All Things Happen For A Reason
Chapter 24
"What are you doing?" Meghan asks, as John gathers some blankets, some first aid stuff and grabs her arm.
"We are leaving. You, me and our child." John pulls on Meghan's arm, dragging her out of the bedroom.
"Wait! What about Emily? Did you kill her?" Meghan panics.
"No. Now come on!" John says, dragging her down the hall. Henry is taken aback.
"John, stop this!" Henry yells.
"Shut up old man!" John yells, turning and firing a shot at Henry's chest. Meghan screams.
The team outside hears this. And moves faster. Hotch's heart thinks it's Emily. And is angered even more. He's tired of people hurting the women that he loves. Once in place they bust in the doors. And go in. They can hear movement upstairs. Morgan goes up the back stairs. Hotch and Reid go up the front stairs.
They have John and Meghan trapped with Henry on the floor, clutching his chest as blood seeps out.
"Freeze John! Let Meghan go!" Hotch's gun is pointed straight at John's head.
"No" She's having my baby! She's mine! You can have your precious Emily back if you let me leave with Meg." John trying to negotiate.
"Sorry, but I will have Emily, but we take Meghan with us. The only thing you get is prison time." Hotch says, his trigger finger getting itchy.
All of a sudden, Meghan stomps and elbows John, takes his gun when he drops it and shoots him. For a moment, Meghan thought she missed. Until she sees the blood pooling around his crotch area.
"Hmm, what do you know? Those shooting classes paid off. As well as the self-defense classes. I guess a mother's instinct to protect her child is good even in womb." Meghan says, staring at the pile of mess that is John Logan. Knowing it wasn't a kill shot, but would keep him from running and hurt REALLY bad.
Reid tries to stop the bleeding on Henry. Morgan calls Garcia and tells her they need three ambulances. That they have Meghan, but not Emily yet. Then hangs up.
"Meghan, do you know where Emily is?" Hotch asks.
"Yeah, here in this room." Meghan tries it, but it's locked. Hotch moves her back and kicks the door open. They all see Emily tied to the bed. She's awake and trying to untie the rope.
"Emily!" Hotch rushes to her bedside and tried to free her hands. But the knots are too tight.
"Hold on sweetie." Hotch pulls out his pocket knife. He cuts the rope from the bed. Then tries to carefully cut it from her wrists.
"Oh Hotch! I'm so glad to see you!" Emily tries to through her arms around him. Not caring about the ropes. "How's Meghan?" Meghan and Morgan walk in.
"Oh thank god! Where's John and Henry?" Emily asks.
"I took care of John." Meghan grins.
"But it's too early! Is he ok? How's JJ?" Emily asks.
"Both are fine. Yes, it's early, but they are both fine." Morgan says.
"Oh good. Glad Rossi stayed with her. She needs him." Emily says, swinging her legs over the edge of the bed. She goes to stand up, but is unable to. Hotch catches her and holds her up.
"You ok sweetie?" Hotch gets a better hold on her.
"Yeah, he just slapped me twice. The last one was hard enough to knock me out. My face feels ten times as big as is should." Emily smiles, leaning into Hotch and inhales deeply. "Oh be careful of my leg. The stitches came out again. But Henry stitched them up again. I don't want to pull them out again. I hate hospitals. I want to sleep in a normal bed." Emily says, hobbling out of her prison.
They could here people entering the house. It was the ambulance crews and the FBI back up. Garcia, close on their heels. The ambulance crew attend to Henry and John. The other half look at Emily and Meghan.
Meghan clears to leave on her own. Emily was told her knocks to the head gave her a mild concussion. And they managed to get the ropes off her wrists. Then bandaged them up. They said if she didn't exsert herself the stitches would hold and she could go home. ONLY if she went to see a doctor in 1 to 3 days. Or go to the ER if she vomited or had blurry vision.
So Hotch gave the local FBI his card and promised to come in the following day to give a statement about what happened. He just wanted to get Meghan back to her family and Emily back to the hotel.
Tomorrow they would deal with statements and visit JJ and baby Billie. They were all tired and they were crashing from the adrenaline kick.
Emily was just so happy being back in Hotch's arms. And seeing Reid, Morgan and Garcia. But she had that nagging feeling this wasn't over yet. Not by a long shot.
AN/ Hope you all like this chapter. I just felt that Meghan needed to enpower herself and maybe get some confidence back in her life. As she will be raising a child. And any woman that is a survivor of violance, she needed to know she could protect herself and her child from monsters such as John Logan. Please be sure to review and let me know if you liked it or not. And there is plenty more to come. Thanks for reading and reviewing. You all make this story so much more enjoyable to write.
