So i hope you all had happy holidays and i am so sorry for the long wait but everything has been hectic. I will say this i am about to start the week before finals and then finals so I'm not sure how soon i can update i go crazy studying 24/7. But for sure there will be a new story posted December 16 if you are interested. Well thanks to all who have been reading and thanks to Kimd33 and MeGkAtHeRiNe, for your reviews they mean so much please review it makes my day.
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Same Mistake
Unfocused
The team all walked back into the conference room. They felt guilty they had let Hotch speak to his family and now they were dragging him back.
JJ got up to the to the front of the conference room and began, "This is not a serial. There is a six month old baby that has just been kidnapped. We are taking this case the plane leaves in ten."
"Where is it?" asked Rossi
"Pittsburg." JJ said
"When was she up ducted?" Reid asked
"Today at eight a.m. she was with the nanny. They were on a walk through the park, the nanny was held at gun point and the baby was taken while the nanny was knocked out." JJ explained wincing as she could never imagine the feeling the mother should have. Even if Henry was now sixteen, he was her son and she couldn't imagine something happening to him.
Hotch groaned, he had just heard his daughter over the phone, after ten years and know he was going to have to deal with a missing baby. Oh that just happened to be the same age as Elaina was when he last saw her. This was going to be distracting.
"Knock out and gun point. That shows anger and that it wasn't random. He was after her." Morgan said
"But he left the nanny alive so it also tells us that he had no intention on killing her." Rossi added
"On the plane we'll continue this. Everyone out!" Hotch ordered as he walked to his office for his go bag.
He couldn't allow himself to have time to think, it was usually what kept him going but know he distracted in a good way. He was going to see his family. He just hoped that it would all go fine.
He jogged down to the parking lot and got into his SUV and saw the team following close after himself. The ride to the airport was short but it felt like years to Hotch.
He was about to get to meet his kids and a case got in the way. Why did he keep letting the job get in his way? Why did it keep bothering him? Why couldn't he have a simple life? Because both he and Emily loved their jobs, that's why they would give anything for them.
But Hotch felt a pain in his chest; Emily would have done anything for her job yet she had left her job and life because of his mistake. If he hadn't made such a reckless mistake she would be there with him. They would be a family but they weren't and it was because of him.
He lost Hailey that way and he still didn't leave the job. And he knew that he could off left with Emily but his job was too important to him. Yes, that was how selfish he felt.
He promised Hailey he would show Jack love, know all he wished was that he could see Jack. Rossi obviously had contact with him he needed to ask him about Jack.
By then Hotch parked at his usual parking space and headed on to the plane. Being a plane for the BAU and not commercial he didn't have to go through so much paper work, he just got on.
The rest of the team was walking after Hotch. They all felt a sting of guilt and they all were angry that something had to get in the way.
"Why didn't Cooper's team take this?" asked Morgan annoyed.
"They're on a case in Pittsburg." JJ said
"The faster we get this guy the faster we can fix our friends lives." Rossi said trying to get the teams minds on the case once again.
The rest of the team silently agreed and boarded the plane. Once they were in the plane they saw that Hotch was starring out the window with a smile on his face. Hotch was smiling. Ten years of not a single smile and now he was smiling. The team knew that this was going to be hard.
Once Hotch noticed that the team was on the plane he wiped his smile away and put on his 'Agent' face on. The face that had felt was his only one. The only one he had been seen with for ten years.
Soon the team all felt the plane take off and then all in sync walked over to a single table and all took a seat around it.
JJ check to see if the whole team was present and when she saw that they were she began, "Ok, well the victim is, like I said, six months her name is Ester she has three brothers and her mother is a politician and her father is passed away before she was born."
"How did the father die?" asked Rossi hoping he could have been a connection.
"Lung cancer." JJ answered all ready having the information
"What did the nanny do, when she woke up?" Rossi asked
"She ran screaming and when she calmed down she called the police." JJ answered looking at her notes.
As much as Hotch wanted to his mind was racing and he just wanted the case to end soon and of course he wanted to get that baby back safely. For a moment he wondered if he could be the one to hold her, just for a split second and let his mind wonder back to when his little girl was that young.
Reid interrupted Hotch's thoughts by saying, "Guys listen to this. Joseph Connell age five, Esters oldest brother enters school at eight thirty no exceptions. Mark age four also enters preschool at the same time, and Randall age two is usually at home with the nanny and his sister. But today there were big changes. Joseph was left at school at seven a.m. and so was Mark and Randall was at home at time of the abduction."
The team all thought about it and Hotch video called Garcia and the screen filled with Garcia and she said, "Yes boys and girls how can I help you?"
Hotch asked what the team was all wondering, "Garcia, look up the nanny?"
Garcia gasped and asked, "You think she's in on it?"
The team nodded and Garcia gasped how could a women dedicated to caring for children be capable of something like that. She quickly typed on her keyboard and said, "She rented a black van today and has three plane tickets for tonight, two adults and a baby to California. We have enough proof."
The team was in a part shocked they hadn't even had to fly out then if they had stayed put then they would have been able to solve it.
"So the nanny took Ester and was planning on flying out of the state with her but why leave so much evidence?" asked Hotch trying to get his mind out of his own daughter.
"She didn't know any better this wasn't for a ransom or for power they were going to care for her. I say we fly back. Just make sure you call JJ and get in contact with the police station." Rossi suggested
"I agree we for once solved the case without landing." Morgan agreed
"I guess I'll go speak to the pilots." Hotch said happily
Once Hotch returned he informed the team that they would be landing in DC soon. He felt so happy never in his life had he solved a case that soon. And even if he wasn't going to get to hold that baby he was sure that the mom was. That she would once again hold her daughter and he prayed that soon he would hold his.
He couldn't believe how out of it he was but he was glad that the team was filled with a team that wanted nothing more than to help.
So that was... different but the next chapter will be Emily and kids. YAY! We're getting close to when the kids finding out! Please Review!
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