Knocking on the door, and keeping her nervousness to a minimum she managed to say,

"Good Morning, Agent Gideon," as she raised the tea up.

He looked up and was delighted that she was standing in the doorway. He motioned for her to come in, and said "Good morning." Noticing the tea, he smiled and said, "Ah profiling the profiler are we?" She laughed and sat down in front of his desk, placing the tea in front of him.

Her nerves growing with each second, now made her ramble on, "Well I noticed your office light on, and when I went into the break room I saw your mug, and figured you could use some morning tea, Sir."

He laughed to himself, thinking "She is either nervous or intimidated by me; I am really going to have to change that." He looked at her and said warmly, "You are a member of this team now Emily, the formalities are not necessary. We are a family here."

She saw that warm glimmer in his eyes and she was starting to crumble, trying to get herself back on track, she turned and glanced at all the photos on the desk behind her.

He stood up and walked over to them, she could smell is cologne… pushing that thought away, she just watched him.

He began, "I consider them my family, you can say. With each case you leave a bit of yourself with the families involved. You also gain a lot in the process." She knew exactly what he was talking about even in the little time she had worked for the BAU.

She stood and walked over to the desk and bent down to take all the pictures in. He was watching her, how her hair fell down on her shoulders, he too could smell her perfume. He closed his eyes for a second, opening them quickly he though to himself "Stop this you have to work with her today."

He cleared his throat and said "It's getting to be that time we should head over to the conference room." He was hoping that seeing the rest of the team and settling into their next case would distract him from his own mind.

She too was glad for the suggestion. As she looked at the photos of all the victims and or families, she sensed that he was as caring and compassionate about his work. She noted to herself that whenever she doubted herself, as a profiler, to think of this table and all the pictures. Taking one last long look she thought, he really is such a good man and that thought made her want him even more.

BAU Conference Room

JJ began, "We have a bad one. The Un-Sub is targeting children around the age of 2, abducting them and then drowning them. The worst part is he leaves their lifeless bodies on the doorstep of their homes 3 days later."

She hesitated and said, "Arizona police notified us that the newest victim was abducted last night. That gives us two days to find this un-sub"

Hotch, was the most affected by JJ description as Jack was just about that age. The thought of that happening to him terrified him. Morgan was the first to speak up "What a cold son of a bitch, not only is he torturing the children he is torturing the families beyond anything imaginable."

Gideon asked, "How many victims so far?" JJ grimaced and sadly said "22 that we know of."

Emily followed up by asking, "What took them so long to contact the BAU?"

JJ replied, "They thought they had it under control. It took them a month to realize that all these abductions fell into a pattern."

Reid said, "Statistically if we don't find this child in the next 12 hours…" Noticing the team was staring at him he didn't finish his statement. He realized if they took this case they all needed that glimmer of hope that the child was still alive.

The team was all in agreement this was their case. Hotch said, "Wheels up in 10 minutes."

Emily watched as Gideon's whole demeanor changed as they discussed the case. She totally understood Hotch's reaction, then she thought about the pictures in Gideon's office and she understood his too. A member of his "family" was in trouble and to make it worse it was a child.

Part of her wanted to run to Gideon and just wrap her arms around him, she hesitated and said to herself "Get your go bag and get on that plane. You can comfort him after we find this un-sub."

She shook her head and again repeated to herself "Get a hold of yourself, girl."

He knew that cases involving children always got to him. He thought to himself, "Maybe it was the non existent relationship between him and his son, or maybe it was the fact that children are so innocent and should not have to go through the torture that he has seen."

He looked around the room and fixated on her face. If he was going to get through another case involving children, he was going to need her. "What the hell has gotten into you Jason, since when do you need someone." He then realized it was when he first saw her walking through the bullpen.

"This was going to be one rollercoaster ride of a case he thought to himself, as he walked towards the plane."