A Little Man
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Chapter One.
They steadily climbed the steps to the door; it was open and looked to be glowing around the edges. The agents looking at the door only assumed that the glow was just a shimmer of the bright lights within the room.
Hotch motions to Prentiss and Morgan to stand on the left side of the door while he was on the right side with Rossi and Reid. He calls out, "Dr. Whitsun, this is the FBI. Come out of the lab or we will enter the premises." There is no answer. He calls out again, "Dr. Whitsun, we are coming in." Hotch moves closer to the door and looks into the lab room. No person is seen and the agent steps across the threshold when a bright light shines through the door and surrounds the man. The light is so bright that all of the other agents and swat team have to close their eyes and turn their heads to escape the pain of the light. Hotch feels himself falling and dropping from the light.
When the light has dimmed enough for people to once again look at the door and into the room, SSA agent Aaron Hotchner is nowhere to be seen and the door is no longer glowing. Morgan begins to head into the room when Rossi holds him back and says, "We need to be sure that it is completely safe now so that we can find Hotch and why he has disappeared." He reaches into the room with a police baton and there is not reaction. He then reaches in with a hand and there is no reaction. He nods to Morgan who rushes into the room and is then followed by SWAT and the BAU team.
They begin a systematic search for anyone in the room but it appears to be completely empty of the Doctor and of Agent Hotchner. There are no technicians in the room. A CSU unit is called in and the room is searched completely for prints and any type of DNA that would lead them to find the missing people and the technicians and Doctor Whitsun. The agents search and read the materials in the room and try to find out what happened to Hotch when the light was on. It would be many weeks before they finally find the trap door which leads to a slide going to an unknown location. There are other hidden doors around the room which lead to different areas. The doors are discovered when the lab has been dismantled and the room stripped bare. It takes several weeks while is being done.
In the meantime, the agents begin a search for their missing man. Until the doors are found however no evidence is given as to what happened to Agent Hotchner.