A/N: I do not own Criminal Minds or the original characters,Jeff Davis does! i do own Emmeline Michelson.

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"What's the new girl's story?" Morgan asked Rossi as they walked towards the first crime scene.

"She is a literature, writing, and mythology expert is what I heard from Erin" Rossi replied as he walked past yellow tape.

"Think she is going to know something Reid doesn't about these symbols?" Morgan asked as he followed beside Rossi.

Rossi looked at him.

"Even good ole doctor Reid doesn't know everything Morgan" He replied as they finally got to the first crime scene.

"Rossi look at those blood drops" Morgan said as he went to take a closer look. "There is a trail of them."

"So she was moved here, but why?" Rossi wondered as he walked around Morgan.

"Either this spot has a meaning or the unsub was trying to get rid of the body." Morgan said as he got up.

Rossi looked around the crime scene as he walked. Suddenly he stopped.

"What is it?" Morgan asked in concern.

"There is another one of those symbols again. But it's bigger and curved into the pavement." Rossi explained as Morgan came to stand beside him.

"What. The. Hell is going on Rossi." He asked as he looked at the bigger symbol.

"Doesn't look good" Rossi replied as he dialed Hotch on his cell phone.

Emma walked through the doors of the morgue. She was listening in and out of Reid's explaining of something or other that she really wasn't interested in. When they reached the medical examiner, Emma turned around to get away from looking at the bodies.

"What's the matter?" Reid asked turning around to look at her.

Emma looked at him nervously.

"Um, I'm never seen bodies up close." She replied looking up at Reid.

Reid smiled at her then turned to speak with the medical examiner.

"The cause of death for the first victim was the stabbing and the second victim was the burning. My guess would be she was alive when she was burned." The examiner said.

"What about the symbols in the wrists." Emma asked still looking the other way.

"Judging by the carving of the symbols they were in fact carved there while they were alive." The medical Examiner replied.

"Can we look at their wrists?" Reid asked the medical examiner.

He gestured the medical examiner to cover the bodies but not their arms. Reid walked over to Emma again and turned her around.

"They're all covered but the arms. We have to look at the carvings on their wrist and the sooner that is done the sooner we can leave." He told her.

Emma shook her head and followed after Reid. She bent down over each woman's wrist closely and examined them. They were both different symbols however the shapes were similar for each one. Emma looked up at Reid.

"These symbols do look familiar" she said. "But I can't remember where I have seen them."

Reid nodded and thanked the medical examiner as he left the room. Emma followed behind him.

"Can we go by the library before we head back? I need to refresh my memory." She asked as they walked out.

"Anything particular? I may have it" Reid replied to her.

"Would you happen to know about alchemy?" Emma asked him hoping he didn't think she was crazy.

"Isn't that the suppose science that became known today as Chemistry. It is mostly used for magic in most literature." Reid replied in surprise. "You think those symbols could be linked to alchemy?"

Emma sighed.

"They don't look like occult symbols at least not any of the usual occult's. It can't hurt to check." She said.

Reid nodded as his phone started to ring.

"Hello?" Reid said into his phone.

"Any luck with the medical examiner?" Hotch asked.

"Nothing we didn't already know. But Emma looked at the symbols and she thinks she has an idea of what they are." Reid explained as he looked at Emma.

"Good, the two of you get to the crime scenes. Rossi and Morgan found more symbols there. Maybe Emma will have an idea about them as well. The rest are heading back here to the BAU, you two join after you visit the crime scenes." Hotch said to Reid and hung up.

"The library trip will have to wait, Rossi and Morgan found more symbols at the crime scenes. Hotch wants you to look at them as well." Reid explained to Emma. "Why would this unsub want to kill these women and leave alchemy symbols around?"

Emma shrugged.

"I'm not sure but I hope my theory is wrong." She replied meeting eyes with Reid.

David Arnold walked down the sidewalk on his way to the store. He was turning the curb when someone came up behind him and knocked him in the head. David went down and was dragged into a vehicle.

He woke up in a lab looking place. A female with short brown hair was standing over him. He looked around him and saw that rocks were round him. His hands and legs were tied up.

"Hello David." The female said in a sadistic voice.

Before David could say anything, the female took the knife from the nearby table and walked over to David. David tried to move away but he was stuck.

"Please don't hurt me." he begged and the female took the knife and stabbed the end of the blade into her wrist.

David screamed as the female carved into his flash.

"These girls seem so random. Their three years apart in age." J.J said to the others while looking at the photos.

Morgan picked up his phone and dialed Garcia's number.

"Hey baby girl, got anything good?" he asked her.

"Hate to disappoint you sugar, but both Cassandra and Emily backgrounds and financials are clear both were spot on in time for taxes. Neither one had so much as a parking ticket. However they did go to the same college but other than that there are no connections between them and no red flags on any of thing." Garcia said as she typed away on her computer.

Morgan sighed.

"Thanks mama, call you if we get anything." He said as he hung up. "Garcia said both girls are clean and the only connection to each other is that they when to the same college."

"The families said that they both were dedicated to school, never partied. They were just two good college students." J.J replied as she sat down.

"Reid said that Emma has an idea on the symbols found on the bodies. They are heading to the crime scenes now. It may be the only lead we have at this point." Hotch said to them as he walked into the team's room.

"Emma's a mythology, literature and writing expert. If she has an idea on these symbols, maybe the unsub has a connect with mythology or literature of some kind" Prentiss said.

"Maybe but we need a little more to build a profile." Hotch replied.