I am really looking forward to writing the rest of this story. It's getting more interesting and more complicated by the minute.


Grabbing my cell, I dialled Hotch's number and waited till he answered.

"What is it Leigh," he asked, and as I looked back down at the case file, I reassured myself that I was right.

"I think the guy we're looking for is a contractor," I said, as Reid listened. When he heard what I said, he grabbed the files and looked it over. And he nodded, coming to the same conclusion.

"He's smart, charming, which means he can easily get business, and he's incredibly strong because he does a lot of physically demanding activities." I said, trying to get him where I was.

"And all the victims workplaces had huge renos done lately," Reid said after turning my phone onto speaker. And then it made much more sense. "Why would an intelligent and resourceful woman go off with someone she doesn't know?" I asked, not looking for an answer. Spencer looked at me, getting where I was going with this.

"She wouldn't, because she knew him," he said, getting into my mind. And I couldn't help the smirk that formed across my face.

"So we found the connection," Hotch said after a moment, "Reid, get Garcia to look up all the names of the contractors and cross reference with the other victims workplaces." And he hung up.

Sitting back down at the table, I took a deep breath, not feeling very good at the moment. It does make sense, but something wasn't sitting right with me, something all too familiar. I just couldn't get past it.

"Hey, Garcia is getting us the names," Spencer said finally getting off his phone, and even though I heard him, I couldn't break my thoughts. I felt him touch my shoulder, which caused me to jump.

"What," I asked slightly annoyed, but then I remembered who I was talking too. Sighing, I leaned back and said "sorry, I'm just a little on edge lately." He nodded and said "well, it makes sense. According to recent research by Matthew Walker, director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, the amygdale - the part of the brain that alerts the body to be prepared in times of danger - goes haywire when a full night's sleeplessness occurs. That in turn wreaks havoc on the prefrontal cortex, which controls our logical reasoning and "fight or flight" reflex, turning us, as Walker says, into "emotional Jell-O." Memory capacity and speech control diminish; and irritability spikes."

I just watched him speak, not really hearing his words, but after he had finished his speech he looked at my surprised and said "that was the first time in a long time that I finished a speech like that." I couldn't help but smile. And leaning forward I couldn't help but say "Spencer, your brain in sexy, own it." And his face went completely red, which just made me laugh.


Everybody, a round of applause for Dr. Reid and his sexy brain. I've been watching the first season of CM, and Reid has grown a lot. He's always been hot, but he's grown into one hunk of a man!