Authors Note: i do not own Criminal minds or the original characters that are one the show. i do however own Emma and Sophie.
Criminal minds belongs to Jeff Davis
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Emmeline Michelson stood at her desk in her office. She had a book signing in New York City tomorrow morning and her editor would kill her if she didn't make it in time. She looked from her desktop to her bookshelf. She had spent years studying literature and creative writing and even mythology. She was only twenty-nine years old and was considered a master in mythology and literature.
Emmeline turned on her TV and the news was covering a series of murders and being interviewed was SSA Aaron Hotchnor from the Behavior Analysis Unit giving the profile of the killer. She also felt an interest in these profiles and how these special agents could read people's behavior. Her work phone rang surprising her. Emma picked up the phone and answered.
"Hello?" she said.
"Emmeline Michelson, this is Chief Strauss from the BAU if you don't mind coming down to my office, we have some business to talk about."
Emmeline was speechless and had no idea how to answer.
"Yes ma'am." She said without thinking
She hung up the phone and packed up her stuff and went out the door to her house.
Emmeline walked into the big and roomy office. She looked around.
"Emmeline welcome please sit down my name is Erin Strauss." The blond haired woman said.
"Thank you and please call me Emma" she replied as she sat down.
"Emma, I called you here because the director wants you to consult in this case that our team is working on, has a few factors that would be on your level of expertise." Chief Strauss explained to her.
Emmeline looked at the blond haired woman for a while.
"What 'few factors' are we talking about?" she asked out of interest.
Chief Strauss pushed a vanilla folder toward her. Emma picked it up and opened it. What she saw wasn't something that she ever wanted to have to see ever in her live. The body of a young woman had been stabbed multiple times but it was the symbols on their wrists that caught her eyes. They were cut no craved into their wrists.
"This is terrible" Emma whispered more to herself. "But I don't see what I can do. I just have degrees in literature, writing, and mythology. I don't have any expertise in any of this stuff."
Chief Strauss sighed and nodded.
"I understand this is hard to take in, but the team needs your expertise on the symbols that are carved into their wrists. They think it's a mythological symbol that the unsub has a connection too. So if you're willing, you will join the team as a temporary consultant, you will stay with a member of the team at all times and will not go anywhere without one of them, are we clear."
Emmeline sighed and looked over the file once again.
"Okay, I'll do it" she finally said.
Chief Strauss nodded and shook her hand. Emma took the file home with her. She sat at her desk and looked at the symbol on the victim's wrist looked familiar to her but she couldn't place it. Emmeline closed the file and called her editor to tell her that she wouldn't make it to the signing tomorrow. She looked back at the file, with what she was going to tell her editor, she hoped that she wasn't going to be a victim in one of those files afterwards.
Emily Rhodes looked around the dark room. The last thing she remembered was walking home from work and then being knocked unconscious. She had no idea where she was or why she was here. Her arms and feet were chained to something in the ground. There was a wet sustenance all over her and around her. She noticed a strange symbol curved on her arm, her blood flowing down onto the floor. Emily felt adrenaline running through her.
"Someone there… anyone?" she screamed as she saw a dark figure above her. "Please let me go."
The figure didn't move until it picked up a pack of matches from a nearby table and lit up one of the matches.
"Please I'll do anything" Emily screamed with fear.
The figure dropped the match onto the substance around Emily's body. She screamed in agony as the heat hit her flesh.
Emma nervously entered the office of Aaron Hotchnor the unit chief. She peaked around the doorway as he waved her in the office.
"You must be Emmeline Michelson. Chief Strauss said you would be consulting on this next case" Aaron Hotchnor said formally as he shook her hand and gestured her to have a seat.
"Please Sir Call me Emma and you would be correct. I have looked over the case last night" She said as she sat down.
Aaron looked at her.
"That's good. I have looked over your file that Chief Strauss gave me and I can see why she put you on as a consultant. It's a pleasure to have you aboard. "He said with a smile.
Emma could tell that he had been in this job for a long time. His eyes and face told her all she needed to know.
"Oh and call me Hotch everyone on the team does." He spoke again as he looked back at the file.
"Um sir the team is ready..." said a blonde woman. "Oh… I'm interrupting. I'm so sorry."
Hotch looked up.
"It's alright Garcia, this is Emma, and she will be consulting on this case." He introduced.
Emma stood up and looked at Garcia with an awkward smile.
"I am Penelope Garcia technical analysis" she said as she shook Emma's hand.
"Get your go bags" Hotch said as he stood up and walked past them.
Emma and Garcia looked at each other and walked after him. They walked into a room with a round table at the center and a screen in front of it.
"This is Emmeline Michelson, she will consulting on this case with us. These are Agents Morgan, Rossi, Prentiss, Jareau, and Doctor Reid." Hotch said as he sat down in his seat next to Rossi and Morgan.
Emma smiled at each of them as Garcia pulled up an extra chair for her next to Reid. Emma smiled and thanked her as she sat down and looked at the screen.
" Twenty six year old Cassandra York was stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen about a month ago, then last night Emily Rhodes who was Twenty three was burned to death. Both girls had an odd symbol on their wrists Cassandra's body was found downtown in an alley and Emily's body was found up town in a park." Garcia said as she brought up pictures of the girls on the screen.
"Well the killer has a type for women in their twenties, any sexual assault?" Morgan asked.
Garcia shook her head.
"No both girls did not have sex before they died and there was no DNA found on them or their clothes and there were no signs of a sexual attack." She replied.
"The killer goes from downtown in an alley to uptown in a park. One body is burned and the other is stabbed. Is this really the same unsub?" Rossi asked.
"Both women had a strange symbol on their wrists." Garcia said and pulled up the pictures.
"Could be the unsub signature." Jareau said.
"Unsub?" Emma asked.
"Stands for Unknown Subject, it's what we call the killers." Rossi explained. "The signature is what makes the unsub unique, it's how we know the victims belong to this certain killer."
Emma looked at him in awe. This people were more experienced and complex then she thought. It wasn't going to be easy to catch up with them.
"Both marks are different on each victim and by the looks it seems to be post mortem to the stabbings and the burning. "Reid said so fast that Emma could feel her head spin.
"The director wants this case to be solved soon with these two bodies, there is sure to be more bodies." Hotch said. "Morgan and Rossi go check out the crime scenes; JJ and Prentiss go to the families' houses and learn more about the victims try to find out why they were targeted. Reid, you and Emma go to the morgue to see the bodies, try to figure out what those symbols mean and the cause of death. Garcia dig into the financials of both victims also look for any gangs in the crime scene areas..."
"Also look for any occult's in the area. maybe they are part of a cult of some kind." Reid told Garcia.
"What makes you say that" Morgan asked Reid.
"These symbols do not look like they're from any kind of gang; they are too dark and specific, they look more symbolic for something and by the looks of them, they seem like something from an occult." Reid explained.
Emma looked at Reid as he explained. She wondered how he could talk so much and so fast.
Garcia nodded and said "okay will do."
Everyone got up to do their assigned jobs. Emma followed after the tall and skinny Doctor Reid who had strange hair. They all gathered into the elevator.
"I'll call as soon as I something pops. Be Safe!" Garcia yelled as the elevator's doors closed in her face.