The Little Things – 11

Authors Note: Thanks for all the reviews :] I'm glad you like it so far and I'm sorry about that cliffhanger, I HAD to do it! :]

(Sorry I don't remember if I said Kayla's last name yet, If I did I'm sorry it's different.)

HERE IT IS! You're WELL deserved 3,000 word part. I really hope you like it.

And I'm sorry for all the 'x x x' s but I have to switch back and forth a lot.

I'm sorry it took so long for me to get this out, I haven't been home :] I HOPE you don't use it against me and not review :/

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"Well at least my daddy didn't leave me!" Kayla said to Avery, they were in the middle of a banter, that Kayla started. Avery was good at the arguing and keeping it at that, she never went to far in a fight. Even with Kayla.

"You don't know what happened!" Avery screamed as she pushed Kayla down on the ground, it was an impulse out of rage, she shouldn't be talking if she didn't know what happened.

"Avery, Kayla!" Ms. Chloe said as she ran over to the two girls. "Come inside," she said before bringing the two girls into her classroom. "You know it's not appropriate to push people." Avery stood with her arms crossed.

"She said something about my dad that wasn't true. She shouldn't have been talking." Avery said.

"Alright, well that wasn't nice Kayla, and neither was pushing her Avery. If we can't settle this right now you're going to have to go to the principle's office. Now, you two are big girls. I know you can settle this right now." Ms. Chloe smiled.

"I'm not going to be her friend, Ms. Chloe. I can't just forgive her, you don't understand." Avery said.

"Okay, well you two can't continue to fight. If this happens again you will sit in here for recess on opposite sides of the room until this is finished." Ms. Chloe said as the bell rang, she stood up straight. "Go sit down." she said before walking out of the room to great all the 5th graders that made their way into the class room, as her last child went into the room she turned to walk in.

"Ms. Chloe?" she heard an unfamiliar voice say, she looked up and saw a man that was in his early 30s, who covertly dropped something into her pocket. "The principle needs you in his office, he sent me to watch the class while you're gone." he said with a nod, Ms. Chloe nodded and looked at the ID tag around his neck before smiling and walking towards the principle's office. The man smirked and watched as she disappeared down the hall, he walked into the classroom and shut the door.

x x x

Hotch didn't know what to say when Emily told him that Avery goes to the school that is a potential target of a serial killer, especially when it had the most impact on his life, and they were suspecting something bigger than just an abduction because he was getting bolder and bolder since Maine.

30 minutes was too long, Emily was biting her thumbnail and staring out the window the whole time. Hotch was a little better at masking his emotions, he had his hands in his lap and he was looking out the window, his thoughts racing. It wasn't hitting Derek as hard as it was Emily and Hotch, he was just upset they were right there less than 4 hours ago and if they were down in Quantico it might not have happened this way.

x x x

"I am Mr. Simmons." Peter Simon said as he locked the door covertly and walked to the front of the classroom, a boy raised his hand, Peter raised his head. "Yes?"

"Where's Ms. Chloe?" the boy asked simply as Peter looked out the windows.

"She left early." he said. "We're going to watch a movie, though. Can you three in the back shut all the blinds?" he asked, the class cheered and the three in the back immediately shut the blinds, movies in school are 5th graders best friends.

Ms. Chloe made her way to the principles office.

"Did Principle Richard want to see me?" she asked the secretary.

"I don't think so, he's in a meeting right now." the secretary said, Ms. Chloe sighed and put her hands in her coat pocket. She felt a piece of paper, she pulled it out of her pocket and opened it slowly. 'I have a bomb, the doors are locked. Alert everyone. Tell them I said good luck.' Once she finished reading the letter she heard an alarm sound before hearing the principle's voice come on the loud speaker.

"We are issuing a code red. This is not a drill."

x x x

"Is he there?" Hotch asked as he walked over to the officer in charge, Derek and Emily were close behind him, all of them had bullet proof vests on.

"We've been communicating with the principle of the school by phone, he says one of the teachers left the room because a man told her he was a teacher and the principle needed to talk to her. She found a note in her pocket that said 'I have a bomb, the doors are locked. Alert everyone. Tell them I said good luck'." the officer said, Hotch nodded.

"We need to talk to the teacher and we need the note for further analysis." Hotch said, the officer nodded and grabbed the phone to call the principle's office.

"He said they're on their way out, and the room he's in is the one with the blinds shut, we can't get a clear shot." the officer said. "There she is." he said once he saw the teacher walk out after the doors were unlocked.

"Morgan, come with me." Hotch said as he walked over with Derek to talk to the teacher, coming back 10 minutes later. "I want all of the rooms evacuated besides room 112," Hotch said to the lead officer, who acted on that immediately.

"I told Garcia to send the list to one of us," Derek said as he walked over, putting his phone in his pocket. Students started coming out 10 minutes later, Emily watched attentively, scanning the children to find Avery. Her phone made a noise a few seconds later and she looked at it.

"I got the list," Emily said, Hotch walked over because he was the only one who heard. "There are 9 kids in that class, Kelly Abbit, Simon Clarke, Kayla Fisher, Morgan Grey, Michelle Garrot, Chelsea Martin, Riley O'Brien, Avery Prentiss-" Emily froze when she read the name off the list, she didn't have a second guess when she read 'Kayla Fisher's' name, even though her and Avery were in the same class. "Oh god."

x x x

"What was that?" one of the girls screeched when the principle's voice came on the loud speaker loudly, everyone covered their ears.

"That means there is code red. We all know what that means?" Peter Simon asked.

"We stay in the room away from the doors and windows." the 9 students said in unison, Peter Simon nodded as he started pacing from one side of the room to the other, all in front of the students.

"Do we know why we are having a code red?" he asked, Simon Clarke raised his hand and he picked on him.

"There might be a tornado?" Peter shook his head.

"A rabid bear could be loose from the woods!" Morgan Grey said, Peter shook his head again.

"No, no, no!" his voice escalated from a whisper to a scream, Avery gulped, she knew what he was going to say next. "It's because of me." he said with a smirk as he took a gun out of his pants, all of the kids gasped, Avery cautiously and slowly reached into her bag while he was too busy watching all the scared faces around the room. Riley O'Brien ran towards the door and tried to open it, Peter raised the gun to him. "SIT DOWN!" he screamed to the boy, who dropped his hand. "Go sit down." Riley walked back over to his seat with his head down and tears rolling down his eyes. "Now, we are all going to sit here in silence." he told the children as he walked towards the door and looked behind the shade to make sure no one was there.

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There were so many things running Emily's head as she walked away from Hotch. Why would someone do this? That had an obvious answer, he's a psychopath. But other things that were running through her head were things like, why is this happening? What are the odds? Why did I send Avery to school today? It's ALL my fault! Even though it wasn't her fault, she still believed it was. Spencer could probably tell her the odds of this happening to an FBI Agents daughter, even that is slim. And why it was happening... no one could tell her the answer to that.

Emily felt her eyes burning, she couldn't loose it in front of her team... or half her team. It didn't matter, she still couldn't loose it. Hotch might know why if she did but then Derek would just ask a bunch of questions.

"Emily," Hotch said as he walked over to her with her phone in his hand after he skimmed down the list of everyone else, He was just as shocked as Emily, and he was thinking similar things. How could I have prevented this? How could this be happening? Why is this happening? Emily sniffed in and turned towards him. "It says Avery is calling you." Hotch said, Emily looked at him and grabbed her phone and looked at the caller ID before putting it to her ear.

"Avery?" she asked into the phone, she heard shuffling noises before hearing a mans voice. She looked at Hotch. "I told her that whenever there's a hostage situation going on we try to get eyes and ears wherever they are when she asked me a while ago... she wants us to hear what's going on." Emily said, she was shocked that Avery would think about that, Avery had a lot of questions similar to that like 'what do you do when...', she was really intrested in what her mom did. And that's exactly why she did that.

"Keep her on the line," Hotch said as he walked over to the principle, asking if there was a phone in the room, which there was. He walked over to the officer and Emily followed behind him, listening to what was happening. Emily heard the phone ring through her phone, she listened and waited until he picked it up, she could only faintly hear what he said when he answered the phone. "Peter Simon? I am Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner with the Behavioral Analysis Unit in the FBI." Hotch said.

"Agent Aaron Hotchner with the FBI..." Emily faintly heard Peter Simon taunt.

"Yes, I would like to know how you are doing." Hotch said, personally he wanted to jump through the phone and ring his neck, but during negotiation he's supposed to keep his cool and make him seem comfortable, even though any negotiator doesn't want the killer or hostage taker to feel comfortable. That's the last thing they want. Emily heard Peter's sick, deranged laugh.

"No you wouldn't," he laughed. "Now, what do you really want Agent Hotchner?" he taunted, his voice reminded Emily of how George Foyet taunted Hotch. Emily wanted to punch the bastard in the face, she hated when serial killers taunted them.

"I think you know," Hotch said, Emily heard his deranged laugh once again.

"Well, you're not going to get it." he said, Hotch sighed and put the phone down, Emily bit her lip and looked at Hotch.

"Maybe we can see if Garcia can hack into the security cameras, I'm sure there's some in the classroom." Emily said, Hotch nodded and Morgan called Penelope, not even 10 minutes later they got the security cameras up and Penelope made it so they could see it on one of their computer.

"I'm going to call him back," Hotch said as he picked up the phone. Emily bit the inside of her lip as she still held the phone to her ear and listened, just like she had been the whole time. She also was watching the camera carefully. It only showed the back of the kids because of the way it was positioned, but Emily could tell which one Avery was. "Peter Simon, this is Agent Hotchner,"

"Well it's great to talk to you again." Emily heard Peter say through the phone.

"We would like to negotiate with you."

"Let me guess, you want the children and once I give them to you, you and your SWAT team will come kill me. Well how about if I kill them first?" Emily heard the kids gasp, she could tell how scared they were. They started looking around the room.

"It doesn't have to happen like that." Hotch told him, Peter laughed again, Emily gritted her teeth. "We have you surrounded, we don't want anyone to get hurt. If you let out the children and surrender you will not be killed."

"I'll be killed in jail, wont I?" he asked, Emily bit her lip.

"For the crimes you have previously committed, yes. It will help you greatly if you let the children go and cooperate." Hotch told him, Peter just shook his head and laughed. "When you are ready to negotiate you can call. The phone is wired to call this phone whenever you pick it up." Hotch told him, Emily heard a loud beep coming from the phone, she directed her attention to the computer screen. Peter's head shot up as he shut the phone and looked at all the children. "He hung up," Hotch sighed.

"I know," Emily said like she'd seen a ghost when she saw Peter scanning the children who all became scared.

"What was that?" he asked, Emily watched intensely as he walked down one isle, looking at all the children. She gulped, knowing that it was Avery's phone because it was out of battery, the only reason Emily gave her 10 year old a phone was because of her job, otherwise she wouldn't have. "Was that a cell phone?" Avery swiftly cupped the phone in her hands as she pushed it under her desk and tried to make it seem like it wasn't hers and that she didn't have one, her plan back fired when It made another noise and Peter shot his head over in Avery's direction. Avery pressed the 'end call' button as he walked over to the desk behind her.

"I-I don't have a cell phone..." Kelly Abbit mumbled as she held her hands up, Emily looked at her phone and noticed it was disconnected.

"Crap!" she mumbled as she looked at the security camera along with Hotch and Derek. Peter raised his head and looked over at Avery, who was sitting up straight, holding the phone in her lap. Avery gulped as she heard him walk closer and she felt something point into her side.

"Give me the phone." Peter said slowly, all Emily, Hotch and Morgan could see was Peter hovering over her, with a gun to her side. "I said... GIVE ME THE PHONE!" he said louder as he pushed the gun into her side. Avery's eyes started burning as she pulled the phone out, Peter grabbed it. "A 10 year old having a cell phone," he said as he stood up straight and opened it. "Oh! You were calling mommy!" he said as he turned towards her.

"Her mom works for the FBI." Kayla said, Avery glared at her and Peter walked over to her.

"Oh really," he said as he walked over to her. "What's your name?" he asked as he bent down to her level, Avery held back tears as she looked forward. "What is your name?" he asked as he pushed his gun to her side.

"Avery Prentiss!" She cried, Peter smiled.

"Thank you." he whispered in his ear as he walked over to the phone. Emily put her hands over her mouth and breathed in as an attempt to stop herself from crying, not here, not now. Peter picked up the phone and the phone started ringing a few seconds later. They all looked at it, Hotch closed his eyes slowly as he walked over to it and picked it up, putting it to his ear.

"Are you ready to negotiate?" Hotch asked him, Peter smiled.

"Yes," he said, Hotch closed his eyes for a second and let out a sigh of relief that only he could hear, then he opened his mouth to say something. "I want to talk to speak to Agent Prentiss."