AN: This chapter is quite dark, just a warning.

The team was stretched very thin. In twelve hours they hadn't gotten any leads on who had taken JJ and it was hitting everyone hard, even, no, especially Garcia. She sat in silence in her computer room, only speaking when spoken to, desperate to find her little sugarplum. For her, it brought her back to that day, when she was searching for Reid and couldn't find anything and then they were sent the video feed and had to watch him being tortured-

There was a beep on the screen. A link to what was most likely a video, before Garcia called the team she just managed to spring from her swivel chair and throw up into the garbage can in the corner of the room.

"Everyone get in here!" She screamed, her voice scratchy and her eyes already filled up with tears. They all were in with her in ten seconds.

"What is it Baby girl?" Morgan asked.

"A video link." She muttered quietly.

"You mean like-"Morgan began.

"Hankel." Hotch interrupted.

Reid visibly paled, but Blake and Rossi just looked confused, Rossi realized who they were talking about first, but didn't say anything.

"Would someone please tell me who Hankel is?" Blake asked.

It was Hotch that answered her after a few long moments of deliberation. "A long time ago before Rossi and you joined the team Reid and JJ went out in the field and split up. JJ was locked in a barn with three rabid dogs but Reid was kidnapped, taken to a graveyard and tortured, the suspect made us watch, it was hard for all of us, but especially JJ, she thought it was her fault because the two of them split up."

Blake's mouth formed a distinctive "O" shape, but she didn't say anything, she just moved away from Rossi and Hotch and stood beside Reid, she took his hand in hers. Morgan sat on the arm of Garcia's chair and Hotch and Rossi stood at the back of the room looking stoic, but apprehensive.

"Do it Garcia." Hotch ordered.

She clicked the link and all the team braced themselves.

The screen was dark at first, but then a flickering light bulb came on, revealing JJ bound to a chair, looking bruised already and with a gag tight in her mouth and Garcia shed a tear. There was a man in the camera shot as well, but nobody focused on him, he was obviously an underling to whoever was doing the recording.

The man went right up to JJ, put his hands on her shoulders and she flinched, he punched her in the face, causing the chair to shake and almost collapse, but he caught it first. Morgan was cursing.

"So BAU team, I guess you know by now that I'm working with the replicator, who is just behind this camera if you want to say hello. Also, you already know that me and your little JJ are having a lot of fun here. So, you know that this is what happened to a certain Mr. Spencer Reid, but who else shall we imitate?" He taunted.

Garcia got another bubble up on the computer manager and made a quick list:

Hotch ~ Stabbed 9 times by Foyet,

Morgan ~ Thrown through a window,

Reid ~ Hankel,

Dave ~ Wife OD

Me ~ Shot

The whole team very quickly understood that she was trying to work out which one the replicator was likely to do next out of the serious injuries that the team had received, other than JJ, it wouldn't be the replicators style to repeat something she'd already gone through. It also couldn't be the two things she had crossed out because she didn't have a wife and it was already Hankel style.

The whole team stood in silence, waiting for the stillness to be broken. The man left the camera shot and for a moment JJ was the only one they could see. It even zoomed in on her face for dramatic effect. They could easily spot the unshed tears in her eyes. She knew they were there, the look in her eyes told them that.

When the camera panned out again the lackey was back in the shot and they could see the cattle prod in his hands and all of them could hear the very distinct buzz of electricity. "No, no that hasn't… we haven't had a case like that…" Garcia was in hysterics already.

"Baby girl, leave the room. If you can't watch it just leave the room." Morgan said from where he had moved to. He was leaning against a wall not too far away from where Hotch and Rossi were, Reid and Blake had moved closer to her though.

"Garcia, look away." Garcia turned to the computer monitor and saw JJ, leaning as far away from the prod as she could go in her binds, but it was her that was telling Garcia not to watch, Garcia smiled a little smile. "Never. I'm not leaving you there."

"Garcia, if something bad happens, don't let Will, never let Will see it. Don't let the team keep looking at it. Promise me you'll turn it off. Turn all your computers off."

"JJ, honey, can you hear me?"

JJ didn't respond, she just nodded ever so slightly that you wouldn't see it unless you were watching out for it. It was then that the communication was interrupted and they saw the cattle prod against JJ's arm as she twitched and writhed, but didn't make a sound. They could see her biting her lip to stop the screams coming out.

Every single member of the team was crying and then the prod was removed before they heard a clicking noise in the background that was obviously the turning of a dial in the background before the prod was put back on the bare flesh on her chest and the whole room erupted in her agonizing screams.

Morgan punched the wall he was leaning on, Rossi and Blake left the room and then Morgan had to forcibly remove Garcia she was in so much hysterics, but Reid and Hotch stayed there, watching everything, Reid was crying, Hotch had a stony look on his face, but his eyes conveyed all the emotion they needed to see.

When the torture finally stopped the camera was put on a tripod and both the torturer and the replicator left JJ alone. She was lucid, Reid could tell. "Jayje? Can you hear me?"

"Reid?"

"JJ, where are you?"

"I don't… I don't know… Reid, it's a basement, but I don't…"

"Alright Jayje. It's fine. You just focus on staying alive. Jayje, do you have any idea who the Replicator is?"

"I'm going to sleep now, you don't need to be creepers…" She was unconscious by the end of it.

"We need to find her Hotch. Before this happens again." Morgan said as he came back into the room.

"Yes, I'm certain we do. We need her to give us something though."