Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Fourteen.
What's next is that it is time for a bath for our agent. Angie has the tub ready and just needs to get her man, who isn't so little at six foot two inches tall at approximately 180 lbs. She has no doubts of her abilities as she picks him up from the time out chair and carries him into the bathing chamber where she places him on the changing table and removes his clothing and diaper. Once he is nude she than lifts him and places him into the tub. The tub is not a normal adult style tub, but is about two feet above the floor and is about 24 inches deep and 66 inches long with a form fitted seat. It is at a height where she can wash her baby while standing up and have more control over him.
The man sits there and is looking at her in the eye and as usual she has a slight smile on her face and a twinkle in her eye. She begins to wet his hair gently and with great care as he looks at her, she places a gentle shampoo on him and begins to wash his hair after which she leans him back into the form seat and places his back where she rinses his hair and the water drains down the back of the tub into a drain. After his hair she begins to wash his face and neck and is puzzled at something she sees on the side of his neck, it doesn't feel right to her fingers. It feels like a piece of plastic tape on his skin, he senses that she has found the transmitter and puts his hand on his neck to hide it. She gently puts his hand back down but he puts it there again and she attempts to remove his hand a second time, but he refuses to move it.
"Aaron, remove your hand from your neck." He shakes his head no and squeezes his neck more with his own hand. "Aaron I will ask one more time to remove your hand from your neck." He looks like he is going to cry but does not remove his hand. Angie decides not to fight him on the subject but continues to clean his torso and then moves down to his personal area, where she washes him gently before moving down to his legs and washes his strong, muscular thigh, to his knees and his still healing calf. The calf is looking good and is healing very nicely but is still tender to the touch. She washes his ankles and then his feet and she decides to try a something on his feet. She wonders if he is ticklish there and what is reflex is. She takes her nail and scrapes the edge down the foot and he responds as he should, bending at the knee. He has good reflexes and she looks at his head where he still has his hand on his neck, she then begins to softly brush up against the sole of his foot and the back of his knee, he tries to hide it but it does invoke a response of slight uncomfortableness because it tickles. She does it again and this time he brings the leg up to scratch the tickling feeling with the hand that he removes from his neck. She places her hand on his and then proceeds to check his neck with her other hand. He realizes that she tricked him and starts to squirm to get prevent her from seeing the receiver patch on his neck. She restrains his hands with attached soft plastic tub bracelets. Once that was done she looked closer at the piece of plastic on his neck and peels it off, she looks at what is on it and looks at Aaron. "Do you know what this is?" He just glares at her without answering. "Once you entered this building, whoever was listening on the other end has been getting nothing but static, even the CIA has difficulty listening here, because of the dampening forces I have on it. It is one of the most secure information buildings, many of my clients like to talk about what they build and create and do. If that knowledge got out, national security could be at risk. You would be surprised what I know and receivers and transceivers are useless here. You can talk freely. Who was on the other side of this?" He just glared at her. She put the device into a plastic bag and took it to her office. She was gone less than thirty seconds before Aaron got to be very nervous and wondered where she went. He didn't like to be alone. Anytime he was alone, the unsub talked to him and did something bad to him. He thought that might happen now that he didn't have the receiver on him. He closed his eyes and whimpered when he heard someone come in the room and remove the restraints. He squeezed his eyes even more closed. His torso was gently pulled up and a cloth was being used to wash his back and down to his bottom, the hands were careful and gentle on his body. He finally opens his again and sees Angie looking at him. "I see you decided to join me again. Do you want to tell me what you feeling just now? Why did you close your eyes? Did it make the bad man go away?" She kissed the top of his head. He couldn't answer the questions because he felt embarrassed of the way he acted, believing that just closing his eyes would keep the bad away. He felt so infantile.
After the bath, Angie dressed him in a dry diaper and a cute green sleeper style crawler with footsies. He thought he was going to throw up when he saw it and was going to fight her putting it on him, when he thought that she probably expected that so he let her dress him in the crawler. After his bath, she carried him to the rocking chair for a bottle of warm fiber cereal. He fell asleep in her arms while feeding and she placed him in his crib for his nap.
While Aaron was napping, Angie took the piece of plastic and had sent by messenger to the local FBI office to have them send it ASAP to Quantico for analysis by David and his team.
Back at Quantico, they had brought Susan to talk to her about where her brother might be hiding. She was less than helpful about his whereabouts, so they sent her back to the jail where she is being kept while waiting for trial, since she did not pay her bail, she is staying in jail. However, on the way back to her cell, there was an accident and she escapes from custody. Once this was heard by the unit, there was talk about where to look for her and if Hotch would be safe with Angie, but it was JJ who came up with another scenario.
"We have to protect Rossi from her." There was some looks of not complete understanding. "He was the one that she wanted in the first place, remember. Hotch was a mistake in her eyes, she wanted Rossi in that dungeon, not Hotch."
Morgan responds. "She's right, the letter said brother and Angie thinks of you as her brother Rossi. You are at risk."
Rossi shakes his head and says, "I don't think I am anymore because of what she did in the hospital with Hotch. She's not after me anymore. We need to let Angie know and to work at keeping Aaron safe from this brother/sister team." The team is interrupted in the round room by a messenger from the New York office. He delivers the package with the receiver. The note states that Angie found this on Aaron's neck and believes that it is what the unsub used to control the man and to know where he was and what he was doing at all times. "This is why Aaron is still in danger from these people." Another messenger arrives and is brought to the round room and he hand delivers a package to David and leaves. In the package are three dead flowers and a note that says it should be four.
Morgan looks at that and places his hand on David's shoulder and says, "Do you still believe that you not a target for that woman? That woman wants you dead, the man wants Hotch."
David just looks at the flowers and crushes them in his hands as he thinks of that bitch and how she had sent these for twenty years to Angie, tormenting her about the death of her parents and her brother Stephen. He wants this woman dead, not just in jail, but dead. As he was thinking about this woman and what he wanted to do to her. The other members of the team were thinking how they could protect both of the men in their team and in what way to catch the brother/sister team. They send the receiver down to forensics to discover where it may be sending it information to and then they discuss on who was to be with Rossi. They feel that he should not be alone now because of that woman. She caught Hotch because he was alone. Until they are caught, our two men should not be alone. They believe that Hotch is safe with Angie right now and are discussing Rossi. He finally breaks out of his thoughts and hear what they are talking about, babysitting him. He speaks up and says, "I don't need a babysitter, I can take care of myself, thank you very much for your concern, but no." There are protests from each of our agents that it is not babysitting as much it is just keeping him safe from that woman. "I am not Hotch and I don't need to be protected."
Spencer says, "You could be Hotch." Everyone looks at him. "The man kidnapped the wrong person as it was supposed to be you on that DVD and on the live feed that he sent to us. You were the one they wanted to treat like an animal and then blow up. You are supposed to be Hotch. Do you think that you could be where he is right now trying to recover who he is? The people who did that to him wanted to do it to you and they are still out there. Which means that you are at risk of them still doing it to you, please let us help to make sure that doesn't happen. Isn't bad enough to lose Hotch to them, we don't need to lose you also."
Morgan says, "The kid makes a point Rossi."
Prentiss speaks up with, "We need you as our leader Rossi, with Hotch out; we need you. Let us help to keep you safe."
Rossi looks at his team and knows that if it were any of them he would be insisting on them having someone with them, but damn it, he doesn't want to be followed around by anybody else. He likes his alone time, but he agrees with their logic. He hates to admit it, but maybe being with someone else might keep him from becoming like Hotch. He says, "Well who is my first babysitter?"
Spencer speaks up and says, "I am. You will come and stay with me for a few days and then with someone else. Every few days you will go with a different person. Morgan can go to your house now and get whatever you want until you can go back home. You won't be going home until they are caught."
"It seems you made some decisions then for my care."
"Not really, but I think we can go by ear on that." Rossi smiles and nods his head.
While our team is discussing how to protect David, Aaron has wakened from his nap. He stretches out feels the bars on the sides of the crib and opens his eyes to experience a feeling of déjà vu. It has been a long time but he gets the same feeling of helplessness and dependency that he did then. He gets on his knees and looks around as he discovers the top of the crib is extremely high because even on his knees he still looks through the bars of his crib. He tries to stand but his calves are still too weak for him to do that without support on both sides of him. He feels hungry, wet and cold and scared of being alone. Where is everyone? David? Spencer? Derek? Kathy? Mommy? His mind is befuddled as he struggles to break through the thoughts of helplessness. He lets out a scream and tears start to flow down his cheeks as he wants someone, anyone, to come and help him. He stops when he sees Angie come in the door.
"Well, hello sweetheart, did you rest well?" She goes to the crib and moves the rail up and away from him to lower it so that she could lift him out easily. He held out his arms and sank deeply into her arms when she lifted him and took him to the changing table. As she changes him, she says comforting and calming things to the man and then takes him to be fed two bottles. After the feeding, she then takes her man to a spot in the playroom that had a lot of sensory toys around. She puts him on the rug and then sits behind him. They sit there together while he reacquaints himself with feelings and senses of touch, sound, sight, taste and smell.
She sits behind him and guides him but is not sure that she likes this. She smells the fresh soap and baby smell of him, but underneath she revels in the scent of the man and she doesn't understand why that smell makes her feel so uncertain. She has done this type of work with hundreds of people of all ages, shapes, sizes and both sexes and has never wanted to do anything else. But with this man, she doesn't want to do this. She wants to rub his shoulders, caress his torso, kiss the back of his neck; she doesn't want to do this current act with this man. This is a man in her arms, not a baby and she wants him as a man. She berates herself for these thoughts, her job is to help bring him from the hidden place out to the light again, so that he can progress from the infant behavior and not to scare him into going further in his mind. She needs to focus on progressing him on his time frame not hers. She has to remember that he was a man and she needs to work to become that man again, slowly and with care. She knows her methods work. She needs to be patient and focus on his needs right now, not on the desires of her own body.
She thinks to herself, can I really do this? She hugs the man and he looks back at her showing that dimple in his cheek.
