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~ 6 months in ~

"We need to find her, it's been six months." Hotch slammed his hand down on the desk and looked at the photographs they had taken from the board a month ago and put in their own office in his home. He sighed and then shook his head, they should have found her by now.

"Hotch I know I have said this before but we need to consider the possibility that -"

"Don't you dare say it okay? I would know if she was dead! Don't even go there." Hotch turned around, kicking the wall as hard as he could as he tried his best to stop the tears falling down his face, he would know if she died. He loved her so much, he would know.

"Hotch, calm down." Rossi put his hand on the man's shoulder and shook his head, none of them wanted to think about their friend and colleague being dead.

"She's going to be okay, she has to be okay." He muttered, shaking his head and looking back at the board.

"Right, what do we have so far?" Reid finally asked, looking down at the file he held in his hands as he tried to break the tension in the room,

"We know he was stalking her, what we don't know is for how long."

"As soon as we find out how long, we can find out when she met him and therefore have a list of suspects." Emily frowned,

"Did anyone notice when JJ started to change a little?"

"I don't know, the first time she told me that she thought someone was watching her was about a year and a half before she went missing." Hotch visibly paled at the thought of his girlfriend being stalked for that long,

"I told her to put extra locks on her doors and windows and if she saw anyone or felt it again then she would have to tell you but she never mentioned it again until a year later when she told me that she saw someone in her bushes." Garcia bit down on her lip, blaming herself for not doing anything about it,

"Okay so that was six months before, that was when she called me and asked me to check it out. I stayed with her for a week and there was nothing and when I took a look around the house I found nothing except a stray dog. She was convinced that was what it was and she never mentioned anything again, not to me anyway." Morgan finished for her, putting his arm around Garcia, knowing that nobody was to blame for this massive mess.

"When I went over her house to sleep about four months before she went missing, one of the doors was unlocked.. she looked terrified and looked around to see if anything was missing and then when there was nothing gone, she locked it again and then said nothing about it." Emily sighed, they had gone over this so many times, it was hard enough they all blamed themselves at certain points in time when they could have done something to avoid all of this.

"So at the moment let's base this on starting a year and a half ago, give me that list of people she may have spoke to again." Reid shook his head,

"What if we are looking at this the wrong way?"

"What do you mean?"

"We have gone through suspects, police officers, members of family of those we have put away... everyone but the press..." Hotch nodded,

"Why didn't we think of this before?" He muttered, turning around to look at the photograph on the board of the woman he loved more than anything. He shook his head again and then bit down on his lower lip,

"What cases did we have in December two years ago?"

"Why December?"

"He took her for a reason at the end of December, let's go on the theory that on the date he took her, that was the date he met her two years ago." Garcia nodded, turning back to her computers and typing quickly,

"We were on the Lewis case – five teenage girls had been murdered, massive press coverage."

"That was the case JJ almost collapsed from exhaustion." Hotch muttered mostly to himself,

"The press were all over that piece, there could be hundreds of people." Morgan groaned, turning around to punch the wall, biting down hard on his lip when he thought about the woman he considered to be his little sister at the hands of some man who was completely obsessed with her.

"Well then we will go through hundreds of people, whatever it takes to find her, we are not going to give up." They all nodded, getting up to get ready to go through the whole amount of press that was covering that case.

Hotch smiled as he thought about finally having some sort of lead, and he was going to check everyone out until they found her – no matter how long it took.