ENTANGLED | CRIMINAL MINDS

Dangerous Games

The darkness was all consuming.

As Jean awoke, she squinted to try and take in her surroundings, anything that would give her a hint of where she was or give her knowledge she could use in an escape attempt.

"Sanders, stop straining your eyes. You think I'd leave something out that would help you? This isn't my first rodeo" Cat called out from somewhere within the dark room, followed by a manic laugh.

"Silly Jean, you know, you wouldn't be in this situation if you minded your business. Ever heard of dating people you don't work with, it's a crazy concept" she called out, her voice echoing over the cavernous room.

"If you would've just, I don't know, kept it in your pants, I would've chosen someone else from the team to kidnap and kill" she said with an eye roll.

"Between us two girls, I was leaning towards picking JJ, our boy has always had a soft spot for her" she called out.

The lights flashed on.

Jean closed her eyes at the sudden onslaught of brightness and opened them up to find herself face to face with her worst nightmare.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Jean. I would introduce myself but a little voice inside my head tells me you already know all about me" she said with a wicked grin.

Jean shook the chains that she was entrapped in, however the effort was futile. Whoever had tied her up to the rusty pole in the middle of the room was strong and had tied her chains on with no room to wiggle.

She wasn't getting out of this one easy.

She shook her thoughts from her head and refocused on Cat, only to find her assembling a camera with its view perfectly on Jean, the little red light on the corner flashing red to signal it was on and broadcasting.

Cat leaned in and gave the camera a smile. "Now that I have the attention of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, I'll get the show started".

"Now, this plan has been months and months in the making. I began cooking it up when your team had me locked in solitary in federal prison. All I had in that shithole was my mind. I went absolutely off the rails on my own in there. My thoughts were so loud and I could do nothing to stop their torment, I had to sit there and endure them. That is, until one day, a guard got a little too friendly with me".

"Don't even bother looking for him, I killed him hours ago once he served his purpose" she said with a toss of her hair, finding another human's life as insignificant as the weather.

"Anyways, before I begin, Jean, any last words to the team?" she said with a sarcastic pout, her eyes showing her true feelings of evil and menace.

"I love you all so much. Thank you for everything, I mean it. I didn't have much of a family before I came to the BAU and then I ended up with the best family I could ever ask for" Jean spoke, tears rolling down her face, her mascara now a mess all under her eyes.

"I hope that this day will be just another day of work for us and I'll see you all at work again and we'll laugh over coffee and donuts, but if not, just know you are my found family. I love all of you dearly".

Cat clapped sarcastically.

"That's it? You won't be winning an Oscar for that performance" she said boredly, picking at her cuticles as she walked back into the frame of the camera.

"We don't have to talk about it now but I was hoping you'd say a little something more to our boys at the BAU. After doing my research, I discovered you not only had Spencer wrapped around your little finger, but Aaron Hotchner too?" she laughed.

"That man has not smiled in years but you would not imagine my shock when I saw you two talking outside right before I snatched you. That man had love written all over his face. It just sweetens the deal, I'm hurting your whole team by killing you blah blah blah but these two will be absolutely destroyed by your death. They'll feel just like I did in prison" she smirked.

"Anyways, enough of the theatrics" Cat suddenly said, delivering the first blow to Jean with a mean right hook, Jean's face jolting sideways as the air escaped from her lungs. She let out a yelp as her pained eyes met the camera.

The team let out a gasp as both Spencer and Hotch leapt forward closer to the screen, their hearts disintegrating at the sight of their Jean being abused and beaten by one of the most dangerous assassins this country had ever seen.

Hotch turned back around to face his bewildered team, seeing the fear and horror in their eyes.

"Let's get to fucking work. We have a serial killer to catch" Hotch growled.