This isn't what I want

chapter 48

** One week later, Reid's POV **

Still at the hospital. They can't tell us much. Only that she's still not out of the blue. Still unconscious. Still running tests. Still under observation. They're not even sure she'll be the same when she wakes. If she wakes.

"Her system was tested positive for a combination of unidentified drugs. Tox screen showed high levels of rohipnol along with at least half a dozen different substances. We still don't know what the effect is going to be."

The doctors couldn't say any more before rushing of to other patients. The team waits with me every morning, hoping for news. They understand that I can't leave. I can't not be here if something happens.

"Peter, drop the gun. And let JJ go."

"Don't move. Or she's gone."

"You don't want to do this. If you pull that trigger, you'll never be known. Nobody will see your work. Nobody will know how you outsmarted the elite fbi agents. That's all you want, isn't it? Recognition. To be accepted widely for what you've done. For people to celebrate you. They can't do that if you die."

"You've no idea what it's like. Being rejected time and time again. To be shoved on the side like a next door neighbour whilst everyone around you gets exactly what they want."

"Actually, I do. There's a woman I've always loved. Always wanted to notice me. But she doesn't see it. She married someone else. Somebody who didn't make her happy. And I couldn't do anything. I had to deal with not having her as mine."

"You're not lying.... wait... you mean her?"

"Peter, put the gun down."

"That bitch doesn't deserve the easy way out."

...

"Shots fired. I repeat, shots fired. I need paramedics now. Unconscious woman late twenties and a man in mid thirties."

** General POV **

The lights in room 088 were kept low and the window was shut out by thick curtains. The staff didn't know how JJ was going to react if she woke up. They wanted to keep things familiar. All she would remember would be the room she had been kept in for 9 long days and nights.

Her monitor started beeping loudly as her heart rate began to rise dramatically.

"I need medics now! PAGE DR JOHNSON STAT!" The nurse yelled out as she burst into her room.

Outside, the group of agents were gathered around worried, looking for someone to ask about news.

The doctors wheeled JJ into the OR and several surgeons were scrubbed up when Agent Reid finally lost it.

"Will someone tell me what is wrong with her?"

"Sir, she's pregnant."