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Chapter 19 - 'The team's gonna be on your ass' - Kidnapped Fleur and Elijah AU

"Addy! Come on, you're late for school." Fleur called on her.

"Coming, Mama." Adelaide hurried over, pulling her bag onto her shoulders.

"What took you?"

"I fell back asleep." Adelaide mumbled.

"Course you did." Fleur chuckled.

"I'm here now." She shrugged.

"I'll drive you into school, don't worry." Fleur looked at the time,"Your papa was telling me you got this new language teacher?"

"Oh, yeah." Adelaide nodded.

"What are they like?"

"He's a little strict, but he's nice."

"Sometimes the strictest teachers are the nicest." Fleur pointed.

"I like him." Adelaide smiled.

"I'm glad you do. You can tell him you know French perfectly." Fleur hummed.

"I did." Adelaide nodded quickly.

"Good, what did he say?" Fleur asked as she grabbed her car keys.

"He was very impressed." Adelaide hummed as she walked to the car.

"Well, I'm glad he thinks so." Fleur got in,"Right, let's shoot off, hm?"

"Yeah." Adelaide nodded as she clicked her seatbelt in.

Once they arrived at the school, Fleur looked back,"Be good, okay?"

"I will." Adelaide smiled.

"Je t'aime." Fleur hummed.

"Je t'aime, Mama." Adelaide grinned as she walked towards the school.

Fleur sighed of relief before she drove to the BAU. When she arrived, Elijah was waiting for her at the door with two cups in his hand.

"Why hello." Fleur hummed.

"One hot chocolate for m'lady?" Elijah held it out to her.

"Merci beaucoup." Fleur took it,"Why are you being so nice?"

"You think I need a reason?" Elijah scoffed.

"Yeah."

"How rude."

"Have you really not done anything?"

"Of course not." Elijah insisted.

"I'm trusting you." Fleur pointed.

"As you should." Elijah crossed his arms.

"We got a case so far?" Fleur asked

"Not that I've heard." He shook his head.

"Thank God." Fleur sat down at her desk.

"We get some time to ourselves." Elijah sat on the edge of her desk, sipping his coffee.

"How's Reid?"

"Oh, he's good."

"Yeah?" She leaned back in her chair.

"Yeah." He nodded,"But he wouldn't sleep in an extra five minutes and cuddle with me."

"Reid doesn't like being late."

"But we weren't even late."

"Tell that to your fiancé." She hummed, going on her phone.

"I did and we weren't. We were still five minutes early." Elijah pointed.

Fleur chuckled,"He still loves you."

"I know.." He huffed.

"Addy has this new languages teacher." Fleur typed,"She likes him so far."

"Hm.. I'll need to meet him at some point." Elijah nodded.

"His name's.. Mr Blanchett, I think."

"I'll look into it later."

"There's not actually that much about him." Fleur shrugged.

"Still." He pointed.

After a few hours, the two were sitting around the Conference Room table with the others. Just going over files, for once there was no cases.

"Are.. Am I.. Hey, Morgan." Elijah held his arm out,"Pinch me."

"What?" Morgan looked before pinching

"Huh.. I'm not dreaming." Elijah nodded slowly.

"What made you think you were dreaming?"

"There's just been so much chaos recently, y'know? So it's weird just.. I don't know, doing nothing." He shrugged.

"I understand." Morgan chuckled.

"Hey, I gotta head for a bit. Text me if you get any cases?" Fleur stood up.

"We will." Morgan assured her,"Love you."

"Love you too." Fleur left the Conference Room.

But before she could get too far, her phone started ringing.

Fleur looked down at her phone before answering it,"Addy?"

"Mama, I know you're at work but.. Can you come pick me up?" Addy asked her.

"Of course, what's wrong?"

"Mr Blanchett.. He's acting all weird."

"What do you mean?" Fleur blinked.

"He's been muttering to himself all day and he keeps looking at me." Adelaide whispered.

"Okay, yeah.. Yeah, I'm on my way." Fleur nodded.

"Thank you, Mama." Adelaide hung up.

Fleur headed towards the lift before getting in. Soon enough, Fleur got outside of the school, texting Adelaide to let her know she was outside. And soon enough, Adelaide walked out with her bag in hand.

Fleur opened the door, letting her in,"What's going on?"

"I don't know." She shook her head.

"Was it just you specifically?" Fleur waited until she was belted in before driving off.

"Mhm."

"I'm glad you called me." Fleur nodded.

"I didn't know what else to do." Adelaide sighed,"He's not usually like this."

"Let's just hope he's having a bad day."

"Yeah.."

"Other than Mr Blanchett, how was school?" Fleur stopped at a stop light.

"It was okay, I guess. Miss Finch was good, she let us watch a movie." Adelaide told her

"That's good, I wish I could watch movies at work." Fleur chuckled.

Adelaide hummed,"You could watch one on the jet if you've got a long flight."

"Hey, that's a good idea. I'll let your uncle pick a movie, though."

"Uncle Jah? You trust him to pick?"

"He'd probably just pick a disney movie." Fleur shrugged.

"The Little Mermaid?" Adelaide smiled.

"That would be one of his options." Fleur chuckled.

"It.." Adelaide stopped,"Mama, look out!"

"What?" Fleur turned around to try and move the car but the incoming vehicle was too fast, crashing into the car side.

Adelaide was knocked unconscious but by the time she opened her eyes again.. Fleur was gone. Adelaide panicked, wincing as she grabbed her phone and called the first contact she could find.

"Addy? Aren't you supposed to be at school?" Elijah asked.

"Uncle Jah- You need to get here. A car crashed into me and Mama but she's gone." Addy cursed.

"..What do you mean?" Elijah asked slowly.

"Mama's missing. I don't know where she is, I'm near the north side of the school." Addy cursed.

"Right- You just stay there, okay? We'll all be there soon, baby." Elijah told her.

"Please hurry."

"I will, I promise."

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Fleur woke up, tied to a chair. Her head was throbbing and she looked around,"Addy?"

"Oh, Addy isn't here."

Fleur looked up,"Who are you?"

"Well, you don't know me." A man walked towards her,"But I know all about you."

"Okay, cut to the chase. I'm bored." Fleur leaned back.

"Blanchett.. Do you remember that name?" He leaned forward.

"It's French." Fleur shrugged.

"You really don't remember..?"

Fleur thought for a moment,"..Camille."

"There you go." He hummed.

"What do you have to do with Camille?"

"..You got her killed." He spat.

"I never meant for Camille to get hurt."

"But she did get hurt. She died because of you. You took her."

"You don't understand-" Fleur tried.

"You killed my sister." He snapped.

"Gabriel, Camille was never meant to be involved."

"Shut up." Gabriel shook his head.

"She was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"You got her killed.. And I'm going to make you pay." Gabriel shook his head.

"So you pose as a language teacher at my daughter's school?" Fleur scoffed.

"She was my original target.. But then I found something better."

"Her mother." Fleur sighed.

"Exactly."

"You don't scare me, Gabriel."

"I should." Gabriel pulled out a gun.

"Do it." Fleur threatened,"See what happens."

"Why would I kill you so soon, hm? Where's the fun in that?" Gabriel hummed.

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"Uncle Jah." Adelaide ran up to him, hugging him.

"There you are, junebug." Elijah sighed as he held her tightly.

"I don't- I'm sorry." Adelaide hugged him.

"Shh, don't be sorry." Elijah shook his head,"This isn't your fault."

"I don't know where Mama is."

"That's okay, we'll find her."

"It all just happened so fast." Adelaide panicked.

"Shh." Elijah rubbed her back,"Just take a breath."

Adelaide sighed and took a breath,"What do we do?"

"Can you tell me all you remember? We'll take you back to the BAU, if you want."

"Yeah, yeah.. Okay." Adelaide nodded.

"Come on." Elijah put an arm around her,"Your dad will be there, too."

Once at the BAU, Adelaide sat down with Elijah and Morgan.

"What happened, Addy?" Morgan looked at her.

"I.. Mama picked me up from school early." Adelaide began,"She got me at the front in the car."

"Why did you get picked up?"

"My teacher was acting weird and it made me feel weird."

"Which one? You've never had issues before." Morgan blinked.

"..Was it your new teacher?" Elijah asked slowly.

"Yeah..Mr Blanchett." Adelaide nodded.

"What was he doing?" Morgan asked her.

"Just being weird.. Staring at me." Adelaide sighed.

"And did he say anything?" Elijah tilted his head.

"He was muttering, scribbling things down."

Morgan nodded slowly,"What happened after your mama picked you up?"

"We were talking..And mama was driving and then a car crashed into us." Adelaide sighed.

"Do you remember anything after that? Anything at all?" Elijah asked.

"No, no. I woke up and Mama was gone."

Morgan sighed and rubbed her shoulder,"You did good, Addy."

"We'll find her, right?" Adelaide looked up.

"Of course we will, Junebug." Elijah assured her.

"I hope so." Adelaide sighed.

"Everything's going to be okay, I promise." Morgan told her

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"So what's your plan, Gabriel? Torture me?" Fleur scoffed after she got cut by him.

"I want you to be scared, like she was in her last moments. Scared, alone and in pain." Gabriel twirled the blade in his hands.

"She was my best friend but hurting me won't bring her back. She'd be ashamed in you."

"Best friend? The only reason she was there was you."

"We were friends before. Our parents were friends!" Fleur told him.

"Stop lying!" Gabriel cut her again,"This won't make me feel bad for you."

"She talked about you..All the time. How loving and caring you were." Fleur sighed.

"Shut up." He shook his head.

"We tried to escape one time, to come and see you."

Gabriel remained silent, clenching the knife tightly in his hand.

"She wouldn't want this.."

"..That's just too bad, isn't it?"

"What have you done with Addy?" Fleur asked.

"I didn't do anything." Gabriel answered.

"Where is she?" She questioned.

"I don't know, I left her in the car." He shrugged.

"Then my team will find you." Fleur warned him.

"Oh, but will they?" Gabriel raised a brow.

Fleur sat back, of course they'd come.. They're her family.

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Elijah was staring up at the board of evidence, slowly connecting bits of red throughout, feeling like a proper Detecive.

"You okay?" JJ looked at him.

"Mhm." Elijah wasn't really paying attention to her.

"How's Morgan holding up?"

"As well as he can in this situation." Elijah shrugged,"There's already a hole in the wall."

"God." JJ sighed and leaned back.

"I'm sure I'm just missing something." Elijah muttered,"Just- Think."

"Don't worry, we'll get her." JJ assured him.

Elijah crossed his arms as he looked at his board,"Can you just.. Give me ten minutes alone in here?"

"Of course." JJ nodded and walked off.

Left alone with his evidence, Elijah massaged his temples. He just had to think and he'd figure it out. That's when he had an idea.. In one of Fleur's rants one time she mentioned a friend who's last name was Blanchett.. Maybe they were some kind of connection?

"Blanchett.. Blanchett.." Elijah paced before slamming his hands down on the table,"Camille."

Camille.. She was Fleur's best friend from back when she was in the Doves but Elijah recalled Fleur mentioning her death.. Could this be some elaborate revenge scheme? But how could he find this Mr Blanchett? Maybe looking through school records? But would he check those with Garcia.. Or just head to the school himself? Garcia's already got so much going on.. What could go wrong by going to the school?

Absolutely nothing, was what Elijah thought. So he left the Conference Room as discreetly as he could as he tried from hurry off to his car which he succeeded with. Once he arrived at the school, he had shown the reception his badge, allowing him to search Mr Blanchett's office.

"Now.. What are you hiding Mr Blanchett?" Elijah muttered as he walked straight to the desk.

In his drawers, there was a few files, marked 'IMPORTANT'.

"I'm not nosy... But I'm really nosy." Elijah picked up the first file and opened it.

Upon opening, inside was a picture and information about Adelaide. Everything about her.

"..Why the hell do you have this?" Elijah shook his head as he sat ut down, picking up the next file.

Then.. A file on Fleur. Going back to her adoption by the Howards.

"Shit." Elijah muttered as he sat the file down.

That's when a voice came from the doorway.

"Sorry, do I know you?" A man asked.

"SSA Elijah Deans, I'm with the FBI." Elijah turned to him, showing his badge.

"FBI? What- I'm sorry, what brings the FBI here?"

"Let's see.. The mother of a student was abducted after you started acting weird, presuming you are Mr Blanchett." Elijah picked up the files,"Uh, these as well."

Gabriel stared for a minute,"So where's the others? In fact- Do you even have a warrant?"

"I could go get a warrant if you want." Elijah shrugged.

"Please, I'd feel more comfortable."

Elijah sighed, taking out his phone as he went to leave,"Garcia."

"Yo." Garcia answered the phone.

But before Elijah could speak, he was hit on the back of the head.

"Shit-" Elijah held the back of his head as he landed on the ground.

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When Elijah awoke, he noticed across from him was another person, tied to a chair. Elijah squinted, his vision relatively blurry without his glasses, as he tried to make out the other person

"Elijah?" Fleur spoke.

"Flo- Hey, I knew I was right."

"What are you doing here?"

"Rescuing you, what does it look like?" Elijah questioned.

"Eli, you're in the same position as me." Fleur sighed.

"Well- I was rescuing you. That creep had a whole file for you and Addy." Elijah told her.

"He's Camille's brother, my friend from before the ring? He blames me for her death." Fleur admitted.

"And he think kidnapping you is gonna heal his unresolved trauma?"

"Look- The others know you're here so they'll come looking." Fleur nodded.

"Yeah, because when he got me I was on the phone." Elijah agreed.

"But you- You told them where you were, right?" Fleur blinked.

"..I, uh.. I didn't really get that far." He cleared his throat.

"Elijah." Fleur groaned and leaned her head back.

"What? I was trying to get a warrant."

That's when Gabriel walked into the room, closing the door behind him,"Ah, you're both awake now."

"There you are." Elijah looked over at him,"Too much of a coward to fight me face to face?"

"I'm sorry?" Gabriel hummed,"You were snooping, that's cowardly."

"Investigating." Elijah shrugged,"I would've done it with you there or absent."

"Unfortunately you got too close, you weren't apart of the plan."

"And improvising always works out so well for men like you."

"I'm not the one bound right now, Agent Deans."

"I've been bound before, Blanchett." Elijah rolled his eyes,"Quite a pleasant experience actually."

"Elijah." Fleur cleared her throat.

"I'm just saying, it takes more than a little rope to freak me out." Elijah shook his head.

"I've read all about your team.. What scares them." Gabriel went into a drawer before pulling out a pill bottle,"Like this."

"..Flo, I can't see it, what is it?" Elijah whispered.

"A bottle of pills." Fleur sighed,"Look, Elijah has nothing to do with this."

"He shouldn't have gotten involved." Gabriel pointed.

"He's family."

"Then he'll suffer like you."

"This won't bring Camille back. She shouldn't have gotten involved in my life, I never meant for her to get hurt." Fleur told him.

"Camille shouldn't have gotten hurt, but she did because she got involved." Gabriel put a hand on Elijah's shoulder,"Now Elijah is going to get hurt, because he got involved."

"Don't fucking hurt him."

"Why shouldn't I?" Gabriel raised his knife.

"Do I get a say in this?" Elijah asked,"Because you're both talking like I'm not here."

"Go for it." Gabriel turned.

"Well, for starters, you're probably too scared to actually kill me off." Elijah began,"You're a scared, little boy who needs therapy because you feel responsible for the death of your sister."

"Mhm.." Gabriel walked closer.

"And hey, you'll be worse off in every way. Would you rather have been a free man or with life for killing a federal agent?" Elijah questioned.

"It's tempting." Gabriel walked behind him.

"I'm sure you would've made a great teacher." Elijah nodded.

"So would my sister." He placed a knife at Elijah's throat.

"No!" Fleur shouted,"Do what you want to me but you're not bringing my brother into this."

"A sibling for a sibling." Gabriel smirked.

"Take me, get the real deal."

"I want you to suffer like I did.. I lost my sister, so you should lose your brother."

"Please Gabriel..I..I can tell you where she rests."

"..What?" Gabriel lowered the knife.

"If you let Elijah go.. I'll tell you where Camille's body is." Fleur sighed.

Gabriel looked between Fleur and Elijah before he slowly cut his restraints, shoving him to the ground.

"Go, Elijah." Fleur nodded.

"What- No. I'm not leaving without you." Elijah shook his head.

"Elijah." Fleur looked at him.

"Better listen to her before I change my mind." Gabriel warned.

"The team's gonna be on your ass." Elijah pointed as as he got up, running off.

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"I don't know where he is." Reid cursed.

"So we've lost Elijah too?" Morgan asked.

"He just disappeared. JJ was the last person to see him."

"What was he doing?"

"Staring at the board."

"..You don't think he made a break in the case?" Rossi raised a brow as Garcia walked in.

"Guys?" Garcia held up her phone,"It's Elijah."

"I'm on my way back- I uh.. I ran into some trouble at Addy's school." Elijah was out of breath.

"Eli, breathe." Reid nodded.

"Breathe? I was just held hostage and you want me to breathe?" He questioned.

"Elijah, take a breath and explain."

"I was thinking, okay? And- And I remembered Fleur talking about her best friend Camille from when she was with the Doves, Camille Blanchett." Elijah began,"So I figured that Addy's teacher was probably a relation trying to get revenge for her death."

"What did you find?" Rossi asked.

"Well, I went to the school and found files on both Fleur and Addy in his drawers." He contiued,"But he approached me and asked for a warrant so I started calling Garcia as I left but.."

"But?" Morgan picked up the phone.

"Well, I got whacked and I don't have my glasses so I can't fucking see." Elijah answered.

"Okay, send us your location. I'm on my way." Morgan nodded.

"Will do." Elijah hung up.

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"So what happened when you woke up?" Rossi crossed his arms.

"I was tied to a chair and Fleur was in front of me, she was tied up too." Elijah told him.

"Were you hurt? What about Fleur?" JJ asked.

"I mean, my head was killing me but I was fine." Elijah shook his head,"I'm not sure about Fleur.. I saw red, but I don't know what he did."

"You need your glasses." Reid sighed.

"Well, they're probably still at the school." Elijah crossed his arms,"He said he researched all of us, what scared us."

"Would he move her?"

Elijah nodded slowly,"She said.. If he let me go, she'd show him where Camille was buried."

"That has to be close then, right?" Morgan wondered.

"Somewhere close enough to drive, he has to have a vehicle."

"Can you take us back to the school?" JJ asked.

"Of course." Elijah stood up

"Let's go." Rossi nodded.

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"It's around here." Fleur looked around,"I swear."

"You better not be lying about this." Gabriel shook his head.

"I'm not, she was my friend." Fleur cursed as she looked around the patch of grass.

"And? You could be tricking me."

"And risk my life?" Fleur scoffed, looking around.

"You'd do anything for that brother of yours." Gabriel crossed his arms,"I wouldn't be surprised if you got yourself killed so he could escape."

"If it meant he'd survive." Fleur shifted as she stood still,"There."

"There.. She's there?" Gabriel took a step forward.

"Yeah, she's there."

Gabriel knelt down, crouching in front of the dirt,"..Camille?"

"Uncuff me now, Gabe." Fleur looked down at him.

Gabriel looked back at her,"No."

"I've given you what you want."

"And now it'll be perfect." He smiled as he stood up,"I'll kill you.. In front of her."

"Camille wouldn't-" Fleur tried.

"I don't care- This is what I want!" Gabriel grabbed her arm.

"Okay! Okay- Gabriel, just calm down." Fleur shook her head.

"Gabriel Blanchett, put your weapon down!" Morgan ordered as he and the team approached.

"Don't come any closer!" Gabriel pointed, pulling Fleur close and holding the knife to her throat.

"Gabriel, you need to let her go."

"She got my sister killed." Gabriel pointed.

"But killing Fleur won't bring her back." Rossi shook his head.

"That doesn't matter."

"Gabriel, that is not your sister's grave."

"Yes it is!"

"Your sister died in Europe, Gabriel." Morgan shook his head,"And the Doves didn't bury any of their victims.. They were cremated."

"Shut up, no they didn't."

"They did, Gabriel." Fleur admitted,"I just..I wanted you to have closure."

"..You lied to me." Gabriel looked down at her.

"Of course I fucking lied, Gabriel, I'm not a saint." Fleur cursed.

Gabriel remained silent as he looked at Fleur, slowly looking up at the team before he raised the knife.

But before he could hurt Fleur, Morgan shot his gun, straight into Gabriel's head. Gabriel released Fleur as he collapsed to the ground. Fleur gasped and ran over to Morgan, holding her throat.

"Babygirl, did he hurt you? Are you okay?" Morgan held her close.

"I'm fine." Fleur cursed,"Where's Eli? Is he okay?"

"A little disoriented without his glasses but he's fine." He nodded.

"I have them." Fleur assured him.

"He thinks they're still at the school." Morgan shook his head.

"Is he safe, though?"

"Trust me, love. He's safe." Morgan kissed her forehead.

Fleur nodded slowly as she hugged him.

"Let's get you back to Addy, hm?"

"Yeah..Yeah." Fleur nodded again.

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Adelaide was sat in Morgan's office at the BAU, arms crossed as she waited for them to return.

"They'll have her, right?" Adelaide looked at Elijah.

"They will, I promise." Elijah rubbed her back.

After a while, they saw Derek's door open and.. Fleur and Morgan walked in.

"Mama!" Adelaide ran up to her.

"Cheriè." Fleur hugged her.

"I was so scared- He took you.." Adelaide sniffled.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Fleur kissed her head.

"Did he hurt you?" Elijah crossed his arms.

"Only a little." Fleur reached into her pocket, handing him his glasses,"Here."

"Oh, is that my- Christ, thank you." Elijah quickly put them on.

"I got you." She chuckled.

"Half of these bruises didn't come from the kidnapping, they came from me hurting myself because I couldn't see." Elijah shook his head.

"Oh yeah, you ran into a wall." Addy nodded.

"Junebug, we weren't going to tell her about that." He cleared his throat.

"You did what?" Fleur chuckled.

"Look, I was panicking and I couldn't see very well so.. I ran into a wall." Elijah mumbled.

"It happens." Fleur hummed,"I love you all, you know that?"

"I love you too, mama." Adelaide smiled.

"Let's head home, yeah?" Morgan suggested,"Eli, wanna stay tonight?"

"That would be nice." Elijah nodded.

"Reid can join too." Addy added.

"I'm sure he'd love that." He hummed.

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