Chapter 13:

Author's Note: Hello guys, I know is been a while but as you know everything is going to hell! Thank you so much for your patience and special thanks to people who took the time and commented! I hope you like the new chapter and I'm sorry for any grammar mistakes!

Thanks for reading! Enjoy!

M.

Outside the restaurant Hotch was pacing. Something was wrong. 'Why the fuck we can't hear Prentiss? What's wrong with her microphone?'

Garcia was typing as fast as she could but she didn't detect the problem. 'I don't know sir, it's like the microphone is dead' she said frustrated, she never missed anything so important before.

JJ started getting itchy, she wanted to go in the restaurant and make sure that Emily was okay. The only ones that were calm was Jeremy and Clyde, they knew what was going on. They looked at each other knowingly. 'I'm sure everything will be fine agent Hotchner' Clyde said flatly.

'How can you say that?' Hotch asked pissed. 'I have an agent in there with a murderer and I cannot communicate with her'.

'Look, agent Prentiss is a big girl she can take care of herself' Clyde insisted still unperturbed. 'We stick to the plan, I'm sure when the time is right she will find a way to signal us' he said with finality.

'You are not giving orders here Clyde, I am. And I don't understand how could you be so indifferent' Hotch snapped.

Clyde chuckled. 'Agent Hotchner no-one is questioning your authority here. I'm just stating a fact. If we blow the operation he will be in the wind and we will lose our chance to get him and of course he will kill more people and flee with important information' he retorted.

Hotch understood his reasoning but couldn't trust him, Clyde was deceitful. 'Do you want me to sacrifice my agent? We can try to find another solution so no one will die' he said and turned to his agents. 'Morgan and JJ go to the back of the restaurant and try to find a way to signal Prentiss. We are changing the plan' Hotch ordered. 'The rest of you hold positions and stay alert. We are getting Prentiss out and try capture the unsub now, I'm not waiting' he continued.

'Sorry but I can't let you do that!' Clyde insisted.

'You can't stop me you don't have jurisdiction here agent Easter you are consulting' Hotch dictated. The sound of a gunshot made everyone freeze for a few seconds.

'Hotch! Prentiss and the unsub are not in the restaurant anymore!' JJ exclaimed. The team started moving to the direction of which they heard the shot. Reaching to a back alley found Prentiss sitting on the ground covered in blood and with multiple wounds. The unsub was on the ground with a slashed throat.

Emily and Hector went in the back alley 'I guess this is it Prentiss' Hector said smiling and launched to her. Emily squatted and his fist missed her face. As she squatted she kicked his legs cracking a bone. When she stood up Hector hit her on the ribs making her take a step back surprised by the pain. While moving forward to hit her again she gave him a blow with her head breaking his nose. After that he was really pissed, he mumbled a few curse words and attacked again. They started exchanging fast blows that sometimes were blocked and sometimes were hitting their target. Both were doing severe damage to their opponent but they were fighting the same way so they just got tired and no one was getting the upper hand. Hector pushed Emily back and draw a gun he had hidden. Emily laughed out loud.

'Really Hector? After all of this you draw your gun?' she asked.

'We have to get this over at some point. The FBI will soon realize that you are not in that restaurant anymore.' he explained.

'Where is the professional courtesy?' she questioned and moved a few steps forward. She had trust in her abilities, she could move fast and never missed. Emily always hated guns even though she could use most of them. She found guns to be useless in close proximity targets and hand to hand combats. Hector was a good shot but he was also an arrogant and he underestimated her like many others before him. They didn't live to tell the tale.

'See you in hell Emily' he roared. When he pulled the trigger Emily ducked and immediately attacked him. She felt the bullet entering and exiting her body but that didn't slow her down, the adrenaline in her body was too high. She grabbed the gun, broke his wrist and with an effortless motion she pulled her knife slashing his throat. His carotid artery was severed and blood splashed over her face. He was dead before his body touched the ground. Emily sat down and looked at the dead man in front of her one hundred and thirty seven she thought. Voices echoed in the alley so the FBI was close.

'Prentiss? Are you okay?' Hotch asked while approaching. The team finally arrived at the scene but everything was already over. Morgan got close to the body on the ground only to declare the death of the man. JJ on the other hand run to Emily.

'Emily? Are you okay? Are you shot? There is so much blood!' JJ shuttered. 'We need medic! Agent hurt!' she screamed.

'I'm fine. I just need a cigarette and a shot of bourbon' Emily mumbled. Everyone looked perplexed. Rossi asked the question they were all thinking.

'What the hell happened here?' Before Emily could answer anything Hotch took in charge.

'Okay, Prentiss you are going to the hospital and Morgan will go with you. Rossi and Reid you are staying at the scene and JJ you are handling the press. I'm going to talk with the local police. This operation went to hell so let's try to smooth the situation' He ordered and no one said another word.

The medic arrived and Emily with Morgan were on their way to the hospital. 'Don't get me wrong Prentiss but that man was probably highly trained and yet you took him down alone! What really happened back there?' Morgan asked puzzled. Prentiss's behaviour was very confusing for him. She was sitting in the ambulance refusing to take any pain medication and she looked bored.

'He wasn't as trained as we thought he was. When we were in the restaurant he threatened to start shooting innocent people because he knew it was a trap. He said he was pissed at us for getting in the way of his job. I tried to talk him down and lured him outside but he was getting irritated. I soon realized that I couldn't communicate with you so I knew I had to take me out. He though that I was an easy target and that he would sent you a message by killing me. So I went in the back alley with him to save all those people!' Emily lied with ease. Lying was a part of her job and training, nothing on her face or her body language betrayed her.

Morgan was thinking what she told him and when they arrived at the hospital she looked at her and said friendly 'I'm sorry you had to deal with him alone. We should have been there.'

'It's okay Morgan the important thing is that everyone else are safe and he can't hurt anyone else anymore. Unfortunately we won't find out what was his endgame' she said. Morgan looked deep in her eyes and he really thought that they could become friends.

'Don't worry about it Prentiss you did what you had to do!' he said proudly and went to the lobby so the doctors could take a look at Emily's wounds.

When the ambulance disappeared from their view Clyde approached Hotch 'Agent Hotchner good job on getting the unsub' he said almost sarcastically.

'We have a dead body and no answers. Also an agent almost died!' Hotch said as a matter of fact. Clyde was really getting on his nerves.

'Look at the bright side agent, he is stopped, he won't be able to hurt anyone anymore. Moreover, you will get a big credit for this' Clyde didn't wait for an answer he just turned and walked out of the scene. As he was walking with Jeremy they crossed the road and vanished, it was like they were never there' Hotch looked at the direction they took for a few moments and realised that he probably won't see them again.

After finishing with the locals he approached JJ who was also just finished with the press. 'What's wrong Hotch?' JJ saw him a few minutes before talking on the phone and by his face she could tell that what he was hearing wasn't good. 'Is Prentiss okay?' she asked concerned.

'I was talking with Morgan at the phone, they are going back to the office. Prentiss signed AMA. She has two broken ribs, a broken collar bone from a bullet wound and multiple bruises and cuts. Yet she refused to take any painkillers even when they gave her stiches' Hotch didn't know what to think. Definitely there was something wrong with Prentiss, he had to talk with her and find out.

'Why would she do that?' JJ asked but for some reason she wasn't surprised at all. For her it was like Emily had super powers and the wounds and broken bones would heal the next day. JJ you are a fucking idiot. She is human like all of us! I want to see her and hug her so badly! Damn! She thought.

'I don't know JJ but I'm going to find out!' Hotch wasn't an idiot. He was one of the best profilers in the BAU. He could see that there was tension between JJ and Prentiss, he really hoped that wasn't going to evolve into anything more. He turned to his agents and said 'Me and JJ we are going back to the BAU, please wrap this up and come by the office when you finish. I know it's late but we need to talk about this case as soon as possible'

'Okay Hotch, see you there' Rossi replied. He also wanted some answers on this case. Reid just nodded too lost in his thoughts.