A/N: And now for the beginning of the "Questions" section of the story, starting with "Who?" Sorry for the long wait, this one took me a while to finish!
Not gonna keep you hanging any longer! Let's get on with it! Who's getting kidnapped? Read on to find out!
You know the drill: read, review, and enjoy!
February 12th, 2014
It had been almost a month since JJ and Spencer got together again. Since Henry wanted to see his "Daddy" every day, Spencer made a point to keep a lot of his stuff at JJ's until they felt ready to move in together.
Henry loved seeing Spencer every day he was home. Spencer would play with him and read to him. Spencer was essentially his father.
A lot had changed following that day. Will and Elle had really gotten to know each other and started dating. She kept in contact with the team and they occasionally came for a group gathering. Emily had to return to London, but she had made sure to Skype as often as possible. She looked into the possibility of even returning to the BAU if she could. Gideon stayed in town. He stayed in Spencer's apartment since Spencer wasn't there as often. He didn't return to the BAU, as he was still shaken from what had happened during his time there, but he still met with the team regularly to make sure everything was okay. He got to know Danny and Alex quite well since.
The other change was that a few days after Spencer got out of the hospital, Gideon confronted JJ. He told her his suspicion and she fessed up. Gideon, JJ, Danny, Will, and Henry were the only ones who knew that Spencer might be Henry's father, other than Spencer himself, who didn't say a word about it.
One night, Spencer had to go back to his apartment for the night. He didn't want to, but he had too.
"Why don't you have Henry stay the night with you?" JJ asked. "You still have some of his necessities at your apartment."
"From when he was two," Spencer pointed out.
"Come on, you know how much Henry misses you when you're not here," she replied.
Spencer stood and thought for a moment. Then he saw JJ's blue puppy dog eyes staring at him. "Okay, you win. That's unfair, you know."
"But I still love you."
"Good point."
He walked into Henry's bedroom. "Hey, buddy, I have to go back to my place tonight…" he began.
Henry did not like that idea at all. He liked having his new daddy around. "No, you stay here, Daddy!" he said.
"Let me finish. Mommy was wondering if you wanted to stay the night with me tonight." Henry perked up.
"Really?"
"Yeah. Get some of your stuff and I'll be at the door waiting for you, alright?"
"Yeah," Henry said as he began to grab some of his toys.
Spencer walked down the steps to the door. JJ was standing there waiting.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Spence," JJ said as she leaned up to kiss him.
Henry came bounding down the steps seconds later with a bag of some of his favorite toys. "Ready!" he declared.
JJ smiled at her son. "See you later, Henry." She kissed his forehead. "Have a good time at Spence's."
"Bye, Mommy!" he yelled as he walked out the door with Spencer.
The next morning, Spencer showed up at JJ's house with Henry in tow. They had enjoyed their little guys' night. They played together, they watched Disney together (no "Hunchback of Notre Dame", obviously), and they altogether had a fun night.
Spencer turned the doorknob to the house and walked inside. "JJ?" he called. "JJ, where are you?" Henry ran off to his room. Spencer continued to look around the house for his girlfriend. He looked thoroughly but found no sign of JJ. Her SUV was still in the driveway. Something was wrong.
Then he heard Henry. "DADDY!"
Spencer immediately ran to Henry's bedroom to find him holding a folded piece of paper. "Henry, hand it here." Henry complied as Spencer took the letter and read it through. When he finished, he looked at Henry.
"Come on, buddy. You're staying with Aunt Penelope tonight," Spencer said as he grabbed Henry, who still had his backpack on, and headed out to his SUV with the letter.
Spencer quickly strode into the BAU building.
"Guys!" he yelled out. The team turned their heads to look at Spencer. Garcia saw Henry and immediately walked over. She smiled at the sight of her godson, but she noticed the solemn look on their faces.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Garcia, I need you to watch Henry. Go to your tech-lair, I'll explain everything to you later." Garcia nodded and led Henry to her tech-lair.
"Reid, what the hell is going on?" Morgan asked.
"Henry stayed with me for the night and when we got back to JJ's we found this note," Spencer said as he held up the letter.
"What does it say?" Rossi asked.
Spencer glanced it over. His face turned solemn as he recited the message.
"I have your pretty blonde girl. Or should I say pretty blonde LIAR. Oh, the lies she has told to you all. Lies, lies, lies. She's mine; just like she always should have been. You ain't getting her back. You'll never find her. AND YOU'RE NEXT! - PM" Spencer's face looked to be filled with horror.
Hotch was the first to respond. "We need to find JJ and this UnSub. She is serious danger right now. Let's get to work." He opened his phone to call Gideon, Elle, Will, and Emily. They would need every available mind to find JJ.
"We're most likely looking at a former crusher of JJ's. Thought very highly of himself, practically threw himself at JJ, never gave up even she didn't reciprocate. He has an obsession with her," Spencer deduced.
"An obsession bad enough to kidnap her?" Elle asked.
"And what does the UnSub mean by lies?" Emily asked from the laptop. She wasn't able to fly back to the USA, so she was doing what she could from London.
"What kind of lies would JJ have?" Danny asked.
A knock came from the door. "Excuse me?" BAU Section Chief Matt Cruz asked. "What the hell is going on?"
"We're trying to find JJ," Spencer stated.
Matt's face dropped. "What happened?"
"I went to drop off her son and she wasn't there. We found a note saying that she had been kidnapped."
Matt couldn't believe it. He couldn't let one of his agents be kidnapped. That and he had a bit of a soft spot for JJ. "How can I help?"
"We need to find out everything we can about JJ," Spencer said.
"I used to work with her at the Pentagon. Maybe that has something to do with it," Matt suggested.
"Unlikely," Spencer said. "But thanks for the idea."
"Maybe it was something sexual from her past," Elle suggested.
"Not possible. She was virgin until February 2008," Spencer said.
Eyebrows raised around the room. Only Danny, Gideon, and Will were looking at him normally. "How do you know that?" Garcia asked.
Spencer panicked for a moment. "Will told me that JJ was a virgin until Henry's conception," he lied. Will looked forward, not countering Spencer's lie. The lie was good enough, but it cemented to Will and Gideon that he had the same suspicion about Henry that the two of them did. All they needed was for JJ to find out who Henry's father was to confirm Spencer's fact about Henry's conception.
"Guys!" Garcia's voice called over the speaker-phone. "We just got a message from an anonymus source. I couldn't track it and it rates a million on a 1 to 10 creepy scale."
Garcia started playing the message over the speaker-phone.
"Hello, BAU team," began a distoreted voice over the phone. "You all think you can find me. By now, you should have discovered that it is not possible to do so; even with the super-genius boy, Dr. Reid. You respective intelligence areas do not apply here. Derek Morgan's obsessional crimes expertise is useless as is Elle Greenaway expertise in sex offender crimes. Penelope Garcia can't find anything without something to go off of. Jason Gideon is still too shaken up from all those deaths by Frank Breitkopf to be able to any harm to me. Aaron Hotchner's skills are useless as well. And how is your son, Agent Hotchner? Does he still ask where his mommy went? Or did you tell him that his mommy's dead because of a psychopath you couldn't stop. Agents Johnson and Blake are useless as well. How can their skills be useful after a year on the team? And Emily Prentiss is all the way in London isn't she? Why bother her with this? And as for Detective LaMontagne, what are you even doing here? You know that she lied to you. Why do you bother? Besides, you are completely useless to these profilers. At this point, you can tell that your search is pointless. You will never find me or JJ. Even if you do, she'll be long gone by the time you find us. Good-bye, BAU team. You'll need it." The call disconnected.
The team stood around in shock. This guy had not only kidnapped one of their agents, but now he was taunting them from afar.
Danny was the one to break the silence. "The son of a bitch." He looked around the room. "Don't one of you believe this bastard. He's just trying to intimidate you and keep you from looking."
"But he's right," Spencer said in defeat.
Danny did another glance. No one was reacting against the message except him. "So that's it. We're just gonna give up? What about JJ? She's being held captive by this bastard and we're just gonna let him get away with it without even trying? Henry needs his mommy. It's our obligation to give him that. I don't know about the rest of you, but no matter what this psycho thinks I'm not giving up. I'll search until the damn doomsday if I have to. I won't give up. And neither should you. This guy thinks he can intimidate you all. Morgan, think about what you went through when you were younger; Elle, think about what Garner did to you; Gideon, I know those deaths affected you, but he's just using them to get to you; Hotch, think about what the Reaper did; Will, think about what Katrina did to you and your life; and Reid, you've seen the other side twice and you're gonna let this jackass intimidate you after you've seen that? If you're just gonna give in to this bastard, none of you are as strong as I thought you were."
Danny did another glance around, a stone look on his face. No one reacted. He was about to speak again when another voice spoke instead.
"He's right," Spencer said. "We've dealt with worse UnSubs than this: The Reaper, the Replicator, Hankel, Battle, Buford, Frank, Garner, Billy Flynn. If we're letting this guy get to us, we were weaker than we thought. But Danny's right. We can't give up. I promised myself that I would find JJ and bring her home to Henry. I will search on. And I'll search till the damn doomsday alongside Danny until we find JJ and stop this... this... jackass! I'm not going to lose someone else I love!" he said angrily. The team started glancing around at each other.
Will stood up. "I won't give up, either."
Hotch, Morgan, Gideon, and Elle all nodded in agreement.
"Then let's get to work so we can get a step closer to kicking the bitch's ass," Danny said.
The team searched the rest of the day and found absolutely nothing that got them closer to finding JJ. They were slightly discouraged, but like they agreed earlier that day, they wouldn't give up until JJ was back home.
Spencer returned to his apartment later that night. Hotch demanded he get sleep so that he could be focused on finding JJ tomorrow. Spencer needed to find her. He needed to tell her his suspicion about Henry. She deserved to know.
Spencer opened the door to his empty apartment. Henry was staying with Garcia for the night while Spencer rested for the next day.
As soon as the door closed, Spencer suddenly felt a sharp prick in his neck and started weakening. A man had been waiting in Spencer's apartment for him.
"Hello, Spencer. Don't worry. I'll make sure you get to your girlfriend... before you die," the man said. Spencer collapsed on the floor unconscious.
The man put down the syringe and took a pen and a piece of paper to write his note for the team.
"I've got him. You want him back? Too bad. I've got him and I'm not letting him leave. Good luck trying to find him. You can use all your little profiling skills to find me, but you won't. Spencer and JJ are my bitches now. And there's nothing you can do about it! – PM"
To be continued...
So now Spencer's been kidnapped! How this going to affect the outcome of the case? What's going to happen?
Join me next time for part 2, "Why?":
After Reid is taken by the UnSub, the team bears down in their manhunt for the UnSub.
So much intensity! See you next time!
-D.C. al Coda
