Retaining Happiness
Chapter 10

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The 'Rossi Mansion' was quiet and dark as the three male FBI entered and soon began to make themselves busy setting up a workspace in the early hours of the morning. They sat around the long, wooden table as Hotch began making phone calls to his contacts at the state police and bureaus in order as it was clear that Kevin would have made it out of Virginia by now.

The men were startled out of their thoughts by the clear ringing of the doorbell, for Morgan it shook him into reality as he was consuming himself into finding his stepson that nothing else mattered. He looked up as Reid, J.J. and Blake entered the spacious dining room.

"Morgan are you ok?" Blake asked as they sat in the empty seats around the table. Out of all the agents J.J. was uncharacteristically reserved. She was quiet and kept her arms wrapped close around her chest, she saw Danny as a second son and it was evident she blamed herself for his disappearance. She averted eye contact with Morgan keeping her gaze on her lap, the guilt continuing to consume her.

He gave a grunt in response, "I'll be a lot better once Danny's home safe and I can get my hands on that wretched man!" he snarled keeping his eyes firmly on the table.

His teammates looked anxiously at each other, "how's Garcia and the baby?" Alex continued.

"Fine" he replied shortly refusing to acknowledge his friends' presence until they began helping him find Danny.

Rossi rolled his eyes at Morgan, he needed to calm down, he was not the first member of the team who has had his family in danger. At least they know Lynch and they profiled he wants Danny for himself to create his own family, not to hurt him as could have easily been the case with Jack or Henry in the past, "they're perfect" said with a small smile, "she's an absolute angel at the moment, she slept the whole time we were there, she certainly doesn't get that from her Dad"

Morgan continued to brood barely hearing Rossi's words, it seemed unfitting that they were discussing and complementing his newborn baby daughter when his stepson had been taken by a madman. In the back of his mind he wished they could sit around celebrating, laughing and wetting the baby's head and although she would never remember this she deserved the attention that every baby should have when they enter the world. He hoped that he would find Danny imminently and then his attention could turn back to his wife and their baby.

"Does she know?" J.J. asked quietly, addressing her friend for the first time, Penelope was her best friend she needed to know how she was.

Derek looked up slowly and met her gaze, "no" he replied shortly again before returning his eyes to the paper in front of him.

Reid stood up and pull a nationwide map out onto the table with his usual scrawling all over it, "I have been calculating geographical perimeters that Kevin could have travelled to. Taking into consideration the time the car was stolen, the maximum speed he would have been travelling, the amount of fuel that was in the car and the breaks he would've had to have taken for Danny, this is the furthest he could've travelled" he explained pointing to the red circle spreading through Maryland, West Virginia and North Carolina.

"So which direction is he most likely headed? I've never met the man, this puts me at a slight disadvantage" Blake stated looking at map.

Morgan scoffed, "I wish I had never met him"

Rossi smiled in spite of the situation, "we could really do with a technical analyst right now but our best one is hospital and our second choice is our unsub, this is sorry sight"

Hotch looked over at Derek, as he had been the only one of the group who had recently had contact with Kevin he was their best hope, "Morgan can you remember if he said anything that could help us?"

"Sorry, I'm not the one in the group that has an eidetic memory" he snapped before looking up at the worried faces staring back at him, "I'm sorry everyone" he sighed before thinking hard about his conversation with Lynch, "he mentioned Sweden, he said he'd been living in Sweden, do you think he might be taking Danny there?"

"It's a strong possibility if he wishes to start afresh with him, another country would be the easiest especially if he already has ties there" Hotch stated looking at the faces of his team. It was clear that their heads were not as focused as if they were detached emotionally from the case. Each of them loved Danny, with both of his parents in their team he was the child who spent the most time in the BAU and therefore became closer with everyone making this a much more difficult task. This was not just another child that had been taken, this was their Danny, and nobody hurt a member of their family. Despite being as angry and as emotionally invested as the rest of the team Hotch knew he had to keep a level head and lead his team in the right direction so they're able to bring him home safely.

Rossi nodded, "and it would be at this part in our story that usually we would call Garcia and ask her to search for all the airports within Reid's radius which have flights out to Sweden"

J.J. sighed, "I think this just highlights what a crucial member of our team she is, we couldn't solve a case without her, but what are we going to do now she's not here?"

"I hate to state the obvious but I think she has a right to know" Rossi said quietly, "I know you think she's fragile Morgan but she's stronger than you give her credit for. You know we stand a much better chance of finding Danny with her help and she will never forgive you if he is taken to another country and we couldn't stop it from happening and we didn't tell her"

Morgan listened to Rossi's words carefully, he knew he was right, she was far too stubborn and this was far too important not to tell her. Time was running out, who knew what that leech Lynch was planning at that very moment, if there was one person who could get inside his head it was Penelope, "ok" he replied finally, "let's do what we can tonight and then in the morning we will tell her what we know"