It took Hotch, JJ and Reid about ten minutes since he talked to Morgan to get to the waiting room. They looked tired like all of them and JJ looked like she was crying. She entered the room first and Rossi's head shot up immediately. She stopped right in front of him and didn't even pause to catch a breath before she started rambling. "Where is she? Is she ok? Did they tell you anything?"
"JJ, calm down, I don't know anything. The doctor didn't show up, yet. Right now she's on the surgery. Come on sit down, all of you, you're making me nervous." He said in a calm voice. And the three agents sat down next to him. JJ was next to Rossi and he noticed her hands were shaking so he took her hands in his own and after a while she calmed down a little but was still obviously very upset. And who would blame her they were all scared to death for Emily.
Hotch was sitting on the other side next to Rossi and was quietly thinking about what happened. Morgan told them that he would be there as soon as he get's Garcia from the police station and they would watch the tape together because honestly no one wanted to see exactly what was done to Emily. But something was missing but he couldn't put his finger on it. After what seemed like eternity but in reality it was probably only three minutes it clicked.
"Rossi, where is Strauss?" he asked suddenly and everybody flinched.
"What? Oh, yeah they took her to be checked out. She has a cut on the cheek. It looked like from a knife, so he had to be really close." He paused for a moment. "I'm trying to figure out how come she has only one cut but Emily is on the operation table right know fighting for her life." He said and that got everyone else's attention. But he remained quiet and after few seconds JJ spoke up.
"Well, we'll find out when Morgan and Garcia get here with the tape from the house." After that no one said another word. All of them were thinking about what was going on with their friend and what would happen if she wouldn't make it. Ten minutes of silence were interrupted by the sound of door opening. All four heads shot up with hope it would be Emily's doctor. But instead they saw Strauss followed by a nurse who gestured for her to sit down. She nodded and sat down to the chair on the opposite side of the room and kept her eyes on the floor. The cut on her cheek was cleaned up but there were no stitches. None of them spoke to her and she didn't seem to try to make any conversation with them, so they all sat there in quiet, not able to look somewhere else but the floor.
After what seemed like eternity the door opened again and this time Morgan and Garcia walked into the room. "Any news?" were Derek's first words. When everybody shook their heads he sighed deeply and led Garcia to sit. She was crying and visibly shaking. When she sat down he took the seat in front of Hotch. "Guys, we have the tape. We haven't watched it yet. We couldn't…" he paused for a second before he continued. "We should do it together." When everybody nodded Garcia pulled her laptop and they all shifted so they could see what was going on on the screen. When Garcia found the right part of the video she paused and took a deep breath. They all did. Then she pressed the play.
They heard Emily curse and suddenly there was a large man right behind her and when she turned around he punched her to the face. Garcia let out a small gasp as she watched her friend fall to the ground. And then they all flinched when a loud crack came out of the speaker as the men kicked Emily to her side and her ribs broke. They could see Strauss who backed off so he wouldn't notice she was even there. They watched the interaction between unsub and Emily and then she tackled him to the ground when he was about to hurt Strauss.
"Oh my God." It was JJ. The tears were running down her cheeks. She watched as he stabbed her for the first time. The pained look on Emily's face was horrible. She couldn't imagine in how much pain Emily had to be. And when the gunshot came out of the speaker and they saw Strauss roll the dead body off of their wounded friend Garcia and JJ were crying. Morgan was red with anger. Reid sat in his chair with face hidden in his hands. Hatch was staring at the screen and Rossi was combination of all of those. Suddenly he jumped out of the chair and ran towards Strauss. He grabbed her and shoved her on the wall.
"What the hell was that?!" He yelled into her face not caring the fear and tears in her eyes. The rest of the team now stood right behind him but they made no effort to stop him. "Why did you just stand there? You let this happen to her. Emily saved your life and you didn't move the finger to help her. He was about to kill you and now it's her who's fighting for her life. That should be you on that table and not her!"He took a step back, he was breathing heavily and he had a desperate need to punch something. "I'll make sure you won't step one foot in to the FBI ever again. And if she dies you'll wish you were never born." With that he sat back on his chair and stared at nothing. The other agents stared angrily at Strauss who just stood leaning against the wall with tears flowing from underneath her closed lids.
Hotch turned to look at his team. "Guys we should start working. This wasn't our unsub we have to find out who killed those women and who hired that bastard to kill Davidson."
"I'm not going anywhere." Rossi said immediately and JJ was close second. "Me neither."
Hotch sighed. "Ok but the rest of us should go. Morgan and Reid, you two go back to Davidson's house, me and Garcia are going to the precinct. Come on, let's get that son of a bitch. So we can tell Emily who's responsible for all of this when she wakes up. And Rossi, keep us updated." Rossi nodded and he and JJ watched the rest of their family leave the room. JJ took his hand and gave him a reassuring smile. They sat like that for about an two hours, no one sad a word. They all took turns on pacing across the room. And then the doors opened again and the doctor came in.
"Family of Emily Prentiss?"