Chapter 1: Welcome to Miami

Quantico, Virginia

Emily Prentiss was standing in the air conditioned elevator as she waited to reach her floor in the building, coming into the office late, her alarm clock battery dying being the cause and staying up late through the night before, the same night she had every other night of loneliness in her apartment with her cat.

It was actually the call from her best friend, and co-worker J.J. that woke her from the deep sleep she was in and caused her to rush down to the office as best she could. Clothes were taken put on in a rush and she beelined through traffic and to the FBI building like the devil was chasing her.

As she came to the office floor, where she and the team normally worked, she could already see Jennifer Jareau and Spencer Reid packing up for the plane where J.J. immediately took notice to her and Emily asks "J.J, what's happening?"

J.J. herself seemed to be at a loss for an explanation herself as she answered the question "Not sure, Hotch just said that there were three FBI agents who were killed in Miami so we're going down to meet the only surviving agent on the case."

"Miami?" Emily asked in a complete moment of confusion that soon turned into glee as she was remembering that it was warm in Miami and seeing as how they were now barely out of December and still freezing, she would be glad to have a change of condition with some fresh warm air.

It was definitely one of the few times she would be glad to be late for work.

As she was collecting the few things from her desk that she would need, Reid took the time to give her one of the files and says "They left a copy for you to read."

Emily puts the files under her arm as she follows behind to the plane, taking a seat across from J.J. as they wait for the plane to take off. As she waited for the take off she opened the first file, three FBI agents from a Major Crimes Task Force were all killed with gunshot wounds that either killed them with a shot to the chest or one that grazed them on the arm.

What was strangest to read was that the bullets that killed the agents were all laced with a poison called Curare. The killer developed their own insurance that if the shot did not kill them than the poison would finish the job for them.

As Emily was reading the file on the three dead FBI agents, Steve Mercer, Chloe Bishop, Oliver Kenway; she soon began to realize she recognized the names as agents she had previously worked with before ten years ago in the Middle East when they were pursuing a terrorist group called the Archangels. Among the FBI team she had a friend, but when she checked for his name he was absent.

"Something wrong Emily?" J.J. asked, noticing her friend's confusion. Emily looks over to J.J, realizing that she was putting off a facial expression that gave concern and says "It's nothing J.J. I was just…I thought I recognized these names and I was hoping a friend of mine was the one we we're going to meet."

"Does this friend work with Major Crimes?" J.J. asked, then Emily replied "When I last saw him he was, an agent named Sean Pierce had been working with them for about a year or two when I last saw him."

J.J. seemed to recognize the name, showing by the way her eyes and facial expression reacted to the name and she says "There is a Sean Pierce in Miami, but he's not who we're going to see. He's one of the suspects."

"He's a suspect?" Emily asked and J.J. replies in confirmation "Yeah, the FBI team was following a lead that a terrorist group they were chasing was in Miami working with a local crime boss that Pierce works for. So far they had no evidence of any connection to the two until a couple of days ago, when all but one member of the team was killed."

The file gave no hint to the name of the terrorist group and asks "This group they were after, who are they? There's no name listed here on file."

"Some group the Team had been tracking for about ten years now. No name, just some kind of militia group that works in anti-government business. Though there were a few reports that Peirce made, he referred to them as a Suicide Squad."

"Are you serious?" Emily said, before she laughed at this, the name Pierce gave them sounded like something out of an old DC comic book or off of Smallville. It was the kind of thing she could expect of him, back when they were in the FBI academy she often could find him reading DC comics.

J.J. herself almost laugh saying "Garcia had the same reaction when she told us this. Apparently this group they were after all used similar methods that of DC comic villains use and they were never given a proper name so this bunch he nicknamed the Suicide Squad. Any other file or record of them is gone; when the shooter killed the FBI team he took the only existing files with him."

"So why would this militia be in Miami, don't they usually work through the mid west, like Texas and California? And how can there be no existing records in the database on them?"

"That's the interesting thing; this group the Task Force was tracking would perform certain killings or events in various parts of the country and rarely in the world before disappearing for long amount of time so there was barely any evidence on them to go on…this could be one of them."

"There is some good news though." Reid said from his seat as the plane was prepping for takeoff, being aware with the rest of the team of the conversation. Emily looks over to the young genius and asks "Oh yeah, and what would that be Reid?"

"Oliver Kenway and Sean Pierce remained in close contact with one another after he was removed from the Task Force, their Section chief even mentioned that he may have a copy of the files they had. He even suggested that any new details of evidence they collected, Kenway copied down on paper and reports then sent it to Pierce."

Emily could tell that Hotchner, Rossi and Derek were doing their best to avoid the conversation, going through the files they had on them and J.J. looks over to them before asking "Hey Derek you Rossi and Hotchner want to share your thoughts with the rest of the class?"

Hotchner knew more than he was letting on, but Derek was in more of a talkative mood than Rossi was "The only thing that I know for sure is that this Pierce guy knows what we need to know and an agent on the scene is waiting for us."

Emily lies back in her seat as the plane takes off saying sarcastically "Great, I get to see Sean again after a long time and odds are I'm going to have to arrest my friend; Great just great."

Miami, Florida early morning

Sean Hollow, formerly Sean Pierce, was preparing for work in the early morning, fitting on his Denim jacket as he was leaving.

He had heard the news over the TV, three FBI agents killed by a shooter; among those who were killed he was devastated to hear it was his childhood-friend Oliver was one of them, but life must go on. He imagined that Mr. Diamond would be expecting him in the same time today as he would be any other day.

From the desk by his TV he looks at his two weapons a Taurus PT92AFS and Para-Ordnance 1911, taking one for the day.

On the corner of his TV he had a brief glimpse of a photo that was taken of him and Oliver; it took a lot of strength to hold back the sadness as he put the picture away as he said "Goodbye Ollie." Then he left concealing his Taurus as he walked out the door of his home.

Later That Day

The Team arrived to the Miami police station as quickly as possible after their plane dropped off at the air port. The fresh air was warming and inviting, a complete opposite to the cold and chilling air back home in Virginia.

Alex Blake was the name of the FBI agent from the Major Crimes Task Force they came to see, her arm was being held up by a bandage; the wound she had was in her shoulder, the gunshot wound she received had the least amount of curare in it so she just barely survived the shooting.

As Alex was introduced to the team members it was clear that Reid, Rossi and Hotchner had some previous encounters with her in the past. Derek was more interested in the pictures they had on the nearby board.

He looks at the pictures asking "Who are all these people?" his attention being on two pictures of Sean Pierce and another man along with various other pictures.

Alex points to two of the men in the photo's as she begins to name them "This is John Diamond, he and his brother's run a few of the night clubs here in Miami until they were killed in a drive by shooting so not he's on his own. He also has been tied to a few of the local unsolved murders but no one could prove it so he's remained clean. These are his lieutenants Sibson and Vega; they on the other hand have been arrested for a few minor crimes, but the murder's slide. And lastly we have Sean Pierce."

Emily had her attention put into more focus after hearing Sean's name. Emily wanted to know why he was a suspect, but feared that her past friendship with him could have her taken off the case. J.J. instead asked the question that she was dying to know "Why is Pierce a suspect?"

Blake did not hesitate to answer the question, although some of the officers were giving the team an unfriendly look as she did "I had the same question for the police when we arrived. Pierce was not originally of any significance to the police when he arrived five years ago; a former FBI agent turned private investigator that Diamond made one of his security consultants. Then two years ago he began taking trips out of town to California, next thing the police know Diamond is armed with more hired muscle and fire power. Then two days before Oliver and the rest of the team were killed we received a call from Pierce saying that the killer he named Deadshot, was in town."

"How would Pierce even know what he looks like? No one has ever been able to get a good look at him in the Ten years he's been around." Rossi asked, showing some level of knowledge to the subject of the hunt, and Blake replies "Pierce has, out of all the agents to be in the Task Force he is the only one to ever get a glimpse of this sniper."

Hotchner was still quiet on the matter, he was withholding something. "Have you considered the possibility that Pierce did this?" he said bluntly, not holding anything back as to the questioning of Peirce's innocence. Alex was just as surprised to hear him asks this as Emily was.

Emily knew what kind of person Sean was, she knew him long enough to know that he would never kill Oliver and Chloe. Those two were like family to him, and he especially would never kill another FBI agent.

The expression that formed on Alex's face showed that she was thinking the same thing, showing that she had a different story to tell as she said "That's not possible, the night Kenway, Bishop, and Mercer were killed a camera caught Pierce coming home five blocks away. Besides that he also does not have any rifles, he has pistols, but no rifles."

Derek took a look at some of the crime scene photos from the crime scene where the dead agents were found. The origin of the shot was found to be from a building a mile away from the location along with various wrappers to snacks that suggested that the shooter was waiting for them when they arrived; whoever they were dealing with is methodical and calculating.

"What does Pierce do for Diamond? Aside from his security consultant work does he have any other job? Is Diamond aware that he used to be an FBI agent?" he asked.

The idea that an FBI agent would just turn on his own kind to work for a criminal did not make sense to him. The file on Pierce described him as reckless and insubordinate, but also with a burning hatred of criminals like Diamond, so the real question in his mind was why?

"Diamond has displayed some trust in Peirce, he's escorted him to various deals he's made, they both have been on various business trips to California and other states as well as foreign countries; I doubt anyone here knows he's an ex-FED. He's been living under the alias of Sean Hollow."

"Hollow?" Emily asked, recognizing the last name; causing Alex to look back as Derek asks "Do you recognize the name Prentiss?"

"Yes, um, a couple years back when I was in the Middle East he's working an undercover assignment for the task force. The alias he was under was the same, but I could have sworn after that they faked his death."

Alex watched as the two talked and cuts in at the end and asks "Was he posing as a mercenary?"

"Yes," Emily said, curious as to how she could possibly know that. Alex quickly follows up by saying "When Pierce arrive in Miami the police pulled up the name he gave them and by accident his alias popped up without giving any red flags, Diamond found every commendation on his resume to be what he was looking for."

Emily saw a recent photo of Sean as Alex was talking, he face looked no different to her, but in the picture he looked sadder then when she last saw him. As Alex finished talking she asks "Where would he be right now?"

Alex took a moment to answer the question, hesitant to do so. Since she arrived she witnessed the police interrogate Pierce and knew that he would not talk to them; she was under the assumption that they were wanting to do the same as the police and says "Why? The police have interrogated him ten times since my team came to Miami, he won't tell us anything."

"I just want to talk to him." Emily replies back. Alex then recalled how she remembered reading that Sean and Emily graduated into the FBI in the same year and were friends, and then suddenly she realized that maybe if he would not talk to herself or any of the police then maybe Prentiss could.

Finally she answers the original question "By now he would probably off work by now and at the Neon."

AN: Okay, finally done. I was planning on making this first arc to the story all on here, but decided to cut it up.

Also this story is set in an alternate storyline in which Emily never left the BAU.