The night air was warm as the agents of the BAU quietly crept around on the roof of the tall high priced hotel checking all corners and angles for the unsub they were seeking.
"Clear." Several different voices called as they continued to move around.
"We have bodies!" A female voice called to the others.
Foot steps could be heard moving to one spot near the edge of the building.
"Someone call the medics and secure the scene." A deep voice called.
Aaron Hotchner holstered his gun and began to make his way back to the stairs that led to the roof. Just before he reached the door a rustling noise caught his attention. He quickly pulled his gun and moved toward the noise.
"FBI. Show yourself!" He demanded.
Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid ran to their leader's side with their weapons drawn. "Don't shoot." A tiny female voice whimpered from the near by air vent she was hiding in. Slowly a figure emerged from behind the shadows covering the opening.
"Angel?" Spencer called putting his gun away and going to her.
"What the hell?" Morgan asked looking at Aaron who still had his gun aimed at the girl. She was trembling with fear and had tear stains on her cheeks.
"What are you doing here Angel?" Spencer asked.
"I I I..was hot and needed some air." Was all she managed to get out.
Aaron put his gun away and went over to assist Spencer with the frightened young woman.
"Did you see what happened?" Aaron asked.
All she could do was nod yes.
"Come on. We need to get you out of here." Aaron put his arms around the frightened young woman and she clung to him tightly as if he was the only thing left in the world holding her up. Moving slowly her legs began to buckle and Aaron reached down and scooped her up in his arms to carry her. Her head fell onto his shoulder causing her nose and lips to brush against his neck. The feel of her breath tickling him on his sensitive skin made his chest tighten and the butterflies dance in his stomach.
"All I wanted was to get some air. I was hot and Carrie agreed to cover to let me get some. I walked out on the roof when I heard a noise. I walked over to see what it was and I saw a man pointing a gun at two other men." Angel was shaking and Spencer walked over to sit down next to her putting a hand on her back to comfort her. Aaron continued to listen as she stammered on.
"I was hiding when I heard two shots. I didn't see what happened. I just wanted to hide so he wouldn't shoot me too. I don't think he knew I was up there. I was too afraid to come out until I knew the police had gotten here."
"Why were you at the hotel in the first place tonight?" Aaron asked folding his arms in front of him.
"Carrie and I agreed to work the coffee bar for the CEO convention." Spencer reached across the table and slid a tissue box over in front of the sobbing woman.
"Did you get a look at him?" Aaron pressed on.
"He wa wa was wearing a hat. Like a ski mask that covered his face. He was dressed all in black. I just wanted to hide." She then broke out in sobs almost to the point of hyperventilating.
"It's alright Angel." Aaron said in a soft voice. "We can talk more later." He got up from his chair watching as Spencer rubbed his hand over her back trying to sooth her. A pang of jealousy began to well up in him at the sight of Spencer touching her. Aaron thought Angel was cute the first day he saw her in the coffee shop but he never made the attempt to get to know her since he had just met someone new and she was with him every morning. Aaron stepped out of the room leaving Spencer to comfort her instead.
"So what do we have?" Aaron said swiftly entering the round room where the others were waiting. Jenifer Jareau, David Rossi, Emily Prentiss and Penelope Garcia made up the rest of his beloved behavioral analysis team.
"It is the same unsub who has been pulling this crap for years." Derek said coming in holding pictures of the crime scene. "The trademark shot of one bullet to the artery in the neck."
"Hotch this guy has been dormant for a long time. Why would he be back on the market again after all of this time?" Emily asked.
"I don't think he's been dormant just active somewhere else in the world. Garcia try and find anything that has occurred elsewhere with this signature kill."
Several months earlier…..
Spencer smiled watching the sweet looking new girl dance to the music playing behind the counter making froth for someone's cappuccino. Café Monument was his favorite coffee house to get his morning fix. The light brown haired cutie had been there a little over a week and he had yet to have her make his coffee for him. Carrie the other young woman who worked there usually tripped over herself to wait on him. Carrie was nice and obviously liked him but he didn't find her attractive. Today was his chance to meet the new cutie. Carrie was nowhere in sight.
"Hi what can I get for you?" A sweet voice said to him.
Spencer found himself dumbstruck looking at her. Her big hazel eyes were blinking at him and the light caught the blonde highlights she had in her hair. The two outside incisors of her pearly white teeth slightly protruded out making her smile even more enticing.
"Hello?" She softly said still looking at him.
Snapping out of his daze. "Oh um double vanilla latté."
"You got it." She turned to make his coffee.
She was petite and looked like she was probably just past collage age. His eyes were following her round squeezable little hind end as she shook her hips back and forth still dancing to the music. Spencer didn't have much experience meeting and talking to women and he knew he would blow it this time too. He continued to stare intensely while she made his drink. She turned around once giving him a sweet smile and catching him gawking. His face became hot and he pushed his hands in his pockets looking away.
"Here you are?" She almost sang handing him his cup.
He fumbled around in his pocket and handed over a bill.
"Keep the change." He said giving a nervous smile and walking out the door. Angel looked down seeing that he had handed her a twenty.
Aaron tried to hide the smile on his face as he exited the elevator to the BAU. His training for the triathlon was going well and he was happy to now have a training partner to boot.
"I see you saw your new friend again this morning." Rossi said coming up behind him.
"We are just training together." Aaron said trying to brush off his comment.
"So what happens when the training is over? You are going to need a new excuse to see her."
"I've got it covered Dave." He said walking away from the conversation.
Rossi looked up noticing Kevin Lynch coming out of Penelope's office looking happy.
"Love is in the air." Rossi smirked to himself.
Spencer was tapping nervously on his desk with a pencil trying to concentrate on the file in front of him.
"Oh that's it! Morgan you take that pencil away from him or I am going to shove it up his…" Emily snorted.
"Calm down woman. What is with you today?" Morgan asked the irritated woman removing the pencil from Spencer's hand.
"Hey." Spencer protested.
"Didn't you just hear what Emily said she was going to do with this if I didn't take it away?" Morgan asked pointing the pencil at him.
Spencer just shook his head not having a clue what she had said.
"That's it I am leaving the weirdness in this area." Morgan picked up the things he was working on and left to find a safer spot. Spencer reached for another pencil.
"Don't even think about it." Emily warned.
JJ came out of her office on a mission heading to her boss's office carrying a file.
"Looks like we are about to get a case." Spencer noticed.
Emily groaned.
Spencer hesitated outside the coffee shop before going inside. To his relief there she was. Her hair was tied up in a loose knot in the back of her head today. It made her look a bit older and still the cutest thing he had ever seen.
"Well I was wondering if my latte was so bad it scared you off." She teased leaning on the counter.
He smiled. "It was actually very good. I was out of town on a case."
"So just what do you do?"
"I work for the Behavioral Analysis Unit for the FBI."
"Oh I see. So you catch killers."
"Yes." He was rocking back and forth on his heals.
"Well my name is Angel. What can I get you today?"
"Dr Spencer, Dr Reid, I mean just Spencer. He stammered nervously not sure what he was trying to spit out at her. "I will have the same as before."
" Ok, just Spencer. One double vanilla latte coming up." She smiled turning away from him.
He felt so stupid just then. He was doing so well until she had told him her name and he attempted to tell her his. He had hoped to ask her to a movie but his blundering made him reconsider. Angel slid the cup to him on the counter.
"I think Carrie is going to be angry that she has missed you two days now." She snickered.
"Well, thanks." He said handing over another twenty. "Keep the change."
Aaron had completed his triathlon and finally introduced his friend Beth Clemmons to his son Jack. The BAU ladies were nursing hangovers from the girls night out the night before. Spencer was frazzled from babysitting Henry, JJ's son so the ladies could party. He needed coffee and wondered if Angel was working today. They had become friendlier with each other during his morning visits and he looked forward to them. He was excited at the fact that she was flirting with him. It was hard for him on the mornings he was away on a case because she was as much his morning fix as was the coffee she made for him.
Just as Spencer was about to make his exit Emily grabbed his arm.
"We are going for brunch and you are coming with us."
Finally back from his latest case Spencer happily made his way inside the coffee house and walked quietly up to the counter.
Angel had her back to him mumbling to herself. "You say this coffee is blasphemes. I'll give you blasphemes." She pulled out a tiny package from her apron pocket and pealed the foil away from the chocolate looking bits and broke off two pieces and dropped them into the bottom of the cup. After some thought she broke off two more and dropped them in too then poured the hot shots of espresso over them stirring.
"I sure hope that isn't for me." Spencer whispered.
Angel jumped and turned around. Her cheeks were red at being caught doing the dastardly deed.
"Oh hi Spencer. Childish I know but I am so sick of that bitch over there complaining about my coffee every morning."
Spencer looked over to where she pointed and saw his boss sitting at the table with Beth. "Are you talking about that woman with that guy over there?"
"Yes. He is always very nice but her…."
"That is my boss Aaron Hotchner and that is his new girlfriend." Spencer gave Angel a wink. "I won't tell. I promise. None of us are too fond of her either."
"I don't get it? Why would a nice guy like him be with such a bitch?" She said shaking her head.
Spencer shrugged his shoulders wondering why it mattered to her who Aaron dated.
"I will get you your coffee in a sec. Minus the surprise." She smiled and winked back.
Penelope was upset when she ran into Derek in the hall.
"Hey what is up baby girl?"
"You knew Kevin was going to ask me to marry him. You could have warned me."
"He didn't want me to say anything." Morgan said defending himself.
"Well now I have nobody." She stormed off past him.
"What is with Garcia?" Rossi asked.
"I think she just broke up with Lynch."
Rossi raised his eyebrows at Morgan. "Beth isn't well so Aaron and I are going out for a drink. Want to join us?"
"Sure." Morgan said looking over to where Penelope had walked out. "I could use one."
Just as the bartender poured the next round all three phones buzzed at the same time alerting the men they were needed back at the BAU. "Two prominent CEO's of large corporations were just assonated." They all moaned and made their way to office.
Reid, JJ and Prentiss were already there to meet the others to go to the crime scene.
"We need to secure the perimeter and make sure the assassin isn't still up there."
Back to the present…..
Spencer walked out of the room Angel was sitting in. She was still very shaken from the earlier events of the evening. He wanted to throw his arms around her and kiss her and tell her everything would be alright and make her the innocent girl again he met in the coffee shop.
"Did you get anymore from her?" Aaron asked.
"No. She was just there with the other girl Carrie working the coffee bar for the convention. She took a break and walked out to witness an assassination."
Aaron sighed. "Well we have to keep this out of the media. If the assassin finds out there is a witness then she will be the next target."
