Reid's Victory
Summary: As the team matches wits with a killer Reid matches wits with a puzzle
Quote: "YOU! ARE! A TOY!!!" - "You are one sad, strange, little man." ~ Toy Story
Reid walked up into the plane after Hotch, his fingers working over the cell phone furiously as he grumbled and mumbled to himself. "Stupid piece of…" he almost growled at the piece of technology.
"Excuse me?" Hotch turned some, brow arched slightly.
"No, not you, this game," Reid muttered, barely glancing up at his boss, "this stupid, annoying, game." It was a game that he'd had Garcia download onto his phone that morning thinking it might be a fun way to kill time on the plane ride home…what it actually was was an infuriating series of puzzles that he couldn't put down for the life of him now that he'd started it.
Hotch watched Reid a moment longer, his eyes focusing in some as his brows furrowed, before gave a small nod, "Just make sure it's not distracting." He knew Reid was capable of playing a simple game and still maintain most, if not still all, his focus on the briefing. The superior officer then went to find a seat. "We need to hit the ground running on this, we have about 12 hours before the UNSUB is scheduled to kill the girl he already has and 24 hours before he takes his next victim."
"Which he'll then keep for two days before killing her as well," Rossi added before turning to JJ expectantly, "But let's hear about the girl he has now…JJ?"
JJ looked through her file a moment, then answered, "Christine Killian…A 22 year old graduate student at the local university who was officially declared missing after she didn't show up to meet with her boyfriend, Rick Denison, last night for a dinner date."
The briefing by his colleagues became little more than white noise as Reid worked feverishly on the puzzles. He was on the last one when he began to mumble angrily at his phone, at the game. And then it happened! He beat it! The solved the very last puzzle and beast the game! "I win!" he cheered, oblivious to the rest of the team as they grew silent to stare at him, "I beat you! And do you know why?" Reid seemed to taunt his phone, "YOU! ARE! A TOY!!!" He laughed some in pure joy at his victory.
Hotch cleared his throat to get Reid's attention before, deadpan, he spoke, "You are one sad, strange, little man." He then gave the smallest hint of a smile before adding, "Put the phone away, we're about to land."
