Find Her
Hotch's POV
"Hotch!" JJ called, in a worried voice.
"What is it?" I asked as I ran towards the agent.
In response, she held up a vanilla envelope, before handing it to me.
"It's clean." She said, before I could ask.
I nodded my understandment, before I ran back to the conference room.
"Chief Cramer, do you have a tape player?" I asked, earning a few confused glances from the others in the room.
"Of course, I'll get one of my officers to wheel it in here." He replied, rushing out of the door.
We waited for a few seconds before an officer came in with a TV and a tape player. Once he had it all hooked up, he left, closing the door behind his self.
I walked up, placed the Tape in, and grabbed the remote.
"Hello Agents, by now I'm sure you are deadly worried about your precious Maddison. But not to worry, she is being well cared for." Said a males voice, from behind the camera.
He was standing in a hall way of a house, just before the door way. Suddenly, he turned the corner, and the camera was focused on Maddison.
"Seriously?" Maddison asked in an annoyed voice. One that she often uses when she talks about her home life.
"Hotch would be so happy." The unsub stated, as he did a full circle around her. Not once taking the camera off of her form. "Now say hello to your team." He ordered in a calm and relaxed voice. One, one might use when talking to a friend or family member.
Instead of saying something, she just tilted her head, and left her shoulders sink a little bit. Then she raise her eyebrow. A look the team sees a lot when Reid takes about facts.
"Say Hello." He ordered again, in a harder voice.
"Umm…No." She replied, leaning her head back, and closing her eyes.
"I said say hello!" The man screamed, as the camera shook a little from his anger.
"Why should I do anything you want, when you can't do anything I want?" She asked in her bored voice.
"Because it will break you're teams hearts if you can't least say hello, one last time, before they never see you again." The unsub replied.
"Oh like they care!" she exclaimed, throwing her head forward and giving the unsub a hard cold face. "If they really cared, they would be here by now! If they cared you wouldn't be alive!" She hissed.
Suddenly the unsub snapped and reached a hand forward, and smacked Maddison hard across her face.
"Last warning, say hello, or never see them again!" He yelled.
"What's the point? We all know how this is going to end! You're going to kill me, then they're going to kill you!" She yelled back, not once looking at the camera.
"Fine have it you're way." The unsub said, in a calm voice again. He walked out of the room. "Unlike you guys, I will get what I want. Just a matter of how to receive it. Best of luck. And if you're lucky, I'll send you another video. All depends on Maddie girl."
As soon as the unsub's voice appeared, it was gone. The screen went black. And the tape was finished.
"She doesn't really think all that does she?" Asked Reid, being the first to speak once the TV was shut off.
"Of course not Pretty Boy." Morgan said, resting a hand on the young man's shoulder. "She's only saying that…" He started to say before he went quiet. "Well honestly I don't know why she said it." Morgan finally said, shaking his head.
"I've never seen her like that. I can't decide if the other night in the hotel was worst or better then how she's acting now." Seaver said looking down at the ground.
"Guys we need to focus! Maddison is just another victim, and unless we figure out who this unsub is, we'll end up losing her as well!" I exclaimed, my frustration getting the best of me.
"Has he sent out other video's?" Asked JJ.
"No." Answered Reid.
"Then why send one to us? Or more accurate, to Hotch?"
"Because, it's personally." I answered bluntly.
"This doesn't make any…" Rossi started to say when my phone started to ring.
"Hotchner." I answered.
"Sir, I've found something." Stated Garcia.
"Hold on Garcia I'm going…"
"No sir, I think only you should know this part." She said quickly, pausing for my reply.
"Okay what do you have?" I asked, as I turned away from my team. I heard Rossi order every one to get to work again.
"Well you told me to tell you when every Maddison gets Flowers…"
"Garcia, forget about the…"
"Sir they all came from Salt Lake" She said interrupting me again. "The delivery man just delivered another dozen of the roses. When I signed for them, he said that who ever was getting them, was one lucky person. So I asked why he would say that. And he replied with, the caller is ordering them all the way from Utah. Salt Lake to be more precise."
"What's his name Garcia?" I asked, hoping she got farther then just that.
"Working on it sir." She replied
"Faster." I ordered, barely hearing her reply, before hanging up again.
Maddison's POV
"Come on you guys." I said, barely louder then a whispering wind. I'm not even sure if it was a thought or if it really came out of my mouth.
Not like it mattered. My team wasn't here. I was alone in a house with a psycho. Who really doesn't like his victims standing up to him. Learned that one the hard way. First thing I've noticed since being here, he never really shows his face, most the time it's cover by something. A hat, or a mask of some kind.
Smart dumbass.
"Well I can tell you that you're team has kept your kid napping out of the press. I don't like that." The unsub said, walking back into the three hours later. Last time I saw him, he a camera. Just like he does now.
"Another video?" I asked, eyeballing the camera in his hand.
"Actually yes. However, we're doing this one differently." He answered, as he whipped out a roll of duck tape. "Since you refuse to play my way, we're going to play this way."
As he moved closer with the duck tape, I started to try and get away from him. He finally got the tape on my mouth, and turned the camera on.
"As you can see Hotchner, I can control my women." The unsub said, with a wicked smile. "Now since Maddison refused to say anything nice last time, she won't be able to say anything this time." He said, still smiling.
After a few moments of the camera focused on me, he placed the cap on, and sat it down on the bed. Then he moved closer to me.
After ten minutes or so, give or take, he moved away, and back to the camera where he took the lens off, and focused it on me again.
"I'm afraid if things don't start going my way, you'll never have the chance to save your sweet girl." Then he hit the end button. "Now, I'm going to make you sit there and think about what you've done. I'll be back in time for dinner." He said, in a not so nice voice, before walking back up to me.
He kissed me tenderly on the forehead, then on the cheek, then he looked me in the eyes. After that, he grabbed both the tape and the camera, and walked out. Closing the door behind him. When the door was closed, that's when I finally let myself weep.
I know what's on the tape, and I had no intentions for my team members to see. Although I've been working at the BAU for a while now, I still didn't want my team to see me in a weaken state.
Minutes went by. How many I couldn't tell you. Finally my eyes started to shut, as I started to enter the land of dreams.
I walked into the BAU offices, and went straight to my desk. I immediately started to work on my paper work. While working, Reid, Morgan, Seaver and I kept each other busy, by sharing jokes every once in while, after we finished a case file. We had to make a rule that Reid had to finish five before he could share a joke. As the hours went by, we went from sharing Jokes, to pick up lines, to stories, to would-you-rather.
Hotch, Rossi, and JJ occasionally came by to refill mugs, or other stuff, and would join in. We got Rossi and JJ to finally stay and join, after they both past us all about the third time around.
"So would you rather, kiss your boss and chance ruining your job, or would you rather not shower for a year?" Seaver asked Reid.
"Can I pass?" Reid asked, with a sicken look on his face.
"Nope." Seaver, Morgan and I all said at once.
"Fine I rather kiss." He said, although he said it with a face of a sick person. "Maddie, would you rather have to eat worms for a week, or use an out house for a year?"
"Worms." I answered quickly. "Morgan, would you have no girls hit on you, only guys, or be licked by a stranger every day for the rest of your life?" I asked as I drunk some of my coke.
"Pass." He replied.
"If I can't you can't." Reid said stubbornly.
"Okay, well who gets to lick me?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Like only hot girls, or what?" He asked.
"Everyone. Gay, straight, bi, young, old, hot, ugly. EVERYONE." I replied.
"Then I choose Guys." He answered finally throwing his hands up in surrender. "Hotch!" He exclaimed just as Hotch came down to refill his cup for the third time today.
"Yeah?" He asked, walking over to us.
"Would you rather dance randomly every time some one says hi or bye, or would you rather kiss Maddison?" He asked quickly.
"What?" I exclaimed, throwing a pen at him.
"Kiss Maddison." He answered, quickly causing me to blush a shade of bright red.
"You're turn to ask Hotch." Seaver stated laughing at the exchange.
"Okay Rossi, would you rather have bad breath forever, or never have another book of yours sell?" He asked sipping his cup of coffee.
My dream ended there, and started to go black. Abruptly someone started to touch my arms, and back rubbing them gently. I tensed up, as I started to come out of my dream state.
"Ah there she is." said the unsub, placing a kiss on my temple. "First I wanted to say sorry about earlier. But if you continue to disrespect me, then I'm going to have to continue also. Secondly to show how sorry I am, I brought you this." He said as he stood up and walked over to a vase of a dozen roses. "And for dinner, I got your favorite. Tacos!" He said as he placed a plate of tacos in front of my on top of a hospital table.
At first I didn't know what to say. I was shocked that he knew so much about me, yet I knew nothing about him.
"You're unhappy again. What did I do wrong?" He asked, as he pushed the table away and out of the way.
"How did you know those are my favorite?" I asked nodding towards the flowers.
"Easily, I've done my research." he said in a happy voice.
TBC...
Well I'm doing something a little more different then I normally would do. Usually I write one chapter, post it, then start on the next. But I was going to milk it, so I wrote the next chapter as well. And I'm just so happy with them, that I've decided not to milk them at all.