Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Two.
BAU Headquarters
Extremely Early Wednesday Morning
In the Round room, our agents are watching a DVD that shows their boss, Aaron Hotchner, being beaten with a whip, anally raped, starved and spanked with large paddles. He is tortured while chained up and then forced into a cage naked and bleeding from different areas of his body. The scene appears to be taped and is timed so they know at what time this is happening to their leader. So far he appears to fighting it and is not appearing that he suffering something that he cannot survive. But there is no knowing how he truly is feeling emotionally during this degradation. One of the most degrading is when he is told that if he wanted something to drink he needed to get from the nipples that popped through the pink blanket on the wall. He was to drink as if he was a baby animal getting it from its mama. He refused and has not at any time had anything to drink or eat since the torture began. The unsub began to call the man a baby puppy as he walked him around on his hands and knees in the room going from the bed to the cage and back again.
Garcia finally says, "Please turn it off, we know what he is doing to him, do we actually have to see it?"
JJ turns the machine off that is showing their boss. She feels the same as Garcia; do they really have to continue watching this happening to their boss?
Morgan says, "Do we really know that this is happening and it is not a cruel jest? Have we checked out where Hotch is?"
"I haven't been able to get a hold of him by phone, home or cell. They aren't turned off and I want you Garcia to see if you can't triangulate where the cell phone is. I don't think Hotch has it anymore but it might be a clue as to where he may have been taken. We need to analyze the room that he is in to see if there might other clues that might tell us where he is. Any ambient noises or lighting effects, Garcia and Spencer can analyze the DVD," replied Rossi.
Prentiss speaks and says, "I don't understand why would someone do this, I am going to check the past cases to see if there is someone who could fit into this type of torture. Who would do something like this to a person? Do we know someone this sadistic?"
"How many people do know who are into Bondage, Dominance, Sadism and Masochism? There are people who would pay to do this to someone else and there are people who would pay to have it done to them." The agents look behind them at the unknown voice.
"Do we know you?" asks Morgan.
"You don't, but I know you Agent Morgan."
"I said you could stay only if you didn't comment, "Says Rossi to the woman.
"She asked if you knew someone that sadistic, should I answer that with a no."
"I know that you deal in that world now, Angie, but I am sure this has nothing to do with that world."
"How do you know that? The DVD was mailed to me and the note was sent to me and threatened you, not your boss. So who is the real victim here? The one on the screen being tortured because of why, they think they have you and they are torturing you. They don't know that they have the wrong man. So when you do your victimology, I believe is what you call it, who are you going to profile, the mistaken man on the screen or you?" He looks at her.
"She's right Rossi, who do we profile for victimology?" says Derek.
"Right now we are going to focus on where Hotch is not on the unsub, "says Rossi.
"Coward, you know to find him you need to know the unsub, which is what is you do, create a profile? I would like to see what you do. You have written to me about your people, your cases and I have read your books; show me what you actually do." She leans back into her chair with a challenging look on her face.
Morgan responds, "Who are you?" She just smiles enigmatically.
Rossi looks at her and says, "Okay, Angie, you want it that way. Why did they send you the DVD and the note?"
She shrugs and says, "I don't know. Why should they send me a note saying they had you with a DVD of them torturing your boss?"
Spencer speaks up and says, "Wait there is a note that came with this. Why weren't we told that before? Where is the note?"
Rossi looks at her angrily and gives the note to Spencer, who reads it aloud, "I have your brother."
Prentiss says, "She's your sister Rossi."
"No, she is not my sister, "he answers, "at least not biologically." He seems to be struggling in his own way of describing what Angie is to him.
She says, "He's my brother, but I am not his sister."
Morgan says, "Okay, now you are really scaring me lady, what do you mean by that?"
"I consider him my brother, he was my real brother's best friend growing up and I have known him for more than forty years and I look at him as family. I told him that he shouldn't marry his ex-wives but he doesn't listen to me."
"That is none of their business Angie."
"Isn't it? Why would they kidnap your boss and then send me a note stating that it was you with a DVD of him? I didn't come here because of him. I came because I thought they had you. I don't know him except for what you have written to me in the past. It doesn't impress me that much. You know how much I like men."
"You don't."
"My point exactly, the fact is the man on that screen means very little to me and it I hadn't been sent the note, I wouldn't be here and you wouldn't have that DVD of him. So, who is the victim here?"
"Hotch is the victim, not me and that is who we need to find."
"So, how are you going to do that?"
Spencer says, "I'd like to know more about Angie."
She smiled at the young profiler like Sylvester Cat looking at Tweety Bird and imaging him on a spit turning around. She says, "What would you like to know little one."
He answers, "Well, we just learned your relationship to Rossi but how do you know so about the unsub and the world he is part of?"
"I don't know anything about the unsub. As for the world, it is my job. I teach women how to discipline their men."
David responds, "You have only been doing that for the past six years, before then you were a Psychiatrist who specialized in trauma victims."
"Yes dear, that is I what I did until I got tired."
Prentiss asked. "What do mean you got tired?" Angie looks at her.
"I got tired of listening to women whine about how their men beat them up, hurt them and control what they do. I decided it was time to teach the women how to control their own lives. As for me being part of the world of dominance, I have been a part of that world for more than twenty years. I just didn't make it my career before six years ago."
JJ stops them when she says, "We have sitting here watching this DVD and now discussing who the victim is for more than ten hours. It is Wednesday morning and the sun will up soon, we need to have a plan of how to find Hotch. Angie, you say that you don't know the unsub. He doesn't look familiar to you at all?"
"No, I am sorry; he does not look familiar to me." The DVD is still running even though no one is currently watching it, Garcia is listening to it over her headphones. She thinks she can handle it better just to listen rather than watch what is happening to beloved boss man. Of course, she doesn't hear anything special and is working at washing the sound through her many filters, but so far it is as if they are in a true dungeon which is underground and it would be deathly silent if the man did not speak or Hotch did not scream from the pain being inflicted by the man. She is using body and attempting facial recognition software to get any idea about the man, such as physical dimensions, any special type of feature that they can find to distinguish him.
Rossi asks, "Angie is there someone that specializes in the torture that Hotch is going through right now?"
She answers, "Hundreds, I couldn't be able to break it down further without knowing more about the dungeon and weapons that he is using. I mean there are thousands of different types of whips and chains and dominating items. Unless you know what he is using and I can't help on that." She looks up at the screen and is puzzled because it looks different. She goes up to the plasma and explores further at close range and wonders what is it? What seems different? She looks at the room that Hotch is in and notices the type of bed, the way it is situated and makes a realization but finds it hard to believe that it could actually be. She turns around.
She says, "David, this dungeon looks exactly like mine except for the cage. I don't use cages and that is one thing I am firm about. Humans do not belong in cages. But this is an exact copy of the dungeon that I designed and set up in my basement at home."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Perfectly."
This is an important thing to know but it is what she discovers in a few minutes that will shock our agents to their core.
