This is as case-fic but also has a lot of Reid centred things in it as well. I've never written a Criminal Minds fanfiction before so I really hope you like it. And I do know, that Emily isn´t in the TV-show anymore, but since I´m not from an English speaking country I haven´t seen the new episodes and decided just to keep her. So, hope you like it and I really wanted to thank all of my readers and especially two friends of mine which are actually both called Sarah XD , for helping me to bring up those ideas for the story and reviews would be wonderful
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Ps.: Criminal minds doesn´t belong to me, all rights go to the owners of the show.
The whole BAU-Team, except for their youngest member Spencer Reid, was gathered in the conference room. Their latest case just came in, but it was more than weird that Reid was late, normally; he was the first one in and that, of course worried all of the team-members. They had already started to discuss the case, when Reid barged in, looking … actually looking sick. He was paler than normally, had deep dark rings under his eyes and seemed to be really stressed out.
Worried glances were sent at him when he appeared, but Reid didn´t bother to explain, why he looked that way and neither, why he was unpunctually. Hotch kept his glance at him until he started speaking.
"I´m sorry I´m late" was all they got from him before he took a seat and looked straight at Garcia, who greeted him with a warming smile before continuing.
"No damage done my boy genius, we´ve just started" she pressed the button of the remote and immediately six faces appeared on the screen.
"Ok we have six dead bodies in two weeks; all found in in San Francisco … Lexi Tompkins, Ashley Mason, Caroline Green, Olivia Branson, Alexia Richardson and Maria Kenton. Tompkins, Mason and Green were reported missing two weeks ago and found 7 days later. At the same day those bodies were found, Branson, Richardson and Kenton were reported missing and again found exactly one week later."
"3 woman a day, that's a lot … what about the killing?" Morgan asked.
"Well, that´s the part where it gets creepy … They were all found at the same place and always one woman had her eyes … ahem blinded, one´s mouth was burned with acid and one´s ears were cut off. That was done to them, when they were still alive and the actual cause of that was a shot in their head…"
"So they were all kidnapped and killed at the same time … Where did they find the bodies" JJ threw in as a question.
"They were all found in the same park, but not at the same place" the Tech-Analyst explained.
"He has to be really organized if he´s able to kidnap three woman a day; I don´t think that those killings were unplanned. But why does he take them to a park. There are many other ways to hide dead bodies, he´s going a risky way…" Rossi explained.
"He´s taking away their ability to hear, talk and see, that has to have a meaning to him" Morgan continued before Hotch stated "Ok wheels up in 30 San Francisco is a long way, we´ll continue the briefing on the jet" and everyone left. But they all noticed that Reid hadn´t lost a word during the briefing, not even rambled one of his beloved facts.
Morgan couldn´t help himself but to wonder what has happened. Reid was never quiet and he was never late so he thought it might was the time for a little chat. While everyone went out to get their go-bags for the jet he took his young colleague aside.
"Hey kid, is everything alright, you were late and didn´t lose a word in there, what´s going on?"
"Nothing Morgan, really I just slept in and …" Morgan laid his hand onto Reid´s shoulder and looked at him even more concerned.
"Pretty boy you do know you can tell me everything. Look, you seem to be completely stressed out, so what …" but he was interrupted by an outburst from Reid…
"Just leave me alone, nothing has happened alright…" and with that he turned around and left. Morgan looked stunned after his young friend. Why would he behave that way … he never yelled, especially at him. Now he was more worried than before and decided to leave it like that and ask him again when they were alone.
When everyone was together in the jet, the briefing continued. The whole team was gathered on the plane when Garcia´s face appeared on the laptop.
"So my friends, I´ve already checked their background and they had nothing to do with each other. They were all from different sociality's, were living in different areas and had different jobs. Sarah Tompkins and Ashley Mason were both married, Caroline Green and Olivia Branson had a boyfriend and Alexia Richardson and Maria Kenton were both single except for … oh … Maria Kenton was a single mother of a two year old boy…"
"So he most probably doesn´t know his victims, he just chooses them after their looks?"
"You´re probably right Emily, every woman had brown hair, JJ stated, but the thing with the eyes, noses and ears, that remembers me of something …"
"The three wise monkeys …" Reid mumbled absently.
"You mean that statue with the apes?" Rossi asked.
"Yeah, that statue comes from Japan and is called the three wise apes. You´ve probably seen it before three monkeys, one has his hands over his mouth, one over his ears and one over his eyes. It means see no evil, say no evil and hear no evil. They stand for beeing of good mind, action and speech ..."
Everyone was kind of relieved that Reid had decided to talk again, but they knew too that something was wrong. All of them had heard that Reid has been yelling at Morgan and noticed, that he kept glancing at his phone, even though he tried to hide it. Because of the argument he and Reid had had earlier, Morgan had decided to give him some space and leave him alone … at least for a while.
"So maybe this UnSub wants control of those women. Maybe they had done something he thought he had to punish them for" JJ threw in.
"My lovelies I´ve checked theses women´s background and I´ve got to tell you … I found nothing. No crimes in their youth, no uncommon things at all really nothing…"
"But baby girl have you checked if they had had anything in common like…"
"Derek as much as I love you would you please stop interrupting I haven´t finished my speech yet … I´ll promise you I´ll dig in the dirt to find out anything that could have made them…
Suddenly, they were interrupted by Reid´s phone. He abruptly stood up and walked towards the rest room so that none would hear them.
"Hey what is wrong with Reid, guys?" Emily asked.
"I´ve no idea at all but there´s definitely something I mean … the way he behaved today, the glancing at his phone and he yelled at me earlier when I asked him about it" Morgan told his team.
"You know, maybe…" JJ started, but stopped immediately when he came back. Even though it was hard for them to think it was possible, he looked worse than before … he actually looked, wrecked.
"Reid, is everything alright?" Hotch asked the young genius. He just nodded, still staring at the floor, not daring to look at them. Everyone noticed the tension but they decided to keep it that way, even though every single one of them wanted to talk to him later.
"Ok guys … ahem … I´ll go back searching ... ok" Garcia said and the screen went black, before the jet touched the ground.
"Well, here we go; Morgan thought, we are in San Francisco and have to find a murderer that kills three women a day and on the other hand, we have to figure out what´s wrong with the kid. Well, let´s see what other surprises this trip will bring to us…" But he had no idea, how many were already waiting for them.
