Old Friend

Chapter 22

After awhile Aaron and Spencer met with everyone in the conference room. "Oh hey Hodge, we have Garcia on the phone." Said JJ. Aaron nodded. "Garcia?" Said Aaron. "Okay so I found a video from the cameras across the street from Emma's apartment building." The screen went black then the video came up. "As you can see here in the video there are two men holding each side of Emma and stuffing her into the back of a station wagon while she is unconious." Penelope explained. "Garcia, did you get the license plate?" Aaron asked. "Yes, it's stolen." "Okay, has there been any activity on her phone in the last six hours?" Aaron asked. "No." "Thanks Garcia." "JJ, I need you to answer the reporters questions but don't give the unsub credit. The person we're dealing with is most likely a social sadist, they want attention. See if you can get the person that took Emma to surface." Aaron ordered. JJ nodded.

Emma heard foot steps coming down the stairs then the lights came on. Two men were standing by the stairs, one of them went over to Emma and started caressing her face. "Don't touch me!" Emma yelled. The man closest to Emma started to laugh. "Do you remember me?" Said the man. Emma looked at him for awhile. "Noah?" Emma said with a confused look. The man nodded. "Noah, whatever I did to you I'm very sorry but please let us go." Emma pleated. "I can't do that." Emma looked at Noah with a confused look. "I saw you with him." "What?" "I saw you with him! That FBI agent!" Noah yelled. Suddenly the room went dark again then a overhead projector came on and a picture of Emma and Spencer came up. "He's just a friend Noah, we went to the same college and he was just here working on our latest case." Emma explained. "Would people that are just friends do this?" A picture of Emma kissing Spencer's cheek came up. Emma was silent. "No they wouldn't!" Noah yelled.

"Captain Holt, did Emma ever have a significant other while working here?" Aaron asked. Captain Holt shook his head. "Not that I know of." David gave Captain Holt a confused look. "Hey, we all like to keep our private lives private here agent, especially Emma." "His name was Noah." Jake interrupted. Everyone looked to Jake. "What was Noah's last name?" David asked. "I don't know, she never told me. Like Captain Holt said she was a private person." "She felt the need to tell you about her relationship though?" "Well yeah, I'm her best friend here." Aaron got out his phone and called Penelope. "Oh captain, my captain, what can I do for you?" "I need you to look up all of Emma's phone and email history and look for someone named Noah." "On it!"

"Noah please, let us go." "Why? So you can just put me in jail and got back to that stupid federal agent?" "He's not stupid." "Oh yeah, IQ of a 187 and can read 20,000 words per minute." "Please let me go, I have nothing to do with this." Lucy interrupted. "Shut up!" Noah yelled. "Help, help!" Lucy screamed. "I said shut up!" Lucy kept going. "That's it." Noah went over to Lucy and grabbed her by her hair and started to drag her upstairs. "No!" Emma yelled and tried to help Lucy but she was pulled back by the shackles connected to the pole behind her. Moments later Emma heard a gunshot from upstairs then she broke down.

"Garcia did you find anything?" Aaron asked. "Yes, Emma was in contact with a man named Noah Becker. According to Emma's phone records Emma and Noah talked everyday from September 16th, 2013 until October 12th, 2014." "Did they ever text each other?" "Nope." "Do you have his number?" "No it was a disposable cell phone remember?" "Thanks Garcia."Detective Peralta, did detective Roché ever tell you anything about Noah?" Aaron asked. Jake hesitated before answering. "One night she was here late and I was getting ready to leave and go to a bar and I asked her if she wanted to come with me and she told me no, but me being me I kept trying to get her to come then she told me about what happened the night before." Jake paused. "What happened?" "She said they were in a argument and Noah hit her, I saw the bruise on her face earlier that day but I just let it go." jake admitted.

JJ suddenly interrupted. "Hodge, there's a private number on the phone." Aaron got out his phone and called Penelope. "Garcia, we have a private number on the line right now. Can you track it?" "Yep." "Okay." Aaron but the private caller on speaker. "Hello, this is SSA Aaron Hotchner of the Behavioral Analysis Unit." "I want to talk to Dr. Spencer Reid." The voice said. Aaron motioned Spencer to come over. "Hello?" "Spencer! He killed her! I couldn't help her!" Emma cried. "Emma, has Noah hurt you at all?" "No." "Emma we will come get you I promise." Emma tried to pull herself together. "Spencer, promise me something." "What?" "Spencer, promise me you'll remember me just incase you don't get me in time. I want to let you know I love you and I knew that the very first moment I met you and I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up, I just got stuck." "shut up!" Noah yelled and hung up.