Reid took a sip of coffee while flipping through a file on his desk. A few feet away Morgan and Emily were sitting at their desks going through their morning routine. Both had their coffees, both had reports and files piled high and both had one opened on their desk as they set to work.

JJ was in her office down the hall while comparing cases. None of them were urgent enough for them to need to leave straight away so choosing between to equally matched case file was going to be difficult.

In his office, Hotch was talking with Rossi who sat on the other side of the desk. The conversation seemed light hearted and Hotch's lips could be seen curling into a smile from outside the office as Rossi talked about babysitting Jack over the past weekend.

Garcia excitedly followed one of the desk workers through a hallway leading to the bullpen, her neon purple heels clicking against the floor as she went. "Guys, look!" She almost squealed as she entered the bullpen, the profilers' heads turning to see the source of excitement.

"What's that?" Emily asked with a little smile.

"I think it's presents!" She exclaimed with a grin. The desk worker smiled at their excitement, handing the main package, a box covered in balloon wrapping paper, to Reid who was closest and passed the bouquet of yellow flowers to Garcia before leaving the bullpen.

"When do we ever get presents?" Emily said with a smile as Reid lifted the lid off the box and Garcia opened the note left in the flowers. Reid scrunched his eyebrows slightly and gave a confused look when he saw the box was full of scrunched up, pink tissue paper. Morgan got off his chair to get a better view and leant against his desk.

Garcia opened the little envelope that contained the note and slide the piece of paper out. "Um, guys" the blonde said with worry obvious in her voice. "I don't think these are presents" She added while passing the piece of paper to Morgan.

"Catch me if you can?" Morgan read from the card in a questioning voice. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Morgan" Reid said in a voice barely above a whisper. In one hand he was supporting the box and in the other he held a photo frame with a picture of a little girl in.

"Is that Ellie?" Garcia's eyes fixed on the photo as Morgan snatched it from the younger man and stared down at it.

"Who sent this?" Morgan had to stop himself shouting by gritting his teeth as he instantly recognised the little girl as Ellie Spicer.

"I- I don't know. All I saw was the desk worker bring it up" Garcia replied in a rush of words.

"There're more of them" Reid mumbled in disbelief as he pulled out another photo frame and passed it to Emily.

"Get Hotch" Emily exhaled after turning over the photo frame and seeing Declan's face. Garcia quickly nodded then rushed out of the bullpen and toward Hotch's office, pulling open the door without bothering to knock.

Reid stood and placed the box on his desk before pulling out the rest of the tissue paper until he came across the last photo frame. He picked it up and slowly turned it over, revealing Nathan Harris' face. Reid sat back in his chair in disbelief. It had only taken him a few moments to realise if someone was going after children Nathan could be in there, but he hadn't let himself believe he was in trouble until that moment.

Morgan had already ripped open his frame and was struggling to pull the photo out. Garcia's heels could be heard clicking with a deeper shoe set following her.

"What's happened?" Hotch asked once he came close to the group. His eyes studied the objects laying on desks and the frames in hands before flicking up to see some agents taking notice of the scene. Reid looked up and saw Rossi making a quick walk to the desks and cleared his throat.

"Three photo frames sent here. And this" Emily murmured while passing the piece of card to Hotch. He quickly glanced over the words and frowned a little.

"Bag everything for prints. Garcia- find out who sent these. Everyone else- briefing room. I'll get JJ" Hotch instructed before walking out of the bullpen in a calm manor.

"I need gloves" Morgan murmured after flipping the broken frame over to see something scrawled on the back of the picture. One of the desk agents quickly passed a pair which the man slipped on then pulled the photo out. "It's an address"

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"Police!" Morgan yelled as he took a step over the broken down door and into the apartment. He waved a hand to the SWAT team behind him who crept inside, splitting up and moving round the rooms silently.

"I got something!" One of the agents called from one of the back rooms. Morgan jogged toward the source of the noise and grabbed the piece of paper. He ran a hand over his head then motioned the agents toward the door, carrying the paper with him to the team outside.

"No one's inside but he left this" Morgan stated before Emily took the paper off him. She read through the first few words then winced slightly and passed it to Reid.

Reid's eyes glided over the words before he sighed and cleared his throat. "I have taken Nathan Harris, Ellie Spicer and Declan Jones. You have failed to protect them. Now you must feel the consequences. If you wish to save them you must find me. Find me and you will find them. Good luck" The youngest member of the team read, straining to keep his tone as monotone as possible.

"What's at the bottom?" JJ asked, peering at the piece of paper.

"The address for a public park…" Reid murmured, his eyebrows scrunched together as his mind ran calculations. "It's two miles away… We can get there in four minutes"

This has been an idea I've had for a while but been putting off. I finally got around to it and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I've been trying to decide between this and two other stories I've written on which one to post but instead of picking one I choose to post all and whichever get's the most positive feedback will be the one that I'll update the fastest. I decided to freeze the ages of all the kids at the last time we saw them on criminal minds just for practical reasons but hopefully it doesn't interfere with your guys reading and imagining it. Depending on if this is the most popular of the three stories; the next chapter could be up within the next week. Please review if you've got time!