I was so used to cars following me around everywhere by now. So when the car pulled out of the driveway across the street I didn't think anything much about it at all. I had to be Morgan coming to the dress rehearsal tonight like he had told me he would do at school that day but he wouldn't watch sense Mrs. Wharton had told them they couldn't watch the show until a show night. We had finished the practice with Elise so early that I was able to come home eat and take a nap before dress rehearsal tonight. It was going to be along night with dress rehearsal. Trent had to stay and do the transformation a few times so Jessie, and Mandy, who had choose Jessica and Kyle to help so they could get it right tonight.

I walked down the street. Trent said he'd walk from the school to make sure I got there safely but I felt pretty safe with the Criminal Minds Crew tailing us pretty much everywhere we went now days. I had left my tote with my costumes and props at school but I could care less at the moment. I would only have to drag it to school that night which was crazy especially sense it was really heavy. After tonight I had to bring it home and get my pictures taken for my Portfolio that I had to hand in after I got my Beauty and the Beast pictures and the show was finished.

I must not have paid enough attention because I didn't see the car that I thought was tailing me pass me.

"DANIELLE!" I heard someone shout my name up ahead.

I looked up, and froze in a state of near panic and terror that was welling up inside me. It was him and again as he pointed his gun at me too. I still stood frozen in the spot in total horror at the sight of him. I started to shake in fear I could barely remain standing on my feet. My legs felt like jelly didn't want to hold my weight anymore but I wasn't going to collapse. I swore silently to myself that I wasn't going to fall now. This was not good and I had to find a way out of this situation and fast before he decided to do something to make me move.

"Get in the car," He said pointed at his car behind him but I didn't move. "You can either do it now or I will make you."

I chided myself for being so stupid. It wasn't Morgan following me at all; it had been him the whole time. I should have realized that but I hadn't been paying much attention to who was in the car, when it passed me, or that it had even passed me at all.

I stood stock still as if I was still frozen in terror and shock but my mind raced as fast as it could for an escape route, any escape that would help me. I then I saw only one way out of the situation I could see and I threw myself in the alley hoping to get out on the other side. Unfortunately there was a high fence blocking my way out. I was trapped in an alley with no way out.

"From now on I'm learning about these alleys nearby my house that I never walk through." I grumbled as I turned around to see him blocking my way back out. I flattened against the fence scared spit less. I knew I'd collapse now that I was trapped if I didn't lean against something. I didn't know the alleys near my house just the ones around the FBI headquarters so we could spy. Now I wished that I did know about the ones around my house otherwise I wouldn't be trapped in this one.

"You've trapped yourself in here Danielle." he said with relish. I had heard his voice before. I started to rack my brain to place it with face or even better a name. I came up empty.

"Danni!" I heard Trent call my name from up the street. Had he seen me? I hoped so because I wanted to be saved not be taken by this man ever again.

"Don't you dare answer that boy," He said coming closer. "If you want him to live you better keep your mouth shut. No one can save you now Danielle. You're going to come with me quietly of I'll go kill your friends before you can warn them I'm coming to get them."

"Please you don't have to do this. We can talk this over please." My mouth was dry I could barely talk and my voice was shaking because I was trembling like there was an earthquake.

"Shut up." He said to me and I gulped trying to find a way out but there was nothing I could do. I didn't have much of a choice but to go with him or I'd die.

"She doesn't have to answer him or be quiet if she doesn't want to," I heard Morgan say from behind him. "And your wrong about no one is saving her right now. I saw you pass her in your car and now you're trying to take her again and I'm glad I did see that because I have all the evidence I need to prove it was you who took the three girls in the first place." He turned to see Morgan pointing his gun at him, "You didn't want Jessie or Mandy just Danni but you took them all to throw us off your trail. Drop the gun and come quietly or I'll shoot you if I have too."

The man who had taken me before suddenly shot at Morgan but missed and continued shooting until he was out of the alley and back in his car driving away as fast as he could. Was it just me or was he a bad shot? Morgan shot at him but missed him and his car.

Trent had heard the shots and ran to the alley. Morgan pointed to where I stood pale like I was frozen ice solid. He saw me standing next to the fence like I was a part of it. When he touched my arm I collapsed into his arms crying uncontrollably. I had finally collapsed in the safety of his arms. He held me tightly t him but I couldn't stop shaking. I vowed at that moment that I would never leave my house alone ever again.

Morgan came back and said. "He did change his license plate but I didn't get the new one. How's Danni?"

"Danni it's okay you're safe now and he can't hurt you again." Trent was trying to calm me down. I was clinging to him like my life depended on him crying and shaking uncontrollably. "I'm here now Danni. I'm here and I'm not going to let anything happen to you I promise. You're going to be all right. I'm here to protect you now."

Trent picked me up and carried me to Morgan's car and he drove us the rest of the way to the school as I calmed down and stopped crying before we arrived.

None of us know really exactly know how I got through all the rehearsals that week after what had happened to me. They thought I'd have a mental break down or another panic attack at school. Thankfully I didn't have either of those things at school or during the day. I had a hard time sleeping again. The first night after I had nearly been taken again my parents had to call Trent to come calm me down because I was screaming after I woke from a nightmare. They had called the FBI but I was still in a panic attack state and they couldn't calm me down.

Trent had me sleep at his house again after that night and he slept on the floor by the bed which I really thought was nice of him. It was really sweet. Every time I woke up in a state of a panic attack and nearly out of control which happened a lot. He'd comfort me and hold me until I went back to sleep then he'd lay me down and go back to sleep on the floor himself.

Only one attempt had been made to kidnap me again and that meant that we had to be even more careful then before. My friends all got warned after I was rescued. I was so jumpy but I did well at rehearsal sense I wasn't Danielle on stage. I left my world for a minute on stage and I loved that feeling ever sense I first did drama.

All my friends knew it every year seen we had started High School I had been in all the musicals. My freshman year I'm been Princess Winifred in Once upon a Mattress, Gertrude the Bird in Seussical my sophomore year, and been Princess December in Twelve Dancing Princesses the year before. I really knew how to change my personally to be the character and my drama teacher had seen it the first day I had stepped foot on the stage at Sky View when I was only eight years old and was in Saturday's Warrior as Shelly.

My church had decided to do Saturday's Warrior and I played Shelly the main part that was meant for a girl my age at that time. I was one of the select few who had been called in to see in a line up so they could choose the members of the family that would fit in well. Along with most of the other girls and boys they wanted to see. I was chosen along with most of the Wassom family who did a lot of acting and singing. It figured the other girls said they could do without Shelly because they didn't want me in the show and the director Mrs. Olsen heard them. She told them that it was enough or they would be kicked out and they would put in their understudies if they didn't stop badgering me unkindly. I was working as hard if not harder than any of them. The boys were getting along great with me it was just the Wassom kids that had problems with me. I had known them my whole life and they hated me for no reason.

I had a really great talent to really make believe I was this person I portrayed on stage and it wasn't too hard for me. It came naturally to me. Mrs. Wharton saw me portray a boss for a jewelry store owner stop someone from stealing, a girl from a Dr Seuss book, a girl running away from home and running into a wolf in the forest, and a women sitting on a park bench who was having trouble writing a book. The things she had chosen for us to perform at tryouts mostly made up off the top of our heads with no time to talk to the person before we were put on. It was to see how we improvised if something went wrong and if we could keep from laughing and stay in character when the unexpected happened.

Though we searched no one we knew had a car like the one I saw. It had to be someone in Drama or worked in the Drama department for them to know there was a dress rehearsal that night because Mrs. Wharton had not scheduled it until the day before because some kids were messing around and goofing off during the rehearsal during school while we were doing some last minute blocking and it was always the curtain call that was blocked last and kids messed around during. The rehearsal wasn't going right though most like Trent and me were working as hard as possible and not messing around at all by trading masks, wigs, or hats or whatever else they could think of.

It was Thursday, the opening night and everyone was excited for the show of Beauty and the Beast to start. The HSR's who weren't on the technical crew or other things needed volunteered to be ushers or run the concessions so they all could go to all the shows for free along with the Criminal Minds Crew. They came back stage before and after the show to make sure I was all right even though they weren't supposed to. Several promised they wouldn't leave until I was leaving as well.

During the first show we came to a part that was so funny that all the HSR's were excited for sense they had heard about it from several people. Every one of them and the Criminal Minds Crew laughed. To everyone surprise even Hotch laughed too! He smiled and no one had ever seen him smile before.

Throughout the whole show everything went perfectly right. After the show Hotch was still smiling. A smile no one expected to ever see. Even the transformation went right which was the only part where anything could go wrong. It was surprise to everyone including the ones who had tried to do it before Jessie, Mandy, and Kyle that nothing went wrong on it.

As they went out to meet me after the show and they all said, "Danni did you know, you've done the impossible thing?"

"What do you mean?" I asked between all the little kids who wanted to meet the Disney Princess, Belle because that's who they thought I really was though their parents knew the truth. Many said I was their favorite princess and I thanked them and hugged them all.

No one answered me so I was very confused until I saw Hotch was smiling. I was glad he smiled it was something we all needed to do more often. A smile can make the whole world a whole lot brighter. Some smiles can make a room brighter and his did just that.

Someone watched us with an angry scowl. He wanted me to be alone for just a minute but for now I wasn't but he was going to be so he couldn't get me back. He wouldn't give up. He'd get me one way or another if it was the last thing he did.