Just to warn you there is a very small torture scene in this chapter. I appreciate all of the reviews!! Keep them coming!!

As the sun started to rise the next morning, it was getting easier to see each other's faces again. None of the ladies were able to get any sleep. Emily was too busy working on a profile of the unsubs – trying to see what information she might be able to use to help them all get out of this unharmed, Penelope couldn't stop thinking and daydreaming about what was going to happen to them and JJ still periodically tried to free her hands from the ropes, despite Emily's warning about saving her strength.

The door opened once more and the man stepped into the room. "I trust you all had a pleasant sleep." He chuckled as he saw the resentment in each of their faces. "By now your team members should be arriving back at the office." He stopped to let a little laugh out. "That is if they ever went home. I am sure they are all worried about each of you. They should be receiving the e-mail now."

After a few moments of silence he continued, "So, I have given you the night to think it over. Have you figured out who my brother is?"

"Do you know how many cases we have solved? There are a lot. You are going to have to give us some sort of hint as to which case was about your brother," said JJ.

He smiled at them. "Agent Prentiss, you lied to get closer to my brother, Agent Jareau you went hunting for my nephew, and Ms. Garcia you were responsible for the actions of Agent Prentiss and your boss Agent Hotchner."

"I don't know what you are talking about," replied Garcia. "I help all of my team members get the information they need to find the criminals. I am not in charge of them, especially my boss. He tells me what to do, not the other way around."

"Ah but you see, Ms. Garcia. I thoroughly investigated your team and my brother's case. I know that had it not been for your impressive computer skills, Agents Hotchner and Prentiss would never have been there and my brother would never have been wrongfully accused for the murder of those women. I will give you some more time to think about that. We will be back in an hour and the punishment will begin."

"We?" asked JJ.

"Yes. It's time for you to meet the rest of my family," Brad answered. He turned to walk out the door.

Emily looked up at him, "Wait, you said that Garcia was responsible for getting me there?" asked Emily.

"I did."

Realization made its way to Emily's face. "Em?" asked JJ.

"The Milwaukee Case," said Emily as she looked at her two friends. "Joseph Smith is your brother," she looked him in the eye.

He gave a slight bow. "My name is Brad Smith and yes, Joe was my brother."

"Was?" questioned JJ.

"He hung himself after his appeal was denied."

The men all returned to the BAU office as rested as they can be in this situation. "Where so we start?" asked Morgan as they all gathered around the conference room table.

Hotch looked up at the men in the room. His friends and team members, Rossi, Morgan and Reid, and his team member on lone – Lynch all looked up to him for guidance in locating their friends. He was the person that was supposed to have all of the answers. How could he tell them 'I don't know.'? How could he admit that he was just as worried as they were that they were all safe? Developing enough courage to speak, he finally spoke, "Lynch, go check the computers to see if the searches have turned anything up."

Kevin nodded and quickly made his way to Garcia's office. Once he reached the office he looked over the computer screens at the info that was produced and dialed the conference room.

Hotch immediately switched the call to the speaker phone. "What have you got?" he asked.

"Sir, I found three warehouses each with an owner's name that matches a known alias for the brothers. Hold on a second, sir."

"What's going on?" asked Hotch.

After a brief pause Kevin continued. "Uh . . . Sir, I just got an email and I think you need to see this." He forwarded the e-mail to Reid's computer who immediately displayed it on the projection screen.

By now I am sure that you have lived up to your reputation as the best profilers in the
country and you are aware of who I am and who I am related to. I congratulate you on
that. I know that you are also wondering how the ladies are doing so I have attached
some pictures to assure you that they are indeed alive. Do you think you can find them
before there conditions deteriorate.

Reid opened the file containing the pictures. There was one each of the ladies and one of the three of them. "He's got JJ and Garcia sitting across from Emily," noticed Reid.

"They're his audience," replied Morgan. "These guys know the details of the case. Joseph Smith must have told them everything. Including how we were able to get into the house."

"Prentiss tricked the son to get access to the house. They are going to hold her accountable for that. He is probably going to torture her in front of them."

"Or he could be planning to torture them in front of her," added Rossi.

The door opened and the three men walked into the room. "I promised you I would be back. I would like to introduce to you ladies, my brothers – Paul and Tim. Let's get started." They watched as the men each took a machine and set them up behind each of them.

"We are going to ask you some questions. The machines that are behind you are meant to be lie detectors. If we sensed you are lying than we will press the button and you will receive your punishment. Let's see if everything is corrected okay."

Brad nodded to Paul who was standing behind JJ. He pressed a button and JJ let out a scream as a wave of electricity went through her body. Almost immediately Brad looked at Tim and the button behind Garcia was pressed. Before she had any time to react, Emily heard Brad move behind her and she felt the wave of electricity make its way through her body.

Emily, JJ, and Garcia sat in their chairs trying to recover from their unexpected attack. "We spent the last four weeks of our brother's life visiting us in the jail. He told us everything that happened and we did some research. If you lie to us we will choose one, two or all of you to receive the punishment," Brad explained.

He looked to Paul who spoke for the first time. "Agent Prentiss is it true that before you arrived in Milwaukee that you resigned?"

"Yes," Emily answered. Even though it was the truth she was afraid that they would just be trigger happy. She held her breath waiting to see if a button would be pressed

Tim then asked a question. "Agent Jareau, is it true that your Section Chief was also with your team?"

"Yes," JJ answered.

"Ms. Garcia, is it true that you used your computer skills to delay Agent Prentiss' resignation from being completed?"

"Yes," answered Garcia.

Brad continued, "Agent Jareau, did you help to falsify evidence against my brother?"

"No," said JJ. Emily's body shook as the electricity went through her body. "That's the truth," yelled JJ as she watched Emily recovering from the shock.

"The machine says differently," snickered Paul. "Now Ms. Garcia, did you help to falsify evidence against my brother?"

She was afraid that if she said no, they would press the button so she thought it would be best to give them the answer she thought they wanted to hear. "Yes." Immediately she gasped as both Emily and JJ received a shock through their body.

"That was a trick question," said Brad. "We know that Agents Prentiss and Jareau are responsible and not you. You should not have lied."

It took longer for Emily to recover from this attack – her body still feeling so weak. Brad asked from behind her, "Agent Prentiss did you illegally enter my brother's home?"

Emily had a faraway look on her face as if she was having trouble concentrating. Brad walked in front of her, bent down and held her chin in his hand so that she was forced to look into his eyes. "Answer me," he demanded.

"Leave her alone," yelled JJ. "Can't you see that she is hurt?"

Finding the strength, Emily whispered a reply, "Your nephew let me in."

"Wrong!" yelled Brad. "You tricked him into letting you in the house." He moved back behind Emily and pressed the button on the machine. This last attack made Emily pass out.

"Emily?" yelled Garcia.

"Em, wake up," said JJ.

Brad placed two fingers at Emily's neck. "Don't worry ladies she is alive. She just passed out. I guessed the experience was just too shocking." He grinned at them as his brothers laughed at his comment. "We will go now, but we will be back when she wakes up." He nodded towards his brothers and they all left the room.

They all exchanged glances as the fear for the safety of their friends grew. "We have to get to them Hotch," pleaded Morgan.

"Lynch, send the addresses to our PDA's," ordered Hotch.

"Yes, sir, but I think I need to warn you that they are at three different locations."

"How far apart?"

"Twenty maybe thirty minutes."

"We are going to have to split up," said Rossi.

"It looks like we got here in time then." Everyone looked up to see the familiar faces Jason Gideon and Elle Greenaway in the doorway.

Flashback – last night

After Hotch ordered everyone to go home. He knew that down two Agents and Garcia they were going to need help. He called the only two people that he trusted with the safety of his team members. Jason Gideon had finally resurfaced about one month ago after the much needed vacation he needed to clear his head after the death of Sarah. Gideon and Hotch have been talking frequently. Gideon was now back teaching behavioral sciences courses at the academy. He still was an FBI Agent, but he preferred to teach rather than be out in the field. Hotch dialed his friend's number.

"Hello?"

"Jason, it's Aaron. I need your help."

"What's going on? You sound really worried."

"I am. Prentiss, JJ and Garcia are all missing."

"Missing?"

"Well, I guess kidnapped is the better term. We believe it to be three brothers of an Unsub we helped to put away last year right after you left."

"Any sign as to whether they are hurt?"

"We found some blood in Prentiss' bedroom and the test results showed that it was her blood, but there was not enough to warrant concern. It is most likely a shallow scratch or cut from the struggle she put up to get away from her attacker."

"Any idea where they could be?"

"Strauss sent us a TA named Kevin Lynch. He is checking on properties in the names and alias of the brothers. We should know by the morning if there are any properties around here."

"He is good Hotch. Not as good as Garcia but he will definitely be a lot of help."

"My worry is that if his search brings up more than one property it might take us too long to find them and I don't want to send officers into these buildings without any of the team there. I could use your help."

"You don't even have to ask. I'll be in first thing."

"Thank you. Could you do me one more favor?"

"Sure."

"Give a call to Elle."

"Do you think she'll come back?"

"She has been in the Sexual Crimes Division for the past year after the Bureau cleared her to return to work. I am not sure if she'll help, but I could sure use the help."

"I'll see what I can do."

"Thank you."

End flashback

Hotch looked at Elle, "Thank you for coming."

"I am glad you thought to give me a call. I have been meaning to stop by the BAU and see how everyone was doing. I didn't even have to think twice when Gideon called me last night. I don't know Agent Prentiss very well, but from what I hear she has been an asset to the BAU and the thought of these sick men having both JJ and Garcia and doing who knows what to them. Well. . . "

"We feel the same way," says Rossi as he stands up and walks towards them. He extends his hand to Elle, "I'm David Rossi."

"I have read your books. I learned a lot from them."

"Thank you." He looked at Gideon, "It's been too long, Jason."

"That it has Dave, now let's get our girls back safely."

"Okay we were able to locate three warehouses. We will split up – two to a warehouse. Morgan and Greenaway take the one on the West Side. Gideon and Reid the East Side and Dave and I will take the center one. We will each have a SWAT team with us. Observe the aria first to confirm if they are there. If you find them, alert the rest of us and do not move in until we are all there, unless their lives are in danger. We need the full team there to ensure that they get out of there alive. We move once I receive word from Strauss. I am waiting for SWAT teams to be assigned."