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Bradley Lucas was walking down 3rd Street in DC. In front of him he could see a commotion and sirens were blasting out all over the place. He could see a perimeter being set up around the District Court building by the cops. He thought he'd hang around to check out the action….'nothing like a Police shoot out, especially if one of the little piggies get shot themselves', he thought… and grinned to himself. It looked like there was some sort of siege in the building. A few minutes later a couple of black SUVs screamed up to the cordon and some Feds jumped out.
That's when the whole episode really caught Lucas's attention. He watched as Agent Morgan ran into the cordon followed by the rest of his team. He thought back to the last time he saw the Agent about 6 years ago…
"Steven, put the gun down now!" Agent Morgan ordered the boy.
"Don't listen to him Steven, he's gonna shoot you anyway" Lucas shouted to his younger brother. Lucas lay on the ground cuffed to a pipe leaving him unable to help Steven.
"Steven, if you put the gun down, I promise I won't shoot you. Don't listen to him. He is not going to do what is best for you. I will. Now put it down Steven!" Morgan had a bad feeling that this would end badly. The kid was too twitchy.
"Shoot him Steven, shoot him now! He'll kill both of us!"
Steven looked at Lucas and then back to Morgan. He was shaking, but he would never betray his brother. He was all he had had since he was ten years old.
Steven lifted the gun and aimed it at Morgan. He was about to pull the trigger when two bullets ripped into his chest. He slumped to the ground.
"Nooooooooooooooo! You bastard! I'll kill you. I'll fucking kill you!" Lucas screamed at Morgan.
Morgan ran to Steven to see if he could save the kid. As soon as he got up close he could see he was gone. It was too late.
The team spent the next 24 hours interviewing Lucas. They knew he had made Steven kill all those people, but they couldn't pin it on him. With Steven dead they had no evidence against Lucas and had to let him walk with a minor charge of assault on Morgan.
As Lucas left the building he said to Morgan, "You will pay for this. You killed my baby brother. I swear I will be back for you."
"Lucas, the only one to blame for Steven's death is you. You put him in that position."
Lucas gave Morgan a creepy grin and walked away.
Morgan just shrugged it off having heard those threats hundreds of times before.
Lucas recognised some of the team trailing behind Morgan, but noticed there were a couple he hadn't seen before. Some old guy and a younger dark haired woman… pretty hot for a Fed. She appeared to be Morgan's partner… well they certainly stuck together the whole time. Lucas stopped to watch the whole saga. With every minute he could feel the hatred for the Agent consume him more and more. That's when he decided….. Agent Morgan was now going to pay for taking his brother away. The only thing he had to figure out was how.
After a couple of hours, Lucas watched as Agent Morgan and his partner escorted a well built, tattooed freak out of the building and handed him over to the cops. He then watched Agent Morgan take hold of the dark hot Agent's arm and take her over to the paramedics. She must have been hurt as she was holding her head. He watched as Agent Morgan gently put his hand in the small of her back and touched her head softly. He knelt down in front of her looking concerned….. Lucas knew at that point how he would get Agent Morgan back…..hurt someone he obviously cared about… 'Agent Hottie.'
Lucas spent the next few days camped outside Quantico watching the comings and goings of the team with his latest partner in crime, John Riley. Lucas always picked partners younger than him who he could bully into doing anything he wanted. Riley was no different. He didn't question Lucas anymore, he had had enough beatings to know better.
For his plan to work he had to get both of the Agents at the same time, but most of the time they left the building, they were with other Agents. He would just have to wait it out until they were only with each other.
"Hey Reid" Morgan shouted across the bull pen, "you up for some food? Me and Prentiss are off for a burger, we haven't eaten all day."
"Thanks but no thanks… I've got a date with a chess board and one of the greatest brains in the USA."
"Sounds hot" Prentiss said laughing.
"Well while you two are clogging up your arteries with fried dead cow, I'll be improving myself….enjoy!"
He was greeted with a chorus of "ooooh" from Morgan and Prentiss as he walked to the elevator.
"Looks like it's just me and you then Princess, everyone else has gone" and they started to make their way out of the building. "We'll take my car. I'll drop you home later and pick you up in the morning on the way to work if you like?"
"Sounds good to me!"
Jackpot! This was it…. The chance Lucas had been waiting for. He followed the Agents to a burger joint…'not very classy for a couple of FBI Agents' he thought. He and Riley pulled up in the van they had stolen a few days ago next to Morgan's car on the opposite side of the road to where they were eating. By the time they came out of the restaurant it was dark and the car park was pretty secluded. As they walked over to the car, Lucas pushed Riley out of the van, "go on, do what we said" he instructed him.
Riley ran out in front of the two Agents, "Help! Help!" he shouted.
"Hey what's up man?" Morgan replied.
"My girlfriend's having some sort of fit. She's behind that van. Please help us!"
Dutifully both Morgan and Prentiss went to run behind the van to help. Morgan was in front and as he ran behind the van he felt an enormous blow to his head. Before he could react he felt an incredible pain running through his body. Lucas had used a stun gun on him. As he did this, Riley had run behind Prentiss and done the same to her. Within a few seconds they had both been tied up and Lucas had injected them both with something that knocked them out cold.
Morgan felt like he was waking up from the worse hangover he had ever had. His head was banging and it took all the energy he had just to open his eyes. As he did all he could see was a blur. It took a few seconds for his eyes to adjust and as he did he looked around the room he did not recognise. He was surrounded only by bare brick wall and it was very cold. As he looked around, the vision he saw next caused him to remember what had happened. There opposite him was Emily. Her head was hanging forward and she was tied up to the chair. As Morgan went to get up to help her he became aware of the leather straps around his wrists shackling him to his chair.
"Emily" he shouted. But there was no response. He couldn't even tell whether she was breathing from where he was.
He kept calling her name but she wouldn't respond. Morgan then heard the lock in the door. He recognised the man that walked in…. it was the man who asked them for help in the parking lot.
"What the hell is going on? Let me out of these!" Morgan bellowed at the man.
"No chance" Riley replied without even looking at Morgan.
"What do you want?" Morgan continued.
No response. Riley just walked up to Emily and pulled her head back by tugging at her hair.
"Don't you touch her you bastard!" Morgan shouted.
As he did, he heard some more footsteps approaching the door.
He heard another man's voice, "Tut tut tut Agent Morgan, what a mess you've got yourself into".
Lucas walked into the room and Morgan instantly recognised him. He was lost for words.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" and Lucas laughed.
"Lucas? What the hell are you doing? How do you think you're going to get away with this?"
"May be I don't care if I get away with this."
"Let her go. She's got nothing to do with this. Your beef's with me."
"You're all the same. Assholes!"
"Emily wasn't even around when Steven died. You've got me, just let her go!"
Lucas walked up to Morgan and leaned down so they were practically nose to nose, "Oh no Agent Morgan, I'm going to have some fun with her" and he let a grin snake across his face.
At that point, Morgan realised exactly why Emily was there….. Morgan had taken away the one person Lucas had cared about. Lucas wanted to do the same to him.
Morgan desperately looked around the room for something that may help him get out of there. There was nothing. It was an empty room.
Lucas spoke to his partner, "Riley, get over here. Do what we said."
Riley did as he was told and walked over to stand by Morgan. Lucas walked over to Emily. He pushed her head backwards roughly and tapped her face, "Emily…. Emily…. Come on. Wakey wakey". She didn't respond so he started tapping her face harder and harder until they were almost slaps.
"Leave her alone!" Morgan couldn't help screaming at him, although he knew it was pointless. He was powerless.
Emily started to stir. Very slowly she came to. As she started to focus she saw Morgan and started to panic, "Morgan! What the…" but she didn't finish her sentence. Lucas backhanded her right across her face.
"Lucas, for fucks sake! Stop it! I swear to god if you don't….."
"You'll do what exactly? I don't think you're in a position to do anything."
After the whack across the face, Emily was fully awake. She saw Morgan tied up and was confused and disorientated. He obviously knew this Lucas guy, but she didn't remember him from anywhere.
"Riley, do as we said" Lucas instructed the younger man.
Lucas leaned in towards Emily and whispered, "Enjoy the show".
Riley started punching Morgan to his body and face.
"Morgan!... Stop it! Stop it please! What do you want? Whatever it is we can sort it out!" she pleaded with Lucas. Emily could do nothing as she had to watch Morgan being beaten. These men were evil and there was no reasoning or talking to them. There seemed to be pure hatred in their actions. She had no idea whether they were going to get out of this alive. She had no idea if Morgan knew how she really felt about him and whether she'd ever get the chance to tell him. Watching what was happening to him only cemented in her mind her feelings for him.
The beating lasted a few minutes but felt like hours. Morgan was barley conscious at the end of it. The tears were streaming down Emily's face. "Derek! Derek please talk to me!" she desperately shouted.
He didn't respond. Lucas grabbed the back of Emily's chair and started to drag her out of the room, "Derek! It'll be ok. Just hang on please, just hang on!"
Lucas left Emily in another room and went back to Morgan. Morgan could just about make out what was going on. He could see Riley with a video camera in his hands. He was filming Morgan. He knew Lucas was stood behind him but didn't know what he was doing. What the hell was going on? Before he could say anything he felt some more blows to his head and body and slowly lost consciousness once again.
It was 9am at Quantico. The team should have been in at 8 and so by now they had noticed Morgan and Prentiss's absence.
Hotch came down into the bull pen where Reid and Garcia were talking, "Have either of you heard from Morgan or Prentiss?"
"No" Reid answered, "I know they were going for food after work last night."
"I noticed Prentiss's car in the lot this morning, but she's not here. They must have gone in Morgan's car" Hotch stated. His expression then changed as though some sort of light bulb had gone off in his head. Hotch said nothing else and walked off with a frown on his face.
"Oh god, he looked pissed." Garcia said giggling, "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Reid looked at Garcia confused.
"Oh Reid, you are so sweet and innocent."
"What are you talking about Garcia?"
"Derek and Emily go off together in Derek's car for something to eat and then they are both late for work?"
"So?"
"So Dr Reid, may be they were together ALL night."
Reid looked surprised, "Oh I see. You really think they have….. you know?"
"I don't know, but if they have I'm going to kill Emily for not giving me the gory details!"
"I better give them a ring to warn them Hotch is onto them." Reid promptly rang both of their phones but got no answer from either. He kept trying…
Morgan felt like his head was about to explode. He was gaining consciousness and as he did he became very aware he was freezing cold and the ground below him felt wet. When he could finally focus he realised he was outside and it was daylight. He could hear traffic. Where the hell was he? He desperately looked around for Emily but she was no where to be seen. His body was aching like crazy. He then heard a ringing noise coming from his pocket….. he reached in and there was his mobile phone! He could just about make out Hotch's name on the screen.
"Hotch?"
"Morgan, where are you?" Hotch asked curtly.
"I…. I don't know Hotch"
"What do you mean you don't know? Is Prentiss with you?"
"No….she was, but she's not here now. I don't know where she is."
"Morgan, are you ok? You don't sound too good. What the hell is going on?"
"Hotch, me and Emily were abducted. They've let me go, but I don't know where she is. We've got to find her Hotch. They're going to hurt her."
"Ok Morgan, calm down, let's get you back here first."
Morgan looked around. He could see some buildings. He moved as quickly as he could to the roadside and found the name of the street. Hotch went to find him with the Reid and Rossi in tow and got a paramedic unit on route to him.
Whilst being treated by the paramedics Morgan told them what had happened. Reid and Hotch both remembered Lucas as they had taken part in interviewing him all those years ago. Morgan explained that he thought they would hurt Emily or even worse as revenge for him shooting Steven. The problem was that they had no idea where to start looking for her. All Morgan had seen was the inside of an empty room. He did not remember any of the journey to or from where they had been kept.
After 24 hours there was still no sign of Emily. Morgan was pacing up and down the bull pen looking more and more agitated. Hotch called him into his office.
"Morgan, I need to ask you something and you have to be honest with me."
"What Hotch?" Morgan was rather short with his boss but Hotch let it go in the circumstances.
"Are you and Prentiss involved?"
"What!" Morgan looked mad.
"You heard me. Are you seeing each other?"
"No we're not. Why would you ask that?"
"Well, it's no secret you two are close, and she left her car here the other night."
"Hotch, we're wasting time here. There's nothing going on between us. But we have to find her. If anything happens to her, it's my fault."
"Morgan, it's not your fault. We're doing everything we can".
"No Hotch! We're doing fuck all!" and Morgan stormed out of the office. Hotch wouldn't normally allow Morgan to speak to him like that, but knew confronting him now would not be a good idea. He would deal with it when this was over.
Rossi heard the commotion and came into Hotch's office.
"What was that all about?"
"I asked Morgan if he was involved with Prentiss. He said he wasn't and I believe him, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to be and that he doesn't have feelings for her."
"They are pretty tight."
"I know, and I've never had cause to worry about that, but in these circumstances I think those feelings are making him dangerous."
"You know he won't let you take him off the case."
"I know…keep an eye on him for me will you?"
"Sure."
Morgan went storming out of the building. He needed some fresh air. As he was stood in the car parking lot he heard his phone beep. He looked down at the screen and could see it was a message from Emily. He quickly opened it up and all that was on the screen was bunch of jumbled up letters and numbers. His mind was racing…..'focus!' he thought to himself. He looked again at the screen…it was a web site address! He ran as fast as he could into the building and towards Garcia's office. As he ran through the bull pen he called for Reid and told him to get Hotch and Rossi.
He blasted in through Garcia's door.
"Whoa there Derek! Slow down!" A startled Garcia said.
He showed her his phone, "Garica, get this website address up."
As she was typing in the address Hotch, Reid and Rossi walked in.
"What's going on?" Hotch asked.
"I got a message form Emily….well from her phone anyway. It must be them. It's a web site address."
As Morgan was talking he heard Garcia give a little scream, "Oh my god!"
They all looked at the screen and there they could see Emily. She was sat on a bed with her back against the wall with her knees up to her chest.
"Look at her leg," Reid said pointing to the screen. They could just about make out the chain shackled to one of her ankles. The other end attached to the wall. She was covered in bruises from head to toe. Lucas had really gone to town on her.