Sorry this is really late, I've been.. struggling with some things. But here we are, next chapter:

The rest of the day was unsuccessful in trying to find out what had happened those two years ago. But after a night of fitful sleep for myself, we were all back at the office ready to try again.

Getting my second cup of coffee, black, with one spoonfull of sugar, of the hour, I rubbed my eyes knowing I must have dark half moons underneath.

"Late night?" Emily teases.

I smirked tiredly and shrugged, "maybe," I played along for the moment.

JJ laughed as she walked by, "what was it? Another Lord of the Rings date?" She asked referring to a few months ago when they had found out I had binge watched the whole trilogy.

"Ha. Ha. Ha." I said sitting down offering no further information.

"Guys," Penelope said urgently walking up, "guys Lanie's gone. I got a report that says a family member called the police this morning after she never came home and no one could reach or find her. I tried her cellphone, but the battery must be out," she looked worried, "At the moment, i don't know where she is."

I looked over at Morgan, where could she be? Was Lanie involved with whatever had went on? Or did someone just think she knew something? We have to figure this out.

After a bit of discussion, we left Reid to look over Jean's journal again and JJ and Emily to look through survalence and whatever else they could find. Derek and I went back out to where we had found Lanie the day before.

"I'm the boss," a average height, stocky dark haired man said wiping his hands with a towel as he walked over to us. He tosses the towel over his shoulder and shook our hands, "Tony," he told his name, "what can I do ya for?"

"Agents Morgan and O'Neil," Morgan told he man, "FBI, we were here yesterday to talk to one of your employees, Lanie, can you tell us when she left yesterday?"

"Oh Lanie? She left not long after y'all was here, some guy came in and told her somethin then left. Then about, I don't know, five minutes later she just left," he shrugged, "what's she do so bad to get the FBI involved?"

"We can't disclose any information sir, do you know who the man was?" I asked.

"Ehh, I don know, probably a boyfriend or somethin, been here a couple times before."

"Can we see your survalence video?" Morgan asked.

"Yea sure, back here," Tony lead the way. "Look I gotta get back to work, just don't mess nothin up, k?"

"We won't, thank you for your time Tony." I said and he strode back to the kitchen.

Morgan got out his phone as I sat down at the computer and started typing back to yesterday's video.

"Hey Baby Girl, we've got survalence from her work, you got anything around?" Derek asked Pen.

"You got it handsome," he could hear her typing away, "who we looking for?"

"Not sure yet, we'll send you pics when we got em."

"I'll be waiting."

They hung up and I pointed to the screen, while plugging in my phone, "got him Derek," I told him downloading the feed, "give me just a minute and I'll send it to Pen.

"Alright, you finish here, I'll hit see if any of the other employees know anything." Morgan moved out of the small room to the others.

After a few minutes, I'd finally got what we needed and I went to find Morgan.

"Thank you for your time," he told a small brunette girl as I caught up to him.

"Did you get anything?" I asked after she had walked away.

"His name could be Andrew or Karl," he shook his head, "other than that, I'd doesn't seem she ever talked about him, and avoided questions about him."

"Well, we got pictures," I said holding up my phone, Penelope should get something soon.

Just as we were getting back in the car, Derek's phone rang, "what ya got for us hot stuff?"

"Video from across the street got both of them getting into a dark blue sedan, tinted windows, it's too far away to make out the driver, but they went right, away from town." I'll keep looking and run facial rec, see if we get anything."

"Good work" he slid his phone back in his pocket, "not much to go on," he sighed.

"A girl goes missing two years ago, turns up beaten, and, raped," I cleared my throat uncomfortably, "and now, her best friend just leaves with a mystery man right after we talk to her.. What on earth is going on here?"

"Morgan pauses before getting in the drivers seat, "I don't know, but I have a feeling we need to find out soon before someone else turns up dead."

We sighed and climbed in, "yeah," I agreed, "we need to figure this out."

Back at base, we waited impatiently for a lead. Reid didn't find anything that seemed to lead to anything in he diary, but had decided to go back over it again, looking for any small detail that might suggest something. The computer and ourselves were still trying to find Lanie and whoever the others were with her, but were coming up empty. It was an awful feeling knowing we just found a girl dead and now we had just lost her friend and couldn't find her. It was bad enough to find Jean dead, but to lose more people in the process of trying to figure out what had happened on the first day we had even reached out... what the hell was going on?

I sighed and ran my hands through hair. I was so exhausted, mostly mentally. Today just wasn't a good day. I could feel the tension in my head of an unavoidable, oncoming migraine. 'Great,' I thought to myself, 'today is just a wonderful day..'

I grabbed my bag from beside my chair and dig through it trying to find the medicine bottle, it had to be in there, already, the lights were getting too bright and I was nauseous. Frustrated I started pulling things out and setting them on the table ignoring the looks from the others. Pressing one hand to my head, I used my legs and table to hold my bag while I squinted at the contents. Finally finding what I needed, I handed the bottle to Rossi who was sitting beside me.

"Will you open that?" I said softly, "give me two of them." I pushed my journal, pens, pencils, extra pair of socks, scrunchie, compact, chapstick, hand sanitizer, my Perks of Being a Wallflower book and earbuds back into my bag and accepted the pills Rossi held out. I dry swallowed them and tossed the bottle in with my other things. Usually I caught it before it was this bad, but this one was sneaky. I pulled a piece of sweet mint gum from my pocket and popped it in my mouth to help with my nausea as I stood and mumbled that I would be back in a few minutes. Quickly I made my way to the restroom and leaned heavily on the sink.

Turning on the cold water, I ran it over my hands. Shaking off the excess water, I placed my hands on either side of my forehead and pressed. It helped a little. Hopefully it wouldn't be too long before I could go back and join them.

(Back in the room)

Confused, the others looked at Rossi for an explanation.

"Migraine," he said, he looked slightly worried, but didn't say anything else.

"I'm going to go check on her," Emily said quietly standing up. Everyone nodded and looked back to their work knowing Emily could take care of it.

"Kate?" I heard Emily call to me, though softly. To my right, he door opened slowly and Emily came in.

My hands still on my temples, I squinted at her, "I'm okay Em," I mumbled.

"Here," she held out a bottle of water she had grabbed ont he way, "drink some." Her voice was soft and gentle. I accepted the bottle and took a swig of the cold liquid. I stepped back and leaned against the wall closing my eyes.

Emily joined me against the wall. "Migraines suck don't they?" She said after about fifteen minutes.

"Yeah they do," I agreed, rubbing my face and taking a deep breath feeling a bit better. We stood this way for a few more minutes, in comfortable silence. I was glad someone was with me, even if we weren't talking.

"I think we should probably go back," I said eventually straightening my shoulders and sighing. "Thank you."

"No problem," she smiled.

Back in the room, I saw Penelope typing away concentrating on her screen. The others looked at me slightly concerned, but Pen caught our attention with a startled exclamation.

"Oh! Look! We got a hit on him!" She quickly pulled up any information she could. "Looks like his name is Jack, Jack Doorm, 31, 6'1", grey eyes, brown hair, aand, no record of owning a house or renting, He has two charges of assault both five years ago." She paused, scanning her screen, "I still don't know where they ar- oh! Found the car!"

"Well we know who he is, and where he car is. It's a start." Hotch said standing, "Rossi, Prentiss, come with me, we'll go look into it, Garcia, send us the address."

"You got it boss."

I let my eyes close and leaned my head into my hands relieved I wasn't having to do anything right now.

"Everyone else stay here, see if you can't find out more." Though I couldn't see Hotch looked at me pointedly, silently telling the others to make sure I was alright.

"We'll check in as soon as we get something."

Rossi laid a hand on my shoulder and squeezed comfortingly as he passed me, I looked up and gave a small smile.

"Go to my office, lie down and rest for a while," Rossi told me softly, "you look like you didn't sleep at all last night."

I nodded, but didn't move. To be honest, I didn't want to be alone. The lights weren't helping me any nor the noise, but there was something in the back of my mind that just kinda made me not want to be alone or to sleep.

After the three left, Reid, and JJ went to go do other things. I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my face. Morgan was talking to Penelope quietly. They both turned to me when I tilted my chair and almost fell out slapping my hands on the table as I jerked out of my half-sleep. They both looked concerned and Morgan a little amused. I smiled sheepishly when Morgan held a hand toward me.

"Let's go princess," he said lifting my bag and leading me out with a reassuring nod to Penelope.

"I heard Rossi. And agree with him. I also know that you're not going unless someone makes sure you do."

I followed silently, pondering if there was any way I could get out of this. In the short walk though, I knew it was unavoidable.

'Why do I have to be so weak?' I thought as we got to the door. 'Why is it now after so many years of being able to hide it all... why can't I just be strong about it all?'

"Alright," Derek said setting my bag beside the small couch. "Nice comfy bed, just for you." He smiled.

I just stood there, arms hugging myself, though I did manage a half smile. My eyes searched the floor, and a small part of me wished he would leave, so I wouldn't have to be seen as weak. I wanted others to think I was strong.

"You alright?" He asked gently.

Swallowing thickly, I gritted my teeth.

"Kate, c'mon," he urged, "what's going on?"

"I, I just, I don't know," I ended quietly brows drawing together.

Derek waited patiently as I searched my thoughts.

"I guess it's just that I've never really had anyone I could trust before, and I've kept everything hidden for so long..." my voice broke, "it scares me in a way. I know I can trust all of you, I know I have a family here, but it scares me. A small part of my mind keeps telling me that it's not true, that you'll all desert me or something, I don't know, I've never been able to trust anyone. It's stupid I know," I sighed squeezing my arms closer, I closed my eyes against the tears that pressed, "I'm stupid," I whispered more to myself than anyone.

"You're not stupid Kate," Morgan whispered understandingly.

"I'm scared for no reason though," I say voice wavering slightly.

"It's not for no reason. And it's ok to be scared." He squeezed my shoulders, watching my face.

I nodded and sighed, "I hate the way I think."

"I understand that," he smiled at me. "Right now you need that rest though."

"I'll try," I bit my lip, then sat down.

"We are just down the hall." Morgan handed me the blanket. "Lights?"

"Can you leave on the desk lamp?" I shifted uncertainly.

"Absolutely." He switched it on and flipped off the main light. "Need anything else?"

I shook my head softly and curled my legs up.

"I'll come back in about an hour or two, unless something comes up." He exited the room leaving the door ajar.

With a deep breath, I pull out my phone and headphones. Turning on some soft music, I rested my head on the armrest and fell asleep shortly after.

... So, I know it's short and doesn't really give much info, but it's all I've got at the moment. I can't promise anything, but im going to try to get out the next part somewhat soon. Luv you guys.