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Shivering she stepped out of the winter air and through the professional glass doors. Her heels made soft clicking sounds against the hard floor, looking down she smiled at the contrast between the mundane grey of the tiles and her cerise heels. She slid her faux fur jacket off her shoulders and placed it in a tray with her cerise handbag, to be scanned, she then briskly walked through security.

'Hi Studman Stan'

Despite Stan being in his early 60's and slightly rotund Garcia felt the need to make him smile, it was just who she was.

'Another early one pickle?'

Stan treated her like the daughter he never had, it made Penelope feel special, as no'one had treated her as a daughter since the tragic death of her parents and she didn't always realise how amazing it felt.

'Unfortunately, it's 5am! I only left here 6 hours ago, I may move in' she teased 'Hows the new hip feeling?'

Penelope held genuine concern for this man, he was the oldest security guard and had recently hurt his hip badly due to a breach of security, without him knowing she had paid for him to have it replaced.

'I feel 21 again darling, I can't believe they did it for free'

His massive smile was a Penelope needed as a thank-you, seeing him happy and healthy made her glad she had done it, this way he could afford to buy his wife flowers.

'Anyway Pen you have a job and I am not going to be responsible for you getting fired! Get going!'

Penelope grabbed her coat and bag, gave Stan a kiss on the cheek and dashed towards the elevator, shouting 'See you later Stan' over her shoulder. Stan stood and chuckled at the rainbow coloured hurricane that was Penelope Garcia.

Penelope practically sprinted to her office once she reached her floor, in the elevator she had downloaded the case information and it was the worst one she had seen in a while. As she hurried through the bullpen she kept her head down scanning her tablet, sorting out the briefing.

*bang*

She had walked straight into the very hard chest of Agent Morgan.

'Haye baby girl, slow down. Where's your head at mama?'

The delicious agent was grasping her waist to steady her, he had one eyebrow raised in a questioning manner. Penelope was clutching at his shirt to prevent toppling over, she had never noticed just how hard Morgan's chest was and definitely didn't know they could cause slight concussion. Looking into his eyes she felt all of her worries disappear.

'urm yeah, sorry hot stuff, the new case just knocked me for six, baby it is bad'

'they all are dollface'

'no Derek' she sighed 'this one is worse than anything I have ever seen'

'it will be okay baby girl, lets go the the conference room'

Together they walked in silence, as they reached the door Garcia could feel the bile rising in her throat and in an attempt to suppress it she aimed a flirty comment at Derek;

'Morgan, one more thing, get your abs registered as a weapon, i swear i have concussion hot stuff'

They both grinned at each other, grateful for the distraction and took their seats waiting for the rest of the team.

Last of the team to enter the room was Blake, no'one spoke, the seriousness of the situation hit each one of them, if Garcia was not smiling there was no way any of them would be able to.

Slowly Garcia rose from her seat and began the brief;

'Morning, we've caught a bad one...An unsub is taking young women' Pictures of the first victim appeared on the screen 'This is Meridith Summers, she was taken 1 year ago ad 3 days later she was found like this' The next picture showed the girl completely disfigured with the word IMPERFECT cut into her body 'The word is written 27 times on her body, her genitalia is cut off and was found in her stomach, alone this case would be horrific but...'

Penelope's voice trailed off, the screen was then filled with more womens' faces, another slide of faces appeared and another.

'Penelope, how many are there?' Hotch asks sternly.

'51 sir.'

'Why haven't we been called in before?'

'The unsub crosses state lines, no'one wants the case. Each State deals with their own bodies. California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Idaho. This unsub has killed steadily over 1 year, a girl a week and this morning another was taken, Nevada police called for us'

The room was silent, not even Dr Reid could mumble statistics at this point.

'Penelope, you are coming with us, we'll need you. Everyone, wheels up in 15mins'

'Yes Sir' everyone replied before going to get their go-bags.