The lift doors dinged as they stopped at the top floor of the FBI building in Quantico. Reid stepped out, his eyes fixed on the book her was reading. He held of coffee in his left hand that he was holding steady as he walked. He walked swiftly through the doors of the BAU and placed his coffee down on his desk. Morgan looked over at him from his desk. He placed his feet loudly on his desk.
"Morning sunshine. What have you got there?" Morgan asked, toying with Reid. He enjoyed teasing the youngest member of the team. Reid jumped slightly at his sudden comment and looked curiously up from his book. He caught site of Morgan and sighed.
"Morgan. Why do you constantly do that? If you want to know it is a recent study on the development of Psychopaths." Reid said in his nerdy way. Morgan chuckled and shook his head. "What?" Reid asked confused about what was so funny. Most of the jokes that the other members of the team would say he never quite understood. He placed his book down on his desk, then took his shoulder bag and laid it on the back of his chair.
JJ walked down from Hotchner's office. She had a serious look on her face. She walked quickly over to Reid and Morgan. Morgan quickly returned his feet to the floor. Reid fiddled with his fingers.
"What's up JJ?" he asked. JJ stopped in front of both of them.
"We are all meeting in the briefing room. A new case just came in." JJ said. Reid and Morgan shook their heads and immediately made their way to the briefing room. Gideon was already sitting around the circular table in the middle of the room. JJ was pinning up photos on the tack board. Morgan sat down in his chair, but Reid remained standing. Hotch and Prentiss were the last to arrive. They all exchanged a quick greeting then they all sat down, with the exception of Reid and JJ. JJ finished putting up the pictures then turned to face them.
"A few hours ago this girl," she pointed to a picture of a girl lying in a pool of blood," Kelly Milton was found dead in an underused parking garage by her best friend, Jenny Scott." JJ pointed to another photo. It was Jenny's school photo. "This was in Wells Hill, Colorado. Miss. Scott was taken to the station to take her statement. A couple hours later she left the police station to go home. Then another hour later her father went around to the station asking where she was. Jenny Scott never made it home." JJ summarised.
In the back of the room Reid shifted his weight. He remembered briefly when he was taken by an UnSub. JJ took a moment to let the details of the case sink into the team's minds. Prentiss was the first to speak up.
"Why are they calling us in?" Prentiss asked.
"The local authorities have no suspects so far in the murder of Kelly Milton. But they do believe that the same UnSub that killed her also took Jenny. They were best friends and Jenny was the one to find the body. They want us to supply a profile to aid in the investigation." JJ said. Reid looked hard at the board.
"It is possible that the UnSub never meant for Kelly's body to be found so quickly. The parking garage was hardly ever used. That suggests that he knew that he would have some time before the body was found..." Reid said. Morgan looked over at him and finished his thought
"Yeah. Then Jenny found the body sooner than he had planned. But why take her?" he asked. Prentiss shrugged her shoulders. Morgan looked at Reid. Reid turned his gaze down toward the ground.
"Gideon what do you think?" Hotchner asked noticing the others silence. Gideon looked up at Jenny's school photo. He studied it for a moment then looked at the others.
"She messed up his plans. The UnSub was going to do something before the body was found. Jenny got in the way. So he decided to take her to complete his original plans. The kidnapping of Jenny Scott was not as planned as the murder of Kelly. Both events happening so close together suggest that we are looking for the same UnSub." Gideon explained. Reid began to pace slightly.
"Statistically the odds of an UnSub committing a murder then devolving down to a kidnapping are severely unlikely." Reid said. As he spoke he knew where the conversation was going to end. Hotchner noticed as well.
"So we have to assume that the UnSub means to kill her." Hotch said. He didn't like saying it but it was the conclusion that everyone had gone to. "Gather everything that we need. Take off in 20." He said. He stood up and went back to his office to get the files and paper work that they would need. JJ hurried off to inform the plane to get ready to leave. Prentiss and Morgan were the next to leave the room. This left Reid alone to look at the photos that JJ had put up for the briefing. He walked up to the photos to get a better look. There might be something that he missed.
He studied the photo of Jenny. She seems likes such a nice girl. He thought to himself. He then looked at the photo of Kelly lying dead in the parking garage. He looked at her laying a pool of her own blood. What a horrible thing to find, your best friend lying in a pool of her own blood. Reid took the pictures down and slid them into the folder that JJ had left behind. He held the folder under his arm and went back to his desk. He placed the folder carefully into his bag. Prentiss and Morgan were at their desks getting all the stuff that they would need. Reid set about doing the same.
Half an hour later the BAU team were all on board their private jet heading to Colorado. Gideon was sitting looking thoughtfully out the window. JJ and Hotch were talking about how to handle the press on the case in the back corner of the jet. Morgan and Prentiss were talking quietly amongst themselves. Reid sat in a chair that was set slightly away from the others and had the file spread out on the small table in front of him. He was studying the crime scene photos. The photos were taken from many angles to capture the full extent of the murder. Whoever murdered her showed a lot of rage. The wounds are jagged and disorganised. The UnSub has a lot of anger. Reid thought to himself. He had seen so much death since joining the BAU, so he couldn't imagine what had gone through the best friends mind when she stumbled upon her best friend. It was something that could scare a person for life or turn a person to a life of crime.
Jenny's eyes flickered open. It was dark all around her. She blinked hard in an attempt to get her eyes to focus. Her eyes focused in on her surroundings but there wasn't much to see. It was too dark to see too far in front of her. A pain stabbed through her head. She moved her arm to put pressure on it to stop the pain. But she couldn't move her arms aside from bending them slightly. She looked at her wrists; she was bound to something. Both of her arms were stretched out to either side of her. She tugged at her bonds trying to pry them free. But they were firmly in place. She wanted to scream but her throat felt tight, her heart beat began to quicken. I have to get out of here. Where ever here is, Jenny though with determination to herself. She closed her eyes to try and calm herself down. But she knew that it was an almost impossible task.
Reid had looked over the photos a hundred times. He couldn't see anything different then what he had seen before. There has to be something that the kidnapper did that would give us a clue to his or her profile, Reid thought to himself. He was getting frustrated. He had always been able to see something unique in what the UnSub did to the victim. But he just couldn't see it. He sighed heavily in frustration.
"We will be landing soon. So make sure that you are all ready to depart the moment we touch ground." JJ said after she had gone to see the pilot. Reid rubbed his eyes then looked out the window. Below them were fields of green with roads criss-crossing all around them. It's beautiful. Too bad it has a killer/kidnapper, Reid thought as he gazed at the land below. He started to gather all of the crime scene photos and paperwork and filed them carefully back into the folder which he placed in his bag. Once he had done that he braced himself of the plane came down to land.