AN: Because vacation is now over for me and it's time to go back to school, it will probably be a while before I can update again. And also I think Clark has a PhD but if he doesn't let me know and I will change it to Mr.
"Bones! Bones! Has anyone seen Bones?" Booth called out loudly and impatiently as he swiped his id climbing up to the forensic platform at the Jeffersonian.
Clark, the intern at the moment, turned to regard Booth and then looked away, focusing back on the bones he was identifying. He did not want to risk getting involved in something that might prove to be non work related.
Hodgins was a lot more willing to answer, "She went to the ladies room. Why are you so anxious to talk to her anyway?"
"Oh, well, we finally have a new case, in Los Angles actually." Booth shifted his weight from foot to foot. He had spent the last couple weeks filling out paper work and was glad that he had a chance to see Bones again outside of their therapy sessions. He couldn't really talk to her there anyway with Sweets analyzing everything he said to her.
"I heard you shouting my name, it was rather uncalled for, you could have waited patiently for me." Brennan said appearing behind Booth.
"We have a case!" Booth smiled at her, handing her the file in his hands.
She glanced at the file, skimming its contents, "It seems Los Angeles has another serial killer, so far it says they have uncovered 20 bodies. Statistically this is very rare occurrence, considering the fact that they last suffered from a serial killer 15 years ago. It must be the same one. Are there any pictures of the old wounds and the new wounds?"
"Yeah, here." Booth flipped through the file and pointed out the pictures to Bones. "The police there thought it might be the same guy too."
"It does appear to be the same type of wound, Dr. Brennan, if one examines the markings on the ribs carefully." Clark added.
"Very good, Dr. Edison, your analysis is in agreement with mine." stated Brennan.
Clark and Hodgins had moved closer as Dr. Brennan read the file, she looked up, "It looks like you and I are going to Los Angles, Booth. Are you ready to leave immediately, have you made all the arrangements with the FBI? Make sure you let them know we are dealing with the same serial killer."
"Our flight leaves in four hours, go pack your bags Bones." Booth instructed her as he turned, pulling out his cell to let his boss know that the vigilante serial killer had struck again.
Hodgins called out, "Hey what about us? What are Angela, Clark, Cam, and I supposed to do?
"Stay here, we will send everything to you." Brennan called over her retreating shoulder.
"Ouch!" Tony yelped and looked up from the computer where he had been busily killing aliens on a newly discovered internet game.
He glared at Ziva who lifted her head from the reports she was working on and said innocently, "What, Tony, did I do something to bother you?"
"This is the fifth paper ball you've thrown at me in the last couple minutes and you're just going to sit there and deny it?!"
Ziva just continued to look innocent with a slightly puzzled face, looking appalled that Tony even suggested that she would ever do such thing.
"Probie, back me up here, you saw her right?" After seeing McGee lift his head up and then quickly drop it back down, Tony assumed that he was on his own. "Fine.", he muttered, "I'll get revenge my way."
He began to think of plans when, smack, Gibbs headslapped him, "Stop playing around DiNozzo, we have a case. Fifteen years ago Los Angeles had a serial killer, he was never caught, and more bodies were just discovered. McGee!"
"On it Boss." McGee's fingers flew over the board bringing up the old case file to the screen. "It seems there were sixteen bodies that washed up from the river, four of them in the military. So of course NCIS was part of the joint investigation those many years ago."
"Grab your gear; we have a flight to catch." The team grabbed their bags and hurried after Gibbs into the elevator. He pressed the button for the basement floor.
"Where are we going, Gibbs?" Ziva asked.
"Well, obviously we can't leave Abby and Ducky behind if we are going all the way to Los Angles, Ziva."
Agent Hotchner sighed, as he sat in his office. His team had just received a special request to continue a cold case in Los Angeles, a case that the BAU had not been able to solve last time, even with the help of other agencies. Maybe his team would have better luck. He walked over to Agent Jennifer Jareau's office and knocked.
"Come in." her voice called out. Hotchner entered regarding the healthy, smiling JJ. His trained profiler eye noticed all the new pictures of her baby and he determined that her newborn baby was a great source of happiness in an otherwise depressing work place.
"I need you to assemble the team to meet at the jet, we have a cold case from fifteen years ago, the vigilante serial killer from Los Angeles, new bodies were just discovered."
"Oh, I'll get them; do you want me to introduce the old case files?" JJ inquired.
"Yes, we don't have any info on the new case, except where the bodies were found. I'll meet everyone at the jet."
JJ gathered the team, handing out case files to Reid, Emily, Garcia, Morgan and Rossi and told them the jet was waiting for them. Before they knew it they were up in the air on their way to Los Angeles.
"The previous BAU profile lacks a lot of information." Emily commented.
"The most likely reason is that fifteen years ago profiling was not a widely used method. The research was greatly limited, thus also limiting the generalized conclusions we use now." Reid informed the team as he read the file, flipping a page every few seconds, reading at his normal pace, which was way faster than anyone else's.
"So the FBI has jurisdiction but all the others want to help with the case?" Morgan asked.
"Yeah, but remember, they all worked together last time and we can do it again. What matters is that we catch this killer before any more people are harmed." Rossi said.
The plane went silent quickly as the team pondered the ramifications of letting the killer continue his rampage.
Hotchner stated, "Just know that we don't have all the information yet so we can't even begin to create a profile, we have to wait till we land and meet with the other agencies."
"Hey Megan, did you manage to contact everyone involved in the case last time?" Special Agent Don Eppes asked his partner.
"Yes, don't worry; they will all be here by tomorrow." This was the fifth time Don had asked and she knew that he was just anxious to catch this murderer; he hated the fact that he had already remained uncaught for fifteen years.
"Yeah, Don, we'll get this guy this time, after all now we also have Charlie." Colby Granger said.
Charlie was Don's brother and a genius mathematician, he had helped various government agencies solve cases before. Granger's partner David Sinclair nodded his head in agreement. The air was tense in the bull pen, everyone wanted to catch this serial killer and put him away for once and for all.
