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Knocking lightly on the round table room door, Rossi stepped inside.

"I'm about to do a dinner run, who here wants what from where?" he asked.

"I'd like something from Subway," Emily said. "Flatbread Italian BMT with sweet onion dressing and a warm chocolate cookie on the side, with a yogurt and milk."

"Okay." Rossi wrote it down on his little note pad.

"Does this dinner run include me?" Nicole asked quietly, without being able to squash it, Emily was annoyed. Nicole shouldn't have to ask for dinner! Her mind screamed at her. "I can go without dinner though," Nicole added quickly, misunderstanding the annoyed look on Emily's face.

"Of course this dinner run includes you, Nicole," Emily assured as she smoothed Nicole's dark hair back. "I'm just annoyed that your parents make you ask for dinner. No child should ever have to ask to eat."

"Okay, may I please have the same thing as Emily?" Nicole asked Rossi. "Except can I have a snickers bar instead of the cookie?"

"Sure Nicole," Rossi said, he looked to JJ. "What do you want?" he asked.

"I'll have the ham sandwich kid's meal from subway. Tell them to have the toy be for a child under two; I'll take it home to Henry."

Rossi nodded. After he left, Nicole spoke up. "Who is Henry?" she asked hesitantly, as if expecting to be punished.

"Henry is my little boy; he's a year and a half," JJ said smiling as she thought of her little boy. "Here." She took a picture out of her wallet and passed it to Nicole.

Nicole smiled. "Aww, he's so adorable!" She crooned, looking at the picture for another moment, and then handed the picture back to JJ.

"Thank you." JJ put the picture back in her wallet.

Mia got both agents' attention. "I have heard enough that I am going to pull Nicole out of the Dayton House and put her into Foster Care immediately."

Emily breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, Nicole was safe.

"What about my school?" Nicole asked.

"What high school do you go to?" Mia asked, "We'll try to find a family in the district."

"I'm homeschooled, it's an online high school, I've got a semester and a half left until I graduate. I think it's all paid for; I just have to do the work," Nicole said.

"I'll see if we can't leave you in the online school," Mia offered. "You may have to take a few days off though, because the Dayton House in considered a double crime scene so we can't get your books."

"I can do most of the schoolwork from another computer," Nicole explained, "as long as my foster family is willing to let me use the computer for a couple hours a day, I should be fine. The next turn in date is July 14th, as long as I get my books by the end of June, I'll be good."

Mia nodded. "I'll make sure your Foster family has access to a computer."

"Okay. But what about, my other stuff? I've got clothes and books."

"In a few days you can go back and get some things, but since it's considered a crime scene you can't go back right now."

"Okay," Nicole agreed. Then her eyes widened. "I've got another homeschooling outreach in a couple of days, would I be able to go to that?" she asked. "I'd have to call Kellie's mom to get the exact time though."

"You can use the phone at my desk to call her if you need to," Emily gestured, getting up and motioned for Nicole to follow her. Mia got up as well and the three of them went out to the bullpen.

"Just dial nine, nine and then a four to be able to call out of the building," Emily instructed.

Nicole nodded and quickly dialed Kellie's number. While Nicole talked to Kellie, then her mom, Garcia came back in the bullpen. Hotch was following her and he motioned for Emily to go into the round table room. Once they were all in the room together, Garcia got right to business.

"Now, the child porn Nicole was filmed in was sent out to the internet, however, it was only sent to ten people."

"That's not very many," Morgan commented.

"Apparently Jared Morris has problems sharing," Garcia responded.

"Wouldn't the people who received the files view it and then sent it to others?" Hotch asked.

"The porno files were only able to be sent from a certain computer to a certain computer and they deleted themselves after one viewing. It's actually pretty sophisticated technology for the time the videos were first sent."

"This was…" Emily said, trailing off.

"2000," Garcia supplied.

"Oh God," Emily breathed, "She was five?"

Garcia seemed to wilt at that question. "The first file was sent April 3rd 2000, so no, she was four at that point."

Emily blanched, disgusted at Jared and his mistreatment of Nicole. "I hate that the world can kill a little girl who only sees beauty in it." Emily paused as she looked out into the bullpen; Nicole was now talking to Mia, who was writing something down on a piece of paper. "Nicole may be alive, but part of her died the day Jared first touched her."

"Did you get the names of the people who viewed the files?"

"Yes, three of them are currently in prison for prostitution of a minor. One of them died six months ago and the other six are right here." Garcia held up a stack of files. "They live in Maine, Florida, North Dakota and California, I already contacted the LEOs to bring them in."

Hotch nodded quietly. "Did you find anything else on Nicole's adoption?"

"No," Garcia said, "but I'm continuing to look into it right now,"

"What are you looking for?" Emily asked.

"I'm looking for the way the Morris' passed the home study," Garcia growled. "Pardon my French, but there is no way in l'enfer nom the Morris's would have been able to pass it. The paper work for the rest of the adoption is legit, the agency they adopted from looks legit, but there is no way they could have passed a home study."

"Maybe there's not an answer to that, Kitten," Rossi said, "regardless of how they passed it…"

"NO!" Garcia stated, forcefully standing, "I do not accept that as an answer! Someone was paid off, somebody did something illegal in this adoption and I will find it!" She took in a breath. "To me, it looks like it's possible they forged the home study report - they got it done by a different agency than the one they adopted from."

"So you think they forged the home study report and then adopted from another agency?" Hotch asked.

"It's possible," Garcia rushed on. "I'm also looking into Jared and Helen's criminal background."

"And…?" Morgan asked.

"They're clean." Regret was evident in her tone. "Not so much as a parking ticket. I'll be putting their fingerprints through the system though, just to make sure that they haven't changed their names. The technology Jared used to send the files is really sophisticated, and it doesn't match up to the education that Morris has had."

Hotch nodded. "Okay."

Straightening, Garcia turned to leave the room as she spoke, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I made a promise to a fifteen year old, I aim to keep it."

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