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Chapter 10

Reid's POV

A total of 9 hours and 32 minutes had passed since we received this case and we had made little progress.

"It will take us a few days to search an area that big can't we narrow it down?" Sophie asked as she placed her hand delicately between my shoulder blades and leant over to look at the map again.

"It's mostly empty warehouses I've already narrowed down as much as possible" I stated marker pen still poised over the paper.

"I wonder if…" Sophie whispered to myself and then darted to the doorway.

"Scott" she shouted, she only had to wait a few seconds before he arrived in front of her.

"Boss … I haven't finished running facial recognitions yet but I have finished the phone lines and emails not much to report on…" Sophie raised her hand to stop his babbling.

"Scott I've had an idea … the ransom videos, I want you to go back and enhance the back ground noise and picture … I want to know if there are any similarities between the videos and any distinguishing markers on the walls or sounds that we could use to narrow down the geographical profile" she ordered and with a wide eyed grin Scott turned on the balls of his feet and raced back to his computer screens. "Garcia" she called, again it only took a few seconds for her to be stood in front of Sophie awaiting instructions. "I need you to take over on the facial recognitions for me and also I want a fall run down on that six mile radius, I want to know what companies own the buildings, who used to own them, who's using electric, water everything you can find would be amazing" Garcia was franticly scribbling down the instructions and nodding.

"Your wish is my command" she smiled and headed back to the station she had set up next to Scott.

I watched as Sophie headed back to the table and sat down grabbing her cell phone, I couldn't help but smile, I had never seen this side of her before; she really was a born leader. She caught me smiling and frowned.

"What?" she whispered looking confused. Sophie pulled the phone to her ear and waited for whom ever she was calling to pick up.

"You're amazing you know that right?" I kept my voice low so no one in the bullpen could hear me, I watched as the confusion subsided and a smile spread across her face.

"Sometimes" she joked, winking at me.

"Hey Amy … are you with Morgan? … I need you guys to do something" she stood up again and started to wonder towards the door, phone glued to her ear once again as JJ strode into the meeting room juggling 3 Chinese cartons in two hands. I watched as Sophie absent-mindedly took a box handed to her by JJ and made her way further into and bullpen and closer to her office. JJ slid the other box across the table to me along with a fork from her back pocket.

"Thanks" I smiled guessing she would leave me in peace to eat and mull over the map some more but to my surprise she pulled the chair out across from me and sat down. We sat in silence for a while starting to eat before she spoke.

"You okay?" she asked causally poking her food with her chopsticks not making eye contact.

"I think so … why?" I stopped eating to watch her; it was unusually for JJ to look this uncomfortable.

"Just making sure you're alright" she smiled briefly looking at me. I carried on eating maybe she still felt a little awkward after my earlier outburst. A few minutes passed before she spoke again.

"If I asked you something you'd tell me the truth wouldn't you?" she asked, watching my reaction, how many times would I have to tell her that I wasn't falling off the wagon, I sighed, nodded and took another mouth fall of food.

"How long have you been seeing Sophie?"

I choked a little as I tried to swallow, panic setting in I just let the question hang in the air as I tired to think of a suitable response.

"I'm not … w… why would you think that" I internally scolded myself for such a lame answer, I had such a high intelligence and that was the best I could conjure up, I watched as she smirked.

"Thought you was gonna tell me the truth" she raised an eyebrow. How did she even know, we'd been so careful, none of this made sense, but looking at JJ now I couldn't lie to her again, she had always been my best friend, the only person before Sophie that I ever felt I could turn to and not be ridiculed by.

"268 days" I answered hanging my head in shame at the lie I'd been telling for such a long time. JJ sighed.

"Oh Spence why didn't you just tell me … I've been so scared … I thought … I thought you were using again …. You'd been so distant …" she trailed off, she looked slightly betrayed.

"I'm so sorry I didn't tell you … I wanted too … but I guess at the same time I didn't want you guys to know … you need to understand it wasn't because I thought you wouldn't be happy for me but it was nice having something I didn't have to share with the team or be ridiculed over or have profiled over and over until I doubted it … I wanted to make my own mistakes and learn how to do this alone … I've never loved someone like this before" I let the smile naturally spread across my face thinking about Sophie.

"Spence I" before JJ could finish Hotch marched back through the meeting room doors closely followed by Rossi, they were discussing the profile.

"I just think there is more to this than meets the eye" Rossi said as they moved into the room and towards the boards where most of the evidence was displayed. "The profile we have right now doesn't fit the group carrying out the abductions and the profile we would normally give the group doesn't fit the crimes being carried out" he continued pointing the certain pictures and reports hung to the board.

"I agreed … I think this group is just hired muscle, there may be a higher power pulling the strings on this one" he mused.

"They would need to have access to a lot of money to fund an operation like this … a group like that doesn't come cheap" Sophie informed the team, she was stood in the doorway leant causally against the frame appearing from no where.

"There's a lot of rich and powerful people in DC, that's going to be a really long list of potential unsubs" JJ stated.

"Boss, Boss, Boss!" Sophie turned to see where the commotion was coming from; a very excited Scott appeared in front of her.

"Boss I've found something!"