Hello, hello! So, my first Criminal Minds fic. I've now watched the first six series having discovered the show a month ago (incidentally, how did everyone else find it that first time?).
Short chapter to start, but the rest will be longer.
"Morgan!"
Morgan looked up. Reid was surging towards him, coffee in hand. He almost collided with another agent, only just stopping in time, smiling awkwardly as the woman passed. He spotted Morgan looking at him, and his face brightened.
"Morgan!" he called again.
"What is it Reid?"
Reid grinned at him as he reached his desk. "I got new socks."
Morgan furrowed his eyebrows and looked at his companion, waiting for an explanation. When none came, he tilted his head to one side. "…So?"
"So don't you want to see them?" He actually sounded disappointed.
"I don't know why you can't just expla – ah Reid, no don't, don't -! Ugh…"
It was too late, he knew. Reid had already placed his foot on the desk and was rolling up his trousers. "See?"
Morgan looked. They were black, with 'Monday' sewn across the top in white. "What about them?"
Again, Reid seemed disappointed at his friend's lack of enthusiasm. "So they're labelled."
The older agent chuckled. "Wait a sec, Reid. Are you seriously telling me you only just discovered these?"
"You've seen them before…?"
"Come on guys, JJ's got a case." Hotch's voice descended on them before Morgan had a chance to answer, so instead he simply smiled, punched Reid playfully on the arm and headed toward the meeting room.
"Three victims so far in Kansas City, Missouri. All were homeless males between the ages of 25 and 35, shot at range in the back or the back of the head in an alley, the first with a shotgun, the second two with a revolver."
"Different weapons, shot in different places, low risk victims, a dangerous neighbourhood… how can we be sure this is the same UnSub?" asked Emily.
"Because of this," said JJ, pressing a button on the remote. A picture appeared on the screen of a piece of bloodied paper with the letters 'B.A.U.' on it.
"Well I can see why it was sent to us," said Reid, with a grim smile.
"Was this found on all the victims JJ?" asked Hotch.
"All of them. And there's something else."
Everyone looked at her expectantly. She nodded at their files. "Check out the time between murders."
"Three weeks between the first two… and another four days to til the third," Reid read aloud, having located the relevant information first. "That's quite an escalation."
"Maybe the new weapon worked for the UnSub and gave them more confidence," suggested Morgan.
Hotch made a noise of agreement. "Whatever the reason we're looking at another murder very soon." He began to get up. "We'll discuss it on the plane."
I will warn you at this point, I am not American and am liable to get some facts about the geography and other things wrong. England and the US are surprisingly different.
Review please?