Everyone was seated on the plane Reid, JJ, Morgan and Alex was all gathered around the middle table- Reid was sipping away at his coffee constantly reviewing the notes before him whilst everyone else was discussing their previous days of peace.

"Guys something just doesn't make sense…" Reid finally spoke up, as everyone froze at his words turning to him.

"What doesn't make sense?" Morgan replied, the team was confused by Reids' sudden outburst.

"So all the first five girls are all eleven, some a few months from being twelve- but then the final girl, the one with the message is just seven? Why scoop so low in age, and begin to write messages on the body?" Reid had made a point, and he himself was surprised that he was the only one that noticed the big dip in the victimology.

"Right, so he's trying to get a message across clearly- maybe the age of the girl has something important about the message?" Alex chirped in, as the team began to focus- cheerful conversations of relaxing days silenced and the case fresh on their minds.

"Not necessarily the Unsub could be just trying to get a message across, but what does he mean by; 'one by one they will fall, no one coming for them- no one searching?'" Reid asked the question everyone was, this message means something and they need to find out what.

Though he should be focusing on the case all Reid could think of was Ele, his almost thirteen year old- his little girl all alone at home, whilst he is flying off to Michigan to catch a serial killer that is taking his rage out on defenceless girls the same age as his daughter. How could it not affect him?

"Right, so maybe the Unsub is taking his rage out on these girls because he lost one of his own? Maybe he's suffering from a loss?" JJ was always the one who focused and got straight to the point, she never did want to put all the blame on the Unsub- though they are bad people and carry out bad things in life, something has gone wrong in their life to lead them to do so.

"Maybe he had a kid? Runaway maybe?" Alex again, though she was new to the team she wasn't new to the concept of the BAU… the team hadn't warmed up to her yet- and she wasn't making it easy…

"It could be a possibility. I mean it puts a concept to the message, that no one is coming for them or searching, maybe they gave up on his kid a daughter maybe? They just stopped searching" Morgan was on point, the team began to put reason behind the message. Again though the team was depending on Reids' intellectual knowledge, they needed him on full speed and half his mind was away worrying about Eleanor.

"Kid! She's fine stop worrying, she'll be at school then she'll be safe and sound with Garcia- you know how it works, now lets catch this son of a bitch" Morgan rang out, he was worried about Reid everyone knew he hadn't been the same since Lily left, his paranoia had worsened; leaving his daughter alone had to take it's toll- but the team had to worry, after all schizophrenia did run in his family and it was around this age, that the symptoms usually begin to kick in…

Could the BAU, the team, be losing Dr. Spencer Reid?