Disclaimer: I don't own this show or the characters from Criminal Minds mentioned in this story. I only own the agents from the Wisconsin FBI Unit because they are made up by me….

Summary: The team is traveling to Baltimore, Maryland to solve a case that involves children being abducted from local malls. When they are partnered up with agents from the FBI of Wisconsin, Emily's partner seems like a chatty, sweet agent. But things aren't what they seem and Emily soon will realize the horrifying truth about her new partner…

Author's Note: This story popped into my head last night! Team involvement, but has an H/P gradual pairing as well.

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"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured" -Ambrose Bierce

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Chapter 1- Under Pressure

"I'll be right there. Just give me a second" Emily called from the bathroom stall. She grabbed her purse off of the back of the door and flushed the toilet. Glancing at her watch, she nearly gasped when she saw that the plane was going to take off in ten minutes and the team wasn't even on their way to the airport. It was all her fault because she just always had to run to the bathroom after drinking a cup of coffee.

JJ tapped her foot impatiently while waiting outside her friend's bathroom stall. Hotch had sent her in to get Emily from the bathroom because they really needed to get on their way. Children were being abducted every twenty seven hours from the malls in Baltimore. They definitely had a serial killer on the loose. They were sure of that.

Emily pulled the stall door open and stumbled over to the sinks to wash her hands.

"Do you want me to hold your bag for you?" JJ asked with a chuckle.

"That would be really dandy, Jay" she replied with a teasing smile. "Hey, this soap smells really good. The BAU finally stuck their hand in their pocket to buy some soap that doesn't smell like plastic for once? What did we do to deserve that?"

"I know. This place can be dumpy sometimes" the blonde answered. She snorted a laugh at the brunette's remark.

Emily smiled before grabbing some paper towel from the automatic dispenser on the wall. "Hey thanks for holding my bag for me. Sorry for holding you guys up. I know Hotch likes to be on time with everything".

"It's okay. I don't think Hotch minds at all, especially since he likes you. Now if it was Morgan on the other hand…"

"Would you stop with that?" Emily said, a blush creeping to her cheeks. "He likes me as nothing more than a friend".

"Whatever you say, Em" she mumbled with a smirk at the blushing brunette. The two women headed out the door of the bathroom to where the rest of the team was waiting for them in the lobby.

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"There you two are" Morgan began. "I was beginning to think you two fell in the toilet or something…"

"Do you think we would really do something like that?" JJ asked with a teasing expression. "Jeez…men are so annoying sometimes".

Emily jogged up to stand next to the blonde, a smirk visible on her face. "Tell me about it" she continued with a chuckle. "They are so naïve and judge way too quickly".

Morgan rolled his eyes and snorted with laughter. "Oh and Babygirl is going to be coming along on this case too. She needs to take a look at the mall's security cameras"

"Yup, I'm coming with you guys" Garcia announced, appearing next to Morgan. She was carrying a flower printed go-bag and a purple leather purse. Her sunny yellow dress had splotches of orange covering it and her blonde hair was curled. A black flower clip completed her usual spunky looks.

"That's cool!" JJ continued. "It's pretty rare when you do decide to tag along on a case".

"Yeah, well Hotch asked me to come along on this one because he told me I need to check out the mall security cameras for anything they might have missed". she concluded. Emily smiled at the technical analyst's enthusiasm.

"Okay, is everybody ready?" Hotch asked when he appeared in the doorway of his office, locking it behind him. Everyone on the team nodded, stating their approval.

The team exited the glass doors and made their way to the parking garage where two black SUV's was parked. Emily, JJ, and Garcia got in the back of one SUV while Hotch and Dave got in front and Morgan and Reid got in the other SUV that was parked next to it.

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"So these children are just disappearing into thin air?" Morgan asked while reading over the case file on the jet. "Have security camera's taken any footage of the children coming and going? I am sure there had to be at least one witness who saw this little girl disappear".

"Security saw Kerri Allen arriving at the mall with her parents and they saw her exiting, except she wasn't with her parents" Hotch answered.

"So she ran off on her own?" Dave questioned. "Why did they call us in then if she decided to run away from her parents?"

"She didn't. She was holding our unsub's hand. The thing was that he made sure to stay out of the line of the camera. That is why we think he might be a mall employee or a member of security who knows how the camera's work".

"Why would Kerri go off with a complete stranger?" Reid asked.

"That's because we think she might have known him or her" Hotch said.

"The unsub could have used a lure to get Kerri to come to him" Emily suggested. "A lollypop, a stuffed toy, anything like that could attract a five year olds attention".

"He abducts a new child every twenty seven hours. He abducted and killed Timothy Royce, Lee Winston, Madison Wheeler and now Kerri Allen. All were found floating on the surfaces of different lakes in plastic garbage bags. All of the children had been sexually assaulted, burnt and stabbed twice. He had just abducted Katie Duncan this morning from the local mall" Hotch concluded. "This unsub is highly intelligent. He knows the mall and most likely is a current or former employee. He was probably sexually abused as a child. He shows rage and jealousy in his killings. He is probably jealous of the fact that the children he abducts have happy childhoods, something he probably never had as a child".

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In about two hours, the jet landed in the Baltimore/Washington International Airport and the team climbed out, grabbing their go-bags as they exited. An SUV was waiting to take them to the Baltimore Police Department.

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"Agent Hotchner?" a tall, older man with greyish hair asked when Hotch and the team arrived at the police department. "I am Agent Harrison with the FBI of Wisconsin. You must be the Behavior Analysis Unit from Quantico, Virginia. These are my Agents Dennis Frasier, Benjamin Raesou, Terry YeMon, Hannah Desmond, and Rebecca Mason. I also have a technical analyst, Lila Ellision ".

Hotch introduced the team to the other agents and after they had exchanged greetings, they got to work on the case that was at hand.

"Team, we are going to be partnered up with members of the Wisconsin FBI team. Morgan, you are with Agent Frasier, Reid with Raesou, Rossi with YeMon, JJ with Desmond and Prentiss, you're with Mason. I am going to be working alongside Agent Harrison. Garcia, work with Ellision. See if you can work with these partners and crack this case".

About forty five minutes later, the Head of the Baltimore Police Department announced that both teams were going to be staying at a hotel that was only five minutes away from the police station.

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"Hey Em. Do you feel like bunking up?" JJ asked the brunette when they were getting lunch together with Garcia. "Or are you going to wait for Hotch to ask you?"

"JJ, he doesn't like me like that" Emily whined. "We're only friends".

"Oh, but the way he shoots you those rare dimpled smiles tell us otherwise, Gumdrop" Garcia finished while taking a sip of her strawberry smoothie.

Emily opened her mouth to protest when suddenly, a feminine voice interrupted her latest thought. All three turned to see a golden haired woman dressed in a pair of dark jeans, a grey top, and black boots standing next to their table at the diner they were at.

"Oh hi Rebecca" Emily greeted her blonde haired partner. "Would you like to join us? We're just grabbing some lunch before we continue the case."

"Thanks. That would be great" Rebecca continued with a smile. She sat down at the table with the other females and ordered herself a coffee.

"So do you have any nicknames instead of Rebecca?" Garcia asked while taking a bite of her burrito. "Like Becca or Becky or something?"

"No, just Rebecca" she replied, the smile on her pink lips disappearing slightly.

"Okay dokey then" Garcia answered. "So what is it like being partners with Emily Prentiss here? Is she always daydreaming?"

"Garcia" Emily elbowed her friend in the arm. "I don't daydream".

"Oh really?" the technical analyst questioned. "I find that hard to believe. Everybody's gotta daydream once in a while".

Emily rolled her eyes when her cell phone began to ring in her purse. She walked to the side to take the call.

"We have to go" she said when she returned. "Hotch just told me that the unsub was spotted at a gas station with Katie Duncan".

Together, the four agents hurried out of the diner to the black SUV's in the parking lot.

"I'll ride back with Rebecca" Emily told her blonde friends, who nodded their understanding. She climbed into the driver's seat of the SUV and followed JJ and Garcia out of the parking lot to the police station.

Rebecca was chatty with Emily throughout the entire ride back to the station. They talked about their teams, past boyfriends and their hometowns. To Emily, Rebecca seemed really sweet and they had already became fast friends, but really, Rebecca had plans to get rid of Emily's friends so that she could get her to herself. That was what obsession does to someone: it drives them crazy.

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"The unsub was spotted with Katie at a local gas station. The owner of the gas station recognized the little girl that was with him as the missing girl from the news. We have an idea of how he looks. The unsub was about 6'2 with black hair and about a weight of around 205 pounds. He was driving a grey van with tinted windows. He was wearing a blue blazer, a pair of jeans and sneakers. Katie was wearing a pink sundress and sandals. He cut her hair about shoulder length too" Hotch announced when they arrived back at the station.

"It could easily look like a father with his daughter" JJ remarked. "It's a good thing that the owner of the gas station recognized her".

"The technical analysts ran the license plate that the witness gave us. It appears that the van was stolen three weeks ago" Morgan remarked. "It was under the name of the person that the unsub stole it from".

"Well, keep a sharp eye out for anyone with this description" Dave instructed. "There are roadblocks everywhere to keep this unsub from escaping Baltimore. Thank you".

The agents departed and resumed their current positions.

"Hey, has anyone seen Rebecca?" Emily asked. "She was here a minute ago".

"All I know is that JJ went to the bathroom. I don't know where Rebecca went" Garcia replied.

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Meanwhile, JJ was in the stall in the bathroom. Boy was she happy that the station had a lot of bathrooms in it. That coffee that she had drunk had really gotten to her. All of a sudden, the lights in the bathroom went out.

"Hello?" JJ called. She got up blindly from the toilet and tried to feel her way around for the toilet paper. "Em? If you are playing a joke, then you got me. But, can you please turn the lights back on? I can't see".

There was no answer. JJ rolled her eyes. It was probably Emily and Garcia playing a joke on her. Feeling the toilet paper, she finished up and flushed the toilet. When she opened the stall door, something hard hit her on the head and all she saw were stars before she collapsed to the ground unconsciously.

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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head" -Arthur Schopenhauer

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