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New York, New York! – Chapter 2
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"I see you two have met!' Sid exclaimed cheerfully as he put his readers away.
"No Sid, I haven't." Mac Taylor said as he continued to stare at Emily.
"Me neither."She replied, her gaze never removed from his.
"Oh, well then, Mac Taylor, Emily Prentiss, Emily Prentiss, Mac Taylor. Now, you've met each other." Sid waved at each other as he grinned.
Emily held out her hand as Mac took hers to shake it. "Pleasure." She said.
"The pleasure is...mine."He said hesitantly.
"Oh Mac," Sid continued. "Emily is the new FBI Unit Chief here in the NY building. She's replacing Kate Joyner who… well, you know."
Mac Taylor nodded, "I'm sorry about her passing." He said to Emily.
Emily nodded, "Thank you, I don't know her well but I hope I can do a better job. Um, about earlier, the rude finger gesture…I'm sorry, it's just that…what's with you people about walking in the streets? Do you all have a death wish or something?" she asked.
Mac arched his brow at her, "It's a busy place all around and we avoid the tourists so we get out of the regular sidewalks. You'll get use to it eventually." He suddenly broke into a smile surprising Emily.
Emily smiled back, "I guess it's something I'll have to get use to it."
"Actually in Mac's case," Sid interrupted as he looked at him in concern. "He has a special reason for being a little bit angry."
"Sid!" Mac warned him.
"Look Mac, we need all the help we can get in your case."Sid said. He turned back to Emily. "Mac's got a stalker."
Emily looked at Mac with an arched gaze, "Oh? What kind of stalker?"
"A female, she'd call him and suggests all kinds of meeting ups and sometimes threatens him. She would want to meet up with him but had never happened but if she did, Mac had never seen her."
"And you thought I might be her and you didn't wait up for me at the elevator…?" Emily said.
Mac nodded. "I didn't know if she was armed or not. I didn't want to be alone with her yet."
Emily nodded.
"I'm sorry if I was rude earlier…I was on the phone with her and one of my tech was tracking her call."
"Any success?"
Mac shook his head, "It was a disposal phone traced to California."
"I'm sorry. Det. Taylor. I guess I didn't help either?" Emily said.
"It doesn't matter. We'll catch her." But Emily saw he didn't sound convinced at his own admission. Changing the subject he looked at her, "So, why is FBI doing here with my case?" Mac asked her.
"Your case, Det. Taylor?" Emily asked. "Three women in two days, I'd say that warrant an FBI take-over."
Mac shook his head, "Oh no, I don't think so, it is still my case and I still have jurisdiction here in my town and my lab. I can have you bodily removed." He was leaning close to her.
Emily, unafraid, leaned closed to him until they were almost nose to nose, "No, Det. Taylor. You will not. As of this moment, the FBI is in charge now."
"Emily? Emily Prentiss? What are you doing here?"
Emily looked away from Mac and to her left and saw to her surprise a former FBI agent standing next to Sid.
"Jo? Jo Danville?"Emily called out in surprise as she moved to hug her. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm working here now, Emily!" Jo smiled back happily.
Emily nodded, "I see, as a…?"
"A crime lab detective, just like Mac here." She nudged with her chin over to where Mac was standing watching them. "He's my supervisor and a darn good one."
Emily stopped smiling as she turned to him, "That remains to be seen." She muttered.
"Uh oh…something the matter?" Jo asked.
Emily quickly explained to her the dilemma.
Jo nodded, "Well, how about a compromise and work together? I mean we're not really pursuing any other case right now…right Mac?" She looked over to Mac for confirmation.
Mac looked at Jo for a moment and then nodded, "I guess we can work together if Agent Prentiss is agreeable." Mac said.
Emily walked up to him, "I'm agreeable for now."
Jo and Sid exchanged frowns, "Hey, they started like that when they saw each other. I don't know what happened." Sid said to Jo.
"Do you two know each other before?" Jo asked them.
"NO!" they answered her at the same time. Then they relaxed their stance nodded.
"Hey Mac…I found sometime in the blood trace on the first vic…er…is this a bad time?" Lindsey Monroe-Messer walked into the ME room holding a tablet and paused when she saw Emily's presence.
Mac nodded his head, "It's okay, This is Agent Prentiss from the FBI, we're working jointly, right?" Emily nodded.
Lindsey nodded, "First vic, Annabeth Gilles was given the date rape drug GHB but this one is a new one, more like a hybrid with twice the amount of benzodiazepines compound mixed with less alcohol to give it a more high effect."
"Was it injected or taken orally?"Emily asked her.
"Um, injected but we almost missed it as it was located where her left pinky and third finger joined." She moved to the body and removed the cloth and lifted the hand and showed them the puncture mark, there was a very small bruised mark.
"The dark bruise mark didn't show until posthumously." Emily took out the photos of the dead woman and looked over them.
"They usually are, blood levity and organs began to degrade after 24 hours."Mac pointed out.
"I'm well aware of that medical fact, Det. Taylor but thanks for the Mortuary lessons 101." Emily nodded, "I knew that."
Mac stood up and eyed her but didn't say anything.
"Anything else?" Emily and Mac asked at the same time to Lindsey.
Lindsey looked at them awkwardly as she shook her head.
"What about the other two vics?" Emily asked as she turned to watch Mac.
"Um, yeah, they have the same syringe marks. It looks like this is his preferred wound site." Lindsey confirmed.
"Looks like we have a serial killer," Emily nodded. "He's going to strike again, and put his next vic in the West bench."
"You're sure about that?" Mac asked her.
Emily looked at him, "Pretty sure, I'm asking for help as I don't have enough resource to do surveillance."
"Neither do I if I don't have substantial proof. I'm not going to waste my manpower."
"Why not?"
"It's too obvious. He'll know we're going to be watching him."
Emily huffed in frustration, "I can't believe you're not going to have anybody…" She bit her lip from continuing. "Anything else?"
Lindsey shook her head, "I'm heading back to the lab and some peace …now. It's nice knowing you, Agent Prentiss." She nodded at Emily before quickly exited the lab.
"I think I'd better get to my office too, since there's nothing else here, Sid?" Emily glanced to the ME.
Sid shook his head and grinned. "Not at the moment."
"I'll show you the way out," Jo offered.
"It's nice knowing you, Sid…Det. Taylor." Emily nodded at them.
Mac nodded at her politely before he turned to another direction and left.
"You have some time to check out the crime lab upstairs, Emily?" Jo offered.
Emily shrugged, "Why not? They're not expecting me anyways. How are you?"
They walked out of the lab and to the elevator, as they catch up on their FBI days.
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"Nice pad." She looked about her and saw Mac sitting in his office as their office walls were clear glasses. "How do you stand it?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Jo looked up at Emily as she sat behind her desk.
Emily spread her arms wide, "The clear glass! Everyone can see inside and you can see out, no privacy! I don't think I can do it."
"I know, it took me a while to get use to it too. But you get adjusted and learned to ignore what's going on out there." She jerked her chin indicating the hallways as the crime lab staff members walk about, each deep in their work.
Emily sat down on the guest chair and looked out to downtown as she admired the scenery.
"Who's the scenery in Jo's office?' Flack asked as he leaned casually against Mac's office door.
Mac glanced over and shook his head, "You don't want to touch that, Don. That's FBI new Unit Chief and she's bad news all the way."
"Uh oh, looks like the great Mac Taylor had met his match!"
Mac gave him a dark stare, "Don't even start that. She is not worth it."
Flack grinned wider, "Oh, I smell a good wrestling match going on! I wonder if she is single?" He rubbed his hands together as he straightened from the door frame and sauntered along the hallways towards Jo's office. Mac watched him surreptitiously as he walked into her office and introduced himself to Emily and began chatting as if they were the best of friends.
"Watch out, Don or she might eat you whole!" Mac muttered under his breath.
"Either you're talking to the supposedly hidden bug in your office or your laptop can converse with you, if the latter I want one too. If the former, you can keep it." Danny grinned as he stood by the doorway.
Mac glared at him, "Don't I get some private time to myself anymore? What you got, Danny?"
He shook his head, "The Central Park case; No outside fingerprints, nada, zilch, nothing on all three vics. Aside from the dirt under their fingernails, they are clean as whistle."
Mac sighed.
They looked up when they heard laughter, Lindsey was in there now and being animated.
Danny grinned, "Who's the dark and pretty one, besides my wife?"
"No you too, Danny." Mac explained to him about Emily Prentiss and her presence.
Danny looked at Mac, "You okay, Mac? Did you and her went a few rounds already?"
Mac gave him an arched look and replied, "It's a long story, but the short version, she's FBI and we're working on the Central Park case."
"Where did she come from?"
Mac shrugged, "Quantico. I think." He began to type on his laptop and then shook his head. "Come here, Danny…take a look at this."
Danny moved into Mac's office and walked around his desk and looked at the screen and began reading.
"Holy shit…Mac…this is not fun and games…BAU…."
He straightened up and glance over to Jo's office and looked back at Mac and continued, "Hey, didn't we have that Homeland terrorist incident here a month ago?"
Mac nodded, "The one that killed 8 terrorist and a federal agent."
Danny nodded, "I guess she's the replacement Fed."
"She's it and she has a big headache accompany with her. The Mayor has chewed me a new one on this case and he wants instant result and a miracle. I hope she's able to handle him" Mac tapped at the screen and continued, "And they sent a profiler it as well, great." He shook his head.
"I sure don't need her to get in my head," Danny said. "I'm going back to the lab, they can have their fun in there," Danny looked up at Jo's office again. "I'm going to warn Linds to stay out of that Fed's way from now onwards. Later Mac" Danny walked out of Mac's office shaking his head, going to the opposite direction.
"Maybe you should warn the whole lab to keep them away from her." Mac muttered as he glanced over at Jo's office but saw to his surprise Jo was the only occupant. He looked about the hallways and saw her and Flack walking towards the elevators but as they passed his office, Flack gave a shout out, "Hey Mac, I'm heading out, Emily's going to the FBI building, see you later." He gave him a casual salute before walking on, Emily didn't even look at him at all as she was already at the elevator.
"This is nothing but bad news," Mac shook his head. "No, I take it back, she's bad news and I'm in deep trouble and I'm taking Danny's advice; stay away from her…far, far away."
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End of Chapter 2