A/N I'm so terribly sorry for the gap between updates. I really struggled with this chapter. Good thing is that I have the chapter after this done too, plus two chapters of CKTC(just waiting for smore one to read through it) so I can update again in a week:) Thank you for being patient with me:)

Chapter 4

They needed to figure out how to do this. The voice said that Emily was trapped, and although they hadn't seen it for themselves they couldn't take the risk that she actually was. Maybe she was trapped in one of the many rooms in Rossi's mansion, or maybe she was stuck with the man telling them what to do. They didn't know, but they needed to find out. They just hoped that the games this man wanted to play wouldn't leave anybody hurt, but with their experience this guy would want nothing more.

So they decided that half of them would go to the second floor while half of them went to the third. Emily had gone to the bathroom on the second one so they doubted she was on the first floor, but of course he could've moved her. If he managed to lock them inside the house there was a big chance that he could've sneaked past them while they were busy searching for a way out of there. It was so frustrating not knowing what the hell was happening, none of them had any control. Whoever was trapping them in the house, Rossi's house, had. Will, Hotch, Garcia and Reid went to the third floor, while Morgan, Kevin and Rossi went to the second. None of them had a gun to defend themselves with if danger would occur; they only had the candles to light the way in front of them. Rossi knew he had guns locked up in his house and he would go get them. Later. First they needed to know that Emily was okay and where it was safe to go.

They quickly reached the middle floor and the four assigned to the third hurried past all the doors and up the second staircase.

"I think we should've grabbed some knives and bats so we can kill whatever's behind this door," Garcia complained in a whisper.

"That doesn't sound so bad right now," Reid agreed as they reached the first door.

Then they all started to open door after door, searching through the room with the candle. If someone else other than Emily was in one of those rooms they would be in groups and perhaps be able to defend themselves. No one knew how many doors had been opened when one of them spotted Emily lying on a bed, seemingly asleep. Just when he was about to tell the others a shot rang out and he stumbled backwards, clutching his side hard in hopes of stopping the blood that quickly seeped out through his shirt. The people around him hurried to his side.

"It went right through," one of them said, motioning to the bullet hole in the wall.

"He needs medical help or he might bleed out," another one said.

The voice clicked on again. "That's absolutely right. He really does need some help with that wound. Such a same, just when I was having so much fun. Someone can escort him to the door before we continue the game."

They looked at each other and decided quickly who would take their injured to the door. Why would he let more people go? All of them were now sure they had profiled their guy wrong. Something bigger was going on, they just needed to figure out his agenda.

JJ's heart stopped when a shot was heard. She looked to Beth who was hugging Jack tightly in her arms. Sure there was a chance it was Rossi's gun that was fired, but the big question was who was holding it. None of them had brought their guns to a christmas party and Rossi's guns should've been safely locked away. The house had been dark when they left, except for the candles on the living room table. Were they really that quick to get the guns and find the man that had locked everybody inside.

The chance of that was slim to none.

Both free women was scared of whom was down. JJ couldn't imagine what she'd do if Will was shot; what would she do if any of them was shot. She loved all of them so much and the thought of someone bleeding to death inside that house made her stop breathing. Beth hadn't known everybody as long, but you could see that she was also scared to death of whom had just died. It couldn't be anything else than a fatal shot because that had to be the mad man's plan. To kill them all, one by one, until he was left standing alone. He and the four who had been let out way too easily.

Beth wanted to take Hotch's place. Why had he sent her with Jack when what he really needed was his father. Of course Jack loved Beth, but the little boy could lose his father now too which meant that he would have no parents left. Beth held Jack tighter and let her tears fall.

"Will daddy be okay?" the little boy asked her.

Beth swallowed back her tears and nodded. "Yes, sweetie. They will all be okay."

She knew it was a lie, there was no way all of them would come out alive. She knew enough about their work to not keep her hopes up. Even JJ looked as if she knew that same thing. But Beth had promised that if anything would happen to Hotch, she would be there for Jack just as much as Jessica had after Haley passed away.

They didn't have more time to think about what the hell had happened in there when the door suddenly clicked open. They held their breath as they waited for someone or something to come through the door. JJ was the first to react, handing her son to Beth and ran to the man that was stumbling out the door.

"Kevin!" She yelled, running to the injured man. "What happened?"

She looked to where Kevin was clutching his side. His hand was covered in blood, as was his bottom left side of the shirt. Kevin didn't answer though, he just groaned in pain as he supported himself on JJ and stumbled forward.

"Please, I need to know what happened. Lift your hand so I can take a look." The two of them stopped and Kevin removed his hand carefully. The bullet had hit his side, gone right through without hitting anything vital, but it would still hurt like hell. "Can you tell me what happened?"

"Ehm... We were looking for... Em.. And I opened a door... She was there, but... Something just shot me." He breathed heavily. "He let me out so I could go to a hospital."

JJ glanced to the house and then back to Kevin. That was really odd. By the sound of it he wanted to kill them all so why would he go through this much trouble and then let the injured out to get medical help. Something just wasn't right with this whole situation. The thought crossed her mind that he was just after the BAU team, but if that was true he should've sent Will out instead of JJ. Or maybe this guy wasn't a killer, he just found pleasure of seeing them all scared.

They reached Beth who had fear written all over her face. Beth also thought this was strange. There were so many questions running through the women's heads that they wouldn't get an answer for. Not yet. Maybe not ever. But this gave them that little hope they needed to believe that the others would come out of there alive too.

"Beth, can you take my car and drive Kevin to the hospital and the kids somewhere safe?" JJ asked Beth and retrieved her car keys from the purse she had grabbed before she had exited the house. "I don't know if we should call for back-up, I don't wanna risk anything so just take them to safety."

"Okay, what will you do?" Beth asked worriedly.

"If Kevin was let out, more will come."

JJ took her son back and gave him a big hug and kiss. "You behave, little buddy. Okay?" Henry only nodded in response, clearly shaken up by the situation. JJ helped to put the kids and Kevin into the car and watched them speed away. Beth would definitely break a couple of laws to hurry back before next one was released.

A/N There you have it! One more out:)

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