AN: Pardon any mistakes as this is unbetaed. JenJen had a headache. So far I'm on track with keeping 2 chapters ahead writing wise, but it will mean I have to write a chapter today and one tomorrow. Oh well, I got a new bed this week that I was planning to spend my entire weekend in anyway!

MN: This has been a very special week. My brain is mush so blame AJ for all mistakes.


My head was pounding. I was going cross eyed digging through the data those hard drives had given up, but we still weren't any closer to finding our unsub. The only thing we knew for sure is that all of our victims had experience with security for remote access systems. It was the only common thread between the six.

A knock at the door snapped me out of my glazed eyed thoughts and I spun to find Kate standing a short distance behind me. "Hey Penelope. Hotch wants us all in the conference room for a brainstorming session before we go to dinner."

I shook my head. "I don't have anything else to contribute yet. I'd rather stay here and keep farming through the data."

"He said it wasn't optional. Morgan told me to tell you that if you aren't in there in five minutes he'll tell Hotch about your 'new acquisitions', whatever that means." She turned and disappeared from the room.

"That dirty, rotten, manipulative hunk of man meat. He is so going to pay for this." And I was officially losing it. I was talking aloud to computers that weren't even mine as I gathered my tablet and stylus.

Thirty minutes in, we were still getting no where. After a stretch of silence, Reid launched from his seat toward the white board. He snatched up the eraser and cleared the surface. "Okay, so the only thing our vics have in common is this one type of programming right? So that has to be the key." He scrawled out 'remote access software' on the board.

I shook my head. "No. That kind of coding wouldn't create the kind of payday that would be worth killing for."

He nodded. "Right. But what if it isn't about the payday?" He turned back to the board and circled the word 'access'.

It was like the boy wonder had flipped a switch in all of our brains at the same time. Rossi, who had been leaned back in his chair, sat forward. "They want to make sure they get a particular job because they want access to something on that company's system"

Hotch turned toward me. "Garcia?"

I nodded, in complete agreement with Reid's assessment. "Completely possible. If you are given access to a system its easier to cover up a data breach. And if our unsub isn't quite as skilled as our victims, he probably wouldn't have the skills to hack the type of systems they would be upgrading. So he takes out the competition then shows up here and walks away with the job he wants."

It was JJ that asked the question settling into everyone's minds. "So how do we find him?"

A long silence settled over the room once again, this time finally broken by Kate. "We have to send someone in undercover. They'll have to outshine our unsub to draw him out."

Hotch immediately began gathering his things together. "Right. I'll go talk to Parish. See who they have on the ground here that might be able to pull this off with Garcia in their ear. The rest of you call it a night. Let me know where you end up for dinner and I'll meet you there. He exited quickly as the rest of us began to gather our own belongings.

I grabbed my tablet as I stood. "You guys go ahead to dinner. I want to stay a bit longer."

"I don't think so." Morgan's voice was firm, but I wasn't about to back down.

I spun to face him. "Well I do. If someone is going in, I need to work my way though the rest of the data. I need to make sure they're displaying the right skill level."

He crossed his arms over his chest. Great, he was ready to do battle over this. "And you can do that tomorrow. You've been at this for six days straight now between the computers and the drives. You need to recharge those beautiful batteries of yours."

I shook my head. "No. I still have so much to do and the conference starts in two days and fourteen hours."

Derek opened his mouth to continue his protests, but JJ cut him off. "Look, it's been a long day. You'll do better work after some sleep. Go grab dinner with us, Skype Henry with Spence and I, and get some rest. You can start back at it early tomorrow."

I narrowed my eyes at her. She knew playing the 'godson' card would be effective. "Fine. But only because of Henry. And I don't promise that I won't be coming back after."

JJ obviously planned to object, but it was Derek's turn to interject. "Deal. Dinner. Munchkin Skype time. Then further discussion. Now, can we please go eat? I'm starving!