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Chapter 2

Hotch entered the BAU after dropping his son off at his kindergarten class. He walked into his office, turned on the light switch, and placed his briefcase down next to his desk before looking out the window to see all those who were in the bullpen. Reid was sitting at his desk finishing up paperwork, while Morgan was attempting to do his also but Garcia was asking him questions about things that Kevin had said and done. Hotch already knew that JJ and Rossi were in since their office lights had been on when he came in. sSo the only person that hadn't arrived yet was Emily. She was usually here by this time. He decided to himself that he was going to wait ten more minutes before asking the others if they had heard from her.

The ten minutes were up. He got up from his desk and went down to the bullpen.

The agents all looked up when Hotch spoke. "Have any of you seen or heard from Prentiss?"

They all shook their heads no and began to look at each other to see the other agent's answers. Hotch sighed and grabbed his phone to try and call her. There wasn't a single ring. The phone went straight to voicemail causing his stomach to drop a little bit more. The team was looking at him with expectant looks, but he just shook his head.

"I'm going to head over to her apartment and see if she's there," he informed them.

"I'll come with you," Rossi said.

They both headed out of the building to the Tahoe.

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Emily Prentiss awoke and opened her eyes to find that her vision was fuzzy. It began to clear and she saw that she was currently chained to the ceiling of a cold, damp room with white cement-block walls and a single metal door. She tried to remember how she had gotten into this predicament and then last night dawned on her. The man with the ice blue eyes had come into her room and threatened Aaron and Jack's lives if she didn't do what he said.

She pulled on her restraints to see if they had a weakness in them, but all that that resulted in was her wrists getting damaged.

"There's no use to be doing that," a voice said behind her. She remembered that voice from the night before in her bedroom. "I made sure they were secure for this exact reason. I knew you would try to get out of your bonds, but you won't be able to. You can keep trying if you want to though."

She stopped struggling and looked at the man with pure hatred. "Why did you take me? What do you want?"

"Well, that's simple. I want to set your boyfriend off balance and have my ultimate vengeance on him. So kidnapping you was one of the best ways to knock him off his game."

"You're pathetic. That is the best plan you can come up with. My team will find you"

The man stomped up to her and punched Emily in the gut causing the wind to be knocked out of her. He put his face next to her ear. "That's what you think. They will only find me when I want to be found which will be after I'm through with you and Aaron," he said before exiting through the door.

She tried to regulate her breathing after the strike to her abdomen. She began to worry for Hotch. She hoped that he wouldn't fall victim to this man. Why did this man even have so much animosity against him anyway?

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Hotch and Rossi walked up to the door to Prentiss's apartment and Hotch pulled out a key from his pocket to unlock the door. They walked in and began searching the house. They met back in the living room and both shook their heads.

"Her car is still in the same parking space it normally is, but she isn't here," Hotch said.

"Let's check and see if there is anything that might help us know where she might be."

The two men spread out. Rossi covering the back rooms of the apartment while Hotch checked the front ones. A few minutes later Rossi called out for him to come to Emily's room.

"What did you find, Rossi," he questioned walking through the doorway.

Rossi held up a piece of cloth that had been dropped on the ground with a gloved hand. Hotch took it from the older man's hand and smelled it.

"Chloroform," Hotch informed. Despair fell upon his shoulders. He wanted to scream and shout but instead kept his cool demeanor. He was going to scour the entire city to find her and kill the person that had taken her. "We should head back and inform the team of the circumstances and get started trying to find her."

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The men walked into the bullpen. The agents looked up with hope in their eyes that soon died when they didn't see Prentiss.

"Everyone in the conference room," the angered Agent Hotchner said.

The team all went to the room and took a seat except for Hotch. He stood at the head of the table and stared at the empty chair at the table before starting. He viewed the team before dropping the evidence bag containing the cloth on the table.

"We found this in Prentiss's room on the floor. There may be a chance that she was taken but we need more evidence. Garcia, can you pull up the video footage from her apartment building?"

"Yes, sir," she said while already starting to hack into the footage on her computer. "Here it is." Garcia started the video at eight last night and began to fast-forward.

"Slow it down there, Garcia," Rossi said. The time slot on the video showed that it was one fifteen in the morning.

The whole team looked at the screen to see a man carrying an unconscious, tied up Emily out of her apartment. He went through the door that lead to the stairs. Garcia then switched camera views which showed him coming out of the stairwell. He left the building then. She again switched views to the ouside parking spaces that displayed him throwing her body into the trunk of a black Honda. There wasn't a license plate on the back of the vehicle to trace to the teams dismay. The car began to drive off when Garcia cut off the video.

"We can see that Prentiss has been taken," Hotch began. "This will be the only thing we do. We will not take a new case. We won't finish paperwork. Our main priority is finding her. She is missing and we will get her back."

Missing? Why did that seem like such an important word? Wait missing! Hotch then recalled the text that he recieved earlier in the day. Why hadn't he acknowledged it before why hadn't he remembered it sooner. Grief struck across his face.

"Hotch, what's wrong?" JJ asked.

"I just remembered that I recieved a text message this morning that asked if I was missing something. I didn't think anything of it since I assumed the sender had sent it to the wrong number." He wanted to pound his head into a wall for being so freaking stupid. "Garcia, can you try to see who the number belongs to?"

Hotch read out the number as Garcia searched for who owned it.

"Sir, it's a burn phone so I can't find out who it belongs to. I'm sorry"

"It's alright Garcia, just pull up the video footage again so we can try to find certain characteristics that can help us identify him."

Once they found this man, Aaron Hotchner was going to kill him with his bare hands even if he hadn't even hurt her yet. Why had this man even taken her? Why did he send him the text? Did her abduction have something to do with something he had done? All these questions and more kept swirling in his brain. All he knew though is that it was beyond important that they found her, and soon.

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Hey ya'll. Thanks for all the amazing reviews, alerts, and favorites, I really appreciate it. I hope you liked this chapter. Next chapter I plan to put more of Emily in it. Well, please tell me what you think. i would love to hear your feedback. Thanks again for reading and reviewing. =)