Trigger Warning: Mentions of blood, death, drugs, swearing and some smacking.
Author Note: I am not a profiler, so I apologise if the "profile" is wrong. I have no experience with the police and have depicted ideas from what I have seen from TV shows, so I am sorry if it is not correct.
Don't lie to me unless you're absolutely certain that I will never find the truth.- Unknown
The drive to the hospital was quiet, nobody having the heart to talk. Once they arrived at the hospital, Spencer quickly got out of the car and went straight into the hospital . Morgan and JJ sighed. It was so weird seeing Spencer acting frantic as he always did things in order.
"Spencer! Have you seen Rachel?" Rebecca asked the minute the agents walked into the hospital.
"Rebecca I want you to meet Agent Jaerau and Agent Morgan. They work with me. I need us to go and have a talk with Hannah in her office." Spencer said in a soft voice.
Rebecca nodded and walked them to Hannah's office. When everyone was inside, Hannah spoke first.
"Do you guys know where Rachel is? And why are there two other agents here?"
Morgan looked at JJ and took the lead.
"Ma'am, when we tracked Rachel's phone and found that it was at Rachel's apartment. However when we reached the apartment, we couldn't find her."
Hannah looked confused.
"Maybe she went out?" Hannah asked, hopefully, tears in her eyes.
"When we reached there, there was a handwritten note saying that Rachel was kidnapped." Morgan said slowly.
Hannah finally broke down in tears as she sat down, JJ handed her a tissue and hugged her. Rebecca looked pale as if she had seen a ghost.
"Spencer, do you think it's got anything to do with the death of her brother. I mean… In three months it will mark a year since his death." Rebecca asked in a small voice.
Spencer took a deep breath in.
"I don't think so Rebecca, his death was ruled as an accident." Spencer spoke for the first time since he spoke to Rebecca earlier.
"Rachel had a brother?" Morgan asked.
"Yeah. His name was Jackson Robert. He wasn't related to Rachel by blood, but they two had adopted each other when they were kids. He was a police officer, and one night he was on his way home with his girlfriend when he hit a tree. He was rushed into hospital where Rachel treated him. However, he soon died due to hisinjuries. His girlfriend survived but she's okay." Spencer filled in.
"An accident?" Morgan asked.
"Yeah, there was something slippery on the road. At least that's what the report said." Rebecca said.
Morgan thought for a while. "Has anything weird happened recently Rebecca? Has Rachel seemed distant?"
Rebecca shook her head. "No nothing was out of the ordinary. Was there more than one case? I know that the BAU usually gets involved when there are multiple cases."
JJ sighed. "There were two other cases which we think might be related but we hope to find Rachel soon."
Just then JJ's phone began to ring and she was on the phone call for a matter of seconds before hanging up.
"That was Hotch, they were looking through the previous cases and found something."
Rachel heard a buzz like the buzz you here on security doors. She heard mumbles of Spanish but couldn't make anything out of it as her head was spinning. Rachel felt stiff and weak and despite wanting to open her eyes, she couldn't. It was as if stones were weighing her eyelids down.
The taste of blood filled Rachel's mouth and then she realised that she had rope tied around her mouth.
Rachel froze.
She didn't know where she was nor could she remember what happened. Thrashing around, Rachel tried to wiggle or at least move around, when she heard voices.
"Boss, she's waking up."
"Give her a shot."
Within seconds Rachel's mind was in peaceful darkness.
Back at the BAU, JJ felt sick to her stomach. In front of her were pictures that were found at the crime scene of each woman that was kidnapped before Rachel.
With everyone gathered around the table, each member looked at the pictures that were found at the crime scene. After much thought Gideon spoke up.
"I think Rachel was the primary victim."
Everyone looked up from what they were doing.
Gideon continued. "Sandra Jun is an 18 year old woman who's an orphan and has been one all her life. Where she was discovered, the picture was of a young puppy. A puppy of a similar breed to Jet. The next victim is Lucy Shauna, a 30 year old woman who was a doctor in the ER but tended to work on the paediatric ward. Lucy also had a brother that was killed in the line of duty. Where she was discovered, was a picture of the same type and model of Rachel's car. This person wanted Rachel all along."
"But why though? And what do they want with Rachel? From the note left at Rachel's it sounds like the person is angry at Rachel and feels like she should pay for what she's done." Emily said. "The Unsub thinks it's personal."
"Chloe Jenkins." Spencer said out loud.
"Chloe who?" Morgan asked.
Spencer looked up and saw everyone was looking at him. "Chloe was Rachel's brother's girlfriend. She felt like it was Rachel's fault that Jackson had died. I spoke to her a few months ago saying that if she tried to do anything to Rachel, I would put a restraining order on her. Chloe was shaken and agreed to stay away from her."
"Restraining order? What did she do?" Emily asked.
"There was an incident that turned violent which Chloe caused."
"Emily, you come with me. We're going to visit Chloe." Hotch said.
Just before Hotch and Emily left, Garcia walked in a hurry.
"Guys I found something! I was looking at the security cameras around Rachel's apartment and found what I think is to be the van that was disguised as a plumber van. I tracked the van's plates and found a hit. Five blocks down the road there is a warehouse and the van's been parked there for the last ten minutes."
"A warehouse is the best place to hide someone." Emily said.
"Let's go." Hotch said.
As everyone was getting ready to leave Detective Martin Lopez came in.
"Where is everyone going?" He asked.
"We think we might have found where they are keeping Rachel. Five blocks from Rachel's apartment there is a warehouse." JJ said in a hurry.
"My team will come with you for backup. But I need to make a call first." Martin said.
The team nodded and were off. Garciastayed in the briefing room and Martin walked out the room. As Garcialooked at the board and wasn't listening to the detective's conversation, until she heard something odd.
"Code blue. You need to move. I can't do that! It will look wrong. Hey, listen I need you to move okay. No of course not. I'm not an idiot!" Martin hissed into his phone. "Listen I'll fix it okay? There's nothing to worry about. You do your job and I'll do mine." And then Martin hung up and ran off towards the exit.
Garciastood in the briefing room confused and slightly worried.
Rachel had woken up from the last blackout, but this time she was more aware of what was going on. She knew she was tied up and she knew that there was a throbbing pain in her side. Moving her arms around, Rachel felt a liquid on her fingered and she soon figured out that she was bleeding, from what she didn't know. She still felt weak so she knew fighting back would be useless.
"We need to move." A voice laced in a Mexico accent said. "We're not safe here."
Seconds later, Rachel felt herself being picked up and thrown down to what felt like metal.
"Oi! Be careful ! Boss wants her alive." Said another voice.
"Quick they're here!"
"Shit, her boot fell off."
"We don't have time! Quick in the van."
"Boss her necklace came off."
"Hide it somewhere. I'll have someone come and get it."
"I left in the drains boss."
"Good."
"Hey she's awake again."
"Give her another shot then."
Rachel this time began to groan in protest,but there was no point because the minute she began to fight, she was welcomed back into darkness.
The team entered the warehouse only to find it deserted.
"Guys, I found a boot and blood." JJ called.
Spencer and Hotch walked towards JJ.
"That's Rachel's boot." Spencer whispered. "She was here."
"They must have left in a hurry. As if someone told them we were coming." Emily said.
"Whatever happened we know Rachel is still alive. She's injured but she's alive." Hotch said. "We should head back to the office and see if we can find anything."
When the team entered the office, Garciawas there to greet them and took Morgan to the side.
"Morgan I don't like Detective Lopez, there's something wrong about him. When you guys left, he was on the phone and had a weird conversation with the other person. He was angry but I don't know why. I decided to look into him when you guys were gone. Remember Rachel's brother Jackson? Guess who was once Jackson's partner."
"Detective Lopez?" Morgan asked.
"Yeah. When Jackson died, Lopez was the one to investigate the case. It might be a coincidence that he is working on two cases that are related to Rachel, but I find that weird."
"Look and see if you can find anything on this Detective. Don't tell anyone just in case it gets back to Spencer or even worse Detective Lopez himself. If he does know anything, and finds out we are on his tail, he could possibly have Rachel killed in an instant." Morgan said after some thought. "Try and find a link between Rachel and Detective Lopez."
Garcianodded and went back to her cave, determination written on her face.
Morgan sighed and began to walk back to his team, but saw Detective Lopez getting some coffee. With what Garciahad said on his mind, Morgan went to have a talk with the Detective.
"Detective Lopez, you heard what happened at the warehouse?"
"Martin. Please call me Martin. I heard that you found Rachel's boot and some blood. I'm guessing the chances of finding Rachel alive are becoming slimmer. Am I right?"
"Not necessarily. We don't have confirmation that the blood is Rachel's. For all we know it could be the kidnapper or kidnappers. All we need to do is focus on what we have."
"When you guys left, my team swept the place to see if we could find anything but we couldn't find anything."
"Hmm." Morgan replied. He noticed that Martin was anxious about this case and seeing he was a detective, he would have dealt with kidnappings before. "I was wondering if there is any detail that you might have left out of your report or anything."
Martin froze for a second and began to fidget with something in his pocket. To anyone else they wouldn't have noticed, but Morgan was a profiler and it was his job to notice these slight changes in behaviour.
"Nothing comes to mind, Agent," Martin said, sweating a little.
Morgan just nodded. "The team are going to be discussing ideas, maybe you should join us."
Martin nodded and left with Morgan. Morgan listened and turned his attention to what his teammates were saying. He began inputting ideas and almost forgot about Martin.
"Maybe you're looking at the wrong thing," Martin said, while sitting at the desk. The rest of the team stared at him.
To a group of profilers it was obvious that Martin was nervous about something, but of what they didn't know.
"Go on," Hotch said, eyes trained on the detective.
"We know that Rachel was an orphan. Maybe it has nothing to do with Rachel, but it's to do with her parents. The note did say that Rachel needed to be punished." Martin said as he continued to fiddle with something in his pocket. Morgan noticed that whatever was in his pocket had a chain.
"That could work and seeing we don't have any other leads, we can dig into it." Hotch said.
Everyone nodded and walked to go do different things. Martin stood up from sitting on top of the desk and the chain in his pocket got caught on something, pulling the item out of the pocket.
Morgan didn't notice as he was now by his desk concentrating on finding some information.
Smack!
"Where the fuck is Rachel!"
Everyone looked up.
Morgan saw something he never thought he would. Detective Martin Lopez was holding his left cheek, as a violent handprint began to show. He had stepped back from the force of the hit and Morgan began to look for the hitter. Standing near Martin, Spencer was curling his fist raging in anger, his face was turning red and he looked so un-Reid like. It took Morgan a second before he realised that Spencer was about to punch the Detective and was about to stop him, but Hotch beat him to it.
"Reid! Why the hell did you do that?!" Hotch yelled at the youngest member.
"You should asking him where the fuck is Rachel?!" Spencer yelled back as he tried to launch himself out of Hotch's grip.
"Reid stop it!" Morgan yelled. "Just because we can't find Rachel doesn't mean you have to lash out on someone!"
"Then why the fuck did he have Rachel's necklace in his pocket!" Spencer yelled, pointing to the necklace that was still caught in between a draw.
Morgan's eyes widened as he recognised the jewellery.
"It's not Rachel's necklace!" Martin denied.
"I bet you that engraved on the back of it, it will say 'Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always.' I also bet that inside the pendant there will be a picture of myself, Rachel and Jet!" Spencer yelled, still curling his fists.
Gideon went to the necklace in question and gave it to a member of Martin's team.
She turned round and faced the agents looking serious and began to read the message aloud. "The message says, 'Saving lives, one day at a time just like always'." The lady then with shaky hands opened the pendant and her heart stopped, holding the picture for everyone to see.
Martin's team gasped and Hotch's fist began to clench, wanting to punch Martin himself.
Martin saw the situation he was in, and despite his better judgement, began to run. He was soon put to a stop when Emily put her foot out trapping the fallen detective.
Morgan walked over to Martin and handcuffed him. "You should have taken the chance to tell the truth without being forced. Now you will answer many, many questions." Morgan said dangerously low, lifting Martin and taking him into an interrogation room.
The lady that was holding Rachel's necklace handed it back to Gideon who gave it to Spencer. Spencer's eyes began to fill with tears as he wrapped his fingers around Rachel's necklace. He couldn't believe the person that was supposed to be helping find Rachel was actually making things more difficult. But he knew that now they had a lead, there was a strong chance they would find Rachel.
Hotch put his hand on Spencer's shoulder, who was now calming down. "Spencer, we are closer to finding Rachel. We have a lead. We will find Rachel. Don't give up hope ye-"
"Guys! I found something!"