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Chapter 2

'Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.' Benjamin Franklin

It was a month later that Reid walked into the BAU with Emily chattering away happily to her, trying to convince her to watch The Lord of the Rings with him . "They are really good movies Emily and I think you will enjoy them, you could come round to mine this Friday after work. And if we got started immediately at six and didn't stop we would be done by 3.30am"

Emily paused to stare at him as they arrived at their desks "hang on a second Reid how long are these movies". "What movies" Morgan asked as he entered with a cup of coffee "The Lord of the Rings" Reid said happily "oh pretty boy you want her to watch them all at once, yeah I think you are the only one who is capable of doing that" Morgan said smirking "why how long are they" Emily asked warily.

"They are three hours each" came a voice from behind and they all turned to see the speaker "so roughly they total to about nine hours long". Everyone stared at the speaker and Reid felt his stomach clench as he stared into her hypnotic greenie gold eyes. She stood there staring at them with a cheeky grin on her face as she assessed them before she looked at Reid "hello again Spencer" she said with a smile "nice to see you again". Reid couldn't respond; he just stared at her in surprise.

"You two know each other" Hotch asked looking between them from where he stood next to her.
"We met when I came for my interview" she said "Spencer was kind enough to direct me to JJ's office" Hotch nodded before he looked at the rest of the team "everyone this is Olivia Beckett, she will be working with us for a few months, she graduated from Longwood University last summer". "Wow you were quick to go for a job" Morgan commented and she smiled "no point waiting" she said "and most people call me Livie"

"Well nice to meet you Livie" Emily said stepping forward to greet her and she smiled as everyone greeted her and introduced themselves to her. "Anyway we have a new case" Hotch said "we need to hurry, it is a child abduction in Boston, wheels up in one hour with a debriefing on the plane" he looked at Livie "you need to go pack a go bag" he said and she grinned "already got one" she said and he looked at her curiously. "When JJ called to tell me I was in she said that I should have a go bag packed in my trunk at all times" Hotch nodded at JJ who had appeared, "everyone else packed" he asked and they all nodded "in that case let's head over to the plane and we can start the debriefing whilst we wait for take off"

Everyone nodded and turned and headed to the elevator "Morgan, Reid, Livie is going to be with you today" Hotch said "you will be going to the crime scene, the little girl was abducted from her bedroom whilst her parents were killed" "so we are looking for a team" Emily noted and Hotch nodded "their method matches that of a handful of other cases from across the country".

Morgan looked at Livie "you're not squeamish are you" he asked "not in the slightest" she responded "afraid of guns" he asked and she raised her eyebrows before she brushed her jacket back to show a gun in its holster "nope" she said. "Ever fired one" he asked "yes" she said "so you have been in a life threatening situation before" he noted. "Morgan" JJ chided looking at Livie "it's ok" Livie said quietly before she looked at Morgan "yes" she said calmly "many times actually, more than anyone should be in in a life time"

Everyone looked at her but she didn't seem to want to elaborate further and the doors to the elevator opened and they all headed out to the cars and Reid found himself sitting next to her in the back of one of the cars as Morgan drove with Emily sitting next to him. "So um where you from originally" Emily asked turning to look at Livie and she smiled "New York" she said with a smile "always lived there with my mom". "What does she do" Morgan asked "homicide detective for the NYPD" Livie said "well that explains why you are interested in crime" Morgan said "yeah that and other things" Livie said with a smile. "Do you just live with your mom" Emily asked. "Nah with my stepdad too though I consider him my father because he is the only father figure I have ever had". Emily smiled "that's nice" she said

Livie grinned before she looked over and Reid again who shifted uncertainly "so have you got a boyfriend" Morgan asked glancing at Reid "Morgan" Emily chided. Livie smiled "No, just split up with my boyfriend actually, Alex, he was nice but I didn't know... he could be very distant and it was hard sometimes, he could be a bit jealous of people and very over protective which I didn't like so we". Morgan looked at her in the mirror "I hope you didn't let him hold you back from what you could become" he warned and Livie smirked "believe me, he knew not to try and stop me" Emily laughed again 'I like her" she said to Morgan, "she has fire"

"Oh you haven't seen anything yet" Livie said with a twinkle in her eye and Emily grinned at her as they arrived at the airport.

Once they were all on the plane and had settled down. They logged on to talk to Garcia who grinned at them "so hey Livie how's your first day going, Morgan grilled your entire life story out of you yet" Livie grinned back "just about" she said "my turn next" everyone chuckled.
"Garcia tell us about this case" Hotch said and instantly Garcia turned professional "ok so over the past month five children have been abducted from their homes in the middle of the night and their parents murdered, they were suffocated before they snatched the children from their beds. All of the children were little girls between the ages of 4 and 7, their names were Grace Harvey aged 5, Annabelle Matthews was 7, Lucy Walters was 6, Elena James was 4 and Stella Davis is 6"

"None of them look very similar" Livie noted "so they haven't got a particular type they are interested in" Hotch nodded "Garcia how long were the children kept alive" he asked "it varied" Garcia said " Lucy Walters survived the longest, her body was discovered 8 days after she was taken, the next day Elena James was taken but her body was found just three days later, they haven't found Stella's body yet"

"Then we operate under the assumption that she is still alive" Hotch said and everyone nodded. "Reid I want you to build a geographical profile" Hotch said "JJ I need to talk to all the family members available ok" JJ nodded and stood heading to the back of the plane whilst Reid moved over to another table and pulled out a map of the local area and began to plot the profile.

He looked up as someone sat next to him and automatically reddened slightly when he saw that it was Livie. She peered at his map curiously before she asked "what are you doing", he swallowed before he responded "I am building a geographical profile of the unsub based on the abduction sights and body dump areas so we can narrow down the comfort zone".

Livie nodded peering at the map "so Grace was victim number one and she was taken from here and found here" she asked pointing to the circles and he nodded "the first victim usually tells us a lot about an unsub as they are more likely to mess up" he said and Livie nodded again "where was Annabelle taken and discovered" she asked and Reid plotted the points labelling them Victim 2. He looked at Livie curiously "why do you use their names" he asked and Livie tilted her head to look at him, her eyes soft "why don't you" she asked gently.

"Because it makes it easier to look at so much death" he said "to not personalise them" Livie smiled and reached into the file to pull out the pictures of the girls. "I call the victims by their names because I work better personalising them" she said "my mom was the same, she and I decide to view them not as a victim, but as a person who was torn away from their family. By keeping them alive, we keep the cases alive" Reid nodded "but then how will you let go if you can't solve them" he asked. Livie didn't answer at first, she just chewed her lip, then she looked at him "do we ever actually let the cases we don't solve go" she asked and Reid paused realising she was right.

Morgan and Emily were both watching them talk with sly grins on their faces "oh JJ you struck gold with this one" Morgan said as JJ came and sat down "look at them, there is definitely something there". JJ looked at them "yeah" she said with a sigh "wow I have never seen Reid look at someone like that before" she said "have you Hotch"

Their team leader looked over his shoulder at the two youngest members of his team "no" he said slowly "but it does worry me". They all looked at him "we don't want them to be distracted by each other and for that to cost the life of a little girl". JJ touched his shoulder "none of us will let anything come in front of the life of a child" she said "Hotch have you read her file" Hotch looked up at her and nodded "then you know why she won't let anything stop her rescue a child" JJ said as Morgan and Emily looked at each other quizzically "I know" Hotch said before he looked at Livie and Reid again "and that worries me also" he murmured.

'Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out, maybe not how you planned, but just how it's meant to be.' Nishan Panwar

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