Note: The timeline is set somewhere after season 7 episode 3 or 4. The characters in the story are : Hotch, JJ, Morgan, Garcia, Reid, Jack H., Rossi, Will, Ashley, OFC.

I do not own Criminal Minds.


The First Time


"This is insane!" Morgan said, frustrated with the lack of leads.

It was a hard case. Teenage girls were being murdered brutally, and their bodies were being placed in school corridor as if they were on a display. Three murders in and the city police department called the FBI's BAU. They'd narrowed down the profile of the unsub to a male between the ages of 30-35 with tremendous rage. They thought that he may have gone through bullying at school by the girls of that age. And recently may have lost his anchor, that's why he was having a psychotic break. Though the initial profile seemed pretty easy, the list was not at all narrowing down. The case seemed to be on a standstill. And everyone was irritated to death.

"Reid, have you got anything from the geographical profile?" Hotch asked trying to maintain his cool.

"I've narrowed it down to a 30-35 mile radius, but it doesn't go down. I'm trying every formula, every equation to reduce it, but nothing seems to be working." Reid replied without turning away from the map and throwing his hands up in surrender.

"Alright, let's take a break. Have lunch and then we'll review the case again." He instructed thinking that may be the small respite would get their brains to function normally again. No one in that office needed to be told twice. They all filed out to go to any nearby hotel for lunch. Hotch also gathered his papers, and filed them neatly before following the team. He saw Reid waiting for him at the door. He looked thoughtful about something. Almost like he was running down the statistics of some lead. Over the years, he'd picked up the looks Reid would get while doing some specific things. Like when he had a new idea he'd need to research on, or when he observed his other teammates, or when he started to read something very interesting, or- like now- when he calculated the statistics of something. And then his eyes lit up like they did every time when he found out something interesting.

"Hotch she's right! Oh my god! That'll change the whole profile..." with that, he headed for their temporary conference room they were set up in. Hotch just looked on confused with their youngest agent's behaviour. Later, seeing that he really couldn't get this by just looking at him, he followed him to find out what he was up to. After seeing him working on the map furiously mumbling to himself about different formulas that he probably wouldn't have heard about anyway, he decided it would be much faster to just ask him rather than trying to figure it out by himself. It was practically impossible to figure out what Reid was thinking about at the any given time.

"Reid, what are you doing? I thought we were going to take a break." Hotch asked.

"I think we were looking at the case all wrong. What if the unsub was a women? I know it's a really low percentage of women that could fit the profile, but it is not impossible. We could be looking at this a really wrong way. That changes everything... I mean, the other things leaving constant, it changes the whole geographical profile... we can narrow it down much more." Reid explained.

"What makes you think the unsub is a women? The kind of rage this unsub shows, is shown only by men... And it's not just the rage... the strength needed to make the stab wounds is not something many women possess Reid..." Hotch stated, confused. "Where did you get the idea that the unsub was a women anyway?"

"From the women on the phone. I don't know who is at the other end, but I think she's right, Hotch. I think we need to start from the scratch. And as for the strength, I don't think she needs it if the victims are already subdued and willing to do anything she says. And even if they're not, there are many women who are stronger than men. Most studies show that physically men are stronger than women. For the most part that is true, but there are some examples when women have defied everyone's expectations. They've entered in MMA fighting, UFC fighting, active combat-" Reid stated.

"Reid. I'll call the others with takeout while you work on the theory, and you'll have to convince us all that the unsub is a women- with the possible reasons." Hotch interrupted Reid when he realized that he could probably go on for ages talking about that. He wasn't happy that the whole profile is changing, but he also needed to figure out how the women on the phone got all that when even they were thinking that this was probably just some guy angry at what happened to him in his childhood. "I need to see who this other profiler is." He mumbled sarcastically to himself and moved aside to make the intended calls.


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