Who is the Victim Here

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Chapter Thirty-Four.

Early the next morning, our boys and agents began to wake up and Sean went to fix breakfast, David went to clean and change Spencer. Derek was the first to get into the shower and Emily went to the other bathroom to shower. When Sean finished fixing crepes and potatoes with coffee and juice for the others, he went to wake Aaron, who was sitting on the bed when Sean came in the room.

"Good morning Aaron. Did you sleep well?" Aaron looked up and nodded his head. "Then let's get you changed and dressed for the day." Aaron went to the long dresser top that Sean had set up as a changing table and which David had used earlier with Spencer. He sat down and Sean removed his night sleeper and diaper and cleaned him up. He powdered him from head to foot and then diapered him and put him in a pair of docker pants and a button down shirt over his onesie.

"Do I have to wear the onesie?"

"Yes, it is part of your outfit, so get you used to it. I make those decisions until you can prove to the court that you are capable of doing so and one day of acting like your normal adult self is not going to prove that." He lifted the man off the changing table and carried him downstairs.

"I can walk, Sean."

"Can you eat by yourself?"

"I haven't tried in months." Sean looked at him and decided to give his big brother the chance to do so and he carries him to the dining room table and puts him in an armed dining chair. He fixes him a plate of crepes, which he cuts up for him and some potatoes with a sippy cup of juice. He put a spoon in Aaron's hand after putting an adult bib around his neck. Aaron picks up a piece of crepe but the coordination from his hand to mouth was not very good since it hadn't been used for a while. He was very rusty and spilled half way to his mouth, he then tried another bite and that spilled as well. It was like a train wreck, he didn't expect to have lost so much control and become so weak because of his choice not to feed himself and chew food. Sean finally picked up another smaller spoon that he had bought in the baby section. He picked up a small bite and brought it to his brother's mouth, which opened up and then tried to remember how to chew the food and discovered little control over his tongue to chew. He tried to swallow and almost choked when he admitted that he was not able to feed himself or chew food anymore. He looked at Sean and said, "Bottle Sean." Sean picks up his brother and takes him to the sofa in the living room where he sits and Aaron lays back into his arms and accepts the bottle of baby formula that is placed into his mouth. The team clears the table as they came back into the dining room since leaving Aaron to try to feed himself and knowing that it a failure.

After the dining table was cleared, the team sat around and discussed about where Angie was and the information that they had compiled the night before. When Aaron finished two bottles, one of formula and one of apple juice, he came and joined the others at the table. The geographic map that Spencer, Garcia and Derek made up the night before showed some locations that looked promising. They called Garcia to help narrow it more if she could and finally got it to one that looks the best. Our agents decided that David, Aaron and Derek would go and check the barn. Emily and Brian would go and check out the empty buildings in the town. Spencer stayed to remain connected to Garcia and Sean stayed to take care of Spencer. David took a bag of extra clothes, diapers and bottles for Aaron and the three went in the van with Aaron harnessed in his seat and the others belted in the front seats. Derek began the drive to look for Angie while David kept the laptop and the GPS open for changes and information that might be relayed by Spencer.

After about four hours, our three agents come to a small area in the boondocks and see a rundown barn with peeling red paint and a running horse weather vane. They stop and look around the ground which shows fresh SUV tracks. Derek takes photos and measurements of the tracks while David gets Aaron out of his car seat. The two men walk toward the front of the barn, David has his gun out while Aaron follows behind him without any weapons. They open the door and see an open space with chains, knives, blades and plow razors hanging all around. There is a smell of fresh and musty straw and hay. A cow mooed as they walked past it and they heard the chirps of birds and other things scuttling in the straw.

Angie is sitting in the last stall and since the barn is kept very dark, she can't really see. She hears the footsteps of two men walking toward and knows that it is not the kidnapper because he had already been there and his footfall was quite different. She got the smell of powder to assail her nostrils and knew it was her hero, Aaron.

She called out as loudly as possible, "Aaron, I am here darling in the last stall, I think. Aaron?" She hears the running of feet and then sees a shadow come across the gate of the stall where she is at and knows it is him. She smiles and he comes running to her and sits down beside her to hold her with a great hug. Another shadow comes in and is just as relieved when he comes to her other side and also hugs her.

"Hello, David," she says. "I knew you both would come. I knew my hero would come for me." Aaron kisses her deeply and with great passion while David went to look at the cuff on her ankle and how to get it off. Derek came in and went to also hug her and she kissed his check. "Another hero to come to save me, but the most important one is over here." She turned and kissed Aaron on the lips again. David cut the plastic cuff and Aaron lifted Angie to take her to the van and placed her in Spencer's seat and adult lap belted her in. He then got into his seat and sat holding her hand and gazing at her with gratitude that she appears to be okay. David comes up and says to Aaron, "Before we head out let's change your diaper." Aaron looks at him with slight irritation because he doesn't want to let go of Angie's hand. "She's not going anywhere. Come on get out of your chair." Aaron reluctantly does so and David changes him and then puts him back into his chair. Where Aaron once again is holding Angie's hand across the aisle, she doesn't really feel it because she did not sleep at any time that she was in the barn and fell asleep in the chair the moment she could. She knew she was safe now.

After harnessing Aaron, David gave him a bottle and then he and Derek got into the front seats. It took slightly over another four hours to get back to the house in hometown. When they got there, Spencer was so excited that he reverted to toddler mode. Sean had just changed him and gave him dinner before the van drove up. Brian and Emily did not have such a productive day, all the empty buildings that they went to did not check out, even the ones that the sheriff and his deputies checked out were a bust.

The guys came in from the van with Aaron carrying Angie in even though she told him that it wasn't necessary.

He says, "Let me carry you as you have carried me so many times." She kisses him and he places her on her feet when they had crossed the threshold. Spencer came rushing to her screaming Mommy and grabbed her around the waist when he bent and put his head into her chest. Aaron looked at that suspiciously and held back the urge to pull him back by the hair out of her chest. She looked down at the boy and then up at Aaron and blew him a kiss. Spencer looked up at her and smiled at her and then glanced over that scowl on Aaron's face. He then stepped back from Angie and said sorry to Aaron. Aaron just ruffled his hair and told him it was okay. Sean breaks in and also hugged Angie and then gently prodded her to the dining room where he had a good meal waiting for her. She smiled gratefully at him. David and Derek also sat down for dinner and Sean then took Aaron and held him for two bottles of protein drink and juice.

After eating, the agents and friends just relaxed for the rest of the night. Some played chess; others played different games or watched television. It got to be late in the evening when Sean decided to put Spencer and Aaron in their sleepers and then had them go to bed; he was only concerned about these two. He thought the others would make that decision for themselves and they shortly went to bed soon after the boys. Angie went to sleep before the boys after taking a long relaxing bath. She went to bed on Kathy's bed, which is the first time it was used since her death nine months ago. Aaron went to check on her and then lay down beside her, which is not where Sean put him. When Sean came to check on him one hour later and found him missing from his bed, he got extremely upset and yelled "Aaron!!!!?"

The scream woke the entire house including Aaron and Angie. She was shocked to find him in bed curled around her. They smiled at her and she said, "You had better get back to your own bed or Sean is going to have a conniption."

"Let him, I already have to be punished for disobeying him. What's another spanking?"

"Punished for doing what?"

"I stole the van and drove here by myself to find you."

"You did what?!?"

"I had to come and I didn't think he would allow me to unless I came by myself. Please don't be mad too. Isn't it bad enough that he is?"

"No it is not. You should have never done that and especially not for me. I'm not worth you getting yourself hurt or caught by that man. That is why you are not allowed to be alone."

"I know that, but…"

"No, No buts about it. Don't you ever do that again. I love that you came for me, but you should not have come by yourself."

"So I have been told." He hangs his head in hurt and mild frustration at the situation he put himself in. She looks at him with sadness but then kisses him deeply.

"My sweet hero." He looks at her and kisses her again. When there is a knock on the door. "Come in Sean." Sean enters and sees her in the bed; Aaron dug himself under the covers.

"I'm sorry to bother you Angie, but have you seen Aaron?" Aaron starts to tickle her under the covers as he kisses her on different parts of her body that he could reach with moving too much.

"Seen Aaron, is he missing?"

"He is not in his bed and if find him, I am going to discipline him like the disobedient child he is."

"What will you do?"

"I don't yet, he should be spanked but I might just put him in a time-out corner in the morning instead of allowing him to join his team in looking for the kidnapper." Aaron heard that and was not happy. "Do you have any idea where he might be?" When he looks at her, she looks like she is about to burst with laughter. She nods her head and with the one hand that she has out she points into her bed. Sean opens his eyes and goes over to the bed where he pulls back the covers to show his wayward brother.

Aaron says, "You can't not let me work on the case with my team."

"Oh, but I can. You need to get out of Angie's bed and return to your own so she can get some sleep."

She says, "Sean, please let him stay with me. We'll behave ourselves and not take off his sleeper at all." She smiles gently at him. Sean looks at the two in the bed.

"I'll see you in the morning and have whatever fun you can with his sleeper on." Aaron sticks his tongue out at Sean and Angie just smiles as the man leaves.

When he leaves the room, he sees the all the other members of the house and apologizes for waking them but explained that Aaron was not in the bed that he had left him in. He wanted to sleep somewhere else. A lot of snickers and chuckles at this news while they all go back to bed.