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Chapter 10 –

Garcia sat in her chair and clasped her hands together, she took a deep breath before she managed to speak.

"JJ is everything ok?"

"Hang on a minute Pen, I'm putting you on speaker."

JJ smiled at Emily as they sat in the SUV.

"Hi Garcia everyone's good, a little tired but we are all fine."

Garcia blinked away the tears that had quickly formed in her eyes.

"Oh Em it is so good to hear your voice!"

Emily laughed softly as she looked at Natasha.

"Yours too Garcia, thanks for sorting everything out, we're both grateful."

"Thank you Garcia."

"Oh is that Natasha?"

Natasha felt her cheeks redden as JJ and her mom smiled at her.

"Yes it's me, hello Garcia."

"Hi sweetie, I hope everyone is looking after you and hopefully we'll meet soon. JJ?"

Emily took a hold of Natasha's hand as her exhausted daughter leant her head on her shoulder watching as JJ picked up the cell and held it to her ear.

"Hey Garcia, what is it?"

"I spoke to Hotch earlier, I found a match on the fingerprints to two other break ins."

"That's good Garcia."

"Is she really ok JJ?"

"Getting there Pen, I'll took to you later."

JJ turned and looked in the back of the SUV, Emily raised her eyebrows in response as JJ saw that Natasha had fallen asleep.

"Back to the hotel?"

"No you need to talk to her again, best go to the campus security office."

"Are you sure that she's ready for that?"

"We all know that you need the information to help catch the unsub, she'll be fine."

JJ nodded as she started the engine.

"Ok but I'm stopping for food."

Emily smiled, glad that she had JJ with her, Natasha had refused to have Emily with her at the doctor's but had allowed JJ in although Emily had since read the medical notes. Natasha still had some bruising around her thighs and wrists, but the doctor had been more worried about the low blood sugar, weight loss and anaemia, Natasha had been told she shouldn't train for at least ten days and to ensure that she was eating properly something that it seemed that JJ was going to ensure happened.

Morgan stopped the SUV outside the Engineering Research Centre and looked at Reid.

"So what do you think they do here then?"

"Well apparently ASU is renowned for its research solid state electronics as well as earth systems engineering."

Morgan shook his head as he stepped out of the vehicle.

"It was a rhetorical question Reid!"

Reid opened his mouth but decided against it and followed quietly as they walked to the stairs and up to the office of Professor Cunningham. Morgan walked up to the door and knocked loudly.

"Come in."

"Professor Cunningham I'm SSA Morgan and this is Dr Reid we're with the FBI Behavioural Analysis Unit."

"Yes, please take a seat."

The professor stood up and gestured for the two men to take a seat opposite his desk. Morgan quickly took in his surroundings before turning to look at the middle aged professor.

"We'd like to speak to you about the break in at the Research Centre."

The professor raised his eyebrows before he typed away on his keyboard.

"Well nothing was taken but we had to make the report for insurance purposes."

"So what exactly happened then?"

Morgan leant forward as he spoke, knowing that the professor was holding out him.

"Umm just one of the research rooms was ransacked. With the current economic climate research grants are especially hard to receive, unfortunately we had to tall several of our post-graduate students that their grants had been stopped."

"So you believe it was one of the students that thrashed the room?"

"I can understand their frustration...years of research suddenly ground to a halt."

Morgan sat back in his chair and looked around at the certificates hung on the wall behind the professor's head before he took a deep breath.

"We need the names of the students whose research grants have been stopped."

"You think that one of my students is responsible for those horrific murders?"

Reid noticed the tension in the room notch up several levels and quickly spoke to break it.

"It's just one of the leads that we are checking at the moment Professor, if we can quickly rule out your students then we can move on."

The professor nodded reluctantly as he handed over a sheet of paper to Reid.

"Thank you Professor Cunningham."

Morgan was already standing as Reid shook the professor's hand and they quickly turned and left the office.

"We need to get this list to Garcia and then let Hotch know that we have a decent suspect pool at last."

Reid nodded as he struggled to keep up with Morgan as he moved swiftly down the stairs.

JJ stopped the SUV outside the campus security office, she turned around and looked at Emily who was trying to wake Natasha up, JJ picked up the bag containing their lunch and walked into the building knowing that she needed to find a quiet room for them.

"Here you go Natasha, I got you something to eat."

JJ smiled as Natasha and Emily walked into the small interview room that JJ had commandeered and pushed the Subway bag across the table.

"Thanks JJ."

JJ nodded as she bit into her sandwich, determined that she wouldn't start the interview until Natasha had finished her lunch.

Emily looked across at JJ, knowing that the difficult time had been reached, her heart and head were in conflict, the profiler in her wanted to push forward and see if they could extract the information from Natasha but then the parent in her wanted to take Natasha out of the room and back to Washington. Emily sighed she knew that this wasn't easy on her friend, but she was eternally grateful that it was JJ who was doing this.

"Right then Natasha are you ok if I ask you some more questions?"

"I guess so."

Emily moved her chair closer as she sat next to Natasha, taking a hold of her hands as they both looked at JJ.

"Right so there were two of them, both males, did they ever take their masks off?"

"No."

Natasha closed her eyes as she forced herself to remember what had happened that night.

JJ closed the door behind her, resting her head against it for a moment before she walked purposefully towards the conference room where she could see the four male members of the team sitting and talking.

"JJ how did it go?"

Hotch quickly saw JJ walking into the room and addressed the agent.

"The guys were of average height and build, no distinctive marks, they never took their masks off."

"Well we may have something, we have narrowed our suspect pool down to four."