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Chapter 10:

- The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

- Frank A. Clark

Morgan was outside, taking his frustrations out of a block of wood. He needed to clear his head. He needed to get his hands on Müller and Meyer, mainly Müller. All that rage from watching Maddie with him made him want to explode hell out. He figured he needed to hit something. He kept on pounding and pounding on it until he hears,

"Easy there, tough guy."

He turns around and he sees Emily with her arms folded and Rossi with his hands in his pockets. They could clearly see him taking his anger out on the wood. Nevertheless, he just kept on pounding it.

"You know, taking your rage out on a piece of tree is not going to bring Maddie back." Rossi said.

"Thank you, Captains Obvious."

"There are other ways of dealing with this, you know. You could try talking…"

"I don't need to talk or anything else," Morgan snaps at them before stopping. "We all need to find Maddie and we have nothing. Nothing, damn it!" He returns to pounding the wood.

"Morgan…"

Throwing the wood block, nearly hitting Prentiss, "Did you not see the way he was feeling her hair with his face, touching her little face with his cold filthy hands? Huh?! You don't understand…"

"I did see what Müller did and I do understand…"

"No, you don't, Prentiss. You just don't. And you never will." He leaves the wood right where it is to go and check up on Reid with Hotch.

After taking a small break, Garcia, with JJ by her side, returns to her computer, but not before she sees Morgan,

"Hey, big boy."

"Yeah, hey."

Garcia's slight smile turned into a full-on frown. Normally, Morgan would refer to her as 'baby girl' or 'sweetheart,' but ever since Maddie's abduction, some things have changed and she didn't like it. JJ comforted her as she sat down.

"Hey, let him be. There's a good reason for the way he's acting like that. I mean, if it was either Henry, Michael or Will…I would have murdered somebody."

Garcia snickered as she began to type away. "Did you get anything?"

"No. I just can't get anything. I can't believe it; Meyer is a drop-out from Caltech and MIT and I can't get anything on the location of where they could be with Maddie." Garcia said, on the brink of tears. "Damn, I feel so…so…so useless and hopeless."

"Don't say that, Garcia. We're going to get Maddie home and when we do, you can spoil her with oodles of gifts, books and love."

Walking down the hallway, Morgan stops when he sees Hotch coming out of one of the rooms,

"Well? How's he holding up?"

"He could barely eat the food we got him; he can't stop talking about her and he practically cried himself to sleep."

Morgan creakily opens the door to see Reid, lying down with the brown covers over him. He sees a bunch of crumbled up tissues around the bed and on the sheets. Closing the door to let him rest for a while,

"Hotch, we have to bring Maddie," Morgan said, shaking his head. "I thought it was bad enough to see him like this when he lost Maeve, but if he loses Maddie…"

"We can't think like that," Hotch stopped him before he could finish the sentence. "When we find Müller and Meyer, I wouldn't stop you from giving them the worst beating of their lives."

"Not to mention, giving them the dozen special kicks in the nuts for Will."

Driving at least fifty miles an hour on a long road pathway as the sun was minutes away from setting, Müller had his blue eyes focused on the road as Maddie was quietly biting down on her nails. She began scratching the blond wig, which she was forced to wear as it began to itch her head too much and covered her medium brown hair. After the long moment of silence,

"You know, for a child your age, you seem awfully quiet."

She twirls a piece of the wig with her finger.

"I…don't want to be a bother."

There was a much bigger reason for that.

"You're not being a bother."

Crossing her arms as she leaned back in the seat and tried to stay calm as Müller pulled back onto the main road. Müller looked at Maddie's tiny legs and saw her squirming around uncomfortably in the backseat. He pulled the side of the road turned off the car. "Does the little girl need to go to the bathroom?"

Maddie nods her head slowly and tried her hardest not to make any kind of eye contact with Müller.

"Well…we could find a 7-Eleven soon before it gets completely dark and we could get a few things for the road. We could definitely do that. Now, let me explain the rules. As of now, you are to be an obedient little girl. When we get into town, you are not to attract anything kind of attention and you are also to do as I tell you to do. If these rules are not followed, you will be punished severely…and I mean very severely. Is it understood?"

Still avoiding eye contact with him, she simply nods her head.

"Good. Very good. You catch on pretty quick for a girl your age."

Maddie continued to lean back in the seat and tried to say calm as Müller pulled back onto the main. As Maddie looked out through the dark tinted windows, Maddie began to think,

"Please find me. Please find me. Please."

A surge of nausea washed over Reid as he soon began to try and wake up. His vision blurred and he honestly couldn't remember when he fell asleep. All he could remember was that…he soon realized that he possibly fell asleep when he cried himself to sleep…about Maddie. He soon begins to see Morgan sitting next to his bed on a chair.

"Hey, pretty boy."

Morgan couldn't believe how Reid looked. His eyes were muddy brown and red, his hair was messy, he looked more skinner than usual and practically looked as if hell broke loose on him a dozen times. "You already?"

He shrugs his shoulders and turns the other way as JJ stepped into the room.

"Hey, you. How are you holding up?"

"What do you think?" A wet sensation of tears begins to trail down his face. "I want my little girl back. I want to hold her in my arms; I want to be able to hold her and tell her everything will be already. I know I didn't help make her…but I still love her as if she was my own."

Prentiss walks into the room with a quart of dairy-free ice cream. Sitting beside Reid on the bed,

"Come on. You need your energy, so try and eat up a little bit."

"I'll try. When we find Müller and Meyer, unleash all your energy out on them."

"Oh, I will, Reid. I will."

Müller soon parks the car in a remote area outside of a local 7-Eleven store. A small moment of hesitation passed before making sure no one in the area could recognize him. He had a black wig over his blond hair and changed out of clothes he had earlier and into some fresh ones. Müller got out of the car and opened the backseat. Maddie yelped as Müller grabs her arm and yanked her from the backseat.

"Let's keep on moving, don't attract anything attention."

Nodding her head, "Yes, sir."

The youngish, lanky, average-height store clerk, who had short red hair, green eyes, allowed Maddie and Müller to come on in as they were going to be the last two customers before he had to close down. Kneeling down to look directly at Maddie,

"While I go and grab a few things, go do your business and come right back out right away. And remember…"

"No attracting any kind of attention."

"Good girl."

Little did he know that Maddie was trying to get the clerk's attention—even though he wasn't supposed to—by trying to calculate the right moment. The minute Müller looks away, she looks up at the security cameras, slightly exposes her medium brown hair under her blond wig and mouths,

'Please, help me.'

As soon as Müller looked away, Maddie quickly grabs a couple of black marker from one of the jars and quickly rushes to the bathroom. She knew what she was about to do was risking, but she hoped it'll be worth it.

The clerk soon notices what Maddie was trying to say on the camera and calmly keeps his cool as Müller approaches up to him at the register with some rope, a few chocolate bars, some sandwiches and drinks. He kept his eyes steady at the security alarm button. As he was bagging his items,

"That'll be $15.27, sir."

Müller hands him a twenty and tells him to keep the change. As Müller began to stand around, waiting for Maddie,

"Uh…sir?"

Müller looks at him with slightly annoyance.

"What…can I help you it?"

Their attention later turns to the television when Channel 7 Eyewitness News comes on the screen when a special edition,

"An AMBER alert is still on high alert for the kidnapping of a young girl by the name of Madison Jean Reid…" It cut to a picture of a current Maddie.

"…The daughter of a federal FBI agent who was kidnapped from the Lockwood School. Also on high alert is the escape of convicts, Jason Müller and Mason Meyer from the Harrington Penitentiary. Müller was convicted for the massacre of his family and Madison was the sole survivor of it and it is suspected that…" It cuts to pictures of Müller and Meyer's mug shots and Maddie's biological family.

The clerk nervously points his finger at Müller, who responded by pointing a silver handgun at him, causing him to have his hands up. As Maddie walks out of the bathroom, who was scratching the itchy wig with her fingers,

"Hey!"

Maddie looks up at him,

"You're that little girl…"

Before Maddie could even respond, the sound of the gunshot filled the store. Pure horror and shock filled Maddie as she shrieked. The young clerk's body fell to the ground with a thud. Müller turned around to see Maddie in shock. Their attention turned to the television screen, which was earlier film of JJ addressing the media.

"We are looking for this young girl. Her name is Madison Jean Reid," Holding up a recent picture of Maddie. "Around the age of five-and-a-half, has dark brown eyes, long medium brown hair, around three feet and nine inches, weights forty pounds. Please, any information, regarding of this girl's whereabouts would be helpful..."

Müller looked at Maddie as she looked right back at him with pure fear in her eyes. He knew he had to do something.

Reid shrieked his lungs out as he jolted up in his bed and tossed the covers to the side. The entire team rushed to his side when they heard his shrieks. He turned on the lamp quickly and shook away the dream—if not nightmare— he just had that hung over him. The small hours of sleep he had tried to get had been anything but peaceful nor relaxing.

He had dreamed about Maddie, but in his dream, he and the team had found Maddie and her biological father in a murder-suicide stage. Every member of his team comforted him as he wept his heart in his dream. They all knew that he wouldn't survive without Maddie.

"It's alright, Reid. It's going to be alright." Morgan comforted him as he cried his eyes, heart and soul out.

"We're going to find Maddie and we will bring her home."

The moment was temporarily stalled when Hotch's cellphone began to vibrate in his pants pocket. Hotch grabbed it and answered "This is Agent Hotchner."

"Agent Hotchner, this is Police Chief Thomas Long. We've found something. You and your team need to come straight away. We believe this may be connected to the kidnapping of one of your agent's children, Madison."

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