Reluctantly Hotch took Kyle to Mandy's house after decided it would be better if he went with someone if he went anywhere at all. Not to mention he knew us girls, his little older sisters, better than they did. So he would obviously pick up on things most people wouldn't notice in our rooms. The crime scene looked like a really messy person lived in her room.

"This is usually an unnaturally clean room. Mandy's one of the cleanest girls I've ever met." Kyle said looking around the room. "Sometimes she drives us all insane with all of her cleaning tips. My room is a total mess compared to hers. She's not a messy person at all but this is not her room if this is how it always is normally. Danni usually has her over on Spring Cleaning Week as her mom calls our Spring Break. At least Danni is not yelled at for having her room a mess to her mom's standards after Mandy helps her clean it up. She also makes Spring Cleaning quite fun for her too and she can enjoy the break after her mom checks her room."

The screen was popped out of her window.

"Is this how he got in?" Hotch said, looking out the window.

"No, Mandy sometimes sneaks out using the window. Danni does the same thing. Jessie uses the door not the window because her parents are really heavy sleepers. She could use the window but less trouble with the door besides her sister and her have a troubled truce, 'I don't tell on you and you don't tell on me.' I also use the window." Kyle said "That's how we get out and spy on you guys. We tell our parents we are sleeping over for a time at someone's house if we are getting on your planes. Thank goodness for cell phones. Otherwise we'd all be in Juvie by now if our parents knew what we had really done. I don't think we would be there for very long though. We'd have too much fun if we were in there together. It would be more of a party then a punishment. I'm surprised I'm the only one with a record but sense I moved here. I've haven't been in any trouble when I hang out with my little older sisters or my other friends here in town."

"Any reason it couldn't be Mandy who popped the screen out of her window?" Hotch asked.

"Well," Kyle reached down and picked up the screen off the floor. "Mandy would never have put her screen on her floor. On the bed I could believe, but no never on the floor. She's that kind of clean. She would never put her screen on the floor unless it fell or and slipped off of where she put it."

Hotch dusted the window seal and screen and found only Mandy's, Jessie's, Kyle's and my finger prints but strangely enough the mess was telling him Mandy had struggled hard. Or had she not had much of a chance to? Kyle said Mandy was not a messy person and he had no reason to lie to them especially when he wanted to find them as much if not more than they did. After he talked to Mandy's parents who both were worried sick he found out Kyle was right, she was a clean person. Mandy had struggled and that was obvious by the state of her room.

He promised to not stop looking for Mandy until she was found or her body was found.

Her parents didn't want to hear the word body. "No don't say she's dead please." Her mother pleaded with him. "Promise us you'll find her and she'll still be alive and okay when you do find her."

He couldn't promise them that she was alive but said. "We never believe otherwise unless there is evidence and so far she is presumed alive until it is proved otherwise. We'll find her and the person who did this to her weather she is dead or alive."

"Thank you." Her mother said with tears in her eyes. "Find her and bring her back to us. That's all we can really ask you to do." With those words she gave Hotch a picture of Mandy and her three best friends, Danni, Jessie, and Kyle, a perfect picture for the press to put out.

"This is the best picture of them that I have of them. It was taken a couple of months ago at an annual hot dog roast they have before school and the other kids hadn't of arrived yet. Take this picture and use it to help find them." She pressed it into his hands and said. "If there is anything I can do to help you find her let me know. I will help in any way I can to find her and her friends."

She looked toward the couch where Mandy's younger brother laid staring at the TV screen but not really seeing it either. "This is the first time DJ has been so quiet in a long time. He hasn't used the phone or computer when usually Mandy and he argued over them for hours. He wouldn't admit it but the last few night I heard him crying at night. He misses his big sister and will do anything to help find her also. When his father and I separated for a while he acted up started doing things I never thought he'd do. Mandy turned to her friends and to and her writing to help her through it all."

"Would you mind if I spoke to him?" Hotch asked.

"He's actually not involved in their disappearance." Mandy's mother said surprised he'd even thing of a possibility "He's done much better sense we got him into counseling and his father and I got back together after some marriage counseling. No more acting up."

"I know that but I just want to ask him a few questions. It's to help us find your daughter and her friends." Hotch said reassuringly.

Mandy's mother nodded and Hotch crossed the room. DJ lay on the couch watching the TV screen but not really paying attention to what was happening.

"Hello DJ. Can I ask you a few questions?" Hotch asked.

DJ sat up silently. Hotch took that as an invitation and sat down.

"My name is Aaron Hotchner." and Hotch sat next to him. "Did you hear anything the night your sister went missing?"

"No, I listen to my music when I go to sleep, watch TV, or play on the computer at night until my dad gets home about two in the morning then I go to sleep." DJ sighed. "She was here at two when Dad got home. Dad said good night to her and me before he went to bed. She wasn't here when Mom woke up at five and went to wake her up too. No note either but Mom asked if Mandy had early morning and I shrugged. Neither of us nor Dad knew if she did. We guessed that was it until we got a call telling us Mandy missed all classes at school and had no call telling them she'd be gone. I've never seen Mom so distracted or Dad so upset. It's unnerving and emotions are up and tempers or short. I miss her lot more then I can truly say. Now I know what they mean when they say you don't know what you've got tell it's gone."

"DJ, we'll find her." He said and patted the boy's shoulder.

"Hey I just remembered something." DJ suddenly said "She got a call that night from a guy. I don't know who it was but it got very heated between them. I could hear her yelling in her room at him."

"Thanks." Hotch said and left.

"I know that's how it really looks, Reid. That's a really nice assumption too but how do we know that's how he got in?" JJ asked as they stood in the small darkened room Jessie slept in and they hadn't turned on the lights though they had dusted the light switch.

"Well, it looks like Jessie put up quite a big fight with him too," The room was a complete disaster. It looked like a tornado had ripped through it.

Her small desk was overturned and papers and other things were scattered all over the floor some were broken. As Reid leaned down to examine the damage to something when something small scratched his arm and they heard a cat's yowl. They both got bit and scratched before they got out of the dark room to the lightened hallway. They were surprised the small animal didn't follow them into the hallway.

Hotch suddenly came down the hall with Kyle at his side.

"What happened?" He asked as he saw their scratches some that were bleeding.

"Something's in there. I think it's a very wild, mean cat that attacked us." Reid said.

"Have you dusted the light switch?" Kyle asked.

"Yeah," JJ said "One of the first things we dusted."

Kyle walked in and flipped the light switch with a smile. "Hey Chewy," He leaned down and picked up a black cat who ran to him. The cat seemed content sense he knew who Kyle was. "This is Chewy, Jessie's cat. He was a stray cat but is pretty nice if it knows who you are." Kyle said as the cat snuggled in his arms. "He's very protective of Jessie and all of us. We rescued him on a cold winter day last year at school. Jessie's parents were the only ones that allowed the animal into their home and let him stay with them as long as Jessie took care of him and she always does."

"That cat is a deadly weapon," JJ said coming back into the room to continue their investigation. "Why didn't the cat attack the kidnapper?"

"Who said he didn't?" Kyle said "He sleeps in Jessie's arms most of the time. Maybe he didn't get to do anything without getting Jessie."

"Do you know how he got in yet?" Hotch asked changing the subject from Chewy to the investigation.

"I have a clue but there is no evidence." Reid said, "As you can see though it's obvious he was here though. I think he used the window sense the screen is missing. We dusted it but only Jessie's Mandy's Danni's and Kyle's fingerprints were there."

"The screens right here," Kyle picked up Jessie's window screen from behind her bed. "Like I said Jessie's parents are really heavy sleepers and she uses the door but he must have used the window because the door was locked and didn't know Jessie's parents are heavy sleepers. Meka and her both have a key to get in when they sneak out which they do quite often."

"It's the same as Mandy," Hotch said.

"Well two down one to go. I bet it's the same. See you later Chewy." Kyle put the cat down it walked over to Jessie's bed and jumped onto it and meowed at Kyle. As if it was saying 'I miss her,' or, 'Where is she?'

"You and I both are in the same boat Chewy. We'll find her Chewy and when we do she will be okay." He petted the cat. "I miss her too but she'll be all right if she stays strong and I believe she will."

Jessie's parents were not as upset as Mandy's but were still very worried. Neither went to work and kept looking at the door hoping Jessie would just walk in the front door and Meka hadn't gone to school either.

"Will you find her and bring her back to us?" Jessie's mom asked.

"Yes, we believe she is still alive and will also believe that until we find evidence that proves otherwise." Hotch told her just what he had told Mandy parents. "We always presume the victims alive unless there is proof that tells us otherwise."

She looked at Meka who was watching TV like DJ had pretended to. "Meka started to cry when I told her Jessie was missing and had been kidnapped. She took it really hard. I miss my daughter and her friends are like my adopted daughters or sons too. When they come over I ask them to call me mom." She went to the wall and pulled down a picture. "This was taken only two days before they were taken." She handed the picture to him. It was like the one Mandy had given her except for the scenery clothes and there were more kids where in the frame. "Find them please."

"Can I talk to Meka?" Hotch asked.

"Yes." Jessie's mom went over to Meka who had the TV on but was watching but not seeing like DJ. "Meka this agent wants to speak to you."

"Okay." Meka said quietly.

Hotch sat next to eyes were red and swollen from crying.

"I'm Aaron Hotchner. Meka did you hear anything the night Jessie disappeared?" he asked.

Meka looked over her shoulder her mom was talking to Reid. "Jessie came home after midnight the night she disappeared. I didn't tell on her because she didn't tell my mom I was out with my boyfriend the night before. We both have a key to the house so we can get in or out without difficulties. She went to bed soon after and I was up until about two in the morning then went to bed. As soon as I was asleep I didn't wake up until my mom shook me awake at five in the morning. Jessie was gone we thought she had forgotten to tell us about early mornings at dinner until the school called. My parents freaked out. I was scared to go to sleep last night. Dad slept on my floor. I'm scared to go to the bus stop alone too. Everything that I used to do on a normal basis is scary to do now someone has kidnapped Jessie. Don't tell my mom what I told you. She doesn't know Jessie and I sneak out."

"We'll find her Meka." He said patting her on the shoulder "Thanks for your time."

"Agent Hotchner, Jessie got a phone call that night before she disappeared. It was a guy but I didn't recognize the voice at all and Jessie was angry and spoke really sharp to him." Meka said.

"Thanks." Hotch said

Had the phone call been from the same guy that had called Mandy?

Gideon looked around the brightly lit room one more time trying to see what I had seen that night. My blinds were wide open letting sunlight in and one screen was missing and that is, of course, how he got in as they suspected. The room wasn't torn apart but it wasn't exactly perfectly clean either. One thing that he was most interested about was in the corner on top of my desk was a binder and it looked like it was out of place with the other things on my desk. It was filled to the top with writing. A few notebooks were there too but most of them had homework and notes from classes in them. Though it didn't look like it had anything to do with the investigation he was curious about the binder. What was in it?

As Reid and JJ walked in to the room with most of their scratches still bleeding, Gideon looked at them with a raised eyebrow as if to say, 'What happened to the two you?'

"We were attacked," JJ said.

"By Chewy, Jessie's mean wild cat," Reid said as Kyle walked in with Hotch right behind.

"I told you all ready. He's very protective of Jessie and all of us because we saved him at school." Kyle explained. "He was freezing outside in the middle of the winter. It was the first day after Christmas Break when we found him sitting outside in the cold. It felt like it was twenty degrees below zero and everyone was hurrying past him to get inside and out of the cold. Not caring about the alone cold black cat snuggled against the door trying to get warm from the air escaping when the door opened. Jessie picked him up, and put him in her back pack and left it open a little so the cat could breath and took him inside. We helped her keep him from escaping as she got things out and put things in her backpack. He meowed a lot but we denied knowing what it was that made the noise. For lunch I gave him a little bit of my hamburger and Danielle gave him a fourth of her Chicken Fried Steak so he could get something to eat even though it isn't good for the cat to eat human food was all we had and Chewy was really skinny. I guessed he was a feral cat or he had been abandoned probably in front of the school during Christmas Break. A feral cat means it's a wild cat. Though he escaped during lunch he came back after the bell rang. Smart cat to know where to find us in that unfamiliar atmosphere he was in. We were afraid that we had lost him for good when he ran off during lunch. We were glad he came running at us as we were about to leave the lunch room and go to class. You know we couldn't leave him out there in the cold that morning. It's a living breathing thing that has feelings."

"It the same as Jessie and Mandy's too." He said without even looking around the room just at my window. "He got in through the window at all three places."

Kyle picked up the binder Gideon was curious about. He held it close to his chest like he was hugging it tightly.

"Danni never left this anywhere." Kyle said, "If she died she wanted to die with it in her arms or on her lap. I'll take care of it until we find her. I'll read it again for her. Danni..."

"For the last time her name is Danielle not Danni!" My mom yelled down the hall. "Call her Danielle, Kyle! That's why I've hung up on you so many times because her name is not Danni its Danielle! I hate when people call her Danni because it's not her name! Her name is Danielle so we call her Danielle! She doesn't have a nick name! We don't believe in nick names here! I hate nick names because then kids have a hard time learning their real names then!"

"What is it?" Hotch asked.

"The Enchantments," Kyle said then quickly explained "Danni..."

"Kyle!" My mom yelled again.

"I mean Danielle wants to be a writer someday and a few years ago she started to write this story. It's called The Enchantments. It's a really cool Fantasy story and Danielle takes it everywhere she goes usually. Well I'll keep it until we find her and it will be a little entertaining to read though her rough draft. She is not that good of grammar or spelling at all but it has a great plot and good characters. She's been trying to get better at that and description. Her motto is practice makes perfect."

As they were leaving Hotch stopped to talk to my mom who sat in a chair in the living room where she could see both doors probably hoping I'd walk in any minute too like Jessie's parents. "Danielle didn't run away if that's what you're thinking." She said as he sat down to ask her questions.

"No not at all." Hotch assured her.

"Is she alive still?" My mom said.

"We believe so until we find evidence otherwise we like to assume that the victims are." He said.

My mom got up and walked into my room and took a picture I had on my dresser and handed to him. "This was taken last Halloween but it's the most recent picture that I have that has the three of them in it."

It was all of us with more kids dressed up in costumes.

"Thank you we will do everything we can to find them." Hotch turned at left.

"One more thing I just thought of. A phone call came in that night I didn't recognized the voice and the caller ID didn't record a number." She sighed "Danielle yelled at whoever it was and hung up on them."

"Thanks for helping us." He said and left.

On the way back out the door he said, "None of the parents are involved. They were all too upset to be involved."

Kyle nodded "That was pretty obvious. I can profile too you know. We watched you do it so many times and the other agents do it so many times we learned to do it too. So people say we need more training but we are the kind of people who learn by watching people. We are visual learners obviously."