moonstruck 2 // criminal minds fanfic

ch. 7

It was 3 a.m and Penelope Garcia was pacing in her warm office, nervously fiddling with a little pink teddy bear. She had programmed her computer to call Derek and Maggie's phones simultaneously and constantly. No answer. Again and again, her computer gave her the same message. No answer.

"Damn you computer! You are supposed to be my friend! We fight crime together and you're letting me down!" she yelled. Her voice was cracked and pathetic sounding. Her trashcan was overflowing with used tissues, but she was beyond tears now.

C'mon Garcia said the tired, fragile voice of her positivity. Their phones will be broken, that's all.

She sat down in her wheelie chair and lined up her colorful stuffed toys just as her phone began to ring.

"Emily! Hey! How are you doing?" she said.

"Garcia, I need an E.T.A on the rescue team. More of the tunnels collapsed and Rossi is missing. Hotch has passed out and I can't get him to wake up." the anguish in her friend's voice made Garcia's already sore eyes fill with tears again.

"I'm expecting an update from them any minute," she said. "Is Rossi. . ." she sentence didn't bear finishing.

"I don't know," Emily said. "We can't hear or reach him."

"And Hotch?"

He's showing all the signs of late-stage hypovolemic shock," Reid said. "I think he's bleeding internally. if we don't get him out soon, he's going to die."

Her phone beeped as someone called in on the other line. It was her eagerly anticipated update on the rescue attempt. She put Emily on hold and answered the call. She switched back to the other line.

"Emily you still there?"

"Yeah."

"The rescue team is at the warehouse," she said. "They aren't coming to get you."

"Why not?"

"They say it's too dangerous. They need to make it safe before they will send anyone down. Otherwise, the whole thing could collapse on you."

"How long is it going to take?" Reid asked.

"Several hours. Hold on Camilla is calling me."

"Hello?"

"Garcia, why is the rescue team just standing on here and not doing what their job description entails?"

"They said, it's too dangerous and the whole thing could collapse."

"Any update on the team down there?" Camilla asked worriedly.

"Maggie and Morgan are nowhere to be found, they aren't answering their phones. Reid is with Emily and Hotch who might be going into shock, and Rossi is missing."

Outside the warehouse, Camilla put her hand over her mouth and started pacing around. About to speak when Reid called again, making it a three-way call.

"Garcia, I don't think we have more than an hour before Hotch goes into cardiac arrest," Reid said.

She felt her heart had leaped into her throat. An hour? That wasn't long enough.

"Garcia please tell me there is something you can do before I start yelling at the rescue team again."

"Leave it with me," she said.

She ran from her office and poked her head out, almost immediately locating the very person she was looking for.

"Chief Strauss, Ma'am," she called.