Disclaimer: I don't own CM or CSI: NY. I wish I did… oh the things I would do to Don Flack or Derek Morgan.
Rating: M (just in case. I'm paranoid LOL)
Pairing: Not sure yet.
Genre: Romance, Friendship, Case-centered fic for the first few chapters with a bit of characters friendship.
Warnings: Set during season 6 of Criminal Minds and Season 7 of CSI: NY.
Summary: A serial killer is on the loose in NY and Jo uses her FBI connections to recruit our favorite Technical Analyst along with our favorite profilers.

CSI Labs
1:30 p.m

Penelope and Jo were walking down the hallway of the lab and she felt like she needed a tour but she reminded herself of the young lady that was tied to the bed and any need she thought she had vanished. Jo was walking her down to their laboratory technician's lair and when she walked in she was green with envy. "Bitching set up Jo," she told her friend as a younger looking man walks over with a smile.

"You must be Ms. Garcia?" the young man said as he came up to her with his arm extended. She smiled at him and shook his hand. "If you tell me your head honcho in this lab … I will have to ask you to allow me to be your humble servant," she said chuckling as she looked around at the awesome equipment.

"Nope, just the lab tech," he said with a slight blush as he walked towards a room that had various computer screens set up. "Here's what we set up for you. If there's anything I can do to help… you let me know."

"Can you get me all of the video files, all the emails the unsub sent to your detective," she said as she walked towards the computers and sat down and started up the system and grabbed her go bag and took out the computer she carries with her with the software that would be helpful for this team.

"Unsub?" the lab tech asked as he stood next to her and pulled up the emails and files they had on this case. The emails had been worked on but she noticed a few things she could do just from the notes that were written on the file. The emails themselves were a perfect way to get the guy but seeing as after the techs here at the NYPD lab couldn't trace it she couldn't help herself but see if she could find something herself.

"Unknown suspect Adam," a deep voice she recognized as one of the men that had been on the phone when Jo called her earlier that morning. She swiveled around in her seat and looked up to the man in an expensive looking suit and was taken back by the handsome vision that stood before her. Well hello New York's finest! she thought as she smiled at him.

"Well I didn't know we got a new agent," she said as she extended her arm out and he smiled at her with a thousand watt smile and his eyes crinkled at the same time. My oh my Hello Mr. GQ she thought as he shook her hand.

"Just an NYPD detective mam," he told her with that accent she found irresistible.

"Call me Penelope, or technical analyst queen" she said as she swiveled back around and started working on the emails pulling them all up at the same time. She uploaded the software she developed and began working on the various emails and noted that they were all signed with the same signature. Master49

"I can't tell you what his legal name is but with his online signature I can trace him anytime he begins to upload something new. When I get the proxy servers he used before I can trace him down and get his location," she told them as she began to bring up the different proxy channels this sick unsub used.

"That would mean the woman he has now will be dead," the NYPD detective told her. She felt a sickening feeling in her stomach as she looked over to where he stood.

"I'm sorry … it's the best I can do. This sicko is good with hiding his whereabouts. I wish I could do more sir," she told him sincerely. The same eyes that had crinkled when he smiled now looked empty.

"I understand… it's just… this latest victim…" he trailed but she knew what he was talking about. The woman had asked him directly to save her. The small lab was slowly but surely getting crowded as more people walked in as she went away on her computer. Jo being the wonderful liaison between Penelope and her new team she began to introduce her to the people that walked in.

"Lindsay Monroe, Danny Messer meet Penelope-" but Jo couldn't finish her sentence when Penelope's system began to ring alerting her of one of the channels that had once been used.

"He's uploading something now, let me …" she bit her lip as she furiously began to type away trying to track down the bastard. "The track is in NY now, he won't know what hit him!" she squealed as the 5 detectives and CSI's crowded around her when suddenly the man in a ski mask appeared. "You are good but I figured you would be. The only way you'll get me now is if you find me… I hope you can get to my house before she dies," he said as she turned to the team.

"I have a physical address, I'll send it to your PDA… just go!" she ordered them as she the address appeared and she quickly sent it to the whole team since she didn't know who the lead was. She realized that only Adam and herself were left in the lab when the man was still on the camera.

"You are good at following orders Penelope Marie Garcia," the masked man told her as he began to walk out of the room. "I'll leave her alive… as a favor to you. Fret not pretty… I'll be seeing you again," and with that he ran out of the house leaving her to stare into the room where the woman was laying unconscious it seemed. She called for a bus to meet the team at the site to get the woman as soon as possible. The fear of the man's words vanished when she saw the handsome detective rush in to the apartment minutes later.

"I can barely feel her heart beat! Where's the damn bus!" he screamed as he undid the knots that confined the woman to the bed. Her hands fell limply to the bed and Penelope felt tears in her eyes as the woman looked dead.

"I called a bus in sir, they should arrive there shortly," she said right as the paramedics showed up and the detective moving out of their way.

"Thank you, now that we know who the man is we can finally catch him. Did he tell you anything before he left?" he asked her as she saw him putting on gloves to begin looking for evidence.

"That he'll leave her alive as a favor to me… and that he'll see me again," she told him as she felt Adam's intense stare.

"Penelope, did you go to Caltech?" the detective asked her and her eyebrow raised inquisitively.

"I dropped out a year in, why do you ask?" she asked him as the detective began to look over the contents on the unsubs desk in quite a hurry.

"Penelope, you are not to leave the labs for any reason!" the detective told her as he got on his cell phone and began barking orders over the phone.

"What's going on Detective?" she asked with worry filling her being as the detective held up a picture of her entering the NYPD labs and words written on the paper, SHE'S NEXT.

She slumped back on the seat she was in and she realized the magnitude of what this meant. The unsub was after her now.

"Oh my God," she whispered when the detective came into the screen. "Hey… look at me…" he coerced her. She looked up to meet his blue eyes, "nothing is going to happen to you," he told her. "I need to turn this off now. We'll all be back shortly, Jo was just called and you're team should be there within a few hours as well. We'll get him okay Pen?" he told her with a nickname already.

"Yes Mr. New York Finest who I don't even know you're name," she teased as she felt a little more at ease.

"Don Flack at your service mam," he told her with a wink as he shut down the camera and she closed down that window.

Unknown location
6:13 pm

Her beautiful face haunted his every thought. Her ruby lips beckoned him and it took every ounce of control not to try to grab her while she was at the lab building. He had to be patient, but she seemed perfect, even more so than the one he left for them when she tracked him down. He was obsessed with her. The way she told the detective what he asked her to say without questions. He knew she would be the one so he chose to finally give himself away in order to get her. When he did have her he would run away with her where they wouldn't be able to find them. Penelope Marie Garcia would be his if he died trying.

NYPD's labs
6:23 pm

Detective Flack and Penelope were working on the computer aspect while the others were running evidence left at the crime scene.

"Well, you make that look so easy," the blue eyed dreamy detective told her with a teasing smile on his lips.

"I am just that good detective, but this cannot be done by just anyone," she teased right back as she looked up at him with a matching smile on her lips. "So how's Amanda?" she asked him sobering right at the thought of her name.

"Broken bones, concussion, he drugged her but still beat her to the brink of death," Don told her with a scowl on his face. She placed her hand over his and gave him a gentle squeeze.

"You saved her Donnie," she said using a nickname which brought a smile to his face.

"I haven't been called that in a while," he said with a hint of longing in his voice that made her want to ask more but from the corner of her eye she saw her team had arrived. She was never on the receiving end of the investigation where she saw the BAU team coming in to investigate they looked pretty imposing and powerful but they missed a certain blond that made Penelope sad by just the sight of her incomplete team.

"My team is here, I'm sure they'll want to know anything else you have on this guy," she told him standing up. He reached over and grabbed her wrist.

"Pen, that's why I'm here, I haven't found the right words to say this. I know you saw the picture of you but… there was more," he told her which sent goose bumps down her spine.

"Where is she?" she heard Aaron say in a "don't question me" voice. "I did not authorize this Agent Danville, and I don't appreciate you overstepping protocol. Now if the unsub has her after being found he is surely panicked and his movement won't be predictable and it will be nearly impossible to find her!" Aaron fumed making Penelope blush in embarrassment. She knew that the team guarded her profusely but Aaron was going beyond a worried coworker. There was a sound to his voice that made her want to show herself to him to stop the direction it was going but suddenly Reid and Morgan were both screaming directions and finally she had to step in to greet her knights in shining armor.

"Well we need to catch this guy before he gets me then right team?" she asked as she and Flack walked out of the lab she had things set up at.

"Jo, was that really necessary?" Aaron asked their former co-worker as Reid, Morgan, Emily and Rossi walked over to where Penelope stood. Jo crossed her arms across her chest with a smirk on her lips, "It's nice to see you too Aaron."

When her team reached her Emily reached out and squeezed her upper arm and Derek came to her side and said "Baby girl, you are not allowed to go on a case without us ever again."

"You are a sight for sore eyes Garcia, but we have a guy to catch who is on the run," Rossi said as he and Hotch followed Jo who had set up a timeline of the victims in a conference room.

The team walked towards the conference room and she was going to follow them but Don reached out and took her hand. "Pen, this guy is fixated on you. In the hours from when he saw you the first time until we saw him on that last video tape and … he had a lot on you. Just prepare yourself for me darling," he told her as his thumb caressed her hand. Her heart skipped a beat and her breath caught in her throat; not because of the potential threat on her life, she knew that her team and the NY team would protect her, but because the proximity of this handsome drink of water before her. He reminded her of Battle with his handsome clean cut looks and clear blue eyes but his sweet personality and heart on his sleeve didn't make bells and whistles go off in her head. She felt safe around him.

"If there's one thing I know about my team is that they get the sicko's and in the last few hours I've seen your determination and I know that you won't stop until this guy is behind bars. So yeah… will I freak out when I see whatever he pulled out on me? Sure. But I know that he will slip up and we will catch him. So thanks for preparing me for it … but I know the guy won't get to me" she told the detective confidently with an undertone of fear.

As they trailed in behind everyone, who were now done making introductions, Mac Taylor was showing the time line of the victims this guy chose. Young white women between the ages of 25 and 35 all beautiful in their own way. At the end was a picture of herself, one that the unsub took outside of the NYPD labs earlier that day.

"Well at least he got my good side," she attempted to joke as she took a seat in between Derek Morgan and Danny Messer who was going over some pictures but took a second to look over at her and give her an annoyed look.

"Let's try to keep him from taking you away from your teams side… they're a bit scary when you are in any trouble," Messer leaned over and joked making Penelope smile despite the tension in the room.

"You haven't seen them without their coffee," she dramatically whispered with a giggle.

"We know that he likes to control them," detective Flack said as he began to read off his notepad. "In every victim he has left a note Didn't follow orders. Now with Amanda, our latest victim, he didn't leave anything but he told Penelope he would leave her alive as a favor to her and that he would see her soon. As you can see he has done some extensive background check on our Penelope here and all seems to point that he is after Penelope herself. We have nothing on him that can lead us to him. The house was abandoned, and the internet connection was used from neighbors around the home. We have lifted several prints and are trying to get a match on them so we're waiting on that. What we have is what he wants…" Don Flack said with a pained look on his face.

"Penelope, we have her… it's a matter of time before he tries to get her," Lindsay Monroe-Messer said and the room exploded in disagreement.

A/N:

Thanks for letting me know if the terminology and the characters were okay.

Will Penelope be bait? How will the team react?