A New Life
I would love to hear your opinions and look to working further on the story. This is a follow-up to Undercover Family. How do they survive being children?
I do not own or have connection with the "Criminal Minds" program or its characters.
Chapter Ten.
As Sean goes down into the hole, the lantern lights up the sides and he sees pieces of bones, skulls, blood and other bodily fluids. He begins to get a little frightened by what he sees and imagines what else could be down there when he sees the puppy-sized rats running through holes in the walls. He begins to call out to Spencer and hopes he can hear him.
Spencer looks up and around, he thinks he can hear something other than the scuttling of the rats and bugs. He thinks he hears someone calling out his name.
"Spencer!?! Can you hear me Spencer? Answer me, its Sean. Spencer!"
He calls out, "Yes, I hear you. I am standing on a bunch of sticks and mossy slippery stuff. It's dark and there is lots of moving things around."
"Spencer I want you to close your eyes."
"What! Close my eyes, why?"
"Don't ask why, just do it. I will be down there with you in a few minutes. I want you to have your eyes closed." Spencer is wondering why Sean wants him to close his eyes, but he trusts him and so he obeys him and squeezes his eyes closed. A few minutes later, Sean arrives down and looks around to see Spencer sitting on bones, cartilage and body parts of what appears to be a lot of humans. He is covered in the blood and fluids of the bodies that are decomposing in the area. He goes over to the boy and lifts him up. Spencer squeals.
"Its okay, I am going to get you out of here Spencer. Keep your eyes closed."
"Why do want me to keep my eyes closed."
"You don't want to see what you are sitting on."
"Isn't it just sticks and moss and stuff like that?"
"No."
"What do you mean; no? What is it?" Spencer opened his eyes and looks around and the first thing he sees is the skull of what looks like a child of his own age. He squeals.
"Spencer, close your eyes." Sean grabs him and puts his face to his chest in order to cover his eyes. He picks him up and carries him over to the seat and sits back down with Spencer wrapped around his waist. He calls into the walkie-talkie to have them lift them up. He leaves the lantern down in the hole so that it is dark on the way up. He doesn't want to see the bloody walls and he doesn't want Spencer to see them either.
When they get to the top of the hole and are pulled off the rope, the others are shocked to see Spencer full of blood and body fluids. Derek looks at him and goes over to the side where he throws up. David goes and tries to get as much off as possible. Spencer finally looks down at himself and gets so upset at he begins to cry. Janet picks him up and takes him out of the cavern, Sean follows telling her what he saw down in the hole. When they get to the outside, Janet has all the boys get into the car and then has a driver take them back to the motel to get cleaned up. She goes back into the cave and tells the agents about what was found. The FBI begins to do a full search of the cavern and begins to call in scene investigators and medical examiners. It seems that the missing children for the past fifty years have been found. But how did they get there? Who put them there? Our agents have created a profile about the unsub, but their profile is a little off. All the FBI agents will be surprised by who the actual perpetrators of this crime are.
The boys arrive back at the hotel to the room and momma is shocked by how her boys look. Derek is full of dust and dirt and is still looking green. Spencer is full of blood, guts and gore and Sean has that on himself as well. Only David does not look filthy. She picks Spencer up and takes him straight to the bathroom. Sean goes over to a corner and squats down to sit looking shell shocked as if he could not get the sight of those bones and blood and gore out of his mind. Derek follows momma to the bathroom and she puts both of her boys in the tub at the same time for a bath. David just sits in the chair by the table. He is uncertain at this moment of how to help Sean or momma so he is going to stay out of the way. He knows what Sean is going through as this is his first time seeing that kind of stuff.
Aaron had been in a corner playing with the some trucks and cars when the boys came in and just watched as momma gathered up Spencer and Derek followed. He watched Dave sit and begin to write up a report of what happened while it was still fresh in his mind. He saw Sean go to a corner and try to become as small as possible. Aaron goes over to his 'younger' brother and even though he is covered a bit in the blood and gore, Aaron gets into his brothers lap and starts to quietly talk to him. This is a time when the littlest once again becomes the big brother and listens to Sean's telling of the story and how he feels. Aaron asks pertinent questions and then talks to him about it. He reaches into him and supports him that it will get better and he allows Sean to hold him.
Momma washes her boys in the tub of the gore and dirt and then takes them out and dresses them in a night sleeper. She has fixed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with Doritos chips and fresh fruit slices for dinner with milk to drink. She puts the boys on the floor near the bed to eat and makes sure that David is eating too. She then goes over to her big boy in the corner and takes Aaron out of his arms. She lifts him up and he walks with her to the bathroom, Aaron following behind them. She takes Sean and puts him in the tub to shower and get off all the blood and gore on his clothes and body. He stands there and lets the water flow off his body carrying the filth with it. He contributes to the water with tears flowing from his eyes as he continues to see the bones, skulls and bodies of the hole he was in.
Momma strips and cleans up Aaron in the bathroom sink while Sean washes the gore off. She dresses him and then puts him back in the main room with the other boys. Going back into the bathroom, Sean is getting out and puts a towel around waist, he looks at momma and she sits on the toilet and puts him on her lap. He puts his head in her shoulder and cries some more as he can't seem to forget what he saw. While she was cleaning him Aaron had told momma what Sean had told him. She just rocks the boy as he struggles to control what he is feeling. After a while, he does calm down enough to get off her lap and get dressed in his pajamas. He goes to eat some dinner with the other boys who are now playing quietly together in the room. David is still writing at the table when momma comes over and tells him to go take a bath and clean up. He looks up at her and obeys her to head to the bathroom.
It is now that she realizes that her girls are not here and asks Sean if he knows what has happened to them.
"They went with the child to reunite him with his parents and that was the last that we saw them."
"I will have to call and check out where they are. Are you feeling better sweetheart?"
"I don't know if I will ever feel good again."
"Give it time darling and remember you can talk to me or Aaron about anything."
"I know momma." He hugs her fiercely.
She gets on the phone to Janet to ask her what has happened to Emily and Jennifer.
"I thought they would have been brought back to the motel already. They aren't there?"
No, only the boys are here."
"I'll find out where they are just stay there and wait for me to bring them by."
The women hang up and momma gathers her boys together and she begins to read to them in order to help them get their minds off of what they had seen today.
In another small town, our girls are in a small room where they have brought by the sheriff after he dropped off the child to his parents. It seems that the sheriff is among those that have been taking children. There is a group in the area amongst all twenty or so small towns that have been sacrificing children every four to six months for more than fifty years. It is for a weird religious practice that they do that was introduced by a sect that worships ancient gods. There are ancient religions that demand child sacrifice. This is the reason why so many children have been declared missing for so many years. The FBI is now involved because of the family that had the missing child, not because of the police desiring them to come in. The sheriff certainly did not expect them to find the child and to be as successful in finding the dumping of the bodies. But they still haven't figured out who did the deed.
The room that the girls are in is nothing special, plain with a single twin size bed, no dresser or closet, small table but no chairs. The girls sit on the bed quietly talking with each other about why they were there and what is happening. They wonder about what is happening to the guys. They know that the missing child is safe but wonder now if they are.
While the boys are being bathed, the girls wonder what is going to happen to them. Several hours pass by when the door of the room opens and a cloaked figure comes into the room and grabs at Emily who tries to scuttle away but was too slow. The figure catches her, picks her up and takes her from the room. Jennifer goes to the door to try to leave as well but the door was locked behind the figure. The girls were now separate. Jennifer goes to the window but it has been nailed shut and when she looks down, she sees shards of glass and metal spread all over the ground for ten feet around. There does not seem to be a way out that way. She wished that her cell phone had service but she keeps looking at it and there is no service. She sits down on the bed again to think about what she can do and to worry about what is happening to Emily.
Emily is being taken underground and the figure goes through many tunnels to reach a large cavern not dissimilar to the cavern with the hole, except there is no hole in the middle, there is a large altar style rock that is red in color from all the blood that has been spilled on it. Emily is placed into a small chamber off the cavern and placed into a playpen like area in which she cannot get out. She keeps asking what was happening and where they were, but no answers were given. The figure leaves her alone in the dark and she hears scuttling of bugs and rats around her and sinks to sit on the ground and tries to make herself as small as possible as fear begins to invade her. What if nobody ever found her? How can they find her when they don't know how has her?
Our girls in their musings have forgotten that momma thinks of all situations. When Janet calls and tells that they can't seem to find the girls or the person who took them to go to the missing child's parents' house. They haven't been seen since they left the house and no one seems to be talking. Momma gets a little upset by this and it is Aaron who reminds her of something.
"Becca, the machine that made us this way is broken, but does that mean the tracing elements in the devices no longer work." She looks at him and then wonders the same thing.
"We haven't checked that element and it is on a different section of machines. It is attached to the locater computer. Let's find out if it still works." She goes to the laptop and punches up the wireless connection to the net and opens into the institute to open into the right program of the main computer. She punches up the codes for the children to find if the locators are still able to be read by the satellite. She smile when she sees eight blips in the Minnesota area, it seems the tracers are still working. She calls Penelope at the main police station and has her do her magic by tracking the tracers to the geographic area. Penelope then calls Janet about it and tells her how they are trying to find the girls. It appears that the boys are all together and Penelope is at the station but Jennifer is at a house in a town a little further away, but Emily is not with her. She is located in a spot that has nothing there except forest. Janet gets some agents together and goes locate Jennifer.
When they go to the house that Jennifer is in, they knock but there is no answer. An agent knocks down the door and they go through the house, no one is there except Jennifer in the locked room. She hugs Janet and the woman takes her out to get into the car to take to the hotel. She tells her what had happened and that they took Emily away.
"We know that Emily is not with anymore. We have her location but we are not sure how to reach her. A group went there but nothing is around and they can't seem to find her."
"How did you find me?"
"The tracer in your device is still working,"
"Well, that is good news."
"Yeah, let us get you back to your momma."
"We need to find Emily."
"We will."
At the hotel, momma hugs Jennifer tightly and then has her sit and eat.
"Where is Emily?"
"They went to the place but didn't find anything."
David says, "We know that there are a lot of tunnels and caverns underground, it is possible that where she is being kept." Janet is on the phone with Penelope to see if she can get a map that might be able to show the tunnels of the area. Have they been mapped? Penelope finds old geographical maps that show the tunnels of the area and forwards them to the agents in the area. They are directed to an opening to the nearest tunnel which is under the area that Emily is shown to be in. They head to the area.
In the meantime, the group of people who has Emily are now gathering to sacrifice her to their gods. They are doing this without knowing that the FBI is on its way to stop them and rescue the girl. A figure has come in and taken the girl out of the room where she was being kept and stripped her of clothing. A robe was placed on her and she was brought into a circle of robed people surrounding the altar. She has not been drugged so she is quite aware of what is happening and to where she is being led to. She tries to bite the hands of the person holding her and struggles to get away but the person has a vice grip on her and knocks her in the head which makes her woozy. They bring her to the altar and place her on the table, she is restrained with leather thongs attached to iron rings around the stone. She tries to wiggle and move but is completely restrained so that she cannot move at all. They put a gag on her so that she cannot scream. She sees above her a man in a mask of a fierce growling creature. He is intoning a 'prayer' to his gods to accept the sacrifice they are giving him and that they will continue to prosper and achieve what their gods have deemed to give them. The people around the altar are intoning with the priest at the altar. What the people don't see is the group of people coming up behind them and then Agent Jacob Anderson yells.
"FBI, put your hands up and nobody move." There instead is a flurry of running but nobody gets out. Agent Anderson runs to the altar and restrains the priest as he attempts to complete the sacrifice and plunges the knife down.
Ker plunk, the knife hits the stone altar less than an inch away from the Emily's skull. The girl is unharmed physically but how will she view this incident in her life mentally. An agent unties her and removes the gag and she collapses into their arms crying. The agent tries to soothe the girl but finds it almost impossible. He just takes her out and into the light where it is cold for her because she has nothing on under the robe. They try to bundle her up as much as possible while they drive her to the hotel where momma is waiting for her little girl.