-Lost in the Dark Chapter 2-
"Morgan, I think you need to take a look at this." Prentiss said taking out the duffel bags from the closet. Morgan moved from Kimberlee's bare desk and over to Emily. He looked over the bags and it looked like Kimberlee really wasn't planning to stay any longer, which explained why the room was hardly decorated.
"Why would she want to leave?" Morgan asked himself out loud.
"Well she wasn't going to leave without Janie. Her clothes are in the other bag." Prentiss added.
"It's not like Kimberlee to just up and leave. She must be running from something." Morgan noted.
"What could she be running from?" Prentiss asked Morgan who was racking his brain.
"She's too stubborn to leave without a fight. She's too much like her dad. This has to be something out of her hands.
"If Kimberlee was afraid she'd want to leave something behind, that wasn't too obvious, but would tell where she went." Prentiss concluded. In an instant Morgan and Prentiss began re-searching the room with a fine tooth comb.
Emily went back through the closet and then to the desk. Morgan looked under the bed and in the nightstand. After almost giving up, he took one last look at the picture on one of the night stands. It was the one with Kimberlee and her father. Morgan grabbed the picture and carefully took it out of its frame. As the picture smoothly slid out of its frame out came a silver key.
"Do you know what it goes to?" Prentiss asked Derek. Morgan looked over the key and thought silently for just a few minutes. Then, suddenly, his head shot up.
"I know where they are." Morgan declared. He rushed out of the room, with Prentiss close at his heels. He proceeded down the stairs and out to the back yard. He burst through the shed doors. He looked around the room as Emily entered. Morgan flipped the light switch and they flickered on.
"What're you looking for, Morgan?" Emily asked frantically. Morgan didn't answer. Instead, he looked down and under a carpet there was a cellar door.
Emily claimed the police already looked there, but Morgan opened it anyway. He and Prentiss walked cautiously down the steps to the cellar. There was nothing but wine bottles. Emily patted Morgan's shoulder, knowing he wishes this was leading somewhere. As she turned her back to go back up the stairs, he was taking down wine bottles. Emily turned back around to see that there was a hidden door behind the wine racks. Emily joined him by taking down the bottles and finally revealing the outline of a metal door. Morgan took out the key form his back pocket and unlocked the door. To his and Prentiss' relief, Janie and Kimberlee were there on the dirt floor.
Emily and Morgan rushed over to the girls. Janie opened her eyes and a small smile spread across her face, when she saw her Uncle Derek. Emily ran outside and called the paramedics in. She quickly made her way back in and wrapped Janie in her arms. Morgan ran to Kimberlee, who was in the corner and hadn't moved since he and Prentiss had found them. The paramedics came down and carried the girls to the ambulances. Derek and Emily followed the ambulance in the car to the hospital.
"We found the girls, Hotch." Morgan said into the phone. "We're heading to the hospital now."
"Great. You and Prentiss stay with them and Reid and JJ will meet you there." Hotch said and they hung up the phone.
-At the Hospital-
"Where are the girls?" JJ asked Prentiss as they waited in the hospital's waiting room.
"We found them in some underground wine cellar behind a hidden door." Emily answered her.
"That's some hiding spot. Where's Derek now?"
"He's with Kimberlee in one of the rooms. She woke up on the way here in the ambulance."
"What about the younger one…Janie?" JJ asked again.
"She's just a little shaken up. There was no evident physical damage. It didn't even seem like our UNSUB touched her.
As their conversation came to a close, Hotch came over with another case file in his hands. It was another homicide like the case the team was currently working. The mother was shot and strangled and the father was reported missing the night of the homicide. Everyone but Prentiss and Morgan went back to the Chicago police station. They went back to compare the newly found case and the one they were currently working.
Prentiss left the waiting room and made her way down the hallway to meet Morgan, who was trying to get Kimberlee to talk to him. He was having no luck with making her talk. When Prentiss reached her room, she saw Morgan sitting next to the bed with Kimberlee's back to him. He was sitting there with his head in his hands. She walked into the room and brought over a chair on the other side of the bed. She looked at Kimberlee who had bandages on her left cheek and stitches on her forehead and obvious bruises on her arms and a colored back eye. Emily wasn't sure if those were defensive wounds or whether she was beaten just because. She looked at Kimberlee further and noticed Kimberlee didn't even acknowledge that she was there. Kimberlee just stared through her like a glass wall.
"Baby Girl, please talk to me…" Morgan pleaded. Emily looked over Kimberlee and over at Morgan. His worry lines were showing and he was rubbing his hands together. He only did that when he was nervous.
"Kimberlee, I'm Emily Prentiss, I…" Emily started to say but she was cut off by a rugged voice.
"I know who you are…You work with him." Kimberlee said curtly. Emily was taken aback by her tone.
"Yes, I work with your uncle." Emily started again. "Can you tell us what happened that night?"
"Where's Janie?" Kimberlee asked her. She finally gave Prentiss eye contact.
"Janie's fine, but we need you to tell us what happened." Prentiss said again "All we need to know is what they did."
"They killed my mom…right in front of me." Kimberlee said coldly and the eye contact was broken. Kimberlee closed her eyes and they shot right back open. The only thing she could see behind her closed eyes was the dead stare of her mother. It was a blank stare…there was no life in her brown eyes. Her life bled right out of her.