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Hotch busted through the glass doors at the BAU catching the attention of the team, working on the rape case. "Round table now." He ordered. The team quickly gathered at the round table with Hotch pacing, impatiently waiting for them to get set down. As soon as Reid took the last seat Hotch asked, "What information have you found?"
Garcia piped in, "The rapes started about 5 months ago, and there is a new victim every two weeks. Nothing was found similar in their everyday lives except that they all live in Quantico."
"But all the victims look similar in appearance, with pale skin, dark hair, fairly tall and thin. And they are all roughly around the same age." Reid said.
"And we know it's a pact. All the rapes happen the same way. One holding a knife to their throat, the one straddling their torso and one holding down their ankles." Morgan added.
"Each victim is raped by all three guys. We have DNA samples but there were no hits in VI-CAP, so there is no previous record." JJ said.
"We know pacts will eventually break down, so it's only a matter of time." Rossi added.
Hotch was generally distraught un-able to hide these emotions to the room full of profilers. "Garcia I need you to do a check on a locksmith named Jacob located in Quantico. See if it connects with any of the previous victims."
"Previous victims?" Morgan stated. "Hotch what is going on?"
Hotch let out a breath, "Its Emily."
"What about Emily?" Morgan asked.
"This morning she called me to the hospital. She didn't want me to say anything and in respect of her wishes I didn't. She was attacked in her apartment last night in the same way the women in the case were. I left with her from the hospital and we went to her apartment. A man named Jacob was working on her lock. He left and we looked around in the apartment. They took one of her pictures, of us, that was on her nightstand. I was going to take her to my house and was gathering clothes in her room. When I walked out of her bedroom she was gone."
Morgan stood up slamming his fist on the table, "How could you let her out of your sight! Don't you think this information might have been important for us to know!"
"Yes! But I made a decision and now we need to focus on getting her back!"
"How could you let this happen to her! Hasn't she been through enough!"
"I made a decision and I stand by it!"
"Well Hotch your decision wasn't good enough!"
"I don't intentionally jeopardize members of this team!"
"That's what it sounds like to me!"
Rossi thought of something and quickly butted in trying to be the mediator before things got out of hand, "Look, something was taken from her apartment; this didn't happen with the previous victims so Emily must be the object of his rage."
Hotch and Morgan broke their stares at one another taking in what Rossi had just said.
With tears running down her cheeks Garcia got a hit, "Jacob Waller, he had worked on all the victims locks before the attacks, and then after, before the second attack when they were killed."
"Address Garcia!" Morgan said.
"It's already on your phones." She wiped away her tears.
JJ wiped a few tears that had also fallen from her cheeks as she stood up ready to go. Reid patted her on the shoulder, "We will get her back."
"Let's just go." She said back to Reid in almost a whisper.
"Hello, Emily." A voice said to her when she started to stir from unconsciousness.
"Jacob?"
"How I love to hear you say my name?"
Emily looked around the room and saw two other men sitting on a couch drinking beer and watching T.V.
She felt Jacob's hands run up her legs, on the outside of her slacks, moving to her inner thighs and sliding them around to her backside where he firmly squeezed. Emily was not going without a fight this time. She began to struggle and quickly realized that she was bound by ropes at her ankles and wrists.
"You won't even give me a fair chance to fight for myself!"
Jacob laughed and stood back, "Against all of us?" The other two guys looked at him and laughed. He leaned down and cut the ropes, "Go ahead." He taunted her.
She flew off the bed tackling Jacob to the floor. She got out one punch to his face before she was pulled back by the two other men. When she felt their pull she leaned back into their pull and thrust her feet into the air kicking them in the stomach. Jacob then jumped back on top of her. She started punching his stomach as he wrapped his hands around her neck. She quickly gouged him between his ribs and forced a roll landing her and him on their sides. Again she was pulled off him by her arms. With that pull she kicked her feet towards Jacob getting a good kick to his face. Then she pulled with all her strength trying to pull the other two down to the floor with her but her efforts were rendered useless.
As the two were pulling her back Jacob had stood up. She struggled kicking and twisting from side to side trying to get free. One of the men lost a grip on her arm. When he did she seized the opportunity, using it to pull the other guy onto the floor where he landed on top of her. She pushed and kicked trying to get free from underneath him, but her arms were pressed with an immense amount of force onto the floor, above her head, by the younger guy. Jacob had grabbed a hold of her feet. The guy she pulled down was now straddling her.
"Rip her shirt open!" Jacob commanded." Emily wasn't going to give up. She still was twisting and turning her torso as much as she could. Her ankles had been grasped by Jacob's hands and she was still violently kicking but to no avail. Jacob then straddled her legs and she could no longer kick them. He slowly moved up and pushed the other guy off her. Now Jacob was sitting on top of her, at her waist. He pulled out a knife he had tucked in the back part of his pants. He lightly pressed it into her chest, only enough to barely break the skin and then he slid it all the way down to her belly button.
In the SUV, on the ride to Jacob Waller's, Reid was in the Vehicle with Hotch and JJ. Reid said, "I wonder what the five month trigger was?"
"Me Reid. I was the trigger. I became a threat to Jacob getting close to Emily." Hotch said.
Emily was lifted off the floor onto the bed again, they starting trying to tie her back up and ignoring the pain, down the front of her torso, she decided to fight it." She kicked and moved her fists yelling then the door was kicked in, Hotch sent the door frame flying into the room. The rest of the team came storming in behind him.
Hotch went straight to the bed, holstering his gun. He lifted Emily up into his arms. "I fought this time." She said, barely audible.
"You did good." He said. Hotch and Morgan exchanged glances as Hotch walked out of the room, taking Emily to the ambulance waiting down stairs.
Emily felt her body start to relax, causing the pain to come back to the fore front. She winced at the throbbing pain from the cut of the knife. Hotch noticed her discomfort and said, "It's going to be okay."
Hotch stepped up into the ambulance and set her down on the bed. "Don't leave me." She said not letting go of his hand.
"I won't." He kissed the top of her hand, "I'm proud of you."
Emily let her eyes close. She put out all the other commotion of the EMT's and let herself feel that it was only her and Hotch alone. She grasped his hand tighter and drifted off from being completely exhausted due to the struggle she had endured.
She woke up in the hospital to Morgan at her bedside. "Hey, how are you?"
She let herself wake up a little more before she answered. "I'll be okay." Emily noticed the look on Morgan's face of not knowing what to say or do. Emily suddenly felt guilty for not telling them. By the look on his face and the one on Hotch's staring in from the hallway she knew they had it out. "Derek, don't be mad at Hotch. It was my fault. I made him promise."
Derek smiled and leaned forward, "No worries, I probably would have done the same thing he did." He stood up and kissed her on the forehead. "You just get to feeling better."
"I will." She smiled at him.
Derek walked out of the room.
Hotch stood in the doorway looking at her.
With his look of concern it sent Emily crashing, allowing her emotions to come through. She had become close enough to him and felt comfortable enough with him that she felt she could show her emotions. He had been with her so much and helped her realize that holding your emotions in can only hurt you worse.
Hotch pushed the door shut and sat on the edge of her bed. "I'm scared."
"I'm here Emily and I'm not leaving."
Please review let me know what you think. Next is Emily's struggle and Hotch trying desperately to help her through it.
