One for all, all for one...
The story will take place two months after the end of season 6 final episode.
I base my story on Erica Messer's "chat" where she explains that the team was almost split everywhere and where she specified that it was Morgan who discovered the truth about Prentiss.
Hotch takes officially Strauss' place and oversees several teams on the field, he takes care of briefings but makes essentially an office work …
JJ assists him as a media liaison for these teams and helps him about the most desperate cases.
Garcia decides to stay and delays her projects with Kevin, their farm will wait.
Rossi, is a half-time consultant and gets ready to write a new book!
Morgan accepted Kate Joyner's post in New York and Reid accompanied him.
Ashley leaves the BAU for another service.
At the beginning of the story, Derek realizes that someone lied to them concerning Emily and looks for answers (with more or less tact).
That's when a terrible thing occurs and the former team takes the lead (one last time?) of an investigation to find and save one of their own!
Be gentle, English isn't my first language... and review, please!
Part 1
Aaron had decided to take a few days off just before Jack starts his new year at school, Jack needed it and he needed him, he needed to spend some moments with his son.
He had left the BAU early, David knew why, and if there were emergencies, he knew where to contact him. He stopped at his apartment to change his impeccable suit against a jeans sweat t-shirt, and it was like that, that he felt better.
He had to get back Jack at Jessica's home early in the evening to go to eat and end the day with him. And when they spent a moment together, they went to a pizzeria not far away from their apartment. Aaron had gone to reserve a table for evening.
Walking, breathing some fresh air, it was moments like these that he appreciated more than everything, just some minutes of peace and serenity...
The situation at the office had become heavy; he was tired, tired to be constantly under pressure, tired to make curvets and to be politically correct.
He missed his team but which kind of boss he would have been if he had prevented them from embracing another way, another career.
Morgan had left to New York and Spencer had followed him. Ashley had left the team, JJ and Garcia had stayed to help him to oversee the work of the other teams, and David joined them from time to time, he spent a great part of his life on his computer to write a new book, right now.
A new book which he spoke to him sometimes, he needed advices and Hotch was well placed to help him!
As soon as he approached his car this evening, something put him on his guard, he had suddenly felt spied on, watched, he had turned back, had noticed nothing bad but the faintness remained present! He had a bad hunch.
Jack waited for him and flew in his arms! Jessica kissed them both while wishing them a good evening, she had understood at which point Hotch loved his job and she wouldn't have agreed that he stops all in what he believed to raise Jack, for his little boy, he was a hero who stopped the bad guys, he had to continue to make this job at where he excelled!
The evening was great and it was late when they finished, but they weren't far from to apartment, it wasn't so important. Jack loved spending time with his father, and his father, loved his little boy.
Nevertheless as soon as they went outside of the restaurant, Hotch felt uncomfortable again and what happened then, remained vague in his mind for a long time, Jack had left in front of him and suddenly he had seen someone catching and taking him whereas another person arrived just behind him tried to catch him too, he defended himself, and managed to get rid of his aggressor to get back to his little boy!
The suite of the altercation was very fast, he saw a 3rd man, and that one was armed, Hotch took out his weapon but didn't have time to use it, a single blow is fired, he took the bullet in his shoulder and lost his balance. He held a cry of pain not to worry Jack, and clenched his teeth.
Two pairs of arms took him up and pushed him behind the black SUV, Jack was already there, Aaron saw a single tear flow along Jack's cheek and he quickly took the terrorized little boy in his arms then hardly tightened him!
He had recognized the 3rd man and already knew that he wouldn't make it for a long time!
But he would try for Jack...
Some minutes later, they were alone, sat on a sofa in a dark room without windows. Aaron hadn't released Jack which had eventually fallen asleep, exhausted!
His shoulder made him suffer but for the moment, it was a detail. He had to try hard to keep in memory, an indication which could allow someone to find them.
He prayed that David tries to contact him during the next two days, and worries about his silence to react, he closed his eyes and breathed deeply, a terrible fear seized him.
He hardly tried to breathe, calmly...
Aaron Hotchner felt suddenly alone!
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David Rossi was worried, he quickly opened the door of Penelope Garcia's office, thing that he never made usually, and she jumped.
Something was wrong, it wasn't clear; two days ago he tried desperately to contact Aaron.
Unsuccessfully.
Even if he was in vacation, he never cut his mobile, and he had reminded him that he was on touch.
His mobile rang and the calls finished systematically on the answering machine. David Rossi was very worried.
He asked to Garcia to verify when Aaron had used his credit card for the last time!
Penelope didn't like that, she didn't make it for a colleague, even less for his boss.
David insisted and what he said froze her.
«Imagine, Penelope, that you check the timetable of a victim"
Because we were there, this silence wasn't normal, and finding a small thing of his timetable was maybe important, vital. It wasn't like Aaron to disappear during two days.
Penelope searched and they realized that the track stopped two days earlier in this pizzeria, a pizzeria where a local newspaper told a very strange story having taken place over there, the owner had heard a shot on Friday evening and when he had came outside, he had seen a black SUV that was gone in a minute.
There was a video camera near the restaurant, Garcia connected his computer with the two days earlier database and the scene that they saw perturbed them a lot.
Jack, Aaron, the shot, the kidnapping and the worst came, the 3rd man appeared in front of the camera, a face that petrified David Rossi and Penelope Garcia: Ian Doyle!