"You shouldn't have done that,"one of the women said,"the master doesn't like it when we disrespect his son."
"He is not my master, and if he wants respect he should come talk to me himself instead of sending that racist prick,"Sophie said bitterly.
"So that's the story he used on you,"the woman said,"we thought he was trying to hit on you."
"Okay,first of all gross,"Sophie said,"second of all, what do you mean?"
"They always send someone to observe us, before they abduct us. They want to know how we'll react."
"So, he was just trying to experiment on us,"she figured,"I might feel bad about beating him up if he hadn't gotten me in this situation."
The children were all asleep, including Lily. The room was freezing, so they all tried to huddle together for warmth. The sight broke Sophie's heart. The light was turned on, and the girls ha ad to squeeze their eyes shut.
Jonas walked in followed by two men.
"Rise, and shine ladies,"he smiled,"it's the end of the month."
The women groaned, the children sobbed.
"They always take us first. They'll come back for the children tomorrow,"the woman informed Sophia.
Good,Sophie thought. Their parents had more time to find Lily.
"Lily,"she said quickly,"when dad comes to save you don't come looking for me. Go home. I love you."
The men opened the metal rings that held the chains to the wall. It wasn't until then that the chains were just one big line. One of the men pulled at the front of the chain, while the other prodded the woman at the back. He led them outside, and into a van. The one in front opened the door, and all the women got in the back. Sophie hesitated, so the man in front picked her up, and threw her in, which caused all the women behind her to jerk forward. The engine started, and the women were all driven to their next owners.
"Tell me you found something, baby girl,"Morgan said in a tired voice.
"This Jonas kid has just shown up at the beginning of the school year. He was homeschooled, but I can't find anything else, no camping trips, no doctors appointments. It's like he just showed up a few months ago,"Garcia said frustrated.
"Okay,"Morgan thought for a moment,"look and see if there are any cases like this nation wide. Anything where the child of a law enforcement officer's child was kidnapped,but a body was never found. This guy knows what he's doing."
Garcia started typing, and over a hundred names came up.
"I can search for this kid, but that will take forever. The girls don't have that kind of time,"she said.
"Are any of them in the nearby area?"Morgan asked.
"Three,"she answered,"and all of them were around this kid's age at the time. I can check the year books for their class."
"You do that I'll get the rest of the team to question the families,"Morgan said right before he walked out the door.
"She was so beautiful,"said the mother of one of the missing children,"I was working on some narcotics case when my husband called, and said she was missing."
"Was there a new student in her class?"JJ asked,"one that she talked about."
"There was a boy who used to make fun of her, because we're together,"said her other mother.
"What did she do about it?"Rossi questioned.
"She never did anything to stop it,"answered the first parent,"we wanted to tell her principal, but she didn't want to snitch."
"We read that she was taken from her front yard. Can you tell us what happened?"
"We were outside together, when my phone rang,"the second mother began,"I was gone for a minute, and when I got back outside she was gone."
"Do you think you found the people who took her?"the first one asked.
"We might have an idea,"Rossi answered, while trying not to get their hopes up.