A/N: Okay...later in this story it mentions Emily keeping her gun in her glove compartment and I know that she has a gun safe in her apartment but I needed for her not to have her gun when she got out of the car...That's really it...read on...

Discaimer: I don't own CM :(

Chapter 4

Derek was worried, hell he was terrified. It didn't matter if he and Emily were only a couple for two weeks, she was his partner and she always would be and he had absolutely no idea what had happened to her.

Previously:

"JJ,"

"Yeah?" she asked juggling her coffee and Henry. Will had 'taken some time off' leaving her with Henry, who had a doctor's appointment that morning she needed to take him to.

"Have you seen Prentiss today?" he was desperately hoping she said yes, he just hadn't seen her yet. Maybe she rode with JJ or Garcia, maybe even Hotch. The only reason her car was still at her apartment and she was gone was because it wasn't working right. He knew it was a long shot but right now he had to hold onto any hope he could get. Morgan knew hope could be paralyzing, but that didn't stop him.

"Nope," with that small word, Morgan's heart sunk.

"Where Emmy?" the three year old asked.

Morgan leaned down to his level. "We don't know buddy, we're gonna find her though ok?"

"Okay!" he said happily, running off when he spotted the other agents.

"I went by her apartment this morning to pick her up and she wasn't there, but…her car was, I was hoping that her car just broke down or something and she was riding with somebody else on the team but everybody is already here. Except for her,"

"Emily," JJ sighed, running a hand through her hair. "What happened to you?" she asked, more to herself than Morgan.

"Where are we going?" Emily demanded. No answer. Typical. Shortly before they left her apartment he had put a sleeping mask on her and laid the seat down. Where it was unable to be seen from the road he tied her hands behind the chair. She had guessed it had been a precaution to make it look like a normal family taking a trip. 'How far off that is' she could almost laugh. She estimated that they had been driving for about three hours, not that they had gotten very far. Emily could feel him making countless turns to confuse her so she had no chance of guessing where they were going. 'Stupid, stupid' Emily blamed herself. If only she had seen him a minute earlier she could have driven off or grabbed her gun. He must have noticed that she never kept her gun or badge in the house; she always kept them in the glove compartment and had already put them away when she had driven in. 'Stupid mistake'

"Where are you taking me?" she demanded again.

"Away," was the only answer she got.

"Hotch," Morgan said, knocking on the door, not waiting to be invited in.

"What is it Morgan?"

"Nobody knows where Emily is, she isn't at her apartment but her car is still there. I hoped that she had ridden with someone but I checked and she didn't. What if it's just like last time Hotch?" he rambled.

"Get everyone in the conference room in 5," he commanded. He'd be damned if he lost Emily Prentiss, one of his best agents, again.

"W-where's Emily?" Garcia, the last to arrive in the room, asked as she looked around for the brunette.

"That's what we're trying to find out Garcia," Hotch answered.

"No, no, no, no, no, no," Garcia said, sinking down into her chair, tears threatening to spill over. "I-Is this going to be like last time?"

"No," JJ spoke up. "Doyle is dead and nobody will hurt Emily again. We're going to find her before anything happens,"

"Okay, we need to treat this like any other case. Emily is just another victim," Rossi started.

"Don't call her that!" Reid stood up. "She's not a victim!"

"I understand that Reid but we can't personalize this, this is just another case,"

"It's not another case Rossi, this is Emily," Reid said, storming out of the room.

"Reid," Rossi started to go after him.

"Let him go Dave," Hotch said, holding him back. "You know Emily's 'death' hit him the hardest, he just needs to cool down, he'll come back when he's ready,"

"I know," he sighed, sitting back down again.

"Morgan and Rossi, go to Prentiss' apartment and check her car too," he added. "Garcia, see if you can find anyone new in Emily's life, anyone that has been at the same place and time as her on multiple occasions,"

"I-I can't dig into her life like this, it-it's not right,"

"You're going to have to if we want to get Prentiss back,"

"Y-yes sir,"

"Hotch," Morgan spoke up.

"Yes Morgan?"

"I think it's time, there's was something that happened right before we told you,"

"Go ahead,"

"Um-about two weeks ago Prentiss and I became a couple-"

"I knew it!" Garcia smiled, even considering the circumstances she managed to get the rest of the team to smile along with her.

"You 'knew it'?"

"First off, we're profilers, well I guess I'm not but I just know these things, two, you're partners and three, we've all seen the looks you guys have given each other,"

"I guess we're rubbing off on you baby girl, but back to the point, after Emily's 'goodbye party' we were watching a movie when we fell asleep. The next morning I woke up and I found Emily on the phone in the kitchen, I could tell that she was trying to be strong, forceful, but it was like she couldn't. She had this look of panic, almost desperation on her face. I tried to ask her about but she just brushed past me and I tried to talk to her ever since about it but she wouldn't. Before that we had been spending almost every night after work together and from the day she got that phone call to yesterday I've barely seen her. I should have noticed something, she wouldn't invite me over to her apartment anymore, anytime we spent together was at my place, and it wasn't much time anyway. I also noticed her acting strange, I talked to JJ," he nodded in her general direction as he said her name. "And she noticed something was off too, and she started wearing long sleeve shirts. I just figured it was because it was starting to get colder but…I'm a goddamn profiler, how could I have not done anything about this! Now she's gone," any anger he previously had dissipated as he sunk down in his chair.

"And we'll get her back," JJ said, putting a hand on Morgan's shoulder.

"Aaron Hotchner, report to my office immediately," Section Chief Strauss said, poking her head into the doorway. As quick as she had arrived she had vanished.

"I'll deal with Strauss, everybody else go, and JJ, stay here and make sure the media doesn't get wind of this. I'll be back as soon as I can," he said, briskly walking towards Strauss' office.

"Chief Strauss?"

"Come in Aaron,"

"May I ask why I was called in here?"

"I need you to drop this case, we can hand it down to the next available team or report it to the police,"

"One of the members of my team is missing,"

"I understand that Agent Hotchner but your team is too close to this case, I can't have you personalizing this,

"Ma'am, with all due respect, Emily Prentiss has-"

"Emily Prentiss?"

"Yes ma'am,"

"As I seem to recall, she walked away from this job once,"

"That was to save us, if she didn't come alone Doyle would have taken us out one by one until we caught him. She did what she needed to do,"

"It doesn't matter Agent Hotchner, you are too close to this case and that is my final order," she said, ushering him out of the door.

Hotch walked back into the conference room, where the rest of the team, minus Garcia, had gathered. Reid was also present, having cooled down. "Strauss won't let us continue this case, she said that we're too involved, too close,"

"I don't give a damn what Strauss thinks, I'm finding my partner," Morgan said, storming out of the room, headed towards the Section Chief's office.

"Morgan," Hotch warned. Derek just waved him off, continuing to walk towards the door.

"Why isn't the team able to pursue the disappearance of my partner?" Morgan demanded, not waiting to be invited in.

"Agent Morgan," Strauss reprimanded as Derek walked in.

"Why can't we pursue this case?" he asked again.

"As I have already told Agent Hotchner, you are too close to this case, it's too personal,"

"I need to find Emily. I will find her,"

"I understand that she is part of your team, your partner even, but you cannot pursue this case and that is all I have to say,"

"Being too close to Emily isn't always a bad thing. We can give inside to her daily life, find anybody out of the ordinary in it better than any other team and you know it,"

Strauss sighed knowing that he was right. "Fine, you can pursue this case. You are dismissed," she waved him off but he was already ahead of her. Hearing he could find Emily he was out of the door in seconds.

Emily's mask was finally removed, as were the bonds on her hands. She sat up rubbing her wrists, sore from the hours they spent tied behind the chair, and examining her new surroundings. The car was parked in a driveway in front of a typical three-story house, a fence surrounding the yard.

"Where are we?" Emily asked cautiously.

"Sometimes things have to change,"

"That doesn't answer my question,"

After a moment Caleb answered, smiling over at her. "Welcome to the new house Em,"

A/N: Thanks for reading! Thanks again to Hallie (psychedoutpineapple)! Please R&R!