Author's Note: Hello, everyone.
Anyway, thank you very much for your reviews and thank you to those we read, followed, favorite story/author alert and visited my story. I really do appreciate it and I do thank you for some of the ideas. Sorry it took so long. I've been having writer's block for a while and school.
For the rest of this story, I decided to bring Emily back for the team dynamic.
This chapter includes Maddie having more dreams and another appearance of her birth father and his cellmate.
This chapter has been re-updated.
Please, do enjoy my story and please review; constructive criticism is always appreciated.
Chapter 5:
- Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– C.G. Jung
Hotch, Morgan, Reid and Rossi rushed back to the BAU room, where they met up with Garcia and JJ in one of the conference rooms. There, they were about to hear one of the most disturbing news they've ever received.
"Meyer? As in Mason Meyer?" JJ said, trying to both examine and digest what was just being said in the room.
"That's right." Morgan said with his back against the wall. "Maybe that's why Müller escaped prison; once he heard about his execution, he escaped with Meyer to find her."
"Wasn't he the same bastard who put a hit on Maddie when we threatened him?" Rossi asked. "She wasn't even a year old when it happened. He almost killed her in broad daylight."
"…As well as a number of his victims and witnesses who planned on testifying against him for multiple counts of sexual assault."
"What about the hit-man he hired?" Rossi asked.
"Charles Stone?" Garcia said, typing away on her laptop computer, only to find an endless supply of information on him. "I doubt he would be helping him; he died almost three years ago from a heart attack while he was on death row."
"So, in the meantime, what do we do about Maddie?"
"We could call Emily," JJ suggested. "She could take her to U.K. for a while until we find them or when it's safe enough to return, whichever comes first. Maddie did say she wanted to see the U.K. someday."
"No way," Reid finally said. "I mean; she has school on Monday."
"We don't think it's safe for her here." Hotch protested.
"I say we should call Emily and she'll be here by either the morning or afternoon. She should…"
Standing up, "Look, I know you guys are looking out for us and we appreciate it; don't get me wrong about that. But she's my daughter, alright? I'll think of something. But in the meantime, we can put her in protective custody and hopefully some security."
"I guess that seems reasonable."
"But I'm still calling Emily, just in case anything goes wrong." Hotch said, pulling out his cell phone.
As Reid was about to leave, Morgan said,
"Reid, I promise you, I will literally kill those two bastards if they ever come near her."
"I know. That's why I can always count on you guys, especially you."
Reid leaves the room, running his fingers through his hair as he was shaking his head. He understands that the team wanted to help, but Maddie was his daughter, adopted or not. He's going to protect her; no matter what. He rushes back to the room where Maddie was in, only to find her fast asleep on the couch. Reid finds a bunch of stacked books on the coffee table and sees a copy of Moby Dick in her hand.
Reid goes by her side and strokes a piece of her hair behind her ear as she slept. He gently covers her with her throw blanket and kisses her head before leaving the room. As he was walking out, JJ enters the room,
"Hey there, you. Where's Maddie?"
"Napping." He hands over the book to JJ. Chuckling to herself,
"Yeah, isn't Moby Dick advanced for her age?"
Walking over to the coffee table by a sleeping Maddie, JJ goes through the stacked books,
"Oliver Twist? The Old Man and the Sea? Of Mice and Men? The Grapes of Wrath? How can a girl her age read these kinds of books? When I was her age, I couldn't read these books; and yet I thought boys had cooties and were gross."
"Even I read some of these books when I was her age."
"That's because you were a special child with a high IQ."
"So is she in her own way."
"Well, that's true." JJ shrugged her shoulders, crossing her arms as she agreed with him. "I wonder what she's dreaming about."
Before Maddie could know, something about her surroundings seemed different; much different from the last dream. Even though she was still dressed in a simple green T-shirt, pink jeans and sneakers and had her long hair in pigtails, she wasn't where she was supposed to be. Instead, she found her sleeping in the middle of the wooded area. Wondering to know where she was and why, she finally got up slowly and started to wonder around. Once she finally made it out of the wooded area, she sees a large white house.
Walking towards the large house, she overhears loud voices coming from the backyard. As she walked into the backyard, she sees a bunch of children running around, laughing as they were having a good time. She soon sets her eyes on the same baby girl that was in her previous dream. She began to think to herself, 'Why does this baby keep appearing in my dreams?' She began to see a bunch of adults come out to join the children. As they playing, one of the children walked up to the baby and said,
"Come on, Madison. You can play with us. You may be a small baby, but who says you can't join in on the fun?" Trying to get everyone else's attention,
"Hey, everyone! Our little Addie-Maddie is going to join us."
This caused Maddie to have her dark brown eyes to go big and had her mouth agape. She felt her legs starting to shake and had her hand on her heart.
"Huh?"
Maddie gasped as she jolted up from the couch she was napping on. As she slowly began to be more aware of her real surroundings, she pulls her throw blanket to the side and took deep breaths. She asked herself,
"What was that all about?"
The next day, the team members—minus Maddie, Rossi and Hotch—had gather in one of the meeting rooms. Now that Emily Prentiss had arrived, they now have everything they need to take down Jason Müller and Mason Meyer before they could even find or even get close Maddie. Reid was still thinking about one of the things he and Morgan talked about yesterday.
"Hey, Reid. What's wrong?" JJ noticed Reid's upset look.
"It's Maddie."
"You have to tell her." Morgan butted in.
"Tell who what?" Prentiss asked as she just walked in.
"That Maddie's adopted." JJ answered Prentiss' question. "I mean, Reid, at her age, it's the best time to tell her. According to an article I read in Parents magazine, the earlier, the better. She's old enough to know the truth."
"After all, even at her age, she seems a whole lot smarter than you, Reid." Prentiss smirked, causing JJ and Morgan to snicker at what Prentiss just said. Reid just gave her a sarcastic look.
"Oh, how I miss your humor."
"Oh, how I miss your intelligence."
Taking what the group said to heart, Reid, along with JJ, Morgan and Prentiss, walked to the room where Maddie was in, but when they got to the room,
"Maddie? There's something I need to tell you…"
No one was in the room.
"Maddie? Where is she?"
Little did they know that Maddie was in the other room, trying to find her father or something else on the team. Instead, she found a room with a bunch of pictures. Walking into the room, she looks through the pictures and she couldn't believe it. There were a bunch of people in these photographs; most of them were children and some adults. She felt as if she seen these people before, especially the woman who had flawless tawny-copper-colored skin, piercing eyes and wild, curly black-brown hair. She looked like the woman from her other dreams, except the woman in her dream looked like an angel.
As Reid and the rest of the team rushed off to find Maddie, they noticed Garcia standing outside one of the meeting rooms. Asking her,
"Hey, Garcia," Reid said. "What happened? Where's Maddie?"
Garcia simply pointed at what was in the other room. He noticed Maddie in the other room, looking through the pictures of the family she lost to her biological father. Rushing into the room,
"Maddie?"
She slowly turned around to face Reid with one of the pictures in her hand. "I've been seeing these people in my dreams lately. And I've seen this lady in my dreams. Why do you have these photographs?"
Sighing before taking a deep breath, his team members were definitely right; he had to tell Maddie the truth. Closing the door behind him,
"Maddie? There's something I have to tell you."
Unknown
As someone dressed in a simple black shirt, jeans, Timberland boots and black aviator glasses, was sitting in the driver's seat of a black dented Mercedes Benz SUV, he was reading a book as he was impatiently waiting for someone to come out of the building.
Finally, someone dressed in all black and had black Ray-Ban sunglasses, gets in the passenger's seat after coming out of the building; he hands over a folder on the person's lap.
"Did you get it?"
The guy scoffed at his question. "Would I ever lie to you about something like this, Müller? Of course, I got it."
As Müller was going through the folder as he tossed the book in the backseat, which contained a bunch of photographs and other documents and papers, "Her name is Madison Jean. Not much information, though; just that she was adopted by a Dr. Spencer Reid a few years ago. He's an FBI agent who works at the BAU in Quantico, Virginia, which is about over a hundred miles from here."
Going through the photographs of Maddie, Müller had his mouth partially open and had a tear in his eye,
"Oh my god. She's so pretty. And she's getting so big."
"Hmm…yeah," He said, as he seemed to be uninterested and slightly bored. "So, what's the plan, Müller?"
"You said this Dr. Reid works at the BAU, right?"
Giving him a confused look on his face. "Is that not I what I just said seconds ago?"
"I think I have an idea, Meyer."
"I'm all ears, man."
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