When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.

- Patanjali

*****

"Three deaths that could have been prevented! Three deaths on your hands! Three deaths because you couldn't get your act together!"

No one dared look Strauss in the eye, almost as if afraid of being turned to stone by her glare. She was the maddest they had ever seen her, her face a shade off of burgundy.

"Not only did you make yourselves look bad with your immaturity, you've also tarnished the reputation of the BAU and the FBI as a whole! Grown men and women acting like children, too busy arguing to see what should have been obvious!"

To say that she was angry would have been a devastating understatement. Livid, infuriated, incensed, enraged would have been closer to the mark... Combining them would have been somewhere close to just how mad she was.

"Reduced to bickering over the profile that you created! You let a suspect, which you had already identified, walk armed into a classroom full of students who had bullied him... Something you should have seen coming!"

She paced back and forth agitatedly before them, prosecutor, judge, and jury. They sat like six guilty children, heads hanging, waiting out the storm.

"Worst of all, rather than hear it straight from the horse's mouth, I had to hear about it from the chief of Nashville police! He certainly wasn't impressed! Wasn't it you Agent Jareau, who told me we have to work with these people? Nobody will want our help after hearing about this blatant unprofessionalism!"

For the last hour she had been berating them for the fiasco that had ended their last case. Nationwide, news broadcasts were proclaiming the story of the Tennessee boy who had gone on a rampage of terror, seeking out anyone who had ever bullied him and exacting revenge with a double-barrelled twelve-gauge shotgun, ending in a standoff with police at the local high school. In hindsight, it had been glaringly obvious who was responsible and what was going to happen, but at the time it had been a point of contention to say the least. After coming up with a profile they had disagreed about how and when the unsub would make his last stand... Another understatement; disagree was putting it mildly, clash was more suitably violent a word for their argument. And by the time the final battle actually had come about, they were too busy locking horns to connect Garcia's information about the boy's hospitalization resulting from a severe beating to bullying... It was easy to see why Strauss was furious.

"Being part of a team I would think that teamwork would come naturally... But apparently NOT!"

They were afraid of what was coming... Multiple reassignments seemed to be imminent...

"Which is why I'm ordering you all to attend the Challenge Discovery Team Building Camp. You'll spend two weeks in the wilderness being lead through exercises to emphasize trust, teamwork, leadership, and communication. Hopefully this way you'll actually be able to work together without tearing apart your reputation..."

That, they had not been expecting... For several moments they just stared at her, dumbfounded. For such a vicious rant it seemed an awfully tame punishment. Considering that they spent days on end in each others' company, this should be no problem...