foul play // Criminal Minds & Law And Order: Special Victims Unit

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"m-morg...Morgan?" Esmée mumbled through the daze.

No answer.

Slowly she attempts to lift her head up on her elbows, falling back down with a small Thud.

Reaching over she felt Reid's hair and attempted to shake him awake to the best of her ability.

After a minute he jumped up.

Talk about delayed reaction.

"Esmée, are you okay?"

"I-i cant-t get up"

He brings her up against a tree a few feet away from their little camp of sorts.

The commotion wakes Morgan.

"Babygirl?"

"Hmm. I'm so cold. Why are we here,where is. . . here, what happened?" she held her arms though her coat.

"Esmée...." Reid sighed looking at Morgan. "We're stuck"

"Stuck?!"

"Baby girl the car broke, the team we came with is down, and you were out", Morgan explains.

"How far out are we?", Esmée asks while the feeling in her arms come back.

"Hard to tell with the snow"

"At least it's not hard now" Esmée points out.

"But the snow is nearly knee deep" Reid says.

"So what, we stay here and freeze to death?", She tries to stand, failure seems on her side today.

"We had to carry you over here while you were out. We don't know what he did to you, can you stand?"

"I can try again. I think he gave me zolpiden. I was out in minutes"

Reid looks in thought for a few seconds. "what?" morgan asked.

"that's used to treat sever insomnia."

"Well we should get moving, according to the sun it's around midmorning", Reid says looking up.

"You know what direction were in?", Morgan asked.

"I saw the sun rise so yes"

"Well let's go"

.*.

"Morgan I don't think I can go any further", Esmée says falling to her knees.

She was breathing particularly heavy.

"Esmée?" Reid came down to her when she didn't respond. "Esmée can you hear me"

Slowly she nodded her head with a blank expression.

"Is she okay?"

"Esmée place your head between your knees", Ried instructed. "Now!".

"Hey what's happening?"

Ried gets back on his feet.

"She has asthma. She won't make it very far in this cold"

"So what do we do?"

"Keep her from breathing too hard, thats all we can do without her inhaler"

Morgan tosses her on his back letting her cover her mouth with his hoodie.

"The snow is gonna get even harder today" Reid says

"Then we should get moving"

After hours of walking they began to lose track of distance. All the foot prints vanished in the thick snow.

Step after step knowing that they're just moving to keep heat. At this point moving around was all they could do to keep hoping.

...

"We got something", Harry kyes, head of the search team, calls over the team's attention.

"What is it?", Prentiss asks eagerly.

"We found the car, the sheriff, and the SWAT team"

"And?.." Rossi pressure when he didn't continue.

"And...they were dead, your agents aren't there"

"My babies are out and alone" Garcia exclaims from the screen.

"Well maybe not" kyes says.

"What do you mean?" JJ asks

"Do you think they got away", hotch asked.

"Well maybe two of them did. We found a needle buried in the snow. He had the lad do a run on it to what it was. Oxycodone. One of them is down"

"They wouldn't have left anyone behind right", Prentiss looks around at everybody.

"Due to the way the wind was blowing, the snow didn't cover the foot prints leading from the house"

"And.."

"Only two. Size 9 and size 11 men's", he looks at the file in his hand.

"Esmée wears a 6" Says Garcia.

"How did you know that?" Kyes asks.

"The same way I know you have 2 sons, married, and had a turkey sandwich for lunch."

"Bye Garcia", JJ says to the screen.

"Over and out my dears. Keep me posted"

"So we know Esmée is down, but I'm sure Morgan and Reid wouldn't have left her", JJ says

"Well that is if they could find her. For all we know they left the house to look for her and the unsub has her", Rossi says

"We have to hope for the best. But why knock her out but leave her body, maybe the boys came back sooner than he thought they would" hotch says

"He would've had to leave in a hurry"

"So we are sure Esmée is down, that the boys moved, and they have no food , water, and are traveling on a dangerous mountain. Today can't get any worst", Prentiss says

"I wouldn't hold my breath" a Officer walks in. Five more girls just showed up at another local park"

"There's more I'm guessing" Rossi says.

"They're alive but...um-th-they" the officer mutters

"Wait they're alive?", JJ exclaimed.

"...And they have a name craved into their arm" he finishes.

"What?"

"I think it's pronounced... Esmée?"

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