As soon as Cortese and Peter left, Reid called Morgan back. "Hey kid! How's it going with Cortese?" Morgan answered.
"Yeah, we have a problem. Peter is here and he has her in the other room. He's going to kill her if I try anything." Reid informed him.
"What?! We are on our way!" Morgan told him. Reid didn't respond, because he heard the door to the room open and close. "Kid, you still there?"
"Yeah, I think he just left with her." Reid told him. "What should I do?"
"Stay there we can't have you dying, kid." Morgan ordered. "Genevieve's phone is on the line with Hotch Peter is talking, but she isn't saying anything."
"If anything happens to Gen while I just sit here, I swear you'll be the one to pay!" Reid told him.
"Got it, kid. We will find her, okay? You won't lose the one girl who means something to you." Morgan hung up his phone. "Hotch, she still on the line?"
Hotch winced when he heard Peter kick Genevieve. "Yeah she is."
"We got to find her. Garcia have you traced the call yet?" Morgan asked, not even in the mood for pet names with her.
"Almost, just—" Suddenly the line went dead and Garcia slammed her hands on the keyboard. "He found the phone!"
"Reid's on his way here with the local police." JJ told them. "How is... She's not on the line anymore, is she? Hotch when Reid gets here you should tell him to go to the hospital. He has a concussion, but considering it is Genevieve he won't."
Reid came into Garcia's office. "Please tell me you found her?!"
"Not yet. He found her phone." Garcia told him.
"Damnit! He has mine and Gen's guns! He took them and he took her! He is going to kill her! She can't die!" Reid teared up. "This is all my fault!"
"Hey Spence. It's not your fault. Where do you think he may have taken her? Is there anywhere that may have been important to them in his eyes?" JJ asked.
"I can't remember... Why can't I remember?!" Reid was so mad at himself.
"Hey kid, you have a concussion. Don't beat yourself up." Morgan told him.
Reid's phone rang it was Genevieve, he answered quickly. He put it on speaker so the others could hear. "Sweetheart?! Are you okay?"
"I'm alright." She smiled into the phone, happy to hear his voice.
"Tell him!" Peter slapped her.
Genevieve coughed. "I don't want to play Peter! Just kill me and let them go!"
"Keep her talking." Garcia whispered. She was trying to trace the call.
"Gen?! What are you talking about?" Reid asked her.
"He's going to send a link to Garcia's email..." Genevieve coughed. "Don't use it!" Peter hit her again and hung the phone up.
"Garcia, did you get the link?" Hotch asked.
"Yeah looks like a video chat room... I'll open it and we can see him but he can also see us." Garcia said.
"Reid, come here." Hotch said. They put him in front of the camera and opened the link. The video feed came up. Genevieve was tied up. Peter was behind the camera.
"Look who came to play Genevieve! It's your boyfriend." Peter laughed.
"You bastard!" Reid yelled.
Garcia tried to track them. "He's rerouting to a different IP address every thirty seconds... He's smart." She whispered.
"Read them the names, beautiful." Peter said.
"You can kill me! Just don't hurt them!" Genevieve cried.
"Read the damn names or I kill all of them and you!"
"I'm so sorry..." She looked at Reid on the screen in front of her. "Fran Morgan, Henry LaMontagne..." Her voice cracked. "Jack Hotchner... and Diana Reid..."
"Oh my god..." JJ said.
Peter turned the camera on himself. "How about I tell you the rules of this little game? I am talking to the whole BAU team! You will not be able to warn any of your families because I have friends watching them so we will be able to kill them even with a warning." He showed the monitors with a live feed of each person that Genevieve named. He turned the camera back on himself. "Now here are the rules... Genevieve can choose to save one of your family members and I will inflict pain on her instead or I can kill them. Knowing her, your loved ones will be just fine."
"Damn, we have to do something..." Morgan said, looking at Hotch.
Hotch looked at Reid. "Reid, think, has she ever told you anywhere that they went to when they were kids?"
"Let's begin, shall we?!" Peter went over to Genevieve.
"Hold on a minute, let me think... I know she said something..." Reid thought.
"Do you want to save Fran Morgan? She's Derek's mother. She seems like such a sweet lady." Peter said.
"Don't kill her!" Genevieve yelled. Peter cut her arm with a knife.
"Think faster, Reid. He's hurting her!" Morgan said.
"I'm trying..." Reid said.
"How about Jennifer's baby boy, Henry?" Peter laughed. "You love Henry. You babysit him with your new boy toy."
"Shut up! Don't you dare hurt Henry!" Genevieve yelled at him. Peter pulled up her shirt and cut her stomach. Genevieve screamed in pain.
Reid winced at her scream. "Baby I'm trying... I am so sorry."
"Aaron Hotchner didn't even want you on the team. He put you in danger. Why should you save his little boy?" Peter got close to her.
"He may not like me, but that team is the closest thing I have to family because of your father! Jack didn't do anything. You can kill me!" She spit in his face.
Peter wiped his face. "Fine, we'll just go for the neck!" He went at her with the knife.
"No!" Reid yelled.
Peter looked at the screen. "Oh yeah. We still have your boyfriend's mom on the table. We'll be doing something a little different for her life. Spencer... Choose. Your mom or girlfriend?"
"Spence... It's okay." Genevieve smiled at him. "Save your mom..."
"Gen, I love you. I choose my mom..." He teared up. "Don't hurt my mom."
"Good choice, Dr. Reid. You'll find this interesting. I've invented a new drug that can kill a person in a little more than three hours, but she will be in agony the entire time. She won't be able to breathe very well because her lungs will feel like they are on fire and after working hard to keep her alive; her body will eventually just shut down. Once I inject it, you will have three hours to find her and find the cure!" He injected it into her. "But on the bright side, all your families are alive and well! Anything you want to tell them Genevieve?"
Cortese remembered Reid telling her about Tobias Hankel. "Genesis 23:4..."
Reid remembered instantly. "There is a cemetery by her old house. There's an abandon house by it, they used it as a clubhouse!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
"One of the deep secrets in life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others." – Lewis Carroll
