The man ordered 2 of his strongest hardest sidekicks to go to the hotel the big FBI team were staying in and kidnap the 2 agents. He had done enough research to not only get photos of the 2 agents but the rooms the 2 agents would be in. He gave his 2 best men the photos, agents names, and room numbers and ordered them to knock the guy's out with chloroform and take them out of the back way. He also provided his men with fake hotel I.D's and keycards so that they could gain access to the rooms.
"Go now and, when they are fast asleep, slip into their rooms and knock them out. Then I want you to not only bring them but their bags, I.D's and guns. I want to prove to the rest of their team that we really do have their friends…."
Later that evening, having arrived back at the hotel after grabbing a quick dinner, the agents made their way up to their hotel rooms, agreeing to meet back in the lobby at 7am the next morning.
Exhausted, Hotch almost collapsed into his hotel room. He managed to take a quick shower and pulled on his pyjamas before setting his alarm and climbing into bed. He sat up in bed and called Jack. He smiled as Jack told him all about the great day he'd had at school.
As soon as he'd finished calling Jack, he lay down in bed and instantly fell asleep.
Meanwhile Derek also managed to shower and pull on his pyjamas before lying down in bed. He fell asleep the minute his head hit the pillow.
An hour after the agents had gone into their rooms, 2 men walked along the corridor each carrying a backpack. They both wore hotel I.D's saying maintenance staff.
Whilst one man stood outside the door of room 702, the other stood outside 701.
The men, using their keycards, slipped into the rooms.
Hotch and Morgan were so deeply asleep they didn't hear the man in their rooms silently pull out a bottle of chloroform, rags, rope and a syringe full of sedative. Each man pulled on a mask over their mouths and noses before soaking the rag with chloroform. Holding the syringe in one hand against the nearest arm to the agent, they held the rag right over the mouth and nose of the FBI man whilst injecting the entire contents of the syringe into the guy's arm.
Hotch woke up the minute his mouth was covered to see a strange man standing over him. He instinctively tried to fight but was knocked out cold within a few seconds on helpless struggles. Morgan, too, had the same experience.
Once their captive was knocked out cold, the kidnappers grabbed the agents bags, throwing the gun, wallets, I.D badges and cellphones, which they turned off, into the bag. Next the agent's hands were tied together and, making sure they took all the stuff they had brought into the rooms with them, the kidnappers managed to carry and drag the unconscious bodies of the 2 male agents silently out of the rooms and down the back stairs to a waiting van. They threw the agents and the bags into the back of the van and drove off into the night.
At 7am the next morning, Rossi, Spencer, J.J and Blake were all standing in the hotel lobby waiting for Hotch and Morgan. Being that the 2 missing agents were usually the first ones awake and ready, the others felt something was wrong.
"I wonder if the big boss man has gone and overslept?"
"Aaron would never oversleep. Morgan maybe…..I'm gonna go up and see if their awake…."
Dave went to the front desk and managed to talk the receptionist into giving him a keycard to access both Hotch's and Morgan's hotel rooms.
The others waited whilst Dave went up to the rooms. He stood outside Hotch's room, 701 and knocked on the door.
"Aaron, its Dave. I hope your dressed cos I'm coming in. The team is waiting downstairs…."
Dave slid the keycard into the slot and opened the door. He saw the empty bed and empty bathroom. He also noticed Hotch's go bag, cellphone, etc were missing.
He thought Hotch might have gone to wake up Morgan and so went to room 702.
"Morgan, you'd better be awake otherwise your in big trouble!"
Dave entered 702 and found it exactly like Hotch's room, an empty bed, empty bathroom, and go bag, cell phone, I.D and wallet missing. He quickly got onto his phone and called J.J downstairs.
"J.J, it's me. You guys better come up here. Something's happened and both Aaron and Derek are nowhere to be seen."
"That was Dave. Apparently he's found both rooms empty and no sign of Hotch or Morgan!"
The others rushed up to the rooms where Dave had left the 2 hotel room doors wide open.
"I think they've been taken. There's no sign of either of them and all their things are missing…."
The team tried calling both Hotch and Morgan on their cellphones but just got the answer machine, indicating that the phones had been turned off.
"This must in someway be related to the unsub we're hunting. Hotch and Morgan are often seen as alpha male types and that's what the unsub has been after…."
"He must have seen us on T.V yesterday…."
"Reid, I need you and J.J to go to the security office and see if you can get access to the security footage in this hallway from the time we got to our rooms until now. Blake you search Morgan's room and I'll search Hotch's room for any sign of what's happened."
Whilst Rossi and Blake searched the rooms to no avail, Reid and J.J managed to get access to the security room after explaining that 2 of their agents were missing. They watched and fast forwarded through footage from the corridor outside their rooms until they saw 2 men with backpacks approach the room doors. They watched in horror as each of the 2 men slid into Hotch and Morgan's rooms using their own keycard. Within a few minutes, they watched horrified as the men dragged the bodies of the unconscious men out of the rooms carrying the go bags with them and dragged them down the hallway to the back stairs. They managed to follow the men who had kidnapped Hotch and Morgan down to the parking garage where they threw an unconscious Hotch and Morgan, along with their go bags and the backpacks into the back of a van with no plates and drove off. All the time they had been on camera, the 2 men had kept their faces hidden from the cameras. With no faces and no licence plate to the van, which looked to be the most popular van type in the city, they had no idea who had taken Hotch and Morgan.
J.J called Rossi and, close to tears with fear of what had happened to 2 of her best friends, she told Rossi what she and Reid had just witnessed. A minute later Rossi and Blake ran into the room and the security men replayed the tape for them.
As the footage came to an end, a man in a suit appeared at the doorway.
"Agents, I'm the hotel manager. I've just heard about your friends and I'm so sorry. I don't know how they got access as all my staff have been accounted for within the last 10 minutes. I promise you I will do a thorough internal investigation and punish anyone who in any way helped…."
"Don't worry we know its not your fault. We're going to investigate ourselves and do everything in our power to bring our friends home alive and well."
"All my staff and I are more than happy to co operate. If you need anything please just ask and you will get it. If its okay with you, I will personally assign security staff to stand outside your rooms from tonight until you leave our hotel to ensure nothing like this can ever happen again."
"Thank you. We appreciate your wanting to help us in any way you can. Do you mind if our technical analyst hacks into your security system camera footage so she can get as much information from the footage as she can?"
"Of course not. Clive, let their analyst access any part of the security system and footage she wants to."
"Also if its okay I need your cleaners to leave the 2 rooms as they are. I'm gonna have a couple of crime scene guys come here and dust for fingerprints etc."
"That's fine. I'll make sure my cleaning staff know. Anything else you require at the moment?"
"Not right now."
The manager handed Rossi a card on which he had scribbled something on the back.
"If you need anything just ask anyone of my staff. I'll either be here or at home if you need me. My business numbers are on the front and my home cell and landline are on the back. Call anytime if you need to talk to me or need me to arrange for something to be done to help you guys find your friends. I'll do everything in my power to have this hotel and its staff help in any way they and myself can."
"Thank you. We appreciate any help you can give us."
Dave called Garcia on his cell phone and told her what had happened. She was both horrified and shocked that something like this had happened to her family and she was also determined that they would find their missing family members and bring them home. This unsub would pay a high price for taking 2 of her babies…..