Disclaimer: I do not own criminal minds, but this idea came to me and I feel like based on Reid, this story could actually happen. I'll try my best to make Reid stay in character, best to my ability, but this is my story and I'll try to make it as good as it seems in my head. Lastly, forgive any errors and mistakes I make this is one of my first attempts and my head is swimming with ideas for this, anyways allow us to delve into my psyche and somewhat Dr. Spencer Reid's. I'll try to keep it all in third person with occasional delves into their minds with italics. Also, as for time line, it'll just kinda flow and adapt for itself. Set somewhere in season 7
"I HATE mornings" was all Jennifer Jareau thought to herself on this specific morning. It was unlike her to be the last one to arrive into the bullpen but after a long weekend spent with Henry, she was mostly drained.
"Long weekend?" asked Emily playfully.
"My son is just an endless fountain of energy, and sometimes I just can't keep up like I used to" replied an exhausted JJ.
"Maybe you should let him see his godmother more!" quipped an approaching Garcia. Morgan, Hotch, Rossi, and Reid all followed her into the conference room, since Garcia had found them a case. Everyone took their seats as Garcia started explaining the new case.
"6 children from ages 7-15 all have been abducted from the little city of Pebble Beach, California in the past 3 months. All from their homes sometime after midnight, always on a Sunday night." explained the technical analyst.
"Wait, 6 kids have been taken and just now the local authorities are calling in help?" asked a slightly annoyed and angry Morgan.
"Since no bodies were found they just had been assuming the kids were running away until they got a message after the 5th boy was taken that if he hadn't been stopped after the 7th child, one would turn up weekly until he was stopped." Garcia continued.
"We have to work fast, it's a long flight we'll talk more on the plane, wheels up in 30." demanded Hotch.
They all dispersed, gathered their things, picked up their go bags, some coffee, and proceeded to the plane.
"Alright, 6 boys all taken on a Sunday, after midnight, once he gets seven, he'll start executing them, what do we know?" asked JJ.
"From my estimations, this has some religious influence, always happens Sunday night, going into Monday morning, the sabbath day, once he hits seven, an important number in both Christianity and Judaism, he'll begin disposing of the children. Or since he's had some of these kids for months he just approximates he only has enough food and water for seven, or if this is of a sexual predatory since he may just, for lack of a better phrase "get bored" with the kids he's had the longest." rattled off everyone's favorite doctor.
"Reid has some good points and insight, I think a religious point of view is a good start" confirmed Hotch.
"Why target the children then?" asked Emily.
"Children are innocent, pure, mostly sin free, could be a pastor, rabbi, or some other religious authority figure gone mad, or feeling people need to repent." pondered Rossi.
"Alright, we're almost there, Morgan and Emily start with the parents of the first 3 children, Reid and JJ take the latest 3, Rossi and Emily start looking into local religious authorities and active members, and I'll head to the station. We all know time is of the essence, let's get this UNSUB before anything happens." said a stern and fired up Hotchner.
Not the best introduction to the story, but from here on out we're going to focus on JJ and Reid mostly, not a romantic story but one of their bond and friendship, and if you didn't like it please tell me, but take it easy on my already low self esteem :p