Title: Learning the Hard Way.

Pairings: Primarily team centric, but will eventually be Morgan/Garcia

Summary: Morgan is forced to trust that his team will be the ones to rescue him this time, not the other way around, when he is unexpectedly kidnapped out of the blue. Will the team find him before too much damage is done?

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews, alerts and what not. They literally make my day and I really hope you guys continue to enjoy the story.

Chapter 2: This is Personal, Not Random.

BAU Conference Room

JJ, Reid, and Rossi waited along with their boss Aaron Hotchner in the conference room while the two ladies made the drive over to the Morgan's apartment. Not a word was spoken but all of them were thinking the worst. Blame it on the job if you will, but the reality was it took a hell of a lot to keep Morgan away from his job.

"How's the hearing?" JJ asked their boss after a few minutes just to take everyone's mind of Morgan.

"Still a lot of ringing, but over all not too bad," Hotch answered truthfully.

"Did you know that average, otherwise healthy adult will essentially have normal hearing up to age 60 unless his or her ears are exposed to high noise levels," Reid stated cluing everyone in on just how nervous he was.

Rossi the eldest of the group, "Well from experience I can assure all you by the time you all retire you'll be practically deaf."

The group shared a small laugh at that then another one when Reid shared yet another statistic, "Yeah well so will nearly 30 million other people.

Outside Morgan's Apartment Building…

"His car's here," Garcia remarked as they both climbed out of Emily's car.

"Yeah and the rental car he drove Hotch back form New York with is over there," Emily replied as she pointed at another car three vehicles to their right.

With that both ladies both ladies made their way to the building's entrance. They made it about half way before they simultaneously stopped upon recognizing Morgan's black overnight bag.

"There's a note," Emily said as she bent down up the bag, noticing the white envelope that was on top of it.

"Should we open it?" Garcia asked hoping her voice wasn't as shaky as the rest of her now was. Her worst fear had just been confirmed. Someone had taken Morgan and could have already killed him.

Emily shook her head, "Let's wait and open back at headquarters."

Garcia nodded as she followed Emily back to the car. Once they on the road back to head quarters Emily glanced over and said, "Hey Garcia, you know we'll find him right?"

Garcia nodded but remained silent all the way back to the office.

BAU Conference Room…

"We found this note on top of his bag," Emily said immediately after her and Garcia entered the conference room.

As the news sank in with everyone it was Rossi who took action by taking the envelope from Emily, opening it and reading it to himself once before proceeding to read it out loud:

WE HAVE HIM, THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR NOW

- MP&KW

Hotch, their leader, their rock sighed wearily before saying, "Just as I suspected this isn't random it's personal."

"Are the initials MP and KW supposed to mean anything to us?" Reid asked next.

Everyone shook their heads no. At the moment those initials didn't ring a bell.

Taking order once again Hotch said, "Garcia come with me the rest of you start looking at those case files. I want names to those initials as soon as possible."

That was all they could do for now as they waited for further communication from Morgan's captors.

Hotchner's Office…

Once Hotch and Garcia entered his office he quickly shut the door before looking over at Garcia who was having a very hard time disguising her fear. "How you holding up?" He asked.

"I uh… the last thing I said to him was that I was mad at him." Garcia replied as she looked down at the floor.

"Well the last thing I did was lecture him about his actions in New York," Hotch replied as he pulled her into a small hug. "We're going to bring him home," Hotch then said not only to comfort her but himself as well.

"Thanks," Garcia said when she finally pulled away. "So what can I do, sir?" She then asked.

"Well I was going to do it, but if you want you can call his family, they need to know what's going on." Hotch answered.

"Alright," Garcia said with a nod as she left to do just that.

Once she was gone Hotch made some calls. No one was working this case but them. Everything else didn't matter; right now the only thing that mattered was bringing their fellow agent home safe and sound.

Chicago Morgan's Childhood Home…

Fran Morgan was looking forward to a day of spoiling her grandchildren, whom she was watching for her eldest daughter Sarah. At the moment both Derek and Rebecca, age three, were settled on the couch in the front room watching cartoons.

Her joy as she watched her grandchildren was interrupted by the shrill sound of the phone ringing. At first she thought it might be her son, whom she hadn't heard from in a little over a week. However it was way to early in the day for him to be calling.

"Mrs. Morgan, this is Penelope Garcia," She hearda voice immediately say after she said hello.

"My Derek's Penelope?" The older woman replied in a voice that warmed Garcia's heart.

"Yes," Garcia replied before saying," Speaking of Derek that's why I'm calling."

"Something's wrong isn't it?" Fran interrupted her mother's intuition kicking in.

""Yes… Derek he um… he was kidnapped." Garcia explained.

Fran felt her pulse begin to race as she realized one of her worst fears was coming true. She always feared something like this would happen to her son eventually. After all he dealt with the worst kind of criminals for a living. Nonetheless that didn't make hearing that her son was in danger any easier.

"Mrs. Morgan, are you still there?" Garcia said after a minute or two of silence.

"Yeah," Fran replied before asking what had happened. Assuming it had something to do with a current case.Fran then listened as Garcia explained to her that the team had just gotten back from a case two days ago and nobody had heard from him since then. Once she was done explaining all that they knew at the moment Fran as calmly as could under the circumstances said, "Call me as soon you know more,"

"I'll do that," Garcia said before hanging up.