Author's Note: Hello, everyone.

Now for this chapter…Maddie now knows the truth about Müller. Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger again, but there will be an epic scene in the next chapter.

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Chapter 14:

- My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

- Quentin Crisp

Maddie whimpers as she has taken a seat on the dusty, plush couch as a video is being loaded up on the flat-screen. She could feel time passing by slowly, waiting for someone to rescue her from this nightmare. She felt as if she wet herself, but she didn't care; not even if she left a urine stain on the couch.

The video is finally done loading and the same woman from the earlier video Maddie saw in the other room appears on the screen.

"Michael, Parker, Peyton, Madison. If you are watching this, I just want you to know that I didn't want to have to do this…but with all of our lives on the line…we have to be separated from each other."

As the video was playing, Maddie could hear a continuing banging behind her against the table. She tries to ignore this with the sound of hearing the voice coming from the screen.

"Please…understand. The only reason I'm doing this…is to protect you from your father. I love your father and I know you do, too…but now…he's turned into this…vindictive…person and has been…threatening everyone in the family; from your grandparents, to your aunts and uncles, cousins, including me and you four. The threats soon began after we left him, but they became worse after Madison was born." Caroline could feel the cracks in her voice, trying not to cry. "My biggest fear…was that he would hurt any of you…and I couldn't live with myself if anything were to happen to either one of you. You will all be sent into protective custody with the rest of the family. My children, I promise you; either when he gets caught or leaves us alone completely, we will come together as a family again."

Maddie could feel the tears streaming down her face. "Before I go, there are a few things I have to say." Caroline tries to collect herself, sniffing, "I love you all. I love you more than anything in and outside this world and solar system. From the bottom of my heart, to death, even more than air." Caroline took a long pregnant pause before talking again, allow the tears to flow. "Michael and Parker Joseph, Peyton and Madison Jean…if anything were to happen to me…I want you to know that you'll always have a guardian angel looking after you in the sky. Wherever you are…I'll be there…watching you. My wish is that you'll be protected and safe with someone who'll treat you as their own child. I just wanted to know how I feel this way, how I'll think about you every day. That's all I wanted to say. I love you. Forever." The video stops at a tearful but smiling Caroline blowing a kiss.

Maddie broke down in tears, shaking with her arms folded. Müller just stood behind the couch and table with a calm, but eerily voice,

"Oh, even when she's crying, her smile's just as bright as the stars at night."

"Why…why do you have this video?"

"Come on, Madison. Think. Even for a smart girl like yourself, you think you should know why."

Standing in front of the television screen with the small gun in his hand. Maddie's mind screeched to a halt as she looks back at the conversation she had with Reid a few days ago when he told her about her birth family. Threatened by a…very bad person. You survived that person. He's…just not around.

Maddie couldn't believe it. She went over and again everything thrown at her and connected them. The person who kidnapped her, the person she's with right now…is her biological father.

"You…you…you hurt the rest of my family."

Müller looked as Maddie with pure confusion, but all of a sudden, he lets out a Grinch-out smile. "You don't understand…I loved them all." He soon starts to laugh, but also cried at the same time.

Maddie with her mouth half-open, but no words would come out. She had this sick feeling in her stomach, her eyes were pouring out tears, just looked at him pure disgust and shock at the same time.

"Don't look at me like that."

Maddie continued to look at him like the vile creature he is.

"Don't look at daddy like that."

Maddie couldn't stop herself from wanting to speak, "Oh, you…"

"I said…!" Müller calmly seethes as he pulls the gun to Maddie's head, causing her to gasp in horror, grabbing on her hair tightly. "Don't…look at me…like that! Never…look…at daddy like that!"

As the rest of the BAU team walks out of one of the local shops around town, walking back to the SUV with JJ and Morgan, Rossi and Hotch catch up to them.

"Anything?"

"Nope. It was a total bust. My guess, it was the same for you and Hotch."

"Let me call Garcia; hopefully she and Reid got something." Morgan pulls his cell phone out.

Rossi sighed and shook his head in pure aggravation, annoyance and irritation. "I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm really beginning to lose my patience with this jag-off. I just want to give him both a good piece of my mind and a good-old-fashion beating, Italian-styled."

As Morgan places the phone on speaker and waits for an answer,

"My liege."

"Baby girl, you and Reid get anything?"

"Uh…well…you see, about that…"

"Speaking of Reid, how's he holding up?" Prentiss asked over the phone.

"Well…uh…Reid…he's…"

"Garcia," Morgan said, raising his eyebrow in suspense, along with the rest of the team. "How's Reid?"

"Well…he's…actually…not...here with me."

"What?"

"What? What happened?" JJ asked, causing Morgan to signal her to wait a second.

"Garcia, don't lie to me, baby girl. Where's Reid?"

"He…he figured out where Maddie and Müller were, so he…went there to find them."

"By himself?" Morgan said with panic in his voice.

"We'll deal with that later," Hotch said, rushing into the SVU. "Garcia, you have the address of where he's heading?"

"I'm sending you the address right now, but if I were you guys, I would call in a lot of back-up; it's about fifteen-to-twenty-five acres of land. Please be careful, my beloveds."

"Alright, let's move out, people!"

Müller kneels down in from of Maddie, tucking a piece of her hair away from her face as she kept still when he places his hand on her cheek.

"You remind me so much of your mother. You have her face-shape, her eyes, her spirit and intelligence. Did you know she was a bright lady?"

Maddie lets a tear from her eye before Müller wipes it off for her. "Why? Just…why? Why…would you do something like that? To your own family? My family?"

Müller couldn't help but to give Maddie a fearful look before he tries to soften his face, feeling her face with his finger. "I didn't want to…but I never meant to. I never did wanted to hurt them. I just…I…I…I don't know what to tell you."

Maddie tries to look away from her, but Müller gently turns Maddie's head to him. "Please, Maddie. Don't think of me like that. We can have a whole new life together. Just think about it. You can have a whole new family. New relatives, new siblings, even a new mother. What do you say?"

Maddie took a big gulp, stilling in place. "Do you want to know what I have to say?"

"Of course." Müller's face lifted up.

Maddie couldn't help but to spit out and say,

"You…are no father of mine."

Müller's face soon turned into ashes. "Maddie…"

"You are…a…pathetic, lonely, sad and empty excuse for a human-being…"

"Maddie, please…."

"You just can't replace the family you took with false replacements…"

"Madison…!"

She snaps out the final words. "And you die, you are going straight to the other side…and by 'the other side,' it's not heaven I'm talking about! It's that place!"

Clenching his jaw muscles, overcoming with rage, Müller gives Maddie a sharp slap to her face, causing her to fall from the couch and to the floor. Maddie clutches on to her cheek; feeling a cut on the side as the tears ran down to her quivering lips. "Ahh!"

Driving at least fifty-to-sixty miles an hour on a long road pathway as the sun was minutes away from setting, Reid kept his eyes focused on the road when he hears keeps hearing his phone vibrating next to him. He picks up to see the caller and it was Hotch calling him. He throws the phone on the passenger's seat and continues to keep his focus.

Hotch, in the car with Rossi, as he's driving, takes a deep sigh as Reid's phone keeps going straight to voicemail.

"Dammit, Reid! Pick up the damn phone!"

Müller's strong hand gripped onto Maddie's hand and drags her into the kitchen.

"Ahh!" Maddie pleads as she's thrown against a corner. Shaking as she's trying to get up on her feet. "Please, stop!"

"What have we say about talking to me like that? Huh?! Never…talk to daddy like that. Never!" He heatedly yells in Maddie's face, cowering down in fear.

Reid parks the car by the side of the road behind one of the large trees that was blocking the large red-brick estate. He kept hearing his phone vibrating from the seat. Finally wanting the vibrating to stop, he picks up his phone and impatiently answers,

"What?"

"Reid, it's Hotch. Now you pick up your phone?"

"Yeah-yeah-yeah. What do you want now?"

"What in the hell are you doing?"

"That's not important right now."

"You know very damn well it is important right now. You have called us for backup, Reid; we're on our way."

"Hotch, Maddie is my daughter, which makes this my responsibility."

"Reid…"

"Don't stop me, Hotch. Just don't, okay?" Before Hotch could say another word, Reid hangs up his phone.

Hotch, with Rossi in the car with him as he's driving.

"He hung up."

"He took your call; that was good."

"We got to go faster, Rossi!"

Maddie cowered at the corner, shaking and nervously biting on her nails, her lips quivering, she could feel her heart beating at an adrenaline rush. Müller rushes his hand through his limp hair, pacing back and forth across the kitchen. All of a sudden, Müller calms himself down and walks himself over to Maddie. She fearfully holds her breath as Müller has her hands on her face,

"Hey-hey-hey, Maddie. Maddie…sweetie. Come on, now. Look at daddy…"

"No…"

"Look at daddy, Maddie…please…"

"No…!"

Forcibly grabbing the back of Maddie's neck and hair. "Look at daddy, Maddie!"

Reid holstered his gun and walked halfway around the perimeter of the house. Hiding in the shrubs and bushes, he tries to get a peek through the windows, but couldn't, due to the curtains blocking his view. He keeps on going around the house until he can find another way to get inside.

Müller looks at Maddie with the wrathful, frightening look in his eyes as she starts to wheeze heavily, shivering as if she had a cold. "Come on, Maddie. Look at daddy, baby. Please, look at daddy. Please…"

"No!" Maddie screams at him. "You are no father of mine!"

Fuming with rage, his nostrils flaring, his eyes jolting, Müller strongly grabs Maddie by the wrist. "Come here!"

Reid could hear the sound of Maddie's cry from where he was standing. He rushes to the door connected to the house in the garage, where he sees a black car sitting there. He could tell it was recently used from the position it was in. Pulling his gun out of the holster, he carefully aims to the door, waiting for the right moment.

Maddie's head hit against the white tile floor as she was thrown down.

"Oh, Maddie. Maddie, Maddie, Maddie."

Reid could feel the adrenaline kick into overdrive. In his mind, his thoughts going in every direction. Wait. No, do it! Wait for it. Do it. Just wait for it! Do it now!

Fear struck to the cord in Maddie just seeing Müller in the terrifying and demented state he was in. As she was yanked from the floor with Müller grabbing her elbow, her eye soon catches on a sharp silver utensil on the flawless granite countertop. Trying to wait for the right time to come,

"You just won't learn, will you?" Müller snarled before rising his fist in the air before stopping halfway when he starts to hear a small noise. "What the…?"

Before he could react, Maddie bites down on Müller's arm skin as she kicks in his leg, pulling herself away from him after she grabs the sharp utensil.

"Ahh!" Müller grabs a hold on to his leg before looks down at Maddie's bite mark and staring hard at Maddie. Before he could charge her, she throws the utensil at him, leaving a slight cut on his arm, before running as fast as she could. "Ahh!"

"Now!" The final thought in Reid's mind said.

BANG! BANG!

Knocking the door down, the same way he sees would Morgan do,

Pulling out his gun, "Why, you…!"

"Hold it right there, Müller." Reid points his gun at Müller.

Müller gives himself a lopsided smirk, points his gun at Reid and chuckles,

"Of course. It's a pleasure to meet you...Dr. Spencer Reid."

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