“Maura come with me for now, please…”

Pulling her by the hand he got her out of Jane’s room and
sat her down in the waiting room.
Walking over to the vending machine, he got a coffee and brought it back
to her, setting it down on the table next to her.

“She’ll be okay Maura, you have to believe that, it was just
a lot for her right now.”  He looked at
Maura but she wasn’t seeing him at all.
Swallowing he looked around for anyone else who could help him, he was
not good at this.  Trying a different
tack, “Maura did you understand what she was saying? Maura?”

Turning to look at him she got angry, “why? Why did you have
to come in?  She was okay, Spence!” Maura
knew she was being unreasonable and just a little hysterical but she couldn’t
stop herself.

“Maura I didn’t want to,” he reminded her gently.

She opened her mouth with a retort when she realized that
she had permitted the young man to continue. “I…I’m sorry Spencer it’s just…”

“Its okay Maura but I need you to listen to me.  She said something, we need to concentrate
his targets, one target not two.”

“No, no, no…” she said

“What?” he said

“Bait, she means setting herself and JJ up as bait in one
location.  When Hoyt was after her she
refused to go anywhere to hide.  She
thought that if Hoyt had more than one place to look for her more people would
die.  So one place with focus
concentrated there.”

She was angry with Jane for even suggesting that in her
condition and seeing the look on the young doctor’s face, she knew he was
considering it a good idea.

“I need to talk to Hotch…” he mumbled.  Getting up he awkwardly gave her a hug
knowing she was not happy with where this case was about to go.

Getting up Maura paced the waiting room before slapping the
wall, “Dammit Jane…”

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Hotch agreed with Jane was he was informed of everything
that had happened.

Korsak on the other hand, “No, this is stupid, how are we
just going to put them both out there like that?” he argued.

“It does seem like a viable option, it will give him one
target, we won’t have to wonder where he will strike, we’ll know.” Rossi said

“What if he gets to them,” Korsak continued, “what then?”