AN: Hey guys, I'm back. I'm so so sorry, it's been ages since I last updated and I can only apologise how bad I have been not updating. A lot of stuff has been happening with me and with my last beta. I found out I'm gonna need 5 operations, i failed college, and a lot of other stuff has happened. I now have a new beta AbsterStories. She is awesome and helping me with this story as well as posting her own! You should check out all of her stories. I love them so much. I like fan girl over them haha.
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After taking the woman's statement at the station and successfully identify the man she saw from the sketch artist's sketch Hotch, Rossi and Morgan knew without a shadow of a doubt that Seth Brown was their unsub and had been the one to take Emily, JJ and Spencer.
The only problem was they had no idea where he could have taken them.
Their earlier arrest had been a complete bust, there had been no sign of him.
The woman had only remembered a partial number plate from the van and at the moment Garcia was having difficulty in getting a match with the partial plate and CCTV cameras around the area at the time of the abduction.
"Damn it!" Morgan yelled, slamming his fist into the wall.
"How did we let this happen?" He continued.
He was angry with that woman for letting Seth take them, how did she not realize something was wrong? Did she think it was normal for a teenage girl to be so out of it the 'father' had to carry her to a van?
He was angry with Strauss for making them go undercover for this mission, this mission was reckless, they were all used to being in danger, but having two of their agents be undercover as actual children was just plain reckless.
Mostly he was angry at himself, he had promised JJ he wouldn't let anything happen to her, that none of them would.
He had failed her.
"Believe me, I feel the same way as you do, but we have to keep our heads together Morgan." Hotch said trying to calm his team mate and friend down, himself to.
"Emily will protect them the best she can." Rossi supplied.
He knew why Morgan was worried, he was too.
JJ and Spencer were still agents yes, but at the moment they are children, they had no way of protecting themselves.
Emily would have to protect them as well as herself.
"I know that Rossi, but there's only so much she can do, he's going to go after her and JJ the most we know this. JJ and Reid are just kids! They should not have been put in this situation, this whole mission is wrong on so many levels." Morgan ranted.
He was worried about JJ, about what this was doing to her, how she would cope being in this situation.
He was worried Seth would trigger her, cause her to have a panic attack and that in turn would make him angrier.
"You're right." Hotch said, he agreed whole heart-idly.
"But this is the situation we are in, getting angry about it will not help. We need to stay focused and find them as soon as possible." He continued.
"We need to go over everything we know so far, somewhere we have missed something." He finished looking from the evidence boards they had back to the other agents in the room.
Somewhere they had the answer, they needed to find it.
JJ had given them a break in the case identifying Seth as the unsub.
He had slipped up allowing her to see him, he must have slipped up somewhere else to.
They just had to find it, and find them.
They had work to do, they had a unsub to catch and members of their family to save.
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Later that evening, once Seth had left, Emily was seeing things clearer.
The fogginess in her brain was slowly disappearing enabling her to move more stably.
She felt disgusting but she had to push through, to support her team members who were unable to support themselves.
She pulled on her clothes slowly and carefully and looked between her two children, Spencer was completely out of it and JJ had her head dropping from side to side as she fought to stay conscious.
Seth had spent a lot more time and energy hurting herself and JJ, he seemed to have a real grudge against women, but Spence had taken a fair beating as well.
With him being so young and his body not having the strength he had as an adult she was worried about how much he could take.
Emily decided she needed to check on Spencer first as she could see JJ was awake and fighting, for now at least.
Crawling over to him she placed two of her fingers over his neck checking for a pulse.
She waited for a second hoping that what she was feeling was right.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt his pulse. 'Steady' she thought.
Quickly, Emily checked Spencer over, she even looked into his eyes hoping she could see whatever it is doctors could see when they did this.
When she thought he was okay to be left alone she grabbed JJ's clothes, which had been thrown around by the vicious man that held them, and made her way over to her.
"JJ, it's just me." Emily told her as she got close to her, noticing how JJ curled into herself tighter at the sound her of approaching steps.
"I'm just going to get you dressed and then we'll see how you are, okay?" She said as she reached JJ's side and knelt on the floor next to her, gingerly.
JJ nodded in response but didn't say anything, she was trying to fight through the cloud in her mind but nothing was allowing her through it yet. She could only feel pain and it was blocking her from talking to Emily.
Emily proceeded to dress JJ delicately, after learning about JJ's childhood she knew this situation must be bringing back some terrible memories for the teen agent and the last thing she wanted to do was trigger her further than she had been already.
While dressing JJ she made a mental note of any injuries that she could see on the girl's body, any injuries she would need to keep an eye on until they got out of here.
Once Emily finished dressing JJ she moved to make herself a bit more comfortable leaning her back gently against the concrete wall and pulling JJ to lean back against her supporting her weight.
"JJ?" Emily called softly after a few moments, trying to get the girls attention.
She had wondered if JJ had fallen asleep from the pain and tiredness she must be feeling, her eyes were closed as she leaned back into Emily's chest.
"Hmmm." JJ responded tiredly, her eyes snapping open again.
"You were really brave, I'm so proud of you. I just wanted you to know that." Emily told her confidently.
JJ didn't reply, she didn't feel brave, she turned her head and looked into Emily's eyes before she looked around the room, being very wary of her surroundings. She felt she had to be more aware because someone could attack them at any point and he could come from anywhere.
"Can you try and stand up so we can sit with Spencer? He's not awake yet." Emily asked carefully.
JJ took a deep breath and rubbed over her bruised eyes before she attempted to stand up slowly, only to feel an intense shooting pain charge up her one side.
Gasping at the intensity of the pain she fell back to the floor with painful cry.
"JJ!" Emily gasped, any pain she felt herself pushed aside as she rushed to JJ's side instantly.
"Oh my God! JJ what happened?" She asked rushed and panicked.
"M… my s…s…side." JJ gasped through her pain, tears springing to her eyes.
"Alright, Alright. Let's catch your breath before we move and then we'll do it slowly okay?" Emily assured her placing a gentle hand on her shoulder in support.
JJ nodded as she concentrated on catching her breath the best she could before Emily helped her to walk over to Spencer where they settled for the time being.
Emily lay down on the floor with JJ curled into her side clutching to her top, Spencer on her other side close by.
There was no sound from them now.
They just lay together trying to fall asleep as they waited and hoped that the team would come for them soon.