Undercover Family
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Chapter 38.
As the children were on the bus to the house, momma and her group of people were not sitting around and doing nothing. Penelope has found the six tracers and sees that they are moving further away from the area. They don't know what they would be traveling in however. It could be a van, truck, bus, or any other large vehicle. There could even be several vehicles that could be carrying the children. The agents did not want to put all their eggs in one basket. Since they do see the general direction of the children, they have placed a BOLO out for a large vehicle which could be carrying many children in it heading in that direction. The problem is that the area that it is going toward is heavily wooded or has large empty spaces in it. There is spotty cell reception and difficulties with communications will occur. The area is quite large and not well known to our people.
The address that momma found is currently being checked out by the bureau agents in the area and all they found was a private airport with no other buildings or homes around in a five mile radius. Why was that address important to the unsub? According to the tracers, the airport does appear to be ahead of them, but is that really where they are heading? Momma, Bob and Penelope work around to get things to follow the tracer blips. She has packed suitcases of clothing, not just enough for her children but the other children as well. They put a lot of food such as sandwiches, chips, fruit and chopped vegetables in several coolers, with much water. Momma puts an unopened package of diapers in the car; she doesn't know how long they will be gone from the house. Penelope has uploaded everything from the computer that they need to know into the laptop and momma will be bringing her devices as well as the hormone balancers.
The hormone balancers are what momma injects into each of her children once a month at bath time. What it does is fool the body into believing that it is in a prepubescent stage of development. It prevents women from having a menstrual period; it calms the testosterone levels in men and prevents facial and other hair growth as well as hormonal surges to do other things. The only person that she does not inject the solution into is Aaron. His blood vessels would be considered too small to accept the needle. Even Spencer's vessels are very tiny for the needle and he cries every time that momma injects him. Aaron gets his balancer in the bottles that he drinks in the morning and evening. Because of his 'small' size and the method needed, a smaller dosage has to be given and although he can go for a week without any of it, it is healthiest to keep a daily dosage going through his body. Momma could have chosen this method for Spencer as well, but she didn't want to have to do it daily with him. It would have been more problematic than doing it once a month through syringe as she has been.
It did take awhile before they were finally ready to go. They were in a rush but they also knew where they were going. They were just following the tracer blips; as long as those are visible they will find our children. At least that is what momma hopes. Since they don't really know why the unsub took them, they didn't think it would be on a firm time line or that something could happen before they get there. How wrong can people be sometimes? They removed the booster seats, but kept the car seat in the car and got in the car to head toward the blips. Momma has Bob drive and Penelope navigated while she went over reports and analysis charts on the way to the blips. It seems to take forever. They would have flown but since they don't know the final destination, they can only go by automobile and at the speed limit. The adults believe that they will be able to get there in time. It wasn't always easy to keep a straight line to the blips, because it appears that the unsub is taking a lot of back roads and non-major highways. He is definitely not on the interstate or major highways. There are times when our agents had to backtrack because they turn the wrong way on a road that changes the direction from where they want to go. That is why it will take a long time for our adults to get to where they need to be.
At the house
During the time the children have been sleeping, unknown to them, each room begins to lose them one by one. A man would come in and point to the children that he wants at that time. He comes to our family's room and takes the seven and ten year old.
In the room that Aaron is kept, there is a large round stage like apparatus which is surrounded by cameras and lights to show what would be on the stage. Aaron wakes up feeling hot and messy, his mouth does not hurt, so he is not teething, but he has caught a virus which is now going through his body. He doesn't have the immunity that he needs and his white blood cells are going into overdrive in order to fight this virus. He looks at the stage and sees a child brought in and placed on the stage. The child is told to just stand there. After about ten minutes, the child is removed and taken to another room and another child is placed there. In his befuddled mind, Aaron knows that the children are being displayed like wares and are being sold in auction to pedophiles and slavers. He berates and screams at himself in his inability to stop this travesty. He finally cries out for attention and the man comes over to the baby. He picks him up and notices that he is hot and needs a change. He takes him over to the changing table and removes his dirty diaper. After cleaning him up, the man takes the baby's temperature and discovers that it is 101.4. He diapers the baby and takes out one of the bottles of water in which he puts a baby pain reliever. He then proceeds to feed the baby the bottle of water. But he is only giving him a pain reliever not an antiviral medication to fight the virus going through the small body. The man in the baby is yelling out loud but can't seem to get through the haze and heat that he is feeling. He wonders if he has been drugged because he feels so tired and lethargic. He screams in his head Momma, JJ, David, Penelope, and then forlornly anybody.
Everyone he screams for is very worried about him and the other children; JJ has twice gone to the door of their room to scream to take her to Aaron and the other children. Her screams are ignored or unheard. The next time that the door is opened, a man comes in and points to the nine year old and then to Spencer to come with him.
David runs to be in front of the two children and says, "No, they are not going anywhere with you." The boy is picked up and removed from the area and the two chosen children are picked up by two heavily built men. The chosen children are taken from the room and the others run to the door to pound and get out of the room themselves. In defeat, they fall to the ground in front of the door. Crying out for their people and the children they feel that they have failed to protect and save.
David is brought to the room with the stage and placed in the play pen with Aaron. Aaron sees him and goes over to him.
"David, I don't feel very good." He sits in his lap. David feels that he is burning up.
He yells to the man, "Hey, what are you doing to my baby brother; he's burning up with fever."
The man responds, "That is why you are here to keep him quiet. If he doesn't stop whimpering, I will give him something to truly whimper about." Aaron whimpers even more. David cuddles him and tells him not to worry.
He calls out to the man, "Could you bring a bowl of cold water and a washcloth so that I can try to cool him down." The man looks at him but agrees to the request and brings over a bucket full of water with ice in it with a washcloth. David strips Aaron down and begins to wipe him with the cold cloth. Aaron is enjoying it and it is making him feel better. But it is only a temporary reprieve as the baby needs medicine. But David thinks what kind?
He looks up and around the room and then notices the children being brought in one by one. With a realization that he is seeing the purchase of these children to pedophiles and slavers and his blood boils. He begins to get up so that he could get out of the playpen and stop this, but Aaron whimpers and grabs on to him. He knows he must make a decision now, to fight for the children being sold or to take care of his sick boss. With a heavy heart, he continues to get out of the play pen and leaves his boss behind. The case must be taken care of and the innocent children saved if he can do it. When he sees Spencer brought in and placed on the stage, he freezes with shock.
Spencer enters into the room and looks around, he sees the stage and then she sees David and Aaron in the play pen. Aaron was lying down and looked flushed but not like David who looks angry. He is forced to continue to walk to the stage and told to stand very still. He uses his eyes to look around at the video cameras filming him standing there. He did not want to be there, he wanted to scream and cry, Hotch, Rossi where are you help me. Mommy come and get me.