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Every 40 Seconds-Chapter 2

Dave hung up with Hotch and dashed out of his office. "BAU team, you're with me! Let's move!" He made his way towards Garcia's office and barged in, startling the tech. "Garcia, we need you with us, NOW!"

Garcia got up and followed Dave to the elevators where the rest of the team was already waiting. Once they got inside and started the ride down to the motor pool, Dave started explaining the situation.

"We're going to Hotch's house. He got a call earlier today from Jane's school; she didn't show up today. He went home to check and see if she was sick and the next thing I knew he was calling me to tell me to get the rest of the team over there. He thinks something has happened to her."

"Oh god!" Garcia said with a sob.

They got to the motor pool, got their SUV's and headed towards the Hotchner house.

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Hotch looked around the area by the back door. He didn't see signs of a struggle, but he knew the drag marks were a bad sign. He knew he could possibly be over reacting, but his gut told him something was very wrong. He started praying to a god that he hadn't talked to in a while that his daughter was OK.

He looked up as he saw his team come the driveway. "Thanks for coming guys, something is definitely wrong here."

The rest of the team stared at him for a minute, he looked like he was on the edge of hysteria, but he was trying to keep it together.

"Show us what you found, Hotch." Derek said.

Hotch showed them the key in the door, the IPod and the drag marks. The team started looking around the back door for a few minutes.

"I've found something!" Emily yelled as the rest of the team surrounded her. She held up a cloth, "I think there's chloroform on it." She said softly.

Hotch could feel the little bit of hope leave him. Chloroform…that was concrete evidence that she was taken.

"What does that mean?" Garcia asked, a little hysterically.

Derek put his arm around her. "It means that Jane was most likely taken, Babygirl."

Dave wanted bury his head in his hands, but he knew that with Aaron as the father of the victim, he would need to take the lead in the investigation. He led the team inside the house. "Ok, I want crime scene techs here ASAP, I want an Amber alert out on Jane and I want her picture on every news station in the next half-hour. I want-" Dave was cut off by the ringing of Hotch's cell phone.

"That's Jane's ringtone!" Hotch yelled, answering the phone. "Jane sweetie, are you-" He was interrupted by a low chuckle.

"Agent Hotchner, how nice it is to talk to you again."

"Who is this? Why do you have my daughter's phone?" Hotch demanded, switching the phone to speaker phone so the rest of the team could hear it.

"I'm hurt, Agent Hotchner. I would think you would recognize my voice. After all, you did help imprison me for twelve years. Twelve long and dreary years. Prison is a terrible place, Agent Hotchner, the only thing that helped was talking to my daughter once a week…that is until she told me some of the things that were happening to her in foster care. You see Agent Hotchner, I was a single father so when I went to prison my ten year old daughter was put in the system. She used to tell me about the abuse that took place in the homes, abuse so horrible that she could barely speak about it. Physical abuse…and sexual abuse…and every time she called me she would beg me to help her, to get her out of the system, to protect her and I couldn't. I couldn't protect my daughter thanks to you!" The unsub was really yelling now. "When she was sixteen, she decided to get out of the system in her own way…she killed herself. You helped those bastards! You helped those bastards take my daughter's innocence and you helped take her life, so I've decided to take your daughter. I've decided to let you feel the anguish of being utterly powerless while knowing that your daughter is being hurt, and you can bet that I will hurt her in every way I know how. I hope it eats away at you, I hope it slowly drives you insane, you son of a bitch!" The unsub ended the call.

"Oh my god." Hotch whispered, collapsing into a kitchen chair. Some psycho was going to hurt his baby and it was all his fault.

Everyone stood in shock for a minute. Finally Spencer broke the silence, "We need to look in Jane's room for any clues as to who this may be. She might have seen him following her. Does she keep a diary Hotch?"

"She does," he said faintly. "It's on her bookshelf, she disguised it as a regular book so no one would see what it was. I think it has a Shopaholic book cover on it or something…she knows I wouldn't read that type of book."

"Prentiss and Reid, go up to her room and look around for any clues and get her diary. Morgan, it looks like the crime scene techs are here, show them around outside and give them a hand. JJ, get a picture of Jane from the living room and get it out over the wires and then have the Amber alert issued. I'll stay and direct things here in the house."

The team scattered to their various positions. Penelope and Hotch just sat in the kitchen, both in a daze.

"Garcia…Garcia…Penelope!" Dave said loudly.

Penelope shook herself out of her trance. "Sorry sir, what do you need me to do? I know she has a blog, I will go log into it and see if she has had any weirdo comments. I can also hack her email and facebook account and look at her digital footprint. Then I can-" Dave interrupted her.

"Actually, what I need Garcia is the name of another tech that can help us with this case."

Garcia looked confused. "Sir, I don't understand."

Dave took a deep breath, he knew what he was about to say would be unpopular with two people sitting in front of him. "I don't think you or Aaron should be on this case, you both are too close to Jane."

Both of them jumped to their feet and Hotch started shouting.

"That's my goddamn daughter out there, Dave! Do you really think I'm going to sit here and do nothing? Jesus Christ! That would really make me helpless. If I don't do something to help, I will go out of my fucking skull!

"Aaron, you are way too close to this to be effective, let us do our jobs." Dave told him.

"Don't! Don't talk to me like the family of a victim, Dave."

"Look at it from my point of view Hotch, you can't-" Dave was interrupted by a feminine voice.

"Agent Rossi?" Garcia said softly, but determinedly. "With all due respect sir, you are out of your fucking mind if you think we are going to sit on the sidelines for this one. I don't care that you think we are too close to Jane to be effective, we are staying on the case. If you try to take us off of it, you will find yourself penniless and homeless in about fifteen minutes. Don't forget, it only takes a few seconds in cyberspace to destroy an empire."

Dave was shocked. He had never heard the tech speak to anyone like that. He put himself in their shoes, which he was practically in since he was also very close to his goddaughter.

"Fine! You can both stay on the case, but I want you back at the BAU. Garcia, run a search on recent parolees who did twelve years in prison and who also had a sixteen year old daughter that died. You can also look at Jane's digital footprint to see if you can find anything."

"Rossi." The rest of the team was in the kitchen. "The crime scene techs are kicking us out. We got Jane's diary and laptop and we looked around her room for anything that might be helpful, but now we've got to get out of here." Morgan told him.

"Ok, let's get back to headquarters." Dave ordered. As he made his way back to the SUV, he dialed Gideon's number, he knew they would need help on this case.

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The first thing Jane felt when she woke up was disorientation. She knew she wasn't in her own bed, but she wasn't sure where she was. She cracked open her eyes and looked around. Suddenly everything from the morning came rushing back to her; the hand gripping her arm, the cloth on her mouth…'Oh my god, I've been kidnapped' she thought to herself.

She could feel herself starting to panic and she tried to calm down. She looked around the room, it looked like a basement; there were no windows and it had cement walls and a cement floor. The light in the room came from a single bare light bulb attached to the ceiling. It was also damp and cool in the room. She was on a bare mattress on the floor, there were no sheets or blankets which sucked since she was freezing. She looked down at herself and saw that she was still wearing her running clothes which consisted of only a tank top, running shorts, shoes and socks.

She looked up and saw a small security camera in the corner of the room. She knew then that whoever had taken her was also watching her. It was too high up for her to pull it down.

Jane was scared. She knew from the few cases that her dad had talked about that there was a good chance she would die in this room, the statistics on stranger abductions were not good. She decided right then and there that she would not make it easy for the kidnapper, she had trained with Derek for years and she would go down fighting. If she was going to die, she was going to die on her feet.

Jane looked up as the door opened and her kidnapper walked into the room.

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Back at the BAU, the team was immersed in the investigation and Hotch was in his office giving various statements and descriptions to whomever needed them. Dave was in his office talking with Erin Strauss, who had pledged her full support to the investigation. She let Dave know that anything they needed, they would get.

Strauss was also shaken by the kidnapping. While she wasn't as close to Jane as Dave and Penelope were, she considered Jane to be a friend and vice versa. Jane had stayed with Erin a dozen times over the last five years and the two had bonded.

After Strauss left, Dave started reviewing the case. He was deep in thought when his phone rang and startled him.

"Sir, you need to get the rest of the team except for Hotch down to my office immediately." Garcia told him. "We got something from the unsub."

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I am not good at writing the actual cases and investigations so this chapter might not be the best…I promise it will get better.

I have a bunch of papers due over the next two weeks so updates might not come regularly for this story, but once November comes and things settle down, I will be updating more frequently.