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Chapter 8:

- Protecting children from any sort of abuse is a duty of every citizen.

- Unknown

Reid sighed off on one of his reports before taking a small break. Despite his team's protest that his young daughter Maddie would be fine, especially with the security protection she had, he decided to check up on her. He knew in his heart and mind it was the best thing to do. As he was walking towards the elevator, he reaches into his pocket and grabs his cell phone. He noticed that he had a voicemail not so long ago.

As he was getting into the elevator, he calls his voicemail to figure out who's called him.

"Ahhh! Help!"

His eyes went into wide out worry mode as he knew exactly who that was.

Before the elevator doors could get the chance to close on him, he forces them open and rushes back to the bullpen.

"Guys! Guys!"

JJ was the first to notice him panicking as he ran through the glass doors after he practically bumped into them.

"Reid!"

Reid began to hyperventilate and could hardly catch his breath. The team began to notice Reid and by trying to calm to down, they made him sit in a chair.

"Reid! Just calm down! What's wrong?"

"J-just l-listen to this! Just listen!"

He replays the voicemail for the team that he had just received on his phone.

"Ahhh! Help!"

The team stood in complete breathless awe and looking at each other as they all knew who was screaming.

"Oh my god!" Garcia said as she had one of her hands on her heart and the other hand on Morgan's shoulder.

"That was…"

"Maddie."

Morgan had every vein, muscle and thought running through every part, even the tiniest parts of his body, fuming and firing with both rage and anger just kicked into overdrive.

"Oh, it's on now!" Morgan said, slamming his fist on top of his desk. "I'm going to murder Meyer and Müller!"

"Hotch!" Emily said as she just walked into the bullpen. "We just got a call from Maddie's school. She wasn't at the cafeteria and there were also a few attacks there, including one involving her teacher."

"Alright, that's it," Hotch just went into full-on Hotch mode. "Fill in the Chief Director! Call in SWAT teams, rescue teams! Put out an AMBER Alert! Put all hands on standby, one of my agents' children taken! When was the last time anyone saw her?"

"This morning when I dropped her off at school. She attends the Lockwood School." JJ said, getting everything she and the team needed from her desk.

"Put it on the radio. My team, weapons and vans, sirens and flashers. Right now, I don't give a damn about protocol, I don't give a damn about whatever we were working on; we don't even so much as touch a new case until we get Maddie home! Let's move out! Garcia!"

Garcia turns to look directly at Hotch,

"You're coming with us. We're going to need your help to bring Maddie home."

Driving at least fifty miles an hour on a long road pathway, Meyer had his ice blue eyes focused on the road as Müller calmly placed his cloth along with the sweet smell bottle in the gloved compartment. After a moment of silence,

"The plan was decently executed. If I were your teacher on how to pull off a kidnapping, I would give you…hmmm…maybe a B, at least."

"Gee, thanks, Meyer." Müller sarcastically said. He later turned to the backseat to see an unconscious Maddie in the middle seat.

"How long do you think she'll be unconscious?"

"Long enough to get to a motel for the night before we drive out to one of my other places for a while. We could stop at least get some food on the way."

Maddie began to slowly open her eyes, but for some reason, her mind felt so…tired and weak…just so overwhelmingly tired and weak. She soon fell into another deep unconscious. Müller reached his cold hand as he soon began to stork though Maddie's hair, touching her cheek with his cold fingers.

"It's alright. It's okay, little Maddie. Daddy's here. Your real daddy is here for you."

Once the BAU reached to Maddie's school, they advised with the school's headmistress to let the students and teachers out early, have early dismissals for the rest of the week and to remind calm. There was also a number of camera and reporters outside the school. Once all the teachers and students cleared out of the school ground, Hotch told Rossi and Morgan to investigate Maddie's classroom.

Once Garcia set up her laptop and other computer equipment, she searched through the school's security cameras. So far, all she got were the outside cameras. She paused it when,

"I think I got something."

Hotch, JJ, Emily and Reid–who had Emily and JJ keeping him steady on his feet. All of them gasped when they watched Müller escaping though the classroom windows—carrying with what appears to be an unconscious Maddie—in his arms. They later see him putting Maddie in the backseat of a black car as there's someone else seating in the driver's seat and sees them speeding off.

"Oh my god!" She cried. "I can't get the license plates or a clear shot of their faces. I…"

"The most important thing is that she's alive and unharmed." Emily said, rubbing both Garcia's and Reid's shoulders. "We have to focus that. Keep on working, Garcia."

"But for how long?" Reid said, biting down on his nails before putting his hand on his head, running through his hair.

Rossi and Morgan went over to Maddie's classroom as Hotch directed them to. They both put on gloves and searched for signs of Maddie's abduction.

"There seems to be signs of a struggle," Rossi said, looking around the teacher's desk with all the papers and supplies off the desk, looking askew. "My guess the teacher put up quite a fight."

Morgan headed over to the bathroom, only to find Maddie's bag, filled with neutral-colored folders, books and other papers, on the floor. He solely focused on that when,

"Rossi!" Rushing over to his side,

"What's that?" He asked, pointing to a dark reddish color by the door.

"It looks like…"

"You don't think that he–did he–?"

"He wouldn't." Morgan began to shake his head, slowly walking away, running his hands through the back of his neck. Out of nowhere, a muscle in his neck twitched before kicking a few chairs and even a desk down.

"You have to stay calm!"

"Don't…tell me how to feel," Morgan snapped at him before taking a deep sigh. "Rossi, I'm telling you, when I get my hands on those two sack loads of crap, I'm going to beat the living and lifeless hell out of the both of them. And don't have anyone try and stop me."

"Oh, I most definitely wouldn't, but save that kind of energy for when we find Maddie and those two jag-offs."

"I wouldn't let those goons hurt her. I wouldn't." He said, storming out of the classroom.

At the front of the school, a bunch of cameras and reporters were waiting for the BAU team to give a statement. As always, JJ addresses to the media,

"We are looking for this young girl. Her name is Madison Jean Reid," Holding up a recent picture of Maddie. "Around the age of five-and-a-half, has dark brown eyes, long medium brown hair, around three feet and nine inches, weights forty pounds, was last seen here. Please, any information, regarding of this girl's whereabouts would be helpful. Thank you."

Noticing Morgan and Rossi walking out of the school,

"Did you guys get anything?"

"Signs of a struggle for the teacher and blood on the bathroom door; we don't know if it's Maddie's or not."

"The guards who were supposed to be watching Maddie were knocked out with tear gas and injected with a shot of flunitrazepam."

"The date rape drug?"

"Yes. They soon regain consciousness, but when they woke up, they had no clear memory of what happened."

"Let's head down to the hospital and see if you can get anything from the teacher."

JJ and Emily walked into the hospital and made their way to talk to Maddie's teacher. They knocked on the door to see a petite nurse and tall man comforting her.

"Excuse me, Miss. Irwin? I'm Emily Prentiss and this is Jennifer Jareau. We're with the FBI. Would it be okay if we ask you a few questions about Maddie?"

"I don't think it's a good idea," the gentleman said, "I mean…she needs to rest."

"No, Tommy. It's okay. Anything to help them find Maddie."

The nurse nodded as she left the room and Tommy stood by her. "What can you remember before you ended up here?"

"Well…Maddie was finishing up this picture she drew today and we talked for a few minutes about it. She went to the bathroom and I was about to grab my lunch when this man walked in the room. I assume he was one of my students' guardians or parents, but out of nowhere, he starts attacking me, knocking me around. When I woke up…I ended up here."

"Maddie drew a picture?"

"Yes. It was…someone by themselves…looking up to the angels in the sky."

"The person who attacked you, do you know what he looked like?"

Shrugging her shoulders as she began to tear up, "I…I can't remember. Oh, I'm sorry…"

"It's okay. We're going to bring Maddie back."

Sitting down in the backseat of the SUV, Reid reached into his bag and pulled a small album of photos. Each and every one of these photos, were Maddie either by herself, her with him or with the team, laughing or smiling.

The other side of the album were Maddie's biological family. From her day of her birth to the very last photo of her with them. There was even a three month old Maddie with her mother, older siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents. Once Morgan noticed Reid looking at those photos, on the verge of tearing up,

"We're going to bring Maddie home, man. We promise."

Maddie groaned as she was trying to be aware of her surroundings and sluggishly opened her eyes. She found herself laying down on a single bed with peeling wallpaper and dirty carpeting. Fluttering her eyes, she sees a man with short blond hair, blue eyes, standing over her,

"Hey there, little one." He smiled as he began to stroke her hair, causing her to try and lean away. She soon found her wrists to be restrained by white cable ties in front of her body and a leather belt tied around her. "It's nice to see you awake and alive."

"You kidnapped me," Maddie said as she pulls on her restraints. "This is both a federal and state crime, not to mention there's a big chance you'll get twenty years to life in a federal or state prison."

"It'll be okay. It'll be all okay…" He said as he tried to stroke her hair, only to get pulled away from her. "Don't…pull away from me…again." He grabs her arms in an iron grip.

"Please…"

"Don't pull away again! Do you understand?" He squeezes her arm even tighter and his tone of voice was quiet with a seething anger.

"Please…stop…" She shrieked a bit.

"I said…do you understand?!"

"Okay! Okay! I won't and I'm sorry! Please let go of my arm! Please…" She could feel the tears fogging her eyes.

Maddie looked at him with fear and she could sense of crazy madness, especially in his eyes. She couldn't understand why, but she had this other sense that for some reason…she knows who he is. Calming himself down, he released his grip on her arm, which left a slight bruise, and began to stroke her face. She stilled under his cold touch.

"Good girl and I'm sorry I did that to you. Now because you've apologized, I'm going take those nasty restraints off you now. As long as you do what I say, these will always be off and nothing bad will happen, okay?" Maddie nodded her head as he began to take the restraints off her. "Would you like anything to eat? Something to drink?"

"No…no, thank you, sir."

"Well then…it's almost time for bed, now, isn't it?"

Maddie's lip quivered as she nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah, I guess it is." He gently pets her hair, even though she felt completely uncomfortable. But she definitely knew that she didn't want to have the restraints on her again, so she went along with it. He goes as far as to trying to kiss her head and tuck her in, but slightly pulled away,

"I…uh…I can do myself, thank you."

Again, he strokes her head and chuckles to himself,

"You're little Miss. Independent, aren't you?"

Getting up from the bed to go to the door, but before leaving,

"Good night, little one."

"Good night to you, too, sir."

She could hear the click of him locking the door shut from the other side. She felt a tear streaming down on her face as she felt completely alone; no one she knew was here with her. All she could think of was if anyone was going to rescue and save her from this strange person she just had an encounter with. She wanted someone to hold her hand or hold her in her arms. Biting down on her nails, she turned her body around as she lay down, she could see the moon. A bright, shiny full moon. She already said good night to all the people in her life, but there was just one more person she needed to say good night to.

"Good night, daddy."

"Good night, Maddie."

Reid said as he saw the full moon from the window of the place he and the team where staying in. He felt a tear coming down on his face. He was more than determined to bring Maddie home and safe.

He promised himself he would keep Maddie safe, no matter what.

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