DISSCLAIMER: I own nothing from Criminal minds but I think that's obvious because if I did JJ and Reid would be happily married with two kids (twins), Morgan and Garcia would be having a steamy love affair, and Hotch and Prentiss would MOST DEFINITELY be knocking boots on a regular basis, and none of you would be watching the show anymore. LOL.

Suffer the Little Children

Chapter One:

"Bobby, why do you always need to pick a fight with him?"

"Your brother is an asshole and for the record he started the whole thing."

"I swear to God you act like you're a five year old."

Bobby ignored his girlfriend switching on the high beams and turning the volume on the radio up.

"Oh that's real mature." She scoffed at him, folding her arms across her chest.

"Can we please just drop it?"

"Bobby, Mike is really important to me and if the two of you can't get along I don't see how we are going to be able to get married in June."

"I have an idea how about we don't invite your brother. He's got it in for me Trish and for some reason that escapes me he's trying to sabotage our relationship."

"Just watch the road Bobby."

"How can you not see what Mike is doing to us?"

"Bobby!" Trish screamed.

Bobby turned his attention back to the road and swerved just missing something that had come flying out of the woods. The dark blue Jeep came to a screeching halt and Bobby jumped out of the car.

"What the hell was that?" Trish asked opening up the passenger's side door and stepping out.

"I don't know, maybe it was a deer or something."

"Did you hit it?"

"Holy shit it's a person!" Bobby yelled and ran over to the crumpled body of a young girl. Even in the dark he could see that she had been badly beaten and she was barefoot. "Trish, call 911!"

Trish reached for her purse inside of the Jeep and pulled out her cell phone. "Hello? Hi we need help now! My fiancée are out on Juniper Road and there's a girl in the street. I think she's been hurt."

"It's going to be alright the police will be here any minute now."

The girl coiled up and shook her head violently. "No don't call the police! He said he was a cop and he killed them all! They're all dead! They're all dead!" She sobbed.


"Last night Stacey Winters of Hartford, Connecticut was found by to passersby's in the middle of Juniper road around midnight. She was badly beaten and had a minor concussion but the other four girls who were spending the night at her home were less fortunate." JJ informed the team as they came into the conference room and she handed them each a case file. "Stacey told the Hartford police that a man claiming to be a police officer knocked on her door around 9:30 pm and said that there had been a call about some suspicious activity going on at the residence. She let him into the house and he tied up each girl taking turns beating them and then drowning them in the upstairs bathtub one by one. The only reason that Stacey escaped was because she managed to slip out of the ropes and run out of the house while he was still in the bathroom with the fourth and last victim." JJ picked up the remote and pointed it at the screen bringing up several crime scene photos.

"Where were this kid's parents?" Morgan asked.

"Albert and Saundra Winters were out of town for the weekend."

"So the unsub must have been staking the place out for a while and that's how he knew the perfect time to strike." Prentiss said. "Where there any reports of rape?"

"No, none of the girls were sexually assaulted, just beaten and drowned."

"You mentioned that he disguised himself as a police officer to gain access into the house." Reid said. "That isn't uncommon for a killer to pretend to be some type of authority figure to trick a victim into trusting them, especially if he was dressed as a police officer."

Garcia came into the room and immediately regretted it when she caught a glimpse of the crime scene photos. She covered her face with the file she was holding and turned away. "Um hi, it looks like officer evil has struck again. The Hartford authorities just called in and said that a local high school teacher, Martin Brown, age 58, was murdered in his home this morning. Witnesses said that they saw a police officer at his door and one of his friends drove by and found his body when he didn't show up for work."

"Did they say how he was murdered?" Hotch asked.

"Yeah, he was tied up and beaten and then drowned in his own bathtub." Garcia said. "Can I go now?" Hotch nodded a yes and she quickly handed over the file and got out of the conference room as fast as she could.

"The M.O. is the same but how did the unsub jump from a group of 15 year old girls to a 58 year old high school teacher?" Hotch asked the team.

"There has to be some type of connection but one thing we do know is that the unsub definitely wants his victims to suffer." Morgan said.

"Looks like we're going to Hartford, Connecticut." Hotch told the team.