A/N: Edited by dear old editor frog, I love that woman..! Thankyou for your lovely reviews!

SSA Derek Morgan sat by the wheel of the dark Nissan Terrano, driving towards the next house on the checklist. The older agent next to him, Jason Gideon, sat quiet, looking out the window at the passing neighborhoods. The frown had not yet left his face. The same traces of reflection could be seen on the younger agent's face. He let his fingers tap the steering wheel.

"Did something about that seem weird to you?"

Gideon had anticipated the question aimed at him, already having the answer ready in his mind. "Yes." He still gazed out the window, leaning on the armrest by the door.

"Should I call Garcia?"

Without moving a muscle, Gideon answered. "Yes."

Morgan reached into his pocket, pulling out his cell phone. Garcia was about to get another call from her ebony knight in shining armor, putting her to hard work by her computer.

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Penny calmly walked into the kitchen. The crash that was heard would surely have been enough to tip the two agents off. Fortunately, it had occurred just a few moments too late to have any impact. The feds had already left. And Penny was not happy. Pacing slowly on the kitchen floor, she got herself more and more worked up with irritation.

You stupid, stupid man. You have no idea what you just did.

She walked up to the kitchen counter and pulled out a drawer. She took a few items from it, holding them in her right hand. Closing the drawer, she turned around and strolled out into the hallway, setting her sight on the basement door. All the time she was humming a tune from a cat food commercial she had heard on TV the other day.

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Minutes before, Reid had slowly opened his eyes. His confused head ached tremendously and he spit blood. It took him a few moments to realize where he was and what he was doing there, but when the pain in his face and the cold of his body hit him he instantly remembered everything. The young doctor's nose was bleeding, as was the inside of his mouth. He could feel the warm drops running down his cheek.

Moving his head slightly to the right, the young man suddenly heard voices. Familiar voices. Morgan... And Gideon! He opened his mouth to yell, but all that left his lips was a dull croak. "Gideon..!" His voice refused to work properly, perhaps from all the screaming he did a while ago. No matter the reason to his loss of vocal abilities, panic began to build inside Reid's chest. He had to let them know he was down there!

Ignoring the pain in his head, the young agent lifted himself up onto his elbow, twisting his arm to the brink of dislocation. Looking around for something to use to call attention to his predicament, his eyes landed on a shelf a few feet to the right of his head. He began kicking his legs to turn around, despite the bolts of pain shooting through his arms. It took the bound doctor a good minute to get on his other side, and he frantically began pushing with his legs to tip the shelf over. He could still hear the voices of Morgan and Gideon, and unfortunately – Penny – from upstairs.

Tears ran down his face from the pain in his arms and head, but he prayed that the two agents on the next floor would hear his desperate attempt to signal them. Oh, god – please! Let them hear me! Let them find me!

The shelf began to wobble. A spark of hope lit in the eyes of young doctor Reid as he pushed it harder with his bare feet. Fall! Fall, goddamnit! Suddenly, the shelf leaned enough for the junior agent to give it a final kick, making it slowly tip over, crashing to the ground with a deafening noise.

Reid felt relief. Now all he had to do was wait.

A minute went by. Then two. At least three minutes went by, and there was not a sound. No Morgan. No Gideon. Slowly, a startling realization came over the young doctor. The agents hadn't heard his assisted cry for help. But Penny had.

At that very moment, Reid gasped as he heard the basement door open, very slowly. The steps that followed on the stairs were equally slow and chilling. The young agent shivered on the ground, freezing and scared out of his mind. He couldn't scream for help, and the two agents who had been there were fooled by Penny's mock innocence and had left, not realizing Reid was being held captive in the basement by an insane teenager.

And now... Now he was in more danger than ever.

The steps finally stopped at the base of the staircase. Reid stared in utter fear at his captor who was staring straight back at him. The black eyes seemed to bore straight through him. But the one thing that terrified the young man more than anything was what the teenage brunette before him held in her hands.

A grater; a meat tenderizer; and a small, sharp knife.

A/N: Stay tuned for another chilling episode of Camera Obscura..!