Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Twenty-Two.
He woke up and stretched. Once again he feels the bars on the each side of him limiting on how far he could stretch his arms. He wondered if she was going to come and change and feed him today. Sometimes she doesn't come and he just sits there all day in his own mess. It has gotten so bad that his bottom is itchy and painful and he sometimes just wants to cry because it hurts so badly. There are times when he does cry because he gets so hungry and his bottom is so sore. He wonders if this was how Hotch felt, but then he knew it wasn't; Hotch was treated with respect and dignity and loved when he was treated here. The woman taking care of him doesn't love him or treat him with dignity. When she does change him, it is perfunctory and not with care which is why he has a diaper rash. He wonders how long it will be this time before she comes and takes care of him. He knows that this is the same crib and was happy that at least he was sleeping in the same one that Hotch slept in.
He heard a noise and the door opened, she came in and looked at the baby in the crib and went to the changing table to get the diapering paraphernalia out for her baby. She lowered the rail on the crib and lifted him and put him none too gently on the table and take off his purple flannel sleeper. She noticed when she took off his diaper that he had a rash and decided to give him a bath. She picked him and carried him to the bathing chamber and began to fill the tub. He started to squirm in her arms thinking maybe he could get out of her arms and run out before she caught him. She smacked him several times on his sore bottom and he started to cry from the pain.
She says, "Sit still or I will give you a worse spanking than that. Angie doesn't spank babies, I do." The bath water is ready and she puts him in the tub and restrains his hands in the soft plastic restraints on the tub. She wets down his hair and washes it none too gently and rinses it out, all the while he is still crying from the smacks on his sore bottom. She takes a washcloth and gel and begins to wash his face and neck and works down to his chest and abdomen. She pays particular attention to his privates and then down his thin, chicken like legs to his feet. She then goes back to his upper body and bends him over so that she can wash his back and bottom, she pays particular attention to the purple butterfly on his lower back and wonders why he got that tattoo there. She doesn't ask but makes sure that it is well cleaned. When she finishes, she empties the tub and removes the restraints. She picks him up and wraps him in a towel before taking him to the changing table, where she thoroughly dries him off and dresses him in his diaper, lilac lace and ruffle rumba panties and purple baby doll fancy dress. She put a pair of lilac mittens and white ruffle anklets with purple booties on his hands and feet. While bathing him, she had shaved his hairy face and so now he was as hairless as he could be, except for the top of his head since she had denuded his body of hair several days ago and she likes the hair on his head. She put that up in little pig tails on each side of his head, wrapped in pink and purple ribbons.
She takes him to his high chair and puts his bib on while she got out some food for him. She restrains his hands in the plastic cuffs on the side of the chair. She spoons feeds him the baby food and he accepts it willingly. He knows that it is all he will get and has discovered that it isn't that bad tasting. She sometimes causes him to miss getting the food in his mouth, so that it spills all down his bib, he doesn't like that but she is in control so he can't stop it from happening. In the beginning, when she did this, he rebelled and got his face smacked more than once and even got a spanking on his bare behind for disobedience. He tries not to do that. He doesn't like being smacked or spanked. He tries to do whatever she wants him to do.
After feeding the baby, she takes him to the playpen that she set up in the middle of the room. It is five feet by five feet square and has rails that are four feet high. She puts some baby toys in there for him to play with and then tells him to stay quiet and play. She leaves him alone in the room and goes to the dungeon.
In the dungeon, there is a man handing on the chains from the ceiling trying to get some rest even though he hasn't had a lot in the past several days. There are cuts from whips going all along his arms, legs, back and chest. She has not touched his face and she has not raped the man. His bottom is red as a delicious apple and has some blistering from the paddles that she used to spank him with. The man is weak because he has not been fed or given liquids of any kind for many days. His throat is parched and he wonders if this will be the last day for him since he knows that she wants to kill him. She had killed Angie's brother Stephen while doing this same thing to him ten years earlier. She had killed Angie's parents twenty years earlier by causing them to have an automobile accident when the man who was driving, swerved to avoid hitting Susan as she stood in the middle of the road. He hit a brick building instead and died instantly. His wife died in the hospital two days later when she had a reaction to a medication mix-up. This man is the last person in Angie's life that she loves and today is his day to die. Two months late, but better late than not at all as she prepares today's whips and paddles. She is going to wait until the right time however, 11:59am is the time when he dies. She smiles at the thought of that, when he goes, her reign of revenge will be over and she can go to taking care of her brother. She likes to take care of her brother, ever since she was a little girl and he took care of her.
She picked up a whip and snaps the man who bucked when it hit him and broke open a line of blood. "Wake up, it is time to play."
At the hotel, Sean woke up and got showered and dressed, he ordered breakfast and then woke up Aaron and cleaned and dressed him before giving him his morning bottle. The other team members arrived soon after and the group decided to go together to find their missing agents. After putting Aaron in his bunting bag which had completely dried and in his stroller, the group headed to Angie's house. They got to the door and discovered it was still locked; the group looked at Aaron who gave Morgan a six digit number to enter. After he entered the number, the door clicked and a security password was requested which Aaron also gave to Morgan. It seems Angie trusted Aaron enough to give him more than just thirty days of cuddling. Although, since Aaron knows Angie fairly well now, she didn't have to tell him that the six digit number was Kathy's birth date and the password was her name. The door opened and our group entered the house which was currently dark and foreboding looking. The entered into the office and walked to the door to the nursery which surprisingly opened up. They looked inside without yet entering and only saw a playpen with someone sitting in it. The person was in a purple dress and booties and mittens. The first person in the room is Aaron because he is still in his stroller and Sean is pushing him with the agents walking behind him. Each of them is covering their mouths with their hands trying to prevent a laugh from escaping except Aaron who is looking formidable in his scowl that does not match the sparkle in his eyes. He says, "Spencer?"
The person in the playpen looks up and sees his colleagues and Sean coming toward him. He looks stricken that they not only see him dressed as a baby but as a baby girl. "Hotch; I knew you would come for me. I feel so humiliated that you have to see me like this."
Aaron responds, "Where is Rossi, Reid?"
"He's down in the dungeon, I think."
"Okay, Morgan, you and Prentiss, go get Rossi. Sean, you go get Spencer and clean him up, JJ find something better for him to wear and find something for David. I have a feeling that he is going to need it. Garcia take me back into the office and help me get up to sit at the desk." The voice of authority initiated the group to move. Garcia took Aaron into the office and helped him out of the stroller and sits him in the chair and then he tells her to find something for David to eat when they bring him up.
Sean goes over and lifts Spencer out of the playpen. He comments that Spencer was definitely lighter than Aaron was and he takes him into the bedroom and put him on the changing table lightly, but Spencer winced and cried out anyway. Sean asks, "Are you okay?" Spencer didn't want to admit it but he said, "My bottom hurts." Sean gently takes the dress off the man and removes his mittens and booties and socks. He then gently pushes down the man to lie down on the table. JJ brought over a pair of elastic waist style pants and a striped top with a pair of socks. "Thanks JJ."
She says, "I couldn't find any underwear."
"That's okay he can go back to wearing underwear in D. C. Go find something for Rossi." Sean took off the rumba panties on Spencer and then removed his diaper and saw the very bad rash on his backside. "Spencer, I want you to turn over and lie on your stomach for a little bit while I clean you up and then we are going to let you completely air dry. It will help the rash begin to heal." Spencer did what Sean asked. "You are going to lay for a little bit, if you have a problem just call out. I am going to check on Aaron, but you are not alone. There is someone who will hear you. It will only be a few minutes." Spencer nods his head to show he understands and Sean belts him on the table and goes to the playroom to see what is going on out there. He walks to the office and sees Aaron in the chair at the desk, checking files and things on Angie's desk. "Aren't you invading her privacy?"
Aaron looks at Sean, "How's Spencer?"
"He has a bad diaper rash, good thing I know what to do about it."
"How would you know that? I have never had a rash."
"Not yet at this age." Aaron looks at him. "But I remember you once having one that momma took care of during one summer. You didn't like to sit and you tried to hide it but I saw the tears that you cried from it. That was a hard summer of realities for me, seeing my big college age brother crying because his bottom hurt. That is why I try very hard to make sure that you don't sit in your diaper when it is wet or dirty. I change you often because I don't want to see that."
"I remember that summer, thank you for keeping my clean and dry. I hope I don't get a rash too."
"Although, I expect eventually you will have one."
"Why do you think that?"
"According to reports and statements by parents say that all babies get one eventually." Aaron looks at him and then goes back to checking out Angie's computer. Sean heads back to the changing area with Aaron's diaper bag. When he got there, he spread rash ointment on his backside and then turned him over and began to put a heavy cloth diaper on the man. Spencer started to rebel against it. Sean says, "I am not trying to humiliate you Spencer, calm down. The reason you have the rash is because you have been sitting in your own mess as well as the fact that you were wearing disposables. Sometimes that material can irritate worse than cloth. Right now, a diaper is best for you for a few days while the rash heals. Cloth will better for you I think, let me take care of you Spence just like I do Aaron. He pins the diaper on and then puts a pair of plastic pants over them. He then dresses the man in the pants, top and socks that JJ brought. They didn't find any shoes yet for the man. Sean took him down off the changing table and the men went back into the playroom.
JJ and Penelope see Spencer come in and go over to give the man a good hug because they are glad to see him. He asks, "Where's Hotch?"
"He is in the office. Morgan and Prentiss are down in the dungeon checking for Rossi. We should have heard from them. Let's go to talk with Hotch."
In the office, Aaron is still trying to break into Angie's computer system; he hasn't been able to do that yet. The others come in and there is talk about the dungeon and where those that went down are. Aaron knows that if he can get into the security cameras, then they might see what is happening down there before going down. Garcia says, "If you will let me in sir, I am sure that I can hack into the system." He looks at her and tells Sean to take him to sit in another chair so Garcia could sit in the office chair. Garcia sits and starts to check out Angie's system and what she can do to get into it. Aaron decides to call Angie at the hospital she is at. He knows what room she is in and calls her directly.
"Hello." she answers the phone.
"Hello Angie, its Aaron."
"Darling, what are you up to do today? It is good to hear you talking."
"The team and I are at your place."
"Why are you there?"
"Susan did what we suspected she might do. She kidnapped Rossi and Reid early this week and we came to rescue them. We found Reid up here in the nursery and Morgan and Prentiss went down to the dungeon, but it has been a while and they haven't come back up. I want to get into the security camera system and check the situation before sending anyone else down. We need your password sweetheart."
"Let me speak to Garcia."
"You are on speakerphone."
"Penelope, it is his last name."
Garcia furls her eyebrows at that and then types H-O-T-C-H-N-E-R into the login security password box. Once in the system went wild and she had access to the entire program and she sees the camera in the dungeon. She sees Morgan, Prentiss and Rossi in the room and she sees Susan in a far corner holding a remote control to the bomb that was attached to the bottom of the bed that Rossi was on. Morgan and Prentiss had their guns pointed at her. It seems that there is a standoff. "Oh no, "she says. JJ and Spencer look at the screen. JJ immediately gets on her cell phone to the local agency and has them send some agents and a bomb squad.
Angie asks, "Did you get in Penelope?"
"Yes, we got it. Thanks."
"Sweetheart" She says groggily.
Aaron answers, "Yes Angie."
"Remember the time; I think she will kill herself in order to make sure that David dies. The time will be 11:59am, remember that darling." Angie hangs up because she is not able to stay awake from the test that she took that morning.
They all look at the clock and see that it is now 11:25am.
