COME LITTLE CHILDREN
So... Hi everybody, I haven't posted anything in years and I just decided to rewrite this story. I hope you like it
PROLOGUE
Phoenix 16th April 1980
It was a beautiful sunny day; the park was full of children and parents who were playing football , going on the swings or just laying on the grass laughing. People hadn't seen the sun in weeks and now finally there was a hot Sunday; everyone was happy and in a good mood.
There were two little twins and a boy who were under a tree playing with their parents and taking lots of picture. The twins were three years old: Jamie Hayden was wearing a pink dress with matched shoes; she had green eyes and blond hairs that covered half her back. Joycelynn Faith wasn't dressed like her sister, infact she wasn't very girly: she was wearing a pair of blue shorts and a yellow shirt: she was like her sister with green eyes and blond hair which she had put into a ponytail. Then there was the little boy, Daniel: he was 5 and super protective with his two little sisters in fact he always said he would always protect them and he meant it.
Joycelynn was staring at a tree when she suddenly yelled
" daddy daddy I wanna go on dat tree! Please"
"Ok sweetie I'm coming to help you"
"Yey yey yey"
The little girl was thrilled and she couldn't stop moving.
"Hey joy calm down or I can't pick you up" said the father.
Once the little girl stopped jumping her dad put her on a branch.
"Hey look momma I'm tall"
"I see sweetie"
When Joy was finally put on the grass she ran towards her mom and gave her a huge hug and after few seconds arrived the other two kids and the three of them hugged tightly their mom.
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"Momma momma I want an ice cream" the 3 years old with a pink dress begged her mother to buy her an ice cream.
"Not now sweetie I have to take your brother to the toilet"
"Yupp I gotta pee"
"Well you have to wait cause I want an ice cream!" replayed Jamie frustrated.
The little girl was becoming impatient and started yelling
"Stop yelling Jamie" Her mom was doing her best to calm her down, but the little girl wouldn't stop acting up.
"But I want that Ice cream I want I want I want it I WANT IT!" The little girl started crying and ran away.
"HAYDEN!" Her twin sister who was behind her mom, tried to follow her without any result because her mother grabbed her in time
"Don't run sweetie we're gonna follow her together I don't want you to get lost."
"Kate what's going on?!" The father of the three children arrived running: he'd gone to buy some lunch but while he was waiting he'd heard his wife screaming.
"Jamie ran away because she wanted an ice-cream but I had to take Daniel to the toilet"
"Don't worry sweetie we're gonna find her" the dad tried to calm his wife down
The four of them started looking around the park to find the little girl. They looked near the shops and the ice cream kiosk...
Nothing they couldn't find Jamie, she had disappeared and no one seemed to have seen her.
"Where could she be?" asked worriedly Kate.
"Mommy wes Hay?", the little girl was starting to get nervous; she didn't know where her sister was, and she was scared she had gotten lost.
"I don't know sweetie but we'll find her" said her mom, more to reassure herself than anyone else.
"Don't worry" The father, Arthur hugged his two girls and hoped they could find Jamie, he couldn't think of losing a child.
"Mommy... I still gotta pee" Little Daniel grabbed his mom's T-shirt
"Ok so you guys go looking for Jamie while I take Dan to the toilet" Arthur took his son by one hand
"Ok Arthur I'll call you if I find her"
The two girls started looking around again; they couldn't find Jamie. Kate decided to ask someone if he or she had seen her daughter.
"Hey I'm sorry to bother you but have you seen a little girl with blond hair and a pink dress running around?"
"No I'm sorry ma'am but if you want my friends and I can help you what's the girl name?"
"Her name is Jamie Hayden Dills and she was wearing a pink dress. She has green eyes and long blond hair" talking about her daughter like that made her cry, but she tried to stay strong. She didn't want to cry in front of her daughter.
"Don't cry mommy... Don't cry" Joy hugged her mom tight for awhile
"Ok don't worry ma'am we'll help you let's go"
They couldn't find little Hayden and her sister, Joy was getting more and more upset she sought her twin sister behind trees and bushes
"Hayden... hey Hay were did you hide? please you can't leave me!"
She ran toward a man
"'Xcuse me did you saw my twin sister Jamie"
"Yes sweetie I did... Come with me"
...
"Joy... Joy... Joycelynn where are you? OH MY GOD joy!joy!"
Kate looked around her but she saw just other kids playing and parents watching over them
Kate couldn't believe her two daughters had disappeared. She immediately called her husband
"Oh god Arthur they're gone I can't find them!" Kate was panicking and started crying.
"Sweetheart don't cry where's Joy"
"I don't know we were seeking Hay and I think I lost her... God I'm a terrible mother" the woman started sobbing and the other people started worrying and came next to her to ask what was happening.
No you're not Kate now sweetheart don't panic, I'll call the police"
Minutes later 3 police cars arrived at the park
"Ms Dills... I'm Agent Rossi I'm with the FBI and I'll help the police in this case because your daughters are not the only ones who disappeared"
"So you're telling me that other kids are gone? Did you find them"
"No we didn't but we'll find them, and your daughters as well", agent Rossi tried to comfort the mother, who seemed on the verge of a panic attack
Kate started crying again and her husband and son hugged her.
"Don't worry Ms. fortunately You called us as soon as you realized that they were gone so the man who kidnapped them shouldn't be really far."
"Thank you agent Rossi... I-I-I can't believe I've lost my daughters... Oh god I'm the worst mother ever; how could I be so distracted" Kate couldn't stop crying.
"Don't worry Kate we will find them" her husband hugged her and kissed her forehead
"Ok, Kate I need you to tell me how they were dressed"
At that thought Kate started sobbing again.
"Jamie had a pink dress and shoes and she has long blond hair; Joy had blue shorts and a yellow shirt and her blond hair was pulled up in a ponytail"
"Ok we'll start looking right now. Come on let's go and take the dogs!"
The little boy pulled agent Rossi's sleeve and he looked down at him.
"Will you find them agent Rossi?"
"Sure buddy I'll ... I promise"
The agents looked all over the park with the dogs that barked whenever they sensed the smell of one of the two daughters. Unfortunately the park was really big and there were also many food kiosks, so the dogs were easily distracted by other smells.
Kate and Arthur went around see if they could find the girls but apparently they had disappeared and weren't at the park anymore.
Kate was desperate and so Arthur but he had to be strong for his wife and he kept on comforting her.
Little Daniel stayed near the police cars where some agents were discussing about some plan to find the two girls and the other kids who disappeared.
Apparently there had been this man who started kidnapping kids in 1970 all over the country; in 8 years 30 kids had disappeared and the police had found just 5 bodies but no kids alive.
After a couple of hours Dan was starting to get tired, so he decided to go play near the fountain, not too far from where the cops were standing; he was drinking some water when he heard someone calling him; he looked around and saw a blonde girl with a pink dress behind a bush near the park gate; he didn't recognize the face but he immediately thought she was his sister Hayden so he ran towards her.
After two hours they hadn't came up with anything so the policemen and the parents went back to the police cars where Daniel should've been
"Dan...dan... Where are you? Come on it's not funny" His mother started looking behind the cars and trees but she didn't find him
"Dan... Please Daniel come here"
Nothing... He was gone,too.
Kate started sobbing and had a panic attack
"The unsub was still here, yet we couldn't manage to catch him!" David Rossi was frustrated and angry. That psychopath had stayed there after kidnapping the two girls and now another kid was missing.
Rossi didn't want to give up... He would've never given up; he sworn to himself and to the kids' parents that he would've found them and taken them home.
Michigan 14th June 1990
Finally the BAU had solved another case, after weeks and week of running behind an unsub, they were going to catch him.
Andrew Kirs was guilty of killing 6 women in the past 2 months. Apparently his girlfriend had left him at the altar to run away in Europe with some random guy she had met in a restaurant.
Andrew was so mad at her that he decided to let his anger out by k random women that resembled his fiancé:tall skinny blue eyes brown hair and they were all estate agents. thanks to their tech analyst the FBI was able to find where he was living.
Agent Rossi knocked at the door three times before yelling
"FBI OPEN THE DOOR"
No one answered not opened the door
"FBI WE'RE COMING IN"
Two other agents kicked the door open and the whole team plus the swat went inside.
Everything seemed still and quiet; apparently no one was in the house.
'Kirs is already gone' thought Rossi but he kept looking around, maybe he would find some clues to where he was headed.
"Hey come here!" Yelled someone,
Everyone ran toward the voice just to see a swat looking at a wall
" what's this?" Asked Rossi
"I think there's a door here, see?"
There were some lines on the wall and they seemed to form a door.
The swat member tried to push it slightly but it didn't move
"Maybe it's locked and there's someone inside" said agent Tipps
"Yeah maybe that's where we kept all of his stuff " said another agent
"The swat member kicked the wall and the door broke.
To say they weren't expecting what they saw would be an understatement.
The room was disgusting. It was dirty, the only furniture in there were four bunk beds and a window, but Rossi was pretty sure it was locked.
The agents looked around the room and spotted six little heads that tried to hide wherever they found a spot.
They had just found the kidnapper's mansion without realising it.
"Well this is definitely a surprise." said agent Lep
"I know, but at least we partially solved another mystery" replied another agent
"I think some kids are here go around and see if you can find the others and be careful, we don't know if the unsub is still around here." Said Dave while he entered the room.
He started moving around the little room.
He could clearly see a kid under the blankets of a bed; he moved towards the bed but the kid didn't move, maybe he thought Rossi would've just gone away; but he didn't he took the blankets away to see the kid, but what he saw shocked him…
He had never expected to see something like that. The little girl was curled in a little ball, she was wearing only her underwear and Rossi could clearly see scars all over her skinny body, she was dirty and had lots of bruises on her face.
He looked into her eyes but the only thing he saw was fear: she wasn't upset or angry or happy she was scared. He tried to reach for her but she started crying, shivering and she whispered to Rossi
"Please don't please"
Rossi tried to be as gentle as possible, moving towards, he just wanted to talk to her.
"Hey little girl I'm agent Rossi; I won't hurt you now I'll call an ambulance for you and your friends here and we'll take you to the hospital and then you'll go home"
The little girl nodded slightly
"Now can I take you downstairs? The ambulance is here"
The little girl nodded again and he picked her up with a blanket to cover her little body and took her to the ambulance; then he went back in the room.
He looked at the left side just to see the closet door open a little and immediately shut close.
Rossi decided to knock on the door and someone inside breathed heavily.
He opened the door and knelt down so now he was facing the little boy inside the closet. He was curled up and looked at him with fear.
"Hey bud my name is agent Rossi" he whispered trying not to scare him any more
"I'm a good guy and I'll take you home; what's your name?"
The little boy seemed to relax a little but he was still hyper vigilant
"James... Where's my sister"
"I don't know James but we're going to find her what's her name?"
"Sophie... S-she is 4"
"Ok don't worry I'll send some of my agents to find her now can you do me a favor?"
The little boy nodded unsure
"Come with me downstairs, there's an ambulance that will take you and these other kids to the hospital so you'll be feeling better when you go back home.
"I'm going home?" The boy immediately lit up; he hadn't been home in 3 years
"Yes bud you are" he smiled at the boy and asked to one of the agent to take him downstairs.
Rossi then started to get up when he noticed something under a bed ; he laid down and when he looked under the bed he faced two pair of eyes: one was dark blue and the other pair was a light brown nearly green; the two kids under the beds were not older than six and they seemed so innocent and scared and were trying to protect themselves curling up against the wall more and more.
Rossi decided that it was better if a female agent had come to help him
"Hey Alex" the brunette agent turned and entered the room
"Try to bring this two kids downstairs because I think they're scared of me"
"Sure boss I'll see what I can do"
While his agent talked softly with the two kids under the bed he saw another kid hiding on the top bed under the covers; the little girl was three so he supposed she was the last kid kidnapped: she had just few scars on her body, she was dirty and scared.
He tried to talk to her so he could take her to the ambulance.
"Hi" said Rossi softly
"My name is agent Rossi, what's your name?"
"Wes mommy?" The little girl whispered slowly
"Mommy's waiting for you at home, I'll take you to her, can I?"
"She's scared" the little girl said, trying not to be heard.
"Who's scared?" Rossi asked
"He done something bad to her"
"Who are you talking about sweetheart?" Dave was trying to understand what had happened, but he could barely hear the little girl; she was afraid of speaking as if somebody could have heard her and hurt her.
"I heared she scweamin'"
"Sweetie who screamed"
"She hided behind the closet, but don't hurt her, pwease, she want her sister"
"Ok sweetheart I'll go check on her while this nice girl takes you downstairs" the little three years old nodded slightly.
He went near the closet and knelt down, what he saw behind it made him go pale .
The girl was probably 13 years old. She was wearing a T-shirt way too big for her and her underwear. She was a complete mess; her hair was dirty and ruffled; the T-shirt was dirty and had some blood and something inside him told him it was her blood.
Dave could see that she was underfed. Then there were her legs: her bare skinny legs that had lots of cuts and scars. And her face; her face was white her eyes big and shiny.
The poor girl looked overly terrified because he'd found her, her lower lip was broken,her nose had just stopped bleeding and she was shivering.
He tried to speak to her but she just curled up in fetal position pressing her back against the wall more. He tried to reach her but she bit him in self defense. This girl was more scared than the others and he didn't know how to reassure her and take her away from this hell.
...
Meanwhile other agents were looking around the mansion. Outside there was a huge garden and a near wood. No doubt no one had ever saw or heard anything, that home was completely isolated from the rest of the world.
Quite far away from the house there was a little fence so the agents decided to go look if they could find something important for the investigations.
When they arrived at the fence their mouths dropped open. That little fence was a cemetery and apparently more that 50 kids between the ages of 3 and 18 were buried there. The agents looked around. Someone died many years ago, someone else died only months or weeks or even days ago: if they only had been faster. Then they saw it; a new stone with a name written on it: Claire Miller, but the thing that shocked him was that she died the 14th of June 1990; that exactly day! That meant the Unsub was still there hours or even minutes before they'd arrived!
They immediately ran towards the house looking for agent Rossi
"AGENT ROSSI AGENT ROSSI!"
Four agents came running in the room where David Rossi had almost succeeded in gaining the little girl's trust. At those loud noises the little girl got more scared, she put her hands on her ears and started crying.
"Hey shut up! You're scaring the girl!" Rossi tried to quiet the officers down.
"I'm sorry agent but this is important; not far from here there's a cemetery..."
"A cemetery?"
"Yeah we think that the Unsub built so we couldn't find the bodies of the kids and... There's this little girl who was buried today! That means the Unsub shouldn't be really far from here!"
"Great! We have to find the responsible and make him pay for what he'd done"
With that Rossi knelt down again and focused his attention to the girl who was now sobbing silently.
"Shhhh sweetie don't cry" he tried to comfort her.
But before he could say something else another girl entered the room running before stopping and staring at him scared
"Hey sweetie my name is agent Rossi and I'll take you home"
"Don't hurt her" the little girl blurted out
"What?"
"Please... Don't hurt my sister"
"No sweetie I don't wanna hurt your sister I want to take you both home"
"Home?" The little girl asked with a bit of hope in her words
"Yes home... What's your name"
"Hayden..."
"Ok Hayden and what's your sister name"
"Joy..."
"Ok Hay can you please tell your sister that I'm the good guy that will take you both home? Because she won't listen to me"
"Yeah... She... Well she's scared..."
Jamie went to hug her sister and told her that they were going home; then she took her hand and with agent Rossi went down and they both went to the hospital.
Rossi was relieved, he didn't find all the kids but at least they could save 15 kids from this hell and some families could finally have some peace.
Yeah end prologue... So? Do you guys like it? Hope so! Have a good day or night wherever you are and review
Thanks for reading
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