Thursday, July 17th

Sara's lips kissed slowly the fog away, that seemed to be around Sofia's head. She could hear distant voices, couldn't figure out what they were saying, it sounded like they were singing a song, she had never heard before. It was all kind of blurry, she couldn't really see where she was, but she felt her wife's lips and knew, wherever she was, it was the right place because they were here together.

"Wake up, Honey. Ignoring the alarm doesn't make your work go away. It only makes you hurry and gives you less time for your breakfast."

Sofia grumbled something. Wake up? She was asleep? It was a dream? Or something between a dream and reality?

"Come on, Sleepy Beauty, you have to leave the bed."

"Fog. Voices."

"The fog is the sleep in your eyes and the voices are the radio. It's after five, we can't stay in bed forever."

"Why?"

"Because you have to catch some bad guys and I have to entertain kids."

"When can we stay in bed a whole day?"

"Never, we have a little daughter and you're having two more babies in your belly."

"I'm fat."

"No, you're pregnant."

"Which is the same."

"Come on, you need to get out of bed."

"No."

"Okay, then you have to stay here, won't get any more kisses. Bye."

"No, stay with me."

"Sorry, I have to work. See you later. The later depends on you. It's either breakfast or tonight. No kisses for twelve hours."

"You're so heartless." Sofia sighed, rubbed her eyes. The fog disappeared. And so did her wife. So did she want to stay in bed, get in trouble because she would be late for work or follow her wife, leave the lovely bed and be on time at work, get some more kisses and say good morning to her daughter. And her son, if he was awake.

"I hate when you leave me alone in bed." The blonde stepped into the shower and took Sara's hand to keep her balance. It wasn't easy to keep her balance on one foot without crutches in the shower.

"Well, I gave you two choices, my dear."

"I took the right one." Sofia kissed her lover. Even when she had almost two more hours before she had to go to work, it as worth getting up early. Every kiss Sara gave her was worth more than a minute in bed.

"Good morning part one of team Pregnant, how are you?" Sofia greeted JJ when she came into the office.

"I'm fine, had a wonderful evening thanks to you and your friends. How are you?"

"I'm good, had a little fight with myself if I want to get up or stay in bed."

"The responsible part of you told you to get up."

"No, my wife left the bed and I felt lonely."

"Now you know how I felt the whole night."

"Horrible. Is there no way your husband can come with you? And your son?"

"No, it's work. Sara and Susan doesn't come with you."

"She could, she used to be a CSI."

"True."

"The rest of our team is out, checking on people, who own a car, that fits our description or have their license plate stolen. Reid is reading through internet research Garcia found on other cases all around the world."

"How many has there be?"

"A couple of hundreds. Interestingly most babies disappeared in rich countries. Over ninety percent were Caucasian. There were only two percent of Asian babies, four percent of Hispanic heritage and five percent African."

"You said most of them disappeared from rich countries, I suppose they were taken not from the African continent."

"No, we have three children taken from South Africa, one from Egypt and two dozen from various African countries. All families were from the upper class. Same for Europe, Asia and America."

"Did he also find something out about the buyer? Did some of the children have ever been found? Brought back to their families?"

"Not that we know of it. Like we have no evidence of anybody of them ever get caught."

"I bet if they are caught, they don't say a word. It has to be a huge group, you talk, you die."

"Like the mob."

"A mob handling babies instead of drugs, booze or weapons. More money, less danger. With the right passport nobody will stop you at a border. Nobody expects a child to be abducted when it comes to an airport with a family."

"No and when the baby wasn't born, there is no information about it." JJ sighed. "Hotchner wants us all to meet at twelve, see how far we are."

"Not close enough to catch somebody, otherwise they had told us. Or is the FBI holding back information?" Sofia cocked her head. Sometimes her old aversion against the FBI did show up.

"Would you be surprise?"

"To be honest: no. My experience is not the best when it comes to the FBI."

"What is wrong with team Pregnant? I thought we are doing good."

"I'm not talking about us, in fact, it was my idea to get you and your team here. I'm talking from other experiences I had, back in Vegas, when the FBI overtook and left us in the dark."

"I can promise you, it's not like that today. You know as much as I know. I have no intentions to lie to you or hold information back. The more we cooperate and talk to each other, the better are our chances to catch these men and get the babies back to their parents. That's what's important to me and what's important to my team."

"I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize, you were honest and I appreciate honesty. Now, why don't we go back to our work?"

"Sounds good to me."

"There are a lot of more parents gathering around the forest while their children are on an excursion with us since the baby kidnapper are back in town." Shane said to Sara while they watched the area around the visitor center. "Did they ever take a child older than two weeks?"

"No. It scares them anyway."

"It scares you too, doesn't it?"

"Yes. The idea of somebody taking Susan away is always there. I know she doesn't fit the profile of these men and women, but she's a toddler, when somebody orders a toddler, they won't hesitate to take one. And we do live in an area, people consider as one of the better areas of Los Angeles."

"The hippest area it is."

"Yes, whatever that means. I don't care if somebody thinks Silver Lake is hip, it's nice there. I like the water, the hills, the mountains in the background, the view of the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Park. And the dog park."

"It stinks there."

"It smells like dogs."

"Which is the same. You take them with you to Lake Tahoe?"

"Of course."

"Lou Lee lets dogs into his villa?"

"Yes."

"Why don't you take me with you there?"

"Because I like my dogs more."

"Ouch. You'll live one week in luxury. Why can't I walk into a bar and meet a famous star?"

"You're not a sexy blonde."

"Sofia said no to a movie star because of you. How did that make you feel?"

"I want my wife to say no to everybody, who asks her out, no matter if a movie star or a panhandler. There is no difference for me."

"How comes you sound like you don't like your generous host? And if you don't, why do you go to his place?"

"It makes my wife happy."

"Does it make you happy?"

"When Sofia is happy, I'm happy too. Plus it will make my son very happy and my best friends too. How could I not be happy?"

"A villa on a lake, a spa, sauna. I hate you for having such a great place to go while I go to Vegas."

"With your girlfriend."

"Yes. She wants to see a different show every night."

"Thunder from Down Under is a nice show."

"Is it weather or sex?"

"Sex."

"For her or for me?"

"I think both of you can enjoy the hottest guys of Australia. stripping. Covered in oil, wearing only strings. You can see a lot."

"That is so disgusting. I don't want to watch half naked men."

"Your girlfriend does."

"She can go there, I go to the table dancing naked women."

"And that's not disgusting?"

"No, that's sexy. You should agree."

"Just because I'm married to a woman, it doesn't mean I don't appreciate looking at a sexy man. Or two. Or a dozen. In fact, the next time Sofia and I are in Las Vegas, we should watch the show. We'll both enjoy it."

"You're strange lesbians."

"We appreciate beautiful people and don't judge them by their sex. It's not like we never had sex with a man. A real gourmet knows to savor various tastes."

"Which would mean, you taste them and then you cheat on your wife. Unless you have an open relationship, which you guys don't have."

"You can savor with your eyes and eat at home."

"Seeing naked men makes you want to jump Sofia?"

"I don't need to see anything to want Sofia."

"One day I get a camera in your bedroom and watch the hottest porn ever."

"Then we find the camera, tell the captain and nobody will ever find a single piece of you." Sara grinned.

"Why do you have to get your mother-in-law into this?"

"Because she scares you."

"I don't think there is anybody with a clear mind, who isn't scared of her or of what she could do to you."

"It's why she's this good." Sara smiled. Marie was exactly the mother-in-law she always wanted to have. Well, or the best she could have asked for since the older woman decided, Sara was the best thing ever happened to her daughter. The first meeting was everything but nice for the brunette.