Here it is! I am SO SORRY about the delay! I lost my motivation, only because of the sad sad sad episode called Zugzwang…(leave your opinions on that episode too!) GUH but im back! Here it is! :) ENJOY! xx
'Enlarge that bastard's face, Garcia, and run it through the system. Maybe we will get lucky with a past criminal record, and hurry, we only have 3 more hours.' Hotch ordered through his phone as he walked up to the bright yellow Day Care that Henry had attended. Outside, a petite, red-haired woman sat on a park bench staring into space. Hotch guessed from the florescent name tag that she was the owner of Sunny Sam's Day Care, and also Hotch's eye witness.
'Miss Davies? I'm Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner; I am here to ask you a few questions about the kidnapping of Henry LaMontagne.' Hotchner kept his voice even as he spoke and flashed his badge, not wanting to make the women feel any more blame than she already did.
'Uh… Yeah, Sure.' Miss Davies stuttered out. She could tell that the man in front of her was all about getting straight to business.
'Miss Davies, I know you already gave your statement to the police but I need to go through this again with you. I'm going to perform what is called a cognitive interview, all I need you to do is to close your eyes and think back to this morning.' Hotch was used to the other team members doing these interviews but the situation that the team was in was anything but normal.
'Uh…Okay.' Miss Davies hesitated but she closed her eyes on her freckled face sceptically.
'Good. Now can you tell me what you were doing before the man came and took Henry?'
'I… The children were playing out in the fenced area. I remember being angry. One of my colleagues was late and I couldn't look after a house full of little kid's all by myself… It was too much for one person to do…' Her voice was becoming defensive.
'It's okay Miss Davies; I'm not blaming you or anyone else. This is all purely to help Henry. Okay? Now, what happened next?' Hotch said, keeping his tone uncharacteristically soft.
'Uh… Okay, the phone began to ring… We haven't had much money in so we couldn't upgrade to a cordless phone just yet… I thought it might be my colleague but… I was only gone for one minute… When I got back there was this man… He was standing in the doorway… I was about to ask him why he was here when I saw the…the gun. He… he pointed it at m-me and…' The woman's voice heightened as the tears broke through their barriers and travelled rapidly down her cheeks. Before Hotch could intervene she continued.
'He made me call Henry over. He was such a good boy… the next thing I knew he was out of the door and in his SUV… I couldn't get the whole plate number… I'm sorry…'
'Wait; let's go back a bit, to when you called Henry over. You called him, he came. What did the man do?' Hope began to pool in his stomach, if he could get some information on how this man acted towards Henry then he may have some information on the man's behaviour.
'He knelt down… to speak to him… It was hard to hear… he said something about being his Mom's friend and taking him to see Uncle Spencer… He then picked the boy up, almost fatherly, and carried him into the black car… I didn't see him after that.' Her voice was shaking once more.
Hotch sighed gratefully, and thanked the woman for the new information they had gotten. As he was walking to his car he heard someone calling him.
'Agent Hotchner!' Miss Davies called out as she caught up with his long strides.
'Yes?' Hotch asked in a monotone.
'I remembered something else… When he picked Henry up, his short sleeves rolled back up his arm a bit… I thought I saw the beginnings of a tattoo. I'm pretty sure that it was a Ranger's tattoo. I saw th as his sleep rolled up.' She said, hoping that this was helpful to the stoic man before her.
'Are you sure?' Hotch's voice became hard, if she was right that would drastically change the circumstances.
'My brother has the exact same tattoo. I'm positive.' The woman's voice mirrored the hardness that she was spoken to with.
'Thank you for your time.' Hotch reached his car seconds later, put the key in the ignition and fired up the engine. He needed to update his team on the person they were looking for, he was sure he knew who he was connected to.
When Hotch arrived back an hour later, he noticed that Rossi, Prentiss and Morgan were all sifting through files with a slightly distracted Reid and Will in the conference room, as he entered he saw a red eyed JJ and wet faced Garcia glued to her laptop. As soon as he walked through the conference room door he was informed of the, very little, progress the team had made.
'Hotch, we all struck out on the building searches. I'm sorry, man.' Morgan spoke; the clearing of the three buildings had only taken about 2 and a half hours seeing as they weren't very large area wise.
'Will and I have been searching all morning. There are too many possible perpetrators to narrow it down to one UnSub with the parameters we have at the moment.' Reid added to the grim situation; his voice had a desperate edge to it.
'I sent the camera image of our guy to all news stations, they have been playing it non-stop but so far there had been no leads on the tip line.' JJ spoke up, her voice mimicking the hope that she had of finding the guy who took her son.
'I have run the bastard's face through everything, and so far, no hits. I tried to get his number plate too but no such luck. I can't isolate a stable image either and I lose the vehicle on North Street.' Garcia's voice was uncharacteristically angry, her frustration obvious as she tapped ferociously on the key board.
'I may have something. The witness spoke of the UnSub acting fatherly towards Henry. She said that he spoke to him at eye level and said something about being friends with JJ and that he was taking him to see Reid…'
'Oh god.' JJ stood, slightly trembling, tears in her eyes.
'What is it, Jayje?' Will walked quickly to her side, holding her steady.
'That's… That's what I said to him this morning… I-I said that Reid and I would pick him up after Day Care… That was how I got him to go this morning. He didn't want to go… ' Tears travelled down her face as she realized.
'He must have been watching you then. He knew that was the only way for him to get Henry to not be afraid of him.' Rossi spoke with certainty.
'There's one more thing. Miss Davies remembered something else about the UnSub's description. She said when he picked him up she saw the beginnings of a tattoo. She recognized it to be one that Rangers have on their upper arms. Her reasoning was that her brother has that very tattoo.' Hotch finished. He looked upon his teams faces and settled upon the youngest just as the realization hit.
'Philip Dowd.' Reid sighed as the memories filled his mind.
'Philip who?' Rossi asked, he was the newest addition to the team so he guessed it was before he re-joined.
'Philip Dowd, he had a Hero-Homicide complex. We were called to Des Plaines to apprehend a long distance serial shooter in the area. Long story short, he turned out to be a nurse in the ER who under killed his victims so he could save them later. He took me and Reid hostage until Reid shot him through the forehead. He had a Ranger background.' Hotch's voice was filled with anger as he relayed the story. Rossi nodded when he finished, not wanting to push the matter further as they needed to find Henry.
'Garcia, look up all of Dowd's associates that were in the same Ranger squad during his time there and compare it to the snapshot of our UnSub.' Hotch demanded.
After a few tense but quick seconds Garcia's voice resounded off the walls.
'Got him!' As she spoke all agents began to ready themselves for a raid. 'Andy Turner, 42, was in the same squad with Dowd during his time there. It looks like he was firm friends with Dowd, judging from the various photos of the squad. After the squad disbanded it looks like Turner moved onto bomb squad and… Oh my… when the news of Dowd's death hit he moved to Virginia and has been working as a security guard at… here! He's been working here on the ground floor, but on the other side of the facility so we never saw him. The background searches didn't pick up his relation to Dowd because they weren't related, that's as far as the searches go... His car is a black SUV and matches the partial the witness gave… 'Garcia rattled off the information, rarely pausing for air.
'Garcia, is he working today?' Hotch asked intently.
'Yes. He started at 1.30… Just fifteen minutes ago.'
'Garcia…' Hotch began once more.
'Address is 1537 Harpers Ave. Only 10 minutes away.'
'Call security, make sure they don't let him leave or go anywhere out of sight before we get there…'
As the team were rushing out of the door, Garcia yelled out.
'Sir! I just got an email…. From Andy Turner.' Garcia squeaked as she had already looked at the message inside. The email was soon relayed on the screen.
The bold letters Game Over lit up the faces of the group.
'W-What does that mean?' JJ spoke nearing hysterics as she thought about the life of her boy might be over.
At that moment a new voice filled the small room.
'It means that the deal is off.' Turner strolled into the room and was immediately met by the sight of six barrels, all aiming at him.
'Uh, uh uh.' Andy sang in tune with a menacing wiggle of his finger and pulling out a trigger from behind his back, while unbuttoning his uniform to reveal a vest holding various wires and packets of what looked to be C4. 'You take the kill shot, you all die. But, if one of you decides to come for a little stroll with me, then many valuable lives shall be spared. Oh, and don't worry about little Henry, although you should be proud, he is a very trusting little specimen, he is at my home; safe and sound. There is only one catch. You all must choose. You must choose amongst yourselves; who will live and who will die.' With that, a smug grin crossed his face and he walked towards the corner of the room and took a seat.
WOAH! I didn't even see that one coming… or maybe im just blind? Haha I hope you liked this chapter! OH there is one thing that a lovely reader brought to my attention on one of my other stories! The reason I am using ' for speech is because my computer is broken so my '' button doesn't work! Haha Thanks Cartoon Cow!
Another thing is that my updating may be less frequent because school starts for me in three days so I can only update on weekends! GUH please be patient I WILL finish this story for all those who are interested! :) thanks for your understanding!
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