Hey guys!
Sorry for the delay, I started a new story and I wrote this chapter and somehow, I lost it, and I wasn't about to post a new story without a new chapter from this one lol. CRIMINAL MINDS IS LIT FAM.
Ten months have passed and little Gracie was able to stand up on her own, I had come back to the BAU, James had been a blessing, I trusted him with Gracie I would often leave Grace with him when I left for cases, he would look out for her after daycare, James had moved in, it was easier, the relationship was getting to a point where it had gotten serious, he admired what I did, he has seen horrors at his Job too, and he was happy that what I was doing was to prevent horrible stuff happening to people in the future, when Gracie was born, he was nothing but sweet to her, he tried to spoil her in every way possible, one of James nieces, one of who he would spent weekends with had passed away due to rare disease, and he felt responsible because he never saw the signs, he would made sure Grace was healthy in every way possible and would never fail to entertain her. Gracie had started saying words, she would call James papa, and I somehow accepted that, James was pretty content too but Grace would also referred to the male part of the team as papa too, and they found it sweet and took the role as one for her as well, I thanked whoever was out there, that Gracie's blue eyes were nothing like her real father, her fathers were menacing and were pure evil, my baby's held hope and were bright, and my love for her only grew further with each passing day.
''Hey, what's in that head of yours?''James approached me on bed, after he had gotten out of the shower.
''Nothing.''I answered way too quick
''Don't get angry with me if there is something then, because you were definitely thinking of something and please don't kill me in my sleep...'' He said as he got under the covers.
''Nuh uh, killing you in your sleep would be too messy and self-incriminatory...''I locked eyes with James as he turned over to me.
''Good.''James kissed me tenderly.''but seriously, is there anything wrong?''
''No...I was just thinking about how much my life has changed, for the better... I have Gracie and I have you..'' I said as I kissed him back with the same pace he had.
''Yeah?''He returned the kiss with more passion this time.
''Yeah...''I said between kisses, it soon got heated as he started to traced his fingers beneath the fabric of my pajamas
''Let's go back to Hawaii..''
''Oh my God, shut up about it already, it has been 2 weeks, why won't you stop?!''For James birthday I decided to take him on a full week trip to Hawaii to get him to relax, it was one trip I needed as well and that we both enjoyed, JJ had shared her nanny over, it was of great help too, to have someone that JJ trusted so much to take care of Gracie and so far, she had been great help she would take care of both JJ's and my children while away on a case, James like myself has a very demanding job, even though his job was pretty much flexible there would often be emergencies at night he couldn't say no to, because at the end it was to save a live, that's why he had understood so well what I and my team did.
''Because, it was the best week of my life!, I got you all to myself, and nothing stopped us from having fun, no real life interruptions...''
''We almost got caught at the beach though.''I said remember the very wild week we had.
''I couldn't control myself, if it had been for me we would've stayed all week in that hotel room, I really enjoyed my birthday.''
''We don't have to be in Hawaii to recreate that...''With very drowsy eyes I challenged him.''Turn off your phone, I will turn off mine too... just to make sure.''
''Yes, Yes, I will do so right now...''I chuckled at James rapid moves to accomplish my orders.
''Okay, then if I remember correctly the way we started our magical part of our trip was when I showed you one of your many surprised which was, a really sexy nightgown I had bought to surprise you.''
''Yes...there is no time for that, I like your birthday suit better...''He said smiling into his kiss as it got deeper.
An hour later and the small buzzing from a phone woke us up. Neither of us wanted to pick it up.
''Shit, Grace it's going to wake up. Go get it''I cursed it was now 4:20 AM it must be an emergency and we remember we had turned off our cellphones.
''Let's make a bet...if this is for you, I get to buy you a new nightgown...''
''Deal, if it is for you, you will have to...I'll think about it later, I'm going back to sleep, if is Hotch, ask him at what time, and I will be up if necessary.''
''Deal...'' after a few minutes James had come back up, I woke up slightly to know the answer.
''It was for me, there has been a fire and assistance is being needed, I have to go.''
''Oh, that's horrible, let me make some coffee for you...''
''No, you lay down...it's Saturday, sleep in, I will check on Gracie and then go, I love you babe.''He said kissing me.
''Take care...''I said leaving only one eye open and like suggested by James I went back to sleep.
''James thank you for coming in, it's been all over the news.''A colleague of James started speaking to him talking a bit more of was going on.
''Fill me in, I haven't seen the news, well it happened this morning, right? He asked his colleague
''It occurred in a prison, both guards and prisoners present either a gunshot wound, smoke inhalation or burns, it's ugly, we prioritized those with gunshot wounds, but there are dying on us, we need more help there over a hundred people here and we're still taking more in.'' James stood baffled hearing about such horror story.
''Thanks Sabrina, with that being said I don't there is any more time to lose'' James took those with hits to their head either being a gunshot or a nasty fall or fight, since that was his area. Traumatology ''
...meanwhile...
''Hotchner''Aaron answered within the minute of hearing his phone go off.
''I'm sorry to wake you up sir...''Penelope's frantic voice interrupted his thoughts and set him back to action.
''Don't worry Garcia, it's 7 am anyways, are you okay?...''He asked concerned.
''Yes, is just I was watching the news, there was a big fire, huge fire in a prison where you know who is, there just saying there lots of dead and injured
people...''Hotch had turned on the TV and sure enough they were broadcasting the prison and the people who were trying to turn the fire down.
''Nobody has escaped, right?''Hotch asked even more concerned
''Everything is chaos right now, they're focusing on saving people I don't really know, that's why I'm calling you.''
...meanwhile in the hospital...
James had never in his life had this much work, he considered investing in cloning himself for the future, it had also been exhausting, but he was grateful he had saved one of the guard's life, a bullet was lodged in his brain, as exhausted as he was there was still people needing help, they managed to save those that were in critical conditions, I went to take the chart to check how many of them were left until I crossed a familiar name, it was the same name that had Emily waking up in sweats and have nightmares for the past year. I decided to pay him a visit and went up to he would supposedly be to find an empty bed.
''Excuse me, where is this person?
''Have you talk to Emily?.''He said presuming she had dialed her friend first.
''That's the thing neither she or James will pick up, my guess is she still sleeping, I even tried their landline to check if I could get Gracie awake at least and got nothing. I called Rossi, he told me to call you since he is on one of his trips and I'm away for the technology thingy conference for the FBI thingy, I want to know my kitten is safe.''
''I got it Garcia, I'll go check, Prentiss' house is very secured, not even a S.W.A.T team can get in, they are just probably ...'' Horrible thoughts about them being together and not wanting to be disturbed started to show up in his head.''Out running or grocery shopping, probably forgot their cellphones. I'll call my contacts to make sure nobody escaped.''
''Okay, call me as soon as you know.''
''You'll be the first.''
''Thank you Hotch.''
''Hi little one, are you ready for today? just mommy and you, we'll make breakfast together and then we will watch a movie, no distractions, we'll nap all day, what do you think Gracie?'' Emily couldn't help but chuckle at Gracie's silly happy faces, after James left she had slept some more, and had woken up a little after he had left, and plugged in her phone since it didn't have any battery life left, she thought that was weird considering she turned it off last night, maybe she didn't after all.
''Okay, let's play some silly music, and I'll let you dance.''She kissed Gracie to make her laugh, she was grateful her daughter always wakes up happy.
A few minutes later and music was loud, loud enough she didn't get to hear the ring of her phone, she was concentrated on making a decent breakfast for her and Gracie who was dancing on her high chair behind Emily, she would sometimes turn back and make silly faces to her baby daughter.
''Hey, what are they saying?''Garcia picked up the phone knowing it was Hotch with anticipated news.
''He was on the fire, he is at the hospital, seems like it's very bad, suffered burns all over...He might not survive''
''It is bad that I feel a little tiny bit content about this news.''
''I feel more than a tiny bit content about this, he is where Prentiss' boyfriend works at, I'll try to get in contact with him, he may be there, due to the amount of people that was in the fire, just so we can be at peace.''
''This man Richard, Check in the burns unit, I think he was one of the severely burned people on the fire.''
''Thank you.''James had curiosity on this man who had attacked his girlfriend with such cruelty, he wanted to know if this man would survive the burns. While getting there he thought about something that he may want to say to him. but what he found was not something he was expecting to see, this man Richard Gordon was laying flat on a bed barely breathing, his face wasn't even visible enough, this man had little chance to survive and he felt satisfied about it, he would tell Emily, she would like to know.
''Is he awake?''James asked one of the nurses.
''Yes, sedated but he is awake and in pain.'' James approached him, wanted to take a close look, one of the man's eyes was open and was looking directly to James.''
''Can you hear me?''James asked and the man nodded, the man didn't seem to recognize him, he seemed to be in too much pain.
''Why Emily?''The man was confused with James question.
''Why Emily Richard?''The man's eyes were wide now, he tried to say something but it came out as a whisper, James had to press his face closer to the man so he could hear.
''Fuck.''Emily said as she cut herself, was distracting by the electricity going out all out of the sudden and music stopping.
''Feck.''Gracie repeated.
''Shit!, No Gracie don't say that.'' She tried to stop herself but it was too late
''Shit!Poop Mamma!.'' Gracie said even more excited this time.
''I'm just going to be quiet, keep saying Mamma! Mamma!.''
''Mamma!kiss!'' And Emily went around the island in the kitchen to kiss Gracie.
''Pheww, okay back to breakfast.''Emily said as she refills Gracie's juice, sudden darkness would always terrify her. she kept on adding details to the pancakes that were almost finished.
''Dadda!''Gracie said in her adorable baby tone.
''Who are you referring to, I hope you are not wishing James back so he can cook, because I'm very capable myself of making breakfast.'' Emily said still concentrated on making good pancakes, Gracie would soon know all of the guy's name, she would call Hotch, Derek and well everybody that was a male and in her circle dad.
''Mamma!'' She kept chuckling.
''Mommy cooks what you like Gracie...''
''Dadda Hi''
''I think she is trying to tell you that her daddy is home Emily.'' The cooking stopped, spatula fell on the floor, she froze, it couldn't be happening but sure enough it was, She turned back to see Gracie to see Richard holding her in his arms and a gun.
''Don't touch her, get away from her.'' She yelled in fear, how did he get in, he was wearing a enforcement uniform from the Jail he was at.
''She is my daughter, and you can't deny, she is beautiful, she has daddy's eyes and mommy's hair, this is our doing, we made something beautiful.''
''And she is mine, get away from her.'' Richard pointed the gun at Emily.
''What are you doing? You are going to kill me and take her?''
''I could never, you are my children's mother, I'm not happy about the man sleeping in our bed by the way, I hope that he is not good as me.''
''Okay, then what's next, I swear if you something to her I will kill you.''
''I just wanted to meet her, I'm not here to hurt her or you unless you make me, I won't hurt you, Let's go upstairs.''
''I won't go be going anywhere with you.'' she said knowing what it would lead to.''Not with Grace.''
''As much as I would like to make love to you, I don't have much time, until someone is looking for me, I took the power out, from this house,
security is useless without it, you may want to think about fixing that, I want a secure home for you both.''
''Stop this, you were a police office a chief unit, you know what's right and what's wrong. You know the difference''
''Yes, but this is way more important for me, I have a family now, she know how to walk already?''Richard seemed to be living his own fantasy. She placed Gracie on the floor, and let her walked back to me, I held onto her as hard as I could, everything
about what this man was thinking was unpredictable.
''She walks like a champion.''Emily had stood quiet, it was better not to make him angry.
''I want to see her room, let's put her to sleep, I want to see you do it.'' Emily complied because that was the only way she could put Gracie away from the line of fire, she would take her chance once Grace was away from danger, so she went upstairs,
Richard kept his gun visible, to make sure she would remember his threat.
''Why Emily Richard?'' He repeated the question to the man laying in bed as he got closer.
''My name isn't Richard.''James froze, of course.
''Sorry.'' He sprinted to the outside, in a frantic state.
''Pick up, Pick up.'' He said as he dialed Emily's number multiple times. After a few minutes trying, he got a call from Hotch, he almost hung up on him, being more concerned about Emily, he wasn't close to Emily's house at all, he thought about telling this to Hotch, he would kill the man if necessary.
''James, this is Hotch.''
''I know.''He said trying to control his breathing.
''I'm calling to let you know there is a prisoner there I want you to make sure that is there.''
''He's not, you have to go to Emily's she is not picking up, I'm not that close.'' James could hear movements on the other side of the conversation.
''I'm on my way.''
After placing Grace on her crib, Richard had gotten a hold of her hair and had dragged Emily to what he believed happen to be her room. and threw her on the mattress. Emily took her chance but he was stronger now, he straddled her on her bed making her immobile.
''...I will kill him, I will wait until the right moment, I will not stand him being next to you, so say your goodbyes, you won't be seeing any other man no more, I need time to gather some money, so we can leave the country, I like the thought of being Isolated, no cellphones, not anything, I just came by, to say hi.''He said caressing her body while she struggled, he was going to do it, and she felt weak, but she wouldn't stop fighting, the phone on her nightstand started to ring, he thought it would stop but it kept ringing, that would interrupt Richard from making his way with her. He got so angry that he shot the phone into pieces, hitting the nightstand as well.
''Fucking phone. you see, that's why we need to leave, there won't be any interruption where we are going to live.'' She cried in fear, his explosive behavior shocked her.
''Let go off me, I beg you don't do this.''
''Shut up.'' He said looking the other way.
''You are raping me.''She continued to cry.
''I am not!''
''That's why you were using drugs.'' Richard slapped her across her face.
''You don't think what you did to me was rape?!, that it was somehow consensual because I wasn't screaming or fighting back like I am now?!''
''You belong to me, I am supposed to take care of you.'' He yelled in her face
''I'll make sure she grows up hating you.''With that he had it.
''Do you want her to grow up without a mother?! Huh?'' He said shaking her. He could hear Gracie screaming from her room, he had to do something.
''You are going to rape me right next to her?!, That makes you the worst criminal, you are a piece of shit Richard, you don't deserve her.''
Richard continued to slap Emily, he took a cloth out, struggle to take it out, she tried her best to not get in contact with the cloth.
''Don't fucking do this''She cried again in fear. Gracie was crying across the room, she was afraid that when she wakes up again, Gracie may not be there or both of them would be gone.
''Stay still, I don't want to hurt you.''He said trying to force the cloth over her face.
''Fuck you!'' She tried her best to kick him, after a few minutes she had stopped struggling and let her mind into the darkness.
I was confused about baby development for a second, because I started talking at 3, so I thought that every child starts talking at 3, I had that block like for minutes, will post another story.