"Dave" a distant voice called to him and he ignored it, too tired to respond. "David" There it was again, why couldn't it just leave him be and let him rest? "Rossi" It pleaded to him "please wake up Dave, I know you're tired but you need to open your eyes" the voice told him. He slid one eye open tiredly and could foggily see Emily across from him with a worried expression on her face.
"That's it Dave. I need you to stay awake for me, okay?" she asked him and all he did was groan in response. It was good enough for Emily at the moment since he looked like hell had decided to throw up on him. His hair was wild, a beard starting to take over, his cloths were ripped and burned, and blood was easily visible on his hands and at the corner of his mouth. The wounds on his hands specifically looked bad, they were clearly infected and if the gleam of sweat visible on his forehead was anything to go by and the glassiness in his eyes, he probably had a fever and was developing sepsis. He wasn't going to survive in this hell hole much more than a few days before it killed him. Emily needed to keep an eye on him and find a way out of here.
"Emily" Rossi whispered not able to say it much louder.
"Yea, Dave?" She asked hoping he wasn't going to make a big speech and say goodbye. No, they were going to get out of this alive, both of them were.
"Don't give him shit" Dave said with a little more conviction.
"I won't Dave" she told him softly.
"I won't let him hurt you again" David said more to himself than her.
She sighed inwardly knowing that he couldn't guarantee that but that he'd try getting the Unsub to torture him instead of her. Why would he do it, well it was no secrete that he thought of the whole team as his kids. And what father wouldn't do everything they could to protect their kids?
There were foot steps up stairs and Emily was suddenly back to the present and listening. The Unsub was currently singing to himself, which honestly wasn't all that surprising to Emily, but then the door bell rang. She strained her ear to hear the front door open and a second set of foot steps follow the Unsub to the basement door. They both stopped and Emily could hear some mumbling, before the Unsub and his guest moved back towards the front of the house. Emily sighed, now to figure out a plan of escape, Dave wasn't going to be much help in his state but...her thoughts were cut off by the basement door swinging open and a very, very angry Unsub stomping down to them. Emily swallowed, fear taking over as she spotted the crowbar in his hands.
"I'm going to ask you one time each, who Derek Morgan is and if you don't tell me I will break both of Davie boy here's knee caps. Understood?!" John yelled and Dave flinched at the noise.
"David, who is Derek Morgan?" the Unsub asked and when David didn't reply he brought the crowbar down on his knee. There was a sickening crack and Dave howled in pain as tears streamed down his face from the agony he was in.
"Next!" John said and pointed the crowbar at Emily who immediately sent an apologetic look at Dave. She couldn't tell this man who Derek was because whatever he wanted that information for couldn't have been good. "Who is Derek Morgan?!" John asked and when Emily didn't answer he swung around and brought the crowbar down on Dave's other knee, causing Emily to loose it and begin crying for her friend. She felt horrible for making him go through this but they really had no other choice. The Unsub stormed up the stairs in a fit of rage and slammed the door behind him before leaving the house.
Emily stood then, the chair forcing her to be hunched over, and made her way to the tool table. She grabbed one of the knives and leaned back to sitting. She arched her neck so her hand could reach it and cut through the ropes before doing the same to her feet. She stood finally free, there was no way she'd be able to carry Dave all the way up the stairs and out of the house. He was just too heavy and with broken knee caps he couldn't even help her carry him out. She had to make a decision to either try it and risk failure, leave and get help or stay and try to kill this Unsub herself. The last option seeming pretty far fetched with their current condition, she could feel the infection on her hand spreading and knew what she had to do. She hoped Dave would live long enough for her to bring him help and take this guy out. With that she took off up the stairs a voice stopping her in her tracks at the top.
"Be careful Emily" was all Dave got out before welcoming the abyss to take him into the darkness.
"I will Dave" and with that she left.
Her mission: to find help before Rossi couldn't fight death any longer.