The events that are referred to here can be seen in the episodes of Criminal Minds season 6 Lauren and Vahalla about Emily Prentiss and her "faked" death due to Ian Doyle and enemy from when she worked at Interpol before the FBI and the BAU. And dustytiger this is not well a happy chapter. You were warned before I went there. Oh and I am also going out of character with Tony. Hope it works. (Part one of possibly two.)

Three months later: Tony had been working another case with another team who needed Jet to look for explosives in a vacant building that was being used for a meth lab and had also been wired to go up taking the police with them or anyone who got too close. So he had not been with the profilers for a week or more. He came home to a phone call from Morgan saying she had been injured by someone named Ian Doyle and that it didn't look good. So he went to the emergency room of the hospital that the team used for injuries and minor problems as well.

He had jeans on and a casual shirt under his leather jacket as he walked in to find everybody from the BAU gathered in the hallway.

Tony said "How's Emily? I just came from the airport and dropped Jet off at home so she could get out of her travel crate. "

"She's in surgery right now. She was impaled on a wooden beam and beaten. That's all we know.", David Rossi said.

He said "She's tough right. Who did this to her?"

Morgan sighed. " Ian Doyle , a renegade arms dealer from Ireland that has a vendetta from her days at Interpol." He had some streaks of blood on his shirt sleeve that he didn't notice."

"I was there , can't get it out of my head."

Tony nodded. "At least she had a friend who helped there with her when I couldn't be."

Derek sighed. "Hope I did enough. It was pretty bad. " He moved up the hall then quietly.

Then Tony sat down to wait and moved his neck from side to side. "Flying kinks up my neck. Went to Paris once to get a witness at NCIS and had to see the chiropractor for a while after that."

Then everybody went silent as JJ came down the hall. She inhaled for a minute. "I am not sure I can repeat this again so I am going to say this once. Emily's injuries were too severe. The doctors managed to remove the wooden beam but then she coded on the table. I am sorry but she's gone."

Hotch stood there near her. "Go home everybody it has been a difficult day and we need funeral arrangements made."

Tony walked up to JJ and said "Wait a minute. You're telling me that she's gone. I just talked to her last night on the phone, when I'm not with the team we call and say goodnight. It's our thing, helps me sleep better in a hotel room even if Jet is there near the bed." "Why wasn't I told sooner that she might not make it through this? I thought this team was my family. I can't be here."

He headed to the door at the end of the hall and pushed it open. "I want this bastard who took her from me with or without anyones help. "

The door banged behind him against the wall as he went outside. He rummaged in his jacket pocket and found an old pack of Marlboros and his lighter. He hadn't smoked since he had battled pneumonic plague. And well after Kate before that. He liked it when he indulged in his rare beer and not everyday.

He found his lighter and pulled out the pack. He had a cigarette in his hand and was just about to inhale when heels clicked behind him .

" Do you really want to do that angel fish?" "I remember how you fought to stay alive when you wrestled the plague, seems like your asthma won't like the smoke."

He said "Not now Pen ok. I just wanted to smell it. I need something after what just happened in there."

She sighed. " I know you wanted to be here. But you're here now."

" And a lot of good that did, I can't even see her one last time or hold her in my arms. Can't even tell her well it doesn't matter." He was leaning against a brick wall of the hospital and then went quiet.

"I went off on JJ or did you miss that? She had to be hurting as much and I tore her a new one."

Penelope looked at him. "She's a forgiving person ."

"I can't be here right now, not in that building."

"Where do you want to go then?"

He said " My house , your place, just not here."

"Well my place is a few blocks away ."

" You're going to get cold out here anyway Pen."

" So are you Tony, let's go somewhere warmer and maybe you'll talk then."

Later at Penelope's apartment: Tony went inside and stood there looking out her window for a minute. He shivered a little. "Can't get warm." "Maybe a hot shower will help."

" You're putting a wall up again Tony. This is me who you don't need to do that bullshit with. We all need each other right now and you want to push everyone away from you why?" "Why don't you let anyone in to be here for you?"

" Because everytime I do they fricking leave me. Or they eventually make it so I run. Just have to slap another brick in the wall again."

She hugged him. " Go get your shower, maybe it will help you feel more human."

"Someone has to get Jet. " He said as he headed toward her bathroom.

" Morgan is going to bring her by. I told him you needed your puppy right now."

He said " Yes I do." His voice cracked a little and then he got his go bag and the bathroom door closed.

Penelope exhaled. She was going to need a lot of help with Tony. And she might need to get Gibbs involved as well. Their team and Jet weren't going to be enough for this one, not by a long shot."