"Hey, Calla Lily."
The first time he'd called her that, in front of the team, JJ and Morgan's reactions had been instantaneous: shock.
JJ's eyebrows had raised, and Morgan had almost spilled his coffee. Rossi, however, just quirked his eyebrows and smirked over his own cup of coffee.
"What do you think?"
"I think the tying could maybe not be about control, but about making them, I don't know, decorations?" She pointed to the picture on the screen. "The victims were nude, but he tied their wrists with very pretty, flashy scarves. I don't think it's fully about control."
"You could be on to something," Hotch said. "Let me call Garcia, see where those scarves are sold and if they are a common item or something more unique."
He left the conference room of the Bethany PD quickly, and Morgan's eyebrows hiked up as he turned to face Reid.
"Calla Lily? I thought I was the nickname making machine around here, the only one."
"Garcia gives people nicknames too," Reid said. "What's the big deal?"
"I wonder," JJ said, leaning closer to him. "Seriously. Why Kate?"
Across the table, Kate feigned disinterest and stood up, to give them their privacy.
"You were closer to Emily and Alex. And me, at one point." JJ sounded almost hurt, and Reid frowned as he turned to face her.
"It's not about closeness," Reid said. "It's about timing and what fits. And isn't JJ a nickname?"
JJ bit her cheek, smiled stiffly and stood up. "I was thinking, maybe Carrie wasn't our UnSub's first victim."
Kate turned around quickly and met Reid's gaze, as if to assure herself of something, and when it had been confirmed, she smiled and walked around the table.
"Don't you think you deserve a name too?" She asked quietly.
A/N: Please review! I'd really appreciate some feedback!