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"Oh my God." Said Dave, not taking his eyes off the screen through fear that if he did Alex might disappear from under their noses and they go back to where they were before... nowhere.

"Garcia trace it back, now." Said Hotch standing up to walk towards the screen, no doubt cursing himself for not being able to protect a member of his team. "What's taking so long?" He asked her desperation seeping into his voice.

"I don't know" he heard her shakey voice reply "the server is bouncing all over the place I can't seem to get a traceon it" her voice becoming more and more worried with every word as the realisation that she couldn't do anything began to sink in.

"How about trying to highlight the ones it bounces off most frequently, I mean it has to bounce off those it's closest too most right?" JJ asked sounding very unsure of herself.

"I could try but thay will still leave us with around a 25mile radius" Garcis replied "unless, I could then run the images in the background I mean I can see some shadows through the window, and those walls don't look as though they belong inside a house"

The only thing that could be heard in the room was constant tapping against the keyboard as Garcia's fingers worled tirelessly trying to get a clue as to where the feed was coming frkm, when all of a sudden a shreik was heard from the corner of the room where Nicole stood, they all turned to face her as she pointed to the screen.

There was a knife hovering a very close proximity to Alex's neck, although as they looked at her face they never would have guessed that her life was being threatened. In the 19hours she had been gone she had obtained one rather impressive black eye, a cut to her forhead which still appeared to bleeding and a busted lip, other than those she looked perfectly normal.

"We should call her family, James, Scott and her dad" Nicole said "if it was someone in my family I'd want to know and if I were in her situation right now I'd want them to know" Hotch nodded and signalled for her to go and make the calls while Garcia continued to wotk on tue servers.

"Bristow" Garcia said suddenly "there's more than a few coming from within the Bristow area. I can't get a smaller ground to cover than that right now though. I'm really trying Sir, I am but this guy is good" she told Hotch.

"What about background search like you said, can you get anything on the recognition of the area, maybe use satellite to get images of all places that fit" Rossi said "There can't be that many can there"

"James is on his way to the airport he shouldn't be any longer than 4hours" Nicole said "Do we have anything new?" Hotch shook his head at her and she sighed taking a seat next to him. "This is really starting to get on my nerves, even if we find Alex there's no absolute certainty that we'll find our unsub too, he could have set this feed up to taunt us while he's out finding his 8th victim because he knows that we have nothing on the other 7 because he made sure that there was no connection between them" she could tell from the looks on the rest of the teams faces that none of them had considered this possibility.

The feed had been up for just over 30minutes when they heard Garcia's voice ring out "guys I think I found her" she said.

"you think?" Hotch said "Garcia no offence but you think really isn't good enough." he told her as gently as possible with his building irritation at this guy.

"Ok, I'm almost certain, there's a road called Redoubt Rd that backs onto the airport and there is a abounded house there, which was vacated after the family inside were kiled by a fire and they failed to resell. That's why there's no sound we'd be able to tack her down more easily if we could hear a plane taking off every five minutes it makes sense Sir." She told him growing in confidence with every word she spoke.

"Ok, we'll get a S.W.A.T team and then we'll head out except for Nicole I want you to stay here and keep working with Garcia in case your theory about him not being there ends up a reality." Nicole looked at him like he was crazy, which after what he had just said seemed rather likely.

"With all due respect here Hotch there is absolutely no way in hell that I am staying here while all you guys move out! I don't care if you think you're protecting me because you think I can't handle this with my head injury or if you just think I'm not up to the job that was a crappy excuse and you know it!" She finished accusingly, glaring at him with one that rivalled the one he was wearing as the team looked on in shock.

"Guys be ready in five minutes." He told the team before pointing at Nicole "My office. Now!" He told her. It seemed like a pattern what was this her second or third time being called into his office on her third case it must be new record. Morgan shot her a sympathetic look as she passed him out of the conference door and straight into the devils lair and in all honesty with the look on Hotch's face she wasn't 100% sure she'd make it out alive.

"You ever talk to me like that again in front of the team when I give you a direct order and you will be out of a job so fast!" He started to scream at her before she even had a chance to shut the door, no that it would have mattered with how loud he was speaking "I am the unit chief here not you! And what ever sick vendetta you have against this man and whatever revenge you wish to take out against him, I. Do. Not. Care. You will stay here" he told her slowly, which was even more frightening than his shouting.

"I thought you said you believed there was a chance he wont even be there. Sir." she said with as much attitude and disrespect she could muster up. If the look if thunder he was shooting at her was anything to go by it worked. "So therefore you have nothing to worry about as far as my revengeful vendetta goes. Do you?"

"Ok fine you want to come with us you can but please don't ever expect me to try and look out for you and protect you again. Especially not if this is the way you are going to repay me." he was shouting anymore he didn't even look angry he was speaking to her as though they were out for coffee and discussing the upcoming weather and it unnerved her "I thought that maybe I might need to keep an eye on you make you don't come into anymore harm at the hands of this man but I see I shouldn't have wasted my time with the worry. You obviously haven't. So you can come with us and I will make sure to not treat you any differently from the rest of the team ever again. Injured or not. The way it should have been from the start. Deal?" He asked, holding out his hand to her.

She didn't know what she had been expecting when she walked into his office but him declaring that it was an act of protection and desire to keep her safer than the rest of the team was not it. "Hotch I..." She stopped, did she want that deal, did she want to go to a place where he practically ignored her and didn't care for her on any more than a personal level. The answer was "No, no deal. I was out of order. I am sorry. I should have realised that you had a reason to want to keep me behind and maybe you're right maybe deep down I was hoping he would be there so I could... I don't even know what. But Hotch I have to be there today, I have to make sure Alex isn't hurt. Please?" It sounded like a beg and it worked as he nodded at her.

"Let's go then" he said making his way out of his office "time to go get Blake back" he held open his door and watched as she walked out what were you thinking Hotchner, a beautiful young woman like her doesn't need you looking out for and protecting her. she probably has a man who is willing and ready to take care of her and even if she didn't she doesn't need one. Especially not you. A divorced man, with a dead ex wife he still loved and single father. A real catch. He stopped his internal dress down and followed the team to the cars as they drove towards the house in which they believed Alex to be.

Once they arrived S.W.A.T broke down the door and Hotch and Morgan were the first to enter follow by Nicole and Dave then JJ and Reid. "FBI!" Could be heard bouncing off every wall as the agents screamed hoping to catch anyone in the house off guard "Clear" could be heard from the different room too until Derek's voice found them from a small cupboard in the kitchen "guys I got something looks like it leads into a basemen." This time Nicole was first to go down, Hotch second and Derek third as the rest of the team and S.W.A.T continued to search the house.

The only thing they could see in front of them was darkness, until a chair came into sight with a slightly beaten Alex sitting on it. Nicole rushed towards her untying her from the ropes which bound her arms and lifted her up with the help of Derek on her other side while Hotch called for medic. They were halfway up the stairs when they felt her go limp in their arms, it was then that Derek placed one arm under knee and the other around her waist and carried her up the stairs swiftly followed by Nicole and Hotch.

The team watched in silence as the ambulance carrying Alex and Reid, who offered to wIt with her until her husband arrived, made it's way to the hospital. Dave broke the silence "well we found nothing except Blake in that house. So who and where exactly is our unsub?" He asked looking at the other team members. A question which each of them would like the answer too.