Part of a Team - Criminal Minds Fanfiction

Chapter 101 - Gabby

"It's too late for this." Elijah yawned as he pulled up outside of Fleur's apartment.

"Are you sure you should be driving?" Reid asked.

"Of course I'm sure." He nodded.

"You can hardly keep your eyes open." He chuckled.

"So?"

"Let me drive, I can do it." Reid assured him.

"Babe, I'll be fine." Elijah shook his head.

"Okay, okay." Reid nodded as Fleur and Morgan walked out of their apartment.

"Good evening, friends." Elijah forced a smile as he leaned on the steering wheel.

"Good evening." Fleur sighed, getting in the backseat.

"Do we know anything about the case?" Morgan asked as he rubbed his eyes.

"A little girl has been kidnapped." Reid told them.

"Hopefully it's just some misunderstanding and she's just a little lost." Elijah sighed as he started driving.

"I hope so too." Fleur shook her head.

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"It is now three hours and counting since four year old, Gabby Hoffer, was abducted from her cousin Sue Walsh's car." Garcia explained to them as they sat on the jet.

"Why would anyone leave a little girl alone in a car at night." Fleur cursed.

"Sue told local authorities that she was a couple blocks away from her house, she didn't want to wake Gabby up, she was in and put of that minimart in less that four minutes." Garcia sighed.

"That's a pretty tight window of opportunity. Whoever took her must have been stalking them." Morgan shook his head.

"Is there a history of child abductions in the area?" Blake asked.

"No, but the local registry shows a high concentration of sex offenders. We have no time to waste." Hotch told them.

"We do have an eye witness, but his recollection is limited to a dark van that he saw pull up next to Sue's car." Garcia added.

"That's pretty vague. So we don't have a colour or know who was driving." Rossi sighed.

"Are there surveillance cameras on the premises?" Elijah raised a brow.

"Yes, there was one camera it's in the store and it's ancient. Buf the footage is being sent to the lab right now for enhancement." Garcia explained.

"SSA Canning is on the scene with the southeast regional card team. They're conducting neighborhood and roadblock canvases." Hotch informed them,"We all know what to do. If this is a stranger abduction, we have less than twenty-four hours to being Gabby back alive."

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Morgan, JJ and Fleur went elsewhere while everyone else arrived at the gas station where Gabby was taken from.

"Five hours and twenty-three minutes since Gabby was taken. Witness pulled up to pump number two here, saw the van parked there. Blocked his view od Sue's car, said the brake lights were on." Canning told them.

"The driver could've kept his foot on the brake while someone else used the sliding door to grab her." Hotch nodded.

"It'd be smart to use a partner out in the open like this." Blake agreed.

"We have nine registered sex offenders within three miles. Sometimes they work in tandem. We have teams going door-to-door now." Canning pointed.

"That's good, cover your bases. But it's the ones we don't know about who are the most dangerous." Rossi mentioned.