Here is chapter 5!

NOTE: from here on out, there will be mentions/descriptions of rape/abuse in almost every chapter due to the story I'm conveying. If you are triggered by any of these, it might be in your best interest to not read it or be prepared.

11:00AM, Monday morning, 8 days, 12 hours since disappearance

Aaron Hotchner hadn't had a day off in years. Finally, he gets one and he doesn't use it. Especially now since Jennifer was missing. He was pushed to take this day off, and now he was.

He decided to take the kids out for lunch.

"So when's mommy coming back?" Tyler asked, breaking the silence.

"You know how the other day we tied the yellow ribbon around our tree in the front yard?" Hotch began. "That's because mommy is missing."

Grace sat up in her seat. "Is mommy lost?"

"Kind of," Hotch said. "That's what our job is. We catch the bad guys that make people go missing."

"Are you gonna catch the bad guy who made mommy go missing?" Henry asked.

Hotch nodded, picking up a menu. "Yeah," he said. "Yeah we are."

The kids didn't really understand how people went missing, but they knew that their mother was one of those missing people. It hurt a lot not to see their mom, so bringing her back meant everything.

5:00PM, Monday evening, 8 days, 18 hours since disappearance

Dragging her blanket through the hallway, into the round table room, Grace yawned. "Daddy, I'm tired," she announced.

Aaron got up from his seat and went over to the 3 year old. He bent down to her level and looked into her eyes. "You don't want dinner? It'll be here soon."

"How long?" Grace asked with a shrug.

"When the little hand on the clock gets to the 6," Hotch said.

"I wanna go to bed now," she said, accepting her father's embrace.

Aaron picked the child up and cuddled her before bringing her to his office where he tested her.

"You might have to eat something if your sugar levels are too low," he said, unzipping his child's bag.

"But I wanna sleep!" The child whined, falling back into the pillows on the couch.

Aaron tried his hardest not to get angry. It was hard because usually JJ could calm her down, but she wasn't there. He tried distancing his mind from the situation as he pricked his daughter's finger.

"Grace, Grace, Grace," he said, wiping it off. "Your levels are just a bit low. You can go to bed after you've eaten, okay?"

Grace started crying. "No!" She whined. "I wanna go to bed!"

At this point, Aaron was almost desperate. Fortunately, Spencer was on his way in, carrying a sleeping Benjamin.

"Is there anything you can think of that JJ did with them?" He asked, noticing the man having trouble with his daughter.

Hotch shook his head. "We put them to bed together," he said. "I don't think she did anything special that helped them sleep."

Grace let out little cries as she wrapped her little arms around her father's neck.

"You know what?" He said, picking her up. "She can fall asleep in my arms again."

7:00PM, Tuesday night, 9 days, 20 hours since disappearance

"FUCK!" JJ screamed as the man kicked her in the stomach.

"You better hope you're not pregnant!" He bellowed, his steel toed boots coming in contact with the blonde's delicate legs.

They weren't even her legs anymore. They were blue and purple. Her body wasn't even her body anymore. It was blue and purple and broken.

"You wouldn't get hurt if you listened to me!" Her kidnapper yelled. Why was it so hard for her to realise that he was in charge?

"Why should I listen to you?" JJ yelled back, her voice evidently weak and strained.

The man circled around the shaking woman until he stopped in front of her. He tipped her chin up, gaining her full attention.

"Because you're mine," he said. "Your body is mine. Everything is mine."

11:30 PM, Tuesday night, 10 days since disappearance

Not only JJ's absence scared the children, but also the thunderstorm they were experiencing. It was late April, almost a given for the type of weather they were receiving, but this time it was entirely different.

"Mommy!" Ben sobbed into his father's chest. "I want mommy! I'm scared!"

Soon, Tyler and Grace joined in, leaving Jack and Henry to shake and pout in fright. Luckily, they had the BAU to help comfort them, but they still missed those 'it's okay' hugs from their mommy.

At a first glance, you would've thought the BAU was a daycare. The agents had stopped their work, as they had no power, and they were bouncing 3 crying toddlers around to calm them down.

The thunder had quieted, meaning the children quieted. However, if you listened closely enough, you could easily pick out Grace's huffing and puffing. It was hard to cuddle your children and tell them it was okay, when you weren't even sure if their mother was in the same condition. She was somewhere, out there, scared. It broke his heart more than anything to know that she wasn't cuddled up with him and their children.

Grace pulled her head out of Spencer Reid's chest. He had to take a double take to make sure he hadn't been holding JJ the whole time. They looked almost identical. The fright on her face was nearly identical to the fright on JJ's face when she'd enter a house from the back entrance. That was her worst fear.

"I want mommy!" Grace whined, half scared to death. She buried her little fists into her godfather's chest and nestled her head in the crook of his neck. "I'm scared! I want mommy!"

"I know," Reid soothed, rubbing circles into his goddaughter's back. "I know...Mommy's out there fighting the storm so you can go to sleep. She loves you very much."

Grace began wailing almost, as she pulled away from Reid in fright. Her blank expression met his blank expression. "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mo–"

"Shh, shh, shh," Spencer soothed, wrapping a blanket around the 3 year old. "I know it's scary, but I'm here."

"I want mommy!" The child continued to yell, almost as if she were speaking for her siblings.

Reid kissed the top of the child's head and cuddled her close. "I know you want mommy, and she's okay...she's just fighting the bad guys. She will be home soon, and you need to be a big girl for her and go to sleep, okay?"

"But I want mommy!" Grace whined, rubbing her tired eyes.

"Mommy will be home soon, we're gonna find her...I promise you," the man said to the child, as he wrapped his arms around her. The child reminded him far too much of JJ, and seeing her in this much pain and fright reminded him how much this girl just needed her mommy to come and hug her and tell her that it's okay.

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