A/N: I don't own any of the Criminal Minds characters and I am not making any money from writing this.
Please forgive any minor spelling or grammar mistakes, English is not my native language.
The strangest thing happened to me a month ago. I literally dreamed the way season ten finale would play out. And so I finally got around to writing it. This is is a case!fic and this story will end on a cliffhanger and have a sequel to follow immediately after, as a final episode so to say. Both stories will be five chapters long. It will deal with the human traficking ring shown in "X" and the stalker targeting Kate's niece and her friend, first shown in The Boys of Sudworth Place.
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Kate rushed out of her car, not bothering to lock the door behind. She ran over to the cabin, grabbed at the door knob and was surprised to find the dopr unlocked. She didn't think much about that and she just rushed in.
She stopped in her tracks upon seeing a young woman, that she had only met two days ago, sitting in an armchair, gun in her hand. There was a large pool of blood on the floor; still fresh, judging by the smell. Kate was so shocked that she didn't even reach for her gun.
"You...", she whispered, tears building up in her eyes. "You..."
The brunette didn't look up. "I did what had to be done", she said, her voice a mixture of sadness, determination and... guilt?
Kate glared at her, terrified. "What happened?", she asked desperately, her eyes closing back and forty around the room, looking for clues that could help her shed some light on the situation. She noticed nothing helpful.
The woman looked up at her, but didn't raise her gun. "Spencer didn't survive."
~FIVE DAYS BEFORE~
"Oh..."
Alan sighed before taking a sip of water, lying his back against his pick up truck parked near by. He and his friend Howard had just finished a lot of pipe related work in Quantico Military Base and Howard had just been digging their way to the last pipe. Alan looked around, growing impatient. It was so hot...
Once he turned his attention back to Howard, he noticed that his friend had slowed down, something othet than the pipe in the ground catching his attention. "Something wrong?", Alan asked, annoyed.
Howard moved to the side, pulling a bag closer for a more detail examination. "Something is buried in here... a trash bag."
Alan rolled his eyes in annoyance, looking at the side. "What a surprise."
"There's something inside...", Howard noted before looking inside the bag in order to examine the content.
It took him a few seconds to realize what was inside, and much less to climb back up out of the hole, screaming with the terror in his eyes.
"Oh, crap!"
Alan nearly jumped in place, then immediately turned his attention to the the hole and he bag laying on the bottom of it.
He screamed too, upon seeing a dismembered torso sticking out.
~THREE DAYS LATER~
Within three days, early in the morning, all BAU members were sitting around their table in the conference room, studying case files-except for Penelope who had been standing near by, about to start with her presentation.
She tried to hide a disgusted look on her face as she pressed on the remote, making crime scene photographs and forensic reports appear on the screen. "Two days ago workers who were fixing some underground pipes had discovered thirty dismembered human torsos buried all over Quantico Military Base", she explained, ignoring the strange feeling in her stomach. "I mean, they only discovered one, but then the police was called in, the area was searched and... ta-da! Mass grave."
"Some are just mildly decomposed while some had been reduced to nothing but skeletons by now", Aaron read.
"Forensic anthropologists estimate that the oldest torsos, so to say, had been buried there for about two years, more preserved ones for about two weeks", Spencer exclaimed.
"Meaning that the killer is probably somebody who has a constant access to the base over least last two years", Derek concluded. "Maybe a sergeant or one of the employees."
David wasn't convinced. "Not necessarily. All torsos had been buried on relatively remote and wide area locations."
"Which would explain why they hadn't been discovered for so long", JJ concluded.
"But still, to keep sneaking into a military base gor years, bury human torsos there and never get caught... that sounds very far fetched", Derek pointed out.
"Search recovered no other body parts but torsos", Kate read.
"Maybe the killer takes other body parts with him as trophies. Or for cannibalistic purposes", JJ suggested.
"Nobody is burying human body parts in the military base because of convenience. That place must have mean something to him", David concluded.
"Meaning that he might be burying other body parts somewhere else", Aaron pointed out.
"And we should look into people who have long history and relations regarding that place", Spencer noted.
"But no ask employes or soldiers since the killer probably still has access to that place", JJ added
"Are there any evidence to suggest that the killer may have some medical knowledge?", David asked.
Spencer took another look at the autopsy report. "According to a few preliminary autopsy reports, no. But it looks like he did grow more... experienced over time."
"And all bodies had been dismembered with the hand saw", JJ read."The same hand saw."
Spencer continued reading. "He did some over and inside the trash bags, probably to keep the bodies from smelling, but he also stuffed some trash into the bags, over the torsos: old newspapers, soda cans, rotten vegetables..."
"Maybe as a forensic countermeasure", Kate suggested. "To make bodies decompose faster and degree the possible forensic evidence."
"No official cause of that could have been determined, but there are obvious signs of violence on the bodies. Bruises, broken ribs, cuts and shallow stan wounds... even some burns."
"Murder, preceeded by torture", Aaron concluded.
"There is some evidene, although not really conclusive, that the victims might have been alive at the time they were dismembered."
Penelope groaned and looked away for a moment, and some people sighed. Even Spencer looked kinda uncomfortable.
"Pure sadist", Aaron eventually concluded.
"At least, with his burial sight now exposed and his victims about to be identified, he won't be able to keep up with the killings as easily as he once could", JJ suggested.
"But he won's stop either", Aaron concluded, standing up. "Wheels up in thirty."
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A man in black leather jacket with sunglasses and a baseball cap on was sitting in his car, parked safe distance away from Kate's house, but close enough for him to be able to see Meg leave for school in her father's car, wearing that cute little red top again. He took a deep breath as the car drove away, shivering at the knowledge that he will have her soon.
~OPENING ROLES AND CREDITS~
