moonstruck 2 // criminal minds fanfic

ch. 13

Maggie's foot entered the house before the rest of her body or the team itself. Using her Glock she searched the living room before calling clear for the others to follow. Maggie walked down the hallway taking a separate room each before the final clear was called by Reid. They walked into the lounge room when Maggie looked into the kitchen and saw the chair. The tape had been cut and blood had split down the arm and onto the floor. Looking at the knife on the floor she knew that he saw them coming. Placing a finger to her lips to signal quiet, Reid halted his discussion about their surroundings. JJ continued to look around in silence when she found four student ID cards on top of a glass shelf, each one of them smiling, excited, and ready for whatever life threw at them. She noticed that the fifth and probably final victim's card was not among the collection.

Meanwhile, sitting on the ground outside, underneath the kitchen window, and looking towards the pool, Zack held a hun to Carina's head as he wrapped tape around her mouth, hands, and feet. Maggie listened carefully when she heard the sound of duct tape and then heard the sound of someone grunt. She placed a hand on the backdoor and waited for the right moment before she burst through and saw Zack holding Carina with one arm around her shoulders and the gun held to her temple.

"Drop the gun or she dies," Zack demanded as Reid and JJ stood outside and held their weapons.

"Come on Zack, you don't want to hurt her do you?" Maggie asked.

"I'm not hurting her!" He yelled, forcing the gun to her head with more force. "I'm helping her!" Reid gave a glance to JJ who returned it easily.

"How are you helping her?" Maggie asked.

"Put the gun down!" He yelled to Maggie. Maggie followed and place the gun on the ground before she took a step forward.

"Don't come any closer!" Maggie looked down at Carina's feet to see that they had been tied together with tape. The pool behind them was starting to worry  Maggie.

"We know what happened," Maggie began. "Your sister, she died didn't she?" Carina looked at Maggie as she stared in her direction to help reassure her that everything would be okay.

"You were driving and there was an accident."

"It was my fault!" Zack yelled as tears began to flow from his eyes and onto Carina's hair. "Is that what you want to hear?"

"You had a panic attack," Maggie continued. "You were trying to do too many things at once."

"I had to do too many things at once!" Zack yelled again, holding Carina closer to his chest. "Not anymore. I helped those others too! They were tired and busy." Zack laughed for a moment.

"They're in a better place now, they are free," he replied before smiling. "And soon, Carina here will be free too!" With one thrust of his hand, he pushed Carina straight into the water. Maggie moved towards the pool when his gun was trained onto her head. "Don't try it."

Maggie looked at the water as the surface became level, bubbles appearing on the surface for a moment before they popped and disappeared. Hotch parked the car as quickly as he could before the rest of the team, all ready to go, entered the house as quietly as possible. Hotch chose to walk around the back. When he arrived he aimed his gun directly at the male who had lost concentration on Maggie for a second. Maggie turned to face Hotch and in a silent signal looked to the water.

Zack tried to get a better view, but from what it seemed, Carina was dead. Turning around though he was met by a hard kick to his right-hand side that caused him to fall and drop his gun, though as he turned to see Maggie diving into the pool he used his free hand to grab her foot making her body slam into the water with him close behind. Hotch ran to the edge but he couldn't shoot, both of their bodies were underwater, both of them fighting.