Darkness, that's all Lottie saw. It was familiar to her though, she had spent years in it before. It wasn't the darkness he was afraid of, it was what was hiding in it. Before it was monsters, animals, that took pleasure in other peoples pain. Now, she couldn't even imagine what was awaiting her.
Looking around, she saw nothing. Just pure darkness.
After what seemed it hours to her, she heard a latch being turned. A door, that she didn't even realize was there, opened and let in a little bit of light, allowing Lottie to take in her surroundings. Dark and damp, brick walls with dried up blood splattered on it. It gave her flashbacks.
Through the door walked to one person Lottie had hoped she would never see again, Ivan.
"My little Lottie, what a pleasure it is to see you again." He said walking closer to her.
"Wish I could say the same Ivan." She spat.
He just smirked at her and raised her chin with his finger, making her look directly in his eyes.
"Little Lottie, oh how I wish you were nicer to me. We've had such great times together." He said in a sickly sweet voice, smiling at her.
"If you call kidnapping, torturing, and starving me 'great times' then yeah, we've had a fucking ball."
Ivan just chuckled at what Lottie said.
"Now now little Lottie, you shouldn't be saying words like that. I guess I will have to teach you a lesson." Ivan smirked evilly.
Lottie shuddered as Ivan picked up a small scalpel, she had had worse, but it all hurt the same. She just hoped and wished that Spencer would be there soon.
Reid sat on the plane, his foot moving up and down quickly has he tried to think.
Ryan had met them back at the FBI offices and they filled him on everything. He decided he would stay in DC to help out Garcia however he could, because he knew he was of no help to the team.
Reid had called Aiden who had happened to be in Baltimore at the time and met the team at the airport in DC. James had called Stephanie and Adrian to see what was going on, and why hadn't they been told that the mafia was on Lottie's tail.
"Steph said that they had no idea that they knew where Lottie was. She hacked into their systems, and they had out everything pertaining to Lottie in an encrypted file that even took her 2 days to crack. They are getting better, they know that someone is feeding us information." James said typing away at his computer.
The team plus James and Aiden were on their way to Russia to meet up with Stephanie and Adrian to find out what step to take next.
"So do we know where she is being held?" Emily questioned.
"She's in one of three places. Moscow, Kazan, or Murmansk. I'm guessing Murmansk, it's on the Kola Peninsula and has a pretty easy escape should anything happen. We will have to wait for Stephanie to finish with the files before we truly know." Aiden said sitting behind James and next to Morgan.
Aiden was a young man, no older than 30 with long blonde hair and the bluest of blue eyes. He more looked like a model than the killing machine James and Reid described him as.
"So we basically having nothing to do until we land?" Asked Morgan.
"Precisely." James said still not looking away from the computer. What exactly he was doing, no one knew.
The team were still a little bit skeptical of James and Aiden. They knew that James was Lottie's adopted dad but they didn't know how he knew so much information. Aiden was a complete mystery to them. Reid had barely said anything since talking to Garcia back in DC. Hotch had a feeling what was going through his head, most likely the same thing that was going through his head when Haley was killed.
"So how do you know Lottie?" Hotch asked Aiden. Aiden smiled at him and looked to the ceiling of the plane.
"Now that is a fun story to tell." Aiden said crossing his arms. "Our mother were friends back when they were kids, and had kept contact through the years. They ended up joining the Mafia together and met twin brothers. They soon got married and I was born. 6 years later, a little ball of sunshine named Lottie was born. We're cousins if you didn't put that together. By the time Lottie was born I was already training and becoming the assassin that Ivan wanted me to be. But when Lottie was born, everything changed. I didn't care about what weapon was the best to kill someone quietly with, or what time I was training, nothing mattered but her. Our parents were the same way. At first no one really noticed the change, they thought our parents were just becoming pickier with who they wanted to kill or what job they wanted to take. But Ivan soon found out what was really happening. Lottie was almost 3 when Ivan killed my parents. She was 5 when her parents were killed."
Everyone just sat there stunned. Of course Reid and James already knew all of this.
"Lottie was taken after that. For 6 months I wondered where she was and if there was anything I could do to help her or find her." Aiden said looking down at the ground. "Just when I was about to give up hope, there was a knock at me door. There was Lottie torn clothes, dirt and blood everywhere, looking like she was beaten to hell, with a smile on her face. She ran into my arms and didn't let go for hours. When I looked back to the doorway there was this decked out in black jut smiling at the two of us. That's when I met James. He was like a hero to me back then, he saved my little Lottie and brought her back. When Lottie was well enough, James adopted her and brought us both to America, now almost 18 years later we have to go back to the one place we hate. Aiden explained.
The team was silent. Emily had a few tears in her eyes that she was trying to not let fall, Hotch, Morgan, and Rossi were all clutching there fists an looking at the ground. None of them could believe what had happened to Lottie, and for her to still be so happy is what puzzled them. Morgan looked to Reid and saw him in the same position. He reached over and pay his leg.
"We'll find her Spencer, don't worry."
"I know we'll find her, what I'm worried about is if we find her in time. I've seen what Ivan has done to her, I was wishing that I would never have to see that again." Reid said biting his lip.
"Don't worry Reid, we know exactly where she is thanks to Garcia. Stephanie and Adrian confirmed it. We'll go in stealth and get her out before they even know she's gone." James explained.
"You know that's not what's going to happen." Reid said back. Aiden nodded in agreement.
"He's right James. This isn't a simple rescue mission again, this is the once and for all mission. Ivan is going to be dead after this, whether I'm alive or not."
A grave silence was left after Aiden said that. No one knew how to comment to that.
"So who exactly is Ivan."Rossi asked after a little while.
"Mine and Lottie's uncle." Aiden replied with a straight face.
Now that, no one saw coming.
