"Good morning all." Fleur walked into the office.
"Welcome." Elijah nodded.
"Elijah, I got my nails done." Fleur hummed.
"Oh- Let me see." Elijah stood up.
"What do you think?"
"Darling, they are stunning." Elijah pointed.
"I will refer you to my nail artist." Fleur nodded.
"Oh, please do. I've been meaning to redo mine." Elijah told her.
"Yours look great." Reid assured him.
"Thanks love." Elijah smiled.
"My nails look good, don't they?" Fleur showed them to Morgan.
"Your nails always look good." Morgan nodded,"Today especially."
Fleur smiled and leaned back into him. Morgan grinned, kissing her cheek.
"Guys?" JJ ran in.
"Oh, running. Is it a bad one?" Elijah turned.
"A child abduction." JJ nodded.
"That's not good." Morgan shook his head.
"It's at a mall near here. We gotta go."
"Going." Elijah nodded, grabbing his bag.
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"Jim." Hotch walked into the mall.
"We've been on lockdown for almost twenty minutes. My team's already in motion." Franklin nodded.
"Another female, same age, same time of day, taken from essentially the same location." Emily sighed.
"What makes you sure Katie Jacobs is still in the building?" Morgan asked.
"The malls got cameras installed at every entrance and exit. Surveillance video confirms Katie entering the building but no sign of her leaving. Security paged her over the intercom, and their initial sweep came up empty." Franklin explained.
"Whoever killed Jessica Davis last week left the mall with her, 'cause he wanted time with his victim and privacy." Reid nodded.
"Assuming it's the same offender, he wouldn't stray far from his MO. He wouldn't leave here without his victim." Hotch agreed.
"So, if Katie's still under this roof, so is her abductor." JJ crossed her arms.
"Garcia, report to the mall security office." Hotch pointed,"Reid, Deans and Morgan, I want you to find the Head of Security. I need all data from every search team. You guys start with Katie's parents. We'll treat the mall like a neighbourhood, we'll separate into areas of control." Hotch ordered.
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"Hi, we're Agents Jareau, Prentiss and Howards with the BAU." JJ introduced them as they approached Katie's family,"You must be Katie's aunt and uncle. This can't be easy. We're here to walk you through this."
Upstairs, the boys were handing out blueprints of the Mall.
"Well, aside from the stairwells, storage closets and hundreds of shops, there's a whole underbelly beneath our feet. A subterranean level, air ducts, boiler rooms." Morgan pointed.
"Realistically, it'll take at least three hours to cover this place." The Head of Security told them.
"Realistically we have half that time." Morgan shrugged.
"How do you figure?"
"99% of abducted children who are killed die within the first twenty four hours, 75% within the first three hours, and what only Law enforcement knows, Jessica Davis joined the 44% of children who are abducted and killed within the first hour." Reid explained.
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FanfictionFleur Howards was taken on her walk from from school at age 7. Originally from France, she was trafficked across Europe. She was forced into intercourse with older men but also trained to kill. Before she was saved by the FBI at age 17, she had been...
