Who is the Victim Here

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Chapter Twenty.

Two weeks after Aaron comes home, it is late April and the weather is wet, rainy and many times still pretty cold in the DC area. Sean and Aaron have their daily schedule pretty down pat and with very few exceptions; our boys are out and about when they can be. Rossi has decided enough of feeling like an unwanted foster child. He was going home tomorrow night but tonight he was staying with Spencer for the last night. They had just finished eating dinner and cleaning up and Spencer took the garbage out to the curb for the following day's trash pickup. David went to the living room to set up the chess board, a common practice for the two men.

Thirty minutes later, David was still waiting for Spencer to come back in and was getting mildly irritated. Not again, he thinks to himself, Spencer I am going to kill you one of these days. You keep getting yourself distracted by others. He heads outside and doesn't see the missing man. He looks around the yard and to the curb and back when he finally sees a figure of what looks like him on the side of garage next to a large van. "Spencer, what is up with you? Why are you over here?" It was then that he saw the silver tape on his mouth and the hands tied behind his back. "What?" When the lights go out.

The next day at the office, there is questions as where Spencer and Rossi are as they did not show up and there is no answer on any of their phones. Their cell phones are both at Spencer's house, so Morgan and Prentiss go over to see what is happening and find no one there. The door is closed but unlocked and no indication of what happened to the men. They notice the set up chess board but as yet unplayed. They see the beds were not slept in. From all indications, something has happened to our men but what and was it by choice?

David slowly wakes up with every inch of his body in hurting and he does not want to open his eyes. Painfully and with great caution he begins to open them and let the bright light in. As his eyes adjust to his surroundings, he looks around and it looks somewhat familiar. Where has he seen this before and after a minute he does remember? This is Angie's dungeon. He is hanging on chains on the bed in exactly the same spot Aaron was two months ago in Susan's dungeon. He looks down and was not surprised to find himself nude and on all fours. He looked up and sees her with a crazed mad look on her face as she finally has the object of her obsession in her possession.

She says, "Hello doggy. Finally, you are here. I had to do it myself. My idiot brother is still obsessed with your boss and he doesn't realize that I don't care about your boss. I wanted you, just like I wanted Stephen. I killed him and I am going to kill you, but not before I have a little bit of fun."

"Where is Spencer, what did you do with him?"

"The little boy, oh, he's upstairs in the nursery, wearing the cutest little baby frock you can imagine. It is pink satin with ruffles and lace all around. To keep him from removing anything I had to put some pink satin mittens and booties on him, he looks so adorable. The frock stops just about his upper thighs, so that you can see his adorable rumba panties covering his diaper. He is such a precious sissy baby."

"You are absolutely crazy Susan. Why are you doing this?"

"Because I want to and I can. Angie will be out of town for two weeks, so we have the whole house to have fun in. If you do what you're told, your precious sissy baby will be taken care of. If you disobey, then sissy baby gets left alone for twenty four hours, with no food, no water and sitting in his own dirty diaper. Think about that when we start to play." She looks around and sees the different weapons and chooses one off the wall. "Let's play."

At the office, Morgan says, "We are down three men, we keep getting smaller. Any idea what might have happened to Reid and Rossi? This is not like them, especially with that woman out there after Rossi."

"We need to consider that maybe she has them." says JJ.

"But she only wants Rossi, why would she take Reid too?" states Prentiss.

"It could be for any reason, leverage or hostage to get Rossi to do what she wants."

"We need Hotch for this."

"Hotch doesn't talk, how can he help?"

"He doesn't talk by choice and not because he can't and is doing it to protect his family and us. He needs to know that the woman doesn't care about him and what he does. Her brother does and if she has our boys, then that contract he has with them is over."

"We need proof and not speculation about where they are. Let's go find it."

It takes three days before they get the proof, which she sends to them, a picture of baby sissy Spencer sitting in a high chair and her sarcastic note saying, "Isn't he just precious? Tell her that I have her brother and the sissy boy. Ha. Ha. Ha. The picture and note was attached to the box of four dead flowers, a rose, a tiger lily, a tulip and a hyacinth.

"Okay, we know that she has them now, but where." says Morgan. "When we went through her room in New York, it gave no indication of other places that she had. Garcia is there under name or her brother's name that would indicate any thing that gives us financial information or anything to tell us where they are. We know she likes ritual and she doesn't like change. Anything on the credit card hits?"

"I will keep looking but so far I have not found anything about either sibling, beyond what we already know. We need a new way of seeing it and more information. Maybe Hotch has more information that he doesn't even know he has. Call Sean and ask him to bring Hotch in."

"Hotch doesn't talk!"

"He will, when we tell him that Rossi and Reid are missing, let's bring him in and talk to him."

"I'll go call Sean."

At the Hotchner apartment, there are two frustrated men. One doesn't want to wear what the other wants to put on him and neither is giving in to the other. One refuses to bend his arms and knees to make it easy for the other to dress him and the other is getting angry but doesn't want to deny the first man's right to have some choice in what he wears. Not that he has a right to choose legally. So the first is just lying belted down on the changing table while the other has gone to answer the phone. After a few minutes, he comes back and goes to the wardrobe to choose another outfit for the man on the table. The man on the table curled his face in question at the new outfit that his brother wants to dress him in but no answer was given to him on the table. He just was dressed in the black suit pants, light pink button-down shirt and a black vest was put on the man. Black socks on his feet, he was carried to the living room for a bottle and then put him in his bunting bag in the stroller. This was all done in silence between the men. One is now perplexed and the other is still irritated at the events of the morning.

They take the bus to the FBI building in Quantico because Sean has not yet received the new vehicle that he has ordered and doesn't want to use Hotch's old car. Aaron is surprised when they go through the doors of the building and they go up to the BAU unit floor. When Sean goes through the doors with the stroller he looks around to see where he can take Hotch.

"Hello Sean and thanks for coming in. Hi Hotch, nice to see you. Why don't you come to the round room?" Sean followed Derek to the round room where the other members of the BAU first unit are sitting. There is a board with photos of Hotch and the two missing men under the last known photos of the siblings. The woman is situated above the missing men and the man is situated above Hotch. Both Hotchner men look at the board and find it curious about the pictures of the two missing men.

Sean asks, "What does this mean about Rossi and Reid?"

"Please sit down and relax, three days ago neither Rossi nor Reid showed up for work. Since Rossi was staying with Reid, they should have arrived together. We went to check out where they were and we found an unplayed chess game, beds not slept in and an unlocked door. We had found no clues as to what happened to them until this morning; when a photograph of Reid was sent with a note about having Angie's brother and Reid. Since we know that Susan wants Rossi, who we know to be Angie's pseudo brother because she sees him as a brother, we think that she now has him and Reid was taken as a way of keeping Rossi under control. We don't know where they are. We were hoping that you could help us out Hotch. We know you don't talk. We also know that you can talk but choose not to do so because of what the man has done to you. The contract was that if you acted like a baby and did not walk, talk, or eat as an adult they would not hurt the people you care for like Jack, Sean or any members of the team. Rossi and Reid are missing and that makes your verbal contract void, we think. Hotch we need your help for ideas and what you may think where we can look."

While Derek was talking, Sean took the bunting bag off Aaron and gave him the file to read as he sat in his stroller. He gives a deep frown when he sees the picture of Spencer that the woman sent. "Sean, what is today's date?" Each person in the room looked at him as he said his first words to them in almost two months. He looked up and saw each looking at him and gave a look of what did you expect when you brought me here?

Sean answers, "It is Thursday."

"I didn't ask for the day, I asked for the date."

"April 27th, why does that matter."

"The last week of April. Prentiss when you were doing a profile of Angie, what did you find about her?"

"She likes books and words. She is kind and gentle and very loyal to her clients and friends and family. She likes to keep things clean but doesn't like to do it herself. She's not pretentious about her education and knowledge. She doesn't show it off like it is not important to her. She is security and privacy conscious. She cares. She is a medieval lady with modern tendencies."

"That is Angie except that you didn't see all of her. Angie is Reid fifteen years later. A person who allows what she reads and learns in classes to determine who she is and this is the first semester in forty years of education that she has not taken a class or seminar or anything to increase knowledge of what she knows or doesn't. That is significant of who she is. During my time with her, I sensed a sadness of what was happening around her. She wouldn't tell me what it was, but she mentioned that she would be gone this week and next week, incommunicado and hoped that I would be well by then because she wanted me to be able to do what I have to do. I can't do it yet. I still have problems sometimes feeling safe and don't want to extend to what an unsub does. I don't want to be here. Sean I want to go home." Aaron stops talking and begins to curl into himself. Sean goes to his brother and looks at him in the eye and takes him partially out of the stroller to hold him and began to rock his brother and whisper soft things to him. Aaron whispers to Sean, "She's having medical tests done on her eyes in the hospital. She is going blind." Sean looks at him. "She had the appointment made many months ago and Susan would have known about it." Sean whispers to Aaron, "Do you think that is why Susan waited until now to kidnap Rossi and Reid?" Aaron nods his head. "I can't do this Sean, I want to go home and have some lunch." "We don't have to go home to lunch." "Not here, please." Sean just continues to hold the man.

The other agents are watching this time intercourse between brothers now saddened to see their once fearless and strong boss man having these problems.

Morgan says, "Well at least we got some information. Obviously this was a mistake."

JJ says, "I don't think it was a mistake, but it shows where Hotch is right now in his healing process. The psychological pain is deeper than was first thought, but he can heal. We just have to believe that."

"Yeah, but it is not going to help us find Rossi and Reid," says Prentiss.

Aaron pushes Sean away and leans back in his stroller and says, "You have to go to New York because that is where they are, at Angie's place. Garcia?"

"Yes, boss man."

"I need you to check on the brother's time in the prison and find out who were his fellow inmates and where are they located now. Do some checking on that? JJ, you go search your requests and find some work for the unit to do besides these siblings. The reason you haven't found them is because you have been focused too much on me and Rossi, focus people, they need to be the object of your concern. Find out about them, where they grew up, who their friends were and what clubs or organizations they are a part of. Get some information. I don't care how, just get it. Sean, I am hungry."

Sean looks at the other agents. Who get the subtle hint that they need to leave the Hotchners alone for awhile. They go do what Hotch asks about finding the past of the siblings. Sean locks the door and shuts the blinds before he takes Aaron out of the stroller and places him on the round table next to the bag which he places on a chair. He takes out the waterproof pad and places Aaron on the pad and lies him down so he can take off his pants and change his diaper. He checks the pants to make sure there were no leaks and proceeds to remove the diaper and place a dry and clean one on the man. After redressing him in his pants, Sean puts all the diapering paraphernalia away and puts Aaron down on the floor next to the wall. He sits next to him and Aaron lies back into his brother's arms ready for his bottle which Sean places in the man's mouth. Sean got the sandwich out that he brought for himself and the boys had their lunch.