Who is the Victim Here

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Chapter Thirty.

"Mommy, Daddy?"

In the adult's bedroom she turns to him and asks, "Do you want to get him or should I?"

"Why don't I start breakfast while you get the boys up?"

"Sounds like a plan." She gets up and goes to the nursery and checked the crib with the baby who was still sleeping, she then went to the crib with the toddler on his knees peering out of the rails at her. She peers back and pats his nose which he wrinkles up. After lowering the rails she takes her young one and changes his diaper while redressing him in his nightclothes. She sends him to the dining room where daddy will put him in his high chair for breakfast. She turns and sees him rush out of the room. Going back to the other crib, she looks down and brushes her baby's cheek when he opens his eye to her and smiles. She lowers the sides and lifts her baby out to take him to the bathroom for his bath. After which she dresses him in a crawler and takes him to the dining room where she goes to the double rocker and sits down with him in her arms. Opening her top, she opens her breast for her baby to suckle. He grasps her nipple greedily while she rocks and looks up to see her husband had put the older boy in his high chair and he had pancakes cut up and was working on getting them into his mouth without too much mess. Her husband brought over a plate of cut up crepes for her so that she could eat with one hand. The other was wrapped around the baby. The baby looked at the wedding band on her left hand was immediately unhappy. He looked up at the man now known as daddy; he used to call him brother.

"What is your plans today darling?" She asks her husband.

"I am teaching my first culinary class at the cordon bleu school, sauces and creams. I am a little nervous, first time teaching."

"You will do excellent."

"What will you do today?"

"The boys and I will do our usual. We'll play in the morning at the playground and then lunch and naps in the afternoon before play at home."

"I checked the living room; there isn't anything to deter you until your eyes clear for the day. Are you sure you don't want me to stay with you? I would love to play in the playground with the boys."

"I'm sure you would and you would get just as dirty."

"Of course, that's the fun thing about playing with the boys."

"You need to give Spencer his bath before you leave for work and dress him."

"We have a few hours, how about we put them both back in their cribs and go back to bed."

"With two screamers wanting to get out of their cribs, you want to go back to bed. No, I don't think so. Bring me a bottle of juice." She begins to close her blouse since the baby has finished with the breast; she then puts a bottle of juice in his mouth to give him more nutrition that an adult male needs. Although he is fuzzy looking to her; she still thinks that he is a sweetheart as is her little man-boy that is now being taken to the bath by her husband.

The man and woman had decided to marry in order to form a family for the man-boy going to be bathed. He needed someone to adopt him and she was old enough while daddy was his caretaker. She married the man and then adopted the boy so that he became a Hotchner like the other boy. The baby could not be officially adopted as such but as he is under the guardianship of the man he is already a part of the family. She used hormones and manipulation to finally be able give what the baby most wanted, her breast. When the baby finished his bottle, she took him to the living room to play while she cleaned the dining room and kitchen. After a while, Spencer joins the baby in the living room and Sean goes to his wife and begins to nibble her neck and then put some music on and began to waltz her around the apartment. When they got to the living room, the boys looked up and saw the adults in a loving embrace. One of the boys looks pleased and excited to see it, while the younger looked more jealous and envious when he realizes that he will never get to do that again.

He cries out in what seems like pain.

She is woken up by what sounds like crying in the next room. She gets up to check it out and finds Sean is already there. He is at his brother's crib side and lowering the rail to lift the crying man out. He takes him to the rocker in the living room and begins to soothe the man. She decides that maybe a bottle might help and gets a bottle of plain water to bring the crying man to drink. Sean welcomes the bottle and tries to coax it between the man's lips while he is making soothing sounds to him. The man finally wakens enough to realize what is happening around him and grasps the bottle to suckle. Sean looks up at Angie and tells her to go to back and lay down some more, he knows that she is not seeing all that well and is only going by instinct of knowing where things are. Are you sure she asks and Sean responds that he is sure.

She goes back to the sofa and lies down again. While she is lying there, she listens to Sean soothe and comfort his brother from his bad dream. Slowly the rocking and the soothing sounds put the man back to sleep and Sean gets up and takes him back to his crib. He returns to the living room and sits down again.

She asks, "Do you want to talk about it?"

"Tonight is unusual; he hasn't had a bad dream in weeks. He used to wake up every night because he would be back in the dungeon but tonight was different. He wasn't in the dungeon tonight and I don't know why he had the bad dream or what it was about."

"What happened yesterday that you think might have triggered a bad dream?"

"We had the check-ups and although he wasn't the best patient I don't think that could have triggered this."

"Do you think it might be me?"

"How could it be you? He loves you."

"Exactly and he is afraid that he can't have me? Maybe that something could prevent that in his mind."

"But what could prevent that?"

"People think of strange things about what they hear and see and in your dreams you combine things that you would never think of combining while awake."

"What could he be combining that would worry or frighten him?"

"I don't know, only he can answer that. I am going to be leaving early in the morning. It was good to see you and the men." She lies down to go back to sleep and he heads back into his bedroom.

When Aaron wakes and cries out again for Sean, Angie has already left the Hotchner apartment. Sean gets the men ready for a day at work.

Instead of the bus, however they take the new van, it is quite a vehicle and will good for short trips and long trips. When they get to the office, JJ already has a case waiting for them to discuss. They have been asked to come to help find a killer of six young men found with their throats cut and genitals removed as a souvenir. The plane will go up in 20 minutes; Aaron will not be going but Spencer will, so Sean gets his go bag out of the van and gives it to Dave.

"Dave, could you keep an eye on Spencer? We had a check-up yesterday about the drug; it has penetrated every cell according to the doctor, including brain cells."

"Are you sure he is capable of working?"

"The doctor said that there will be days of complete adult clarity and ability and days when he will be more of a two and half year old toddler. He is still in diapers and probably will always be. He can feed himself fine and is able to use a fork and spoon, try to keep a knife away. Change him often because otherwise he will get a rash and we are trying to avoid that. The doctor said that there may be tell signs of when he may become more toddler than adult. He gave examples such as overtired, hungry, wet, overexcited or scared. Try to avoid these situations or control them for him."

"You want me to basically take care of him and keep an eye out. He is already treated like a little brother by Morgan and the girls. This might just solidify this relationship."

"That's fine he can be the little brother. But you are dad and take care of what needs to be done."

"Does his go bag have everything he needs?"

"Everything that I can think of that he will need, there should be enough diapers to last two days and to let you know he uses cloth and plastic pants. Bring them back to be washed, I would send disposables except that he is allergic to a particular ingredient in them so no disposables for him. There are also plenty of extra clothes in there in case he leaks or has problems in that respect. Try to no overdo anything for him and make sure he sleeps enough hours or you will have an easily startled crying child on your hands."

"If I have a problem, I am going to call you and make you come out to the case."

"I won't be here."

"What?"

"This case comes at a good time because you can take care of Spencer while I can leave town. I just need to find someone to watch over Aaron. I was hoping Angie would but she left before I could ask."

"Where are you going?"

"I am actually doing something with friends of mine. Every year during this coming week we take a few days and do something reckless and extreme. We do some type of extreme sport, this year we are rock climbing, last year we did white water rafting, the year before was high dive jumping. I do this every year and we plan it a year in advance. I didn't expect this to happen to Aaron and make it so that I can't do stuff like this anymore. Angie said that I shouldn't stop my life to just take care of my brother. That I should plan some things for me and that is why I never cancelled my trip. I really want to go David but I can't leave Aaron alone. He is too dependent on others for his needs."

"Call Angie and let her know if you don't ask you don't get. Don't worry about Spencer, I will take care of him until you return, no matter how long that may be."

"Thanks Dave. I am going to leave in the morning and I will have someone with Aaron at that time. Dave, are all members of the team going?"

"No, Aaron and Garcia will be here. I don't know if Garcia would be a good choice Sean."

"Don't read my mind David." Both men chuckle as they separate.

Sean calls Angie and is able to get through. "Angie, I was hoping to get you before you left this morning."

"What is it Sean?"

"You told me to continue to keep things for myself that I should not stop my life to just take care of Aaron."

"Yes I remember telling you that. Are you saying that there is something that you want to do?"

"I had planned an few days of sports with my friends a year ago, we do it every year at this time and I really want to go but I can't leave Aaron alone."

"What about Spencer?"

"He has gone on a case and will be taken care of by David. If they hadn't had the case, I would have asked him to take care of Aaron, but Aaron couldn't go on the case so Spencer is taken care of but Aaron is not.

"Do you want me to take care of Aaron so you can go on your trip?"

Would you please Angie?" She thinks about this request, does she really want to spend a few days alone with Aaron? Could she really do it without compromising her integrity and his dignity? Could she not do what she would love to do?

"Yes Sean I will be there in the morning before you leave."

"I'll see you then, bye Angie."

Sean takes Aaron home that night and packs a bag to take rock climbing. He fixes up several days of bottles and makes sure that the diaper supply is sufficient for several days. He gives Aaron a bath and the brothers spend the night cuddling and watching movies.

At the town the case was in, the team gets off the jet and begins to check out the crime scene and looking for the facts of the case. After a while, Spencer starts to get antsy and can't seem to sit or stand still; Dave notices this and knows that it is time to change his boy's diaper. He takes the man's arm and gently prods him to an empty room that doesn't appear to have a camera or anything that may see what a person is doing in the room. It appears to be a supply room with shelves and tables. He puts a long folded table up and removes Spencer's pants.

Spencer says, "NO, I am okay. I don't need to be changed."

"Spencer, you have been fidgeting for the past thirty minutes, you make me want to go to the bathroom. Sean told me to make sure that you are kept dry. If you keep this up, you are going back to the hotel for a nap young man. Now get on the table." Spencer gets on the table with a pouty look and David proceeds to change the very wet diaper of the man. He realizes that he was going to have to check on the man every few hours because he won't come to him to have his diaper changed. "Let's get back to work for a few hours and then you will have dinner and an early bedtime."

"No I am not; I am staying out as long as everyone else is."

David cups his chin, "You will do as you are told or you will not be on this case." Spencer looks at him with a dogged look and nods his assent to the remark.

Later that night at the motel, David is coming from the shower and Spencer is sitting on the other bed reading a book from Angie's library. It seems that there is always one of those in his book bag.

"Spencer, let's change your pants and get into your night clothes."

"I want to finish this book tonight."

"If you finish it tonight then you won't have anything for tomorrow. Come on let's change you."

"I don't want to."

"Spencer." He looks up and sees the firm look in Dave's face, it reminds him of Angie and you don't say no to that face.

But he does. "NO!" David walks over to the bed and removes the book from his hands and puts it over on his bed. He then turns to pick up Spencer, who has scooted off the bed and was running to the bathroom. Which David had anticipated and previously locked against the entry of the young man, who then tried the door, which was bolted. In the meantime, David had walked up behind him and picked him up to lift over his shoulders. He put him on the long dresser that he had set up as a changing table. Spencer continued to struggle and squirm while David removed his clothing until all he had on was a very wet diaper. When David began to remove that Spencer started to cry. After removing the diaper, David picked him up and took him over to the bed where he placed the man over his knee and proceeded to spank him.

SMACK. "You will not." SMACK. SMACK. "Do this again." SMACK. SMACK. "When I say that it is time." SMACK. SMACK. "For you to be changed." SMACK. "You will allow it to happen." SMACK. SMACK. "I decide when that happens." SMACK. "Not you." SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. SMACK. By the time that David has finished his smacks on Spencer's bottom, the man-boy is crying only and loudly. David turns him over and gently makes sure that his bottom is not touching anything he rubs his back and rocks the boy in his arms. He picks up the boy and proceeds to smooth lotion over his sore bottom and gets double diapered for the night and dressed into a purple sleeper that Sean sent. He then carries the boy over to his bed and lies him down while he opens up the boy's own bed. When he looks around, Spencer is already asleep on the bed sucking his thumb and mildly hiccupping from crying so much. David decides to let him stay and go into the other side of Spencer and held the boy in his arms while he watched a little TV.