Title: The Fine Line Betwixt Good and Evil (Part 2)
Author: Trista Groulx
Rating: T (same as the show)
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. Pitty. They belong to their creator, network and the writer, actors and actresses who bring them to life each week. I will return most of them unharmed.
Summary: An unsub is killing men who have gotten off on rape charges. Rather-Reid-ey in later parts. Enter the team yay!
Notes: I am fully aware the first part was a tease. But I keep warning you I – am – eeevil. I have made a point to trying to explore all the members of the team. Although Reid does become more important later cause let's face it I love that character. Okay that first one was far too short you get a one day only twofer.

"This is our latest victim, Alan Rigby," said Jennifer Jareau as the image of a man bound like he was hand cuffed, but with rope came on the screen. "He was shot in the back of the head, and the body was staged with the rope. There were also laceration marks on his neck. That makes six in three weeks."

"Query," Penelope Garcia exclaimed, raising her hot pink feather pen in the air. "If all these guys were rapists, why are we taking this case?"

"They were never convicted," David Rossi explained. "No matter what they did in the past that doesn't justify killing them like this."

"All I see is icky rapists who are a waste of air anyway."

"That may be true, but a serial killer is still worse to have roaming around a country then suspected rapists."

"There are crazy people out there who think computer hackers, even as beautiful as you are, should be put in jail, and not recruited by the FBI. That doesn't mean they should be allowed to kidnap you and put you in a dungeon somewhere," Derek Morgan explained.

"I wouldn't be complaining if it was your dungeon of pleasure," she laughed. "But I see what you are getting at."

"Can we please focus?" Aaron Hotchner sighed, trying to get his team back on topic. "Preliminary victimology is fairly evident. This unsub is targeting men who have been released on rape charges. What does that tell us about our unsub?"

"The unsub is a vigilante," Emily Prentiss offered. "He thinks that the system has failed and takes matters into his own hands. He probably has a great respect for women."

"Or he is a she?" Spencer Reid suggested. "It's very likely this unsub is a woman. She attacks from behind. She gains her victims' trust. A reformed, for lack of a better word, rapist would be at ease around women because he won't see them as a threat."

"This woman was likely raped herself, and either never reported it or her rapist was released," Morgan added. "She is trying to get closure for what happened to her by giving it to other victims."

"I'll check to see who the first victim's victim was," said Garcia. "Did that sentence make sense? I'll start looking at all of the women who were 'allegedly' raped by these scum-bags." She air quoted the word allegedly, very grudgingly.

"Garcia, please try to see these guys as some kind of victim, all right?" Hotch asked.

"I don't have to profile them. I just have to look into their pasts, and Sir I bet I'm gonna find a lot of slime."

"Just try to be objective. We don't want anything to influence this case. It's already going to be a hard one."

"Yes, Sir," she picked up her things, and disappeared into her office.

Reid, Morgan and Prentiss were all reading through the case files that were scattered around the conference table.

"What do I need to set up?" JJ asked Rossi and Hotch softly, so not to disturb the team.

The two senior agents looked at her, dumbfounded. "Normally we'd go to the city that is being hit, but there are six victims in four cities. There is no way of knowing where this guy is gonna hit next," Rossi explained.

"We can't sit around here and wait for the next victim to pop up."

"We also can't be thousands more miles away," Hotch explained.

"We could always split up. Go tothe cities with multiple victims. We have the jet; it's not like we can't get to the next city if we are getting information in another," Rossi said.

"We have outdoor crime scenes and only half of them are in somewhat secluded areas. We are not going to get much there. I think it may be a waste of resources until we know more. We are not going to find our unsub looking in these guys' houses."

"It seems wrong to be sitting in a conference room when someone might be killed."

Reid stopped reading suddenly. He looked up, like a dog who had just noticed a squirrel. He stood up and began to write on the board. The rest of the team looked at him, trying to make sense of the list that he was making.

"What's that?" Morgan asked.

"If you look in the files, all of the victims were killed with different guns," Reid explained.

"So she's a gun collector?"

"No. I don't think so. I'll have to get Garcia to run checks on all of them, but I think she's killing them with their own weapons."

"That is one unprepared unsub," Prentiss said. "Why would you go after a rapist without a weapon?"

"She has the rope. She must strangle them to get the guns from them, but not kill them. She uses their own guns because it will emasculate them."

"Why not sodomise them?"

"Then she is doing the thing she hates. She wants to make them pay. She wants to humiliate them, but not degrade them," Morgan explained.

"She's not transferring her feelings onto the victims. She doesn't want to be a rapist. She wants to be a killer," Reid added.

"Maybe she wasn't raped, there's a different reason why she's killing these bastards," Prentiss suggested. "In a strange way that makes sense to me. But how does she get close enough to them to get the rope around their neck?"

"Maybe they know her."

"How?"

"I have a theory on that. It fits into your theory that she was never raped," Reid started.

"What if she is in law enforcement? She can't use her own weapon; it's too easily traced. It would explain why she ties them the way she does. It mimics handcuffing them. It's not sexual. It's a statement. She is trying to say that in death they have been caught."

"So her victims know her?" Rossi asked.

"Yes, they must. Why else would they stop whatever they are doing in order to listen to her? If they run away then she has reason to arrest them. If they stop, and do as they are told they have nothing to fear. They got away with their charges they are not going to do something stupid that will get them thrown into jail. They know they are not going to get so lucky the second time," Morgan explained. "These guys may be scumbags but are not stupid. They know what is going to happen to them in jail, so they make sure they become law abiding citizens. The fear of becoming the same kind of victim as they've victimised is enough to make them stop."

Garcia came back into the conference room. The usual light hearted bounce in her step was missing. She had a lot of paper work in her hands. She put it down on top of the files on the table. Reid, Morgan, and Prentiss just sighed as they saw their load double. They were sure that Garcia wasn't done, as the printer was now spitting out paper as well.

"I don't think that the first victim was really the first victim," Garcia sighed. "I found a whole bunch of other likely victims. Their victims' information is printing now."

"Based on what?" Hotch asked.

"Just because I'm kind of OCD I always search all the data bases that I can access for similar cases. As much as I love JJ she gets information from one source, local police station, the FBI, what have you. Anyway normally when I do a broader search I don't come up with anything. But this time, we just have the hits that areon the FBI radar screen because the victims were in our jurisdiction."

"What did you find?"

"Eight more victims going back two years, although these were all committed in New York City or Seattle."

"Reid start a geographical profile," Hotch ordered.

Reid nodded, taking the files she had just brought in. "Is that everything?"

"Yes, it's all I've found. The rest of what is printing is the information about these guy's victims," Garcia explained.

"Why do I have a feeling we are going to be drowning in paper soon?" sighed Morgan.

"I'm sorry Gorgeous. I need you guys to look at everything so you can tell me where to narrow down my searches."

"Thanks Baby Girl."

Everyone began to take files, while Reid took out some maps, and began to mark where all of the victims were killed. He knew that this was going to be difficult because there were victims from one end of the country to the other. Hotch meanwhile took a few files, and sat down reading them. He was being surprisingly quiet.

End Part 2

Notes: Well we have the team now, so that's good. Things are going to get interesting. I left a few hints if you feel like unsub guessing. PS Hotch gets stranger there is a reason for it you'll see.