The side door opened and entered quickly. The van peeled off and soon disappeared into traffic. Garcia who had been watching was already calling Hotch who was waiting with the others in spots around the garage

"Hotch Reid was just kidnapped a van pulled up in front of the garage and Reid got in. They've left the hospital and are driving east. I'm tracking them on surveillance cameras and Reid's phone, which just shut off."

"Track them through the cameras: I'm going to alert swat and the roadblocks we'll rescue him don't worry." Hotch said and hung up

He turned to Morgan who waiting a couple of cars over and signaled him to come over. He then spoke into the communicator on his wrist and told the rest of the team to come to his location. Hotch then called the police and told them the order to establish the roadblocks five blocks in every direction. The rest of the team had arrived by the time he was done they had already figured out what had happened.

"The checkpoints are being put in place they won't get far. I suspect though considering Lee's intelligence and experience they've got a safe house nearby and are planning to lay low until the heat dies down." Hotch said

"Damn it Hotch, we don't have time to go street by street building by building." Morgan exploded

"Calm down Morgan Garcia is tracking the van and we have the license plate we will find him." Hotch said

"We have less than an hour thanks to the poison you gave him." Emily retorted

"Let's go back inside the hospital; we need to see if swat finds him. If not we need to wait for Garcia to track him down." Rossi said

The team nodded and headed back inside. They went to the conference that had been set aside for them and found Garcia and JJ inside monitoring traffic cameras.

"I've been tracking the van, it's been heading east the entire time." She reported

"Thank God Lee will hit a roadblock soon and we'll get Reid back." JJ said

They waited and watched

"No, no, no don't do that." Garcia said

"What is it Baby Girl?" Morgan asked worriedly

"Lee just pulled into an underground parking lot between two buildings." She replied

"We always knew that might happen. What buildings use that parking center?" Hotch asked

Garcia did some digging "That's the bad news the parking garage offers access to an office building under construction seven stories high and an apartment building with six occupied floors."

"Check any cameras you can we need to find them." Rossi said

Garcia again scanned her computer while Hotch called Swat captain Donavan and ordered him to lock down the two buildings and then wait until they got there.

Garcia did her thing but it wasn't good news "There are no security cameras in the apartment building or the office building. There are some around the construction yard and the street but none inside. There are safety precautions locked doors, alarm codes, the apartment building even has the whole tenants buzz people in system but " Garcia trailed off

"The Angels have planned this out and would know how to avoid cameras and get around security measures. We'll have to search the office building floor by floor. Garcia pull up the residents of the apartment building I need a list of any empty apartment buildings, anyone on vaction." Hotch ordered

She nodded, JJ stayed behind to help while the others left. They met up with Swat seven minutes.

"Captain Donavon any sign of them?" Hotch asked striding over

"No, we secured the van but it's empty no sign of which building they went to. I've got the entire block locked down in case they manage to escape our net. I've also set up additional patrols on the street. What's the plan?"

"I need you to take some of your men and go with Agents Prentiss and Morgan and search the office building. Agent Rossi and I will take a team and search the apartment building." Hotch ordered

Captain Donavon nodded and quickly two teams were assembled. Morgan and Emily led five swat members through the office building: skirting plastic sheets, walking around left over lumber and even a few construction tools. The first three floors were empty when they got to the fourth floor a clatter was heard. Morgan signaled Emily and the men and they headed in the direction of the sound. The team went to the southeast corner of the building where there were many open spaces in the walls waiting for windows to be installed. The walls for the offices were only partly completed showing the open holes with plastic eerily blowing in and out. The team looked around and then spotted two men crouching down trying to sneak over a half wall to the left of them.

"FBI stop moving and put your hands where we can see them." Morgan ordered pointing his gun at them

The men started to move toward them before diving over the wall and lying on the floor. Emily and two Swat ran over to the half wall while Morgan and the three remaining Swat members rushed to the other office. The two men had gotten to their feet and were running to the stair case. Everyone gave chase Morgan and his men gave direct chase while Emily ran around the floor hoping to cut them off. They got the men in front of the stairs; the two men were carrying guns. They both fired in opposite directions forcing each team to duck and cover. The suspects then ran down the stairs the officers in hot pursuit. On the third floor the officers got directly behind the two men who were hampered by some plastic sheeting hanging from the ceiling

"Stop or I'll shoot." Morgan warned

The man in the leather jacket turned to fire Emily was quicker and shot him straight in the heart. The man in the flannel jacket also raised his gun but one of the Swat team was faster and hit him several times in the torso. They rushed over and secured the weapons, Emily knelt down and checked the suspects

"Their gone, we need to keep looking Reid could still be here." She said

Morgan called for backup to secure the bodies and they resumed their search.


At the apartment building Hotch and Rossi were coming up empty. They had searched five apartments by the time they heard about Emily and Morgan's confrontation.

"Aaron hold up a second we've already searched all the unoccupied apartments. Considering Reid's injuries there's a good chance that the Angels rented an apartment for him to stay in for a few days until the heat died down and he was able to travel. "

"That makes sense but it takes time to rent an apartment, pass a background check, Lee only learned of Reid's desire to leave town a few days ago."

"They could have it for other uses, I'm going to call Garcia and have her look for recent single renters." Rossi said pulling out his phone Hotch nodded

Rossi spoke to Garcia and got a list of three apartments rented to single men in the past two months

"We've only got twenties minutes Dave take the two on the fifth floor, I'll take the one on the second." Hotch ordered

They split up; a dentist answered the door at Dave's first apartment and allowed them to search his apartment which came up clean. At the second one Rossi knocked and heard hushed voices

"This is Officer Rossi I have some questions I need to ask you." Rossi said knocking on the door

The voices stopped and Rossi and the Swat team heard things being moved around. Rossi gave the signal and the door was busted down. The apartment building contained a single bedroom connected to a living room, kitchen area. One man was halfway through the window with a duffle bag when the door was kicked in, the other man was quickly throwing varies things into another duffle bag.

"FBI drop the bags and keep your hands where we can see them." Rossi ordered

The second man dropped his bags and put his hands up, the man at the fire escape ducked out and started climbing down.

"This is SSA Rossi we have a runner climbing down the west fire escape." Rossi called in as Swat secured the other man and patted him down. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket he looked like a biker complete with long hair and beard.

Rossi put his gun up and signaled a member of the team to follow him. Rossi trained his gun while the other man opened the door they hurried in and found Reid lying on the bed still as death. They secured the bathroom and closet before Rossi hurried over to Reid

"We need EMT's now and tell Hotch we've got Dr. Reid." Rossi ordered looking Reid over

The man left to do as he was told as Rossi checked Reid's vitals

"Kid, you need to wake up right now. Spencer Reid open your eyes please." Rossi asked

Hotch burst into the room three minutes after he was called the kidnapper had been taken away

"Dave how is he?" Hotch asked going over to the bed

"I've got a pulse, it's not strong. Did you catch the other kidnapper?"

"He was climbing down the firescape but the ladder wasn't fully extended he slipped and fell two stories onto his back and hit his head. The paramedics are working to stabilize him. "

The paramedics came in a minute later the two men had fallen into silence. They examined Reid and loaded him onto a stretcher and took him out to the waiting ambulance. Morgan and Emily were waiting

"Is is going to be alright?" Emily asked

"Until we do a thorough examination we can't say for sure." A paramedic answered

"Morgan you and Emily go with Reid to the hospital update Garcia and JJ on what happened they already know Reid is safe. Rossi and I will stay here and take care of things." Hotch said

Emily and Morgan got into an SUV and followed the ambulance. Morgan followed the ambulance so closely that they got there at the same time. They jumped out of the SUV and practically ran over to the emergency room doors. They watched Reid being unloaded and followed the gurney until it disappeared behind an exam room door. They hurried over to JJ and Garcia who were watching by the desk

"Did you find him in time? The hour was up five minutes ago." Garcia said

"Hotch didn't seem worried I'm sure we'll recover. Did you see a man wheeled in here wearing jeans and a leather jacket?" Morgan said

"Yeah he came in a minute before you guys arrived. Why are you asking?"

"He's one of Reid's kidnappers he fell off a fire escape trying to flee." Emily said

"We should go to the conference room; we still have a lot of work to do." Morgan said putting an arm around Garcia

They went to the conference room where Emily and Garcia started writing up their reports. After fifteen minutes they were joined by Hotch and Rossi.

"We have crime scene analysists going over the office building, apartment, and van. The man we captured is refusing to talk; the other two are en route to the morgue, the fourth is in surgery the doctors aren't sure if he'll live. Until Reid identifies them we can't even be sure the two men at the construction site helped kidnap him. After we hear about Reid everyone is to go home and get some sleep we have a lot of work to do tomorrow." Hotch said

The team wrapped up what they were working on and then prepared to leave. Dr. Coulson came in fifteen minutes later

"Dr. Reid is doing well, he reinjured his back and shoulder slightly but otherwise he's good. Agent Hotchner do you want me to wake him up?"

"No, the sedative he took won't have any long term effects will it?"

"No, I don't think so but it's a good thing you found him quickly as I told you the damages done to an already injured body can prove fatal if the antidote is not administered soon. The drug causes breathing, heart rate everything to slow down to a crawl with his previous injuries it could have put him in a coma. I've given him other drugs to counteract the effects but he will sleep until morning. You can move him tonight if you think he's in danger but you will need to monitor him if you do."

"Thank you Dr. Coulson he have a safe house for him we'll move Dr. Reid soon." Hotch said dismissing him

Dr. Coulson left and everyone turned to glare at Hotch with varying levels of anger, and betrayal

"You let us think we only had an hour to save Reid. Why didn't you tell us?" Morgan burst out almost yelling

"I couldn't tell Reid he wasn't getting poison and I was afraid he could figure it out from one of you. He was already suspicious and I couldn't take the chance."

"Aaron you could have told us after Reid was abducted. The ticking clock could have easily made things worse, cause us to slip up. As it is we have two bodies, a man in the hospital and only one suspect able to talk." Rossi said

"It was my call and you're right I should have told you all of you, I'm sorry."

The others looked at him but didn't say anything

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