Chapter 13

Morgan's reaction was instant, leaving his sitting position on the rock and walking towards the detective that had parked his car among all the other. Without even looking at Beth he was right in front of the slightly shorter man.

"Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Detective Williams. I interrogated Ms. Clemmons at the station 30 minutes ago." The detective explained.

Morgan turned to look at Beth, who gulped and held up her hands in a defensive position.

"I'm sorry, Morgan, but they arrested me at the hospital after dropping Penelope and Rossi off." Beth told him quickly. "I had no choice but to tell them."

"You could've refused to talk, asked for a lawyer, anything..."

"... And what? Leave you guys hanging here? You could've been a lot more hurt than you are and they said that if I told them they would let me go. I never told them where you were and I checked so I wasn't followed so I don't know how..."

"We tracked you with a GPS." The detective interrupted. "I'm expecting backup any minute now."

"You can't do that! He'll kill them." Morgan said, angrily. "Call your men back!"

"We're bringing a hostage negotiator... I swear we'll get them out of there. He probably won't do anything if he knows he's surrounded."

Morgan knew that the detective was right and he hated himself for admitting it and for not calling for backup himself as soon as he got out.

"Would you be ready to storm the house if needed?" Morgan asked, seriously.

"Yes, but we hope that this guy will go down quietly."

"Yeah, that's what we hope too, but he's smart." Morgan warned. "I'm not sure he would just want to come out like that."

A faint sound of sirens could be heard and all three turned in the direction of the sound. Beth's heart was beating out of her chest; she was so nervous about what would happen.

Morgan was also worried that their Unsub would stay true to his word and kill his friends if the cops showed up.

As the sound grew louder and louder, Morgan straightened his back and made himself look a lot tougher than he had these last couple of hours. He needed to be more confident now like an agent would look like and except for the cuts and bruises you would have never guessed that Morgan had been forced to play those horrible games

One thing he knew, though, was that their Unsub would've heard the sirens and now knew about his new intruders.

Reid didn't let go of Emily the whole time they slept and to be honest, neither one of them had ever slept that well. It was certainly something they could get used to and if they had a choice they would've stayed that way for a very long time, until all this drama was over.

However they didn't have a choice they realized when the door slammed open startling them awake.

"Someone called the police. Someone called the fucking police," he yelled.

Reid reluctantly let go of Emily's thin body and sat up in the bed, revealing his bare chest.

"What are you talking about?" Reid asked, tiredly.

He couldn't have slept for many hours if he still was this tired and Emily still didn't make any effort to get up. It was as if she had forgotten where they were. He smiled down to her exhausted body. He would let her forget for now.

"Your friends apparently want you to die,"

"Calm down, kid... How do you know they're here?"

"The sirens, obviously. A lot of them. They're here now and they'll want to negotiate." The boy shrieked.

They really had to have slept hard if they hadn't even heard the sirens. Emily still didn't move, or she pretended to sleep: Reid wasn't sure, but he hoped that she could stay that way.

"I'll come with you and tell them to get out of there," Reid said and pulled of his covers to get dressed."

"I want mommy to come too," Luke said , still very angry.

"Please, Luke, your mom is exhausted... Can't you let her sleep?" Reid almost pleaded, playing along in his game.

"No, I need her to be up! Wake her up!" Luke yelled, but Emily didn't move and neither did Reid. "I said: Wake her up!"

Without any warning Luke pushed the button, halting Reid's movements and waking Emily up with a violent shock running through her body. She sat up and breathed heavily. Her whole body ached and she needed time to gather herself before she felt ready to even try to speak to them.

"What... The.. Fuck?" She asked between breaths.

"The cops are here. You need to move your ass downstairs right now." He yelled at her and crossed his arms, waiting for her to get dressed.

When she did so, Reid continued with his own clothes until both of them were fully clothed and followed after him downstairs. Entering the living room, Luke furiously grabbed a chair and placed it by Emily, motioning for her to sit. She hesitantly obliged and sat down, still a little dozy from the last shock.

"Tie her up," Luke demanded from Reid, holding the same barbed wire that they'd used as a jumping rope, in front of him.

"I can't do that," Reid said, horrified.

"Would you rather see your lover die?" Luke asked.

Reid cringed and grabbed the wire, looking at Emily apologetically, "I'm sorry."

Emily exhaled, "It's alright... Just do what you have to do."

She closed her eyes hard when Reid started to bind her hands and feet to the chair and cringed when Luke told him to tie her harder. The thorns were cutting into her skin, immediately drawing blood, but it was a hell of a lot better than frying to death.

Reid was soon done and got away easily with just handcuffs to the chair. Even if the 14 year old had wanted them to become a family, he showed that he despised women more and loved to humiliate them. First with the shock collar, then bossing around in the kitchen and then the barbed wire. Reid didn't get any of that; he never got hurt. Had the mother been a lot worse than the father?

Luke paced the living room, running his hands through is messy hair all the time. He suddenly stopped and went to the hall closet to search through all the purses and coats that hung there. Emily and Reid shared a confused look, wondering what the kid was doing.

He came back with a phone. They didn't know who owned the phone, but they did know that it was one of their team member's. They weren't prepared when the flash from the phone went off and Emily was forced to look away from the blinding light.

Luke smiled contently to himself as he continued to press some buttons.

"What are you doing?" Reid asked, curiously.

"I'm sending a photo to the rest of your team. I know someone will get it and they'll know how serious I am."

He pressed one final button and they could hear two different signals from the closet which meant that at least two people wouldn't get it. Obviously the majority wouldn't since they were put in a hospital.

"This wasn't supposed to turn out this way," Luke said and threw the phone on the couch.

"What did you think would happen? Did you really think you'd be able to keep us here forever?" Reid asked.

"They were supposed to be too scared to do anything and then we'd be left alone."

"It doesn't work that way, Luke," Reid said.

"Why us?" Emily asked. "How did you find us?"

"On the TV. You were on the news after being held hostage at a ranch or something. You looked to be so strong and fit to be parents." Luke started before beginning to pace again. "When I heard about your christmas party here I started as a paperboy on Rossi's street. I learned when he usually wasn't home. Then one day when I threw the paper on his front yard I hid on his porch so when he went to get it I snuck in. I got to learn his alarm code so as soon as he went on a case I could prepare."

"How did you lock us in?" Reid asked.

"The door can only opens from the control room I set up in a room I noticed Rossi never visited. I was close to getting caught but I let a rat loose so his attention was else where."

"But you cut a whole in the floor?" Emily asked, incredulously.

"Yeah, that was probably the hardest part, but I thought the idea of someone falling through the floor was hilarious. That I did during your latest case. And since he barely had gotten home before the party he didn't notice it." Luke chuckled to himself.

"And all this because your parents didn't care? But we do Luke." Emily said as sincerely as she could, hoping that he would be upset enough to fall for a loving mother.

"What?" Luke looked up at her.

"We care about you. We love you." Emily explained further. "My biggest dream was to have a kid and now I get two," Emily looked down at her still flat stomach.

"Do you really mean that?" Luke asked and lowered the remote control.

"Yes. You've given me all I've ever wanted and now I really don't wanna leave this place." Emily forced some tears into her eyes and Luke approached her, starting to untie the wire.

"I'm so sorry, mom. I didn't think you loved me. I didn't mean to hurt you." Luke said sadly.

"It's alright honey. The most important thing is that we're together."

Reid looked carefully at Emily and when Emily pulled the young boy into a hug and Emily nodded, he jumped out of his chair, still with one arm stuck on it, and grabbed the remote from Luke's hand. Emily swung the boy around and pressed him into the chair. She hesitated for a moment before taking the barbed wire to tie him up, but not as hard as she had been tied. When that was done she helped Reid to get loose too. Luke kept trashing around in his chair, screaming at the top of his lungs.

"You told me you love me! You don't do this to your own kid!" He kept screaming.

"Luckily, you're not our kid then," Emily said with a smirk.

"Well, too bad for you..." Luke stopped moving, breathing heavily. "There's a bomb in the hall closet that will go off if I don't reset it every hour."

Reid's eyes widened and ran to check if it was true. His face fell when he stared right into the big numbers displayed on the bomb. 00.02.00. Two minutes left and then they'd all die.

"We gotta get out of here," Reid yelled to Emily who immediately ran to his side and saw what he'd discovered.

"Oh my God," Emily gasped.

"His computers," Reid said. "Come on we have to find it."

Reid left Emily and ran around opening door after door. Emily joined him when they only had one minute and 30 seconds left. They couldn't find the room anywhere on the bottom floor and continued to the middle one.

They stopped abruptly on the second door when they heard Luke yelling that it only was 20 seconds left.

"This isn't gonna work." Emily said and ran back downstairs with Reid close behind.

"What do you think we should do?" He asked.

"Disable it."

They reached the closet. 10 seconds left and it was ticking down. Emily took a hold of the red, blue and yellow wire and contemplated which one she she should cut, but she was unsure if she dared too. She quickly ruled out the red one and when it was only 4 seconds left she took a shot at the blue one.

She cut it, but to her surprise the bomb continued to count down. It didn't explode or stop.

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Reid pulled Emily into a tight hug and they both closed their eyes when the bomb hit 00.00.00.

A/N Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger. It's very close to the end.

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