Okay update this because it was just WAY to short. Much longer now lol. PLEASE REVIEW! thankies :)
Hotch walked wearily into the BAU pull pen. He raised his head and glanced at JJ. She shook her head. No case. He ran his gaze over the rest of his team. All of them were flipping through case files. Hotch knew exactly which one they were looking at. He had spent the better part of 2 months staring at the exact same pages. He headed towards his office and closed the door. Hotch sank down into his chair, sighing. The message button was blinking on his phone and he pressed the button, waiting for the messages to play. Hotch frowned at the message. Crackling came over the line, pounding foot steps, some crying in the background. Who was ringing him form such a bad line? Suddenly his heart stopped at the voice coming over the line.
"Hotch!" Reid's voice came over the line, whispering frantically. "Hotch!" Another voiced echoed weakly. Emily! He gasped.
"Hotch!" Reid's whispered again. "We...we got out. She's hurt Hotch. Hurt bad." Hotch could hear Emily gasping and coughing. Suddenly Reid fell silent. "They're coming." Reid lowered his voice. "We'll call again when we can." The line cut off."
Hotch stared at the phone for a moment before jumping up and racing towards the bull pen. He flung open his door. Morgan looked up from his file at the noise of the door hitting the wall. His eye's widened at Hotch's appearance. He looked crazed.
"Everybody. In here. Now!" Morgan, JJ and Rossi jumped up and went into Hotch's office. Rossi closed the door behind them.
"Hotch whats going on?" JJ asked. She was worried. Hotch was usually so calm. In reply Hotch hit the message button on the phone. They listened in shock to Reid's terrified message. JJ's eyes filled with tears. She could her Emily in the background, crying. How badly was she hurt? Was Reid hurt? Had they been tortured like the rest. her heart nearly stopped when she realized what had happened to every other woman on this case. Oh god please say Emily hadn't been... Her eyes traveled to the rest of the team and knew there were all thinking the same thing. The message ended and silence fill the room. Morgan flipped open his cell phone.
"I'm calling Garcia. We need to know where that phone is calling from?" The call connected.
"Garcia." The despondent sounding tech advisors answered.
"We got a call form them Garcia. From Reid and Emily." Morgan said quietly.
Garcia gasped. "What!? Are they okay? Where are they?!"
"Garcia!" Morgan interrupted. We don't know where they are. The call cut off. It was from Reid. He said they had escaped but Emily was hurt bad. We need you to find where it came from." Tears filled Garcia's eyes.
"Okay." She said, her voice cracking. "What phone did it come in on?" She said.
"Hotch's office phone." Morgan answered. They could hear Garcia typing furiously on her computers.
Silence filled Hotch's office again.
"It was from the desert. North of the city" Garcia sniffed. Morgan groaned. There was no way they could find them then unless the could narrow it down further. "I't was from a disposable cell. I tried finding the phone but its off. I'll try and see who bought it and where it was from but..."
"They more then likely stole it from the unsub and therefore it was more then likely a disposable payed for with case." He sighed. "OK thanks Garcia. Keep us updated." Morgan closed the cell. Hotch knew they were losing hope again. They had to find them. They couldn't just wait for Garcia.
"Okay guys. We're not going to rest until will crack the case." He began firing orders at them.
"JJ call Strauss and explain the situation. We are from here on in accepting no more cases. The other teams can do it. The come back here and meet us in the briefing room."
JJ nodded and left quickly. Hotch turned to the rest of the team.
"Come on lets go." Hotch walked out and headed towards the briefing room, the team close behind him.
"Morgan I want you to get a map and start filling in all the information we know and the call we got as accurate as Garcia can make it. I also want you to get every case file, every interview and every scrap of evidence of this case. I want everything!"
Morgan sprinted towards the store cupboards. Hotch and Rossi entered the Briefing Room. They waited anxiously for the other two. After a minute Morgan crashed in closely followed by a clerk from storage. They dumped the boxes of evidence on the table. Hotch waved away the clerk, thanking him. JJ entered.
"Strauss isn't happy about us not taking any cases but she's agreed to let you focus on this case. She says good luck." JJ sat down. She absently rested a hand on her swollen tummy. Morgan reached inside the first box and began pulling out files and handing them out.
"Okay lets start from the beginning. We're going to start all over again, like this case is new." Hotch said, nodding to JJ to go ahead.
"The head detective of Daville, Virginia called me on the 2nd of August." She marked it on the timeline Morgan had set up beside the map.
"Dec. Moore said they had a serial killer. He had wanted to call us in before but it hadn't crossed state lines so he didn't think he could. The mayor finally told him to call us in after the 5th victim." JJ reached towards the remote of the laptop connected to the screen. Pictures began to come up. JJ winced at the images. It never really got any easier.
"Six people had gone missing, believed kidnapped. They would disappear for 2 weeks up to a month. All showed signs of torture and the woman signs of rape. Their bodies were dumped fully clothed at different places. One was dumped in their car which the state trooper spotted and recognized the license plate as one of the missing persons. Another were dumped on the side of highway, another outside of shelters, another in outhouses." JJ shrugged helplessly. "Nothings constituent."
Hotch nodded his agreement. "Victims are complete different too." He looked over the pictures of the victims. "Old, young, rich, poor. " Morgan picked up his file.
"OK Victim One - Emma Burke, 17. She was reported missing April 3rd. She called her parents every day, mum called the police when there was no word from her by nightfall. Taken from her house, window was broken and there were signs of a struggle in the bedroom. Address on the house was..."
Morgan took the pen from JJ and checked the file before marking the address on the map.
"2017 Elback Terrace." He continued "She was found 3 weeks later on April 24th outside her house. The Unsub just dumped her in the front garden. COD - strangulation. Burns marks on her body and evidence of beatings and rapes." Morgan closed the file. Rossi opened his file and reeled off the facts of the next victim.
"James Newman - 49. Disappeared May 10th from the grocery store on 5th and Cowper. Car was found in the parking lot. Missing a week. Fingers broken and ribs cracked. Again burns marks on his body. Found in his car May 17th on I90 in his car. State trooper called it in. COD was suffocation and exsanguination. Broken ribbed had punctured a lung."
Morgan filled in the map, trying to build up a geographical profile of the unsub. Rossi continued with the next victim.
"Mark White - 20. Vanished on his way to missing June 5th. MIssing a month. His body was found dumped in the park. Here" He got up and pointed to were Mark's body was found. "Same torture as James Newman but COD was a single gunshot to the head. Car was found burnt out a week later. I had focused on these two cases. Nothing else was found to help us narrow down who the unsub was."
"Okay I took this case." Hotch said. "Jenny Lawson. 24. Was meant to meet a friend for lunch but never turned up at the mall. Mall's on 8th street. She would have worked there. Her house was on a two minute walk from the mall. She was found after two weeks. Body was dumped on the steps of a homeless shelter. Burns were found all over the body and again she had been raped. COD - gunshot to the head."
Hotch pulled the last file out - the most important one. "Emily and Reid took this case. Charlotte Richards - 36. Went missing July 13th. She walked her dog every night, husband called the police when she didn't returned. She was kept until July 29th.. She was raped and tortured. She bled out after the slit her neck." Hotch was disgusted. "Her body was found in an outhouse by kids playing. Emily and Reid went out there to check it out, see if anything was missed." He sighed and rubbed his face.
"Thats when they were taken. One of the officers brought them out there. She said she waited by the car for Reid and Emily to finished. Something hit her over the head and she collapsed. A bloody pipe was found on the scene with Emily, Reid and the officers blood on it. When the Officer woke up she called for back up. Nothing was found at the scene. Nothing!" Hotch said bitterly and tossed the file on the table. "Thats it. All the cases.
They all stepped back from the map and evidence boards. Each case covered a evidence board, some spread over two. All this evidence and they weren't any closer to cracking the case. They all jumped when the Garcia came running into the room.
"Okay guys." She said no time for pleasantries. The team was too tired for them anyway. "I couldn't narrow the call down any further. The cell phone was of course bought with cash so no record their but..." She waved a sheet of paper at them. "I did find the store it was sold and the phone records. I'm getting security tapes from the store now. The phone only called two others numbers. I got the other records as well. All three phones only called each other." Hotch exchanged shocked glances with his team.
"There's 3 unsubs!" He groaned. That made sense. These crime were so big it would be hard for one person to conduct them. And Reid had said they were coming. Garcia sat down at the table and pull out her laptop.
"I'm not leaving until we find them." Hotch didn't argue. They had all made the same decision any way. Garcia smiled at Hotch, thanking him. She snapped open her laptop.
"The phone is turned off now."
"They probably turned it off to save charge." Rossi said. Garica nodded.
"Yeah but as soon as they turned it on I'll be able to track it." Morgan frowned.
"What do we do until then?" He asked. He hated this. He felt so useless. Morgan began to pace up and down the room.
"Morgan calm..." Garcia was cut of by a beep from her laptop. She gasped.
"Guys! The phone! Its back on!"
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