AN: Thanks to everyone who has reviewed and given me suggestions though I am still keeping the suggestions open :) so if you have an idea or would like to see something specific happen in the fic then let me know. I apologise for the delay in posting this latest chapter and for any errors that may have crept their way in. Thanks for reading.
Chapter 7 – Demands
Carina held her mobile phone to her ear; JJ and Henry were both sleeping peacefully as she awaited an answer. "You've reached Emily Prentiss, I can't take your call right now so leave a message and I'll get back to you."
"Hey Em it's Carina again. It's getting really late now and your dinner is stone cold. Just wanting to know where you are and if you're coming home soon, I'm getting worried. Well call me when you get this." Carina closed the phone and turned to the clock. It was midnight. "Where are you Em?"
The following morning JJ awoke to a splitting headache and walked down to the kitchen to take a few panadol for breakfast. She also checked on Henry who was wide awake but very quiet. She entered the kitchen to see Carina on her phone. "Morning," JJ greeted before she found the magic pill box and a glass. "Morning... Emily it's me again, you haven't come home all night now. I'm really worried. Please give me a call as soon as you can, bye," Carina finished, closing her phone with a sigh and putting it on the bench. "She'll be okay," JJ replied with a half smile. Suddenly the home phone rang making Carina jump, JJ went to answer it when Carina stopped her. "No JJ I've got this, how about you feed Henry his breakfast." JJ agreed before Carina answered.
"Hello," nothing but silence was on the other end. "Hello,"
"Carina is that you?"
"Yeah it's me," Carina replied. "Who is this?"
"It's Will, look I'm worried about JJ she didn't come home last night and she has Henry with her, is she there?" Carina thought about her reply but knew there was no question about how she should answer. "No I'm sorry she isn't but I'll be sure to let you know if I see her."
"Thanks I appreciate it, well I better go."
"Okay bye," Carina replied as the phone began beeping on the line. Carina looked down to JJ who was feeding Henry his breakfast. Her head turned to face her. "Was that will?"
"Yeah," Carina sighed. "That was Will."
Aaron Hotchner arrived at work early that morning and parked in his usual spot before arriving in the Bullpen and retrieved his morning cup of coffee. Sitting at his desk he began the gruelling task of completing the latest pile of paperwork from Strauss when he saw the members of his team arrive. Each one accounted and ready, except for one.
Walking into the Bullpen Hotch passed Derrick who was reading through his files and sipping a cup of coffee. "Morgan have you seen Prentiss come in?" He asked, trying to hide the concern in his voice. "No sorry Hotch, but it's not like Em to be..." he checked the time "two hours late for work!"
"I'm going to try and give her a call," Hotch explained taking his mobile phone, hitting Emily's speed-dial number and waiting for a response. All he got was message bank. "Emily its Hotch trying to find you, ring me back okay." Hotch hung up and walked around to Prentiss's desk, next to Derricks. He opened the top of her desk to see her personal belongings and inside the front, her contact book. Taking it out he found her home number and gave it a call. If this didn't work he would try JJ's cell. Placing the phone to his ear he waited for the ringing.
Carina had been sitting on the couch all morning, staring at the two phones sitting on the coffee table. The wireless home phone and her mobile. Henry was playing with JJ in Carina's room when suddenly the home phone rang making her both jump and grab the phone at the same time. "Emily?" Carina called.
"Uh no this is Agent Hotchner," Aaron replied.
"Sorry Agent Hotchner," Carina replied. "I have been waiting for a call from Emily."
"When did you last see her?" Hotch wondered.
"In the afternoon before she went to the BAU to talk to you about JJ's situation. She didn't come home. It's been over seventeen hours now."
"I'll get Garcia to run a trace on her phone. I'll call you when I find out anything."
"Appreciate it Hotch," Carina replied as the phone beeped again.
"Anything?" JJ asked, her head rounding the stairs. Carina just shook her head before she returned the phone to the coffee table, waiting for the call.
Garcia had been having a wonderful morning. She'd woken up fresh and new, Kevin had bought her flowers for their anniversary, she arrived to work to the smiles of the team and now she sat in her room with her furry friends typing away on the computer smiling to herself. Until Hotch opened the door behind her. "Morning Hotch," Garcia greeted with a smile.
"Morning, Garcia I need you to run a trace on Emily's mobile for me." Garcia's smile faded slowly.
"Why is something wrong?"
"She didn't return home last night, she hasn't called Carina and now she's late for work can you run the trace?"
"Sure," Garcia began, her fingers madly trying to create some magic. She desperately wanted to find her friends location but more than just find her, find her safe and secure. Another few key strokes and the trace and map was up. "According to the trace, Emily's in the car park." Hotch looked to Garcia with concerned eyes and before he knew it Morgan and himself were running out of the front lobby and around the car park until they saw her car. Walking over to it they saw that the door was open and her jacket was inside. On the ground was a small amount of blood caused by the hit she sustained to her head. Morgan looked around for her phone when he knelt and saw the phone under the car. Picking it up he looked through the message, there was one from Hotch and then another twenty from Carina. "Why would she leave her phone here?"
"She was smart," Hotch replied. "There are no real signs of a struggle." Hotch looked inside the car as Morgan approached him from the back of the car. "So you are trying to get into your car, I watch you from behind so you can't see me then I jump you. Maybe knock you to the ground or give you a punch to the head which could cause the blood. But what about the phone?" Morgan wondered.
"She knew that the unsub would take the phone from her and destroy it after he had her secure. Putting it under the car where he wouldn't check gave us the location to the car."
"So there is something in the car that's the clue to finding her?"
"I don't know," Hotch replied before Morgan pushed the car door with his hand.
"This doesn't make any sense Hotch!" He exclaimed, "Who would want to take Emily, she hasn't done anything to anyone."
"Look Morgan I know this is hard but we'll figure it out." Hotch explained.
Emily's head hadn't been this sore before. It felt like her brain was pounding against her skull. Opening her eyes with a grimace she lifted her head and tried to move her hands and feet. She couldn't. They had been handcuffed to the chair she was sitting on.
Looking around all Emily saw was darkness. Emily always hated the dark, not because of the dark itself, but because of what was lurking beneath. Her eyes began to focus on the darkness before it found one single, glimmer of light. A red flashing that occurred once every three or four seconds. Looking directly as it for a moment while trying to figure out how long she had been in this place she heard the door being opened. Light streamed into the room as a dark figure stood in the doorway. Unable to shield her eyes from the light using her hands Emily closed them and turned her head, trying to look at whoever it was.
The person stepped into the darkness and flicked a switch making the ceilings lights turn on to give a dull light in the room. Emily knew where she was then; it looked like the inside of a shipping container. "Morning Emily good to see you're awake."
"Will?" Emily squinted. "What are you doing?"
"I need my son back Emily, you took him from me."
"I didn't take anything from you," Emily protested. "You punched your wife in the face; you took them away from you all by yourself!" A loud punch to the face caused Emily's head to begin spinning.
"Look Emily we can do this two ways, the good or the bad. Which would you prefer?" Emily bit back on her teeth, holding back the urge to spit inside his face. "Neither," she finally answered.
"You have to choose one. I need my son back Emily and I will do whatever it takes to make sure that happens."
"You know that this isn't going to end well for anyone right? You do realise that?"
"That's why you're here," Will smiled. "You have two choices Emily. Tell me where JJ is or face the consequences."
Hotch entered the Bullpen again followed by an angry Morgan. Reid immediately got up from his chair as they walked to the briefing room. No JJ, no Rossi and no Emily meant it was three profilers and a technical analyst after the unsub all by themselves. "What's going on?" Reid asked. "Did you find her?"
"No," Morgan replied before clenching his back teeth against each other.
"We need to start working on the profile." Hotch concluded.
"High stakes target, high stakes area," Reid began, "you would need to have knowledge of the area to do that."
"And have a lot of guts," Morgan added. "How are we supposed to catch an unsub that we don't know anything about."
"We know more than you think," Garcia interrupted from the door. Hotch, Morgan and Reid all turned to see Garcia with tears in her eyes. Her breathing was rapid and her hands were shaking. "What Garcia?" Morgan asked placing his hands on her shoulders.
"It's Will, Will Montague, he's the kidnapper."
AN: Props go to calzonaobessed for guessing who the kidnapper was :) But do you think Emily will tell him where JJ is? And what are the consequences if she doesn't? Please don't forget to send me your suggestions in a review or PM.