Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Thirty-Two.
July Fourth has our little family at memorial park with hundreds of thousands of people listening to the orchestra and then watching the fireworks, the team decided to join them and they had a fun time bringing food and a small tent to change the boys in. The day was tiring for our group of people. JJ and Will had brought Henry in their car and left first. Emily had come with Brian in his rented car. While Sean had picked up Derek, Penelope and David, so they had to wait until he was heading home with the boys or take the bus home. They didn't mind waiting, the red van will be fully loaded with Sean driving, Angie in the passenger side, Spencer and Aaron in their seats and our other three agents taking up the back seat sofa with the stroller behind them. When they headed back to the van from the park, Angie pushed Aaron in his stroller and Derek carried a sleeping Spencer and the others carrying the tent, picnic basket, cooler and other paraphernalia that had been brought. It was quite a sight to see.
The next few weeks are routine with a few cases coming up in which are team goes out to solve. Spencer and David are getting closer as he continues to take care of the young man. David watches his little 'sister' Angie glow from just being around Aaron when they are together it is as if the sun has entered the building. Emily is glowing as well especially on Monday when she gets back from being with Brian. She hates it now when they have to go on a weekend case because then she can't see him. Aaron except for the way he acts around Angie has not changed much in other ways; he still tries to be the baby he thinks he should be.
As Donald and his father 'Uncle Bob' watch the Hotchner apartment and follow the boys wherever they go, they see the incongruence's in Aaron's behavior, especially when he is with Angie. So maybe the key to getting our little puppy to obey his master is in his friendship with her. Since the little puppy is never left alone maybe to let him know he still being watched, they need to take someone he loves. The woman going blind would be perfect to teach him who is the master.
She has gotten an apartment not far from the Hotchner apartment and is settling on continuing her masters at Georgetown in medieval literature and will be taking one class towards that degree. Because she has difficulty reading for a long time she decides one class is quite enough. One morning on the way to the campus to discuss what her master's thesis is with her new program advisor, she stops by and looks at the flowers in the floral shop near home. She misses having her bouquet sent to her office every week as she does love the scent of fresh flowers in the apartment. She decides to order an arrangement from the florist to be delivered each week. She decides on her regular four and includes two new ones; roses, tulips, tiger lilies, hyacinths, chrysanthemums (for Kathy) and baby's breath (for Aaron) to surround the others. She has a bush of baby's breath at home where she cultivates it daily and has for more than twenty years.
Just after she leaves the florist shop, a man she has never before seen walks beside her and pushes a gun into her side he tells her, "Keep walking naturally." They walk to a white cargo van with its door open and he nudges her to enter. She looks at him and does as he asks. She sits on the floor while he enters behind her and closes the door. A man in the driver's seat moves the vehicle. She says not a word, just listens and looks at him intently. She had every intention of memorizing every aspect of the man and not just his disguised face behind the fake mustache, eyebrows, makeup and sideburns and sunglasses. She notices his height, weight, waist size, chest size, and inseam of his trousers. She notices the lines and visible veins on his hands and neck and that he wore no gloves. She noticed that he wore incontinence shields which were a major indicator that he was older than he pretended. He saw that she was looking at him so intently and moved to her where he placed a blindfold around her eyes and plasticuffed her hands together. He didn't bother to gag since she hasn't said a word or made a sound. He plasticuffed her ankles together and they traveled in silence.
They take Angie to a place some distance from the metro area, about two hours outside the beltway. When they get there Donald lifts the woman and carries her into the building. As she cannot see, she uses other senses and hears rustling under straw, a fair breeze moving metal objects which bang into each other. She hears silent steps on dirt with an occasional crunch of stepping on hay or straw. She hears the song of birds, the shuffling of cloven and hoofed feet of bovine with a slight moo as they pass the stall. She has figured that this is a barn from what she hears as well at the scents that assail her nose, the dung, the fresh and stale smell of hay. The man places her on something scratchy like a bale of hay. He brought a blanket over to place on the hay and moved her to it. He took off the cuffs on her hands and ankles and then placed a chain on her left ankle. She could hear the chains rattling but the cuffs were fur lined plastic. He says gruffly, "There is a trough of water to your right that you can wash in, a bucket next to it for using as a toilet. I will bring you food once a day. There is a pillow and blanket. Screaming won't help you any, there is no one living around here within miles. You behave yourself and you will live, your brother will live, and your lover…well let's just say he will survive." He takes off her blindfold and leaves after he takes a digital photo.
She now knows that this is the man trying to destroy Aaron Hotchner and he knows what they did together. Aaron has been right in that this man was watching him. She is saddened because when she sees Aaron again, she believes he will regress back to infancy. She did not want to be the cause of his next regression. She tries to break from her chains but knows she is there until he releases her after he has gotten what he wants from Aaron, total submission and mastery of the man.
Back at the BAU
It is late morning and Sean is not in the office with Aaron as he has taken Spencer to be changed. Sean left the van keys on the desk not expecting Aaron to take them. He needs to remember that Aaron does unusual things sometimes. Aaron is working doing some write ups when he goes to check his emails. He opens one and what he sees chills him to the bone and angers him to the extreme. He is shown a photo of Angie chained in a barn. A not accompanying the photo told him to go home to Kathy's place. The man in him sees the keys at the edge of the desk; he knows he still has a valid driver's license, even if he is legally not allowed to drive. Can he get away without anyone seeing him but a little voice does say that he should wait for Sean and that he shouldn't go alone. He looks at the photo again, turns off the computer and stands up. He grabs the keys and looks out his door. He sees no one looking directly at him so calmly he walks down the stairs and to the elevator, he is able to get right in to the elevator. So far so good he thinks as gets to the garage and gets in the van. He drives out and heads to his hometown.
Meanwhile back at the office, Sean enters Aaron's office and sees the chair empty. Where is Hotch? He goes over to the desk and all the files are closed and the computer is off. His stroller is still there but where could he have gone. He must have gotten out of his chair and crawled somewhere since he refuses to walk in the office. Sean did not notice the missing keys. He walks to the door and looks around but does not see him anywhere. He is beginning to worry as he goes over to Dave's office to see if Aaron crawled over there. No such luck as he sees the office is empty. He goes down into the bullpen to look around, no Aaron. Sean starts to ask around and no one has seen him. Since he began to ask around the entire floor begins to look for the missing man. It takes many hours to search the building but Aaron seems to be gone. Garcia does a search to triangulate his cell phone but the phone is turned off. Someone suggests to Sean to check if the van is there. Sean looks at him in disbelief that Aaron would take the van since he knows that he is not allowed to drive. Sean checks his pockets for the keys and finds them not there. He remembers that he left them on the desk and goes to get them only to discover that they are not there. Garcia then checks the GPS locator and discovers that it is in the hometown.
Sean says, "What!?! Why is it there and how did it get there?"
"I guess we should assume that Aaron drove it there" says Morgan.
"If he did, he is going to learn how angry I can really get when he can't sit down for a month."
"Let's just go find out why he did this and bring him home. Wheels will go up in thirty minutes.", says Rossi.
While Sean and the team were searching for Aaron, he was driving toward his hometown. When he arrives, he goes to the house but doesn't have the keys so he drives to the law office of Brian. He knows that he has keys to the house. When he enters the office and Brian looks up, Brian is shocked to see Aaron there.
"Aaron, what are you doing here and walking? Where is Sean?"
"Sean is back in D. C. I am here alone and need the keys to the house. Please give them to me Brian."
"Why is Sean not here with you? You are not supposed to go anywhere alone. How did you get here?"
"I drove the van."
"You drove? You are not allowed to drive."
"All right, I am not allowed to do a lot of things but I had to come. I was told to come." He sits down heavily in the chair in the office.
"What do mean told to come?"
Aaron looks at Brian with stricken eyes, "He's back Brian and he took Angie. He told me to come here. I know that I shouldn't have come alone but all I knew was that I had to come and if I told somebody they might not have let me. Can I use your computer a minute? Please Brian."
"Sure come on." Aaron goes on the computer and brings up his email and opens the photo of Angie to show Brian. Who looks and feels the man's pain. "You still should have told someone and not come alone. I am going to call Sean now and let him know that you are okay." He calls Sean's cell phone.
Sean is just about to get on the jet when his phone rang. "Hello."
"Sean, its Brian from the hometown, how are you?"
"I'm a little busy right now Brian. What can I do for you?"
"I'm just calling to let you know that I have your missing man in front of me."
"Aaron is there?"
"Yes, he is okay and will not be doing anymore driving. He came to me to get the keys to the house. He came because the man took Angie and told him to come here. I saw the email that the man sent him. He knows that he should not have come alone but Aaron could not think of anything except obeying the man who has Angie. I am going to take him to the house and we will wait for you."
"Well, the GPS on the van told us where it is and the jet is about to leave. We should be there in a few hours, try and get him to eat and get some rest. There is a go bag in the van with clothes, diapers and a few bottles for him.
