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Chapter 2 – Entering the Criminal Mind

Twenty minutes was all that the team needed to be ready for the case. Garcia remained behind at the BAU Headquarters waiting for any call from the team to tell her what was happening. The previous cases they had been working on were taking their toll on the team; the weekend just before was the first time they had a couple of days to relax in almost a month. It wasn't that Garcia wasn't happy that they worked so well together, or that they were catching bad people and locking them away. Her concerns were for the team's mental wellbeing more than anything. It didn't matter how hard they tried to mask their emotions during or after a case, they were always going to be there.

Emily took her seat on the plane, drinking her second cup of coffee. She arrived at her favourite seat and opened her laptop to check her emails. JJ decided to sit across from her to drink her glass of water and read over another file, making notes about what to do with the press when she arrived. Emily looked over the screen until she found the Inbox icon and opened it. There she saw one email bold and waiting. Emily read the address and immediately recognised it as her mothers. With a slight eye roll and a shake from her head Emily deleted the email immediately without opening it. Then shifted down to the deleted email section and removed it permanently. Closing the laptop screen down she took a hold of the case file in front of her and read it over, looking over to Rossi, sitting in his chair, pen in between his teeth, obviously thinking deeply about the case. Hotch had a booth all to himself. The table spread with various sheets and books for helping him solve the case as quickly as possible.

JJ looked up to see Emily reading the file. "Em?" she began.

"Yeah," Emily replied, her eyes still attached to the page.

"The BAU got a call today from your mum, did you get the message? I put it on your computer."

"Yeah I got it," Emily replied, pretending to read the case file.

"Did you read it?" JJ asked with a slight smile. Emily looked to JJ and put the file down on the table.

"No," Emily replied simply. JJ put down her pen and file as well.

"I'm guessing that little shake of the head was because she emailed you as well," JJ inquired quietly, not to alert Morgan or Reid who were playing cards at the back of the plane. "Yeah," Emily sighed in return.

"Why don't you want to talk to her? She is your mother after all."

"Biological mother, not emotional one," Emily replied leaning further back in her seat. "I just don't see the point in trying to talk to someone who doesn't talk back."

"What do you mean?" Asked JJ, a little confused.

"I mean she might be talking to me, but it's not really her talking. It's her politically correct self." Emily paused and looked out the window for a moment. "Your mother read you bedtime stories, held you if you had a nightmare, looked after you and actually loved you. Mine was more worried about her political standing than her daughter. If I had a nightmare she would tell me to shut up and get to sleep." JJ looked to her friend sincerely.

"I understand," JJ began, "that must be why you can compartmentalise better than most people."

"Pretty much," Emily replied with the rising of an eyebrow before it returned to its original position. "I just want her to talk to me and for it to be her not some fake illusion of a caring human being."

"Have you told her this?"

"No," Emily replied. "I tried when I was a teenager but it never worked. She's just not worth the time of day to me."

"I think it's time we started working on the profile," Hotch said loudly as he stood and found himself seated across from the ladies. Derrick and Reid took a seat opposite them for the small congregation in the middle of the plane. "What do we know so far?"

"He takes these girls to a remote location, kills them, then places their bodies on their University campuses." Rossi started.

"He's also escalating much faster than a regular unsub which could cause him to mentally breakdown further along the way," Morgan added.

"He's targeting women, late teens, early twenties but there is no distinct pattern or way to link the deaths together other than the universities" Emily continued.

"Which are all different," JJ chirped in. "Plus their university degrees also differ, science, music and business, they are completely different on the academic scale."

"But why these women?" Emily asked. "They are all different, there appears to be no link between them. In appearance they are all different, their campuses and courses are different. So what ties them all together?"

"We'll have to get Garcia to do some digging on the victims. What else do we know about the Unsub?" Hotch continued.

"He leaves their bodies at the universities, all of them inside, so he must have access to the campuses." Derrick continued.

"But not just one," Reid added. "He had access to all three universities. I am guessing that the only way he would have a key is if he was a professor, electrician, plumber or some other type of tradesmen."

"Good Reid, anything else?" Hotch asked. There was only silence, truth was that until they arrived and Garcia found something for them they would just have to wait and see. "Okay then here is what we will do. We have three universities to cover and there's six of us. Problem is that someone has to stay at the office with Detective Adams as well as the family members." He paused for a moment to think. "Okay here's how it will work out. Morgan you will go to the first crime scene. Reid I want you working on a geographic profile, see if we can find a pattern inside the locations of the universities, I don't want to rule anything out yet." His gaze turned to JJ. "JJ you will handle the press and the family and stay at the police quarters until we need you. Rossi, you will go to the second crime scene, see if there is anything in particular that was missed. I will go to the third scene to check things out there and Emily you will stay with Reid and work on finalising the profile, use Garcia as much as you need to then tell us what you have found out." Emily nodded her head even though she preferred to be out in the field. "Should we release an alert for the University students?" JJ asked.

"No not yet, not until we have something concrete." Hotch replied. "I don't want every woman attending University to run scared and leave the Unsub in hiding." JJ nodded to show she understood.

"Everyone clear on what they are doing?" The team nodded to Hotch's question. "Alright, let's try and wrap this up as quickly as we can. This will be his third week so he may escalate again."

AN: The real action will build up later in the story, the first few chapters are just to help set the scene. Let me know what you think?