The yawning team strolled lazily into the dark briefing room after hours, arguably pissed off for being called back into the office less than an hour after getting back from the jet.
"So what exactly is happening? Why are we all here?" Emily slumped down in her chair, Hotch simply responding by gesturing for them all to take a seat and checking his watch nervously; something a man like Hotch rarely did.
"Where's Athena?" Morgan asked, unsure why he was aware of her absence almost immediately, "how come she gets to get out of late night meetings? Unfair."
"And where's Garcia?" JJ asked before the team all spotted a familiar figure storming through the office.
"Athena? Are you okay-" Reid tried to askthey saw as she pushed past him carrying a tossed together box; eye makeup smudged down her cheeks, old dried blood laying under her nose and well deserved pissed off expression fixed on her face.
"Listen up fuckers-" she slammed the box on the table with trembling hands "-you idiots couldn't leave well enough alone and now I have to tell you everything so I can save Garcia's stupid pathetic life and die if I'm lucky."
"Wait what happened to Garcia? Is she okay-"
"Let me fucking finish!" She snapped at Morgan's concern, everyone exchanging glances at her outburst that seemed different to her usual ones.
"Athena, calm down" Hotch sighed.
"No! You don't get to tell me that after what you did" she snapped her head to him, "do not pretend like I am acting crazy when you have no idea what you've fucking done."
"Can someone tell us what is happening?" Rossi asked with a failed attempt to defuse the situation he knew nothing about.
"Thanks to your stupid leader, my father has taken Penelope and-"
"What the hell Hotch?!" Morgan yelled.
"He has Penelope?! What did you do Hotch?!" Emily exclaimed.
"We don't have time for you all to yell at him" Athena barked at their interruptions, "we have three days until he hurts her and I have to mentally prepare to give myself up to him again so shut the fuck up."
"What do you mean give yourself up?"
She let out a frustrated sigh before pushing it down, focusing on the task at hand to stop herself spiralling, throwing open the box and chucking photos and files onto the table, "in short; I have to trade myself for her, but before I go I might as well let you all in on parts of what will happen to me by showing you a tiny glimpse into my childhood so you can prepare to help me get her out of there with as many limbs as possible."
"What the hell is this?" Morgan exclaimed in disgust at the gruesome pictures laid before them..
"Home sweet home" Athena cleared her throat, swallowing her tears and numbing herself the best she could, "you may have heard of my father's former name; William Jefferey Wells."
Most of the team exchanged various confused glances at the name they didn't recall recognising, all bar Reid who looked up in shock "the cult leader?"
"Bingo."
"What?" Rossi verbalised the rest of the team's confusion.
"William Jefferey Wells; he was a huge cult leader in the 70's in Ireland, he ran the biggest cult Europe has ever seen, when the police finally raided it, it was-" Reid began to explain.
"Horrific" Athena spoke blankly with tears speckling her lash line.
"But if they raided it, how come you knew about it? You weren't born yet kid?" Rossi quizzed.
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Cruel - Criminal minds enemies to lovers
फैनफिक्शनHotch this is a bad idea" Reid said following him through the prison. "It's the only option we have left, we both know this" the stern man spoke as they approached the door. "We can't just let her out and join the team- it took the FBI 2 years to t...
