Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN CRIMINAL MINDS!
Riding on the train to Dallas for a lecture was boring until I noticed that there was an FBI agent sitting across from me. She was looking inside a case file; she was really concentrating on it. The poor girl could use a break even though she was probably older than me, me being a 23 year old doctor graduating from high school at age 14 and medical school at age 19. Right now I'm working at a hospital at DC. I close my book about The Zodiac Killer (I loved Criminology too, which I got into after being with my ex-boyfriend Spencer Reid who was my brother's roommate in MIT while I attended Harvard Medical School but that's a long story). I then leaned a little bit closer to the lady in front of me.
"Working on a big case?" I asked her.
"I'm sorry?" The lady said to me looking up from the case file.
"You're working on a big case?" I repeated my question.
"Oh yeah" The lady brushed her dark hair away from her face.
"I'm Dr. Mia Moreno" I extended my hand to her for a shake.
"Elle Greenaway" Elle shook my hand, "You look to young to be a doctor, how old are you?"
"23" I answered.
"Wow" Elle said, "You must be really smart"
"Yeah, I get that a lot, are you headed to Dallas for a case?"
"Yeah, what about you?"
"I was actually in El Paso first to visit my cousin who lives there before I give a lecture to the surgeons at the local university in Dallas; they want to know a life of a trauma surgeon and that I'm the youngest doctor to graduate from Harvard Medical School"
"You're a surgeon?"
"Surgeon, medical examiner, and pediatrician"
"All of those?"
"I love the medical field, and since I couldn't choose a specific field I choose my favorite three"
"But you get a lot of money"
"I'm officially a surgeon but I have degrees in those fields if anyone needs me for anything at all, I work at the hospital in DC"
"Really, I work in Quantico, Virginia"
"You should visit at the hospital sometime, the nurses would die if they found out I became friends with a FBI agent"
Elle laughed "You remind me of a friend and co-worker of mine, Spencer Reid"
"Wh-" I wasn't able to finish my sentence due to a sudden stop, everyone the train was shaken up.
"What the hell was that?" A tall boy with dark curls said.
"Everything is all right folks" The security guard said walking into our car, "Everyone just relax everything is gonna be fine, everything is fine"
"What happened?" Elle asked the guard.
"Nothing ma'am" The security guard said then looked at her file on her lap, "You on the job?"
"FBI" Elle said.
"Suicide, someone jumped in front of the train" The guard said.
"Anyone hurt in the other cars? I'm a doctor" I said.
"No one is hurt; unfortunately we have this procedure down" The security guard stood up and continued calming down the other passengers.
"Everyone just relax, we'll be back on our way again shortly, don't worry folks like I said everything is gonna be okay" The security guard was then unarmed and shot twice by a chunky guy behind him in a beige jacket. He then went toward Elle as she stood up then hit her in the face.
"Elle!" I screamed as the shooter unarmed Elle and aimed one gun to a woman in the back that was sitting three seats behind us and the other gun at Elle.
"Okay, okay" Elle said, "You don't have to hurt anybody else"
"What are you doing?" The woman in the back exclaimed.
"Shut up" The shooter told her, "Shut up!"
*Spencer's POV*
The team and I are driving to the train hostage situation in West Texas; Morgan was on the phone with Garcia to get face reconstructions from the security tapes of the 5 hostages in the train except Elle. Gideon gave us instructions to stay in the car for thirty seconds to make it seem like we were the higher authority which is what the UNSUB seemed to be asking for, Hotch turned on the sirens in the SUV to have other cars move out of the way so we could get to the train faster. What I know most of us we're thinking was to get Elle and the hostages out safely. We arrived to the scene; the train car was surrounded by snipers and local authorities. We did as Gideon instructed and stayed in the car for a minute or two and we exited the vehicle.
"Don't look at the train" Gideon told us, "Ignore it, higher authorities are concerned about losing a few civilians"
"I'll talk to the HRT commander" Hotch said as he left us and we meet the man in charge.
"I'm Frank Merete" The man in charge said, "Dallas Field Office"
Gideon said hi then Frank said that Elle was okay, Gideon asked if the UNSUB made any demands yet, Frank said that he just wants to talk to higher authority. Frank was worried about negotiating with a psychotic who won't talk to them. Gideon told him that it depends on his particular delusion.
"Some psychotics believe that they're being sent messages by the government, God, even aliens" I said to Frank, "John Nash believed that he was being recruited by aliens to save the world"
"I saw the movie" Frank said.
"The movie is actually inaccurate" I said but never got to continue due to Morgan cutting me off.
"The movie review isn't gonna help us right now" Morgan said.
"Right, sorry" I said and started walking to the mobile command center that the local bureau office had brought in.
"His delusions are important because that's who we have to play to" Gideon said.
"So the question of the day" Morgan said.
"What does he believe is happening here" Gideon said.
"Well good luck" Frank said, "I tried to convince him that I was the highest authority but he wouldn't believe me"
"He's paranoid he believes in secrets" Gideon stared into the screen, "If I'm the higher authority I don't go to him he comes to me, I have to help him ask the first question"
I noticed that The UNSUB was doing something funny so I told everyone to look at the computer screen. He was moving toward the hostages and grabbed woman with a pixie haircut by her hair and she collapsed on a well dressed woman and Elle was telling him something, one of the other hostages got up and the UNSUB hit him with the gun on his head which knocked him back on his seat, then aimed the gun at the hostage with glasses and wearing a suit, he then dragged the hostage with the pixie haircut to the other side of the car to the phone. The phone then started ringing in the command center and Gideon answered the phone.
"Yes?" Gideon answered.
We heard whispering before the hostage spoke on the phone, "He wants to know who you are, he wants to know who just arrived" You could hear the fear in the woman's voice.
"Someone who could resolve the situation" Gideon said.
"Wh-what part of the government do you work for?"
"I never said that I was with the government"
Frank was going to open his mouth until Morgan stopped him and put the call on hold, "The less he says the more mysterious he is and the higher authority he's coming from" Morgan quickly put the call back on unhold as he put a finger to his lips to silence Frank.
"What part of the- OH! What part of the government are you from?" The hostage cried. We could hear the woman crying over the phone as the UNSUB was trying to figure out what to say next, "Are you FBI?"
"He can ask me himself" Gideon answered.
"Tell me who you are or this agent dies" The UNSUB threatened.
"You know who I am" Gideon said watching the computer screen.
"If you're the higher authority then you could have it removed"
"That'll take some time"
"I want it removed now"
"You know, you know it can't be done that quickly" Gideon paused, "Goodbye"
"No! Wait! Okay!" The UNSUB shouted, "1 hour, you have one hour to remove it or swear to God I'll kill every agent on this train" The UNSUB hung up the phone.
"It? He wants 'it' removed?" Frank said, "You know what it is?"
"No, but we bought an hour to figure it out" Gideon said.
Twenty minutes passed and we are still trying to figure out what "it" is. Gideon and I have been looking at the computer screen the whole time, two well dressed woman were helping clean the wound of the hostage that was hit in the head with a gun, one of then took peroxide out of her bag; she must be a doctor being so prepared for anything, then I realized that she looked kind of familiar. Her long hair waved out on the tips but I couldn't see her face that well. The hostages were talking about something then the UNSUB got up to take his jacket off and the hostage that was hit by the UNSUB stood up and told him something to disturb the UNSUB and both of the woman stood in from of the hostage as the other woman with the ponytail calmed down the UNSUB. The familiar woman with the long hair sat the hostage back down and sat in front of Elle. The hostage with the ponytail was talking to the UNSUB then took his arm which showed the camera the marks on his arm.
"His arm" Gideon said.
"What?" Hotch asked.
"Look at his arm" Gideon repeated.
"What is that?" I asked.
"They look like scars" Morgan said.
"Places he tried to dig it out with a razor or a pen" Gideon stated.
"Dig what out?" Frank asked.
"Maybe a microchip" Hotch suggested.
Morgan's phone rang he went to the back of the command center as we continued to look at the screen to see what else we could come up with. I heard Morgan say "Garcia, talk to me" as he took a notepad and a pen writing down whatever Garcia was telling him. As soon as he got off the phone with Garcia, Morgan went on the laptop to get the files of each of the hostages.
"Tell me about the hostages" Gideon said.
"Okay, first we got Harry Anderson" Morgan said and the ID of the hostage with the glasses and the suit showed up on the laptop screen, "Paper goods sales man, lived in a small home outside of Dallas for 18 years with his wife, he's got no children, no investments, no company retirement portfolio"
"He doesn't take chances" Gideon said, "What about the kid?"
"Josh Patel" The hostage with the curly hair popped out on screen next, "He's 20 years old he's just out expelled from Gillett University for driving his car into the library building drunk"
"He's drinking now; we don't need a drunk in there" Gideon stated.
The hostage with the pixie haircut came up next, "The girl we have nothing to go on except her driver's license, her name's Elaine Curtis, she lives in a small town in West Texas, she's got no credit card no passport, doesn't look like she travels this much at all"
Next is the well dressed woman hostage with the ponytail, "This is Dr. Linda Deaton, she's a psychiatrist in Stoak's Mental Health Center in El Paso, that's where Ted Bryar has been living for the last 9 years"
"His doctor?" Gideon asked.
"Probably" Morgan said, "She's unmarried, lives in El Paso, she's written several books and papers mainly in the medical circles, she's a popular lecturer, she speaks at symposiums this year especially tonight in Dallas"
"Last but not least" Morgan said as the familiar woman hostage popped out on the screen, I froze in place when I realized who that was when Morgan read her profile, "Dr. Mia Moreno, 23 years old, graduated high school at 14 then graduated from Harvard Medical School at age 19, almost like another Reid, she works in Washington DC but has some business to take care of in the local university in Dallas, that's all for now, Garcia is trying to dig deeper but I don't see how this line up could help us any further besides have a doctor to help them with injuries "
"Reid, are you okay?" JJ asked me.
"What?" I asked suddenly.
"You look like you saw a ghost" JJ said.
Everyone looked at me with confusion and worry; "I know the doctor" was all I said as I continued gawking at the laptop still showing Mia's profile, her long jet-black hair was waved at the tips just like how it is in the train, her hazel eyes stare at me with a beautiful smile.
"Reid!" I heard Morgan calling me back to reality, "How do you know this girl?"
"She was my roommate's sister when I was in MIT, we dated for a year before we broke up because I was got accepted to CIT, we clicked instantly because we were both teenagers in college" I sat down and put my head in my hands, "She was my first love"
(A/N: AND CUT! I have no idea how this story got deleted! My brother played a real cruel trick on me! I hope that you all loved this chapter I know that it might be boring this first chapter but there is plenty of more to come! This is my first fanfic so I hope you all liked it Please review or PM me if you have any questions)
-TheBlackRose243