Okay guys here's chapter two... I'm going to be sooo late for work cause I wanted to finish this!! Heehee... so anyways, this isn't going to be much about the case so i'm sorry that I dont go into much detail.

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In Love and Work

It is Monday morning at the BAU and Jennifer "JJ" Jareau is running late. There have been an incredible amount of case files piling up the past few days and it gets extremely exhausting. What's worse is the constant nagging in the back of her mind, reminding her that she just chose which lives were worth saving and which, by default, were not. At least to her, that's what it seems like she's doing. And the lingering question is always the same. Did I choose the right case?

As she walks through the bull pen, selected case file in hand, she spots Derek Morgan and Dr. Spencer Reid both quietly chatting about some relationship statistics. Well, Reid is the one talking statistics. Once she is settled in the board room, the chatty duo soon follow in her wake and take seats across from each other. David Rossi is already comfortable at the end of the long table, clicking his pen, impatiently awaiting the arrival of the last two Agents.

Hmmphh… they probably got lost… in bed. Rossi smiled to himself. He knew about them, everyone did. They were profilers, after all.

"Hotch and Prentiss should be here soon," JJ states, practically reading his mind, as she pulls up the face of their beloved technical analyst on the small screen of her laptop. "Morning Garcia."

"Good morning my little chick-a-dees," Penelope Garcia replies cheerfully.

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"Aaaaaron," Emily Prentiss whined playfully. "Will you stop looking at me like that?"

"Like what?" Aaron Hotchner replied, feigning innocence.

"Like you're never going to see me again. I'm just walking around the other side of the car."

Emily giggled aloud when she was taken by surprise as Aaron wrapped his arms around her and lifted her off her feet, spinning them both around.

"Well I can't help it. It's just that I love you so much! I – love – you Emily Prentiss," he emphasized.

She smiled. "Me too baby, me too."

Aaron dismissed the slight pang of disappointment at her choice of words; he knew exactly what she meant. He always did.

After a short silence, she cradled his face in her hands and looked him in the eyes. Running a hand through his hair, she leaned in to kiss him with all she had. After they parted, Emily pulled him closer and nestled her face in the crook of his neck, breathing him in.

"Come on we're going to be late," Aaron whispered in her ear and set her on her feet.

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Within the next hour, the meeting is going quickly. Their newest case is about to take them to Tampa, Florida, a beautiful vacation destination. However, this will be anything but a vacation for the profilers. A series of breaking and enterings had quickly escalated into a string of murders and the local police department was eager to ask for the FBI's assistance.

"Six murders so far in the span of a month. A seventh, a young woman by the name of Rebecca Stone, is still missing. It's been three days since her disappearance," JJ briefs the rest of her team.

"And they're sure it's the same guy? The burglaries and the murders, they don't think they're unrelated? It just seems rather odd for a burglary to escalate that quickly to kidnapping and murder," Morgan muses.

"Well, local police aren't completely sure what's going on. The burglaries stopped right before the disappearances started. All within a ten mile radius of Tampa. So we've got to consider the possibility," JJ says.

"Yes we should consider it. Wheels up in twenty," Hotch instructs.

Hope you enjoyed it.... now we're getting somewhere! Next stop... Tampa FL

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