Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds, just the scenarios I stick the characters in.

Here's chapter 5. Just an FYI, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. But I believe in a happy ending. Don't worry, Eden will be reunited with her family.

Eden's screams would haunt Penelope for the rest of her life. Watching Kevin using a metal pole to burn her daughter because of the wrongs she'd done to him almost twenty years ago made her feel like her entire world would be consumed with guilt. She felt like she'd failed her daughter, not having protected her against the darkness that her ex-husband was clearly dabbling in these days. Penelope cried and JJ came and put her hands on her shoulders in an attempt to keep her calm.

When Kevin reappeared from behind Eden's pained form, he grinned, clearly proud of his malicious handiwork and snickered at the camera, "Do you see how much you failed her? Do you see how terrible you are as a mother to Derek Morgan's children?"

"Don't listen to a word he says," Eden shouted.

"Shut up!" Kevin shouted at her, hitting her in the face and knocking her out.

Clenching her hands into fists, Penelope glared at Kevin and said, "When we find you, you sick wack-job, we're going to lock you up for the rest of your despondent existence. And if you somehow get away, we'll track you to the ends of the earth and there will be no, I repeat, no place for you to hide." She paused to make sure her words sunk into his greasy skull. "We'll find you. And we will kill you if we have to."

All Kevin did was shake his head and laugh and turn off the laptop's camera, making Penelope's screen go black.

"All you were doing was giving him what he wanted, you know that," Hotch cautioned Derek as he sat with his head in his hands in his office. "He wanted to see you do that!"

"Sometimes you just can't always stay in frigid control, Hotch!" Derek shouted. "That maniac has my daughter and who knows what he's done to hurt her. What if he rapes her, huh? I wouldn't be able to survive knowing that the man who almost stole Penelope away from me took my little girl away from us for good. I won't let her suffer like that."

Hotch looked at him, his face softening. "You're going to get your daughter back. It'll take time to heal, but she's strong, just like her mother. She'll come back to her own self when she's out of there."

Looking at Hotch for a long moment and seeing the compassion his friend held for his daughter written all over his face, Derek finally broke down and let his tears fall.

Penelope, Rossi, Reid, and JJ sat in mostly eerie silence, save for the crying Penelope couldn't stop. JJ wrapped her arms around her and held her tightly as she cried. A few of Rossi's tears fell onto is jacket and he quickly tried to wipe them away. He'd been the one to walk Penelope and Eden down the aisle at her wedding. He couldn't bear the thought of the little girl he'd watched grow up into a wonderful, yet rebellious young woman being harmed in any way shape or form.

Reid was staring out the window of the room, seeming to be asking the skies why something so terrible was hitting them at that moment. The young genius was remembering all the times he'd helped the extremely bright Eden with her homework that she was having trouble understanding. He hoped to God he would be doing it for another fifty years, but he was weighing the probability in his head and the odds weren't against them, but they weren't for them either.

JJ was wiping away tears from her face as she watched her best girlfriend break down of the abduction of her daughter and the torture she'd just witnessed at the hands of a man she thought she once loved. It was one of the most painful things she'd ever experienced. It was even worse than when Henry had gone away to college or Will had died during a shooting.

But it was Penelope who was feeling the worst. She had wanted desperately for Eden to beg her to save her, but instead she told her not to. She told her to stay away from Kevin whom she was certain would hurt her if she got close enough. Watching him torture and burn her daughter because of her filled her chest cavity with so much pain that she thought she might explode from guilt. It wouldn't matter what anyone said: this was her fault and on one else's.

Derek and Hotch returned, but Emily had stayed with Haley because the little girl became inconsolable after she'd seen her father being dragged hollering from the round table room. When Derek returned, he looked ashamed of himself and Penelope got up to wrap herself in his arms. He gratefully took her embrace and buried his face in her neck.

"Alright, were you able to find anything regarding his whereabouts?" Hotch asked Penelope. "Any trace of where the signal might be coming from?"

"Kevin's a techie, so he knew how to cover his tracks," Penelope said, pulling away from Derek. Her neck was wet with his tears. "He knows we can't track him that way. I did have someone talking to the school. It looks like he forged the right documents to make people think he was a qualified teacher. We have an address he gave them."

Derek shook his head. "We're not going to find anyone there."

"Maybe there will be something that will lead to his location, though. Plans or directions of some sort," JJ said thoughtfully. "We need to check it out."

Hotch crossed his arms over his chest and said, "JJ's right. Alright, Morgan you are only – I repeat, only allowed to come if you can keep your cool. We're not going to find them there, but you are going to find things you don't like. He knows about you and Penelope, about your children, about your routines and he was good enough to stay in hiding for sixteen years. Am I perfectly clear?"

Derek gave him a stiff nod. "Crystal."

Turning to Penelope, he put a hand on a hand on her shoulder. "Penelope, you need to stay with your children. You'll be kept in the loop at all times. But your kids need their mother right now."

Penelope nodded and moved to hug Derek tightly. His arms wrapped around her again and he rested his chin on her head. "Bring my baby home to me," she whispered into his chest.

"I will," he promised. Pulling her face to his, Derek kissed her.

"Mom?"

Penelope looked up from her place on Hotch's office couch. Asher had lain down and was asleep with his head upon her lap while Aiden had his head laying on her shoulder. Haley had gone to get some apple juice, but now she appeared in the doorway, juicebox in hand.

"Yeah baby?" she said softly. The baby of the family was taking her sister's disappearance much harder than her brothers.

"Why did that guy take Eden?" she asked. She took a sip of her juice and looked at her mother expectantly.

Penelope blinked, trying to decide how to explain what happed all those years ago. Having never anticipated Kevin returning to her life and abducting Eden, she never thought she'd have to tell her children about her and Derek's beginnings as a couple. That they had truly been brought together because the baby she thought was Kevin's was in fact Derek's.

"Yeah," Asher said, sitting up. Apparently he was awake. "Who is he?" Aiden was also looking up at her now and she was left in staring range of her twin sons and tween daughter.

Sighing, she motioned for Haley to join them on the couch and began to tell them the true story of how their parents had come together.

"Clear!" Derek said gruffly after he'd checked around the house. It was simply furnished, only having the basic needs to live. But what he found in a separate part of the house disturbed him the most. Surveillance photos of him and Penelope. Pictures of their children at all stages of their lives. The wedding announcement in the paper from when Penelope and he had gotten married. On a desk he found notebooks, all of them containing information about the daily life and routine of the Morgan household.

He glared, looking all around the room and finally he became so angry he punched a wall, damaging the plaster and leaving a gaping hole behind.