Everyone was back from their vacations, since their holiday was cut short with the Fisher King case, they got an extra two weeks off.

"Welcome back." Gideon opened his arms before he walked off.

"Glad to be here, sir." Elijah nodded.

"No you're not." Fleur walked by him.

"You don't know that, darling." Elijah pointed.

"Okay, I need to know one thing." Morgan sighed as he sat down.

"Yes?" Elijah hummed, turning around.

"Me and Reid wanted to know-"

"Just you." Reid coughed.

"I wanted to know... If you and Fleur are, well, y'know.." Morgan trailed off.

"Fucking?" Elijah raised a brow.

"Yeah." Morgan nodded.

"You're still believing that?" Fleur laughed.

"Morgan, sweetheart, darling." Elijah patted his shoulder,"I'm gay."

Reid quickly looked over at Elijah.

"Yeah, he's not my type." Fleur chuckled.

"Morgan, I know you don't like stereotyping people but have you seen me?" Elijah leaned against Reid's desk.

"You're really gay?" Reid asked.

"It's obvious, Reid." Fleur hummed.

"She has a point." Elijah chuckled,"Have you seen how certain people look at me?"

"You got a point." Morgan shrugged.

"You can't tell anyone though... Just us." Fleur pointed.

"I'm not accusing anyone but... I have noticed that some people wouldn't appreciate knowing this about me." Elijah sighed.

"Man, just do whatever you want... I won't judge you and I'll make sure no one judges you either." Morgan chuckled,"Live your life."

"Cheers, mate." Elijah smiled at him.

"Keep it between us four." Fleur hummed.

"Trust me, we will." Reid nodded.

"Alright, we got a case." Gideon clapped as he walked by their desks.

"What kind of case?"

"I'll explain when we're in there." Gideon pointed.

The group looked between each other before walking into the Conference Room.

"It's a child case." JJ gave a small explanation.

"Forty thousand images of child porm are posted every week on the internet alongside the appearance of twenty new children." Reid began,"The appetite for babies as young as four months old has soared. Many of these children are kidnapped and sold into pedophile rings."

"One year ago the same boy appeared on several websites used by pedophiles. He was a new face then. After a massive hunt lead by our Crimes Against Children Unit, the unit disappeared." Gideon sighed.

"Until tonight, when SSA Cole telephoned us." Hotch nodded.

"Katie Cole?" Fleur looked up.

"She was in the BAU, right?" Reid raised a brow

"One of the first profilers. Clinical psychologist, brilliant." Gideon pointed to the picture.

"She runs the Crimes Against Children Unit in Maryland." Hotch told them.

"I always wanted to meet her." Morgan nodded.

"I worked with her before joining here." Fleur hummed.

"Really? I heard she's a bitch." Katie worked in.

"I heard that too." Elijah hummed.

Fleur nudged Elijah quickly.

"Nobody ever called you that Katie." Gideon shrugged.

"Well, not to my face." Katie looked to Elijah.

Elijah crossed his arms,"Sorry. Fleur is a bad influence on me."

"Don't listen to him Katie." Fleur shook her head.

"The first time I ever saw him was when he appeared in a series of photos. I named him Peter. Now he's being auctioned off when that clock runs to zero." Katie pointed to Peter on the screen.

"Auctioned?" JJ raised a brow.

"His face isn't pixelated." Fleur pointed.

"Because the Unsub is confident that we won't be able to locate him in time." Elijah sighed.

"What about the sight itself? Can't we just track its origin?" JJ raised a brow.

"It's routed through a proxy server in Belarus." Katie sighed,"Even if that government was friendly, Peter would be gone by the time we finished the paperwork."

"We don't need to worry about paperwork, we have Garcia." JJ got up.

"Yes sir." She nodded and left.

"So what happened a year ago, Katie?' Hotch turned.

"We crossed-referenced the images of the boy, talked to offenders nationwide. We narrowed the location down to the eastern United States. We had a few suspects but the trail went cold. Until today." Katie explained.

"With all due respect, Miss Cole, how is this time going to be any different?" Morgan sighed.

"We have a starting point." She nodded.

"The location where the image was first discovered." Gideon told him.

"A chat room hosted by an independent web company in Cleveland, Ohio. And this time, I'm bringing you all with me." Katie turned to them.

"Just like old times." Fleur grabbed her file and got up.

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Katie stumbled around the jet as they flew, causing Elijah to chuckle.

"Don't laugh." Fleur threw a marshmallow at him.

"Make me, darling." Elijah caught it.

"I'll darling you in a second." Fleur threw a couple more.

"Children." Morgan chuckled,"Enough fighting."

"Fine, I'll behave." Elijah rolled his eyes.

"The image was uploaded to one of our CAC undercovers fishing in chatrooms." Katie told them,"We try to monitors as many of then as we can pretending to be children, pedophiles, whatever works on that site."

"Have you run a forensic linguistics on the chat log?" Hotch turned to Katie,"There might be something to Hugz speech patterns."

"It doesn't exactly work that way with internet talk." Katie shook her head, stumbling as the plane hit turbulence.

Elijah covered his mouth, he didn't want to laugh again.

"Fear of flying?" Fleur looked at Katie,"Linked to deep routed issues of control."

"I think better on my feet." Katie pointed.

"I'm sure you do." Elijah coughed.

"Most of the talk is abbreviated text. LOL, laughing out loud, IMHO, In my humble opinion. FTF-" Kate began.

"Face to face." Morgan sighed.

"Right." Katie nodded,"Pedophiles can be divided into two categories-"

More turbulence. This time, Elijah stood up and walked towards the coffee machine.

"Show off." Fleur coughed.

"Situational and preferential." Hotch nodded,"Situational offenders rarely seek out children, but they'll take advantage of a situation when presented with it. Whereas preferential offenders actively target children by age group, hair colour. They'll seek out jobs which give them as much access to children as possible."

"They often trawl around residential neighborhoods, hijacking home wireless systems then communicating with the children often outside the house the child is in." Katie explained,"Or they'll just use a coffee shop with wireless access to find, locate and arrange a meeting. And it's growing. Its growing as fast as the Internet. They're getting smarter and smarter and all the security in the world can't stop them from coming through our doors. Hell, the monsters are already in our homes."

"If he's kept this kid for a year, that makes him preferential." Elijah walked back over with his coffee.

"Definitely." She nodded.

"So, then why is he selling him?" Morgan raised a brow.

Again, more turbulence but she was getting better,"Maybe he's loosing interest? Peter's getting too old? Too tall? Preferential offenders are very specific about their preferences."

"And what if he can't sell him?" Elijah raised a brow, sipping his drink.

"He isn't going to just let him go." Fleur sighed.

"Hotch?" JJ spoke from the computer.

"Yeah." Hotch walked over to the computer, sitting down.

"I was thinking, shouldn't we release Peter's profile to the media?" She asked.

"No! No, no." Katie shook her head quickly,"If this Unsub thinks we're onto him, he may make a run for it and dispose of the boy."

"Shouldn't we assume he does know?" Gideon asked.

"As I said, we intercepted this image as part of an undercover operation. These predators have a fairly closed society. The way they run these sites give them the expectation of anonymity." Katie explained.

"Right." Elijah sighed.

"Have Reid and Elle check the live feed. Not just the boy, but everything around him, the room. See if we missed anything." Hotch told JJ and Garcia over the call.

*********************************

The group of agents headed inside the chatroom company headquarters.

"FBI." Morgan spoke as he walked in,"We have a warrant to search these premises. Stop what you're doing right now."

"Can somebody tell me who owns this place?" Hotch asked, holding his badge up.

A blonde man cleared his throat,"That would be me."

"I want access to your chat room databases." Katie walked forward.

The man stepped aside, allowing Katie to start typing.

"This is so typical. You feds can't help yourself." He scoffed,"You've got to pollute the truest form of free expression ever invented."

"Derek, find a chat room of your choice. Your name is Suzy and you're twelve." Fleur pointed to Morgan.

Morgan nodded and typed what he was told into the chatroom, almost immediately multiple messages from strangers popped up on screen.

"That sir, is the sound of pedophiles looking to hook-up with a twelve year old girl named Suzy." Elijah crossed his arms.

"You let them run everything through SSL connections from proxy servers in offshore countries." Katie turned.

"So they can't be identified?" Morgan asked.

"Not in two and a half hours." Katie shrugged.

"Hey, I'm just a middle man here, okay?" The man raised his hands,"What can I do?"

"There's a little boy for sale on one of your sites. What can I do, isn't good enough." Gideon scoffed.

*********************************

The group had heard from JJ that another child was being held and this time, they had an address. They pulled up outside and ran towards the house, Morgan kicking in the door.

"FBI!" Hotch shouted.

"It's clear." Fleur shook her head once she cleared the living room.

"Push through." Gideon instructed as they began heading upstairs where loud music could be heard

"FBI!" Morgan busted down the door to the room where the music was heard.

"What are you doing?" A young teen asked, restrained to a chair by ropes.

"Where is he?" Hotch asked, Fleur rushing over to the chatlogs, seeing everyone that was viewing the video signing out.

"It's clear." Elijah sighed, turning off the music.

"It's okay, you're safe now." Gideon nodded.

"Safe?" The boy stood up, shaking off his restraints.

"What's your name?" Katie asked him.

"Kevin." He shrugged, putting his shirt back on.

"The man who did this to you, is he still here?" Hotch looked around.

"This is my house." Kevin scoffed.

"Graham Rose is the owner of this house, where is he?" Katie sighed, quickly stopping Kevin from grabbing his computer,"No, don't touch that. Where is he?"

"He's gone." Kevin sighed.

"What do you mean gone?" Fleur crossed her arms.

"He's just gone, okay?" Kevin shook his head.

"Graham Rose is your father?" Elijah raised a brow.

"Yeah, sure. You could call him that. I just call him a bastard." Kevin scoffed.

After briefly speaking with Kevin and looking around, the group soon began climbing down the stairs when Hotch spoke.

"His father has been in jail for the last eight months. In that time, Kevin's been selling the only thing he's got, which is hinself." Hotch sighed.

"Just like a street hustler." Morgan sighed, sitting on the stairs.

"Only now, the street is the internet." Katie crossed her arms.

"And his client base spans the globe." Gideon shrugged.

"Well, this kid definitely uploaded Peter's video to the chatroom because it's still on his computer." Elijah pointed.

"Yeah, but not the live feed." Fleur shook her head.

"Did he say how he got ahold of the video?" Gideon asked.

"He said it came from one of his clients. It was a shared file that had gone around these chats groups." Hotch explained

"It's possible." Katie nodded,"Buyers and sellers routinely trade files as the act in itself is illegal which proves they're not the police."

"Let's see what else we can find out." Hotch sighed.

When they re-entered, Kevin was sat on the bed. Katie began tying on the computer and Morgan paced.

"Kid, the boy whose video you've been sending around to all those chat rooms, he's going to be sold from one paedophile to another." Fleur crossed her arms.

"Boo hoo." Kevin glared up at her.

"There are dummy logs. What's the password to get me into the real transcripts of your sessions?" Katie sighed.

"You're the FBI, you figure it out."

"I know you don't think so Kevin, but we are trying to help you here." Hotch looked over at him.

"Help me? What I do is consensual and nobody is getting hurt." Kevin shrugged.

"Come on Kevin, what's the password? Birthday? Your favourite band?" Katie tried.

"Kevin, this is prostitution." Morgan sighed.

"Well, I'm a minor. I don't really know what I'm doing." Kevin shrugged,"Plus, I don't really leave this room, so no one, no one touches me."

"Anymore. Your father's been beating you since you remember. First it was when he was drunk on the weekends, then he was always drunk. You never knew why he was hurting you... Why he was so angry." Elijah looked over at him, his shoulder tense,"At night, you'd cry yourself to sleep hoping someone would come and save you... But nobody came."

"You have a chance to be the one that saves someone, Kevin." Fleur crouched down,"You can be the one who answers him, the one who stops his pain. You can't get to your father, but you can get to the guy who's hurting this boy."

After a few moments of silence and hesitation, Kevin looked over at Katie,"Move."

Katie stood up and Kevin sat down, typing something on the computer,"This backs up all my transcripts. The screen name for the guy who sent me the file is Mehtevas." Kevin pointed.

"How long has Mehtevas been a client of yours?" Katie asked.

"Like six months." Kevin shrugged.

"Where's he located?" She questioned.

"He's a local. He's always asking to meet me but I don't do that." Kevin shook his head.

"Does he know where you are?" Hotch raised a brow.

"Just the city."

"How do you contact him?" Fleur looked at the computer.

"He contacts me." Kevin shrugged.

"Come on, Kevin. You don't just sit around all day and wait for these guys to look you up." Elijah sighed,"That's no way to run a business."

"Right now you're the only person that can help us find Peter." Katie sighed.

"What do you want me to do?" Kevin asked them.

"Ask for a face to face." Fleur sat down beside Kevin.

"No. No way, I don't do that. I've never been out of this room." Kevin shook his head.

"He won't lay a finger on you. We'll be right there beside you the full time. I promise." Fleur assured him.

"But won't he be suspicious if I suddenly want to meet up with him?"

"He's a need driven offender, Kevin." Katie sighed.

"What does that mean?" Kevin asked.

"If you offer to meet with him, he won't be able to resist." Fleur explained,"He can't help himself."

*********************************

The team were now outside of the school, Kevin was waiting by the gates as an older, white-haired man approached him.

"Don't you love that sound?" The man asked.

"Excuse me?" Kevin looked over at him

"Children." He hummed.

"Mehtevas?" Kevin raised a brow.

"You seem nervous." Mehtevas chuckled.

"Well, you are Mehtevas, right?" Kevin asked, looking around.

"My friends call me Hayden." Hayden walked forward,"Hey, you're taller in person."

Kevin backed away from Hayden before he ran past him.

"What's the matter? Did I say something wrong? Hugz?" Hayden went to go after Kevin,"Kevin!"

That's when they all hurried over, police blaring their sirens.

"FBI, turn around!" Morgan pinned Hayden against the wall.

"Morgan!" Fleur ran over with Gideon.

"Agent Morgan, take it easy." Katie rushed over.

"We need his cooperation, we just need to ask a few questions." Elijah crossed his arms.

"Here's a question, what's the principle of a school doing hooking up with a fourteen year old?" Hotch looked at Haydens ID.

Hotch then tossed the ID, Elijah catching and looking over it.

"Let's go, put him in here." Gideon instructed.

"Perv." Fleur muttered.

Hotch then took Kevin and walked him over to Katie, he was taking him to social services. That's when Reid and Elle pulled up in an SUV, quickly getting out.

"Hey, I missed you guys." Elijah smiled as they walked over.

"You're not meant to be back on the field yet." Fleur pointed at Elle..

"Yeah, I know, but Reid said Hotch wanted us out here." Elle pointed.

"No I didn't!" Reid gasped.

"Yes, you did." Elle insisted.

"I'm sure you didn't, Reid." Elijah assured him.

Reid smiled at Elijah,"Thank you."

"The school district has given us permission to search Rawlings office." Fleur nodded.

"I'm on it." Elle nudged Reid as they walked off,"Nice one."

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"I wish you would inform me what exactly I'm being charged with." Hayden scoffed as they walked through the halls of the school.

"Anything I can stick to you." Morgan pointed.

"But I haven't done anything."

"You're an educated man, Mr Rawlings. You know you're in trouble here." Katie shook her head.

"I believe I just walked out of my school. Is that a crime now?" Hayden shrugged.

"Do you know where he is?" Katie showed him a picture of Peter.

"How could anyone hurt something so.."

"Pure?" Fleur tilted her head.

"You sent this image to Kevin. Nonce." Elijah coughed to cover his comment.

"Well, that was wrong of me, I know. But I was so shocked. I wanted to try and save this poor boy. I thought Hugz- Kevin might know him. That's why I sent him the link to the website. See if he knew." Hayden shook his head.

"Please. You were trying to save him?" Morgan scoffed.

"Help search his office." Gideon sighed.

"We've got this." Elijah assured him.

Morgan sighed and walked to the office with Elle and Reid.

Fleur, Elijah, Gideon and Katie walked with Hayden,"So how were you going to save Peter?"

"Peter? Is that his name? Peter... I wanted to save them both, Kevin too." Hayden shook his head.

"Sit down." Gideon instructed.

Hayden looked around at them all before he say down. After a few minutes, they walked into the office, Morgan bringing a chair for Hayden.

"Mr Rawlings, have a seat."

As he slowly sat down, Elle pushed his laptop towards him,"Your laptop."

Morgan then left the room, Garcia had called him.

"This is uh... Research. I'm writing a book." Hayden shrugged.

"Just sit down." Elijah sighed.

Hayden slowly sat down,"I swear to you, this is all research!"

"No, it's not research. It's one hundred years in a federal penitentiary." Katie pointed.

"I'd like to make a deal." Hayden looked at Gideon.

"No deals. All you have is a very, very small amount of good will." Gideon shook his head.

"Tell me about Peter." Fleur leaned forward.

"I was contacted by the man whos holding him. I didn't search out this boy, I didn't go looking for this." Hayden insisted.

"Give me a name." Katie crossed her arms.

"Well, I only know the screenname. It's manchild." Hayden told them.

"Did you bid on Peter?" Gideon asked.

Hayden stayed quiet.

"How much?" Katie questioned.

"Eight thousand dollars." Hayden sighed,"But it was only in order to save him."

"Are you the high bidder?" Katie crossed her arms.

"I think so, yeah. I was anyway. I'm supposed to go back online and contact him on his website and get the address."

"So you can inspect the merchandise?" Fleur scoffed.

"Look, this child is being auctioned off and I am trying to save him-"

"Trying to save him. He'd have given you a code, what is it?" Katie leaned back.

"Come on. I have a family. I have children of my own, I love children. I would never harm them." Hayden sighed.

"In your pursuit to save them, do you think you could have avoided having sex with them?" Fleur raised a brow

"Mr Rawlings." Elijah looked down at him,"The code."

Hayden hesitated,"Butterfly." He sighed in defeat.

"Thank you." Elijah hummed as Katie soon took the laptop and started typing.

Hayden was then taken out of the room, taken outside and arrested so the team could work in peace.

"Finally." Fleur cursed.

However, the site quickly shut down and the feed went dark.

That's when Morgan's sighed, walking back in,"We've got reporters outside, this thing is all over the news."

"Oh my god, that's why the site went down. He knows." Katie realised.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Elijah questioned.

"We need to think fast." Gideon called JJ, walking off.

*********************************

"The name the school has is Charlie Sparks." Hotch told them as they exited their vehicles.

"No Sparks in any of the phone directories." Gideon sighed.

"Garcia can't even find a Sparks within a hundred miles for the past ten years." Morgan shook his head.

"Probably not his real name anyway." Katie paced.

"The school said he may have moved away." Hotch nodded slowly.

"Then we start over again. We don't gave a lot of time left." Elle leaned against the car.

"You guys, we may be looking at this the wrong way." Reid spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Elijah turned to him.

"The behaviour, it's odd, right? The Unsub apparently listed this kid in school and the Tadpoles until about a year ago. At that point he had pictures of him online in a regular looking room, but now he's in a prison like room with no windows and no doors. Completely hidden." Reid explained.

"Preferential pedophiles don't change overnight." Katie shook her head.

"So what happened a year ago to make him change his behaviour so much?" Hotch asked.

"Fear. Katie, you nearly caught him." Gideon turned to her,"You probably talked to him, the Unsub is in your records."

Katie sighed and stepped back,"I never really had a good suspect. I only did some general interviews with child offenders on the East Coast."

"Well, one of them was the right guy." Elijah leaned against the SUV.

"Amanda, hey. I need you to pull all the original files on Peter's case. Somewhere in my office, try my desk. I need the names of everyone I interviewed." Katie told Amanda over the phone.

"Have her call Penelope Garcia at the BAU, she'll be able to tell is if we can cross any off." Morgan added.

"You got it? Thanks." Katie hung up.

After some waiting around, Morgan received a call,"Alright guys, I think we might have something. Twelve men were interviewed, eight are back in prison, one is desd, one lives in California and two have last known addresses within ten minutes of here. A Patrick Forest and Michael Earlson."

"Patrick Forest isn't smart enough to have put this all together." Katie shook her head.

"What about Michael Earlson?" Hotch asked.

"Definitely." Katie nodded.

With that, they all hopped into the SUVs and headed for Earlson's address. When they arrived, everyone quickly jumped out of the SUVs, pointing their guns at the car just as Earlston jumped out.

Before he could get far, Morgan grabbed him and pinned him against the car's hold,"Where are you doing? Try something now, punk! Don't move!"

Katie rushed up to the car, opening the trunk and inside was a container. Thinking the worst, she opened it and saw Charlie inside.

"Daddy!" The boy cried out.

"No, it's okay... It's okay." Katie tried to soothe him.

"Daddy!"

"You're safe now."

"Where's daddy?" He asked.

"I know.." Katie nodded.

*********************************

"Well troops, I'd say another job well done for us." Elijah hummed, coffee in hand.

"I'm just glad it's over." Morgan sat back.

"Does anyone else want one while I'm still standing?" Elijah looked around.

"Oh, me! Can you add a little bit of cannelle to it though?" Fleur hummed.

"You want me to put what in it?" Elijah blinked.

"Cannelle." Fleur looked at him.

"Sorry, uh, I don't speak French." Elijah shook his head.

"It's- The spice! I can't get the name." Fleur snapped her fingers.

Elijah turned to the coffee machine,"Cinnamon?"

"Yes!" Fleur pointed.

"I'm a genius." Elijah hummed as he walked back to the coffee machine.

"You couldn't remember cinnamon?" Hotch blinked.

"Why the hell is it called cinnamon?" Fleur sighed,"Cannelle makes more sense."

"I'm sure it does." Morgan nodded.

"It does so Derek Morgan."

"Ha, you got full named." Elijah walked back over,"Now please take your drink, I think I burned myself."

Fleur hummed and took her coffee,"Merci."

"You're welcome, darling." Elijah sat down