Criminal Minds

"Murders in Twilight"

Ch.1- Victims of Twilight

Forks, Washington

April 8, 2010

Jessica Bowman was a spirited young lady with long brown hair and a fast mouth that was made for gossip. At this very moment she was putting her mouth to good use talking nonstop on her cell phone as she walked from her car to her house. Just as she placed her key in the key hole Jessica swore she heard someone behind her, turning around she didn't see anyone behind her. Her suspicions suppressed Jessica turned back to the door and continued to open it. Walking into her house while still yammering on her phone Jessica turned around to close the door when she was overrun by an assailant dressed all in black. Jessica released a blood curdling scream as the person advanced and began his work…

May 9, 2010

Quantico, Virginia

FBI BAU Headquarters

Just inside the BAU headquarters of the FBI SSA Jaureau sat at her desk with Jessica Bowman's case file open in front of her. Having read the file and others with the same M.O., JJ got up and made her way to Hotch's office with files in hand. Outside Hotch's office JJ lightly knocked on the door frame. From inside the office came the response of, "come in." Opening the door JJ walked straight to Hotch, who was sitting behind his desk, and placed the file onto his desk. As Hotch looked from the files and back to her JJ stated, "I have a new case…The Chief of Police in Forks, Washington sent me these case files. All three victims were killed the same way. There's more information but I would prefer to save it from when we have everyone together." Hotch nodded to what she said as he glanced at the files, and then asked, "What are the names of the victims?" Looking down at her notes JJ replied, "Jessica Bowman, Mike Edenson, and Eric Porter."If Jotcj recognized the name of the town or the significance of the victims names JJ couldn't tell. Standing up and handing JJ the files Hotch said, "Gather everyone and have them meet in the conference room, including Garcia." JJ gave a curt nod and a small smile at the last part of Hotch's directions; Garcia would be extremely interested in the case and would understand the significance of all the names. Having received her instructions JJ left Hotch's office and set out to inform everyone about the meeting in the conference room. Thirty minutes later JJ walked into the conference room, and was met by just about the whole team, minus a couple of people. Inside the conference room there was a giant circular table directly in front of a double bulletin board to hold case photos and in front of the board was a big flat screen TV to display more photos. Finding her seat at the giant table JJ looked around to see who all was there; to her right sat David Rossi wearing jeans, a light blue dress shirt, and a navy blue dress jacket. Next to him was Emily Prentiss in a dark gray dress jacket with a white button down shirt and matching gray dress pants. And next to her was Dr. Spencer Reid in his usual geeky attire- a dark green button down sweater over a white collar shirt complete with a green and blue tie. On JJ's left sat Aaron Hotchner, who was wearing his usual black suite and a dark blue tie. Around the table there were two empty seats reserved for Agent Morgan and Penelope Garcia-Morgan. At that moment agent Morgan entered the conference room closely followed by Garcia, who slowly waddling, made her way to the last remaining seat. When everyone was finally seated JJ got up and from her seat and stood near the board. At this everyone turned in her direction; seeing this JJ pressed a button on the remote in her hand and the picture of Jessica Bowman's body came up on screen. Immediately JJ began, "This is one photo of three different murders that occurred in Forks, Washington this past April. The chief of police sent me the photos. This first photo is of Jessica Bowman, she was found dead just inside her house with the door wide open." Having said this JJ then pressed the button again and two more pictures appeared on screen both of them were of boys. The middle picture was a boy with blonde hair wearing a green sports sporting goods store vest; the third was of a boy with layered shoulder length black hair in a dress shirt and tie. Once again JJ began, "These are the other two victims-the middle photo is of Mike Edenson- he was found dead next to the side of the giant sporting goods store in Forks. And the other photo is of Eric Porter- he was found dead near the woods behind Forks High School…" At that moment Hotch interjected, "all three victims were eighteen years old, and they were all killed the same way- stabbed multiple times all over the chest, and each had a bite mark on their right wrist." Hearing what Hotch had revealed JJ nodded. Just then Morgan spoke, "Forks? Isn't that the town where the Twilight series take place in?" Before JJ could respond Garcia said, "That's the place. What's weird is that each victim has the same first name of certain characters from the books, they even look like the characters too."At that time before anyone could add anything else Hotchner added, "We can discuss that later…" Turning to JJ, "call the air lines and have them prep the jet…" Turning to everyone else in the conference room he continued, "get your to go bags ready, we leave in thirty minutes." As Morgan rose to help Garcia up from her chair Hotch added, "Garcia, if you feel you can handle it we would like for you to along with us to Forks." That said Garcia stood there in utter shock. As she remained quiet Morgan spoke up, "Hotch are you sure she should fly in her condition?" Hotch gave a shrug as he replied, "the decision is up to you and Garcia. I think she will be really important to the case seeing that she seems to know a lot about the books." A she heard this Garcia reached for Morgan's hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze as she said, "I'll be fine Derek, I'll be extremely careful, I promise." Then receiving a reluctant nod from Morgan Garcia turned to Hotch and said, "thank you sir, I would love to come along." Hotch gave a nod and said, "Ok, then I will see you both on the plane." With that the three of them exited the conference room and went to pack their bags.

Thirty minutes later everyone made their way onto the jet. At that moment they were only missing one person, Dr. Spencer Reid, who was the last to board the plane. Garcia was already settled in one of the seats with her laptop open on the table in front of her. Morgan was settled in the seat next to her, Hotch and the rest of the team were seated in the other seating areas throughout the jet. When the jet was finally in the air everyone gathered around the table area where Morgan, Garcia and Hotch were seated and they all reread the case files. After looking over the case file Rossi with a confused expression on his face asked, "… the bite marks on the victims' right wrists, what do they symbolize? Do they have a certain meaning?" Before Garcia could answer Prentiss said, "Well in the Twilight movie one of the vampires bit Bella on her right wrist. Same as our victims, and like all vampire legends the vampire bite is what changes them. That's just the movie; I assume it's like that in the book as well?" At that slight question Garcia answered, "No, in the book the vampire, James, bit Bella on her right hand." Having this information Prentiss just gave her a nonchalant nod. Still confused Rossi said, "I'm sorry but Twilight was never on my reading list. So what does the bite mark mean or symbolize?" Garcia had her mouth slightly open as she thought of a response but it was Reid who responded, "The bite mark could be a reference to the books and movies, but it could also symbolize the eternal life that comes with being bitten by a vampire." With that Rossi nodded and said, "Let's just leave it at that." Having heard the discussion Hotchner added, "We can hold off on the meaning of the bite mark till later when we learn more about the Unsub." At that everyone nodded in understanding. Garcia went back to her laptop; she was working on finding a connection to the three victims. Suddenly Garcia let out a groan and immediately grabbed at her upper chest. Seeing this Morgan straightened up and grabbed Garcia's free hand as he asked, "Garcia you ok?" Taking a relaxing breath Garcia gave Morgan a reassuring squeeze as she said, "yeah, I'm fine. The baby just gave me a hard kick in the ribs." At this the rest of the team breathed sighs of relief while Morgan gave a small grin before returning to the case file. When they neared the air strip at Port Angeles, Hotchner stood and said, "when we land we will be split up into teams; JJ and Garcia will head to the Forks Police Department and meet with the Chief and set up base. Morgan you will go with them to the station and there one of the deputies will go with you to the Bowman residence to talk to the parents and you can have a look at where the crime scene had been…" Receiving a nod from Morgan, JJ and Garcia Hotchner continued, "Reid and Rossi will leave the air port and head straight to the Edenson crime scene at the sporing goods store, maybe you can talk to the store manager as well. As for Prentiss and me we will be going to the Porter crime scene behind Forks High School. There we will interview the person who discovered the body, as well as talk to the school faculty." Directions and partners assigned everyone gave nods of understandings as they gathered their belongings so they could exit the jet when it landed.