Undercover Family

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Chapter 34.

It is one week before Christmas and momma's getting ready for Christmas. The agents are still trying to figure out how to get into the empty space. Penelope finds something. The space is on the same land that the house the person who stole the prototype inherited from his parents from. Either he had the demolished the house, of which there is no evidence or the house is still there.

Aaron tells her to check out the tax records and building codes of the house that should be there. What did it look like? Do they have a blue print somewhere that could give them a likely of where the doors and windows might be? Penelope gets right on it.

Meanwhile, our unsub has been watching the house of our agents in order to figure how to get in and take the children. Momma seems to not want to let them go too far without her. She is being a really overprotective mother. He figures the best way in for him would be to infiltrate as one of the FBI agents that come at all times of the day. He decides to imitate Agent Michael Gage, who just left five minutes ago. Changing himself into an illusion of the agent, he enters the house in order to view the layout of the house. His deadline in only two weeks away and he has to get five more children. When he enters he notices the large front porch which in currently devoid of children as it is not heated, so when the children play on it right now they must wear coats. He goes into the main part of the house and sees the dining room table with the school age children doing schoolwork, even though they are not attending school momma keeps them on that schedule and is actually making the assignments for them. To the left there is a living room with a medium size Christmas tree and a play pen in the corner and a few pieces of furniture including a rocking chair. There are three doors that lead off the living room, one to momma's bedroom, one to a computer room and one to the stairwell to the second floor. Back in the dining room, there are two doors that lead off, one to the bathroom and the other to the kitchen. Momma is busy doing laundry on the back porch and has some Christmas goodies in the oven. Penelope is in the computer room and Spencer is sitting in a chair beside room. The only person he doesn't see is the baby. He glances into momma's room and sees him taking a nap. He wanted to go upstairs and see what the layout there is, but with everyone downstairs there didn't seem to be any reason to do so. But he sees what he wants and leaves for the day. He is beginning to form a plan in his mind.

Although, we know that our agents can see each other as their real selves, our unsub in on a different modulation and so our agents only see the illusion as he only sees their illusion. But the illusions will pop soon, as Penelope finds the specs for the building that should be on that site. Later, that night after dinner, our agents talk with Bob about a plan to enter the building, if the door is where the specs indicate and there have been no modifications to them, they should be able to find, mildly blow the door and enter the building.

Bob begins to create a swat task force to attack the building on Monday the 21st. Our agents have petitioned him to attend the task force has a way of helping the children out by giving them a proportional person to follow. Bob turns them down. He still many times only sees them as children. Even though there are many days when momma ages them to do certain things; including make videos for their children, maintain their gun ratings by having a shooting range set up in the basement and other FBI certifications and absolutes. However, Bob still says no. The case becomes moot when the Saturday before our unsub strikes our family.

The morning begins as usual when momma gets up and starts breakfast and a load of laundry. The unsub has decided to come this morning for the children. He has noticed that Uncle Bob comes and goes the most often and at all times of the day or night, so he comes that morning as Uncle Bob. When he enters the house, he sees momma in the kitchen and goes to her.

"Good Morning."

"Good Morning Bob, are you here for breakfast?"

"What are we having today?"

"French Toast, potatoes and Sausage with juice."

"I am staying."

"Great, how about going up and waking the children? Just bring Aaron down, however, don't change him, I will take care of that down here. Tell the children that they have 15 minutes to be ready and down stairs."

"No problem, I'll see you soon with the little one."

"Thanks Bob."

He can't believe that actually got permission to go upstairs and get the children. This just might be easier than he thought as walking upstairs. When he gets to the top, he opens the first door and sees Penelope; he decides to leave her alone. The second door is the bathroom, so he walks past the door. The next door he goes to is the little girls room on the left, he goes into the room and gently nudges both girls and tells them to get up and meet momma in the boys room. They wake up and hear him, but go to the bathroom first and dress before they head to the boys room. It is not unusual for them to see the boys before heading downstairs. 'Bob' goes to the boys' room next and he sees the boys in the bunk beds and the baby in the crib. He walks to Spencer's bed and he nudges the boy awake and then nudges David to get up, the boys get out of bed sleepy-eyed. He then walks to the crib and looks down at the baby who is still sleeping, but does not nudge him awake. He turns to the boys and tells them to dress warmly for the day. He looks back toward the baby and smiles evilly. A few minutes later, he turns again and sees four children looking at him. He takes the revolver from his pocket and puts it toward the baby's head.

"You will walk with me downstairs, grab your coats and walk outside with me to a car that is sitting out front or I shoot the baby. He turns off the safely and cocks the gun, which wakes Aaron up. He opens his eyes and finds him looking down the barrel of a gun, he whimpers but the adult in him knows that crying or screaming might startle the gun holder and cause him to shoot. He looks to the right of the gun and notices a strange man standing next to the crib, his eyes go wide and he whimpers some more. Who is this man and what does he want?

"Who are you? asks Aaron to the unsub, "David, who is this man?"

David answers, "What are you talking about Aaron, that's Uncle Bob?"

Aaron turns his face to look out the crib bars and finds David's face and he says, "That's not Uncle Bob. I have never seen him before in my life. I know what Bob looks like and that's not him." What we are now learning is because of Aaron's brain chemistry as a baby, he sees the world a little differently. Everything he sees is always what it is; he cannot be fooled by an illusion, no matter what the modulation is on the device. He sees the unsub as himself, not as an illusion. Momma will find this interesting and will want to do research on this aspect of the device. What is the age when it changes and why does it change? Spencer sees the unsub as Uncle Bob; he is fooled by the device into seeing the illusion.

The man looks at the baby in wonder, how come he can see me? He also thinks that it may be due to the brain chemistry of a baby and finds the idea weird, but he didn't create the illusion device, he just knows how to use it. He doesn't know how the device works. He points to David and tells him to change the baby, which David comes and picks Aaron up and takes him to the changing table to clean him up. Aaron looks at David and with a sigh of resignation; he closes his eyes while David changes his messy diaper. He then proceeds to put some clothes on him. The unsub tells JJ to fix a diaper bag for the baby and they also took the bottles that were in the small refrigerator. The man follows the children with JJ carrying Aaron. The man continues to point the gun at the baby's head.

The group walks downstairs and goes to the porch where the children put their coats on. After putting his own coat on, David then starts to put a snowsuit on Aaron. The unsub says, "No. The baby goes without a coat."

David exclaims, "He can't go out without a coat on, it is cold out there. He's just a baby and needs to be kept warm."

"No coat, move toward the door and outside to the car."

All of the kids are complaining that Aaron needed a coat. The man points the gun at the baby's head and starts to squeeze. The children run to the door and out to the car. They will not allow this man to shoot Aaron. The man picks up the baby and carries him outside.

In the meantime, momma has gotten the food almost ready, but is curious why she hasn't heard any of the children come in yet and certainly hasn't heard the baby. She goes to the door heading to the second floor and calls up, "Come on down now for breakfast." She doesn't hear anything and begins to get worried. She returns to the kitchen and turns off the stove. She then heads upstairs and arriving there, checks Penelope's room and sees her still in bed. Going in, she nudges her awake and asks if she had seen Bob. Penelope says that she hasn't seen him. Momma gets more worried and walks down the hall to the girls room, finds it empty and going across the hall, she sees another empty room. Penelope walks into the room behind her and asks, "Where is everybody?" The women hear a car start and rush to the window to see 'Bob' taking off with the all the children in the car. Penelope runs downstairs and goes to the computer room to check the tracers on the devices the agents are wearing. Momma just stood at the window and sees her children being taken away and screams, "NO!"