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Here is chapter 10! Hope you enjoy and thank you for the generous reviews :) Also, I have a new story out that's AU and a retelling of Beauty and the Beast using Morgan and Garcia. Check it out if you haven't already!

P.S. - I have gotten a few requests to write a second epilogue to "Hate To Love You" in which Morgan and Garcia get married and the second baby mentioned in the first epilogue is born, so I will be working on that soon. Keep an eye on your inboxes!

Day 2 of the Search

As Penelope was heading out the door with Derek directly behind her, she stepped on something that shouldn't have been on their welcome mat. She looked down to see what her foot had hit and picked it up. It was a DVD in a jewel case addressed to "Mommy."

"Derek?" she whispered holding out the jewel case for him to take. "What is this?"

"We have to get this to the precinct right now," he said, grabbing her hand and dragging her to the car. "I think the unsub just contacted us. Which is yet another change in MO."

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"Hotch!"

Hotch and the rest of the team looked up from their work to see what Derek and Penelope were rushing towards them about. Penelope thrust something into his hands. It was a burned DVD with "Mommy" written on it. He looked back up at the two frazzled Morgans. "This was left for you?" he asked Penelope.

She nodded. "It was left on my porch," she said. "I want to watch it." Seeing their looks of skepticism, she shook her head. "I just want to see if my daughters are alive." She met her boss' eyes and held his gaze. There was no way she would break gaze with him. "Let me see the video," she said more firmly.

After another few moments, he nodded and said, "Okay. Let's get started it up." As they went into a conference room, Penelope slid her fingers through Derek's and looked up at him. He looked back at her, keeping his face neutral and squeezing her hand.

"Alright," Reid said. He looked behind him at Penelope, then at Hotch for confirmation on pressing the "play" button. Once he nodded, Reid grimaced, pressed the the button and the video filled the screen. Tala and a man with his face blurred out and fuzzy looking appeared. She was strapped into a chair and a sheet was

The unsub waved. "Hello Penelope! So, your beloved Tala had a few things to say to you," he said. Penelope felt the blood dissolve from her face and she covered her mouth with her hand. Derek pulled her closer. "Say something to your Mommy!" Tala's face remained stony and she kept her eyes trained down on her lap. Next to her, Penelope felt Derek tense up and his jaw clenched. "I said say something!" Then the unsub slapped Tala roughly across the face.

A cry escaped Penelope's mouth.

Finally Tala spoke. She looked up at the camera and it was clear there were tears in her eyes. "Mom...I'm so sorry..." she murmured, almost inaudibly.

Penelope had to wipe the tears from her eyes and suck in a breath. She felt Derek's arm wrap around her, but she wasn't paying attention. All she saw was her daughter strapped to a chair while an unsub hit her. Her heart all about stopped. Tears were spilling out of her eyes like waterfalls. To make matters even worse, the unsub leaned down and kissed the top of Tala's head before saying, "Good girl."

The unsub's turned to face the camera again. "So Ms. Penelope - lovely name by the way - I've been getting to know your little wolf here and I thought you should know that she told me a few things. Like how she wouldn't mind if I came to your house and blew your brains out."

Immediately Tala started struggling in her restraints. "No! No, I would never say that!" She started to cry. "Mom, I know we've been fighting, but I would never want you dead! I love you!"

Penelope's heart began to break and another cry would have escaped her lips if she hadn't bitten down on her lip. A small amount of blood slipped down her chin. "My poor baby," she whispered hoarsely.

"She also said she hates you and -" the unsub started to say before Tala began screaming.

"Don't listen to a word he says!" Her face turned frantic. "Mom! I'm so sorry and I don't deserve you! You're the most loving mother in the whole world!"

"Oh, time's up!"

Then the camera turned black. Penelope bent her head to wipe her tears away. She looked over at Derek and saw that his eyes were closed as if to shield himself from the pain he was feeling. She opened her mouth to say more, but then the camera started playing once again with another message from the unsub.

"This is a message for Penelope," the unsub said, his face still blurred out. "But this message is not from your little wolf. It comes directly from me. You harmed my family in a way that I can't forgive. So because you hurt my family, I will hurt yours. Be prepared for the worst murder I've ever committed. I will be more brutal on your little wolf and your precious angels than any of my other girls. And you will never, ever catch me."

The camera went dark for good this time.

Everyone was silent afterwards and Penelope buried her head in Derek's shoulder, weeping silently. Hotch motioned for the rest of the team to leave the room to give them privacy. Derek held his wife tightly in his arms and murmured, "We'll find them. What he said helps the profile. The team will be able to find him."

"Is the profile all you care about?" she asked with tears still in her eyes.

"Stop it right now," he said sternly. "You know that's not true. Your grief is clouding your judgement."

Her lower lip trembled and she nodded. "You're right. I'm just upset. I'm sorry I said that to you."

He tilted her chin up and leaned his forehead against hers. "I'll always forgive you. And we'll have our children back soon."

XXXXX

Hotch led the team out of the room and they all circled up. "This definitely helped with the profile," he said. "Did you notice what he kept calling Tala?"

"Little wolf," Rossi said. "But that's what her name means. Penelope picked it because that's what it meant."

Reid scrunched his forehead. "Guys, he also said that Penelope hurt his family," he said. "What if he's trying to pit them against each other like two wolf packs?"

"If that's what he's doing, then there's more than one unsub," Hotch said. "And because there are personal reasons for taking the Morgan girls, the torture will be more severe. So far it looks like he's sticking to his original MO of making them up for the first few days anyway. She was in a room with a makeup table and her hair looked like it had just been brushed."

Reid cleared his throat and everyone looked at him. "Guys, we didn't see anything about Lindy and Soraya and he didn't say anything about them either," he said gravely.

Rossi shook his head. "I think they're alive," he said. "Tala would have looked more distraught if they weren't."

Hotch sighed and looked at JJ. "JJ, has Lynch called with any information on the plate?"

She shook her head. "I'll call him now," she said. "He should've called us back by now."

Hotch nodded. "Clock is ticking and if he doesn't find anything we'll be back at square one," he said grimly.

"What do we until then?" Blake asked.

"We look into anyone Penelope pissed off enough to take her children."

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Keith showed up again around three in the afternoon to bring food to Lindy and Soraya and to take Tala back upstairs. She managed to scratch him across the face once, but he only knocked her out cold and she found herself waking up strapped to the chair again.

"Oh! Goody, you're awake!" he cried as her eyes fluttered open.

She glared at him. A vicious throbbing was going on behind her temples and she wished she could have had some Tylenol. "Yeah, I'm awake," she spat. "Of course I wouldn't have to be woken up if you hadn't knocked me out."

"Tut, tut," he said, wagging a finger in the air at her. "You scratched me across the face. What I did was self defense."

"Self defense my ass," she sneered. "You're the one who nabbed me and my sisters off the street."

He picked up a makeup brush and started swirling it around in an eyeshadow pallet. The brush came away silver. "I'm going to try a smoky eyes on you, little wolf," he said, ignoring her most recent comment.

"Stop calling me that!" she snapped.

Bringing the brush to her eye, he said, "Close your eyes. I need to put this on."

Putting her chin in the air, she kept her eyes open and stared him down. She received a smack. "You're awfully found of smacking me, aren't you?" she snickered, antagonizing him even further.

"That's not all I'm fond of," he said, touching her thigh.

A flash of anger and panic went through her and she did the only thing she could think of; she kicked out, landing her foot in his groin. He buckled over with the pain and Tala had to resist the urge to grin with triumph. Instead, she said, "Touch me again and I'll make sure to kick you twice as hard."

He looked up at her with fury in his eyes. Standing up straight, he snickered. "And the next time you try a stunt like that I'll go and make sure to smack your little sisters around. Maybe that little, little one. She looks like she would scream quite nicely."

Tala's eyes went wide and immediately she became passive.

He laughed again. "Oh, little wolf," he sighed. "You really are a pack animal. But what makes you so interesting is that you, despite the strong front you put up, you're actually the weakest of them all. You mouth off, but really you're just dead inside. Mommy and Daddy decide to split and you become angry with the world. You retreat within yourself, you feel like the world is crumbling around you. But I can't really blame you. When your pack falls apart it really is the worst thing in the world."

"Is that what happened to you?" she hissed. "Your family fell apart, so to make up for the emptiness you feel you go after other girls so that you can rip their families apart?"

His eyes flashed with anger and he leaned closer to her face. "You don't know anything about me or how my life has gone!" he roared.

"Oh, I do," she said. "You've become a monster. That's how your life has gone! That's who you are!"

He drew back from her face and punched her in the jaw. "I am not a monster!" he yelled. Tala didn't respond; she just glared at him. Slowly Keith closed his eyes and breathed in deeply before exhaling. When he opened his eyes again, it was almost as if he had put out a fire. He was calm again. He strode back towards her and put his index finger to her jaw that he'd just bruised. Sighing, he said, "We're going to have to use a lot of coverup and foundation to hide this. I'm thinking we'll do the smoky eyes and then a very muted lip color. How does that sound?"

Knowing she would just get hit again if she ignored his question, she said, "Fine."

"Good," he said. "You're learning to speak when spoken to. This is very good. Aside from your smart mouth that I just want to smack off your face, you're turning out to be one of my favorite girls of all time."

XXXXX

"Morgan, we haven't found anything yet," Blake said, coming into the conference room where Derek and Penelope had been sitting all day. "You should take Penelope home. There's nothing we can tell you yet."

Derek looked at his wife who had fallen asleep on the couch. She'd spoken very little since seeing the video the unsub made. Both of them were thinking about the girls and they had been so wrapped up in their own thoughts that they didn't bother speaking to the other about them. Returning his gaze to Blake, he said, "What did the video help add to the profile?"

Blake looked at him a long moment before speaking. "Right now the best thing for you to do is take your wife home," she said softly. "The profile can wait. It's already ten at night. You both need rest."

"It can't wait for me," Derek said firmly. He became desperate. "Please, Alex. Just tell me what has changed in the profile and I'll take Penelope home."

She sighed. "Alright," she said. "We think whoever this unsub is has a vendetta against Penelope and that they're using both their family and your family as wolf packs fighting with each other. He kept referring to Tala as 'little wolf' and kept talking about family loyalty."

Derek nodded tiredly, sorrow filling his gaze. Blake noticed everything about his body language. His eyes were dull and lifeless and had bags under them from lack of sleep. His face was starting to get a beard from days of not shaving. She put a hand on his arm. "Go home. Get some sleep and shave. We'll let you know if we find anything."

He nodded to her wordlessly and went to wake Penelope.