Ch. 10 Not close enough

So I grew up watching all sorts of crime, investigation, forensic, and medical shows and I'm using what I can remember from those to BS my way through this story, is it working? Thank you everyone who has reached this point in the story! You make me so happy! (^_^) Hugs for everyone!

Minos had left the car parked behind the house in the back alley where no one would notice it. He placed the unconscious form of Will in the backseat and laid a couple of blankets over him to hide him from sight and placed a few pillows and other items that would be used for a trip to the cabin back there as well so that no one would see the child laying there.

Then he threw the kids backpack in the trunk with a box of supplies he was taking along, he'd have to find a safe place to dump the bag later.

Lastly he placed Nico in the passenger's seat and wrapped a blanket around him to make appear as though he had fallen asleep during a long car ride. He made sure that everything was arranged just right then he got in the car and drove off into the night leaving the house behind them.

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Back at Will's house as his parents were getting ready to turn in for the night his mom stopped off at his room to say goodnight, the news story about the missing child had taken its toll on the both of them, it was every parent's worst nightmare to find out that their child was missing or dead.

As Wills mother got to his bedroom door she noticed that the light was still on and wondered if he had forgotten to turn it off before falling asleep, she opened the door quietly in case he was asleep and didn't want to wake him. She looked at the bed but saw that it was empty, she looked around the room but Will wasn't there.

She heard the sound of water running in the bathroom but when the door opened it was her husband who was standing there. He looked at her and saw the look on her face.

"What's wrong?"

She looked down the hall and then back at her husband. "Did you see Will go downstairs?" she asked but he shook his head.

"I just finished turning off the lights down there, I didn't see him."

He was clearly confused by her sudden question so she explained what had prompted it. "He's not in his room." she said her face starting to lose its color as the words left her mouth; her husband ran to the stairs and called down.

"Will?" then when there was no answer he went downstairs and she could hear him calling for their son.

"Will?" still no response, "WILL!"

She went into the room and looked around and her eyes fell upon the open window and her heart lurched inside her chest. "HONEY!" she screamed and her husband came running and all she could do was raise a shaking finger to point to the open window and he ran over and looked outside but the night was quiet and still.

There was no sign of Will out there at all.

"Call the police." he said as he stepped away from the window. His wife was shaking as she stood in place with tears in her eyes.

"The sooner we have them here the sooner we can find him." She nodded and left the room to go use the phone.

…

Red and blue lights flashed in the street outside the house and neighbors that had been woken up by the sounds of police sirens now stood outside wondering what had happened.

Leo stood at the door with his parents as they watched Will's parents talking with one of the officers outside.

"What's going on?" Leo asked wondering why the cops were next door. His mom wrapped her arms around his shoulders protectively, drawing him closer to her.

"The boy next door is missing, it seems his parents went to check on him before bed and found the window open and him missing."

Leo felt like the world had tilted under his feet. "Wills missing?!" How could that be?

"The police are trying to figure out if he left voluntarily or was taken from his room, a little difficult since it's on the second floor, but still doable. No one heard or saw a thing so there's no leads to go on."

Leo felt like he was going to be sick, summer vacation had just started and he and Will had been talking about all of the things they had planned for camp that year, now Will had disappeared without a trace. It was like something off of tv that you never really thought would actually happen for real, defiantly not to someone you knew.

The officer that had been inside investigating Will's room came back with sheets of paper in his hand, Leo stepped away from his mom so that he could hear what they were saying.

"… on your son's computer, these where the last things he printed out. Do you have any idea why?" The officer asked as he handed the pages to Will's parents and Leo caught a glimpse of a dark haired kid in one of the pictures.

"Is that Nico?" he asked and they all turned to look at him, not having noticed him until he spoke.

"You mean the missing boy?" one of the officers asked him, probably wondering who this kid was.

"Nico's gone missing too?!" Leo asked shocked. Now his parents had come over too and all of the grown-ups were looking at him.

"This is Nico di Angelo, he's been missing for two years, he was abducted from Los Angeles two years ago. Have you seen him?" one of the officers asked directing all of their attention to Leo now.

"Yeah… he was hanging out with Will." Leo said, he couldn't understand what was going on, first Will has a new friend that's home schooled and none of them had ever seen him before, then Will goes missing and now they're trying to tell him that Nico had been kidnapped two years ago? What if the same person took Will too?! Then something clicked in his mind.

"I think I know where he went!" Leo said as he thought back to the time he and the others had gone to try and see the ghost. "Nico was the ghost!" he said but when everyone just gave him blank stares he clarified. "The house down that way," he pointed in the direction he meant, "was said to be haunted so some of my friends and I wanted to see if we could see the ghost, we had seen something and it kind of freaked us out so we left, but not Will so he must have met Nico then."

"Can you show us where this house is?" the other officer asked as he finished writing all of this down, trying to write down everything that Leo was saying and Leo nodded.

The first officer went to radio in what they had just learned about Nico di Angelo and the possible connection.

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Leo had shown them to the house he had mentioned and more police arrived, ready in case the suspect was armed, no one knew if the children were here but it was the only lead they had. There was no sign of anyone being in the house, and there was no car to be seen.

A couple of officers went around back to check the back door, a call came that the door was unlocked and they were given the signal to proceed with caution.

A few minutes later word came from the officers inside the house reporting that it was deserted but a top floor window was open and the room showed signs of someone having been in it recently. But from there the trail went cold.

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When word of this had gotten back to Will's parents neither knew what to do.

"What do we do now? It was the best lead we had and now we have no way to track where they could be. If we knew the car we might be able to try finding the GPS." One of the officers said.

"Wait, can you track a cell phones GPS?" Will's dad asked when he heard that part.

"If the phone is on we can, as long as it reaches a cell tower." An officer told him.

"I think Will might have my cell phone on him, if he was going to his friend's house to help him then he would have taken my cell with him to call for help." He didn't say it but the rest of his thoughts hung in the air between them.

If he could.

"Give us the number and we'll see what we can do." The officer said.

Thank you Criminal Minds! I hope I got that information right anyway (also I don't own the rights to Criminal minds, if I did I'd have multiple autographs from Matthew aka Reid)

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