Grabbing a towel laying across a weight bench, Emily put the
towel on Derek’s head and told him to hold it there.

Getting up, she started pacing, “where, where would he take them…his father is in on it…***** we missed
that one…”

Frost called down from the top of the stairs, Reid and Rossi
are here and I called for an ambulance.

At the word ambulance, Derek tried to get up but was stopped
by Prentiss.  “You need to get checked
out, you know that”

“Em I gotta help find them” for such a big man, his voice
was small.

“You can when you get checked out.”

“Prentiss, what the hell is going on?” Rossi came down
quickly “What happened?”

“He’s got them, Rodriguez has them and I think he’s working
with his father.”  Emily’s voice was flat
and monotone, she refused to give in to her emotions, she had to lock all that
away until they found JJ and Jane.

Rossi heard the change in Emily’s voice and frowned.  That was the voice he remembered her having
before she “died”. “Emily, we’re going to find them…look at me…we’re going to find
them okay?”

Shaking her head she didn’t want to hear the sympathy in his
voice, so she shifted the attention from her to, “Dave, who’s going to tell Dr
Isles?”

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Korsak and Hotch
looked at one another worriedly.  Frost’s
report had been brief but to the point. Rodriguez and apparently his father had
Jane and JJ.  Derek was on his way to the
hospital to get stitches for a gash on his head and there had been blood found
at the scene.  CSU was on its way and
Prentiss, Frost, Rossi and Reid were going through the house trying to find
where they may have been taken.

Hotch was concerned about Emily, she had refused to speak
with him on the phone about what had happened.
She was shutting down again and he couldn’t let that happen.

“I’m going to meet Morgan at the hospital, we’ll be back as
soon as he’s stitched up.”  Seeing the
look in the older man’s eyes, Hotch put a comforting hand on his shoulder,
“we’ll find them, give us a chance”

“I know Hotch, I’m just worried about the condition we’re
going to find them in.” Swallowing the lump in his throat at the thought, “he
beats them Hotch, he beats them to death.”