Chapter 10
The Sunshine State

*Kate/Melinda's Point of View*

We walked back the shimmering globe and through the crowd.

"He picked a good place." JJ says to me. "It's crowded and loud. But he also left a lot of witnesses."
"You think the girls are his first victims?" I say as we show our badges to the lady and she let's us in.
"It's his first kidnapping but he has had to of practiced somehow." She says as we see a few cops standing by the lockers.
"You must be the agents from the BAU." A male officer says walking toward us.
"Yes, there are four more though. I'm SSA Jennifer Jareau and this is SSA Kate Callahan." She says shaking his hands and sliding on gloves.
"Hello." I say sliding on my own gloves. "Which locker was theirs?"
"Locker 345." He says as the attendant opens it up.

I bent down and grabbed two purses along with two necklaces and only one cell phone.

Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the girls will still have their on them.

I handed one to JJ and looked through the neon yellow and brown coach bag.

"Who get's their 16 year old daughter a coach purse?" I laugh and find her driver's licence. "I have Mariah's. She has around 300 in cash and a debit card, her hotel key, and her access card for here."

I clicked on the phone and see a picture of Mariah and her little sister light up.

I go to open the phone and the menu comes up.

"No password. That's unusual." I say and go through her recent texts. "The last person she talked to was a girl named, Kellie. Why didn't we see this before?"
"I don't know but Savannah only has around 100 in cash along with her driver's permit, house key, and access card." She says and digs through the purse to only find lip gloss and a few granola bars.
"We only found one phone. Did the officers here already run a trace on the missing phone?" I ask her quietly.
"I'm guessing not." JJ mutters as we go to walk out of the locker area.
"Remind Garcia to do one. I found something." I say and look though her videos. "Mariah has a two videos from earlier today. Should we watch them now or wait until we are with the team?"
"Wait until later." JJ says as we go to look over the park. "They were caught on tape getting off The Incredible Hulk ride. What happened between that entrance and these lockers. There is only about 20 feet in between them..."
"I'm guessing the unsub came up behind them and held some sort of weapon to get them to keep quiet and leave." I say. "It just doesn't make any sense how no one saw."
"They were all to busy with themselves..." JJ mutters and looks to me.

*Somewhere in Florida*
*Mariah's Point of View*

I look at Sav's phone and see the battery on 15%. There was no service and we weren't anywhere near somewhere with 4G so it was basically useless.

"Sav... wake up." I whisper and nudge the sleeping blonde.
"What..?" She mutters sleepily.
"Savannah the door is unlocked. Get up." I say opening the door quietly and looking out into the hallway.

We were somewhere close to water. It smells of must and mildew.

"I'm scared..." She says clinging to my arm like a small child. "What if he kills us?"
"I won't let that happen." I say in a hushed tone as I start walking toward another door. "Just keep an eye out for me, okay?"
"Always," she whispers and looks behind us. "We're all good. For now at least."
"Good..." I say opening the door slowly until it creaks and I let go.

I wait for a good two minutes before touching it again.

My hand reaches out for the knob and I slowly push the door open again before creeping out slowly, she grips my hand tighter as we see a man asleep on the couch.

"Not a sound." I mouth to her as we move across the floor of the house toward what I presumed was the front door.

I looked around making sure that there wasn't any animals or noise making devices.

Suddenly the phone rang and we froze.

The man grunts and I quickly pull Savannah and myself into the nearest hall closet and listen carefully.

He moves around loudly, bumping into many different things before answering the phone.

The phone call was rather quick.

"I know you're up here. I heard the basement door creak." He chuckled. "Now come out and I'll only punish you accordingly."
"Maybe we should..." She hushes in my ear.

I shake my head and hear him move around.

He opened the door and let out a breath of smoke. My mom was a smoker so I was used to the smell and it made me feel more homesick.

I feel a rush of terror as he stares down me and then closes the door. She squeezes my hand but releases it

"Where are you?" He grunts.

How did he not see us...?

"Come out, come out... where ever you are..." He says and moves to another room.

That explains everything.

All the struggle of fining the phone and why he didn't see us when we was looking right at me.

He's blind.

*In some Orlando Police Station*
*Kate/Melinda's Point of View*

"Did you guys get the trace back?" JJ asks seeing Garcia up on the screen. "Oh hey Pen. Anything?"
"We got a location." She says typing away. "2345 Harrison Road, Orlando FL."
"Let's move." Hotch orders and we all grab our vests and put them on as we make our way to the SUV's. I check my weapon and make sure I have both my glock and ankle weapon. "JJ and Kate go through the front. We'll go around back."

Just hold on girls...

We're on our way.