"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them."
-Tom Krause

Any investigating team should primarily be strong-hearted. They need will power and the determination to get to the bottom of every case and stop only until the responsible perpetrator is caught.

The BAU had started out as the same but on the ideology of criminal profiling. The American federal government had laid their systems out in such a way that the best profilers in the world could only be found in the FBI.

After the 9/11 and Amerithrax attacks in the United States, the standard of crime had reached a paramount, becoming more mysterious by the day. Cyber-crimes were on the rise. People killed or robbed from others only under fool-proof planning.

And under such circumstances only, the current team of the Behavioral Analysis Unit had formed.

But on the Tenth of October, 2012, the team returned from Columbus, Ohio solving the most horrendous crime only to realize that the Unsub had 143 more victims. Paul Jove, the Unsub, died at the unforgiving hands of Rossi and Morgan in crossfire. The brutality of the case had shook everyone in the guts.

The Unsub had clearly played a very commendable game with them. He caught media attention only when he realized that nothing can stop the cops from finding the bodies of the victims. There were scores of missing reports filed all around in Ohio. Aaron's team to Ohio due to the Unsub's attention seeking ruse. The Unsub talked dutifully during the interrogation once in custody, once caught.

Paul Jove's coldness was demoralizing. He was beyond the mental setup of a sociopath. His victims, sadly, were teenagers.

He was a shockingly careful planner which helped him stay out of the radar for the past eight years. He lived off the pain that he inflicted. His weapon was a simple butcher knife with which he first chopped off the fingers, ears and toe nails of his victims and then watches until them bleed to death.

Usually, he said during the interrogation, the kids died of shock having never seen the insides of their toes.

His next move was to escape from the custody of the FBI because he specifically wanted to die during cross firing. The crime scenes had startled everybody out in the BAU including Rossi. Everywhere, the element of pain was gravely etched . The last victim, 16-year-old Nina Brookwords, whose fingers, ears and toe nails were butchered off. She was pushed from by the Unsub's van,. By the time the BAU got there along with the paramedics, the girl had screamed herself to death. That night, both JJ and Reid came down with fever. Indeed, the scene was devastating.

After he had freed himself from custody by tricking the local cops at the station he had just one last wish to fulfill; to plague the mind of Penelope Garcia. It wasn't a tough thing to do given the psychology of the technical analyst was based on simple things which she held very close to herself.

Paul hacked in to the BAU data based and took control of Penelope's systems through networking his programs into hers. Garcia knew something was wrong but before she could move a finger the room was flashing with photographs of the crime scene. One of the system started playing spooky 90's music. And the other played the screams of all the victims the Unsub had recorded.

Garcia could hardly scream for help. She began palpitating then sunk into the floor, unconscious. The Unsub only got a good laugh out of this, the last laugh.

Aaron and the others got to know about Garcia only once they were back at the Bureau in Virginia. She was breathing hard, still unconscious, and was rushed instantly to the hospital.

Nobody could say anything. There was nothing anyone could do for Garcia, they were all worried. The Unsub single-handedly had destroyed the team better than they could imagine.

JJ and Reid returned home, they still were sick. Rossi and Aaron left to get a drink while Morgan and Emily decided to stay back with Garcia. Morgan was angry.

"This is ridiculous, Emily," he said, "Garcia does not deserve this."

"Nobody deserves this, Derek," she replied, "Nobody signs up for this."

Derek turned to Emily. She hadn't called him by his first name in a long time. He looked away and curtly nodded.

"If only we could do something to help. This will haunt her forever," he said.

"She's in the hands of the best people, Derek," Emily said, "All we can do is take care of her and help her get out of it."

Derek sighed with a deep breath.

"I don't understand, Emily. Is it worth? We have fought crime. Every Unsub has changed us. They've made us tougher inside, further stronger. How long until we will become the hardest and strongest? And what if we someday become like them; cold and remorseless?

Emily started to answer when they heard footsteps arrive behind them and turned to find Kevin walking towards him looking anxious and messed up.

"No no…not again. Morgan. Why, Garcia? Why my sweet Garcia? I…I should have been there for her, Morgan. Why…" he said before bursting out in tears.

Morgan stopped him and held him in an embrace. "Look Kevin, there's nothing you could do. She's gonna be alright, you hear me? We're all there with her."

Kevin got hold of himself and sat down on the couch besides Penelope's bed. The doctors had put her to sleep so that her mind could be ready to cope with reality once she's up the next morning. The doctors had said that she could leave the hospital by the following afternoon.

Morgan and Emily sat on the sofa outside, in the hospital lobby. Kevin had insisted them to leave, to get some rest, but Morgan knew that Kevin was already too chaotic to take care of himself let alone Garcia, if something happened to her.

At two the next morning, two events occurred. Firstly, Morgan received a phone call from Hotchner.

"There's another case Morgan. We need you and Emily in the bureau immediately."

Morgan considered arguing but then he knew that Hotchner was aware of the circumstances and wouldn't call unless it was really essential.

Secondly, somewhere in Atlanta another mother was murdered.

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