Seeing Her

"Hey, I really could've used that break, pretty boy! What's got you so worked up?" Morgan said annoyed that they were called back before they could even enter the hotel. They had just decided to pick up takeout, and eat it at the station itself. Reid didn't answer though, murmuring things to himself.

"Reid thinks that the unsub is a woman." Hotch answered when he found Reid was too busy concentrating on his map to answer.

"Why? He was the one who told us that statistics showed that the unsub would be male." JJ sounded confused. They had never seen Reid back down from his own words. He always knew the correct facts and figures about everything. But when they glanced over in his direction, they could see that he really thought that the unsub was a women.

"I talked to the officer taking calls, and she said that there was one phone call saying that the unsub is a woman. He may have overheard them talking, and then actually thought about it. I have asked them to pick up the person; they are bringing her in now." Hotch said, ignoring the original question JJ had asked.

They all sighed and sat down around the table to eat the takeout. Hotch joined them too. They did ask Reid to join, but he was so immersed in his own thinking that he didn't even reply. Only after they had finished eating, had Reid deemed it appropriate to go ahead and tell them what he was thinking about the case. So when he began to explain, all the team members concentrated on him.

"I know I had said that the chances that the unsub is a woman is highly unlikely, but it is not impossible. It's amazing how much the profile changes if we just change the gender of the unsub. The age group would be the same, or 2 to 3 years younger. Women are generally more calm and composed. They think more before they act. Men are very impulsive when it comes to their rage. They tend to show their rage in front of all the people. Sometimes other emotions such as embarrassment, fear also transform into rage. But this unsub is more calm when killing the victims. That is one of the major points why I think the unsub is a woman." Reid explained.

"That would mean that the unsub is using drugs or something to keep the girls from fighting to get free." Morgan said, connecting the dots.

"Maybe the unsub was a target of bullying while in school - inflicted by other girls. That would explain why she's killing off only the popular girls in school. She's thinking that she has to eradicate the bullies, which in her case may be the most popular girl in her school." Emily also contributed.

Rossi waited for anyone to mention anything more before adding his own opinion. "The unsub would be gay then. Because the killings only started after she lost her anchor – which is another woman." Before anyone could ask anything else, an officer entered and told Hotch that they'd brought her in, and that she's in the interrogation room. Nobody else seemed to know who 'she' was except Hotch and Reid, because Reid was instantly headed towards the interrogation room throwing a 'I'll talk to her' over his shoulder. All of them followed him there, but entered the opposite side of the watch glass. There was a teenage girl sitting on the chair opposite Reid. She didn't seem too comfortable just sitting there. She was looking with apprehension as Reid came in, and sat down in front of her. As soon as he was comfortable there and he looked up, instead of him questioning her she started speaking.

"Did you catch her?" She asked.

"No, not yet. We're doing everything we can, but we need your help. I'm going to ask you some questions which you need to answer honestly, alright?" Reid calmly explained to her. She just nodded.

"May I know your full name?"

"Ileana Ann Jones"

"Okay, Ileana. I'm Dr. Spencer Reid with the Behavioural Analysis Unit of the FBI. We're investigating the case of the missing teenage girls. Were you the one who called the station earlier to say that the unsub was a female and not male?"

"Yes. It was me. The profile you gave in the press conference said that it was male. I had to correct it. And the teenage girls are dead, not missing aren't they?" She answered, and asked another question too. Reid was surprised she'd figured it out because they hadn't divulged that information yet. The police had already kept it quiet, and even after they came, they'd only told their families. No official statement was made. And Reid himself wasn't in the position to tell her.

"I'm afraid I can't say anything about that. But I have to ask, how did you know that the unsub was a female, and not a male?" He did the next best thing and diverted her attention to the reason she was here.

"Well, it's all high school stuff, really. All of the girls were fairly popular in their schools, had good grades, were in some or the other clubs. Which meant that they were obviously proud of themselves. But all of them were not bullies. So, the killer – or 'unsub' – as you call it, believes that these type of girls are always bullies. And high school is the worst place to experience it, and the best to find one. And if she was a guy, there were more chances that she'd kill guys for bullying really, not that much girls bully guys."

Reid was stunned for a moment. They hadn't thought from this angle at all. Outside the interrogation room, there was a similar silence amongst the team. If only they'd thought that the unsub could be a woman. Reid told her to wait in the waiting room, and then went out.

"That actually made sense!" Emily exclaimed.

"I totally agree." JJ approved.

"Hotch, I think we need to change the profile." Morgan too agreed.

"Let's have Garcia narrow the list down." Rossi said.

Hotch had stayed silent all the while, staring at her through the glass. This girl was a natural at profiling. His mind went back to a conversation he'd had with the section chief almost a month back. All of the bureau's teams had been asked to take on one interns from the academy, or any schools to train with them. They also wanted the good publicity that such a thing bought. After that, Hotch did visit the academy once or twice, but he didn't find someone he thought worthy. 'But maybe... maybe this girl deserved it? Would it be a good idea to talk to her?' Hotch decided that he should best wait until the case was over. So, he went along with his plan to concentrate on the case first, and think about everything later.

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