A/N – Thanks to everyone who read and reviewed the last chapter, after being away for a while it was nice to know that there are still people out there enjoying the story. The next few chapters are going to be a bit emotional for the team but especially Emily and Milly, my husband has taken the kids camping for the weekend so I will have plenty of time to write and think how the story is going to progress!

Chapter 15 –

09:23AM Friday 18th November 2011

Emily reached up with her free hand and wiped the tears from her eyes while she shook her head and swallowed hard.

"No Milly, it's me you're alive, in a hospital in Dallas."

Emily's voice was quiet but the words got through to Milly as she blinked her eyes and focused in on Emily's face, squeezing her sister's hand tightly to ensure that it really was true.

"I thought, the Colonel said..."

"I'm sorry, so sorry Milly, I had to hide from someone and that meant..."

Emily had to stop but Milly nodded her head but then winced slightly.

"Milly?"

"Sorry my head hurts."

"That's not surprising, I'd better go and get the doctor to check you out."

"Emily?"

"Yes sweetie."

"What happened to me?"

Emily closed her eyes and bowed her head before she slowly opened them and smiled at Milly, reaching across she brushed the brunette hair off from Milly's face, the sound of the door opening interrupting the moment but Emily leant closer and spoke quietly to her sister.

"It doesn't matter now Milly, just relax I'm right here with you."

09:48AM Friday 18th November 2011

Dave looked up from his notes as the door opened, the smile on JJ's face confused him for a moment, especially seeing as they had just come back from seeing another dead female but then he saw that the smile had yet to fade.

"JJ?"

"I just spoke to the hospital, Milly is awake!"

The words and the smile suddenly became clear to Dave as he opened his mouth and made a large 'O' shape that had a matching sound to accompany it.

"I'm going to the hospital, Hotch wants me to speak to Milly as soon as possible."

"Ok."

For once Dave was a man of few words, he was estatic that Milly was awake but he was also worried about how Milly was going to react to Emily and how open she would be to talking about what had happened to her.

"It will be ok Dave, we need to catch this unsub fast as he is escalating, Milly can help us with that."

Dave just nodded his head as JJ flashed him a wide smile, somehow she could read him better than anybody else on the team and somehow that also brought him a great deal of comfort.

11:12AM Friday 18th November 2011

JJ stood outside the hospital room, iPad in one hand coffee in the other, the doctor and Emily were deep in conversation but finally the two of them headed out of the room, the doctor smiling as she walked past JJ but Emily stopped and gave her friend a weary smile.

"Here I think that you need this more than me at the moment."

JJ smiled as she passed the coffee over to Emily.

"Thanks, I was just falling asleep when Milly woke up."

Emily closed her eyes briefly as she smelt the warm aroma of the coffee.

"Well why don't you go and get some rest for a while?"

Emily stopped lifting the cup to her lips and looked hard at her friend.

"You need to speak to Milly?"

JJ nodded her head slowly.

"Yes, sorry."

Emily shrugged her shoulders and took a sip of coffee.

"Just be gentle with her, she is still in a lot of pain."

"Of course Emily, how did she react?"

"To me? That I'm alive?"

JJ nodded and watched as Emily took a long and heavy sigh.

"She thought that she was dead at first but everything is still so raw, we haven't really talked about it yet."

"There's plenty of time for that as yet, go and get some rest and I'll give you a call when I'm finished."

"Thanks Jen."

Emily smiled as she turned and walked away, JJ put her hand on the door and took a breath, it was never easy interviewing witnesses, especially ones that had close links to the team.

11:16AM Friday 18th November 2011

JJ smiled as she walked into the room, taking the seat nearest the bed which had obviously been Emily's during the long hours she had waited beside her sister's bed.

"Hello Milly, I'm Agent Jareau how are you?"

Milly turned her head towards the unfamiliar figure but after a moment there was a slight recognition of the face.

"You work with Emily?"

"Yes I do."

Milly closed her eyes for a moment as JJ reached across and took a hold of the teenager's hand.

"I know that this is hard Milly but I need to ask you some questions."

"About Emily?"

"No about what happened to you."

"I don't understand Agent Jareau."

"Please call me JJ Milly, and let me explain a little. I'm here in Dallas with my team as someone has been killing young women, specifically prostitutes, we think that your attack might be linked."

JJ spoke softly as she watched Milly listen carefully and then as a few tears escaped from Milly's eyes.

"Emily must hate me."

"Of course she doesn't, she loves you Milly. Emily has been looking non-stop for you since she found out that you were missing."

"Oh."

"Please Milly, we can talk about Emily later but I need to ask you some questions first."

"He has killed girls?"

"I'm afraid so."

"I guess I was lucky then."

"Extremely."

JJ looked at the girl as she swallowed hard, she knew that she had to push Milly, guessing that the girl was as stubborn as her sister and that she needed to know the truth.

"I'd like to show you a photo Milly."

"Ok."

JJ clicked her iPad on and pulled up the sketch that had been drawn up from Amber's description.

"That's him."

"Ok, is there anything that you can add to this drawing?"

Milly shook her head as the tears trickled down her cheeks.

"He said that his name was Paul."

"That's good Milly, anything else?"

"He called me Angel when he was attacking me, he told me to beg for my life but I couldn't...I thought that nobody would care if I was dead, that I'd be better off like that."

Milly's voice broke off at the end and JJ was trying hard to fight back her own tears, she swallowed hard, allowing herself a moment to compose herself before she replied.

"Well you know that it is different now Milly, thanks for the information, I'll get Emily to come back and sit with you."

"No, please can you stay with me for a while?"

JJ frowned but understood how conflicted Milly felt, quickly she emailed the information garnered from Milly to the team before making herself comfortable as she watched Milly drift off to sleep.