And so they continued on in this fashion until the plane landed.
The team walked into the large building that was the mainframe of the Phoenix Police Department and Hotch, playing out a scene he had a million times before, introduced the team as the ever present obnoxious alpha male he always was.
When he reached the end of the line, and henceforth to Rose, he stuttered a tiny bit before he said 'Agent Rose' and she again, just as she had with the team, gave only a quick bob of her head, which then snapped up automatically to the pictures of the crime scenes that lined a corkboard on the wall.
The police chief, a bald man whose' hair seemed to have migrated off of his head and onto his face, spoke to them through his snowy beard.
'Thank you all for coming here to help with this investigation, I'm not quite sure how you all do what it is that you do, but I figured that a profile would be useful' ' Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to get started right away' he said gruffly, and immediately walked toward the wall on which the board sat, at which Rose had already been studying intensely, without giving them a chance to say anything. He didn't seem to be an especially bright man.
They walked toward the wall and each separated into different quarters of the board, Rose conveniently landing in a spot next to Reid.
After a few minutes, Reid, with a contemplative look on his face, spoke to the team. 'There doesn't seem to be much of a connection to the victims other than the fact that they're female and married" he said, already working on victimology they nodded, except for Rose, who immediately quietly objected.
'Uhm, actually, I think that, I may, maybe, see something maybe' she said trying her best not to look at anyone in particular, especially not him. They looked at her expectantly, waiting to hear what she saw.
'Both of the females, er, women, went to the same jeweler for their rings, and they birthed their offspring, erm, had their, babies, at the same hospital, Maricopa General Hospital' she said as fast as possible. The team looked skeptical, and all but Reid had that "Where the hell'd you get all that from, you idiot?' looks on their faces. She saw. This angered her, and so she immediately explained, in what was perhaps the loudest sentence she had yet uttered.
'I arrived at this conclusion thus: if you look at the knuckles of the missing fingers, (she said, pointing to the pictures with her decorative hand) then you will see a slightly green-ish residue, this comes from using cheap metal in the rings, which denotes a cheap, possibly down-town jeweler, of which there is only one in down-town Phoenix' 'Thus, that is part of how I came up with the hospital, because Maricopa General is downtown, and close to the jewelers. 'Also, it is the only hospital in Arizona to use the type of scalpels that they do, of which in the pictures I can see the mark on the stomachs from undergoing C-sections, thus coming from said unique scalpel" she said, her own type of rebellion blazing in her eyes as she shot their sarcastic looks to the ground.