A/N Here's the next chapter. The same warnings apply I own nothing but my own characters.

Chapter 4

1 am Spencer's home.

Gideon had sent everyone home three hours earlier including Garcia. He said they needed rest if they were going to find Lily.

Hotch had driven Reid to his house to pick up Gianna. He was glad the baby was sleeping although Haley had had a terrible time getting her to sleep.

"She misses her mother Spencer" she had said.

When Reid had walked into the house carrying Gianna it had hit him like a physical blow. Never before had he entered this house and Lily wasn't there to greet him with a hug and a kiss. Her absence was made more painful by the subtle hint of her perfume in the air. He took the baby to her room and put her down in her crib. He leant down and kissed her forehead. He walked quietly out of the room shutting off the lights and leaving the door open a bit in case she cried in the night.

He walked to his bedroom and stood in the doorway for a moment he almost turned and fled but he knew he had to go in there and face her absence. He went to the closet to change into his usual sleeping attire tee shirt and sweat pants. He lay down on the bed without removing the bed spread. He stared at the ceiling for a long time, memories of Lily drifting in and out of his thoughts. And in spite of thinking he wouldn't he fell asleep. Sometime later he was awakened by Gianna crying. He went to her room and switched on the light.

"Dada" she cried holding her arms out to Spencer. He picked her up and tried to calm her

"Hey my sweet girl, what's the matter?"

She continued to cry loudly taking no comfort from him as she normally would. She had begun to say a few words mostly No and Dada to Lily's great chagrin she had not yet said mama or anything resembling it.

He walked over to the rocking chair in the corner of the room and sat down with her in his arms. He rocked and rocked and she cried. He tried a bottle but she didn't want it. She didn't need to be changed and she refused her pacifier and her favorite toys. All the while Spencer talked quietly to her and stroked her back and rocked in the chair. Finally he got up and began to pace up and down with her hoping this would help but it didn't she still cried.

"Mama" she gasped between cries, Spencer looked at her with amazement. "Hey he said, you said mama. Is that what you want my sweet princess, your mommy. I'm sorry baby I can't get her for you. A bad man took her away from us, but I promise you my darling I will bring her back okay."

Gianna continued to cry for another 2 hours before falling into exhausted sleep. By this time Spencer was too exhausted to fight sleep and he slept until the alarm sounded at 7 am.

8:00 am the bull pen at the BAU.

Spencer poured lovely smelling coffee into his cup and trudged wearily back to his desk. Haley was watching Gianna for him again. Although the baby had not been happy when he left. He hated to leave her when she missed her mother so much but he had to get back to work to find her.

"Hey man how are you this morning you look beat up."

"I was up half the night with Gia she misses her mother and even I couldn't calm her down. She finally exhausted herself with crying and went to sleep at about 4 am this morning. So no I am not alright. I am tired, I am angry and I am scared."

"I know you are Spencer that was a really dumb question" Morgan said.

"It's alright Derek. Have we heard anything new?"

"No, all the stuff from this guy's house is in the conference room if you want to join me for a closer look." They left the bullpen and walked up to the conference room. Elle was already in there looking through the photos that had hung on Mark's wall.

"Hey baby" Morgan said leaning down to kiss her.

"Hey you guys, I was going through these photos trying to figure out if there is anything that can help us and I am not getting anywhere with it." Elle explained

The men sat down and Spencer said, well let's see if three brains are better than one shall we.

Lily woke again to another morning with light hit her from the wrong angle. Mark had come back one more time that night and picked up her lunch tray and left more food for her. She had tried again to reason with him but he only ignored her and went away. She had been afraid to sleep thinking he would come into the room in the middle of the night but in the end she was exhausted and she slept and he had not come in or bothered her in any way. Her dreams had been filled with Gia and with Spencer and she awoke with tears on her cheeks. She dressed again jeans and a tee shirt. She began again to pound on the door and call out to Mark but as before he ignored her. She was actually beginning to think the room was sound proofed. None of the tactics she had taken with him had worked. She was actually amazed at how quiet he was. In school he had been loud and brash but now he spoke quietly and except for the gun didn't try to threaten her in any way. The Mark she knew would have been all over her by now trying to seduce her. She sat down in the chair after making the bed and tidying up a bit and began again to try to figure out what he wanted and why.

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The day had passed at an agonizing pace. Morgan had badgered Garcia to distraction wanting to know if she had found out anything more. Garcia in turn told him in no uncertain terms to stop hovering that she would tell him when she found something. The entire team was becoming more and more frustrated except for Gideon; nothing seemed to ruffle his feathers, well from the outside anyway. If someone he trusted were to ask in the right way he might tell them how afraid he was for Reid and for Lily. Although he had never asked for it the Reid's had become a surrogate family to him. He was Gianna's godfather and substitute father to both Lily and Spencer. He never wanted it; he couldn't even get along with his own son. He resented that he had become so close to this remarkable young man and his little family. On the other hand he would never admit that he loved the three of them like they were his flesh and blood. The façade he maintained was crumbling as the desire to rip Mark Porter apart with his bare hands became stronger.

"Hey guys, look at this Spencer said rocking a little in his chair. The others crowded around as he began to pick up photo's and newspaper articles and add them to the white board. At first it seemed random but then Gideon smiled and said "very good Spencer, I didn't see that until now. They grinned at each other while the rest of the team stared at them as if they had gone crazy.

"You know I realize that Reid is the smartest one in the room and there is no denying Jason's experience but just what do you to find so amusing!" Morgan said in a highly frustrated tone of voice.

The adding to Morgan's chagrin Elle smiled and said "don't you see it?" Morgan looked ready to strangle all of them when Hotch moved to the front of the room and said "Al right guys stop teasing him."

Hotch turned to Morgan and said "look at the pictures, there are a lot from high school and after high school nothing until just after the first newspaper article which is about her first kidnapping. Then there are a few more till they are married then the hostage situation at the bank happens and he begins to follow her everywhere."

"So Hotch I don't get" Morgan said.

"He had no interest in her until she started to see Spencer. This woman was a photo journalist her pictures have been in every news magazine on the plant. Her work still fetches a very good price at Anna's galleries yet there are no signs he was watching her at that time in her life."

"So, his stressor was her relationship with Spencer."

"Yes think about it he was a popular jock in school who finally picked the wrong girl to mess with. She refused his sexual advances and then he is humiliated by her brother in front of the whole school. Then to add insult to injury he can only stand by and watch while she falls for the "nerd" and marries him and has his child." Hotch said. "Sorry for the "nerd" remark Spencer."

"That's okay Hotch I know it was said with affection."

The other laughed and some of the tension was dispelled.

Morgan burst everyone's bubble by pointing out the obvious. "This is all well and good but how do we find him."

Gideon said "I think we need to get Anne back in here. She hated this man and I know from what she said in passing that she had been keeping tabs on him almost as if she was afraid this would happen."

"Hey Jason, Morgan said, we should hire that woman she would make a great profiler."

Gideon laughed and said "I already tried and she told me no way she liked her boring gallery life when compared to what we do and see."

"Too bad Morgan said she would rock at this job."

Spencer pulled out his cell phone and dialed Anne's number. He spoke briefly to her and then put his phone back in his front pocket.

"She will be here in 30 minutes."

Hotch left the room saying I'll see that she has clearance to enter with security.

Anne stepped off the elevator exactly 30 minutes later. She looked a bit overwhelmed at all the activity.

"It's so noisy in here how do you get anything done?" She said going up to Spencer and embracing him hard. She also looked like she hadn't slept in days. She pulled back out of his arms and said. "How are you holding up gorgeous?"

"Do I have to tell you Anne you're the only one besides Lily who really knows my heart." he said as he led her to the conference room. "The others sympathize but they don't know what this is like. She is your best friend so you understand." She stopped in the hallway and touched his face with her hand.

"I am scared witless Spencer but I have faith in you and your team." she smiled at him and something in him loosened and smoothed out. She was right they would get his wife back. He turned and walked in the conference room.

Gideon sat down beside her and asked her "Anne is there anything else you can tell us about this man. Is there anyplace you can think of that he would go to where there is privacy?"

"I have been wracking my brain Jason and I can't think of anything." She got up and looked at the photos on the whiteboard. This is so frustrating." She began to pace and because it reminded him of Reid when he was nervous Morgan nearly laughed."

Gideon said nothing he just waited calmly. Suddenly she spun around a dangerous light in her eyes.

"My God I can't believe I forgot about this. His family has a cabin. It is in the woods about 90 minutes west of Baltimore as you approach Pennsylvania. But I don't know exactly where it is as I wasn't one of the people or more specifically on the girls he bedded there."

But you said he took Lily to a parking spot. Why not to this cabin?" Gideon asked.

"Because there was a game the next night and his father told him he wouldn't be playing if he blew off his curfew one more time. So he didn't have time to go out there that night."

"Alright we need to see if Garcia can get us a location on the cabin that is if the family still owns it." Hotch said as they got up and left the conference room.

Morgan entered Garcia's office at a fast clip and nearly knocked her over coming out.

"Hey sugar where's the fire?"

"I could ask you the same thing" Morgan said

"I found a property that is a possibility for you to find Lily"

"Let me guess Morgan said it is a cabin in the Maryland woods."

"Hey how did you know?" She pouted, clearly put out at being scooped on the news.

"Anne gave us the info I was just coming in here to ask you to find the exact place."

"You came to the right place as usual" she said handing him a file with a flourish.

"Thanks babe you remain the best." Morgan said with a grin.

"And don't you ever forget it" Garcia said and she turned back to her beloved computers.

They had gathered in the bullpen grabbing flack jackets and checking their weapons. Hotch strode in and said "alright guys lets go get her."

Anne put a hand on Spencer's shoulder, "be careful Spencer, I wish I could go with you." She kissed his cheek and he ran to join the others at the elevator.

A/N Please, Please, Please reivew