You knew you should’ve listened to your dad, Agent Aaron Hotchner, about sticking to your curfew ever since your mother died by his nemesis. Yet, you didn’t want to miss a party your school friends were throwing, otherwise you wouldn’t be deemed popular enough to socialise with them anymore.

Now, you wish you listened to your dad, as an Unsub has abducted you to get revenge at the BAU team for locking away his brother in prison. The Unsub, who secretly has a guilty conscience, gave you one final phone call in the abandoned basement he’s keeping you in while surveying you. Of course, you called your dad.

Hotch awakes by a ringing noise he’s all too familiar with. At first he thinks it’s for a case, but when he grabs his cellphone and sees your name, his brows furrow in confusion. Why would his kid be calling from the next room over?

A paternal instinct that’s something’s apprehensive makes him sit upwards, immediately answering the phone and putting the device to his ear, “Honey? Honey, what’s wrong?”