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Chapter 7 – The Profile

Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York

New York City FBI Field Office, Missing Persons Unit

Detective Dylan Perry glanced at his watch, the BAU had disappeared into the interrogation room forty-five minutes ago, leaving the Missing Persons Unit, Detective Robert Greenaway, and himself, to just sit and think. At this point he was starting to become impatient. "What the hell are they doing?" He looked at the others in the bullpen who were also obviously bored out of their minds. Elena mindlessly spun the chair she was sitting in around and around as if she were a child, while Danny, Martin, Samantha and Robert threw a sponge football back and forth. Viv decided to get a head start on a mountain of paperwork and Jack had received a not so pleasant phone call from A.D. Victor Fitzgerald, so he had retreated to his office to take care of that. When he realized that nobody had responded to his question he decided to re-ask it, except louder this time, "WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?"

Robert laughed as he caught a pass from Danny. "Dude chill, this stuff takes time."

Elena finally stopped spinning; she attempted to stand up but became too dizzy and decided to sit back down. "They are trying to get this on the eleven o'clock news right?"

"Yup," Samantha said simply. "Its only quarter after ten, they'll get it done." They had spent a little over twelve hours with the BAU but Sam already had a very high opinion of them. She had spent the day with, possibly, the three most interesting people she had ever met in her life. Penelope Garcia is amazing with a computer system and has a great sense of humor. She already had a startling amount of respect for Elle Greenaway, who is exceptionally smart, but of course she had to be in order to be a woman in the BAU. And of course then there's Dr. Spencer Reid, the twenty-four year old genius. His brain is filled with interesting information and he is extremely good at his job. But obviously, Detective Perry did not have the same feelings of admiration and respect towards the BAU that Samantha did.

He began to walk around in a circle, "I just don't understand why it's taking this long." He heard Robert scoff; he glared at him and said, "Well then Greenaway why don't you enlighten us."

Robert threw a pass to Martin as he laughed and said, "Ok then, they are taking this long because they want to nail this guy's profile. If something is off we could spend time looking for the completely wrong guy. If they don't take their time and analyze everything than we may never catch this guy until he starts to devolve and get sloppy, and that could take years." The more he explained the angrier he became, "And THAT'S why they're taking so long!"

Perry sneered, "Did your sister teach you that?"

Robert walked forward so that there was less than a foot between him and Dylan. The Missing Persons Unit watched silently and nervously. By the looks of it, Greenaway could tear Perry limb from limb. He was several inches taller and in better physical shape. At first they thought that they were just going to stand there and stare at each other until Perry spoke again.

His voice depicted a very mocking tone, "Oh I'm sorry Robbie, I forgot that anybody talking about your sister always gets you goin. My apologies." He laughed as Robert turned away and crossed the room, walking towards Samantha. But before he was out of earshot Perry added in a mumbled voice, "Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she's mixed racial trash."

Robert couldn't even look at him, "What did you just say?" His voice was unmistakably furious.

You could cut the tension with a knife; the Missing Persons agents truly felt that there was going to be, in the best situation, a trip to the emergency room. But luckily for Detective Perry, Jack and the BAU entered the bullpen before anything serious could happen.

As they entered, Jack motioned his agents towards the conference table and Perry and Greenaway followed suit. Greenaway sat beside Garcia and her mini-network of laptops, while Perry sat at the complete opposite end of the table. The Missing Persons Unit positioned themselves so that they had a direct view of the BAU.

Hotch began the profile is his usual authoritative manner, "We have classified this particular unsub as an organized killer. He plans his murders and his escape carefully. There was a month and a half cap between the two killings because he meticulously targets and stalks his victims. He does not commit the crime until he is sure that he knows his target's every move. He brings his own weapons to the crime scene, in this case a gun and a knife. He goes to extreme lengths to cover his tracks and he is forensically aware."

Gideon followed Hotch. He paced back and forth in front of the table, gesturing with his hands, as he always did while he was speaking. "He is very methodical. He is above average intelligence, attractive, and socially competent." Gideon looked at the concentrated faces of the listeners, "As hard as it is to believe he is most likely a minor, he will be your average high school student. He will most certainly be at the top of his class, very popular, and he most likely has a girlfriend and possibly a part-time job that is paid in cash."

Gideon looked at Elle to signal to her to begin the rapist aspect of the profile. "Our unsub is an anger-retaliatory rapist. The sexual attack is an expression of anger and rage because the victim serves as a stand-in for the rapist's real object of hate. This would explain the severe mutilation of the female's body."

"Edmund Kemper," all of the people turned to Reid as he spoke, "might be described as an anger-retaliatory or displaced rapist. He killed eight victims before finally killing the person he wanted to kill the most…his mother."

It was now Morgan's turn. "And our guy will possess certain characteristics of a displaced rapist's personality. For example, his friends would describe him as having an explosive personality. However organized he is he will be impulsive, quick-tempered, and egotistically self-centered. He probably plays some team contact sports and has had disciplinary problems in school that were swept under the rug because he's so intelligent, adding to his belief that he is untouchable."

Once again, Gideon took over, as he was the most experienced of the team. "And last but certainly not least, he comes from a broken home."

Reid started to chime in statistics as soon as Gideon finished his sentence, "Only 57 of sexual and serial killers studied by the FBI had both parents at birth, 47 had their fathers leave before age twelve, 44 reported having a negative relationship with their mother. While a negative relationship with the father or male parental figure was reported by 72 of convicted sex killers."

"In this particular case," Gideon continued, "he resents both parents. His parents' marriage ended recently, which was his stressor. Based on the degree of violence towards the victims, his mother either had an affair or initiated the divorce but he has no sympathy towards the father, most likely blaming his own for not making his mother stay."

Gideon stopped talking and Hotch gestured JJ over. He bent down and almost whispered in her ear, "You got the notes?" JJ nodded and he continued, "Okay go, and remember divert any questions about age." JJ walked out of the bullpen and took the elevator, once again, down to the first floor.

As JJ left, Morgan laughed and said, "Press conference time."

Hotch looked at the tired faces of the people sitting before him, it had been a very long day. "Agent Malone, you and your agents are welcome to leave, as are detectives Perry and Greenaway. That's it for today, we're just going to hang around and wait for JJ."

Jack turned to Elena and Viv, "Yeah you guys should go home, you've got kids. You three can go home too." He said, referring to Danny, Samantha, and Martin.

Danny picked a remote control up off of the table and flicked on one of the overhead TVs. "I think I'm gonna stick around and watch the press conference."

"Yeah me too," Sam added as she too directed her attention towards the television.

"Suit yourselves," Jack laughed as he, Elena, and Vivian, called it a night and left the bullpen.

Gideon, Hotch, Morgan, Reid, and Elle, all of who were standing during the delivery of the profile took seats around the conference table and watched as JJ handled the press with ease.

Her voice was controlled and confident, "Early this morning, the Behavioral Analysis Unit was called in by the Missing Persons Unit of the New York City Field Office to assist in the ongoing investigation of two cases that the NYPD had believed to be connected."

Everybody around the table watched intently as JJ did what she does best.

"Does she always do stuff like this?" Danny asked curiously as he pointed towards the television.

"Yes," Hotch was the one who answered his question, "her specialty is communications."

Morgan laughed and leaned back in his chair, "And I think it's fair to say that we'd be pretty well screwed over if we didn't have her."

Elle laughed, "Umm-hmm."

Once the press conference ended, people in the bullpen slowly filed out. First it was Detective Perry, to the relief of the Missing Persons Unit. Martin was the next to leave followed by Samantha and then Detective Greenaway. Once Danny left with an excited, "See ya tomorrow." Hotch, Gideon, and Elle decided to go downstairs and wait for JJ to finish answering un-televised press questions while Reid, Morgan, and Garcia tied up loose ends in the bullpen.

Reid stuffed a case file into his tan, leather bag as Garcia began shutting down the laptops.

Morgan laughed and turned to Reid, "So…"

Reid looked at him blankly, "So…"

"So I saw you looking at Agent Spade while she was talking to Elle, has someone developed a crush?"

Reid involuntarily blushed and took quick strides out of the bullpen and towards the elevator as he said honestly, "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Morgan laughed once again, "Ha ha…"

As he and Garcia exited the bullpen he continued to laugh until she said, "Wow, it's a good thing you've got your looks."

"What?" He asked depicting a mock insulted tone as they stepped into the elevator.

"This is the twelfth floor so if you can figure it out using your magnificent profiling skills before we reach the main floor than I'll give you the cookie I have in my backpack."

"Figure out what?" He asked naively as the bell dinged to signal that they were now on the tenth floor.

Garcia smiled smugly; she was amazed that Derek wasn't able to comprehend that the statement he made about Reid having a crush on one of the Missing Persons agents was completely false. It was pretty clear, to her anyway, that Reid has been harboring feelings for Elle for quite sometime.

"Eighth floor," she laughed, "the cookie is slipping away." It wasn't like she was going to give him the cookie anyway; she just said that so that he had some incentive besides plain male pride.

Derek laughed, "Okay okay, I give up! I have no idea; I bring shame to profilers everywhere! What do you know that I don't?"

Garcia smiled as they reached the main floor and the elevator doors slid open. She walked with poise out of the elevator as she said, "You said that Reid liked Agent Spade, no he doesn't! The answer my fine-looking friend, is right in front of you."

Derek ran over what Penelope had just said to him in his head as Elle walked towards them twirling a pair of car keys around her finger. She smiled, "You guys are ridin' with me."

As they walked towards the FBI provided SUV, he repeated Penelope's words in his head, 'The answer is right in front of you.' He stared absentmindedly out the window as they drove to the hotel. What the hell? Was all he managed to think up for awhile. He hated to profile a friend but he couldn't help but analyze her word choice. Why did she say right in front of you? He had just settled into his hotel room when he thought about who was standing in front of them when she had spoken, he talked out loud to himself, "But that means…no! That means that Reid has a thing for Elle."