A Broken Trust

Chapter 4

"The kids are taking an awful long time just to go to the bathroom.", said JJ.

"I'll go check on them.", said Garcia.

The others finished loading the car. Within a few minutes, Garcia came rushing back, looking very upset.

"I just checked both bathrooms, the girls and the boys. I couldn't find our babies anywhere!", she said, tearfully. Morgan gripped her shoulders and said,

"All right. Calm down, Baby Girl. They are probably on there way back here."

"No! We would have seen them! Somethings happened! I know it!"

"Ok. Don't worry. We'll find them. For now though, calm down. You don't want to upset JJ and Kate." At that moment, the others came over to join them. JJ and Kate had tears in their eyes, and Hotch and Will had their lips pursed so tightly they were white. Chris, with his arm around Kate, looked pale. Rossi and Reid wore serious expressions.

"The kids are missing. We have reason to believe they have met with foul play.", said Hotch in his agent voice.

"What's the reason, Hotch?", asked Morgan, with his arms still around Garcia. Hotch looked at Kate who took a shaky breath and said,

"Meg and I came up with a code word for if anything ever happened. the word is Pepper. I just got a text from Meg with that word and only that word. When I tried to call her, her phone went straight to voice mail." With that, Kate started crying harder. That only managed to get JJ going. Chris and Will gathered their wives in their arms. After a few minutes, JJ and Kate got control of themselves and Hotch said,

"We need everyone on this. Chris And Will, We'll get you some visitors passes and you can come with us. You can't be involved in the case as you know but we'll keep you posted as we can. Garcia, I need you to contact Markayla's mom and have her brought to Headquarters as well.", said Hotch. Chris and Will nodded their thanks.

"Yes, sir.", said Garcia. Drying the rest of her tears, she got Markayla's mom's number from Kate and headed off to do as ordered. The team and Chris and Will got into their cars and headed to Headquarters.

Meanwhile, in another location, Meg woke up feeling groggy. She sat up and realized she was on a hard cold floor. She frantically looked around and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Markayla lying next to her. The relief quickly turned to panic when she couldn't find the boys.

"Markayla? Markayla, are you awake?!" Markayla slowly sat up and looked around, her eyes finally settling on Meg.

"Where are we?", she asked in a whisper. Meg shook her head.

"I'm not sure. Maybe in some kind of warehouse or something. I can't see the boys anywhere.", she said tearfully.

"Do you think those men....?"

"Oh man, I hope not! They're just little kids! And they weren't even supposed to be with us when they grabbed us!", Meg answered. Markayla started to cry.

"I want to go home. Why did we even talk to those guys on the internet?!"

"Markay, I sent the code out to my aunt before Bobby crushed my phone. I think I pushed send before he crushed it though, so I'm pretty sure Kate got it. The team won't stop till they've found us.", Meg said as she grabbed her friend's hand. Suddenly the door to the room slammed open and Bobby came in.

"Good. You're awake. Get up!", He said as he yanked the girls up by one arm each.

"Where are the boys?", asked Meg in a trembling voice.

"You mean the two little brats that you had tagging along with you? They're fine for now."

"I want to see them! They're probably scared!"