Three young women sat huddled behind separate cells. They were dirty, malnourished, and completely terrified. Heavy shackles held their ankles together, and thick ropes bound their hands behind their backs. If they wanted to move they had to crawl on their stomach. There was dead silence, until the blood chilling screams began...
Spencer Reid tapped his pen on his desk as he furrowed his brow. He may be a genius, but geniuses can still get stressed out, and right now, this paperwork was giving him a head ache. His thoughts kept drifting back to a certain lady he met at the zoo.
2 weeks earlier...
'Whoa guys look!' Hotch and Reid smiled at Jack as he pressed his face against the glass and stared at the two tigers splashing around in the water. One was white, the other was orange. 'Uncle Spencer, why is that one white?' Spencer squatted down next to Jack. 'That tiger is white because it is leucistic...here he began rambling on about all sorts of facts about tigers while Jack looked at him with his nose slightly wrinkled in confusion. Hotch smirked at the sight. All of a sudden a young lady appeared on the other side of the glass and smiled at Reid and Jack. Spencer thought she was beautiful. She had dark brown wavy hair that complemented her liquid coppery eyes. She walked over to a hollow tree log in the enclosure and pulled out a baby tiger cub. It was white and had startlingly blue arctic eyes. Jacks face lit up as the lady brought the cub over and lifted its paw to wave at them...
Spencer smiled to himself..he never got a chance to read her name off her work tag. ' C'mon man, I know your a genius, but I know this paperwork is killing you'. Spencer blinked and looked up. 'What was that?' 'Someones lost in Reid Land' said Emily in a sing song voice. The mood dampened some when JJ walked through the doors. 'We've got another one' Audible groans were heard from Prentiss and Morgan.
Hotch was already seated while JJ took her place in front of the projection screen. Twelve pictures of 10 year old boys popped up followed by photos of the crime scene. They were gutted and mangled in a ditch. 'The Unsub is careless, hes leaving the bodies out in the open' said Reid. Hotch nodded then sifted through his folder. 'Last week another 10 year old boy was reported missing, the police have no leads and a body hasn't been found.' 'Its been a week, what if the kids dead?' Morgan asked leaning back in his chair. 'Do they know how long the bodies were in the ditch before they were found?'. Hotch looked at Emily.
'The crime lab investigators say that the bodies were dead for only a day or two. I think there's a good shot this boy is alive.' 'Is this the only boy missing?' asked Reid. 'Yes, although these two boys-JJ pressed a button on her remote- were reported missing on the same day and were found together in the same ditch.'
'Strauss came to visit me earlier today-(everyone shuddered slightly) - and highly recommended help from an agent she says has dealt with a case similar to this. I have not met her yet but she is supposed to be coming around sometime today.'
Garcia busted into the room her robot earrings swinging madly. Everyone looked at her expectantly 'Sorry sir, there's someone here to see you.' 'Excuse me' said Hotch as he exited the room.
Colt Thompson waited in the bull pen for a short minute before a stern looking man walked forward to meet her. 'Hi, Im agent Colt Thompson..the agent Strauss recommended. You must be Agent Hotchner.'
'Call me Hotch, and its a pleasure to meet you.' By now the rest of the BAU team had snuck out of the conference room and was sizing up the new girl. Hotch sensed them and invited his agents to meet the new agent. 'Everyone this is agent Colt Thompson, shes the agent that will be working with us on this case.' 'Please, call me Colt' she said. Emily was the first one to step forward and shook Colt's hand. 'These are agents Emily Prentiss-shake- Derek Morgan- shake followed by ( its very nice to meet you)-Agent Jennifer Jareau, but we call her JJ, and Dr. Spencer Reid. Spencer swallowed the lump in his throat and grasped her hand warmly.
A jolt of electricity jolted through them both upon contact. 'Hey, I remember you..the guy at the zoo, Tiger exhibit with your kid right? 'Um actually that was Hotch's son, and yeah I remember you too.' They were still shaking hands rather slowly and the team shared knowing looks with each other. Hotch cleared his throat and they dropped hands. Colt started down at her converse clad feet. She noticed Spencer was wearing some too.
'Colt, I'd also like to introduce our Tech-Annalist Penelope Garcia. Garcia rushed forward and eagerly gave her a big hug. 'I can tell you and Reid are going to get along great. What with your shoes and all. I can tell were gunna be great friends too.' Colt geniuenly smiled at Garcia and grabbed one of her earrings. 'Robots? Oh yeah, I think you and I will get along just fine.' Everyone chuckled. Hotch cleared his throat. 'Agent David Rossi will meet us at the airport and will join us on our case.' 'THE Dave Rossi, as in author genius? Wow.' said Colt. 'He gets that a lot' replied Morgan.
After Hotch went over the basic details of the case with Colt, she shared with them what she knew of her past experience with a case similar to the one they were all studying. 'The only difference between this case and the one I worked was that a carving of the sun was found on the inner thigh of all the victims. The case was ruled out as a sexual sadist and we caught the guy two days later with a bullet through the brain.' Hotch nodded thoughtfully. 'No carvings were found on our victims but we may be looking at a copy cat, considering the torture methods the Unsub inflicted that were the same as Colt's case. Wheels up in 30.
