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Chapter 1 – "Get me Jennifer Jareau of the BAU."

Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York

New York City FBI Field Office, Missing Persons Unit

Special Agent Elena Delgado sat at her desk and looked at the blank whiteboard nervously. She finally decided to put her uncertainties at rest, so she picked up her cell phone and dialed a once familiar number.

"Hello," she heard a voice say on the other end.

"Hey Kevin. It's me Elena, I need a favour…"

After fifteen minutes on the phone with Kevin, Elena finally hung up her phone and turned to her co-worker, Vivian Johnson. "Viv, I was just talking to Kevin, my old partner at NYPD and they're pretty sure the two cases are the same guy."

Vivian sighed heavily; all their fears had been confirmed with one phone call: New York City had a serial killer on their hands. Over the past three months, the New York City Missing Persons Unit of the FBI had two cases in particular that demanded special attention. Two families, each consisting of a mother, a father, and a young child, had gone missing. The bodies of the man and woman were found dumped in the Hudson River and the young child was left abandoned in a church. The families had gone missing a month and a half apart and Elena in particular, being a former Homicide Detective, had felt that there were too many similarities for the cases not to be connected, so she had decided to use her connections at NYPD to provide the team with some inside information.

Vivian's thought were interrupted with a question from Elena, "So Viv, what are we going to do? Are we just going to sit around for a month and a half and wait for another family to disappear without a trace?"

Vivian answered Elena with a low, "I dunno," as she got up from her desk and walked towards her supervisor's office. She knocked lightly on the glass door and then pushed it open. "Jack we gotta talk."

"What's this about?" Asked Supervisory Special Agent Jack Malone as he dropped his pen and looked up from a pile of paperwork.

Vivian sat down in the chair across from Jack's desk and hesitantly said, "Elena was just talking to a detective over at NYPD and they're working on the angle that the Robinson and Frye cases are related."

"So…" Jack was a very intelligent, observant man who read people really well but he couldn't understand why Vivian was telling him this.

"So," she said almost angrily, "On both the Robinson and Frye cases there were no leads and if we're dealing with a serial killer I think we should get some help before another innocent child ends up parentless." Vivian felt that was all she needed to say and she got up out of her chair and left the office, walking towards the elevator to go home.

Jack looked out into the bullpen, Elena had also left and therefore it was now empty. His team had become frustrated and discouraged recently and as much as he hated to admit it, Viv was right, they needed help. He picked up his phone and started dialing. Rings started to go in and then he heard, "FBI Headquarters, how may I help you?"

"Yes, this is Jack Malone, Supervisor of the Missing Persons Unit in New York City. Get me Jennifer Jareau of the BAU."