Disclaimer: I do not own Criminal Minds or any of its characters. If I did, Reid and Morgan would be married by now.
On any normal day, a call like this one would be welcome. Today, however, Agent Derek Morgan was suffering from the mother of all hangovers and would kill for a few more hours of sleep. As luck would have it, the phone kept ringing and ringing until he eventually got out of bed and picked it up.
"Hello?" he said rather groggily.
"Morgan, it's JJ, Hotch wants everyone at the office now. It's bad."
"It's always bad, when have we ever had a case that wasn't bad?" he said to himself as he put the receiver down.
The clock read 2:00 AM and he groaned, wondering not for the first time why he was even in the FBI in the first place. He finally gets out of bed and after a shower, a change of clothes and a cup of coffee, he was making his way to the office.
When he is finally in the bullpen he looks at Hotch's tired face and JJ's concerned one and realizes that whatever it was that was going on, it was indeed bad.
"Last night a woman named Analee Winchester was murdered in her apartment here in DC. She was molested and according to reports, strangled to death. She suffered from multiple bruising indicating that she fought back. She has several very deep lacerations all over her body but the ME concluded that it was done post mortem. She is the third victim. The first was Nicole Abrahams and the second was Christie Allen. All molested, strangled and then stabbed multiple times post mortem."
"Was there any forensic evidence left on the bodies?" Emily asked.
"No. The unsub was meticulous. He cleaned up after himself. There weren't any condoms found in the house. Nor any prints. He must've wiped everything he had come into contact with or used latex gloves. This tells us he's organized and he most likely stalked the victims before attacking them."
"With this level of violence it's almost impossible that this unsub doesn't have any priors."
"Garcia, check all cases of sexual offenders within miles of the victims houses. Morgan's right, this level of sexual sadism doesn't come over night. He's had to have had some kind of practice before these killings started. Pay special attention to cases that were extremely violent. "
"There is also something else that is in common with all the victims. Aside from being a specific type, blonde, early thirties, middle income households. They're also all single mothers and were with their children at the time of the attack. None of the children were hurt. Nicole had a seven year old named Alex, he's with his grandparents right now. Christie had a three year old named Callum, social services has him now. Analee had a 5 month old named Charlotte, she's at the hospital right now getting checked"
"Okay, Me and Prentiss are going to the Abrahams' house. Rossi and JJ go to the Allen's. Morgan I need you to go to Bethesda, Reid's there right now."
"What's wrong with Reid?"
"He's watching over Charlotte while the Doctors check to see if she's okay."
"Why would Reid, be looking after Analee Winchester's daughter?"
"He's the father."
