As implied before, some of these extra scenes will be much shorter than others. With this particular little addition, I really just wanted to show how the team's concerns would be affected by Rachel's presence in addition to how they react when they know the victim.

Also, about the title. It is considered good practice when writing harmony that progressive chords share a common note (ie: C-E-G to G-B-D, the tonic to dominant chords in the key of C Major) so that the harmony flows from chord to chord. Therefore, Rachel is the common tone for all these scenes, whether or not she actually appears in them. This is all now for the Mvt II scenes. For some reason, I already have at least twice this planned for Mvt III but I won't write or post those until the dominant chapters are posted first.

Hotch had been to this house on a number of occasions; he knew what was out of place and what was not. The purse on the kitchen counter was Sarah's, dropped off on her way in from work. Some salad ingredients were next to it, likely from Rachel's preparation for the evening meal. There was nothing in the front hall, kitchen, or living room that looked wrong.

The back bedrooms were a different story. Sarah's office was mostly untouched, except for the desk chair rolled out to the middle of the room, the remains of rope and duct tape on the floor, and the vomit to one side. It was the master bedroom that really screamed out that something tragic had happened in the house this night.

Hotch had met Sarah when she and Rachel had moved to Virginia eight years ago. He found her to be a strong woman, a loving mother, and a good friend to Gideon above all else. Even Hotch's profiling skills had never definitively told him whether or not Sarah and Gideon were a romantic pair again or if they were only raising their daughter together. It seemed that the friendship predominated and precluded the romance.

It was why Hotch knew, no matter how the evidence was stacking up, it was impossible for Gideon to have butchered Sarah like this and kidnap their daughter. It didn't matter that Hotch's intellect was reminding him that Gideon could have suffered a mental breakdown—and considering what the man had been through, not entirely unexpected—and might not know reality from hallucination. He let the police spin their theories because they couldn't possibly understand the depth of feelings Gideon had for Sarah and Rachel. He simply wasn't capable of this, logic be damned.

"Oh my God," a voice said behind him.

He looked around and saw that his team had arrived, each of them looking shocked or sickened by what they found.

"Rachel…?" Prentiss asked, as if fearing the worst.

"Missing," Hotch assured them. "The police think this is a custody fight gone horrifically wrong."

"Bull shit, man," Morgan swore. "Who's feeding them that crap?"

"I don't know," Hotch answered. "But we haven't been called in to consult on the case."

Murderous looks erupted on both Prentiss and Morgan's faces while JJ and Reid still just looked worried.

"JJ, snap as many photos as you can with your phone and send them to Garcia," Hotch ordered. "Reid, tell me what you think of the office."

The young genius spun around with alarming speed. Hotch followed.

"The unsub tied up Rachel in here while he killed Sarah," Reid reported quickly. "There are scuff marks on the carpet showing that the door was opened and closed several times tonight, so it might be that Rachel didn't see anything."

Hotch could only pray that was true. "Why kidnap Rachel and kill Sarah?"

"Sarah is a message," Reid answered. "The unsub might be using Rachel as leverage or bait. A teenager would be easier to control than a grown woman."

Suddenly, Reid bent down and took a pen out of his pocket to prod at something on the floor next to the vomit. Hotch looked over his shoulder and shuddered.

"It's a rib bone," Reid identified. "And there are fingerprints on it."

"Hotch," Morgan called out from the hallway. Soon, the other agent had joined them in the office with Prentiss at his side. "There's a rib bone missing from Sarah's body."

"Reid found it," Hotch pointed out.

The rest of the profile fell from their lips quickly, leaving them with one answer: Frank.

"But he always gave the rib bones to Jane as gifts," Prentiss debated. "Why leave it here this time?"

"These prints are too small to be a man's," Reid told them. "Frank gave the bone to Rachel."

"You mean, now Frank has Rachel?" Hotch demanded. It would certainly follow the psychopath's pattern to kill and kidnap and the victimology for killing the woman and sparing the child.

Reid shook his head, looking relieved for the first time since walking into the house. "Frank would have made sure Rachel held on to the bone if he had taken her with him. Gideon was here like the witnesses said, and he did take Rachel with him, not Frank. Rachel dropped the bone, and—"

"And threw up," Morgan finished. "Which means that Gideon and Rachel are on the run."

Hotch doled out additional orders. "Call Garcia and tell her to try and locate Gideon's or Rachel's phones. We need to find them."

Later, when Hotch would learn that their prediction of the events was almost completely accurate, he would spare a thought for the trauma Rachel must be feeling as well as Gideon. But he would always feel grateful that Frank had left Rachel untouched and hadn't thought to abduct her. Not that he wished Tracy Belle had been put in danger, but Rachel had been through enough.

The team would feel guilt for this case for the rest of their lives. It wasn't only Gideon that had failed to catch Frank in Nevada. And Rachel was the one to pay the ultimate price for that failure. It was at Sarah's funeral that Hotch swore he would never fail that girl again.