A/N: New chapter! I was so happy reading the reviews I just had to upload another one for you guys!
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The team was back at the station after processing the scene and exchanging information. Now Garcia had information that could tell them where their friend was.
"You are on speaker Garcia" Hotch told her. Not long ago he had asked to dig into this Dan´s delivery service and now she was about to tell them her finding.
"Okay, Hotch asked me to do a little digging in this delivery service and I may have something. Of course I´m going to need some help from you guys to know what I have to look now." She was worry, maybe even more than the team just because she wasn´t there.
"Tell us what you got baby girl"
"This Dan´s delivery service is exactly that, well a…delivery service of food and party material. You know like birthday, weddings and stuff like that…"
"It´s new over here." Paul said. "I think they have been here for like two years or so."
"Points for the man with the sexy voice." The team smile a bit, they couldn´t laugh, not yet. Paul just looked confuse. "Yes, they started two years ago and apparently have had cero problems."
"What can you tell us about the workers and the owner?" Emily asked her leaning on one of the chairs in the conference room.
"Let´s see. They have had different people working for them over the years. Now they have over twenty employees. The owner is Troy Saddler, he is fifty years old, married, have two sons one works with him, the other is studying to be a lawyer and lives in Chicago."
"We can rule out the owner and his son from Chicago. What about the other son Garcia?" Rossi asked.
"His name is Tyler Saddler and he is twenty eight and he is also married, no kids." She told them while moving her finger over her keyboard.
"He is out too. Garcia focus on the workers." Hotch told her this time. "Our UnSub is in his late thirties to early forties, he works delivering so he is one of the drivers." They could hear her typing fast.
"Now we have only five suspects, most of the guys working there are under that age range. What else can I do?" She felt good helping them; she needed to feel like she was doing something to help them bring her best friend back.
Now Reid talked. "Garcia this guys is single. With what he does and his work and the stalking he needs time and a relationship would make it hard."
"Now we have three suspects." She was getting exited they were closer on finding this guy and JJ. Just when she was about to speak again one of her monitors alerted her that one of her search had ended. "Guys, I did a search with the video feeds from the park, well near the park because there was just one camera and…." She was getting angry.
"Garcia?" Hotch said.
"Yes, sorry Sir. I was able to see just one car a few block from where JJ and Detective Sam where parked. I could only get a partial from the plate, but now we know the owner of the car."
"Who is it Garcia?"
"The car is definitely from Dan´s delivery service and I know who drove the car that night." Her face was recovering its usual glow. "You see, the employees have to register when and who uses the cars and I got it!" She said the last part more like a squeal.
"Who´s Garcia?" Emily was leaning even more on the chair, a little more and she would be all over the table.
"His name is Jackson Hill. He is thirty eight, single and one of the six drivers they have and also, one of our three suspect."
"Good job Garcia." Hotch was interrupted by the TA once more after hearing a beep from the other line.
"Wait Sir! When you asked me to do a search of this service I also did it to find a connection between the victims…I should have thought about it earlier." They could hear the disappointment in her voice.
"You mean there was a connection after all?" It was Sam this time, he was trying to not get in the way of what the profilers were asking, mostly because he didn´t know what to ask and because he still felt guilty.
"Yes, but it was not directly the victims but rather their work places. All of them received deliveries from them about a week before the victims' kidnappings and guess what?" They didn´t have to guess they knew what she was going to say. "Jackson Hill was the driver in each of those times."
"You have an address Garcia?" The team, along with the detectives, was already preparing to go and get their friends.
"Already did Sir. I sent the address for the delivery place, too." She knew how the team worked, she knew what they would ask her to do most of the time and this was one of those times.
"Thank Garcia."
"Please bring our girl home and be safe." She told then hanging up.
Once outside the police station Hotch started giving orders to everyone there while they put their vests on.
"This is what we are going to do. Morgan, Reid, Emily and Sam are going to the UnSub´s house, the rest are going to the work place, got it?" Everyone nodded. "Be careful." The two teams got in the SUVs and began their journey to find JJ.
…..
Emily notice Reid was way to quiet.
"Reid, what are you thinking?" He didn´t looked up, he took his phone and dialed Hotch number.
"What´s wrong?" He answered immediately.
"I was just thinking. The UnSub hasn´t dump Jenna Green." Emily frown, it was true they still have not found Jenna.
"Wish means she could still be alive." She said, realization downing on her.
"I think she is." Reid said with certainty in his voice. "He took JJ because he saw an opportunity, it wasn´t exactly planned, wish I think translate in not having time to kill Jenna Green."
"He may still have killed her and he just hadn´t dump the body yet." Morgan voiced his thought.
"Yes, but he would want as much time with JJ as possible and killing Jenna would only take valuable time away." Rossi said over the phone, his idea made everyone shudder because if it was true JJ was going to suffer from beginning to end and it was a thought everyone was afraid of.
"We are going to see it as Jenna still being alive. So now we have to be even more careful. We have two lives to save." Hotch told his team. "Let´s hurry."
…...
Morgan and the rest stood outside the UnSub´s place, the lights were off and they couldn´t see any movement from inside the house.
"Okay Emily and Reid, you guys go to the back and us two will go front. On three we go in." They nodded and went to their respective positions.
"Are you ready?" Emily asked Reid, she could see he was getting anxious and it wasn´t good. "I need to know you are okay." He looked straight into her eyes.
"I´m not okay… but I won´t do anything that compromise JJ and Jenna or us. Trust me." And she did, because she that the spark of his eyes was coming back.
"I trust you" She smiled.
…
Meanwhile Morgan knocked three times before speaking.
"Jackson Hill, FBI! Open the door!" They heard nothing, Derek knocked once more before nodding toward the Detective and taking his mic.
"We are going in."
"Copy that." Emily told him. She and Reid heard three and the door was kicked open. They began the search going room by room, nothing.
"We are going to the second floor." Emily informed Morgan.
"Okay. We´ll take the basement." He told her. The profiler and the Detective approach the door and for their surprise it was unlock, they looked at each other, guns ready and without another word went down the stairs. Both men search the place but there was no one there. Sam turned the lights on.
"There´s no one here and looks like he hasn´t been here in a long time." Sam said touching a table, it was cover in dust.
"Em, did you find something?" Derek asked through the incom.
"Well we didn´t found them or anyone up here and for what we can see no one´s been here in quite sometime." Just like the room down stairs everything was cover in dust. "We did found a lot of pictures of the UnSub with a woman." Her voice had a different tone now and Morgan noticed it.
"What´s wrong?" He asked her worry of the answer she was going to give him. Sam was beside Derek by now expecting to hear the answer as well.
"The woman looks just like JJ." She heard him sigh. "I´ll get Garcia on this."
Detective Daniels was speechless. If JJ resembled this woman so much and the UnSub took her because of that then, he shook his head…he couldn´t think about it now, he needed to focus his anger in finding his cousin and doing it fast.
"Let´s see what else we can find here." Just then Morgan´s phone went off. "Hotch?"
….
Hotch had asked the owner of the delivery to see them at the work place as soon as possible, lucky for them the guy lived just a block down the place.
"What´s going on?" He asked Hotch. "Why is the FBI here and why did you ask me to be here?" The man was as tall as he was but much thinner and his hair was almost all gray.
"We believe one of your workers is the killers we´ve been looking for and he kidnapped and FBI agent today." Hotch told him wearing his characteristic stare. "We need to go inside and search the place." It wasn´t a question. The man just nodded. "Is there a back door?" the man again nodded. "Rossi, you and Detective Paul go back take some LEOs with you and I´ll go front with two of them."
Once in position they heard Hotch count to three and all agents and police officers made their entrance to the place. It was not a big place so they clear it in no time.
"They are not here." Paul stated, his hand clenching with frustration. "We search the place, every single room and area and nothing!"
"Let´s head over to the UnSub´s place and see what the rest found, maybe they had better luck." Rossi suggested.
"I´ll call them and tell them we are on our way." The unit chief said going inside the SUV and on the way to where Reid and the rest of the team, along with Sam, where.
"Morgan" Hotch said, he had put the phone on speaker, Rossi was holding it.
"Hotch?"
"What did you find?"
"Sadly, nothing." Derek could almost hear the hope vanishing from the men on the other line. "The place had been inhabited for some time, but Emily and Reid may have something."
"What is it?" Maybe there was still hope.
"We found some photos of the UnSub with a woman that looks just like JJ and maybe even Jenna." They heard Emily said. "Garcia is trying to find who she is and her connection to the UnSub."
"Hey Morgan! Can you help me with this?" Reid´s voice could be heard in the back.
"How far away are you from here?" Prentiss asked them watching what the boys were doing.
"We´ll be there in about ten minutes, less if we go over the limit." Rossi told her looking at Hotch.
"Alright see you guys here." She said hanging up letting out a frustrated breath.
"Over the limit? You know I´m already driving over it, right?" Hotch asked his friend.
"What? I thought you could go a little faster." He smirked, so did Hotch driving a little faster this time.
….
While Emily and Morgan talk on the phone with Hotch, Reid and Sam had been looking for something else that could tell them where JJ and Jenna where.
Reid was in one of the rooms down stairs. It seemed like an office without the chair and well most of the thing that comes with an office, but something coughed the young profiler attention.
"That´s weird. Everything here looks like it hasn´t been use in some time, cover in dust except for the edges of this bookcase." Then he looked down. "Hey Morgan! Can you help me with this?" After a couple of second Morgan came into the room.
"What´s up Reid? Did you find something?"
"Maybe…can you help me move this?" He pointed to the bookcase; Morgan said yes and helped the genius move it. "Now we definitely need to know who this woman is."
"Yes, we do." The wall behind the bookcase was cover with pictures of the same blonde woman. Some with the UnSub but most of them showed her alone, smiling at the camera. "Now we know why he picked the first three victims." The majority of the pictures were of her with blonde hair but in some she had brown dark hair.
"Let´s go tell the other what we just found."
Morgan went to tell Emily what Reid had found when Hotch, Rossi and Paul came into the house.
"Did Garcia found the woman?" Hotch asked them.
"She hasn´t call back." Emily informed them.
"Reid found a bookcase that was not cover all in dust like the rest of the place; once we moved it we found the wall covered with pictures of this lady." Morgan explained to all handing them one of the pictures. "In some she had dark hair but most were of her with blonde hair."
"She is the key to all of this. If we found her, we found our UnSub." Reid said.
"I´ll call Garcia…" but the analyst had other plans. "Garcia you are on speaker. Tell us you have something please."
"I do princess. The woman is Clara Morris, she was a reporter and..."
"Wait Garcia, you said she was a reporter?"
"That´s correct Rossi. I said it because Clara was in a car accident not long ago; according to the ME report she died on impact." Everyone looked at each other, maybe that was the stressor.
"Garcia, when did she die?" Reid asked her.
"Let me see, she died…almost two weeks before the firs kidnapping." She trailed off.
"That´s the stressor. He had enough time to stalk the first victim and finally, decide what he was going to do. " The brunette agent said.
"For what we can see from the pictures they were in a relationship." Morgan voiced his thought. "Maybe she left him and he couldn´t accept the fact that she was leaving him."
"Add her death and we have our killer." Rossi spoke. "He now sees her in his victims and because his main target is not around anymore, he goes after these other women."
"So he kills all this women because she left him and died?" Sam asked incredulous.
"You would be amazed; some people have killed for less."
"Hey Garcia! Is there any property attached to her name." Everyone looked at Reid. "If he is not here or in his workplace, he has to be somewhere else right?" He was not expecting an answer, so he kept talking. "He has to have them in a place important to him, a place significant for him and Clara."
"Reid you are amazing!" They heard Garcia scream. "Clara´s house was sold to an elderly couple but she had other property." She was exited; if Reid was right then they were so close to find them. "Is a small house in the limits of the city. May I add the houses over there are quite separated from each other. Go figure.
"It´s the perfect place. Not much people to see and hear them."
"We need the address Garcia" Hotch told her.
"Already on it Sir." They heard her typing. "Done!"
"Okay team let´s go" Each agent got inside their respective vehicles with the Detectives not far behind. They could feel this was the place, it had to be! They just hope it wasn´t too late.
Well? There it is! So ...What do you think is going to happen next? Is the team going to get there in time?
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