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"Oh, god," Garcia forced herself to look away from the screen to mainly focus on her own screen.

"Élise…"

Various images of Élise, mostly close-ups; restrained to a chair, metallic silver duct tape covered her mouth, her hair looked sweaty, her face was also sweaty and oily, fear and panic displayed well in her eyes.

"What was this bastard doing to her?" Rossi said, stunned by the images.

"The unsub waited for her, so he can torture her?"

"In her own home?" Luke said, shocked by the images.

"I'm getting to get the data of who sent the images from Reid's phone. Remind me to tell Reid to update his cell phone."

Another image showed on Élise frighteningly pulling her face away from a lighter, determined to keep her eyes closed.

"Was he trying to scare her or burn her with it?" A shaken JJ asked.

"And who knows how long the unsub held her hostage in her own apartment?"

"That is a question I'm afraid of getting the answer to."

"And I'm scared to know what was going through her mind when the unsub did this."

"Why sent it Reid?"

"And how did the unsub get his number?"

"I'm trying, I really am, and still nothing. My guess is the unsub is using some seriously high levels of encryptions, so I can't pull the data out."

"If he was stalking Reid, too, who knows what else he was doing?"

"Just to be sure, I've placed protective details on all of our families, including Reid's mother," Prentiss announced.

"Just why Élise of all people?"

"You know," Tara started to recall something. "When we visit Cat Adams, she did mention Maeve Donovan. Could that have any significance?

JJ, Rossi, and Garcia all looked at each other with regretful and worried faces. It was already tough enough to know that they couldn't save everyone, but the fact that they couldn't save someone who was important to Spencer…

"Is there something we should know?" Tara noticed the looks on their faces

"Yeah. Who's Maeve Donovan?"

"She was Spence's girlfriend."

"Was?" Simmons noticed JJ said "was" in past tense.

Rossi finished for her, "Over…five years ago, she…was kidnapped by her stalker, Diane Turner; she was hiding from her. Believe me, we did everything that we could, but, uh…it ended in a murder-suicide. And Reid witnessed it."

The team had a moment of silence to absorb this information before,

"Oh, my…"

"Damn."

"I'm so sorry."

"Well, we'll make sure this doesn't end the same way."

"Yeah. Let's hope so. Luke, Matt, Tara, you guys go back to Élise's apartment and see what you can find. I'm sending FBI techs; there's a big chance the Unsub could have something while he was in her apartment; something that we must have missed."

"We're on it."

"Okay, Anastasia," Reid said as he placed a plate of freshly cut, cooked and small pieces of fruit and vegetables and a cup of milk in front of her before plating a kiss on her head. "Eat up and drink up while Daddy gets some work done, okay?"

Like clockwork, Reid already started to go through Élise's personal documents Luke and Matt found at her apartment office. He felt guilty doing it, but like he told the team and himself, he is willing to do anything to find Élise. It was nothing more than just bank statements, tax records, old school records. Soon, something caught his eye.

And not in a good way.

"Reid, did you find…" He wouldn't let Prentiss finish her question when he gave her papers for her to look at. "What's this?"

"Put me on speaker when you get back." Reid went right back to work.

Prentiss rushes back into the bullpen room and tosses what Reid gave her to the team. Sitting back down and put Reid on speaker as JJ grabbed the documents. This soon turned into a three-way conversation now that Matt, Alvez, and Tara ring up on the other line.

"Did you guys find anything yet?"

"Techs are still going through the place," Tara said, over the speaker. "Luke and Matt are in her office and bedroom."

"This is her last will and testament."

"And…?"

"Look at the date," Reid said.

"Three days before she went missing."

The team started to give each other questioning and doubtful looks when,

"No…"

"You don't think…

"Did Élise know she was being stalked?"

"No," Reid assured himself. "No. She would have told me. She knew she wouldn't put anyone's life on the line."

"You seem sure." Rossi thought.

"I am pretty damn sure she would have told me."

"Maybe she was scared," Garcia suggested.

"I still would have helped her."

"Reid…"

"Even if she was scared, I still would have helped her!" Reid shouted over the phone.

"Okay." Rossi figured he didn't want to push him any further. "Okay. She would have come to us for help."

"Well, we have her laptop. Maybe she left something on there."

"Garcia…"

"On it."

"And Reid…we will find her."

Unable to answer her, he simply hung up and went back to sorting out Élise's files. Luckily, Anastasia had on her noise canceling headphones, so she didn't hear the conversation. She was more interested in observing her plate of fruits and vegetables than listening.

"Was he like this when Maeve went missing?" Tara asked.

"He had a little rant and flat-out called Turner a bitch." Rossi still had the chills.

"Reid?"

"Yes. And when Morgan ignited a prank war, he even hacked his cell phone and MP3 player."

"And I even had to stop him from strangling…and even killing Cat Adams."

"Again, Reid?"

"Oh, yeah." JJ had to admit to herself, she wanted to let him get her for all she had put him through.

Alvez was just as shocked as Tara by this information. "Remind me never to get on Reid's bad side."

"We'll let you know if anything."

"Okay."

After Tara hung up, "Reid tried to kill Cat Adams?"

"Can't say I don't blame him."

"Agree."

"What did I miss?"

"We'll tell you when we get back."

"Also, I found some USBs in her locked media console."

"And I even found a locked safe hidden in her master bedroom." Tara also said.

"I'll go get it." Alvez offered to help carry it.

"Agents," One of the techs got their attention. "I think we got something."

The team noticed Alvez, Tara and Matt rushed into the room. "We found something. And really big."

"What did you guys find?"

Matt drops a bag on the table. "Micro-mini cameras."

Without warning and before anyone else can say anything, Garcia's computer screen goes dark as well as the big screen monitor.

"What the hell...?"

"I don't…."

Suddenly, a video came up,

"Oh god!"

And it was Élise.

"She looks drugged."

"And beaten, too," JJ added.

"Not to mention bound in chains." Tara also pointed out.

The team witnessed Élise being affected by the loud shriek before watching her being sprayed down with the hose; the team stared as they watched her lose her footing. "Oh! Stop! Stop!"

"No-no!" Garcia looked away; allowing Alvez to hug her and Alvez hugging her close to his chest to prevent her from seeing the screen.

"Have you had enough?"

"Please! Stop!"

"Yeah, she's had enough." JJ briefly has to look away; this reminded her of her own torture from years ago.

"Mmm, let me think about it…"

"This unsub's enjoying this." Simmons shook his head in disgusted.

"SSSSSSTTTTTTOOOOOOPPPPPP!"

The team noticed how Élise has affected by this unsub's torture. Her shallow breathing and sniffles, shivering body language; something told them this was just the beginning.

"Why?"

"Why not?"

The team stared in shocked when Élise screeched from the cattle prods touching her skin.

"Scream for me."

The team was so in shocked, they didn't even bother to see Reid was also watching Élise's torture.