AN: Thanks for the reviews everyone. I really appreciate them. Sorry about the chapters length but others will be longer I promise.

Chapter 9 – Mind Games and Messages

Morgan watched as Emily was hit across the face. Garcia left, she couldn't handle it anymore. There was no need for her to see any more than she already had. Hotch still stood, frozen to the spot. He knew they had to get Emily back but he wasn't going to give in just yet. Carina too was frozen to the floor looking to an exhausted Emily as she spat the blood that had collected in her mouth to the floor. She couldn't believe that such a strong person could look so defeated. Maybe her compartmentalization skills would kick in, maybe she could lock this event away with the others that she had lost through the years, or maybe not.

"Why'd you do it?" Emily finally breathed. "Why... did you... hit JJ?"

"You don't need to know." Will replied wiping the blood from the knuckle buster.

"At least... give me a reason," Emily sighed.

"I look after Henry every day. He did something, I yelled at him, she said that I shouldn't yell at my kid. That I was a bad father because all I ever did was yell at him and ignore his cries at night." Emily remembered the conversations she had with JJ where she talked about how little sleep she was getting because of that very reason. "She came home, I had put Henry to sleep and was having some drinks. I lost it. I hit her twice in the head, before I knew it she was out the door, had my kid in her arms screaming and that was it. I am a good father. I do everything for Henry when she is busy working all the time, she never has a break. And she had the hide to turn around and say that I was a bad father?"

"All that over a title?"

"At least I have one, what are you to Carina? Her Guardian? Huh what kind of title is that? She doesn't call you mom; you don't call her your daughter. At least I have a son and am trying everything I can to get him back."

"This isn't... the right way to go about it. You... you know that right?"

"And who would the court believe? Me, the housewife, or the FBI Agent working everyday to save people lives and catch criminals. Who would they give custody to?" Emily was too tired and sore to reply. "I thought so," Will replied. "Sleep, get some rest, tomorrow I make a deal."

"Carina," JJ tried to comfort.

"NO!" Carina yelled pushing JJ's hands from approaching her. "She can't compartmentalise this," Carina cried leaning back from JJ. "This kind of trauma kills people. This kind kills who they are, who they think they should be, this changes their lives completely."

"But Emily is not like anyone else. She has been through hell and back. She will be okay."

"Hotch we need to do something!" Morgan yelled. "We have to help her."

"I know," Hotch retaliated, his voice more emotional than usual. "But we have no idea about her location, none of Garcia's searches have given us a clue."

"He's too smart," Reid began calmly turning to the two bickering gentlemen. "Will worked in criminal law enforcement for years, his father worked as an officer too. He knows the system, he knows how it will work. He knows what you search for."

"So what do we do, if we can't find him..." Morgan replied.

"Get him to come to us," Hotch concluded before he ran toward Garcia's room faster than his feet could carry him. Morgan following closely behind. The door opened suddenly making Garcia jump in her chair. "You gave me a heart attack."

"Sorry," Hotch replied. "Have you found out what signal he's using?"

"Nothing, he has redirected it so many times that I can't find the source."

"Garcia is it possible to change the signal he's using to transmit the video by reversing it?"

"It could be," Garcia replied thinking carefully. "I might be able to find a way to hack the signal and then plant a virus to activate the speaker system on the video recorder so that we can get a message out to him through it."

"Go for it Baby Girl," Morgan began before Garcia intertwined her fingers and gave them a crack. "Wait for the magic boys."

"Now if we do get it done what do we say?" Morgan inquired.

"Something about a trade Emily for Henry," Hotch replied.

"What?" Morgan yelled. "Hotch that wouldn't work, I mean the guy is acting irrationally but he knows that we wouldn't give up Henry that easily right."

"That's why we do it," Hotch explained. "He thinks like a cop right, he knows all about law enforcement and he can avoid us. But he isn't a criminal. He is just a desperate man who wants his life back. Get JJ in here. When Garcia is finished we'll talk to Emily by herself if he isn't there. Maybe she can figure something out."

"I sure hope your right," Morgan sighed.

AN: The fight is coming to the BAU :)