Sorry it's taken me so long to update. It's been a crazy couple of weeks at school and next week going to be crazy too so there will probably be another long space of time between this and the next update.

Chapter 5

Kat's POV

"I would never hurt Morgan! I loved her!" The outburst came from Jason Michaels, the latest victim's boyfriend. Well ex-boyfriend according to her friends and family.

"I'm not saying you did Jason. I just asked where you were between 11:30 and 1:00 two nights ago." I said patiently.

"Which is the night she died. Which means you think I killed her. Why would I kill my girlfriend?"

"Everyone else we talked to said that you two weren't together anymore." I observed.

"Every relationship has its rough spots. We fought every once in a while. She would always leave and then come back a couple of days later. She just needs space sometimes." He said sounding defensive.

"According to her friends she broke things off with you a little under two week ago. It sounded pretty permanent the way they were describing it."

He sighed. Yep, I definitely hit a nerve there. I decided to keep going. "You and I both know that you knew she wasn't going to come back. If you're innocent you'll tell me where you were. If you keep dodging my questions and changing the subject I'm going to end up thinking you have something to hide. "

He glared at me then said, "I was at work until midnight. When I got of work I went to the bar around the corner from my apartment. I was there until two. Then I went home a crashed."

I smiled. "Can anybody confirm that?"

"Got a pen?" When I handed him a piece of paper and a pen he scribbled out two phone numbers. "That's the night manager at the warehouse and George Saltana. I ran onto George at the bar."

I picked up the paper and stood. "Thank you for your time. We'll call you if we have any more questions. It would be preferable if you didn't leave town until this is all sorted out."

He stood and walked out of the room without replying.

I followed him out and headed over to conference room where the team was set up. Reid was the only one in there, staring at the boards we set up for each victim. "Hey," I said walking over. "Anything showing up yet?"

He glanced up looking a little startled at the sound of my voice. "Nothing. There is no apparent connection between any of the victims except that they were female, lived in the same city, and were targeted by our killer."

"Then we just have to dig deeper. Where are the others?"

"Garcia pulled footage from all the clubs on the list you brought in. Morgan Bell showed up on one of them. Rossi and Prentiss went to go talk to people there. Prentiss and Morgan went to go talk to Leah Kane's ex-husband. Hotch and JJ are talking to Kristy Thomas's family."

I nodded. "And you're trying to find a connection." He nodded. "I'm going to check Bell's ex-boyfriend's alibi. When I'm done I'll help you look." I said before leaving to make the calls.

Ten minutes later I returned with coffee. "Got anything?"

"So far nothing." He glanced up. "I've checked all high school records, college records, even family friends. And from what Garcia just told me they didn't even shop at the same grocery store."

I walked over and sat down next to him. "Well," I said handing him his coffee. "Looks like we're going to have to use our imagination. How are we going to divide this search up?"

He took a sip of coffee, "I'll go over Bell's files again," he offered.

"I'll go over Kristy Thomas." With that we pulled over the stacks of files we needed and proceeded to attempt to find some crazy connection between the victims.