What No One Knew Chpt 7
"Morgan." Derek answered his phone two hours later.
"Have you heard from Reid?" Emily asked worried that her friend hadn't arrived yet.
"Not since the phone calls earlier to make the plans for everybody to stay together. What's wrong?"
"He called me before he left his place, saying that he was going to walk over here; Derek, that was two hours ago. I tried to reason that maybe he had stopped for a coffee or something. But it doesn't usually take him this long." Emily was getting more upset at the thought of something happening to Reid. Ever since that damned case in Georgia….
"Alright. Call Hotch and let him know what's going on. I'll let Garcia know, she can see if she can track his phone from her laptop."
Even though he couldn't see her through the phone, Emily nodded, 'Right. Let me know what you come up with."
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"Baby Girl, can you help me make some snacks for the movies we're about to watch."
"I can hel…." Danielle started to say, but stopped when she saw the look on Derek's face. "Or not."
"You sit right there and relax. You've been doing too much moving around lately, and it's starting to tell on you."
Danielle did her best to glare at him, but he simply arched an eyebrow at her and it made her laugh.
Once in the kitchen….
"Hot Stuff, what's wrong?"
"That was Emily on the phone, Reid still hasn't made it to her place, and she's been waiting on him for two hours…."
"You want me to track our little genius' phone don't you?"
"If you ca…"
"Don't you dare finish that statement; just give me a moment to get into the program…."
"Thanks Baby Girl."
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Garcia went back into the living room carrying a huge bowl of popcorn with a bag of dill pickle chips under her arm. After tossing the bag of chips over to Danielle, Garcia sat down, grabbing her laptop. It only took her a matter of a minute or two before she had opened the tracking program that she needed. She was able to lock on Reid's phone rather quickly.
"Hmmm….' Garcia wondered to herself.
Derek was still in the kitchen getting the drinks ready to bring in on a tray, so he hadn't seen the look on Garcia's face yet.
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Coming back into the living room, setting the tray of drinks on the table, Derek saw Garcia's face as she studied her computer screen; she looked a little upset, maybe confused.
Going over to the love seat where Pen was sitting, he flopped down, 'What'd you find baby girl? Any good movies playing tomorrow that we might be able to go see?" He was trying to keep his tone of voice normal so Danielle wouldn't be able to pick up on the fact that something was wrong.
"See for yourself,' she tilted the laptop to the point where Morgan could see what was going on. "See, there. It doesn't look promising." Garcia pointed to the area on the screen in question. Morgan saw that the tracking program showed that Reid's phone was showing up on the route he would have taken to get to Prentiss' apartment.
Derek didn't know what to do. He grabbed his phone and went into the bathroom.
"Hotchner."
"Hotch, Prentiss called me a few minutes ago, she said that Reid hadn't reached her apartment and she had been waiting for him nearly two hours. She said she was giving him a little extra time in case he had stopped for coffee, but that even with the caffeine pit-stop he should have been at her place a long time ago. I had Pen run a trace on his phone from her laptop; it shows that the phone is still located somewhere on the route he would have had to take to get to Prentiss'."
"Damn. Alright. Rossi and I will come and get you, then we will ride out there to see what's going on."
"What about Jack? It's too late to try to take him to Jessica's."
"We will bring him to your place. You don't think that your mom and Garcia would mind watching him for a bit would you?"
"No it should be fine. And, anyway, he loves Pen to death."
"Alright. We'll be there in about 15 minutes."
"Good. I'll be ready."
Derek went back into the living room and waited for Hotch and Rossi to show up, he watched a little of the movie that the three women had picked out. He and Garcia kept giving each other looks across the room to each other. They were trying to convey messages to each other without saying a word about what was really happening.
Precisely 15 minutes later, Hotch knocked on Morgan's door; Rossi was standing a little to the right, and Jack was in front, with a backpack on his back with some pajamas and a change of clothes and a couple of toys.
"Sorry to bust up your little movie night. But when Jack heard that his Aunt Penelope was over here, he decided that he just had to spend the night."
Danielle sat up from where she had been lounging on the couch with Derek's mom; her dog Dingle had curled up against Danielle's leg and sat up to see what all of the fuss was about. Smacking his lips, the dog laid back down.
"Agent Hotchner…Agent Rossi? Is everything alright?"
"Yes. My son heard me mention that Pen was staying here; and she sort of like an aunt to him….he decided that it had been long enough since he'd seen her….he wanted to come over and stay with her tonight."
"Oh…."
"Jack this is our friend Danielle."
"Hi! Do you know my daddy through his work?"
"Well sort of, I guess."
"M'kay. You wanna play with some of my Transformers?"
"Jack, I don't know…"
"No, it's cool. I haven't played with Transformers since I was a kid."
"They had 'em when you were a kid?"
"How old do you think I am?"
Jack giggled and the two of them ran over and sat in the floor near the dining table as Jack started scattering some of his toys on the floor.
Watching as Jack and Danielle got settled playing on the floor rather quickly, Hotch turned to Morgan…
"Come on Morgan, we are at least two hours behind."
Rossi, Morgan, and Hotch made their way out of the apartment. Fran had seen them out, then shut and locked the door, making sure the alarm was set properly. From her vantage point, Danielle had managed to see what buttons had been pushed, what numbers had been entered…as she went back to playing with Jack for a bit, she couldn't help but wonder why Morgan had left with the others. Danielle thought back to the earlier conversations that he had been having with Garcia. Come to think of it, some of the communication seemed sort of contrived; like each of them were trying to think of what careful words to say. Whatever the situation, Danielle put it out of her head for the moment and continued to play with Jack and his toys.
Danielle had almost forgotten altogether about what had gone down, she'd been having such a good time playing with Jack; he was a really sweet little boy, and smart as a whip…but that could be because he took after his father, or at least she would assume so. What brought her curiosity to the forefront again was when Garcia's cell phone rang. It must have been Derek. While showing Jack something on his 'Ipad' she kept an ear open to hear what was being said.
Danielle had helped Jack look up old 'Thundercats' cartoons so she could show him what they were like; he was loving it. While she was going through some of the cartoons on 'Youtube', Danielle happened to overhear some of Garcia's conversation.
"I'm telling you Derek, you're not even 50ft away from Reid's phone. Keep going straight, it's right in front of you practically…."
There was a bit of quiet on Garcia's end of things, then Danielle heard her exclaim…
"Oh God, where do you think he might be?"
Danielle's mind started whirling. Their friend Reid was missing. He had been so nice to her….She knew that Lonnie was behind this he had taken the young man. Oh no; what would he do to the boy?
"Jack, excuse me, I need to go to the restroom. Will you be alright here watching cartoons for a bit?"
"Sure, go'head."
Danielle left Jack lying under the dining table where they had been cuddled up watching the 'Thundercats' cartoons. As she made her way to the edge of the hallway, she looked back at the boy and her decision was made.
Lonnie wouldn't stop going after these people until he got what he wanted. She went to the bathroom like she said she would. She took her time, washing her face when she was done, gathering her thoughts. Then she walked back up the hall to Derek's master bedroom. She took the cell phone he had gotten her; it was just a little prepaid phone, he had gotten it for her to use in case of an emergency. He had gotten it after Garcia had helped him pick it out because it had a decent tracking device. She turned it to vibrate so the ringer wouldn't be heard, but this way she could keep it on and Garcia could track it once they got on to what Danielle was doing.
Danielle walked over to the dresser, saw a piece of paper and a pen lying there; she scribbled a note saying that it had to be this way, leaving it in the middle of the bed. Then she went over to the window that was just to the left of the bed, moving the night table a bit so she could squeeze past it. Opening the window she crawled out onto the fire escape and moved the night table back into place before shutting the window behind her. Before descending the fire escape she took one last look at the room that she had occupied for the last couple of weeks, thinking of 'Ma'am' and Derek; with those final thoughts she shook her head and made her way into the darkness of the Quantico night.
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So, one way or the other the team will be getting Reid back, but at what cost? Stay tuned.