"So did you talk to Reid yet?" Emily asked as she and JJ walked across the tarmac to the plane.

"We were about to when I got the call. It's on hold for now."

"Did you figure out what you want to do?"

"No." JJ replied.

"Hey JJ." Reid caught up with them, carrying a box tray full of Chinese food cartons."

"Reid I know I said I was starving when I asked you to order food, but I'm not going to eat all that."

"I didn't have dinner either and you know Morgan never says no to Chinese food."

"Do you have any Kung Pow Chicken?" Emily asked.

"Yes."

"Let me have the receipt and I'll put in on the expense report for the case." JJ was in charge of making sure all the expense forms were submitted at the end of the case.

"So where are we going?" Morgan inquired after they had taken off. When JJ called him she had told him that had a case and when they were taking off, not much more.

"Lewiston, Idaho." JJ handed out copies of the case file. "Last week Chloe Parson 7, Benjamin Tucker 10 and Kyle Peterson 9 all got off their school buses and no-one ever saw them alive again. They were found 72 hours later hanging by their ankles from a tree. They'd only been dead a few hours according to the post-mortem. No signs of sexual assault but they were covered in small red marks and had a cocktail of drugs in their systems."

"JJ, I hate it when it is kids but this could have waited until tomorrow."

"Three more children never made from school home from school. They were last seen getting off their school buses. Daniel Denison 8, Marcus Trudo 7, and Katie Markham 9. They've canvassed the neighbourhoods, nobody saw anything."

"These kids are from lower class families, who live in your type suburban neighbourhood. The first three came from two parent households and they were all abducted within the space of about twenty minutes of each other." Reid handed JJ the Shrimp Lo Mein which he knew was her favourite and Emily the Kung Pow Chicken.

"Reid I know you have an eidetic memory but you haven't even opened the case file." Morgan pointed. "Do you have any Mooshu pork?"

Reid handed over the carton to Morgan as he explained.

"JJ had me make copies whilst I was ordering the Chinese food." He shrugged.

"He has the menu memorised." JJ added.

"There's General Tao's Chicken Hotch." Reid offered.

"Thanks." Hotch took the container.

"I didn't know what you liked." Reid told Rossi who was back from his vacation. "There's sweet and sour chicken or Beef egg foo young."

"I'll take beef." Rossi took the carton from Reid. "Do you usually have take-out on cases?"

"I didn't get dinner and when we get there it's going to be the middle of the night and we're the ground running." JJ explained.

"Any theories?"

"The abductions all happened in a one mile radius. So it's possible we're looking for just one unsub but probably two."

"One to subdue the child and the other to drive." Emily agreed. "A sedative or rag with chloroform over the mouth would stop a child from crying out and they could abduct him without a causing any scene and onto the next one."

"What's the significance of hanging them by the ankles?" JJ asked as she ate. "Pass the spring rolls."

The discussion continued with theories being tossed back and forth.

"We still have a couple hours before we land." Hotch said. "Get some sleep."

Emily woke up about an hour later, around her everyone was asleep. But something made her smile. She pulled out her cell phone and took a picture.

She grabbed the laptop and hit a few buttons to connect her to Garcia at Quantico.

"Hey Garcia."

"Emily, I'm been doing some background on the families of the children who were abducted. All the parents went to Lewiston High School the fathers were all in the same graduating class." Garcia informed her.

"That can't be a coincidence. See if you can track down anyone who had a grudge against them in high school or any connections between them."

"I'm already on it sweetie."

"That's great Garcia, but that wasn't why I called. I thought you might want to see this." Emily turned the laptop so the web cam was pointing at her intended targets.

JJ had fallen asleep with her head on Reid's shoulder. Reid's head was resting lightly on top of hers.

Garcia had quickly saved a few stills from the webcam.

"That's so cute." Garcia smiled. "But it's going to be..."

"Incredibly awkward when they wake up." Emily finished for her.

"I should have more for you by the time you land."

"Thanks Garcia." Emily disconnected the connection. She settled down to try again to get some sleep.

Emily watched JJ and Reid when she got a chance. She watched as Reid handed JJ a cup of coffee and her smile. Things were still awkward but their friendship was still there.

"Prentiss." Morgan said right behind her.

"Sorry." She apologised.

"I've been talking to you for the last few minutes. Is everything okay?"

"I was just thinking about something that struck me."

"If you have an idea you should share." Morgan suggested.

"You're right. JJ." Emily walked across the room. "I have an idea can you come with me?"

"Sure." She handed Reid her coffee mug.

"Where are we going?" JJ inquired.

"The library." Emily replied.

"If you want something looked up Garcia could probably find it or ask Reid he's probably read it." JJ pointed out.

"It's something I remember from when I was child, but I can't remember it exactly enough to get someone else to look for it." She paused as they walked out to the car. "You and Reid seem to be doing better today."

"If we ignore it we can work just like we always did."

"I think maybe you should see this." Emily passed JJ her phone.

"When did you take this?"

"On the plane out here. It's food for thought."

"Let's just finish this case then we'll talk about my marriage."

"I think that is a step in the right direction."

TBC