Chapter 2

JJ walked into the bullpen and immediately noticed Morgan smirking her as she walked past his desk. "Ok, how did you know."

"Well, for one you have that huge rock on your finger," -he paused taking a better look at the ring, "Damn Prentiss does not mess around." He got up and gave JJ a hug. "Congrats JJ, I'm really happy for the both of you."

"Thanks Morgan. You know as much as I've wanted this for the past couple of months, I was genuinely surprised when it actually happened. I was beginning to think she wasn't taking my subtle hints."

He laughed, "You call leaving bridal magazines in every corner of your apartment a subtle hint."

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Reid said as he walked up to them with Garcia trailing closely behind.

"I saw hugging on the monitor. Why was there hugging?" Garcia said trying to figure out what was going on.

"Well little miss JJ here is officially off the market," Morgan said.

"What! That's great, congratulations JJ I'm so happy for you."

"Omg…you need to tell me everything, starting with why you decided to tell my chocolate god before you told me 'your best friend'," Garcia rushed out with air quotes.

"Pen, I was heading straight to your office but Derek noticed as soon as I walked in."

"Don't worry gumdrop. I'm happy for you two and I'll forgive you as long as you promise to give me all the details"- Garcia looked around at the rest of the team, "We should go out tonight and celebrate."

"Definitely," JJ said. "I'm sure Emily will love that."

"Where's Prentiss at by the way," Morgan said as he looked around. "She's thirty minutes late, shouldn't she be here by now?"

"Oh, she said she had to meet an old colleague about a case they worked on a few years back"- JJ glanced down at her watch. "But you're right she should be here by now, she left an hour before I did." JJ pulled out her cell phone and dialed Emily's number. "Strange, it's going straight to voicemail."

Their attention was suddenly shifted to Hotch and Rossi coming out of Hotch's office and making their way towards the rest of the team.

"We have a possible case. Local PD wants us to come look at a crime scene. Apparently this is their fourth murder over the weekend with the same MO. Where's Prentiss?" Hotch said.

"She's running a little late," JJ replied.

"Call her and tell her to meet us there."

Since Emily wasn't there JJ, Morgan, and Reid all rode in the same momentarily took his eyes off the road to glance at JJ. "She's still not answering?"

"No." JJ shook her head. "This isn't like her. I'm starting to worry."

"Just leave a message. I'm sure she's fine JJ. She probably just turned off her phone for the meeting and hasn't realized what time it is," Morgan said trying to ease the blonde's worries.

They rode the rest of the drive in silence. As they pulled up to the crime scene, Morgan noticed Emily's range rover parked across the street. "See, I told you she was alright. She beat us to scene," he said as he pointed out her SUV. "She probably just forgot to turn her phone back on after her meeting."

JJ nodded and they made their way up to the crime scene. They walked into the bedroom and saw Hotch on the phone and Rossi looking down at the body.

"According to the landlord this apartment is being leased to a Tsia Mosley," Hotch said updating the team.

"The body doesn't appear to have been moved and the victim doesn't have any injuries that wound suggest there was a struggle. I find that strange because there's blood splattered by the door and the only injury on our victim has is the single bullet hole to the head," Rossi pointed out as he picked up a cell phone with a shattered screen. The team nodded in agreement.

"Do we know how long the victims been dead?" Morgan asked.

"The coroner said over twenty four hours," Hotch replied as he picked up the second cell phone from the floor.

"Where's Emily," JJ asked as she noticed the phone Hotch was holding.

"She hasn't arrived," Hotch said as he powered on the phone he just picked up.

"But her car is parked out front and I'm pretty sure that's her phone in your hand. I got her that personalized case."

"JJ, we were the first members of the B.A.U. on scene and we haven't seen her since we arrived," Rossi said as he put one hand on her shoulder trying to calm her down.

JJ could feel the tears threatening to come out as she saw her boss's normally expressionless face turn to one of worry and panic. "Hotch, what is it?" She managed to get out with a lump in her throat.

"JJ's right, this is Prentiss' phone. She has all your missed calls JJ and the last incoming message was at 7:15 this morning from Tsia Mosley asking her to come over to discuss a lead."

Morgan clenched his fist. "This had to have been a set up. Whoever did this wanted to get to Emily. We need to get the victims phone to Garcia. Maybe she can pull something off of it."

"Morgan, Reid, JJ go back to headquarters and start putting together a timeline to the victims whereabouts on the days prior to her death. Rossi and I are going to see the ambassador."

A/N: Heads up, the next chapter is going to mention rape but I am not going to get into any graphic details.