A Bond that Can Never be Broken {A Criminal Minds Fanfic}

Will She Make It?

_______________________MORGAN'S POINT OF VIEW____________________

"She's flat lining!" said the EMT.

"No Avery stay with me!" I said. Her life line started to beep again.

"She seems to be responding to your voice, Sir. Keep speaking to her."

"Come on Avery. Keep fighting. You can do this. Just keep....fighting."

*TWO HOURS LATER*

"Whose here for Agent Avery Provost?" asked a nurse and Rossi, Hotch, Reid and I stood up.

"How is she nurse?" Hotch asked.

"The bullets almost pierced her stomach and her left lung. The operation was very difficult, but not impossible. She survived and will make a clean recovery." said the nurse.

"Can we see her?" I asked.

"No. She needs to rest."

"Can Istay with her....tonight?" I asked.

"Yes." said the nurse.

"Hotch?" I asked as I looked at him.

"Stay with Avery. We'll see you tomorrow." he said as Reid and Rossi walked down the exit hallway.

"Thank you....Hotch." I said.

"Always." he said. He met up with the other two, at the end of the hallway.

"This way, Sir." the nurse said as she led me to Avery's hospital room, she then said as she stepped half-way out the door,"Do you need a blanket?"

"Uhh, No thank you. I'm-I'm good." I said as she left the room. I sat on Avery's right side, in a chair, next to her hospital bed and grabbed her right hand. I felt her I.V. on her hand and her pulse. It was so steady. I saw her breathing tube move up and down with her breathing. She looked so peaceful and yet so defenseless. Seeing her like this made me feel responsible for her in every way. I stood up and walked over to a recliner that was near the hospital bed. I sat and pulled up the foot rest. I tried to sleep, but every time I closed my eyes I would see myself shooting Cruise. I would hear shots being fired and I remember pulling the trigger. I eventually fell asleep.

__________________AVERY'S POINT OF VIEW______________________

I was in the room that Cruise put me in for torture. I was still chained in place when I heard gunshots and blood started to pour out of my torso. The blood started to turn black and into spiders. The spiders started to crawl up and down my body. Morgan walked into the room and just stared at the spiders. I started to wiggle out of the chains and started to say:

"Derek get them off of me!" but he just stood there watching the spiders crawl. He finally walked over to me, grabbed my shoulders and said:

"Avery wake up. Avery." I woke up to see him holding my shoulders, shaking me, "Avery."

"Derek, Why did this happen to me?" I cried as I sat up straight. He sat at my knees. I wrapped my arms around Derek's torso and he wrapped his around my shoulders.

"I don't know, Baby.... I don't know." he said. I winced because my stomach was hurting,"Do you need a nurse?" he asked as I let go of him.

"No. All I need is you to stay here with me." I said as I laid back in the hospital bed and wiped my tears away. He grabbed my left hand.

"Go back to sleep."

"I can't sleep Derek. I just got shot. Garcia got shot, did she sleep?"

"You have a point."He said.

"What do I do now? Cruise said I got what I deserve, but I've never seen him in my entire life."I said.

"We will figure this out later, but for right now, you need your rest."

"Ok." I said as he stood up.

"Avery?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you and don't you ever forget that."he said.

"I love you, too."

"Its three A.M. Get some sleep." I nodded, closed my eyes, and drifted to sleep.

I was woken up by a few voices. I didn't open my eyes until I knew who was there. It was JJ. I heard crutches click.

"How is she Morgan?" she asked.

"She woke up from a nightmare at three last night, but other than that, ok." Derek said.

"Good." JJ said as she walked into the room. She walked to the chair that Derek was sitting in earlier. I opened my eyes to see her with roses in hand.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey. How are you feeling?" she asked.

"Me? Nah. Just a couple cuts and bruises."

"You got shot Avery. That's more than a couple cuts or bruises."

"JJ...I'm ok. I survived."

"Yes but I could have stopped him."

"Don't do that to yourself JJ. He would have killed you. I chose not to let that happen." I said as I grabbed her hand, "This was my choice." I said as I gestured to my bandages on my stomach.

"These are for you." she said as she handed me the roses.

"Thank you." I heard quick footsteps coming closer to us.

"Morgan." Reid said as he stepped into the doorway.

"Hey Reid." I said faintly.

"Avery."he said, "I'm so sorry."

"Reid. Stop. Don't do that."I said, "There...Is...Nothing...You could have...done!"I started to wheeze. Reid pressed the ASSISTANCE button. A nurse came running in with a few needles and a bag of liquid.

"Move!" said the nurse. She injected a needle into my bicep and the last thing I saw was the face of my worried friends. Was I dying or was I surviving?