and before they could even raise their guns the door opened and Ennis… well he was walking towards it.

Emily and Kate raised their guns; Tara did the same just few seconds later when the first wave of surprise passed, (and frankly when she saw that Ennis wasn't backing down).

"We need back up NOW! BLOCK A, I REPEAT BLOCK A WE NEED BACK UP!" Emily yelled in her microphone as more and more cell doors opened and their occupants started walking out. The three of them were really cornered as the ten inmates created almost a cycle around them.

One of them made a move on Kate who shot him on the knee without a second thought.

Ennis was walking towards Tara like a man on a mission, "Back up isn't coming." Interesting that he focused so much on Tara when it was Emily who had called back up… "Don't do this Ennis; there is still a way out of this if you just go back in your cell." Kate said, she kept her voice straight, "She's right Ennis, Please." Tara said, Emily flinched internally when she heard the word, almost knew what was going to happen, but then she saw movement out of the door and took a deep breath

"Are you trying to beg your way out of this?" he asked.

"No I'm trying to save your life." Tara said softly, she made it sound like she cared, she was good at that. "She's right Ennis, look behind you." Emily said, that distracted the rest of the prisoners as well. A couple of them recovered from the shock quickly though and they made a move towards Hotch and Elle, he didn't hesitated one bit when he shot one of them on the knee and the other one the arm knocking them down. The other eight some tried to fight and ended up with similar wounds and some decided to walk back to their cells. The SWAT agents closed the doors and Matthew secured them once again.

Hotch walked straight to Emily, he took one of her hands in his and smiled softly "You okay?" he asked softly only for her to hear.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You?" she leaned a bit closer and squeezed his hand.

"Now perfect." She smiled back and him and they turned their heads to the rest of them. Kate was barely keeping back the urge to make kissing noises, while Tara and Elle almost rolled their eyes.

"Let's get moving!" Elle said loudly "Lovebirds" she teased walking past them.

They were just out of the block when they heard the loud noises of gunshots echoing through the walls.

"We need back up immediately, Block C; I repeat we need back up NOW!" JJ's voice pierced through their earpiece, Elle almost winched at the noise coming from her friends mouth, Hotch's jaw clenched and he took off ahead of them running towards Block C. Emily was hot on his heels running almost by his side.

They reached the Block and the saw JJ and Reid taking cover by some open cells. Hotch took a look around the scene was too confusing, there were SWAT agents, but why they were shooting at Spencer and JJ?

He didn't thought about it much before he started shooting them back. He hit one on the shoulder and Emily hit another on the collar, the two men fell back, one groaning and the other unmoving, weather it was because he was dead or because he was in too much pain Hotch found himself not really careering.

"Grenade!" Emily yelled. Everyone took cover, although Hotch's reflexes weren't as good as he thought, because before he could take cover a blinding pain ripped through his collarbone and pushed him to the ground…

A/N: Here is chapter 9! Sorry for the delay but like I said I had to rewrite the whole chapter from zilch, I hope you, like it!

This was all about the case. The rest will be a little bit more focused on Hotch (and Emily of course) some heads might roll as well.

So here is the sneak peak…

He opened his eyes, trying to get up, a gasp left his lips that had Emily by his side immediately "Aaron!" she kneeled down by his side, the orange jumpsuit was staining red on his collarbone, she immediately leaned down and pressed on the red spot, she could feel the blood, her husband's blood under her fingers.

"Em… sorry… that's not how I wanted your return home to be…" he said. His breath was already coming in short gasps, this was wrong… so, so wrong! Emily closed her eyes for a second.

"Don't say that Aaron, just look at me, alright? Everything will be perfect. You'll see, we'll get out of this hell hole and go back home, just you, me Jack and our baby. Don't worry, just keep your eyes on me alright?" she pleaded, the tears she tried to conceal falling down her cheeks now, he made one last try to open his eyes, his hazel irises were darker now, almost black, "Baby? We're having a baby?" he asked.

Hey, at least it's bigger than usual sneak peeks! (Please don't shoot me :P)