Tannerose5 – Welcome back. Thank you for enjoying Old Friends and Surprises. I thought it would be interesting if Reid's daughter wasn't a book worm or rather a little toughy. I had originally wrote the story with both Rowena and Doris being taken. It was because of Rowena that they were able to get free.
ahowell1993 – I used the names from that episode just because, both girls here are just as bad. I am afraid that it isn't in Vegas this round.
Chapter 2 The Case
It was still earlier morning in DC.
J.J. and Morgan both arrived at roughly the same time. They walked off the elevator together and towards the BAU conference room.
"This is pretty early." Morgan said.
"I take you didn't hear anything about this case either." J.J. said.
"No, all I got was come in early." Morgan answered.
When they reached the conference room Hotch and Garcia were already there.
Even though she was a new profiler J.J. immediately took in the dim looks on the faces on both Hotch and Garcia. Garcia was barely able to acknowledge the two when they came in.
Morgan took a seat next to Garcia. "What's going on Baby-Girl?"
She looked at Morgan with an almost pleading look.
"We'll wait for everyone else." Hotch said in what seemed like a slight rescue to Garcia.
Garcia did not say anything she went back to working on her laptop that was on the desk. Her finger strokes though were not at the fiery speed the team was accustomed to.
A moment later Blake and Rossi came in.
"We got this case directly from the director." Hotch began.
"Hang on Hotch, shouldn't we wait on Reid." Morgan asked a little surprised from Hotch starting the briefing.
"I purposely didn't tell him that we were meeting this early." Hotch answered.
"Why." Blake asked.
"It is possible that we have a copy-cat." Garcia spoke up.
Morgan and J.J. looked at her. They had known her for a long time. They knew she wanted to speak right then. She wanted to release the emotions that were in her.
She finally looked up from the computer. "There is no easy way to say this." She clicked on the remote to turn on the screen. She didn't even look at it. "This was committed two days ago, in Mississippi."
The team looked at the obvious crime scene photo across the screen. It was clearly the living room of a nicer home. Two bodies were laid out on the floor covered in blood.
There was something about the crime scene that became the focus of the team's attention. Written in what looked like blood on the wall in large letters was a single name, Tobias.
"Tobias," Blake said going through in her head the previous cases she knew of.
The team sat uncomfortably for a moment.
"Our victims are Michael Baker and his wife Karen. They didn't have any kids. He was upper management at a bank. She was an accountant." Hotch brought the teams attention back to the current case.
"Are there any other similarities?" Morgan finally asked.
"They left a piece of paper with a bible verse written on it, 1 Timothy 6:10" Hotch answered.
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." Rossi quoted solemnly.
"No phone call prior to the murder?" J.J. asked. She didn't even look at her tablet. She didn't want to.
"Afterwards, this time." Garcia answered. "The Un-Sub used a voice scrambler. I'm running it now."
She clicked on the computer and the team listened to the altered voice. "Tobias has taken another sinner. Death to those who stop the righteous work."
Rossi looked over the crime scene photos on his tablet. "I thought this case hadn't been released yet?"
"It hasn't." Garcia said. "I stored it someplace where it shouldn't have been released from. The Replicator never even saw it, I made sure of that."
"I don't understand." Blake said. "Why would Reid not be a part of this? I've never been familiarized with this case."
The team looked at Alex. It was clear that Reid had never told her about what happened.
"Several years ago we had a case in Georgia. It was a missioned based serial killer." Morgan began.
"Agent Gideon and Agent Prentiss were involved in the original case." Hotch added.
"He was killing those who he had deemed as sinners." Morgan continued. "He posted the murders on the internet. He called the cops from their homes just before the murder."
"People thought the internet videos were movie trailers or something." Garcia said. "The videos were passed around, hundreds of peoples saw them."
"The videos were meant to warn people against sinning." Hotch explained. "People didn't understand that they were watching actual murders."
"Have there been any postings of these murders?" Rossi asked. Hotch had familiarized Rossi with what had happened not long after he had joined the BAU.
"I'm doing searches. Nothing has come up yet." Garcia answered.
"Rossi, Blake." Hotch said to the two agents. "Since you two were not part of the original investigation, you are going to have the fresh eyes on this case."
"I've loaded the original case with Tobias Hankel onto your tablets." Garcia said. "I even loaded the ikky pieces."
"Were the bodies treated the same way after death?" Morgan asked looking over the files. There was clearly a lot of blood present.
"I would say yes." Garcia answered.
"They were drained of blood. We don't know how precise yet." Hotch answered.
"What does this case have to do with Reid?" Blake could tell that this was emotional to all of them. She wanted to know what was going on. There was no doubt in her mind that the case would still be handled professionally by the team, yet they were not being open with her about what happened.
"Reid." JJ said getting up from her seat.
Reid had walked into the conference room.
Garcia quickly turned off the screen
"I thought I was early." Reid said looking at the blank screen. He did get a look at the crime scene photo before it went blank. He continued to look at the blank screen. "Are there other similarities?"
"The bible verses. Treatment of the bodies. Calling police after the murders." Hotch answered. "We are still looking for videos on the internet."
"Forensics?" Reid asked. He slowly took a seat avoiding eye contact.
"We have a possible partial fingerprint." Garcia said. "It was ran, no hits."
"So our Un-Sub hasn't been fingerprinted." Reid was emotionless has he talked.
"No one on this team would think less of you if you didn't get involved in this one." Morgan said.
"I know this case better than anybody." Reid answered. "This case should still be classified."
"The Un-Sub somehow found out about it." Hotch said. "We need to talk with everyone involved in the original case. Detective Farraday is still in the area. I've told him that we are coming. We are going to Georgia to interview those originally involved in the case, then we will go to Mississippi. Wheels up in twenty."
Without speaking, the team got out of their seats and headed towards the tarmac.
