Chapter 2

My feet seemed to drag as we boarded the jet, it was a place I truly didn't want to be, but I took the seat opposite her like I had done every trip, a small smile crossed my lips as I watched her gaze out the window she always seemed to enjoy the take off and the landing as well although I would prefer to have both feet on the ground and not thousands of feet above the earth.

For some reason the take-off seem faster than usual but still my eyes never left hers, although now she was chuckling at me in amusement. "Is everything okay?" she asked me, all I could do was let out a soft sigh before I replied.

"Looking at you makes the take-off better" my voice had a teasing tone to it and the slight wink I gave her caused her to shake her head at me.

"Very smooth" she replied shaking her head slightly at me, I couldn't help giving her a soft smile before my attention was pulled. Hotch was motioning us all to gather in the middle like we have done hundreds of times before. Although this time it made my stomach churn more.

I couldn't allow the sinking feeling take over me, I had to focus on the case maybe it would help take my mind off the impending doom that was going to rip apart my world and their world, maybe if I didn't think about it I could change the outcome. We all die that is for certain, but fate can always be changed not by cheating death but by taking a different route, not being reckless not going in without back up. That's the thing with fate and death the outcome is never simple so for now I will place it to the back of my mind and just pray that I would make it back home.

And concentrating on this case might just help. Here's to hoping.

I flip through the file as we gather around I can't but wince as I take in the scene the first crime scene stood out, an elderly couple butchered there wasn't any other way of saying it. I don't think I have ever seen so much blood the walls and floor were covered the once rosewood floor was now a sea of red the cream walls covered in blood splatter and smears.

"What do we know about the victims?" Morgan asked as he too flipped through the file.

"Mrs and Mrs Tong, they were both well known in the community, both retired five years ago after selling their clothing business, no enemies that the family knew of." Hotch paused for a moment.

"Their son found them?" I asked as I began to read more of the report.

"Officer Tong found them around 9.30am after his sister rang him concerned because she was unable to get through on the phone, when he arrived he found his father on the floor in the hall way, as he made his way into the kitchen he found this mother laid on the kitchen floor, he called it in at 9.36am" Hotch said softly allowing us all time to finish reading the report.

"I want you and Morgan to go to the first crime scene" Hotch said firmly to which we both nodded.

"Reid you and JJ go straight to the station and begin working on the geographical profile, JJ we also need to get ahead of the press," I gave her a soft smile as she nodded.

"Rossi and I will go to the morgue"

I sighed softly as we all returned to our seats I couldn't help scanning the rest of the team Reid was still looking at the file and I could tell he was taking everything in so intently memorising every detail, the small map laid on the table in front of him as he drew circles around where the two families had been slaughtered. It was the standard thing with Reid every case we worked he would always start his geographical profile first before he leaned back on his chair opening the book which he keep in his brown satchel.

Hotch was busy filling in the paperwork we all knew he was writing up the paperwork which we all should really be filling in, but he liked us to be focused on the case and not worrying about the paperwork which went along with each case. All any of us needed to do was sign our names on the dotted line before we travelled back to the BAU.

Rossi much like Reid was going through the case file, even now he had his small black notebook out writing small points that he came across. At first we found it amusing once he had returned joining our team after Gideon left. Although back then he wouldn't share what he found it had taken weeks for him to feel comfortable sharing him, I guess that had something to do with Hotch having a word with him pointing out we are a team and he wasn't the outsider and was part of the team.

Morgan was sat with his head to the side listening to his music it always helped him clear his mind for a while, so he could focus on the case and nothing else. He is more of a friend than my partner we all have each other's back in the field but because we are always teamed up together we have a closer bond with each other, he had played match maker between JJ and myself, he helped us see what everyone else saw on the team.

My glance fell back on JJ my beloved wife, her head leaned gently on the chair as her eyes gazed on the clouds as the sun peaked out through the clouds it made her face glow slightly my hand reached out as our fingers interlaced pulling her attention.

"Are you okay?" she asked softly as her gaze fell on me.

I gave her a soft gentle smile as I nodded, I gave her one last squeeze before I began to read through the case file again.

It looked as though the unsub had used items you would find in most of the houses, it was as though he didn't bring anything with him, the hammer laid on the floor covered in blood near the first victims head although as the coroner has stated the blow to the skull from the hammer wasn't what had killed him. Instead it was over kill, weapons of opportunity he had over 15 stab wounds.

I couldn't help swallowing slightly as I looked at his wounds it wasn't a normal knife he had used, but as the coroner had noted the blade had a hooked tip and the deep wounds only conformed it, a typical knife would normal be piercing deep stab wounds as they would drive the knife full into the victim the shaft would stop it driving in too far although the damage would have already been done. These wounds on the other hand were deep and long gashes the hook on the end of the knife had made the skin tear leaving slightly jagged lines where it had sliced through the skin.

I placed the file down closing it, I just couldn't look at it anymore I had seen bloody crime scenes before but this was more like a blood bath arterial spray along the walls where the victims had tried to escape their attacker bloody hand prints all the walls where they had used the walls to steady themselves as they tried to escape. They weren't just killed they were butchered.

I placed the case to the back of my mind for the time being we wouldn't arrive in Montana for another three hours and then we would be going straight to the crime scenes and then we would all meet back at the station and considering they are two hours behind us it's going to be a long day.