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Chapter Six: What Happened?

When the teams' plane finally landed Morgan was the first one out and heading to the van that was waiting for them. The ride to Quantico was much in silence. Once they got there they were met by security guards and other agents that were frantically searching the building and making calls.

"What happened" Demanded Morgan as he threw his bag on his desk.

"Agent Garcia's office is empty and there are no signs of a struggle." Answered one of the agents

"Of course there wasn't a struggle he snuck up behind her and drugged her." Responded Emily angrily.

"Why couldn't we get through to security?" Asked Hotch trying to remain calm but his anger was beginning to get the better of him

"About an hour before we discovered that Miss Garcia was gone someone called in an emergency on the ground floor, so many of us were down there and when we returned we discovered that some of the cameras had been moved to face the walls. We immediately went and manually turned them back." Answered a security guard

"Who called it in and what was the emergency?" asked JJ

"The caller was anonymous. They said that there was some ticking coming from a package that had been dropped off earlier. We thought it might be a bomb so we went to check it out."

"Was it?"

"No, just a clock that the delivery man must have dropped off by accident."

"Why do you say that?" Asked Reid

"Because, the address on it was for an apartment about three miles from here." Responded the guard

"We'll need another tech down here now." Said Hotch turning to the agent

"I'll go find one." He said and then left the bullpen glad to be away from the upset BAU team especially that Agent Morgan who seemed to still be fuming and ready to punch the first person who looked at him wrong.

"Alright, let's go check out Garcia's office and see if we can figure out how this guy got to our tech." said Hotch walking away obviously angry. The others quickly followed wanting to find their friend as soon as possible.

When they reached her office it was to find the door wide open and a smell coming from inside.

"Was the door open when you got here?" asked Morgan

"Yes sir." Answered a security guard

The five agents went inside and soon found themselves wanting to hold their noses because of the horrible smell.

The security guard then noticed their faces. "That smell was here when we got here. We found this in the corner." He said handing Reid a small tube with holes in the lead.

"It's a homemade stick bomb." Reid told his teammates with a curious look on his face and the excited tone in his voice told the others that he had figured something out.

"Did Garcia call security or maintenance this morning?" Reid asked the guard

"Umm… Yes she did." Answered the guard looking down at some notes he had. "She called maintenance earlier this morning about a bad smell, but they were busy cleaning up a bathroom on the second floor, so they said they'd be by later, but when they came by she was gone."

"What was wrong with the bathroom?"

"Turning a page of his notes the guard answered "Apparently a couple of sinks had gotten plugged and the water was running so the bathroom was flooded. There was so much water that it was spilling over into the halls. It was so bad it took almost all of the maintenance guys to clean it up."

"Wow, this guy really is good." Said Emily

"The unsub must have dropped off the package, called security to distract them, turned the cameras on his way up, and plugged the sinks to make sure maintenance couldn't clean up in here." Said Reid as if it were all obvious

"Why wouldn't he want Garcia's office cleaned out?" Wondered JJ

"Because, the smell was so bad that Garcia would have kept her door open to air it out, which meant the unsub could sneak in without any trouble or her hearing him."

"So, how did he get the stink bomb in her office in the first place?" asked Morgan

"Another agent said she saw a maintenance worker up here looking like he was lost or something. She just thought he was a newbie." Said a young agent who had just walked in

"When?" Asked Hotch in disbelief

"A couple hours before Agent Garcia was taken"

"She must have gone for coffee and that's when he left it." Said Morgan "But how did he get in?"

"I thank I know." Said Emily who had been listening but staring down at the door frame. She walked over to the door and picked up a small piece of metal. "He probably slipped this in between her door as she walked away and before the door closed. He was dressed like a maintenance man so she didn't pay attention to him."

"Ok, he only knocked out some of the cameras, so those were probably the halls he used to get out. The question is how did he get her out with out anyone seeing?" Wondered Morgan out loud walking around Garcia's office.

"According to these notes, the cameras that were turned were all in mostly deserted halls, if he was dressed like a maintenance man who would notice him pushing a garbage can out the backdoor." Said Reid reading the notes that the security guard had given him

"He put her in a garbage can?" asked JJ astonished and angry at the same time.

"Son of a …" said Morgan running a hand over his head and pacing again.

"I don't care if we have to ask everyone in this building, someone had to have seen him or at least his car." Said Hotch

"But how did he find Garcia in the first place and why her?" Asked JJ to no one in particular

"I'm not sure, but I have an idea." said Reid looking as if he was trying to figure out a difficult puzzle.

"Care to share?" asked Prentiss

"No, not till I'm sure, but you know this guy must have been watching her awhile or he just knew a lot about the FBI."

"Prentiss and Morgan, go see if you can find any witnesses. Reid the other tech should be here soon see if you can figure out what Garcia was about to tell us before she was taken. JJ call the Tennessee police department and tell them that the unsub just took one of our own and that we'll probably stay here for awhile, and also see if you can get anything at all from the security tapes, Reid can help you. We meet in the conference room in two hours." Said Hotch He then turned and with one last look at Garcia's office left to talk with some more security guards.