Note : First I would like to thank each and everyone who has followed and favorited the story. Thank you so much. In this chapter, there is a flashback to an episode in the show. The flashback refers to a scene from Season 2 Episode 21 "Open Season". I've put that section in bold.


Chapter Two

18 hours earlier

Emily and JJ walk in to the prescient, just a few mins after ten am, the last ones to arrive. Hotch and the rest of the team already at the table already added changes to the profile from the information they had obtained the night before. On top of that, Garcia had just walked in. "Sir, the searches you had me run just finished up a few minutes ago."

"Good. What did you come up with?" Hotch asks.

Garcia replies "I've narrowed down the list to three possible suspects. Gary Duval, Peter Gibbs, and Thomas Anderson. Also, I've already got the deep background checks running, and should be done with in the next couple hours."

"Great job Garcia. Get those files to us as soon as they are done. As for the rest of us, we need to get with the coroner and see about the results from last night victim." Hotch said.

"I would like to go and talk to him if I may Hotch. I've got a few questions to ask about something that's been bothering me about the other victims and might have some more based on what is found." Reid says.

"That's fine Reid. Rossi, I would like you to go with him. The rest of us will go see the parents of the three suspects, see if anything from the past couple years has stood out to the parents. JJ, Prentiss, start with Duval. It's just his mom, since his dad died a couple of years ago. Morgan and I will head to Anderson's parents, they are in the next town over. Should take us about thirty minute to get there." Hotch says.

As everyone gathers their things getting ready to head out, Garcia steps out from where they have her set up. "Wait guys" Garcia starts."The runs on Duval just finished, and up until a his father passed away, he was in and out of the system for years. Started with breaking an entering at the age of sixteen, which escalated to robbery of a local gas station which got him five years up state. He got out just after he turned twenty-one. During that time he started hanging out with the wrong crowds again, but everything changed after his father died less than a year later. Ever since then he cleaned up and held his job for the last couple years. Even got a promotion about 6 months ago and now he's an assistant manager at a major outdoor outlet store in the area. He even bought a new house, moved his mother in, and hired in home health care to help take care of her."

Prentiss and JJ look over to Hotch and asks "So Hotch, what do you want to us to do now?" Prentiss was secretly hoping that he goes ahead and sends them anyways. Her and JJ haven't really had much time to support their friendship. Especially since she had Henry. They hadn't had a girls night out in a while. She won't ever forget that first girls night out they had...


"My names Brad. Whats a stunningly beautiful women like you doing in a bar like this?" Brad says confidently.

Emily hadn't even left JJ or Penelope for five minutes and already she's got some sleaze ball hitting on her. Looking to see how much more cheese she could get out of him she decides to answer. "Oh, a couple of my co-workers and I needed to get away from the stress of the job. So we decided on having a girls night, you know." she says, adding just enough of interest in her voice to try to draw him in. She grabs the three beers the bartender places in front of her and turns back to the guy.

And it works too. "If you want to talk about a stressful job, you should try working for the FBI." he states.

"Really" she says faking awe. "Wow. You should come join us." Her and Brad make their ways back across the bar to where JJ and Penelope were waiting. They see her approach, and both notice the slight gleam in her eyes and wonder what she has planned. "Ladies" she starts, "This is Brad, a real FBI Agent."

"Really?" Garcia says. Both her and JJ figure out just what was said to bring over. This is going to be so much fun.

'Really" Emily says.

"No way." says JJ.

"That's so exciting. Whats it like at Quan-tee-co?" Garcia says intentionally saying Quantico wrong.

"It's ah, quite impressive." Brad states.

"What department are you in?" JJ asks.

"That's classified." he says, as if he uses this routine before and has figured out the easiest ways to dodge that question.

"Must be really tough" JJ starts as she turns to Emily and gives her a wink, " keeping all those secrets."

"You know" he says "it's a skill like anything else. Carpenters are good as building stuff and measuring. FBI is good at keeping secrets and kicking criminal ass."

JJ and Penelope start to laugh like they are impressed and Emily says "Yeah, well somebody's got to do it. Oh, do you have to carry your gun and badge everywhere you go?" she asks as if it's an after thought.

"Affirmative" Brad says.

"Can we see it?" Emily asks while giving her best smile.

"See what?" he asks like he's trying to avoid the question.

"Your badge." she says, smile never wavering.

He starts to laugh like it's some joke and is about to make an excuse when "Please?" begs Penelope.

They can see that he normally doesn't have to deal with this much pressure when he normally tries this routine. "Sorry that's..." he stumbles out.

"Classified" All three girls say at the same time. He smiles, and gets this look on his face like he is sure they are going to let it go, finally.

"Yeah it figures" JJ says.

"Of course" says Emily. "Tell me Brad, does it look anything like this?" she asks as she flips open her badge.

"Or this?" JJ says as she points to hers she had just flipped open.

"Or this?" Penelope asks and she flips hers open.

Brad stands there for just s couple seconds in stunned silence as he realizes he just got played, turns and heads back to where he was at before trying and failing in his pickup of an actual FBI agent. The girls then bust out laughing.


They where really looking forward to a night of fun and friends when JJ got the call about the two unsubs hunting in Idaho. Prentiss hopes someday to rebuild the friendship between her and JJ, and she loves Henry more than she thought possible. Maybe after this case is over, she will mention to Pen and JJ about going out for well deserved girls night.

"Em.." JJ says as she nudges Emily with her elbow, to bring her back to the present, everyone knowing occasionally getting distracted.

"Sorry." Emily says, and notices everyone else had turned to leave, and Garcia was headed back to her work space. "What did I miss?"

"Hotch was going to send us to the parents of Gibbs, but Morgan suggested going ahead and doing the interview to help cross Duval off the suspect list. Hotch agreed and suggests if we have time, to swing by Duval's job and run the dates by his boss. You were

zoned out at the time so I told him if we had time we would do that. And that's when i nudged you with my elbow. So...can we go, or do you want to zone out again?" JJ asks with a hint of sarcasm and a twinkle in her eyes.

"No, but here." said Emily as she tosses JJ the keys.

"What?" JJ asks questioningly.

"You drive. Come on, let's go." Emily says as she walks by JJ. "That way I can zone out again."

JJ glances up at Emily as she goes by, seeing the smirk on her face, and then the laughs and shakes her head as Emily winks at her. "Smartass." JJ mutters. Emily hears it, knowing JJ meant for her too, and just laughs as she goes out the door. JJ smiles, glad to have gotten the response from Emily she wanted and heads after her. She climbs in the SUV and asks "So Em, want to tell me why you zoned out?"

JJ waits, for a second and just before she gets ready to repeat the question, "You want to get with Garcia after this case is over and have another girls night out?" Emily blurts out.

"What? Where is this coming from Em?" JJ asks concerned.

"I was thinking about that first girls night out we had where Brad the FBI Agent" and Emily does the air quotations with her hands as she says that, JJ smiling as she remembers that night, "tried to hit on me. And it got me to thinking, its been a long time since we've had a girls night. So about my previous question. Do you want too?"

"I do remember that night. Poor Brad. We might have went a little rough on him don't you think?" she asks as she looks over at Emily. "Nah" they say in unison, and start laughing again. "Yes, we definitely need to start doing those again. And Garcia has asked the last couple months if we can start-up girls night again. I can get with her on the flight home and let her know."

"OK. Tell her we should be on for Friday night. The way this case is going, we should not be here another three days." Emily says.

"That sounds good. I will get with Spence and see if he wants to spend time with his Godson that night, since it has been a while. He should enjoy that." JJ says. "Lets go get this interview over."