Who is the Victim Here

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Chapter Five.

Pennsylvania

Friday Morning

It was over ten hours later when the cars arrived within 25 miles of the area. The snow is coming down hard and heavy leaving visual to less than 10 feet in front of the vehicles. They couldn't see the safety lights of the cars in front of them. The cars were moving forward at barely a 10 mph crawl, but our intrepid agents are not slowing down or giving up, they know that they are on a time limit. They must make it through. Those who were not driving slept, so that they were fresh when they get there. They have had very little sleep in the past 72 hours and know that to save Hotch; they need to be at their best. They did change drivers every two hours so that no one got too tired driving through the snowstorm. It was almost six in the morning as they came into the town where they believe Hotch is being held and join with the local agents and all others who had been sent. There were 18 agents there to work at finding their missing agent. The locals had gone to the location and believe they know how to get into the building; however they think that Hotch is actually being held in an underground bunker that is about a mile from the actual building.

At eight o'clock they agents storm the building and find it empty, but down in the basement they find a door to a long tunnel which they follow, the tunnel is narrow and barely fits a large man from shoulder to shoulder. The medical personal had not shown up as they have been slowed down by the blizzard and Angie is following David with the large bag of things that she had bought the day before in Quantico when she had decided to go with them to rescue Hotch. Things that she thinks she will need to help the man.

The man in question has been for the past twelve hours being prepared to be killed by the unsub, who wants to break him down. The unsub really wants the man to declare him his master but so far Hotch is keeping his dignity intact. Despite being kicked, raped and treated as an infant puppy, he bows to no master. The unsub decides to go further in the degradation of the man by removing all his hair except that on his head and tying his balls into a small pouch. The man decides to cut the man's calves in order to prevent him from being able to stand and walk. He is whipped and strangled into unconsciousness and then revived only to have the torture begin again. After that first time of suckling on the nipples on the wall, Hotch has not touched them again. He refuses to degrade himself like that again. The sustenance that he got was plenty for him to wait for his team. He believes in his team and knows that they will be there to rescue him.

Back in Quantico, Garcia and JJ watch the live feed still coming in of their boss and cry and sob at the torture and degradation the man is going through. They can only hope the team will get there in time as they continue to look at the clock on the wall and see it edge closer and closer to 11:59am. The live feed has been being recorded by the computer so that if they are able to catch the unsub and accomplice they can use the footage to help prosecute, even though it is sickening to see and hear what is being done to the man.

Our agents reach the end of the tunnel and see that it opens into a chamber that is empty of furniture or accessories. There are 12 doors that lead from the chamber including the one the just came through. Rossi has the agents split into teams and head through each door. He had an agent define the door they came through as door number 1, which they know will be the one to lead to the building. He, Spencer and Angie chose door number 10 to head down. The corridor looked empty and had no distinguishing marks to define it as the one that Hotch would be in, however since they have no idea what the corridor outside the room he is in looks like, it seemed to be as good as any. The corridors actually met and matched with other corridors, it was like a rat's maze and the agents were the rats. There were dead ends, forks and multiple splits to head down. But they were having difficulty finding any doors that lead to rooms. The corridors just seem to go round and round and straight or even up and down it seems. They become narrow and wide and Rossi was beginning to get irritated. He wants to get out of the fun house. He and his group were walking down a corridor when they began to hear something. This was unusual because in all of the other places they were, they had heard nothing. It seems to be voices increasing their volume at each. They could only catch some phrases of what was being said.

"We got to get out."

"He hasn't broken yet."

"It doesn't matter anymore."

"If you had done something to the bitch anyway…"

"I like her, she is nice, besides I have some…"

"I don't care about the brat."

"Let's get out now."

"Set the timer, we might be able to get more than just one."

LAUGHING.

Silence.

Our agents run forward to see where they can find a way to where the voices were. They find another corridor to the right and follow it to what appears to finally be a door at the end of the corridor. In fact there are two of them. Heading into the one on the left, they see a table with two chairs along one wall and a bed on another one near a small stove and refrigerator and what appears to be a wall radiator. There is a door to a small bathroom and nothing else. They leave the room and go into the next one and see the room that they had been viewing for two days now. Hotch is locked in the cage at the moment asleep but seems to be alive and if not completely healthy, at least well. Angie goes over and looks at the man as well as she could through the holes of the cage. She sees the cuts on his calves, and the running blood coming from his behind. She looks at the bluish tinge of his skin under his eyes and his lips. She opens up her bag and reaches to take out the portable oxygen tank and places the face cup over him. His eyelids flicker and his eyes open to look at her and say, "Kathy?" She replies, "No, I am Angie. Be quiet now and we are going to get you out of here."

Rossi has been on the radio to get other agents in and let them that Hotch has been located and a bolt cutter is needed. He goes and looks down at the man. Spencer had come in and looked at Hotch and felt sickened and went back to the other room to find a key for the cage or anything he can find to help get the man out of the cage. He does not find anything to do so, what he does find is the trigger to the bomb that was behind the wall near the table and chairs, the one that is on a clock timer and appears to be getting close to the time. He rushes back into the other room to let Rossi know.

"Rossi, there is a timer to a bomb; it looks like it's on a clock timer and when it reaches a certain time it will explode. I don't think it can be disarmed; the bomb itself is behind the wall."

Rossi got on the radio again to have the bomb squad sent there and the remaining agents were told to get out. If they are not in the process of the rescue or the bomb squad, they needed to get out. There were footfalls coming down the corridor and he sees Morgan and three members of the bomb squad coming toward him. Morgan has a bolt cutter in his hands and goes into the room with Hotch while the others go into the other room. Spencer heads into the other room to show them and look around for any other clues as what may be there to help their case against the unsubs.

In the room, Morgan cuts off the lock and opens the door to the cage.

Angie says, "Be extremely careful." As Morgan begins to pull the man out of the cage; he cares for him as if he was a small child that he was rescuing. Angie had set up a blanket with a moisture proof pad on it for Morgan to place the man on. She then proceeds to check him all over. She cleans and dresses the wounds on his calves. She washes him down all his legs and then moves to his buttocks and pelvic area. She cleans his anus of the blood and did a mild cursory look but did not do a full clean, since she wants to get him to a hospital where a rape kit can be done. She washes his back of the clotted blood from the whippings and burns that were done unto the man. She moved along the back to his neck and the back of his head, where she washed and cleaned the minor wounds that were there. She then had Morgan and Rossi gently turn the man over unto his back and she proceeded to clean and dress the wounds on his front. She released his balls and gently massaged them back into the correct shape; she washed his lower torso and then did something that both Morgan and Rossi tried to stop her from doing.

Rossi says, "No, don't you think he has been treated badly enough?" and Morgan says, "He had plenty of that as a young man, he doesn't need that now."

Angie looks at both these men and is confused by what they said, but is determined to put the diaper on the man. She says, "I know that you both love this man and want what's best for him. But he needs this on to help contain the bleeding from his backside and to have something on that makes him easy to care for. I am not trying to embarrass or humiliate him, I just want him covered in that area, to give him some privacy. He is not going to have a lot of dignity treated to him right, let us give him some that makes it easy for him."

Hotch talks and says, "Let her do it Rossi, I need it right now. Kathy knows what she is doing. She has done it before."

Angie looks at Rossi and asks, "Why does he keep calling me Kathy?" He and Morgan look at each with looks of resignation.

Rossi answers, "Just finish up with him, we need to get him out of here. It is after 11."