AN: I do not own Criminal Minds. This takes place in Season three at some point after Rossi joins the team.

Brad, Tim and Paul Smith all sat in an observation room in an abandoned warehouse. They watched the cameras as their three captive ladies sat unconscious and tied to chairs. He put the finishing touches on the note that he would be sending to the innocent Agent – David Rossi. Afterall, why she he suffer since he was not around when they falsely arrested their brother, Joseph. The three of them truly believed that there was no way Joseph could abduct those women and mercilessly rip their hearts out.

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Hotch

The next morning, the day started as normal day at the BAU. Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner sat in his office finishing up his reports from the case they just finished. He looked at his watch – 8 am – JJ was usually in at this time. Needing some clarification for his report he picked up his phone and dialed the extension to her office. He checked his watch again as he hung up the phone. 'Maybe she's in the kitchen area getting a cup of coffee,' he thought to himself. He decided to give JJ more time to get settled in. That part of his report can wait. He continued filling out the rest of his report and ten minutes later he tried JJ's office again – still no answer. He tried her cell phone, but it went straight to voicemail. He left a message asking her to call him back immediately or to stop in his office once she made it in.

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Morgan

Derek Morgan entered the BAU. He felt refreshed after being able to sleep in his own bed. As he entered the bullpen he expected to find Emily sitting at her desk, but she wasn't there. Morgan shrugged his shoulders. He figured that she probably overslept. He returned his attention to the report on his desk. Ten minutes later he grew worried and decided to call her cell phone. It went straight to voicemail. Now he definitely was worried. He left a voicemail for her to give him a call back. As he hung up the phone, Morgan could not shake the feeling that something bad has happened.

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Reid

Dr. Reid Spencer went directly to Garcia's office to ask her for her help on something. A new doctor was taking over his mother's treatment and he just wanted Garcia to check out his background and history. He knocked on her door, and after a few seconds of no one answering, he opened the door to find that she was not there. This was odd since normally she is one of the first people to enter the BAU. He walked back to the bullpen. 'Morgan will probably know where she is,' he said to himself.

In a small abandoned warehouse, Emily, JJ and Garcia are all sitting unconscious in chairs in the center of the room with their arms tied behind them. Emily is the first to start to wake up. Her head is pounding. She deduces that either she was hit on the back of the head or drugged. She tried to bring her hands up to her head only to find that they were bound behind her. Opening her eyes to a cloudy vision, she noticed two others in the room with her. As her vision started to clear she recognized who they were. 'Oh no,' she said to herself as she saw her two friends sitting their unconsciously.

"JJ. Garcia. Come on you guys have to wake up." She did not get any response from them so she tried again. "JJ. Garcia. Wake up!" Emily grew worried that they were not waking she tried to see if either of them had any injuries but there were none that she could see. She tried a third time. "JJ. Garcia. Please Wake up!!"

Emily was relieved to hear a groan finally escaping from JJ. She watched as JJ went through the same feeling that she herself experienced when she first woke up. "JJ, are you okay?"

"Emily?" she asked. "What is going on?"

"I don't know. Are you okay?" she asked again.

"I think so my head hurts," JJ responded.

At that moment they heard a groan coming from Garcia. "Pen, are you okay?" asked JJ.

Garcia looked around the room and saw her two friends. "JJ? Emily? What is going on?"

"We don't know," answered JJ. "Are you hurt?"

Garcia shook her head. "I just have a headache."

"I think we were all drugged. What is the last thing that you each remember?" Emily's profiler instincts kicked in as she tried to figure out who was it that has kidnapped them and why. The three of them each took turns explaining what had happened to them the night before. "There has to be three different unsubs."

"What makes you say that?" asked Garcia.

Before Emily could answer JJ spoke, "There's no way that the same man could take each of us as we got home since we all left the BAU together." Penelope looked to Emily for justification and she nodded in agreement to JJ's statement.

"Why?" was all that Penelope could say.

"It could be someone related to a past case," said Emily.

"Em, you can't be saying that this is some sort of a revenge plot," said JJ.

"We have to consider it," she answered. "For the three of us to be taken it cannot be a coincidence. They know we work together at the BAU. This seems to be personal." The three sat in silence as they all went over the cases in their minds that they worked on.

Finally, Garcia spoke up "There are just so many cases that these people could be connected to."

Rossi

David Rossi, the newest member of the BAU there was no postmark, nor a return address. He opened the envelope and began to read the letter.

Agent Rossi,

You were not around when the other members of your team took it upon themselves to frame our brother for murder, so we hold nothing against you and believe that you will not be biased against us. They will pay with their hearts just as the women they claimed to have been his victims.

Rossi read over the note again. It was unsigned. Anger began to rise in him with this impending threat of his teammates' lives. He got up from his desk and hurried into Hotch's office handing the note to him.

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Reid came back from Garcia's office. "Morgan have you seen Garcia? She is not in her office."

Morgan looked up at his skinny friend and co-worker. "No I haven't seen her yet. Have you heard from Emily? She has not come in yet either."

"No. Maybe they just took the day off."

"I don't know, but I'm getting a bad feeling about this," Morgan replied.

"Morgan. Reid. My office, now," Hotch yelled from outside his door.

Morgan and Reid looked at each other and then hurried up to their Unit Chief's Office.