Lacuna [Book 2]

thirty-three

thirty-three; william lamontagne jr.

It's been about 3 months or so since we all went to the college to teach our 'Profiling 101' to the class of criminology majors. No new cases have come up that were an emergency and the local police in the state or city have got it covered.

Spencer and I have been trying to plan for our wedding- which we still had no clue when it was going to be. I have noticed a change in Spencer recently these past couple of months- he would leave on Sundays for an hour and then come back. Ellie, Spencer and I along with the entire BAU went to Gemma's graduation- and now she was off to college at the George Washington University. 

Anthony and I have still had this sort of emptiness between us and I think it was because we haven't talked about what happened in Little Rock, Arkansas- but we still hung out. It was a Saturday and I had taken Ellie with me along with Anthony and Azalea- who came over in the morning to the bank with me.

" Mom, you said we were going to breakfast with Grandpa." Ellie groaned and I chuckled. " Well, we will. He's running a bit late anyways." I said holding her hand as we walked into the bank. Anthony snorted walking in after Azalea.

"Please, there's something-" He said and then cut himself off- covering Ellie's ears.Beeping from the metal detectors went off and I looked down at Ellie." Definitely going on." He said and Ellie moved his hands away and glared at him.The metal detectors went off again and Azalea looked down at Ellie. " Uncle Anthony, I'm not 4." Ellie said and Azalea laughed and we stood in line as I was going to take out some money.

"Elle-" She said but was cut off by yelling and a gunshot. A female woman shot one of the guards and he went tumbling to the ground. Screams were heard from some people and Ellie covered her ears. Anthony went to grab his gun, but Azalea stopped him and the man started screaming- putting on a mask.

"I want to see hands in the sky!" He shouted and Anthony shoved his gun in the front of his pants- just in case the man tried to pat us down. I felt the cool metal of my gun on my right leg- which was the one I always had on me. No doubt that Azalea didn't bring her gun as well. My heart began beating fast- especially since Ellie hasn't heard a gunshot since the death of Matt so I grabbed her as tears began streaming down her face.

We stood against the wall with our hands up and Ellie hid behind Anthony. "Time?" The male UnSub yelled and the female replied with, "1:45, yes ladies and gentlemen, We are the face cards. Maybe you've heard of us. Get your faces on the floors, already. I see eyes, you see bullets." She screamed and I grabbed Ellie and I put her on the ground.

Azalea and I slowly went down to the ground and Anthony placed a gigantic arm over Ellie protecting her. "What are we going to do?" I whispered and Azalea looked over at the UnSubs. "Nothing right now, this is the bank, you told Rossi we were coming here so he'll find us. We need to know more about them first." She said and I nodded and I gripped Ellie' shoulder.

"Mommy, I want to see Dad." She said and I nodded and whispered over to her. "I know, baby. He's coming. Dad's coming." I said and I moved the silver ring on my finger hoping he would come.

The UnSubs kept waving their guns in our faces and told us to get next to the windows. Ellie began crying and I looked over to Anthony. "If we don't do something fast they're going to shoot. Ellie's freaking out." I said and Anthony gripped her shoulders, moving her in front of him. "They won't lay a finger on her. She has us in here. And her family is out there. Look, it's Hotchner." He said and I looked out the window seeing Hotch then I saw Will and I felt a sense of relief, knowing he would try to get us out of here.

"It's not just the cops, we've got feds now." The woman UnSub said and the man who bent down next to the guy- who was now injured. I wasn't paying attention to them- I was paying attention to my daughter who was going through PTSD. "He's the brother. Look." Anthony said and I looked over seeing the other UnSub with the other male UnSub.

"It was your fault, nice job with the cops." The woman said and the injured man shrugged- not caring. "We're all going to die aren't we?" A man asked besides Azalea and she looked over at him- her blonde hair moving with her. " No, we aren't we're all going to get out of here." She said and then looked out the window and spoke slightly.

"We need a plan." She said and I nodded- agreeing with her. "We need them to release the children- then we can make a plan if we pull out guns now it won't end well." I said and she nodded agreeing with me. The phone started ringing and I looked over at Anthony. "We need to get the children out of here first." I said and then I looked at the woman.

 Ellie started swaying back and forth and I moved a bit. Before her head could hit the ground I caught her and the female UnSub rushed over to me with a gun in my face. "Get up!" She screamed and I looked up at her. "You need to let the children go. My daughter needs help." I said and she laughed and shook her head.

"She's fine. I said get up!" She yelled and I clenched my jaw and I stood up- leaving Ellie on the ground. Another shot was fired and it was to a black man who had a younger daughter. I gulped and I looked at Anthony. Who kept his eyes on Ellie- protecting her.

The male UnSub brought a male up to the phone- making him state his name and then shot him point blank between the eyes. He brought up a woman and demanded that the officer who killed his brother was brought in.

"What's your name?" The male UnSub asked with a gun to the woman's face and she sobbed. "Annie- My name is Annie." She said crying. "You got about 30 seconds Annie. I hope Agent Rossi doesn't make me shoot you." He said and I looked over at Anthony when he said Rossi's name. Ellie started to get up and her eyes fluttered open- seeing she was still in the bank.

"Send in the cop or she dies!" He screamed the a person could be seen with their hands up. Ellie got up and the door opened. Will walked in- holding both of his hands in the air and I turned towards them my heart dropping seeing my brother there.

"Let these people go." Will said and the male UnSub looked at Ellie. "You, and you guys- out." He said and I grabbed Ellie and shoved her towards the woman with the kids. They made it out and I watched as she ran to her grandfather- crying and hysterical.

I gulped watching the man talk to my brother and my heart began blinking fast. "What's your name?" He asked and I swore, Will made brief eye contact with me.

"William LaMontagne Jr. MPD." He said and the UnSub looked back at the woman and took of his mask along with her. He looked back at Will and shot him twice in the chest.

a/n:

q: have you ever been to norway??

a: no! but i'll be going in about 2 years!!!