REUNITED AND IT FEELS AWKWARD
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Agent Derek Morgan walks past the Impala sitting at the edge of what looks like a battlefield. Men are helping each other gather themselves or assisting the wounded to the ambulance. The dust disturbed by their movement. Agent Spencer Reid who is standing with Agent Aaron Hotchner and the SWAT Commander Levi are preparing to send out a search unit when he sees Agent Morgan. "Derek" he says in a soft tone then looks back at the two men starting to walk the other way, "Hotch its Derek!"
The two men reach Derek and help him. "Derek you had us worried." Reid puts an arm around him for support. "What happened out there, Agent Nick and the Medical Examiner have been back for some time." Reid saw the smile on Derek's face and felt the head rub messing his hair. "Ok, Ok you're alright." He laughs.
With a relieved hidden smile on his face Hotchner helps Derek over to a gurney by the ambulance. "You look ok, except for the blood on that thick skull of yours. What were you thinking running off during radio silence?" He motions a paramedic over to them.
"I was thinking of stopping some fool from throwing a bomb down the ventilation shaft and blowing everyone up inside. That is what I was thinking."
The reunion is interrupted when Hooper pops his head out of the SWAT Central Control Van. "Hey, Levi you have to come see this." Reid stays with Derek while Hotchner catches up with Levi to see what Hooper has found.
Inside the van the men gather behind Hooper who is sitting at a computer. "I uploaded the footage from Benji." He looks to the men behind him, "that's what I call the Rover Cam." Then looking back at the screen, "anyway I was looking through the footage and thought you might like to see this." He hits enter for the video to start.
On the screen they watch the picture slightly moving up and down then stop. Its point of view is lowered to the floor and they get a good look at the dead man's face and a minute later they can see Dean or Agent Jonas as they know him yelling into the camera. "It's the agent we lost." From behind they hear footsteps and can feel the van tilt as Sam enters. Hooper hits the pause key. "Oh, hey I don't know if you want to watch this." His statement is directed at Sam who is mellowed out from the shot he received. Hooper sees the nod for him to continue and then returns to the computer to restart.
The long shaft is dark and the picture continues to bounce. They can hear the Agent, his voice short of breath and harsh from breathing the stale air of the mine "Sammy, Sam if you get this I Love you." Ahead can be seen the opening to the cave entrance. "Light ahead, things look promising. If I get out of this Sammy I am going to start eating salad and more running." He stumbles but manages to keep going, "Definitely more…" The video feed goes dark.
Turning to Sam whose eyes are frozen to the screen Hooper gives his input. "This is where we loose audio. I think your partner fell." The next few screens were of Dean's face grinning at the camera and talking, but no sound. Then they see the camera moving away from the shaft as Dean is now carrying it backwards under his arm. Every now and then the video shows signs of static then a clear view. They watch as the red glow begins to fill the opening of the shaft before it is over taken by a huge cluster of dust and smoke. The video still moving across the main entrance halts for a moment before leaving the mine where Dean stops again. Large rocks drop in front of the camera and the bouncy pace continues.
The bellow of smoke is closing in. The Mine entrance is buried under a rockslide and then a burst of flame breaks through and the rocks fall to the caverns below. The men in the van watch the video as the ground outside the mine breaks apart and disappears leaving behind a large gaping hole where smoke is released into the air.
All are holding their breath. Hotchner seeing the terror in Sam's face offers him a stool to sit on, that he accepts without question. The following scenes keeps everyone on edge as they watch the floor of the pit disappear in a direct line towards them and then nothing but smoke and ash until they see the video of the Rover Cam showing Dean falling above. Benji spins slowly away from Dean and points to the opened cavern below filled with burning gas its flames stretching to reach the surface for air.
Making a full rotation they can see Dean his limbs spread out trying to reach for the wall to stop his fall. His eyes bulging with fear in the fast descent towards a burning death. Then the Rover Cam goes dead. "NO!" Sam jumps off the stool towards the monitor. Hotchner and Levi block his forward movement trying to retrain the bulge of muscle reaching for the computer.
Hooper having jumped out of the way watches. "Nick stop there is no more. Benji must have over heated. I am sorry about your partner but there is nothing more to see." And Hooper was right. There was nothing more for them to see. But it's what they didn't see that matters.
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