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9

"No way."

"Yes way."

"Like a girl, girl?"

"Yup."

"And this is Reid we're talking about?"

"Yes Garcia." J.J said. Garcia giggled.

"I bet she's pretty, is she pretty? I bet she's pretty." She asked with so much enthusiasm and energy J.J. wondered if the phone would explode.

"Yeah she is." She said, chuckling. Garcia squealed.

"I knew it!" She said. J.J. held the phone away from her ear. "Where are they now?" She asked. J.J. sighed.

"Standing about ten feet away from me talking really fast." She said.

"Aw..." Garcia cooed. J.J. shook her head. "Now I know that wasn't the only reason you called." Garcia said.

"Yeah um, I need you to see if any of these people have a connection to eachother. Hotch wants you to check employment, high-school, if they lived in the same area, and anywhere else you can think of." She could hear Penelope's fingers already clicking on the keyboard.

"Yeah sweetie I'll get that back to you as soon as I can." Garcia said.

"Thanks Garcia." J.J. said. Garcia grinned.

"I live to serve my dear." She hung up. J.J. closed her phone.

"So were you right?" Reid asked.

"About what?"

"Did Garcia freak?"

"Yeah." J.J. laughed.


"So," Rachel said. "Profiler huh?" She smiled. Spencer shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Yeah." He smiled lightly. "Detective huh?" Rachel scratched the back of her head.

"Yeah." They stood in silence for a moment. "So how've you been?" She asked.

"I've been better." He said. Rachel's brows furrowed.

"What's wrong?" She asked. He shrugged.

"This job is just tiring sometimes." He said. Rachel sighed.

"Spence don't you think I know when you're lying?"

"Touche." He sighed. "This last case we had...it brought back some memories I didn't want." He said quietly. Rachel put a hand on his shoulder.

"Are you alright?" She asked. He shrugged again.

"The funny thing is I don't really know." He looked at the ground. Rachel shook her head.

"After all these years this is the last subject I want to talk about." She said. "We have got to catch up." She said, changing the subject. Spencer nodded.

"Name the time and place." He said. She smiled.

"I know this bar a little further uptown. The atmosphere is a little rugged but the food's great." She said. "And I say we go...mm...after we finish this case up."

"Sounds good." He said. As soon as he did Hotch walked up, just finishing talking to someone on the phone.

"That was Garcia. She found the connection between victims." He said. "They all went to the same high school."

"Which highschool?" Morgan asked.

"It's not from around here." Hotch sighed.

"So this guy does his homework?" Morgan said. Hotch nodded.

"They all went to James Madison High." Rachel's eyes widened, Spencer went pale. Prentice looked at them.

"Is something wrong?" She asked, concerned.

"That, that was where Spence and I went to school." Rachel said. Rossi sighed.

"That makes both of you possible victims." He said. Morgan remained silent. He needed no explanation for Reid's behavior, he just hoped no one else would either.

"What were the names of the victims again?" Spencer asked, trying to take some of the spotlight off of him and Rachel.

"Uh," J.J. said. "Arthur Marks, Hannah Talbot, Abby Johnson, Justin Beachner, Alan Patterson and Alicia Tanner." She looked up from the piece of paper she had been reading from. "Did you guys know them?" She asked. Rachel clenched her jaw.

"Yeah we did." She said. Spencer tried keeping his expression blank.

"Excuse me, Detective Jones?" An officer said, tapping Rachel on the shoulder. She turned around.

"This had better be good." She said coldly. He nodded.

"They just found another body." He said.


Parks were a major body dump sight in New York, but usually they were found in a dark corner or off some trail that nobody used anymore. This one was different. The body was laid out in plain sight.

"He wanted us to find this." Rossi said. "He knows we're here and watching. This body was a message to us." He said.

"But we just got here how the hell would he know about us?" Emily asked.

"This message wasn't for you." Rachel said. "It was for us." She looked at Spencer.

"How can you tell?" J.J. asked. Spencer glanced at the football lying next to Holly's body.

"We just can." He said. Hotch stepped forward.

"Reid if there's something we need to know that's relevant to this case you can't keep that a secret." He said. Reid thought for a moment, looking for an ultimatum, or some way out.

"There was an incident when we were in school." Rachel said. Morgan and Spencer's eyes grew. "I got beat up once. It was pretty bad. Spence helped me out. The whole school knew about it. This guy's trying to mess with our heads. This girl Holly, and the others as well were a major part of it. Spence didn't want to embarrass me or bring back old memories." She sighed. Spencer did everything in his power not to let his jaw drop. Morgan looked confused.

"We need to go back to the station, try and get a profile started." Prentice stated. The others nodded and began walking to the cars.

"Hey Reid," Morgan called. Spencer turned. "Can I talk to you for a sec?" Spencer nodded and gestured for rachel to go ahead without him.

"Something wrong?" He asked. Morgan shook his head.

"You told me that was you in school. Why didn't you just tell me it was a friend?"

"No," Spencer shook his head. "That wasn't her Morgan it was me. She was covering for me...as usual." Morgan's brows furrowed.

"She just lied to federal agents." He said harshly.

"I know," Spencer sighed. "But what was I supposed to say? Wait stop she's lying?" Morgan scratched his head. "I can't tell them Morgan." Spencer said quietly. "I just can't."

"In the end you might have to." He said. He squeezed Spencer's shoulder and walked toward the cars like the others. Spencer shut his eyes.

Why does this have to be about us? This was something I never wanted to remember. He sighed, and followed Morgan.

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