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Each member of the rows gathered to see the new letter, to find out what their half way pleasure truly was. They all looked around the room, nothing but two doors and the letter and some little instructions nothing major that could prompt to the next room or anything that could be used for pleasure.
Dear B.A.U. Family
So here we are, Room 3, Half way pleasure, when everyone is in their room 3 I will allow you the opportunity to see one another, firstly Agents Morgan, Garcia, Hotchner, Prentiss, Jareau, Reid to see their spouses and there after everyone.
1*All of your items must be placed by the new door, ready and waiting. This is the only room you are not allowed to use them. There is no need.
2*Lights will cut out when Half Way Pleasures are over and you will have to continued.
3*There is no physical contact, but I promise you, you will see your family.
4* There is the possibility of hearing one another, having not truly been in the madness I would not know, try it by all means.
5* You will not seeing the others until the seventh room after this moment, so lap it up.
Enjoy!
Harder times are coming.
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Row one
Derek paced, back and forth, back and forth; they were now in this room with knowledge that soon they could have their other halves but yet it was nowhere to be seen.
Kevin slid down a wall, wanting this to be over; he knew that although he hadn't fallen he wouldn't remain intact for the entire thing. Things were going to climax.
'You okay there man?'
'Yeah, just thinking.'
Then before Derek could respond the wall to his right all of a sudden shifted and the view into the next room became evident.
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Row Two
'Penelope are you sure you are okay? I've seen you limping.'
'I just fell awkwardly, I'm fine.' Penelope looked at Jane. 'What about your arm?'
'The bleed, it's stopping, plus we can't use our things in here so it will have to do... Thank you.'
'For?'
'I saw you try and reach for me, that's why you fell, you tried to grab me.'
'It was nothing.'
'It was, after what I did to you, I took away your good thing.'
'Truth be told, you gave me my good thing.'
'Derek?' Penelope nodded, as she slid down a wall to inspect her leg and hip. 'Penelope...'
'It's just bruised.' Penelope reassured again, but then jumped as something in one of the walls moved to allow a view into the room that held the men they loved.
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Row Three
'We made.' Strauss said as she collapsed against the wall. 'I can't believe it.'
'I can.' Hotch said knowingly. He now wanted to see Emily. He looked at the walls running parallel and thought how the hell this meant half way pleasures. 'We will get out of here.'
'How do you know that?'
'Because you have the best team, and family striving to get out.' Hotch smiled at that point, hope was all he needed and hope was what he would find even if everything obviously lacked it.
Then there was an almighty shift to a wall and the view was made apparent.
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Row Four
'You okay?' Emily asked as Elle hobbled a bit.
'Yeah, just hurt my ankle and shoulder.' Elle said at long last. 'So how do you recon we are going to see these half way pleasures?'
'I have absolutely no idea.' Emily looked at Elle one more. 'You're bleeding though.'
'I know but its not like I can do much here and its not a heavy flow, just scratches from where I hit the ground. So for now I'll be fine, just battered and bruised that's all.'
Emily's attention diverted from the minor injuries of Elle to the noise as something changed with the walls and a new view came into sight.
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Row Five
'JJ your sides bleeding.' Austin said assessing JJ's now dirty pyjamas.
'Oh it's a little scratch. How's you and the baby doing?'
'We are perfect thanks to you.' Austin said with a smile. 'You didn't have to.'
'I did, that baby needs looking after more than ever and if that means I get a little bump, or a little scratch then I'm fine with that.'
'But Henry?'
'I have a fantasy he is save... I would feel it remember.'
Austin smiled more. 'Thank for though, I will always be grateful.'
'No need.' JJ smiled back and searched the room for anything other than the letter and instructions. 'When do you think we are going to get these pleasures?'
'No idea at all.'
As though to answer the women's queries there was a movement to one side of the walls, something moving within and then all of a sudden there was nothing but a glass wall and a new view.
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Row Six
'You really do underestimate yourself Reid.'
'Huh...'
'The way you got yourself back up in that room, you could give Morgan a run for his money.'
Reid laughed. 'You think so? I have a family to live for now and I promise to make it.'
'You got the mind track as well... so what you recon to this room?'
'Well there are no traps, no nothing, so maybe projections, that would explain the no physical contact.'
'Its really thought out...it must have taken this person a while to make something like this so effective, so precise.'
'Yeah, I was thinking, its gotta get bad, I mean that for the second room, his got a pregnant woman doing it for Christ sake it wanted to achieve something.'
'You don't think Austin fell do you?'
'I don't want to think of the possibility but I can't stop.'
They mulled over the options of what could be and then wall to Reid's left, and Will's right cultivated to life and then a second room became clear.
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Row Seven
'I think we are going to be waiting slightly longer for our highway pleasures.'
'How do you mean?' Gideon inquired.
Rossi handed over the list of who was where. 'The first two rows have Morgan and Garcia, Lynch and his partner. The next two...Hotch and Prentiss...The next two...Reid and Austin, JJ and Will.'
'What about Elle and Strauss?'
'They I think you find are ours.'
'But how do we see them?'
The was a clunk of noise that echoed throughout the whole room. 'I think we have to sit back and wait.'
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Derek's heart soared the moment he saw his wife sitting against the wall in her row looking towards him. He stopped his happiness when he saw the scratch on her face and begun to worry. He walked over to the wall; his wife looked directly at him and smiled. She got up hurriedly and walked as normal as possible to hide the hurt she was experiencing in the leg. Her hand placed on the glass intersection the moment she was in reach of it, yearning for just one piece of him. He put his hand to hers and said I love you, it was muffled but audible and Penelope felt her eyes well up, she said it back and knew she meant every single syllable of it. She now wanted out of this nut house.
Kevin looked on in envy, Penelope had never acted like that to him, he looked at Jane and saw she was hurt, he manoeuvred to the wall and asked if she was okay. Jane nodded, tears falling, she also said that Penelope had tried to save her from falling but in doing so both had gotten hurt. Kevin nodded back and looked Derek, the happiness radiating from him was pretty overwhelming, Kevin knew he loved Jane and he was hoping at the end of this whole ordeal he would know just how much. Until then he would comfort her the best he could in this short period that they had.
Several moments later the wall behind the ladies began to motion as it moved out of the way.
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Emily anticipated the view that would occur. From the list of rows, Hotch would most certainly be in this room, she waited and saw him. She immediately relaxed at the fact that he was completely unhurt. She walked over to the glass and smiled broadly, he matched it. She put her hand up wanting her husband's touch like Penelope did. All she could get was a mental feel of him, like she had when they had curled up in bed the night before. 'Are you two okay?' Hotch asked taking note of Elle behind Emily. They both nodded, they just wanted to reach the end room. Emily looked at Strauss was shocked to see her vulnerability. That unnerved her endlessly.
Both Strauss and Elle stood uncomfortably in the room, no one here was their half way pleasures. They took little happiness from watching Emily and Hotch communicate but other than that Strauss and Elle took their places as far away as possible. They never really got along; there was no changing that after over 5 years.
Moments later they found themselves inspecting the new walls as they changed to reveal the rooms the other side.
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JJ and Austin were standing together forestalling what would be on the other side. The sight that made their worries disperse occurred right in front of them.
Reid swapped sides with Will and went to his wife, he looked at her, saw her unscathed and smiled, his hand rest on the wall by her stomach. 'The baby is fine.' She said, and looked at JJ. 'JJ saved us.' Reid looked at JJ and saw she was hurt, JJ wavered the worries from him with a smile, he shot her a look of appreciation and looked at Austin. She smiled at seeing him alive in front of her. She knew this was temporary but she was cherish seeing Reid forever. As would Reid. They knew they had 3 more rooms to make it though alive before being physical reunited and from Room 3 they would strive for it more.
Will looked JJ up and down, double, triple, then stopped to rest his eyes on her face. She looked at him and smiled. 'Just some bumps.' He nodded, knowing now wasn't the time to argue about how badly hurt she was, he knew his wife too well and he know her stubbornness would mean she would dumb it down to minuscule cuts and grazes. He looked her in her eyes and they said everything their mouths could do, I love you, I want you, I want our son, I want to be safe. Then they heard the familiar sound of walls churning and they saw the others wall changing.
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Everyone looked though the glass walls in one direction and then in the other in bewilderment. Everyone was in different stages of hurt; there were the completely unharmed ones, the minor hurt ones, and the major hurt ones. Hotch and Rossi cursing at seeing the team like this.
Everyone smiled at everyone, tensions diffused in an instance, worries scattering temporarily until the lights cut out and they could no longer see anyone. Derek and Kevin look on. Nothing. Penelope and Jane whip round to look at Derek and Kevin. Nothing. Emily turns to Hotch. Nothing. JJ and Austin look from Rossi and Gideon to Will and Reid. Nothing. Rossi and Gideon continue to look into the darkness. Nothing. Elle and Strauss look both ways. Nothing.
Then seven little bursts of light appear, the doors are now open to Room 4. Everyone clambers to get their 3 items, then taking one look at where their family are, only seeing half human, half silhouette figures they hesitantly continue on through the doors.