March 26, 2012

"Good morning, Caleb." Leah Prentiss- Reid greeted Caleb Curtis, stand-in TA for Agent Hotchner's team, from the doorway of the lair. "You look a bit troubled. Anything I could help with?"

"Morning. And I don't think so, thanks though."

Leah nodded. "Well, we have a case."

Caleb left his chair and the lair and followed Leah to the briefing room.

He was "troubled". This was his last week working with this team before Garcia came back and he was sent to Crimes against Children. After this week he had no idea when he would see these people again, specifically JJ. He and JJ had agreed to a relationship, but he knew how crazy their lives were about to get. What he didn't know was when they would have time for each other. He didn't know if this relationship was really something worth trying, not because of anything about JJ, but because their schedules were so impossible.

It hurt to think about.

Caleb took his seat in the briefing room between JJ and Morgan as Leah began the debriefing.

"Okay, laddies and girlies, as your marvelous tablets will tell you, we are headed to Hebron, Texas." The media liaison said.

Caleb stopped breathing for a moment. "Why?" he croaked.

"Someone has taken it upon themselves to try and take out the Native-American population therein. Hey, are you all right? You're awfully pale."

"Hebron, uh, that's my home-town."

"Come with us then." Hotch spoke up.

Caleb nodded and Hotch told Leah to continue.

"All are male, Native-American, around thirty. There has been a murder every other night for a week, the first body was discovered on the twentieth, which means that we have until tonight to find this guy before he strikes again. There are as of now three bodies, Jake Wilson, Simon Brown, and Jason Clark."

"We can finish debriefing on the plane." Hotch said "Wheels up in twenty."

On the plane, Caleb asked Leah, "Have you found us a place to stay yet?"

"Not yet."

Caleb said, "I know a real nice B and B I can hook us up at."

"Sure. Thanks."

"No problem." Caleb hit a speed-dial on his cellphone. "Hi, Mama. It's Caleb."

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