A/N: I don't own any of the Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 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.
This is a case!fic. Lots of focus on the case with character dynamic and possibly a B story in too. I imagine that it takes place somewhere at the beginning of season two. It takes place in 2012, since the first season ended a year prior. Beth lives. I may write the season two premiere and explain what happened after season one finale, but right now my inspiration is set on this story.
April 14th 2000
The room they were sitting in had been dull and lifeless. Nothing but pale white walls, ceiling and the floor of the same color, the blue table in the middle of the room, one chair in front of it's two ends, and a camera near by, that had been running. Nobody in there but the doctor, John Monk, age forty, and a fifteen year old boy, Michael Eggers.
And the question.
"Why did you do it, Michael?", John asked, again. His words echoed in that small, sterile room, his fingers tightening around the pen that he tapped against the notepad on the table in front of him.
Michael flinched a bit but didn't answer. He just kept staring back at the floor.
"You can tell me", John said, trying to sound assuring. Understanding.
Michael sighed.
"I just want to help you."
Michael eventually looked up at John, eyes wide, jaw clenched and lips quivering. Something about his eyes even made the psychiatrist shiver. "I guess I felt the need to", he said in a sore voice.
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September 29th 2012
The whole team was gathered around the table in the conference room, Sam being the latest to arrive. He sat at the head of the table before quickly handing every team member a copy of the case file.
"At five am yesterday, twenty nine year old man named Michael Eggers called 911 claiming that both his wife and sister in law had been seriously injured. The ambulance arrived seven minutes later." Beth shifted in her chair as she opened the case file. There was a family photograph at the beginning, on the top of the police report, showing the couple together at the garden party of the sort, smiling. Mike was a Caucasian man, about 5'11 tall, of average weight, short brown hair and brown eyes. Kate was a Caucasian woman, about 5'9 tall, slim, with long light brown hair and brown eyes. "Wife, twenty nine year old Kate, was rushed to the hospital, while her sister, thirty one year old Tracy, was pronounced dead at the scene." It wasn't long before Beth stumbled upon Tracy's photograph also. Tracy was a little taller than Kate, of average weight, with long curly blonde hair and blue eyes. Mick went on to studying an autopsy report, while Sam continued. "Kate had been stabbed twenty times over arms, stomach and chest, while Tracy had been stabbed five times in the chest. Kate's body was found in the kitchen while Tracy's body was found in the guest room. She was staying at Michael and Kate for a week while her house was being treated by an exterminator. Her husband and seven year old son were visiting her in laws. She and her husband had been living apart at the moment, but he has an alibi."
"There were traces of forced entry through the back door", Prophet read. "Somebody cut the phone lines too. Apparently, both women had been stabbed with the same weapon, a large stake knife found on the living room floor. There were horizontal blood drops leading from the guest house to the back door and to the kitchen. A single knife was missing from the kitchen knife set. The same like the one found on the living room floor. Kate survived the surgery and received a blood transfusion, but she is still critical and unable to communicate."
"Tool marks found on the lock to the guest room match the ones found on the lock to the back door to the kitchen", Mike read.
"And that is when the plot thickens", Sam exclaimed. "At around the afternoon that day, Michael's foster sister, thirty one years old Penny Sky, who is living in a near by town, went to the local precinct, claiming that she had heard about the murder on the radio and that she thinks that Michael might be involved."
"Based on what?", Mick asked.
Sam took a deep breath. "Based on the fact that, at the age of thirteen, Mike shot their foster father to death", he said, calmly. The rest of the team just stared with eyes wide in shock for a moment, and Gina gasped silently. Sam continued. "He tried to shoot her, too. It took them a while to check her story since his juvenile record had been sealed, but it turned out that she had been telling the truth. He was declared legally incompetent to stans trial and sent to the local psychiatric facility, from where he was released on his eighteenth birthday. He remains a free man since."
"Maybe not for long", Prophet sighed.
"That is definitely suspicious, but it doesn't mean that he must be responsible for this one too", Beth pointed out.
"They still want us to investigate", Sam explained, standing up. "And there is a high probability that profiling and a knowledge of criminal psychology will be needed. We're leaving in thirty minutes!"
Beth took one last look at the happy couple on the photograph and groaned. Some things really were too good to be true...
~OPENING ROLES AND CREDITS~