When th car stopped, and the trunk was opened, Spencer was blinded by the sunlight. It wasn't very bright out, but he had been in the trunk so long that his eyes had already adjusted to the dark. The unsub picked him up and carried him to the cabin. It was just like when he was kidnapped with Morgan.
"Impressive consistency if I do say so myself. I like cabins, because you can do anything you want to your victims, and no one can hear their screams."
He carried Reid down to the basement and sat him down on his knees.
"I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to sell you. It will kill your team, because they will never be able to find you. However, I want to leave my mark on you. My family used to own a beef farm, and one day we bought a bull whose owner had branded him, before he sold him to us. That brand remained on his body until the day he died. I'm not going to brand you, though. I work better with knives than heat."
The unsub, picked up a knife and then used it to cut off the sleeve to his shirt. Then he began his work. He made every cut slow. As if he was thinking how he chould make the next cut more painful than the last. When Reid screamed he would take a moment to sit down, and take a deep breath, as if he was taking it all in. Finally he was finished. He picked up a mirror, and showed Reid a crude drawing of a star on his arm. Reid looked away in shame. The unsub was holding a camera, when Reid looked up next.
"Smile,"he said, and he took Reid's picture.
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The team was struggling to find Reid, when Morgan received a text. It was a picture of Reid bound and gagged. The caption read, If you ever want to see Spencer Reid alive ever again you will go to the address that is being sent to you. You will come alone, and unarmed. If you try to fight the person who meets you there he will die.
Morgan wanted more than anything to go find his friend,but he had to tell his team first. He gathered everyone to the round table and showed them the message.
"I need to go to the address without anyone else, so I can help Reid."
"Absolutely not,"Hotch replied.
"Hotch , you already know the address. If you don't hear anything from me within twenty-four hours come to the property."
"You could both be dead by then."
"Well we don't have much of a choice here do we Hotch?"
An hour later Morgan was at the address that he was supposed to be at. A man was standing outside. When he turned around, Morgan saw the dominant unsub from before holding a knife.
"Turn around and face the car."
Morgan obeyed and had his hands duct taped behind his back. Then his mouth was taped shut.
"I had to carry agent Reid down the stairs, but you'll just have to walk."
Morgan waked into the cabin,and down the stairs to see a terrified Reid.
"Get on your knees,"the unsub ordered.
Then he picked up the camera and took Morgan's picture.
Then he left them alone. A few hours later, he came back, with a big smile on his face.
"I found someone else who wax will ing to sell you for me. He only required that I get him two more people to auction off. I'm going to untie you first, then you will untie agent Reid, and we will walk outside to see who I got for you."
He untied Morgan who untied Reid,and then the dominant made them walk outside with Morgan in the front,and Reid in the middle,with a knife blade prodding him along in the back. Morgan saw the two people in the pickup truck and stopped in his tracks. Hotch was in the front passenger seat,and Garcia was in the backseat.
"Both of you get in the car now."
Reid got in behind Hotch,and Morgan was behind the unsub. Garcia was in the middle seat holding onto Morgan, as if he was the only tangible thing in the world. About an hour and a half later they pulled over at a suburbian neighborhood. Before they got out the unsub warned them,"If any of you try to escape, I will find a kid and slit his throat open."
They all got out, and followed the criminal to the door. He knocked on the door and a man answered.
"I got your order,"the kidnapper said.
The owner of the house smiled and said,"come on in."
The group walked into the house, with Hotch in the front, and Morgan, and Garcia in the back. The kidnapper had his knife on Garcia's back, as if he was daring them to make a move. The homeowner grabbed Hotch, and said to the man with the knife,"Take the three of them to the basement. I think I want to sell him to a different demographic when I put him on my website. You have their pictures, right?"
"Of course I do,"he said while handing him four pictures.
Then he told Reid where to go then when they got to the basement he made them stand against the wall,and face him.
"Your team will go insane. They will go insane trying to find you, but they never will. They may find one of you , but they will never find all four. That's how I will avenge my family."