--- This will probably be the last update for a while as I have tests to study for and my Twilight fanfic too. Thanks for the reviews! ---

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. -- Emma Goldman

"Have I got news for you!" Garcia proclaims when JJ answers the phone. "One second let me put you on speaker." JJ replies.

The team is still at the police station, staring at the wall where they have pinned up all the missing girls' pictures.

"Ok. Millicent Beck's mother, Gwendolyn Beck, was the one who homeschooled the girls. The other Mothers let her because Gwendolyn used to be a schoolteacher until she was stripped of her license when Millicent was only two of indefinable causes." "Why would the other Mothers entrust their children's schooling to a woman who wasn't allowed to teach?" Morgan questions.

"Garcia we need to know why Mrs. Beck was forbidden to teach at schools." Hotch says, "I'm on it." Garcia replies and then the phone goes dead.

"Where do you suppose Gwendolyn Beck is now?" Rossi asks, "If she died that could have been a trigger," Emily proposes. "Does that mean Millicent Beck is a suspect?" Reid inquires. The group shares a look.

And then – "Make sure both Nina and Millicent have police watching their houses." Hotch radios Police Chief Deluchi.

***

"Please let us go!" Jessica Bail begs. "Can you hear us? Millieeee!" Rebbeca Mowiere-Thompson yells. "Where are we?!" Patricia Cornwall groans.

The three women's ankles and wrists are bound and all three of them are tied to one another around the waist, making it impossible for them to get comfortable. They're in a room that is dank, dark, and cold. They don't get food – only water, and only when their captor remembers to find them. "Is anyone even looking for us?" Patricia, the woman who has been missing for the longest time, starts to weep quietly. "Yes," promises Rebecca, "Yes they are."

"But…what about Nina?" Jessica whispers.

***

"Guys listen to this," Garcia is back on speaker phone, "Gwendolyn Beck was kicked out of schools for good because she was rumored to hit her students however she wasn't given the boot until one little girl suffered a broken arm."

"So why would Mrs. Bail, Mrs. Tonova, Mrs. Harlow, and Ms. Thompson subject their daughters to this woman?" JJ repeats Morgan's previous enquiry. "Ten bucks she never told them." Garcia wagers. "We've got to go talk to the Mothers." Prentiss says. "Home visits will take to long. Just bring them in." decides Rossi.

***

In the end, the parents of all the girls – except Patricia's Father, who died of a heart attack long ago – show up at the station.

"How do you think they'll take it?" mutters Reid to JJ as the parents dribble in. "Not very well." JJ reasons.

"We called you in to ask you about Gwendolyn Beck, your daughters were all homeschooled by her until they were eight." Hotch begins. "You don't think it was her, do you? It couldn't have been. Last I checked she was in a nursing home with Alzheimer's." Mr. Mowiere says.

"Originally we thought this had something to do with women in the arts but now it seems as though this unsub is specifically targeting your daughters." Prentiss tells them. "Did any of you know that Mrs. Beck was abusive to her students?" Morgan continues. "Gwen was sweet as sugar. She never gave Jess a single scratch." Mrs. Bail argues.

"So none of you did know?" Rossi presses. All the parents shake their heads. "Why did you choose to homeschool your daughters in the first place?" Hotch has to ask.

"That's just it. If this is about our choice of education, then why haven't they gone after my sons as well?" Mr. Tonova inquires. "We all decided to give homeschooling a try. That's all." Ms. Thompson answers the question asked by the agents.

"Why did you stop?" Reid asks, "Well, Gwen had a baby. Simon. She had to look after him so we enrolled the children in school, and they just liked it so much they decided to stay." Mrs. Harlow explains.

"So tell us about your daughters high school experience. Were they athletic? Did they go out on dates?" Morgan asks. "They were the life of the party. Outgoing and spirited." Mrs. Bail replies. "All five of them?" Emily says. "No. Millicent stopped being their friend in grade ten. I never understood what the fight was about." Mrs. Tonova responds.

"I think we have all we need." Hotch finishes.

***

"Good afternoon agents. You've come again?" Millicent Beck answers her door, looking boredly at Rossi and Prentiss.

"Why didn't you tell us that they dumped you during tenth grade?" Rossi grills Millicent, not even waiting to be invited in. "Why? Is the fact that I spent the rest of high school being made an outcast by the girls I'd known my whole life somehow extremely important to you?" Millicent says blandly.

"What was it over?" Prentiss asks. "Goodbye." Millicent decides and shuts the door. "Ms. Beck open up this door immediately!" Rossi orders. "Millicent you are making one hell of a suspect, you know that!?" Prentiss shouts.

Millicent opens up the door again, "Suspect me all you want, but you can't arrest me." She slams the door this time.

"We can get a warrant," Rossi warns. Millicent's scoff can be heard, "I'd like to see you try!" she yells.