Hi everyone, updating a bit early in the week. Needed a mental health break, so obviously that meant working on this story. There's actually three new chapters instead of the two I usually post. To bigtimedreamer101: Thank you so much for your kind words! It means a lot that you like this story so much. I can't wait for you to read more! To BJames: Glad you like it! Hope you like this new update! To Tannerrose5: Thanks so much for your input and kind words! I love reading your comments. Hope these next few chapters are exciting enough for you! To ahowell1993: They're definitely heading down the path of remorse and redemption. To everyone else: Keep reading and reviewing! Hope you guys are enjoying reading as much as I'm enjoying writing it!

Warnings: Mild language and hints of torture.

Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Criminal Minds or its characters. This is only for my and others' enjoyment.

Chapter 9:

At first there was silence, everyone was reeling at the shock of watching their teammate and friend put in mortal peril once again. No one knew what to say, but they could only guess what they were all feeling; deep, bone-crushing guilt. JJ blamed herself for leaving the BAU and for being the reason Reid had such a negative reaction to revolvers. Garcia blamed herself for being unable to track their boy genius' whereabouts. Morgan blamed himself for not keeping a better eye on Reid. He had promised Gideon that he would always protect the kid, but when Reid needed him most, Morgan had always been too late. Hotch and Rossi both blamed themselves for not taking care of the youngest BAU member, a man they had both adopted into their families. As for Prentiss, it was nearly impossible for her to prevent herself from being consumed with guilt. None of this would have happened if she had never joined the BAU. The only one not consumed in self-pity was Seaver, if only because she was staring at the computer screen in confusion.

"Play it again." she said. The others all looked at her with dubious expressions. Watching the video had been painful enough the first time, why did she want to watch it again? Seaver herself wasn't entirely sure about why she wanted to revisit the video of a helpless Reid, but she remembered him telling her about an emergency precaution he'd put into place for abductions. Closing her eyes, she attempted to recall exactly what the protocol was. "Third word, second letter, every sentence." She muttered to herself. "What?" JJ asked in confusion. Seaver gave her a sheepish grin, she hadn't realized that her musings had been vocal. "Um, Spencer told me what to look for if he was ever abducted and his captors sent a video. He, um, he said that I should look for the first letter of the third word in every sentence. It would spell out some sort of message. Please play it again." "Seaver, how do you know this?" "Hotch, I will gladly explain, but please let me see if this works first."

Aware of the dubious gazes she was receiving from the team, Seaver grabbed a notepad and restarted the video. Five sets of eyes watched as she quickly scribbled: igympmlgthwatmimmjoicttwiiospwpirtteaideth. "What does that mean?" Garcia asked. "I'm not sure exactly." Seaver admitted. "Do you have a code generator installed on your laptop?" "Yes, wait, do you think this is some sort of code?" "Yea, Spencer said that there would be a website, a login, and a password." Seaver crossed her fingers, hoping that the code she'd just had Garcia input wasn't utter gibberish.

"Got it!" Garcia yelled excitedly. "The website is http: .com. The login is pitchoillimit and the password is hmgjsiy!" Ashley let out a small sigh of relief as Morgan gave her a congratulatory pat on the shoulder. Within a minute of obtaining the breadcrumbs Reid had cleverly left, she was into what looked like a map. "What is that?" she asked. "It looks like some sort of tracking signal." Morgan said, squinting at the map. "What the hell are they doing in Boston? Emily?" Five pairs of eyes looked anxiously over to Prentiss, who had gone pale at the mention of Reid's general location. "Boston is where I first met Ian." she answered in a shaky voice. "Garcia, does the signal tell you exactly where in Boston he is?" "Unfortunately not. Reid's GPS only tells what major city he's in." "So he might not even be in Boston?" Rossi asked. "No, Ian would definitely taken him to Boston if he's in the Massachusetts area." Prentiss said.

"Well, at least we know where to start." Hotch said. "Yeah, and there's a good chance that what the kid said was just to push us in the right direction." Morgan said, voice rising in excitement. "What?" he asked, noting Seaver's dubious expression. "I wouldn't be so sure." she murmured. "Does this go back to you knowing about Reid's failsafe when no one else did?" Hotch asked. Seaver gave a small nod, "Well, considering that we're still going to need to wait for you, Garcia, and Prentiss to be released; you might as well tell us."

Seaver gave an uncomfortable sigh, "Um, first off, you all need understand that I'm not some expert on Spence." "I thought I was the only one who called him that." JJ muttered. Seaver flushed red, Damn I didn't mean for that to slip out. "JJ, please focus!" Hotch admonished, "Go on Seaver." Seaver took a calming breath and continued, "As I was saying, I'm not some huge expert on Reid. I just remember after the Florida case Reid came up to me and mentioned that he had a failsafe for if he was ever abducted. He told me that the failsafe would come in the form of a spoken message and it would contain an ip address, a username, and a password. He said that the password would have something to do with all of our names. Ie: h for Hotch, m for Morgan, g for Garcia, j for JJ, s for me, i for Rossi, and y for Emily." "But why did he tell you?" Morgan asked. "Morgan," Hotch warned, "stop interrupting." "I was going to get to that." Seaver said. "It, um, it started after the first case I had with you guys. You know, the one with the father murdering all those women in that community." Seaver closed her eyes as the memory of that fateful night overtook her.

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