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The seven of them split into two groups one going to the victims house and the other to the police station to get set up. Hotch went with Detective Kinder to the police station. The detective filled him in on the case and by the end of the car ride Hotch had decided he did not like the detective. He was clearly more concerned about his career and how the BAU could help him climb to the top then helping the victims or solving crimes.
Morgan and JJ knocked on the door of the victims house and waited for the door to opened. A frazzled looking middle aged woman opened the door. They could hear children yelling in the back ground.
"Yes?!" She asked shortly. Morgan and JJ flashed their badges.
"Mrs Rodge? We're from the FBI and we here about the disappearance of Max Jones." Morgan explained. Mrs Rodge sighed.
"I explained everything to the police earlier. There's nothing more I can tell you." She went to close the door but JJ prevented her from doing so.
"Mrs Rodge we're from the behavioral annalists unit in the FBI and we could help you find your son." Mrs Rodge snorted.
"He was not my son. He was a foster child." Morgan temper flared at the woman's manner but they needed to learn about Max so he kept his mouth shut.
"We could learn a lot about Max from his room and belongings. Can we please take a look?" She stared at them for a minute longer before letting them in. She led them into the kitchen.
"Wait here." She snapped and headed down the corridor. Morgan raised his eyebrows to JJ who shrugged. Mrs Rodge returned with a box of children toys and some clothes. Morgan glanced through it.
"Um sorry Mrs Rodge. Where's Max's room?" She raised her eyebrows.
"Its packed up. Another child sleeps in his bed now. Beside Max just probably ran away. That's all there is left." She turned away to deal with two little toddlers fighting.
Morgan began to spread Max's belongings on the table. A few stuffed teddy's, school books and clothes made. That was all. Morgan sighed. No personal essay were written in the books and all of the toys and clothes were all ancient.All were clearly hand-me-downs and nothing was personal enough to gain an expression of Max's character. Morgan sighed, frustrated. JJ turned back to Mrs Rodge.
"Mrs Rodge. Would it be okay if we talked to the other children about him? To see what he was like?" Mrs Rodge was about to refuse when an older girl of about 14 came in and helped herself to the fridge. She turned to JJ and Morgan.
"I remember Max. Cute Kid. Really quite though. His mum and dad died in a car accident and he had no other family so he ended up here. He still missed them terribly. I used to comfort him." Morgan sighed with relief. Finally they had a break.
"Would Max just have run away? Tried to find his old family or anything like that." The girl frowned and shook her head.
"No." She drew out the sound. "He was a nervous kid. Like nervous of strangers and strange places ya know? I can't see him just running off." JJ smiled at the young girl.
"Thank you. You've been a big help." The girl smiled back at her. Morgan and JJ turned back to Mrs Rodge.
"Mrs Rodge, if you don't mind us asking, where's your husband?" She pursed her lips. The young girl quickly went outside.
"He died last month." JJ offered her sympathy's. She glared at her.
"If your done I'd like you to leave." They knew it was time for them to go and thanking Mrs Rodge they left. Morgan drove them back to the station. JJ rang Hotch and told him what they had learnt. She hung up the phone. Silence descended in the car. Morgan broke it.
"Can you believe Emily's pregnant." JJ laughed quietly.
"I was just thinking that. Every since that case (Look up) I knew she would be a really good mother." Morgan raised his eyebrows.
"How did you know that?" JJ looked surprised.
"You didn't know?" Morgan shook his head. "She wanted to take the little girl home. Hotch was the one to tell her family had come forward. She was all set to take her home." Morgan raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Really. I mean, Emily will make a great mother and I know she's really happy about the baby but I never knew she always wanted a kid." JJ smiled.
"I'm really happy for her." Morgan smiled.
"Yeah. Those two really deserve to be happy. Hotch got so burned by Haley." JJ groaned at the mention of her name. Haley tended to ring her and demand to talk to Hotch. Not her favorite calls to deal with. The two of them pulled into the police station. The receptionist directed them in the direction of the conference room the BAU had holed up in. Reid had already taken over the boards and had the evidence spread out over them. Morgan pointed to two pictures of different children. "Who are they?" He asked. Rossi smiled grimly.
"Reid will explain from the beginning." They all took a seat at the table apart from Reid. He began to point around the boards.
"Ok Max Jones, 8, disappeared June..." He checked his notes. "12th some time around 9 in the morning. Didn't turned up for school. School contacted his foster parents..."
"Parent. Foster father died last month. Mother's a cold hearted cow." Morgan explained the mothers behavior to the team. "The girl we spoke to said that Max wouldn't have just run off, that he was a nervous child." Reid absorbed this new information.
"Ok. Follow ups on Max went no where, no one had seen or heard anything. His teachers said he was quite in class but seemed troubled." He turned his attention to the other board.
"Jenny Camps, 9 lived with her twin brother, John, in a foster home, about to be adopted. Again went missing around 9 before school on the 2nd. School said they where nice kids smart and polite. Again no one heard or saw anything."
Hotch looked between the 2 boards. "Ok so all 3 sets of children where taken around 9 before school. No one saw or heard anything suspicious. All were around the same age. But there the similarity's end. Max is hispanic, John and Jenny Caucasian. Max, dark hair and eye's. John and Jenny blonde. Both went to different schools. One reserved, two out going. Different sides of town. Garcia's looking into extra curricular things but...It doesn't seem like these children have anything in common." They all sighed.
Garcia came in from the computer room down the hall. "Sorry guys nothing. These kids had nothing in common ." Emily groaned.
"So what's the connection. Pedophiles and kidnappers usually have a type." Hotch rubbed a hand over his face.
"Ok. Emily, Garcia dig deeper, look from birth. Pediatricians, day cares anything, foster families. Morgan, Rossi go to the schools, shops around them and the houses. Reid work on the victimology and the profile. JJ, you and I will prepare a press conference with what we have. Meet back here in a couple's of hours."
Two hours later Emily, Garcia, Reid, Rossi and the officers from the station settled down to watch the press conference JJ and Hotch had set up. JJ stepped up on the podium and began to give the profile.
"We believe that the unsub is some one who works in close relation to all 3 children, maybe a bus driver, sports teacher, shop worker. They're likely to be in their 30's - 40's a figure of authority." Detective Kinder came to late and sat down beside Emily. He had a cup of coffee in his hands and Emily nearly gagged at the smell. But she didn't want to be rude so she didn't say anything. She turned her attention back to the TV and JJ. The reporters had started asking questions.
"Is this suspect a man or a woman?" One yelled out.
"At this present point, until we get more information, it could be either. But a man would more likely be aggressive, kidnap for sexual reasons. He might have had a rejection or a break up within the last year and be very bitter about it. A woman is more likely to take a child to replace a lost child or loved one. She would have been depressed and withdrawn for a while and now suddenly happier." JJ held her hands up against more questions.
"I'm sorry thats all we can say for now. We will alert you as soon as we have more information." JJ stepped down off the podium and Aaron came into view leading her down and through the crowd. Someone switched off the TV and everybody headed back to work. Kinder turned towards the agents, coffee still in hand. Emily braced herself for the smell and just about held down her lunch.
"What now?" He demanded. Morgan glanced at Emily. Her lips were sealed shut and she was shooting little glances towards Kinder. Morgan followed her eyes and notice the coffee. JJ couldn't stand the smell when she was pregnant either and he guessed Emily's sensitive stomach was misbehaving. He stepped in.
"We wait for information from the public now. See if anyone recognizes the profile and we'll go from there."
Kinder glared at them. He didn't want this. It looked like the BAU had nothing and Kinder had called them in. It would make him look bad and therefore get in the way of his career. Finally Emily couldn't hold back any longer. He stomach was doing flip flops and she really didn't want to get sick in front of everyone...again. She had done that enough for one day.
"Sorry Detective Kinder could you please put the coffee somewhere else." She asked. He narrowed his eyes at her.
"You're pregnant." He said simply. It was not a question. Emily simply nodded. He smiled slyly and sat forward, bringing the mug closer.
"Well I can't help that. It's your own fault for sleeping with the boss." A stunned silence feel among the agents before Emily shoved her chair back and stalked out of the room, nearly crashing into Hotch and JJ. They looked after her, confused, then to the rest of the agent glaring at Kinder. Hotch raised an eyebrow to Morgan who shook his head. He turned to Kinder.
"Don't speak to our agent like that. We're here to help and if it wasn't for the three children missing we would leave. Now if you have a problem with Agent Prentiss being pregnant..." Aaron's eyes flashed.
"What?!" He said. He turned, glaring, to Kinder. Kinder stood up.
"I'm going back to work. Like you should." He stalked out. Aaron walked up to Reid.
"What's going on?!" Reid gulped at the obvious anger in Hotch's voice.
"Detective Kinder had some coffee and Emily asked him politely to remove it. He refused and said it was her own fault for sleeping with the boss." Hotch looked furious.
"How did he know she was pregnant?" Hotch asked, his words short and clipped. Reid shrugged.
"He just knew." Garcia ran in.
"Guys. We have a link." She took in tension and Hotch's stony glare and stopped. Rossi shot her a meaningful glare. Garcia got the hint and continued.
"All three kids had the same social worker. A Margaret Wilson." Hotch grabbed his jacket which he had thrown off earlier.
"I'll find Emily and we'll go. I'll see you all later. Keep working on the profile and Garcia.
"Yes Sir?" She asked.
"Find out everything you can about the social worker." With that Aaron left to find Emily. Garcia turned to the others.
"I'm not going to like what just happened am I?" Morgan shook his head.
"Not really. That Detective Kinder is a rude bastard."
"What did he do?" Garcia asked.
"Refused to move coffee that was making Emily sick. He guessed that she was pregnant and basically said her morning sickness was her own fault for sleeping with the boss." Garcia's mouth dropped open.
"No!" She and JJ exclaimed. Rossi shrugged.
"Aaron will take care of her and we're not helping those kids by standing here bitching about Kinder. We have work to do." They all headed off to there own stations though JJ and Garcia's went back to Garcia's temporary office to bitch some more while Garcia looked up the social worker.
"I can't believe he was such a heartless bastard." JJ exploded. Garcia nodded, her hands flying over the keys.
"I know. But it's like Rossi said. Hotch will take care of her and when this is all over his going to take Mr Kinder outside and give him the old one - two."
Both girls looked at each other and burst out laughing at the image of Hotch flinging Kinder around the car park. It felt good to laugh. It was the first time any of them had laughed since the plane landed in Jacksonville.
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