Chapter 1
"Come on. Keep your eyes on the folder." I snapped at myself in my thoughts. But how do you pay attention to gruesome pictures when a certain black haired raven sat across the table from me.
"Do we know how he died?" Rossi asked
"Stabbed directly in the heart" Hotch answered as he walked in late from a conference with Strauss
"Local police don't want to move the body until we arrive, Morgan take Reid and go to the crime scene. Prentiss you and JJ go to the station and set up. Rossi and I will go to the morgue and see the other bodies. Wheels up in twenty" he stated before walking back out of the bullpen.
I inwardly groaned as soon as I heard I was being paired up with her "Calm down, it's not like your sharing a bed at the hotel with her" I stopped myself before closing my eyes and sighing "Are you okay?" Emily asked when my eyes shot open and I looked up to see her standing beside my chair "Oh uh yeah, just have a headache" I replied before standing up.
"Hotch and everyone else are waiting for us" she stated
A twenty minute car ride later I was boarding the jet to Columbia when I felt something touch my wrist "Jennifer are you alright?" I heard her voice behind me.
"Yes" I lied
When she let me go and I sat down on the chair closest to the window while she sat beside me and pulled out her Slaughter House Five book and started to read "So my lovely's" Garcia's voice came on and Emily sighed as she set down her book, she glanced at me as I felt a blush creeping up my cheeks. I quickly turned my attention to the computer screen in the middle of the table.
"So they have one body ready for Hotch and Rossi, also I did some digging. And David Morrison, our first victim had just opened a bank account two days before he died" she stated "Good work baby girl" Morgan smirked as the computer screen darkened.
"Why would he open a new bank account?" I asked
"Maybe he's having an affair" Reid said as everyone looked at him "What?" he said as Rossi sighed "Nothing kid" he said
The car ride from the land strip to the station was a short one, giving us a few minutes to talk about the case. I was about to ask her another question about the case when she pulled over to the side of the road and put the SUV in park.
"What are you doing?" I asked before she looked at me funny
"Come on Jennifer, talk to me" she said as I looked away "It's nothing Emily, can you please keep driving" I murmured, Emily shook her head. I sighed before glancing back over to her "It's nothing really, Em please" I begged when she gave up and twisted the keys in the ignition only to hear the SUV sputter a bit before it stopped "Seriously" she groaned as I unbuckled my seat belt and opened the door "Pop the hood" I said before getting out.
I walked around and lifted the hood only to have a blast of steam come out and burn my arm "Shit!" I hissed as I pulled it away and held it "JJ you okay?" Emily called out as she walked up to me and looked at it, I nodded before she sighed "I guess were stuck here for a while".
