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Chapter 7

Evelyn groaned when Danny threw her down carelessly on the ground. The impact caused her head to collide with the concrete floor. Evelyn barely had time to react when two brutal and bone crushing kicks landed on her stomach. Evelyn let out an agonizing muffled cry before her eyes dropped down tears in response to the pain.

Danny harshly grabbed Evelyn's bounded hands, untied the rope before he cuffed one of her hands to the pipe attached to the wall.

"One more thing," Danny held Evelyn's chin roughly and turned her face towards him.

Honestly, there was nothing much Evelyn could see, not because of the darkness surrounding the basement, but because of her increased blurred vision. Evelyn was trembling, panting for more oxygen as she tried to focus her half closed eyes on Danny.

"Just in case, if you try to escape." Danny said with a wicked tone of voice.

Evelyn was pretty much confused by Danny's words but her eyes widen when Danny seized Evelyn's right ankle, twisting it speedily and roughly, causing a small cracking sound to fill their breathing space.

Evelyn moaned yet again under the duct tape when an unbearable pain spread up like a burning wave around her ankle.

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"Reid, I understand that you are not happy with us now, but we need find Evelyn…" Rossi said, jumping into the conversation.

"I…" Reid started to speak but dropped the idea when his phone buzzed. Reid quickly picked up the phone and answered it.

"Does the scarf send you enough message?"

"Why are you doing this, Catherine?" Reid asked as he looked up to Garcia before he silently murmured 'Danny.'

Upon recognizing the words, Garcia sprang into action to trace the call.

"Tell you Tech Girl, she wouldn't get anything from this call." Catherine said.

"Let Evelyn out of this, it's me that you want." Reid said, aware of team's eyes on him.

"True." Catherine said. "But I got to say, we are having extra fun this way. Too bad, I can't see your face. It's kinda awful when you know that someone else is suffering for what you did."

"W-what are you doing to her?" Reid asked, trembling with fear.

"I am not really sure." Catherine whispered evilly. "But last thing I know, he fractured her ankle, too bad she can't even scream."

Tear leaked out of his eyes, but anger was boiled up in him. "I will kill you."

"Oh yeah?" Catherine laughed. "After we shot and ran you over? I don't think so."

"What do you want?" Reid pleaded.

"A lesson for messing up with us."

"What did I do?" Reid asked for more information, he can't recall much.

"Wow, what? You had too much concussion to remember that you actually dumped our money from the bridge?"

"I …" Reid stammered, digesting the fact given to him.

"You ruined our plan!" Catherine yelled for the first time over the phone. "Let me assure you … you won't see her alive again!"

Reid lifelessly dropped down his phone. Evelyn's smiling face kept on flashing in his mind.

"Reid, I can't track the call." Garcia said, panicked with Reid's stillness. "What did she say? Reid, look at me." Garcia ordered when she saw the lost look on Reid's face.

"It's … my fault." Reid mumbled, his eyes were all over the room. "I…"

"Reid, take a deep breath, slow and steady." Morgan said when Reid struggled to breathe. "In and out."

"I need to… get out… need to save her…." Reid loosen out his sling.

"Reid, we will get her back for you." Hotch assured.

"Reid, you're bleeding…" Morgan yelled, before he forced Reid back to the bed. Morgan held both of Reid's arms forcibly but yet carefully on each side, giving Reid's no space to move any further.

"Get off me!" Reid with the great effort fight against Morgan's dominant hands, pinning him to the bed.

"I will get the doctor." Emily said before she ran out of the room when the machine beside Reid's bed started to beep crazily.

"What is going on here?" Dr. Robert asked when he saw the way Morgan was holding Reid. But without any explanation given, Dr. Robert somehow managed to comprehend when he saw a pool of blood forming on Reid's wounded shoulder and crazy beeping of the monitor.

"Dr. Reid, you need to calm down."

"I can't… I need to…" Reid's voice dropped a little.

"I am sorry but I have to do this. It's for your own good." Dr. Robert uttered before he pulled out a syringe and jab it through Reid's IV's bag.

"No." Reid screamed again. "Garcia, please…. don't let them do this to me."

Garcia cried silently as she held her hands over her mouth. "I am sorry, Reid." She sobbed.

Reid fought back helplessly against Morgan's dominant arm and the outcome of sedative streaming into his blood through the IV. It just took seconds before Reid succumbed to the effect of the sedative. Morgan loosened the grip when Reid's hand stopped fighting and went still.

"I am so sorry, Reid." Morgan said, as he fully let go of Reid's unmoving arms.

Just when Reid's eyes were struggling to stay awake, Hotch stepped into the front. "We will get her back, I promise."

With little energy left, Reid spoke unclearly. "Don't…'et any'hing … happen…to 'er." Reid closed his eyes and his body went completely still.

"He is going to hate us for this." JJ said, giving the space she was standing to Dr. Robert and the nurse.

"He already hates us." Hotch whispered, his eyes were on Reid. "The most important thing right now, we need to get Evelyn back. Garcia, stay with him, I want every information on Danny and his wife… EVERYTHING. Try digging deeper…" Hotch stressed the word before he bend down and took his spared gun from his ankle. 'Shoot if you have to."

With trembling hands, Garcia took the gun from Hotch.

"Come on," Hotch ordered the rest. "We got a job to do." Hotch walked out and talked to the local cops. "Nobody… I repeat, nobody except for Garcia and Dr. Robert enters into Dr. Reid. Am I clear?"

The local cops nodded and realized the danger waiting for Reid.

"Evelyn said she was going home to freshen up herself." Rossi explained when they gathered around to access the situation.

"Okay, Morgan and JJ, find out where she lives, check her house. Try to find out if she was taken from her house. Emily, you and Rossi, check the security footage, I want to know who and when they sent in the package to Reid."

"How about you?" Rossi asked.

"I am going to check the parking lot, see if anyone saw anything and I might stay with Garcia for now."

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Evelyn with great effort pushed herself up and leaned, with her back touching the wall. As she panted for more air, Evelyn let out some muffled noises when the pain caused by the movement spread up all over her body. Evelyn could hear the voices behind the closed door.

"What are we going to do with her?" Catherine voice's encoded.

"She is our bargaining chip." Danny spoke. "We are going to get back our money, take the boy and get the hell out of here."

Evelyn leaned forward to pay more attention to what they were talking about. The particular words 'the boy' seemed to grab Evelyn's overall attention.

"I don't want to lose him." Evelyn heard Catherine's voice.

"Don't worry, nobody knows that we had kidnapped him. For the record, he is still missing and will remain so. He is ours."

Evelyn's eyes grew wide when she heard the discussion between Danny and Catherine. Evelyn roamed her eyes around, by hook or crook she has to free herself. She can't afford to be the bargaining chip and she has to save the boy. Something tells her that there was much more than their revenge and Reid. There were certain things Reid couldn't remember and Evelyn was damn sure, the boy was one of it.

Evelyn saw a piece of broken glass a few inches from her leg. Evelyn hauled the piece using her unharmed leg and picked up the glass and looked at her wrist held by the handcuff. She need something as a lubrication and at the desperate situation, she couldn't think of anything else except for her own blood.

The deep cut on her palm had just stopped bleeding, and even the thought of making it bleed again speed up her breathing rate. Evelyn inhaled before she made the decision. She might end up dying but she was not going to breathe her last breath without putting up a fight first.

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