The car stopped so abruptly that I slid back and hit my head on the back wall of the trunk that I was unhappily stuck in. I hated the cramped space and to make matters worse there was no clock and I liked to know the time. I wished I had my cell phone or a watch so I knew the time but I had nothing. The time seemed to pass too slowly when you are in the trunk of a car on route to who knows where. He already had stopped twice before. Once he let me out to let me call Kyle and tell him goodbye because I wouldn't be calling him again. The second time I wasn't let out of the trunk so I don't know where we were or where we had stopped that time but I suspected he had taken me back to the warehouse he had kept us prisoners in. Had he gotten Jessie and Mandy too? I had no answers yet.

Suddenly the car trunk lid popped open and he roughly grabbed my arms and pulled me out of the trunk, "You know, I really underestimated you and your so-called best friends or as you say your sisters. They left you behind and you tried to leave them behind. That isn't what a true friend would do in your situation. It's not even what a really good friend would do. No friends I know would abandon their other friends who are in trouble at the same time. That's the act of nothing but a total weak, coward. That's what you all are, nothing but weak cowards." He threw me to the ground I tried not to hurt myself by falling to the concrete in the parking lot we were at but I did skin my elbow and knee but they weren't bleeding to badly.

Did he just say that Mandy and Jessie had escaped? That was really good news to me and very encouraging too. It meant they were safe, and in a much better situation then I was at the moment. Despite what he thought I knew they would come back for me as soon as they could because I knew them all a lot better than he did. I had no doubts at all about that because I knew they would do anything for me. It was like the time there had been a small earthquake one time during the summer while I was at a camp. Jessie who wasn't even sixteen at the time so she was without a license drove to each of my friend's houses and picked them up and supplies just in case and drove up the canyon to the camp site I was at. She didn't get caught until they got to the camp okay to find me and though the epicenter had been close no injuries or damages to the campsites. Though I was fine they drove there to make sure I was. They were prepared to dig me out of a bunch of debris if they had too but that was unnecessary and I thought they had over reacted.

The man took a hold of my wrist forcing me to stand up and dragged me away from the car leaving the trunk open, took me to a river, and forced me under the bridge. Why the bridge? Was he going to kill me there where no one would find my body for months afterwards?

I started to struggle fearfully. Even though he had a gun in his hand I wasn't going to let him do what he wanted with me. If he was going to kill me he had to shoot me but he had other ideas that I didn't know about. He wanted me to suffer when I died. Not quickly and painlessly. He wanted to watch the light of life leave my eyes.


"Wait, Jessie look," Mandy shouted. "It's that the same kind of car he drove?"

"Yes it's the same color and model!" Jessie squinted through the window "It is his car! The same license plate number!"

Hotch slammed on the brakes and Morgan threw open the door before the car and fully stopped and ran past the car. He knew I had to be somewhere else sense the man had left the trunk wide open to the world.


He pushed me down on the ground again though I continued to struggle frantically he was very strong. "I'm not letting you get away from me Danielle!" I'd fallen into the stream of water that wasn't held back by the irrigation block they had down until winter when the water wasn't needed. Then I realized he really was going to kill me but he wanted to drown me! I screamed right before, he pushed my head under water.

I thought no one could hear me though I had screamed as loudly as I could. I also thought no one going to be in the park this late at night. Luckily I was wrong.


They all had heard me scream and knew I was in trouble and needed their help. They continued running around searching every possible place they could think of. They ran around the whole park and didn't know where to look for me.

My friends and the other agents all stood around unsure if I was dead already or not. Suddenly Reid realized what they were standing on.


I couldn't hold my breath anymore, I needed air but there was none. I was going to black out and die. The man reached up to his mask and was about to pull it off when he turned then ran. I finally did black out and don't remember much after that.


"He's getting away!" Morgan shouted running up stream after him.

"I got Danni," Reid pulled me out of the water. "JJ get paramedics quick. She's not breathing." He started CPR trying to revive me not sure if it was too late to save me or not. He hoped I would be okay

"SHE'S NOT BREATHING!" Jessie shouted then she suddenly fainted.

"SHE CAN'T DIE!" Mandy said nearly collapsing.

Kyle suddenly got down by Jessie and was trying to wake her up. Gideon had Mandy sit down before she fell down which she was very close to doing.

JJ suddenly arrived with paramedics who started to a mister more CPR and got me out of the river bank. Jessie woke up and all three of my friends started pacing beside me. Morgan suddenly arrived soaked from head to foot. He started shooting at me and I ducked and got drenched. Because he pulled the irrigation block and the water being held back crashed down. Not to mention, he got away."

Jessie, Mandy, and Kyle all looked at him in fear know their necks were still on the line now that the kidnapper had escaped.

Suddenly they heard a noise for me and I turned my head and threw up all over Kyle's shoes. Then I opened my eyes. I was still alive!

"Thanks for your glad to see you present Danni," Kyle said.

"You're welcome and if you don't like it well you're the one standing were my head is." I said and then I fell back and started coughing.

We were alive that was good but Hotch knew this was just the beginning of the end. The kidnapper was still out there and none of us had seen his face or knew where he lived and if they didn't catch him then he would try again to get us back.