A/N: Thank you all for the alerts.
Chapter 2
Matt raced up the steps of the team's Gulf Stream on Hotch's heels. He stepped into the open cockpit door as Hotch moved down the aisle to the rest of the team quickly taking their seats. "Update please."
Angie pulled over one ear of her headphones. "We're priority with the tower. Jesse gave us the heads up on a child abduction. How fast can you get the team buckled up?"
"Get the jet in taxi mode. I'll take of the rest," Matt said, shutting the cockpit door.
Matt walked through the cabin to his usual seat, seeing the team members already buckling their seatbelts. He crawled into his usual seat in the four top, stowed his and Hotch's briefcases and quickly grabbed his seatbelt, sitting down. He looked at Morgan and Rossi doing the same. Hotch sat down in his usual seat next to Matt.
Matt hit the button on the console above his head. "We're ready Angie," he said as the jet rolled out from its parked position.
"Roger that Cob. We've got full clearance. We'll be airborne in less than five minutes with max clearance to ten thousand for your electronics. Other than the usual chop over the Appalachians, it should be a smooth ride."
"Thanks Angie." Matt said, hitting the off button on the console. He looked around the cabin. "You heard the lady."
Morgan pulled out his laptop and set it on the tabletop between the four as the Gulf Stream taxied to its take-off, pushing his briefcase under his seat. "I've got it," Dave said, putting his hand on the laptop.
The Gulf Stream sped down the runway.
Less than four minutes later, Angie pinged in from the cockpit. "Go on the electronics. We're clear." Dave plugged in Morgan's laptop to plane's video feed looking at Hotch and Matt.
"They really want to pull the jet out of our budget?"
"Say what man?" Morgan incredulously asked, opening his tablet. Garcia appeared on the laptop.
"That's our worry not yours," Hotch said, shaking Morgan off. "What do we have Garcia?"
Garcia laid out the details of Justin's abduction.
"Garcia, what is the neighborhood like?" Rossi asked.
"It's typical middle class. From my cursory search, all the neighbors are two parent-working households with school age kids or kids in daycare. I'm just getting updates from CARD as we speak." She paused. "They ruled out the entire family."
"They're sure Garcia?" Hotch asked.
"Affirmative sir. Justin's entire family who live in the area are in the home. CARD leader Baker is more than sure. He and his team have interviewed them all per our playbook sir. They're clean."
"So it's a stranger abduction," Morgan said.
Matt pointed at him. "Any ransom demands Garcia?"
"Not as yet sir," she responded.
"Garcia," JJ said. "Is there media coverage?"
"Jayje, Justin's picture is splashed across every form of media in the area including social media."
"And no ransom demands?" Emily asked. "If this is not a financially motivated kidnapper…"
Matt shook his head. "Our job just got tougher. This is either a pedophile or a transference kidnapper."
"Let's hope it's the second," Morgan said. "We've got a better chance of finding Justin alive."
"True Morgan," Hotch said. "But like Matt said, that makes the case more difficult."
"Charlie is our first key," Dave said. "He's the last one that saw Justin."
"I agree Dave," Hotch said. "Matt," he added looking to his right, "that's you and JJ. You two are parents with kids that age. You know how to talk to him." Matt and JJ nodded.
"Morgan and Prentiss, I want the two of you at Justin's home. I trust CARD. But just double check their findings."
"You got it Hotch," they both said.
"Reid; Tara," Hotch said. "Re-canvas the neighbors with the CARD team. I know they've already done it. But some neighbors weren't home from their workday for the initial sweep. You know the questions to ask."
"We're looking for a stalker," Tara said. "He's been staking out his victim." Reid pointed at her.
Hotch looked at Dave. "You and I are setting up at the field office."
"Already got that Aaron," Dave said.
"Let's go over victimology and develop a working profile," Hotch said. "Garcia, I know we're going to give you minor parameters. But please start a search on what you hear."
"On it boss man," Garcia said.
"Let's dive in," Hotch said.
"Matt called it," Dave said. "We clearly have an unsub that is not looking for financial gain."
"But is this unsub male or female?" Reid asked. "At this point in the investigation, it could go either way. But statistics say it more than likely a male."
"I agree with Justin's age," Matt said.
"Cob?" Morgan said.
"Justin is nine," Matt said. "Female perpetrators will abduct kids for transference of a lost child and take newborns. If it's a pedophile, we all know the odds."
"Taught you well my Jedi," Dave said.
"Big Dog, a case in the Vegas desert taught me that." He winked at Dave. "And Prentiss couldn't keep up with you and me on a night off." Matt pointed at Derek. "Nice set up man," he smiled. JJ smiled at the memory.
Emily whacked Morgan's arm. "I thought you were my partner?"
"Ooo come on Prentiss; that was too easy," Morgan smiled.
They rest all snickered. Except for Hotch. "Back on point," he said. Matt looked at Dave.
"Either way this unsub has selected Justin for a specific reason," Dave said. "Pedophile or transference unsub, he stalked his victim."
"I agree," Matt said. "So our interviews of the neighborhood are key. Someone has seen this bastard hanging around."
"Sir, I've just launched a search engine of my binary systems for both kinds of perps."
"And you're getting the phone book," Matt said.
"Pretty much sir," Garcia responded.
"Sorta figured that Garcia," Matt said. "Like we said, we're just spit balling right now. Until we get on the scene and get more intel I'm sorry. You're going to have to put that Lamborghini engine on idle."
"Chocolate Thunder? Does Cob know all our secrets?"
"Why he's number two doll face." The team all smiled.
"I get the emails Hotch does about the seminars you two produce," Matt growled.
"Can we so get back to the case," Garcia said. Matt winked at Dave with a smile. Hotch looked at the two of them and shook his head. Dave winked back at Matt.
Hotch looked at Dave. "If I had been the BAU boss when you were pulling your skirt chasing antics, I would have fired your ass. You're the reason most of these rules are in place."
"Boom!" Reid said with a huge smile.
Dave looked at Matt. "Big Dog, you just got your ass plunked by our supreme leader." Hotch burrowed the Hotchner death glare at Matt. Matt smiled, sharing a fist bump with Dave. "Hotch, I am number two," Matt said. Hotch looked at him with a question. "I take the away crew out into possible danger."
"Star Trek reference," Reid happily smiled.
"TNG only in my world Doc," Matt added. Reid scowled. JJ and Emily smiled at each other.
"Thanks Matt," Hotch slightly smiled. "We all needed that." Matt smiled at him.
"Guys, I'm gonna beat Hotch to the punch. As you probably already figured out, he's getting political shit. Let's get heads down, bring this one home and put out two fires," Matt said.
"Rock and roll Cob," Morgan smiled.
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A/N: As CM fans, we all know that Reid's fascination with Star Trek is the original. While I'm old enough to remember seeing those episodes, it wasn't my thing. Even with being a huge follower of NASA's Apollo program.
That said Star Trek: The Next Generation was more realistic to me.
*whispers* But my fav was ST: Voyager. All seven seasons on DVD.
