*Author's note: Thank you for all the reviews! It makes me feel like I'm doing something right! This chapter is going to be a little different... Also, the next few chapters will be containing more violence and mature matter... Thank you! Nicole*
"Hey Jayje, it's Morgan, we got nothing. We're heading to meet up with Rossi and Lettie."
"Gotcha. It was the same thing with Hotch and Emily, they're supposed to be on their way there right now, and Garcia just found something hang on..."
"Put Reid and I on speaker and I want to know what you got."
"Hey there my love drop and boy genius. Ok, so I decided that possibly there might be a connection between these women that we hadn't thought of, and I think I found it. I dug up their medical records. All of the girls go to the same health center. Half of them share one doctor and the other half share another doctor. So I'm thinking..."
"Morgan, stop for a second." Reid put his hand up.
"What is it Reid?" Derek looked around him. Hotch and Emily were just coming up the path, and Rossi and Lettie were nowhere in sight.
"Hey guys what's going on?" JJ had genuine fear in her voice. She knew that Reid wouldn't interrupt unless there was something very important or very wrong that was going on.
"Hey, have you guys found Rossi and Lettie yet?" Emily called to the others.
"No, we just got here. We got nothing on what could be used as a hide out for this freak." Derek replied.
"Hey guys! We're still on speaker, someone care to tell us what the hell is going on?" Penelope sniped.
"Sorry baby girl. We just met up with Hotch and Emily, but Rossi and Lettie are nowhere in sight."
"Garcia."
"Yes boss man?"
"Check the SUV GPS. Emily, call Lettie see if they got carried away or something." Hotch grabbed his PDA and started dialling Rossi's number.
The team stopped moving as they heard "O Canada", Lettie's ringtone, being played in the nearby brush. They started moving towards it. Emily hung up and redialled they went deeper into the brush when they saw the flashing light of Lettie's cell blinking in the darkness.
"Lettie? Rossi?"
"Derek?" Penelope's voice quivered over the phone line.
"What is it baby girl?"
"Do you want me to activate the GPS on their phones?"
"We're right here but they aren't here. Get JJ to send out a group..."
"Morgan! Reid! Hotch!! Over here!!!" Emily screamed.
"Baby girl get that team out here now!" Derek hung up the call as he ran towards Emily.
They looked down and saw a drag trail from further up in the brush. Hotch grabbed Lettie's and Rossi's PDA and they followed the trail. They got to a point which connected with a path that was away from the path where they were originally going to meet. There were signs of a struggle, and the team felt their hearts sink.
Hotchner dialled his phone. "JJ, we've come up on the path that Rossi and Lettie would've started on, there's signs of a struggle and attack. We need a team down here now. Get Garcia to find out if she can find a way to trace Rossi or Lettie."
"Hotch you don't think?" Emily turned to him.
"I think he was trolling for his next victim and Lettie fit his profile, even though she's not from here but he may have taken her because she's older than the others. Rossi may be alright and looking for her or..." Aaron let his voice trail off. He didn't need say what the other possibility could be.
"Guys!"
"What do you have Reid?"
"I found blood."
"Like how much Reid?" Morgan approached.
"Looks like the amount you would lose if you got hit in the head and lost consciousness. I think they were attacked from behind. Then probably dragged through the woods to where ever the UNSUB has them."
Morgan's phone started chirping. "Go baby girl."
"Did you find them?"
"No. We found signs of a struggle and a blitz attack. We think they got hit from behind and got dragged out of here. What do you have for us?" He hit the speaker phone key.
"I found out through much digging, that all the victims are pregnant. They all found out in the past two weeks. All of them were seen by different doctors, but all their blood went through the same lab and it seems it's the same tech that drew their blood."
"Garcia, do me a favour. Pull up Lettie's records. Did she go to the same doctor? Same lab tech?"
"Give me a second. Ok, she was seen by the first two victims' doctor, and yes the same lab tech drew her blood to confirm her pregnancy... oh my god... it's him!"
"Sweetheart, what's the guy's name?"
"Joseph Draper."
"Got an address?" Hotch asked.
"The only address on here is a PO Box. I'll keep digging."
"Work on it Garcia, because now there is more than just those girls and Lettie, we've got to deal with the fact that there are unborn children and Rossi to deal with too." Emily pointed out.
"I'm on it like a chipmunk on nuts before Christmas. Find them please." The call disconnected.
"Ok, so here's what we know. This guy is a lab tech; he knows each of the victims. He knows that they're all with child. He knows they're medical records. He would know that Lettie is FBI, and the fact that Rossi was with her both times, I think he took Rossi too. We have to find this bastard."
"Okay. So this is what I think we'll have to do... we're going to have to stay to..."
"Hotch, it's JJ. We've got major problems now. This freak got the last girl. He has all five. But what does it have to do with the girls being pregnant?"
"Ask Reid. He's the genius of this kind of stuff." Hotch passed the phone over to JJ's fiancé and went to work evaluating the scene with Emily. He looked over at Reid as to his reaction to JJ's questions.
"Reid, is there some reason as to why he would take these women because they're pregnant?" JJ asked. She was very worried about Lettie, and the baby. She hadn't told Reid the truth yet either, which was pulling at her.
"It might be some ritual in trying to get these children to become the 'Spawn of Satan'. More than likely this guy has a plan to rape these women, and he'll perform some kind of ritual with animal blood and I'm thinking that this may be like the case in Albuquerque. He'll be keeping them until they give birth."
"Reid hang on. Garcia just said that each one of the victims, are between 8 weeks along, the last victim only just found out and she's eight weeks along, to the Leila Meikus who was five months along when she was abducted."
"JJ, the autopsy didn't show that she had been pregnant."
"We just had the coroner look again, because of the post-mortem mutilation, it was barely noticeable. This guy made sure we wouldn't be able to notice it, plus there is no evidence of the baby in the autopsy. He said that most likely the baby was removed immediately after Leila expired."
"JJ, a baby wouldn't survive at only five months."
"Actually, not from what I remember in prenatal courses. If he has the right equipment, a baby could survive."
"JJ, the likelihood of that is ... wait he could get all the equipment, he's got the knowledge. Maybe he has help, someone who is submissive and who has knowledge of all this, someone like a nurse. Get Garcia to run the names of any nurses that would have any OB/GYN knowledge and that work in the same building or office as this guy."
"Will do."
Reid handed Hotch his phone back and explained the newest idea. The team began to worry even more, because if this was the case, Lettie was in more danger than ever and no one knew how she or Rossi could handle this.
They headed towards their SUVs in hopes of finding some clue as to where their co-workers were. Emily said a silent prayer, "God, I know you don't always grant prayers because you have plans for everyone, but please keep them safe. It's as you wish."