They were the first ones to arrive at the new crime scene, half the street seemed to be up and watched as the Officers and CSI walked around, "This one looks bad!" said Alex when she stopped and Spencer nodded, the two ambulance cars weren't a good sign. They got out and walked over to the Police banner when an Officer held them up.
"Excuse me but you have to leave this is a-"
"We know that very well, that's why we're here, SSA Blake my colleague Dr. Reid" Alex said as they held their badges up, he quickly muttered an apology and lifted the banner.
"Sorry but I wasn't informed that this was already serial" he said.
"This is a serial of abducted teenage girls" Alex answered.
"Yeah heard about that but there, except for the girls, nobody was killed-"
"Wait…who was killed?"
"The parents Samantha and Roy Clark they were executed, their five year old son David hid in a closet and probably watched the whole thing. He's in total shock. Hasn't spoken a word to anybody and his older sister was abducted. Nobody has seen or heard anything" he said and Spencer pulled out his phone to tell the others that this time the parents had been killed.
They walked to the living room where she could see Samantha and Roy Clark laying on the floor, one shot through each their heads, she noticed something else first they were holding hands and second the blood beside Samantha Clark was smeared around as if…a little person had been kneeling in it. "Where is the boy?" asked Alex and looked away, this wasn't exactly something she needed to see right now.
"Over here" an Officer said and led her to the kitchen. The little boy sat at the kitchen table, he wore his pajamas, had his legs pressed to his chest and blood on his hands and knees. He only sat on the chair and stared at the table. Then the Officer reached out.
"Don't!" she tried to stop him but he already laid a hand on his shoulder the boy gave a loud shriek and slide off of the chair and in a corner of the room. She gestured him to stay away and slowly walked over and kneeled down beside him.
"David...David it's all gonna be alright! Nobody is going to hurt you okay? You are save now, my name is Alex and I'm with the FBI and I won't let anyone hurt you...I know you're very scared David, but the bad men are gone they can't do anything to you" she said and after a moment he looked up at her and she smiled a little, before she laid her hand on his shoulder and noticed how cold he was, she waved the Officer over.
"Could you bring me a blanket?" she asked and he nodded before he left only to come back with a blanket seconds later and leave again, she wrapped David up and wanted to lean back but he pulled her back and held her hand.
"Do you have a badge?" he asked quietly and she nodded.
"Yes, you wanna see it? Why don't we look at it over here?" she asked and nodded over to kitchen table.
"Okay" he mumbled and stood up, they sat down at the kitchen table where Alex pulled the blanket a little bit tighter around him and then showed him her badge.
"And that's a real FBI badge?¨ he asked and reached out but when his fingertip was only millimeters away from her badge, he seemed to notice his blood covert hand and quickly pulled back and tears started to roll down his cheeks.
"Come on let's wash your hands okay?" she asked and when he nodded, Alex lifted him up and sat him beside the sink, so he could wash the blood of his parents away, when the blood was gone he turned the water off and she handed him a towel but in this Moment Reid came in and David clung to her tightly and buried his face in her shoulder.
"It's okay David, it's okay, that's my friend and Colleague Spencer and he is here to help, he's not going to hurt you sweetie¨ she said calm and slowly he began to relax and look at Spencer who smiled at him, when Alex lifted him down and sat him on the Chair again.
He saw the badge and looked at her, "Can I touch it?" he asked and Alex smiled.
"Of course you can" she said and watched for a second as he traced his finger across her badge and Alex then glanced at Spencer, he looked at her sadly and shook his head. He bent down and whispered in her ear:
"Amy's dead...they found her nine miles from here, single shot to the head" Alex closed her eyes "You want to-".
"No...I'll stay and ask him some questions...I don't want to see that" she said and he nodded.
"Okay I'll go and meet Rossi and Morgan there...love you" he whispered and left the room after he smiled at David. Alex sighed and then looked at David, now this little man was alone, he had nobody, his parents and sister were dead, killed by cruel people who were out of control and she wanted nothing more than to kill them, not quick, but slow and painful.
"David...do you think you could help me?" she asked and he looked at her.
"How?"
"I want to help you, but therefor I need some help from you...I know you're really scared, but could you tell me what happened tonight honey?" she asked he looked down at his hands and then nodded.
"Good...I'll ask you some questions and you'll answer them as good as you can okay?" he nodded again, "What happened tonight after you went to bed?"
"Amy woke me and told me to be real quiet...she held a Hand over my mouth and pushed me down and she told me to hide...so I hid in the closet like I do when we're playing...she said she would come too but she didn't" he said.
"What happened when you have been in the closet David?"
"I saw how a men carried Amy outside and I heard Mommy crying and Daddy was really scared too...the man said he should be quiet, then the other came back and they talked...but I couldn't understand them" he said and looked at her with watery eyes.
"Why couldn't you understand what they say?" she asked.
"They didn't speak English" he answered.
"And...What happened next?" Alex could imagine what happened next, but she needed to hear it.
"I heard how they counted then two loud bangs, they said something in that other language and then the door closed...I came out and saw Mommy and Daddy, I tried to wake them, but they wouldn't wake up! I really tried I really did!" he then started to cry again she swallowed and hugged him; he instantly clung tight to her.
"I know David and you did everything right...its okay you know you did nothing wrong it wasn't your fault" she said, Alex saw that he glanced nervous to the door to the living room, he couldn't stay here. "Come on David" she said and stood up, he followed her actions and they walked to the door before they could walk in Alex took off her Blazer and held it so, that David couldn't see his dead parents. Once they were out she put on her blazer again and turned to a Police Officer.
"Excuse me, have you contacted a family member?" she asked and the man nodded.
"Yes there is aunt in Leesburg she's on her way" he answered.
"Okay, I'll drive to the PD with him" Alex said and looked at David and smiled. While they drove to the Police Station, David was quiet and looked at his hands and nearly dozed off. When they were at the PD Alex was greeted by the captain.
"You must be Agent Blake? My name is Thomas Stinson I'm the Captain…my Officers told me you'd come" he said as he approached them, David gripped her hand tight and stepped behind her as they shook hands.
"Yes I'm Agent Blake and this is David Clark, could you maybe show me somewhere where he could sleep? He is awfully tiered and I'll stay with him until his aunt gets here" she said the Captain nodded and then smiled at David.
"Follow me, he can sleep in Detective Beck's Office, Halloran, bring a blanket to Becks Office" he said the Officer nodded and walked away as they followed the Captain into an Office with a little sofa.
"Thank you" Alex said and he left, "You're save here David…why don't you sleep a little" she said and he nodded, the Officer brought her the blanket which she laid over David.
"Are going to stay?" he asked quietly and Alex nodded.
"I won't go anywhere David, when you wake up I'll be here, promise" she said and laid her on his shoulder.
"Are you a Mom too?" she smiled.
"Yes I am, I too have a son he's only a year older than you and a daughter she's fifteen" Alex said "And now, you need sleep" she added.
"Could you tell me a story?" she thought for a moment Ethan had loved 'Where the Wild things are' and thanks to reading it to him every evening she probably could still manage to tell it.
"Sure, my son loved this story…" Alex said and started; David fell asleep after half the story.
Alex sat there and watched him, whilst she tried to put everything together. 'Why did they kill Amy that fast? She was their type, it didn't make any sense'. Then the door opened and a woman walked in she had to be David's aunt as she cried and looked like Samantha Clark. "Are you David's aunt?" she asked and the woman nodded.
"Yes, Mary King…what happened? M-my sister and her husband are- dead?" she asked.
"Yes…I'm sorry for your loss Ma'am; could I ask you some questions?"
"Yes, but what is with my nice?" Alex hesitated for a moment causing Mary to shake her head "Oh no…" she swallowed and then whipped the tears away. "I'll help you with everything I can…but I don't think I can do much…the last time I talked to them was two years ago" she said.
"Why haven't you been in contact? You don't live that far away".
"I worked in LA and only moved back here with my husband three months ago and the last time I-I saw them was Christmas three years ago and-and Sam…my sister and I had an argument" she said.
"Okay…thank you, I-maybe you could wait here and let David sleep, he hadn't had much sleep and…I think and Officer could bring you to the house and help you pick up some clothes for him" Mary nodded.
"Yeah…I'll do that" she answered and Alex sent her back to the house with an officer.
"Alex" she turned around and saw Rossi walking over, looking nearly as tired as her.
"Hey Rossi…you got something from the second victim?".
"Nothing that might help us and you?" he asked but she shook her head.
"No…except that this time the parents were killed too the only one who survived was their five year old son, David, hid in the closet and watched the whole thing…only thing that is useful is that we need look for two none native american men" she answered.
The two of them spent the rest of the morning with talking to the friends of the parents and Amy, as they had no grandparents or other relatives beside the aunt. But they all had nothing useable; it was like there was no connection at all. They were surrogates. But for whom?
In the meantime Hotch and JJ had arrived too and JJ helped Spencer and Morgan at the Crime Scene while Hotch came to help them and was currently talking to the Captain.
"How long have you slept?" asked Rossi, when Alex rubbed her burning eyes after the last friend of Amy had left the Investigation Room.
"Huh? Barely an hour...and you?" she yawned and cracked her neck.
"Don't do that! That's gross! And luckily we had a little bit more sleep than you guys" he said and Alex wanted to answer but in this moment they both heard a scream coming from Detective Becks Office.
"David!" Alex jumped up and ran to the room when she stepped in she saw a perplexed man standing beside the sofa and David hiding behind it.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Wha-I'm Detective Beck, what is this kid doing in my Office? And who are you?" he asked back.
"I'm SSA Blake" she answered short and pushed him out of the way. "David! David it's alright I'm here, you're save nobody's gonna hurt you okay?" he clung to her again and Alex lifted him on the sofa. "This man won't hurt you! This is only his office Honey" she said and he nodded.
"I'm sorry" he whispered.
"You don't have to be sorry…your aunt waited and she can take you with her okay?" he nodded and she looked at Detective Beck.
"Could you get Mrs. King?" she asked and he nodded.
"Hey David…" Mary said as she stepped in "Do you remember me?" she asked, after a moment David nodded.
"Mom showed me pictures saying your aunt Mary" his aunt smiled and held her hand out he took it and stood up they all walked out and suddenly he pulled on his aunts hand and whispered something in her ear when she bend down. David ran back to her and hugged her; Alex was a little surprised but smiled at him.
"Thank you" he said.
"You don't have to thank me David…Goodbye" said Alex and David ran back to his aunt and waved her Goodbye.
"Blake?" she turned and saw Hotch. "We're driving back to Quantico and continue the Investigation from there, the ME will send his report to us" she sighed.
"Okay" she got her bag and then drove back to Quantico with Rossi. On half the way there, her phone rang.
"Err could you maybe?" she asked as she was driving.
"Oh sure "Rossi then answered the call, putting it on speaker.
"Hello?"
"Hi Momma" Ethan said and Alex smiled.
Hey sweetie, why are you calling? Is everything alright?" she asked.
"Yeah, we had pizza for lunch! Kat said I should call because you didn't answered our call last night" Alex narrowed her eyes, they had called?
"Oh I'm sorry but I was pretty busy at work, won't happen again! And you were having pizza for lunch? I thought Kat would cook" she said.
"She did but it burned. It was all black and we had to open all windows because it smelled icky!" he giggled and also Rossi had to bite down laugh but couldn't stop the grin. "When are you and Dad going to be home?".
Alex opened her mouth and blushed heavily when Rossi turned to her eyebrows raised and a wide grin on his lips.
"Err…I don't know exactly maybe tonight, but then I have to leave for work tomorrow, as for Dad, I don't know, I love you but I'm driving so I'll call you back sweetie Goodbye"
"Bye Mom, love you too" Ethan said and Alex quickly reached over to hang up. When Rossi continued to look at her with a wide grin Alex looked at him.
"W-what?"
"Dad? So there is someone knew in your life? Do we know him?" he asked smiling.
"Err…yeah and no-no I don't think so" Alex answered and tried to hide her blush. "Let's concentrate on the case and not my personal life okay?" she added and Rossi chuckled.
"Okay…just let me say that I'm happy for you".
"Thanks".
It was ten fifty in the middle of the night, but the team still sat in the conference room and were all frustrated that they had still no clue who these guys were, or how they picked out the girls or where they took them, nothing. "I still don't get why they killed Amy...she was their type, blonde, beautiful, kind...why kill her?" asked Rossi as they stared at the Board.
"I don't know, I mean they killed her before we even were at the crime scene" said Spencer and looked at Alex who simply stared at her Coffee Cup she got from Garcia and who hasn't spoken in quite a while. Since Manassas she was even more worried, it was barely an hour from where she lived and she couldn't shake this bad feeling off.
JJ also seemed to notice and laid a hand on Alex's shoulder but she didn`t even seem to notice that. "Hey Alex" finally she snapped out of her trance and looked up; all the others looked at her.
"Hey are you alright?" asked JJ.
"Huh? Oh- Yeah I'm fine" she said rubbed the bridge of her nose but nobody believed her.
"You've been up for almost 42 hours you, wanna go home?" asked Hotch.
"No I'm-...it's not the lack of sleep I'm worried...I'm sorry I didn't say it before but…I'm scared like hell, they all look like my daughter and they are just barely an hour away from where we life...and I can't shake this feeling off- " she stopped and Hotch nodded.
"It's okay Blake, why don't you call and make sure everything is okay, I'll send a patrol over just to be-" he stopped in midsentence when they all heard the ringing of a phone, it was Alex's. She narrowed her eyes and reached for it only to swallow when she saw the caller ID Home. She shared a look with Spencer, they had called some hours ago, why was Kat calling now? She then answered the call instantly putting it on speaker.
"Hello?"
"Mom-Mom...you need to come home!" they all could hear Kat's frightened, low tone and Alex sat straight up.
"Kat? Honey!? What's wrong?" she asked in a panicked tone.
"Mom...someone's in the house, two men, Mom I'm scared please come home" she answered, her heart raced. No, no, no! Not her daughter!.
"Honey, we're on our way, where are you and Ethan?" she asked and they all stood up and followed her as she ran to the elevators.
"We're hiding in your room behind your drawer...I think they have a gun" she said and could hear the tears streaming down her face.
"Get out! You need to figure a way out now Honey! Go over to Christi or anybody just get out okay? We're on our way" she said and they got in the car Hotch drove and she got in the seat beside him and Reid in the back JJ, Morgan and Rossi took another car.
"They're coming up! I can hear them Mom! Please come home, please I'm scared"
"I know, try to get out Kat!" said Alex her voice not less frightened than Kats, she knew what they would do to her, and what was going to happen to her son? They were pretty sure they didn't kill David because they didn't see where he had been hiding and were under time pressure.
She then could hear shouting in the background; sounding like Russian or something like that and then she heard Kat screaming.
"No get away! Let me go! Run Ethan, run!"
"Kat!? Kat!" Alex said panicked, blinked back tears and laid her hand over her mouth to avoid a sob from coming out, her hands shook like hell whilst she held the phone. "Kat? Can you hear me? Kat!?" she held her breath but then she answered.
"I'm okay I-I hit one of them with Ethan's Baseball bat I-I'm- I don't know where the other one is" she said.
"Stay on the phone okay? Don't hang up Sweetheart" she said and begged that they would get there in time, or that Kat and Ethan were able to get out. She talked quietly to her daughter as Hotch and the others drove to her house ignoring every speed limit. But then Kat didn't answer anymore. "Kat?" she asked again, they still had fifteen minutes to drive, even with Hotch putting the gas pedal to its limits.
"Wait a sec!" said Kat and she heard some rustling and she then heard her talking to Ethan. "Hey Shorty, you'll stay here okay? You'll say here until I call and say its save, stay here and hide in my drawer, okay Ethan? I love you Ethan I'll be back, I promise it's going to be okay, Mom is going to be here in a while" and Alex realized what she was about to do.
"No Kat! Stay with him, don't do this please!".
"I love you Mom" she said and Alex thought her heart would jump out of her chest because of her fear and she couldn't stop the tears anymore, than she heard him.
"Got you."
"No! Get the hell away from me! Let go, Stop!" they could hear them struggle, things broke, and they could hear every punch she received and how she fought back calling for help.
"You can fight like you want, we're gonna have you anyway" they heard her scream and also he gave a surprised yell then they heard what sounded like the phone dropped and loud thuds like someone fell down the stairs. Then there was a single gunshot.
"No! No Kat!? Kat, Baby!? No, Kat answer! Please" she yelled in the phone but she heard laughing, dark and cruel then a loud crack and nothing. She panted it was like she couldn't breathe, she just hear how her daughter was kidnapped and hadn't been able to do anything to help her. She hung up and tried again, nothing. Alex dialed Andy's number knowing that he had a Shift.
"Hey Alex what's up?" he answered.
"Andy? Where are you? You need to drive to my house, someone broke in and tries to kidnap Kat!"
"I'm on my way!" he said and hung up, this wasn't happening, this couldn't happen, this just couldn't she couldn't lose Kat again.
"Oh my God this can't be happening...not my daughter" she felt Spencer's hand on her shoulder and gripped it tight, they didn't care that Hotch was right beside them or the knowing glance he send them. This wasn't important. When Hotch veered into their street with screaming wheels they already saw two patrols standing there, even before the car stopped she got out and ran up to the house entrance. Before she even came near the house Andy ran out and held her back.
"No Alex, don't go in!"
"Let me go Andy! Where are Kat and Ethan? Let me go! I need to find them!" she shouted and tried to struggle out of his arms, whilst he tried to held her back but then Alex saw something on him that made her stop.
"Is this blood? Whose blood is this?!" She managed to fight herself out of his arms and ran inside. She was relieved and frightened at the same time when she saw the dead man in front of her staircase, the blood was smeared around but she didn't care.
"Kat!? Ethan?! Where are you? Kat! Kathrin! Oh my God No, no, no, no, no, no! Kat!? Ethan?" she screamed and ran in all the rooms but there was no sight of them she didn't notice the others searching around too. When Alex ran into her daughter's room and opened the drawer her heart stopped. It was empty. She searched through Ethan's and her own bedroom.
The covers of her bed had been bulled away; the lamp on her nightstand and the picture of Kat and Ethan lay on the floor broke. But what scared her more was the quite big stain of blood on her bed. Alex though she had to throw up and stumbled out of her bedroom and then back down the stairs to look in the guest bedroom.
They had to be here! They just had to! This couldn't have happened to them. But Morgan and JJ stopped her. "Get out of my way I need to- !" she looked at them with pleading eyes; she wanted them to tell her that this was only a nightmare that this wasn't true.
"Alex, they're not here..." Morgan said calm.
"No…no they're- they-...they never took the sibling! Where is my son!?" She asked loudly and looked away she didn't want to look at them. With a scream she swept the picture and the flowers off of the drawer beside her and broke down, kneeling in the pieces of broken glass sobbing, watching her breaking down like this, made everyone on the team hate these men with every inch of their bodies. They had to find them, now it was personal; the children of one of them had been kidnapped.
When Spencer had heard the scream, he ran inside and when he saw her, he hurried over to her and embraced her tight. JJ blinked back her own tears; this was not fair this shouldn't happen to her, not to Kat.
Morgan and JJ walked out giving Alex and Spencer a moment; they knew how close they were. Hotch and Rossi stood with the Detective, but something else made Morgan stop, there were little bloody foot patterns on the ground outside. These could only be from Ethan.
"Hey guys look at this!" he pointed down.
"Ethan might be still here!" said JJ and immediately they all started to search, around the house.
"Ethan! Ethan, you can come out its safe now! Ethan where are you?" called Morgan as he searched through the flowerbeds and let the light of his flash light wander. He turned back and saw a white foot behind a tree. "Ethan? It is me, Uncle Morgan, you can come out" he said but got no response, so he crawled behind the tree only too gasp when he saw a blood covert Ethan who was only in his pajamas.
"Ethan! Are you hurt!?" he asked and lifted him out from behind the tree.
"It's not mine" He said quietly.
"Okay come on. Let's get you to your Mom!" he said and laid his jacket around him, then JJ approached.
"Oh my-"
"It's not his! He's alright, go tell Alex we got him" She nodded and ran back inside.
Now Spencer cared even less if they saw them, he held Alex close as she cried in his chest, he whispered smoothing words in her ear knowing she didn't hear them and that he only said them to keep himself from crying as they both sat in the water, flowers and pieces of broken glass of the vase and the Family picture. With the insight, that Kat was in the hands of these men and maybe Ethan too, in this moment JJ ran in.
"We found Ethan. He's okay!" The blonde exclaimed. Alex and Reid looked at her for second before they jumped up and ran past her only to be met by Morgan who had Ethan by his side.
"It's not his!" Morgan said quickly after he saw the shocked looks on their faces. In the next second, both Alex and Reid pulled Ethan in a tight hug not caring about the blood. After a while Alex pushed Ethan gently back and took his face in her hands.
"Ethan, are you hurt? Did they hurt you baby?" She asked but he only shook his hands, unable to speak and tears started to roll down his cheeks. She immediately took him in her arms again and kissed his cheek "It's okay Ethan, I'm here baby. They can't hurt you, nobody's gonna hurt you anymore! We're here now, " she said and slightly rocked him back and forth. Spencer stood behind her so Ethan couldn't see the body of the dead man.
"Alex, we need to talk to him" said Hotch.
"I know. Give him a minute" she answered still holding her son tight.
"Alex…I know this is hard, but every minute counts if we want to find Kat" Morgan said but now Alex's expression hardened. She separated from Ethan who then was pulled into a tight hug by Spencer. Alex stood and looked at Morgan which caused chills to run down his spine.
"Don't you think I know that? This is my daughter Morgan! I want to find her more then all of you together! So don't you dare to tell me that every second counts! But Ethan is my son too and he just witnessed his sister being abducted! So give him a damn second!" she said angrily.
In this moment, Morgan realized that these men had broken into the wrong house and abducted the wrong girl because Alex Blake would hunt them down and kill them if they had done anything to her daughter and this was promise he could read in her brown, piercing eyes.
Will they be able to save Kat? Or have they been too late?
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