Chapter 4- Interrogation and Rescue
"There are things we don't want to happen, but have to accept, things we don't want to know, but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go." -Jennifer Jareau
Hotch's POV
When Gwen and I walked into the room, Hernandez's head shot up. He gazed at Gwen. "Do you remember me?" She asked, sitting in one of the chairs, I sat in the other.
"It ain't that hard to forget the girl that put me in prison," he scoffed.
"You put yourself in prison when you kidnapped me, you knew the FBI would be called in, you just didn't know it would be the most elite unit of the FBI," Gwen growled. "So what have you been doing for the past eight years, Damien? Be kidnapping other eleven year olds?" She mocked. Gwen was good at this.
"So what do you care, it is not like I got to do everything that I wanted to with you. You are the reason why I can't do what I want," Hernandez yelled.
"Why, my little kick and knee to the little ones was enough to stop you from being able to bed someone? Oh well then, I'm glad I had that honor," Gwen replied, calmly.
"Damein, do you have Jakie Wilson and Paige Hall?" I asked. "It is better to tell us out right, your sentence won't be as bad that way." He nodded.
"What is the address?" Gwen asked.
"666 Devil's Court Road," Hernandez answered, in a depressed tone. We exited the room, and Gwen put on a black long sleeved shirt over the white t-shirt and she put on tennis shoes. I gave her a vest, and she strapped it on. The rest of the team met us at the cars.
"Reid, Gwen, and Rossi, with me!" I yelled. Gwen and Reid climbed into the back to talk me to it. The others followed my lead.
The house was huge. It had a basement and it went up to three stories. Gwen whispered to me, "We should check the basement first. He probably only took them up to the upper stories when he wanted to assault them." I nodded.
"Reid, Gwen, with me to the basement, Morgan takes the ground floor, JJ and Blake, take the second story, Dave, you get the third. Everyone clear?" I gave my orders. My team nodded. "Move in."
Reid, Gwen, and I opened the doors to the basement, and I went first on point. Gwen behind me, and Reid covering us. Once we got down, we saw that there were four girls down here.
"We need medical treatment in the basement. Team we got them, but there are four down here," I conveyed over the headset.
"Can I start treatment?" Gwen asked, pulling out a bag from who knows where. I nodded, and she moved in.
She knelt beside one girl and tested her pulse, next she checked for injuries. "No noticeable injuries, but I will have to cut off her pants to check, cause I see blood on her pant legs," She informed me. I nodded, and she took a knife out of her pocket, and gently cut away at the fabric.
When she pulled the fabric away, there was an angry red burn on her left leg, identical to the one Gwen had. Gwen cut away the fabric on the girl's right leg, to find the same burns. The girl was starting to wake up. Gwen motioned for Reid and I to move back, so the girl wouldn't see us.
"Hi, it is okay, I am Dr. Gwen White, and I am here to help. You have three second degree burns. I am going to apply a couple of cool compresses. I will check back in with you in a minute sweetie, in the meantime, a friend of mine is going to take care of you,"She stated in a nice gentle voice. Gwen beckoned me over. "Sweetie, this is my friend, and basically my brother, Aaron Hotchner, he will take good care of you." Gwen passed her hand into mine, and went to care for another girl.
I knelt down next to her, and just held her hand, trying to comfort her. Gwen performed the same steps with each victim, and after she was done, she assigned a BAU team member to the girl. I got the first, Reid got the second, JJ got the third, and Morgan was comforting the fourth. Gwen came back to check on the girl that I was with.
"What is your name, sweetie?" Gwen asked.
"I'm Samantha Jacobs. The girl next to me is Kitty Smith, we are best friends from North Carolina," She answered.
"How long have you been missing your family?" I asked. Samantha turned her head towards me.
"What year is it?" Samantha asked.
"It is 2013, Sam,"Gwen told her with a sad tone. Samantha started to sob.
"We have been missing for three years!" she exclaimed, and just cried into my leg. I ran my hand over her hair in a comforting manner.
"I have Jakie," JJ remarked.
"So I have Paige," Morgan commented. Jakie and Paige only had one burn each, and it was on their arm.
EMTs came down the stairs, and Gwen went to greet them. "Hello, I am SA Dr. White, I applied a cool compress to each of the burns, all are second degree, and all of them are severely dehydrated. They will need fluids, and these two," she gestured to Samantha and Kitty, "they will need a feeding tube at the hospital." The EMTs nodded and started to put the girls on the stretchers. Rossi, who had shown the EMTs where to go, came down the stairs after the EMTs and Morgan had carried the stretchers up the stairs.
"Who are the other two?" Rossi asked.
"We were called in their cases four years ago, and it went cold," I told him.
"Samantha Jacobs, and Kitty Smith?" Rossi asked, I just nodded. We watched Gwen take care of the girls before they were put on the stretchers. She assured each girl that she would stop by the hospital before we left. "Thank god we have a MD on the team now," Rossi jokes.
"Yeah, Reid can actually get treatment before he has to go to the hospital now," I joked back. Rossi chuckled.
"I am going to call the families of Samantha and Kitty, and get them down here," JJ stated, and she left the basement.
"Why do creeps like their basements?" Gwen asked, walking up to me.
"No clue, I'm hungry, let's go celebrate the fastest case we have ever worked," I told her. She smiled, and I threw an arm around her shoulder.