"Care for a chat?" The man asked but got only silence in reply. "Well, Declan?" He prodded when the boy didn't reply. Declan was crouching in the corner of the small cell, his arms on either side of the wall. The man sighed and moved closer, as he did so Declan sprung from where he was standing and launched himself at his kidnapper. The boy's arms had managed to wrap round the man's frame when he felt something hot run through his body, his stomach the starting point. His muscles tensed and he dropped to his knees, his breathing caught in his throat and gave the feeling he was suffocating. After a few moments Declan's vision failed him and the only noise he could here were footsteps and the slam of his door being thrown shut.

Declan couldn't tell how long he was unconscious for but it couldn't have been long, moonlight was still seeping through his small window. He pulled himself into a corner and tried to steady his breathing, there was an almighty ache in his head and his hands wouldn't stop shaking. "Hello?" He called into the semi darkness. "Can anybody hear me?"

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Reid's index finger glided down a page of a book, the words floating round his head. Beside him Garcia was typing more information into her computer. He'd taken refuge inside the tech queen's lair when everywhere else became too stressful. Will had been pacing round the bullpen since Henry's kidnapping, Morgan and Emily were getting more and more frustrated as they searched through the evidence pile in the briefing room and Hotch and JJ had been talking in hushed voice for most of the morning.

Something suddenly snapped his attention back to the book. Lots of the words had been underlined and they all seemed to be done at random until that point. He was sure this word had been underlined before. He flicked back 83 pages, his eyes locked onto the word 'maize' and his face scrunched into confusion. "Garcia, I might have something" He murmured while flicking forward to check he was right.

The man had never underlined a word more than once in the four books he'd looked through so far, this must mean something. Garcia swiped what she had been working on to another screen and opened a search engine. "Ready when you are" She stated, eagerness obvious in her voice.

"Have we had any cases involving maize farms or farmers?" Reid questioned.

Garcia typed in the information then clicked through the links. "I've got nothing for maize farms or farmers but there was a case three years ago of an apple farmer, could that work?" Garcia said, gruesome images of the victims popping up on the top screens where the woman couldn't see them.

"No. it has to have something to do with maize... Could you scan these books into your computer? There are some words that have been underlined twice and I think that might be a clue"

Garcia pulled a program onto her front computer, typed in something then spun round, pulled out a scanner and plugged it in. "Scanning and uploading them will take about the same time as you reading so I'll take half the books" She stated and took four books off the unread pile.

After ten minutes of the duo scanning and reading as much as they could Emily strolled in and flopped onto the couch. "Please tell me this means you've got a lead" She mumbled while resting a hand on her head.

"The UnSub might have hidden messages inside the books we recovered from the apartment" Reid stated while rapidly turning pages.

A few moments later a ding noise rang out through the room and Garcia grinned. "I've got another word in this book" She called as she sat down and clicked through the program. "Does the word 'red' mean anything?"

Reid's finger stopped sliding across the page, his mind going faster than ever. "Red maze!" He blurted out after a few seconds. "Three murders in a corn maze, the bodies were exsanguinated and the blood painted across the corn" Reid explained in a rushed voice.

Emily had lifted her head of her hand when he said this then quickly stood and made her way out of the lair. "I'm getting Hotch!" She called as she rushed toward the bullpen.

Will's head whipped up when he saw her pass him by and glanced round for an explanation but got none as she wrapped on Hotch's office door and yanked it open. JJ was sitting opposite Hotch behind his desk and they were deep in discussion. "Reid and Garcia found something in the books; they might have found another UnSub"

A minute later the group was gathered inside Garcia's lair, all eyes fixed on the screens. "Jerry Carlson was charged with the murders three years ago but there was another man, Robert West, who was brought in for questioning a few days prior to Carlson's arrest" Garcia read of the computer, the screens flooded with more pictures. "Carlson was never arrested or charged with anything but the people in his neighbourhood didn't believe he was innocent. After West's trial Carlson reported a series of vandalism on his house. He moved twice every year until last year when he settled in North Carolina"

"What's his address?" Hotch questioned while reaching for his phone. Garcia read out the address and Hotch turned to his team. "Morgan, Emily, Rossi and I are taking the jet to his house. Reid and Garcia: I want you to keep looking through these books and see if you can find anything else. JJ: stay by the phone encase he calls again" He quickly explained then left the lair, the three named agents following him.

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JJ and Will sat in silence, the bullpen had cleared out and the phone was placed between them. JJ knew it was selfish to want it to ring; after all it would only ring if another child had been taken. She just needed to talk to Henry again. She couldn't believe it had been over a day since he'd been taken.

Reid had finished searching through the books with no new rewards and was now sitting in the briefing room looking over the evidence pile, flicking through the notes Morgan and Emily had left behind about the stuff.

There wasn't much evidence that had been brought back from the house. Most of the objects had either been books or furniture that couldn't be moved. In front of him sat an assortment of objects including a small movie collection, clothes, plastic plants and an empty fishbowl.

Reid flicked through the clothes, running a hand over the material encase something was concealed inside only to come up empty. All objects had been tested for anything dangerous before they were brought in but Reid still felt the need to take a closer look at the plants.

He'd been there for almost an hour when a phone started ringing. Reid jumped to his feet and ran out of the room, stopping himself on the catwalk as JJ picked up the phone, answered it then placed it back on the table. A few moments later Garcia was out of her lair and in the bullpen.

"Good evening, agents" The voice from before said, he sounded pleased with himself which made everyone stop breathing for a moment. "I'm sure you've already worked out what this phone call is about… So, who's going to guess which child I've taken this time?" He asked gleefully.

"You sick sonofabitch…" Will growled then stood and began to pace again.

"Oh, do we have a guest with us today?" The man questioned. "How exciting! I wonder who it could be… It's definitely a man so not Beth. Must be William, am I correct?"

"You're damn right it's me" Will snapped and ran a hand roughly through his hair.

"I do love guessing games!" The man crowed childishly. "Now it's your turn! Who has the big bad wolf taken this time?"

Silence filled the room and the man sighed. "Well, aren't you a tired lot. It's a shame the other four had to rush off, I do enjoy Aaron playing mother bear to his team" All four eyes locked on the phone when they heard he knew they were four agents down. "I'll put you out of your misery now, shall I?"

Any suspicions on who the child might be?