This story was inspired by that episode in season 3, where Morgan, Reid and Prentiss were profiling Rossi by snooping around his office, when he was new to the team. This story is set anytime. Hope you like it.


Everyone knew that over the past few months, David Rossi was writing another book. He would often get in early at work or stay behind late to work on it. He worked on his book every chance he got, including in his lunch break. He probably even did his writing in between doing paper work. Rossi was somewhat secretive about his book; he would not expand on what it was about, and was very vague when answering anyone's question on it. He even seemed to give off a mysterious vibe when it came to his book.

The whole Bureau was curious about Rossi's new book, but none more so than Morgan, Reid and Prentiss. Every time they were at their desks, and Rossi was up in his office, they'd have a discussion about whether or not he was working on his book, and what it could possibly be about.

Rossi left for his one hour lunch break, as today he wanted to check out a new Asian cuisine restaurant that recently opened. With Rossi out for a while, it was temptation more than Morgan, Reid and Prentiss could bear.

"Guys he's left," whispered Reid to Morgan and Prentiss, sitting at the two desks opposite him. "You know if we wanted to go check 'it' out, now's our chance." Morgan grinned at this.

"Reid," objected Prentiss, "we've snooped around Rossi's office before and it ended embarrassingly for us." She then smiled, "he doesn't ever seem to lock it, does he." She added as her agreement to Reid's suggestion. The three of them then headed upstairs towards Rossi's office to snoop. Hotch met them at the top of the platform and asked what they were doing.

"We just wanted to ask Rossi a question about his new book" answered Reid

"He just left to go out for lunch" said Hotch, "and you know he doesn't share, all of you are getting way too interested in this book." Hotch went to leave, as he had some paper work to drop off on the second floor. Morgan, Reid and Prentiss followed him back down the stairs and tried to look like they were causally getting back to work. When they saw Hotch leave the ball pen, they gave momentary eye contact with each other before they quickly scuffled back up the stairs again.

"Slow down guys, you're going to look suspicious" said Reid. Morgan gave a small huff and grinned when he looked back at Reid. His feet were flat, though his hands were in front of him and he was doing a kind of tip-toe bop.

"Look at you kid, you're not suspicious looking at all," said Morgan sarcastically. Emily started giggling.

"Giggling can look suspicious too," started up Reid "Did you know that 80% of laughter is not attributed to humour, we laugh when excited tense, nervous or…"

"Shhhhh, shut up Reid," hushed Morgan.

"Shhh Both of you be quite, I think we all look suspicious so quickly get inside before somebody notices us," said Emily as she opened the door to Rossi's office.

"Considering we're profilers, that was pretty shocking," Morgan said in amusement once they were inside. Reid looked around.

"Where do you think he keeps his writing?"

"He does seem to keep up with technology," said Morgan, "so maybe on his laptop. But he's old so maybe it's hand written."

"Hand written… who writes out whole books hand written," exclaimed Emily. "He might type it on a typewriter; look for hard copies typed out."

"Look around the room 'Profiler Prentiss' do you see a type writer anywhere," mocked Morgan.

"Oh.., good point," Emily agreed.

"As profilers, can we all agree that he most likely does his writing on his laptop," said Reid.

Morgan, Reid and Prentiss looked at the laptop on Rossi's desk. They all bolted towards it at once, pushing and shoving each other to get to it first. The lid wasn't fully shut, to their delight the laptop wasn't logged out, they didn't fancy trying to crack Rossi's password. Then they were all fighting each other for control of the computer, Morgan won. On the screen was a document, and from what they were reading, this had to be it. It was on the evolution of sadistic serial killers from childhood, and it seemed to have Rossi's own personal opinions and little quarks, such as in his other books. The three of them were glued to the screen. Reid then tried to scroll down.

"Hey I haven't finished reading yet," protested Morgan.

"I have," said Reid. Prentiss laughed

"We can't all read 20 000 words per minute Reid." Morgan and Reid started fighting each other for the controls.

"Reid!"

"Morgan!"

"Guys," Prentiss put her hand amongst theirs, "Cut it out."

With the three of them struggling at the keyboard again, all sorts of symbols and letters kept popping up. Then they all paused when a box came onto the screen saying something along the lines of, do you want to delete this document. They all tried to answer at once and ended up hitting yes.

"Whoops," said Prentiss.

"Oh no," cried Reid. "We've destroyed it… its gone… it's gone."

"Calm down Reid it's not gone, haven't you ever heard of back up file or recycle bin?" asked Morgan, patting Reid on the shoulder mockingly. "It's still here somewhere."

They all fought for control of the computer once again, this time to try and rectify the deleted document problem.

"Come- On- Guys!" said Morgan exasperated, but humoured, "one person at a time!"

This time during the struggle, Emily's elbow accidentally knocked over Rossi's half full coffee mug, and it spilled all over the laptop key board. Sparks flew, and the screen flickered a couple of times before it went completely blank. The three of them stared at the laptop in disbelief for a while, before Reid spoke.

"How about now… Is it gone now?"


To be continued!