Penelope was searching online for adorable gifts for all four of her grandchildren. Derek was busy in one of the guest bedrooms setting up a play pen for when the two little ones would spend time with their grandparents, while his children were away on cases. Lil Derek already had a race car bed, and his new little sister Bailey Renee LaMontagne would be sharing the play pen with her cousins.
Penelope's cell phone rang. She wondered who it was calling her so late in the evening.
Penelope answered her phone, "He or she who seek the knowledge of this oracle at this time of night better have a damn…"
JJ frantically said, "PG turn on the news."
Immediately Penelope fired up her computers and quickly turned the television set on.
Penelope sobbed as she heard, "Two F.B.I agents have been taken hostage by a radical group."
Penelope asked, "JJ who is it?"
JJ shakily replied, "Dylan and Henry. I found out because an old contact at the F.B.I told me."
"Oh God JJ..does Brianna know."
JJ sighed and said, "She is already down at the B.A.U harassing the techs."
Penelope said, "That's my girl. JJ tell me what to do?"
JJ replied, "We have been given the all clear to come down to the B.A.U, we even get to pull rank. Hotch, and Reid are on their way down there. Rossi is calling foreign contacts to find out who these people are."
"JJ they want us to come back?"
JJ said, "Yes and they want Derek here to. This particular group is known to use bombs in some of their attacks."
Penelope dropped the phone and yelled for Derek.
Derek came running into Penelope's office.
"Baby girl what's wrong?"
Penelope sobbed and said, "Derek honey, Dylan and Henry are being held hostage. We have to get down to the B.A.U."
If this had been for any other reason Derek would have been damn happy to go back. Now Derek's mind was reeling. Derek's children, which extending to all children of his B.A.U family were like his own. Derek wanted to save Henry just as much as he did Dylan.
Penelope picked the phone back up and said, "Sorry Jayje."
"Don't worry about it PG, just get down here. The babies are with Brianna in her office, Jackson and Lil D are with me. I will bring them to the F.B.I daycare."
Penelope and JJ quickly hung up the phone.
Derek already dressed with his badge, and gun. Penelope grabbed her laptop and quickly changed as well.
To Derek and Penelope it felt odd walking through F.B.I security without having visitors badges. Immediately Jasmin found her parents. Jasmin wanted to cry and cuddle with them, but she had bigger fish to fry.
Jasmin immediately started briefing Derek on the situation. Penelope made a beeline for her former lair.
Jasmin said, "Agent Morgan. I need for you to come take a look at bomb fragments that this group has used before. They claimed at one point that they were protesting peacefully to save the enviorment."
Derek asked, "Ok Agent Morgan, but tell me when did they go from being "peaceful" to random attacks about the city?"
Jasmin replied, "About 3 months ago."
Derek asked, "Why wait so long to put together a task force?"
Jasmin replied, "We were just invited in by local authorities 7 hours ago."
Derek scrubbed his hand over his face. Jasmin and Derek made their way into the war room to see Reid and Ashley pouring over data and footage already found by Brianna. Hotch was talking M.O with Jack, and JJ was placing case files down.
Hotch said, "Guys I know this is very personal, and we should be lucky the director let us in on this, not that a nasty, nasty phone call from Strauss swayed the director if he wanted to keep all his body parts."
Penelope sadly looked at her daughter in law. She was sniffling while trying to find out the identities of the members of the radical group.
Penelope said softly, "Knock, knock."
Brianna spun in her chair and cried loudly, Oh mama P this… I can't..What if something happens to Dylan and Henry?"
Penelope wrapped her arms around Brianna and said, "Honey I have been exactly where you have been. Trust me. Before Derek and I started dating I had to listen to him drive an ambulance ful of explosives. Trust me, everything will be alright. Now tell me what you have so far."
In the war room, they were still trying to build a workable profile.
Jasmin said, "Here's what we have so far. We know that they had a ruse they used when they first formed. They were selling the idea that they wanted to make the world a greener place to live."
Ashley said, "However when I looked into their pamphlet and website they didn't give many details, and the facts and details they did give were all wrong, plus the website was just a fake. Brianna tried to find anything to authenticate it, but she said there was nothing."
Will drawled, So we are looking for a group of people who are highly organized? I mean they were patient enough to wait months if not years, before the attacks."
Ashley said, "Basically what radicals do is seek a way to bring about change to our social order. Most radicals could care less about the means, and because they don't mention religious intentions we can rule out religious radicals."
The phone in the war room rang.
Everyone could see the silent question, "Who should answer the phone."
Jack said to his father, "SSA Hotchner please answer the phone."
Hotch raised his eyebrow at his son, then realized why Jack told him to answer the phone. Derek was Dylan's father, and Will was Henry's.
"Hello this is SSA Aaron Hotchner, who am I speaking with?"
A deep voice laughed and said, "I have read quite a few things about you agent Hotchner. As I am sure you are well aware of I have two members of the B.A.U in my possession."
Derek tensed his jaw, and Will was seeing red. JJ had to choke back a sob.
The voice yet again spoke by saying, "You haven't figured out who I we are yet?"
Aaron calmly replied, "It seems your group is too good for us. Why don't you enlighten me."
The deep voice said, "Aaron I am very disappointed in you. You know when I watched SSA Kate Joyner die, and I saw your body being flung from that SUV, it became less about the cause and more about killing. You didn't really think you had gotten all of us did you?"
Aaron swore. He knew the young men recruited in those bombing attacks would barely be in their mid thirties.
Aaron pulled himself together, and he watched the different emotions play across each person's face in the room. Hotch knew exactly why he got called in on this case, because it had been one of his own.
Aaron asked, "What is it that you want exactly?"
The deep voice said, "Aaron I want what we have always wanted…..To be famous."
The deep voice hung up.
Derek said, "Jack get Garcia on the phone. Have her pull up everything about the New York bombings."
JJ looked at Jasmin and said, "We need to get in touch with homeland security. We make no statement yet."
Hotch told Will to contact some of his old buddies down at the local police department and let them know what is going on.
Once everyone got busy, Jack looked at his father and said, "Dad I don't know if I can do this."
Hotch placed a gentle but firm hand on Jack's shoulder and said, "Son now is not the time to doubt yourself. I will run point with you."
Jack gave a sigh of relief and set out to find away to bring his two best friends home.
Penelope immediately stepped into action. She showed Brianna how to do split screen searches. They were both finding loads of information frantically.
Brianna's office phone rang. There was no way she could answer, she had a sleeping baby in her arms and was trying to type quietly at the speed of light.
Brianna said, "Ma can you get that?"
Penelope smacked the speaker and said, "Garcia here."
Derek said, "Tell me whatcha got for me."
Penelope replied, "With some digging we found out that, this group hasn't attempted to shoot people in public places like in New York, however very small relatively harmless bombs have been placed out in the open."
"That's good mama. I gotta go, I think Reid and Ashley found something, oh and call the local utility companies and see if there has been unusually high volumes of usage in abandoned buildings, buildings under construction, or just purchased properties in this area. Dylan and Henry were working with local law enforcement when they were abducted."
"Already on it."
"Baby girl don't worry we will bring out boys home."
Penelope and Derek ended their call, and Brianna looked wide eyed at Penelope
Brianna asked, "How did..how did you do those searches so fast?"
Penelope replied, "My two little boys are missing, but after this mess is over I will teach you."
Brianna placed her little one back down in her play pen, and started making calls to the utility companies.
Penelope taught her how to get exactly what information she needed out of what would be considered tight lipped companies.
Penelope and Brianna were able to narrow down 300 potential properties to just 25.
Jack and Hotch had already begun, thanks to Will, The ATF, and were given rank over a SWAT team. They were coming up with a tactical plan, waiting for Garcia and Brianna to figure out which location it was.
Ashley and Reid, completed most of the profile, and the geographic profile to help all three teams find the best way to deal with this situation.
JJ and Jasmin were working on preparing a statement. If the radical group wanted recognition, they would get it, but on the B.A.U's terms.
Derek said a silent prayer before entering the conference room where everyone was gathered. That case in New York almost got him killed, and he almost lost his chance with Penelope.
TBC…
I am not sure what happened here. I was going to write a sweet story about them all hanging out at the B.A.U, my weirdo self turned it into a case. Let me know if you like it.
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