Wow it's only been 9 days since my last update which, considering my terrible updating track record, is amazing:p ! I have a really bad habit of writing random chapters to stories that dont link together so I have most of the ending written out but then realised I have to write the middle!! Thanks for all the great reviews and I hope you like this chapter...

Chapter 5: Broken Beyond Repair

We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves – Mitch Albom

"Whose body is it?"

"The body was identified as Amy Mann."

Each person in the room felt themselves let out a gentle breath and each immediately felt guilty for doing so. It wasn't that they wanted Amy to die, far from it. Just the thought of JJ being dead was more than any of them could handle.

"She was found behind some dumpsters in an alley downtown."

"Ok thanks detective, I'll send a couple of my agents down immediately."

"Thanks."

"Ok so assuming that Amy's is the only body so far that means he keeps them for 4 days and if he sticks to pattern which, shown by his taking of JJ, he may not do we're going to wake up to Katie Mitchell's body tomorrow. Let's keep it to one," Hotch told the withdrawn team.

"Do you still want us to go to JJ's?" Reid asked Hotch.

"Yes someone may have seen something without realising its importance. Gideon and Morgan, we'll go to the dumpsite. Everyone start piecing together a profile meet back here in 2 hours."

JJ pulled herself to her feet when she heard a key turning in the lock, the chains weighing down onto her wrists. She flinched when the door was flung open with a crash and her captor stormed in. He strode over to her and backhanded her cheek before she even had time to react. JJ fell to the ground from the impact but was immediately pushed up against the wall, his hand around her neck.

"You're scum," his hissed in her face. JJ scrunched her hands as breathing became increasingly difficult. She took a deep breath as he threw her to the side.

"Please…" she pleaded, looking in terror at the man towering above her.

"Don't plead with me! You deserve everything you get!"

He got down on his knees putting one either side of JJ.

"What you did to me," he growled holding her hands firmly by her side.

"No, I haven't done anything to you," JJ said in fear wriggling under his body.

"You liar!!"

JJ cried out as his fist came into contact with her temple.

"You ruined my childhood!! My life!!!"

"No," JJ whimpered through the pain as she felt her eyes pool with tears.

"Well you don't control me anymore. I'm going to show you what it's like."

JJ tensed as his hands grabbed onto her hips.

"What it's like to feel dirty, to feel used. I always told you I'd get my revenge."

She tried to fight him off but he was too heavy for her.

She tried to cry out as his lips came crashing onto hers but she was silenced.

She tried to kick at him but he just held her hips tighter.

It was hopeless.

JJ felt tears trickling down her cheeks as he roughly pushed her t-shirt up, his hand snaking up her smooth skin. He moved his lips from her mouth and looked down her body.

"Please I'm not who you think I am," JJ whimpered shakily. "My name's Jennifer, please, I've never done anything to you."

Her words fell on deaf ears as she felt his hands move off her abdomen.

"No! Get off me!" she cried out when his hands moved down and rested on the waist band of her sweat pants. She kicked her arms and legs off his body and kept crying out until his hand clamped over her mouth. As she felt her pants being pulled further down her legs JJ suddenly felt her body go limp. She couldn't fight him anymore. She closed her eyes, tears trickling out of the corners. She was going to be one of those women. Broken beyond repair.

"Good afternoon ma'am I'm Agent Prentiss," Emily showed the elderly woman her badge and Reid followed suite, "and this is Dr Reid."

"FBI? What can I do for you?"

"We want to talk to you about Jennifer Jareau."

"Jennifer? Such a lovely girl, an FBI agent too. Why what's happened to her?"

"Last night she disappeared from her house," Emily explained.

"Disappeared? As in someone abducted her? But why would anyone want to do that?"

"We just want to know if you saw or heard anything?" Reid asked her. "A strange car, any men you didn't recognise? Any strange noises?"

"Umm no, no I can't think of anything."

"Nothing?" Emily asked in defeat.

"This is a quiet neighbourhood. Nothing bad ever happens here."

"Well if you remember anything, anything at all then can you give us a call," Emily handed the women a card.

"Of course, of course. I really am sorry I couldn't be of more help. I really can't think of anyone who would say a bad word against Jennifer."

Emily rang the door bell of the house across the street from JJ's and they waited a few seconds until the door opened. Reid frowned then realised there was a wee girl no older than 7 holding the door open.

"Hi," Emily said gently. "Are your parents in?"

"They've gone out."

"Do you know when they'll be back?" Reid asked her.

"Are you police officers?" she asked them ignoring Reid's question.

"We're FBI agents, sort of like police officers," Emily told her with a smile. She could tell Reid was getting fidgety beside her.

"Jenny's an FBI agent too."

"Jenny?" Reid asked suddenly alert.

"Mhm," the girl said with a nod. "She lives across the road. Sometimes she comes and plays with me and my brother Will when mommy and daddy go out at night. She gives me nice presents at my birthday and if I'm good then she'll braid my hair for me."

Emily couldn't help but smile slightly at the girl's description of JJ. She always thought JJ would be great with kids.

"But Jenny's gone away for a while," the girl said matter of factly.

Reid and Emily glanced at each other both frowning.

"What do you mean gone away?" Emily asked her.

"I mean that last night I saw her leaving her house with a man, she must be going on holiday. Maybe she'll send us a postcard."

Emily bent down to the girl's height.

"What's your name?"

"Holly."

"That's a pretty name. Now Holly can you remember anything about the man that you saw Jenny leave her house with last night?"

She was about to answer when a car door slammed.

"Hol?! What's going on?" a man and a woman rushed up the front path. The woman ran past Emily and to the girl's side holding her shoulders protectively.

"Ma'am, sir, I'm Agent Prentiss and this is Dr Reid, we're with the FBI," she explained calmly as they displayed their badges.

"Just like Jenny," Holly said in delight.

"What do you want?" Holly's dad asked suspiciously.

"I'd really rather not talk about it out here."

He was about to argue when his wife cut in.

"Honey it's fine, come on in," she said making room in the doorway.

"Holly where's Will?" her dad asked her as he shut the door behind them.

"He's on the computer."

"Go play with him whilst we talk to these agents."

"Uh actually we need to talk to Holly," Reid said in a hurry.

"What? Holly? How can she help? She's only six!" her mom said in confusion.

"We believe that Holly may have seen something of importance in regards to our investigation," Emily explained.

"Your investigation?"

"Is there somewhere we could sit down Mr..?"

"Howe. Jack Howe and my wife Elaine. Why don't we go into the living room," he suggested leading them all into a room on their right. Elaine sat down and pulled Holly onto her lap.

"Last night Jennifer Jareau was abducted from her house," Emily said getting straight to the point.

"Jenny?!" Elaine gasped in shock.

"I noticed tape across her door earlier," Jack said.

"You did? I hadn't noticed. Why didn't you say anything?" Elaine asked.

"I forgot alright, got distracted!"

"Holly said she saw her leaving the house with a man last night," Reid told them.

"Holly is this true?" Jack asked her.

"Ummm," she froze up her eyes dotting between each person in the room as she shrunk back into her mom.

"It's alright Holly," Emily said gently. "You haven't done anything wrong. That man that you saw leaving the house with Jenny is a bad man that wants to hurt Jenny. Now if you tell us what you saw then we can catch the bad man and Jenny will be ok and she can come and play with you again."

"It's ok honey, tell the lady what you know," Elaine said holding onto her daughters hand.

"Umm Mommy put me to bed last night," she started quietly.

"What time was that?" Emily asked her.

"8:15," Elaine replied. "We have a set schedule every night."

"But I wasn't tired," Holly told them. "So I crawled to the end of my bed and stuck my head through the curtains. It was dark outside and the moon was really big and there were loads of stars. They were really pretty," she said with a smile.

"Was that when you saw Jenny and the bad man?" Emily asked as Reid noted down what the girl was saying. Holly nodded her head.

"They walked down the front path together really close, like they were holding hands. Jenny was looking around and I waved to her but she didn't see me."

"Do you remember what the man looked like? Was he taller than Jenny?"

"Umm," Holly frowned.

"It's ok honey, take your time," Elaine told her.

"Umm he was a little bit taller."

"What was he wearing?"

"Dark clothes but he was holding something red."

"Do you know what it was?"

"I don't know" she said. "It was dark. It looked like a toy. And Jenny had a scarf on up to under her nose. It gets cold at night."

"Ok," Emily nodded glancing at Reid both knowing it was a gag and not a scarf that Holly had seen. "What else did you notice? Was there a car?"

Holly nodded her head.

"It was Like Uncle Jerry's car."

"My brother," Jack said. "It's a dark blue sedan."

"Did it have any writing on it?"

"I…I don't know, it was really dark," she said quietly.

"What happened when they reached the end of the path?"

"I don't know. Daddy came in to check on me and tucked me back into bed saying little princesses need their beauty sleep. Has Jenny not gone on holiday?" she asked quietly.

"No honey," her mom whispered into her ear.

"I don't believe I was right across the road and didn't know what was happening," Jack said running his hand through his hair. "If only I hadn't gone into Holly's room she might have seen more," he said shaking his head.

"Don't blame yourself Mr Howe," Emily said. "Holly has been a huge help."

Elaine smoothed her daughter's hair as she cuddled her closely.

"Is there anything else we can do?" Elaine asked.

"Could we possible have a quick look at Holly's room?" she asked them.

"Of course, follow me," Jack told them.

He led them into a bright room that clearly belonged to a 6 year old girl. Emily walked over to the bed. She leant over it and looked out the window. Right enough the window looked right over to the path leading from JJ's front door. She took a deep breath as her hands went clammy. She saw JJ being led down the path towards the car, towards a horrible nightmare. And all the while a little girl watched it happen with a smile and a wave.

Emily stood back and turned to face the others.

"Here's my card, if anything comes to you then please don't hesitate to phone," Emily said handing her card over. They all shook hands before going back to the door.

"I really hope you find her," Jack said sincerely. "Holly and Will love it when she comes to play," he said with a slight smile.

"Thanks," Emily said shaking his hand one last time before following Reid out the door.

Reid pulled open the car door and got in. They had knocked on more doors but no-one knew anything. The only thing they all had to say was that they didn't know anyone nicer than Jennifer and asked why anyone would want to hurt her - a question that Emily and Reid had been asking themselves.

"Ok so we know that she was bound and gagged so he must be physically strong but he must have looked trustworthy for them to willingly open their doors to him," Emily said as she sat in the car with Reid. "Ok so first question is why did four intelligent, educated women let this man into their house on a dark evening?"

"He'd have to have a way to lure them to a feeling of safety," Reid commented.

"Well it would have to be something good 'cause I wouldn't open my door to a man I didn't know at night."

"None of them even just opened the door onto the latch, they all opened the door fully," Reid said with a frown. "There was no sign of a forced entrance in any of the cases. Now knowing JJ she would definitely need a good reason to open her door."

"Maybe he said something like he knocked down a cat and he wondered if they knew whose it was?" Emily suggested.

"JJ is allergic to cats," Reid said with a shake of his head. "She would have just politely told him that she couldn't help."

Emily looked sadly at Reid who was staring out his window, his hands grasped tightly together.

"Ok so why don't we just forget a minute about exactly how he got them to open their doors. He must have looked non-threatening."

"Most likely white, averagely built, age range 20-40, clean shaven, well dressed, confident but not cocky. His car would have to be big enough to take a body but not so big that it draws attention – the blue sedan. Windows are most likely not tinted as this can draw suspicion and it won't be too new or too old. Everything about him is average," Reid spewed out monotonously.

"Come on let's go back see what the others got from the body. We've got all we can here."

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance – Polish proverb

So what did you think? I hope it wasn't too long and you didn't get bored but I couldn't really split it up. Coming up: Hotch, Gideon and Morgan investigate the dump site; the team really start to feel the effects of the case and JJ's situation continues to worsen...