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Aaron Hotchner was no stranger to having his time with his son interrupted. It was what had broken up the marriage with him and Hailey. This time he knew that he needed to be there and that his son would understand. After hanging up with Prentiss, he immediately dialed Hailey's personal cell phone.
"Yes Aaron?" she answered.
"JJ's been attacked. Can I bring Jack back to you? We need to find the guy that did this to her and we're the only one she trusts."
"Is she ok? Yeah if you can explain to him why you are leaving for work again, bring him back" Hailey sighed. If it weren't for the fact that she knew JJ personally, and actually liked her, she would've been pissed about him having to bring Jack back. Hailey knew the respect that Aaron held for JJ, he almost felt as if she were a little sister to him.
"She's in the hospital. I'll be there in 20."
Aaron hung up the phone and called his little boy over to explain that Aunt JJ had been hurt and he needed to go work the case. Jack understood without a doubt.
"It ok daddy. I love you. Go get the bad guy!" Jack exclaimed. Hotch's eyes watered as he got Jack ready to head back to Hailey's. The team had been contacted by Garcia and was racing back to Quantico.
Back at Quantico, Hotch walked in and instructed everyone to the conference room.
"Hotch, where's Emily and JJ?" Morgan asked.
"We have to do this one without them. This case isn't just any normal case, it's at home base and I'm going to have to do some work with the local PD and Strauss." Hotch explained.
"What's going on Hotch?" Morgan demanded rather shortly.
"JJ's been attacked. Emily won't be working this one. JJ's pretty beaten; she got hit in the head with the end of a revolver and beaten. I'm sure it's worse than she's letting on but I'm not pressing the subject until we absolutely have to. She's in the hospital, Emily's taken a few days off to take care of her and it's my opinion she may be too close, even thought I know we are what they would say too close to case," Hotch explained. Garcia didn't flinch as she already knew what had happened.
"Do we know who the unsub is?"
"Let's not call him an unsub, for JJ's sake. It shouldn't be too hard to find him since JJ was very close to her attacker, very close" Hotch explained.
"What are you talking about Hotch?"
"JJ's four months pregnant, and her attacker is Detective William LaMontagne Jr. Her live-in boyfriend. We need to find this son of a bitch as soon as we can," Hotch was getting angry thinking of the New Orleans' detective hurting their colleague and friend.
Hotch began giving out orders to the remainder of the team. Reid and Morgan needed to go to JJ's and examine the scene. He had already cleared it with JJ. Garcia was to begin tracking Will's past information and see if any of his credit cards had been used. Hotch was off to make a phone call to the local PD to get it cleared for them to work the case. One way or another he would find Will and make him pay. Strauss would have to be dealt with, but he would hold off on that until the local PD knew about the case.
Thirty minutes later Garcia had Will tracked through credit card transactions.
"LaMontagne bought a plane ticket using his credit card to New Orleans. Departure time looks like about one hour ago, no idea if he actually was on that plane or not," Garcia explained over the phone on a conference call with the rest of the team.
"Thanks Garcia. I'm not going to take any chances, I'm going to get a guard to stand by JJ's hospital room while she's in there. I don't want him showing up trying to apologize and end up stressing her and the baby out," Hotch explained.
"Yes sir. I'm on it."
Hotch had good intentions. Only problem was he was too late. LaMontagne knew Garcia would be tracking him by now, thinking he was on the way back home. Only he had different intentions.