The Little Things – 10

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"Jack," Hotch said as he watched him freeze. "This is Emily, I'm not sure if you remember meeting her, you were 4 when you first met her..." Jack nodded as he sat down at his seat.

"I remember.." Jack said, on the quiet side. "It's nice to see you again." he said, he spoke quietly. He wasn't much of a 'social butterfly', and he wasn't expecting her to be there. He didn't really remember much of her at all, but she did remember that her and his father had a relationship. At the time, when he was 6, he didn't know that's what it was, but he saw them kissing. Which he now realized they were in a relationship and that she left when he was 6. It took a huge toll on him and he started remembering that she was the mother figure when his mom died, and she left. Just like his mom.

"So your dad tells me you're doing great in school.." Emily said as Jack put some food on his plate, he just nodded and took a bite of chicken, Hotch didn't cook a lot, usually they had pizza or Chinese because he usually works late. Jack just thought it was because Emily was there. A lot of thoughts were running through his mind, were they dating again? Why is she here after 10 years? But he knew he couldn't ask, of course not. The questions would have to wait until Emily was gone.

"How was school, Jack?" Hotch asked, he needed to lighten the mood somehow. He wasn't angry with Jack, he wasn't much of a talker around new people. Jack shrugged.

"It was fine." he answered, Hotch nodded slowly. "I got a 97 on my chemistry test." he perked up, forgetting momentarily that Emily was there out of excitement.

"Wow," Hotch said with a smile. "That's great, Jack."

"Yeah," Jack smiled, which made Emily smile, too because of his excitement. "I got 2 wrong, they were on Ionic Bonding, but I know the right answers now." Jack nodded, Hotch smiled and they continued to eat.

"Do you remember when we were at that restaurant in Florida with the team and Reid knocked water over and scared Morgan, causing him to drop his chicken all over his shirt?" Emily asked a while after a few conversations that went on between Jack and Hotch. She remembered because Derek was eating chicken parm too. Hotch nodded.

"Yes, and he was so pissed because he was flirting with the waitress," Hotch said with a laugh, Emily laughed.

"Oh my god, yeah." she remembered, Jack dropped his fork by accident causing Hotch and Emily to look at him, Jack cleared his throat.

"I have to finish some homework..." Jack said as he wiped his mouth and took his plate into the kitchen before rushing upstairs. He didn't exactly have homework to do, nor was he completely finished with his dinner. He just wanted to get out of there. Emily looked down at her plate as she set her fork down, she noticed Jack was hesitant and shocked she was there to begin with.

"Emily.." Hotch said as she looked at her watch.

"It's kinda late," she said as she stood up and grabbed the plate.

"I'll get that," Hotch said as he got up and brought her plate to the kitchen. Emily smiled and grabbed her bag. "I'm so-" Hotch began, Emily cut him off.

"It's not your fault," Emily told him. "And it's not his either, we'll talk about this later though.. I have to get Avery and get her to bed before 9. She's been getting to sleep at random times lately," Emily said, Hotch nodded.

"So I'll see you tomorrow?" he asked, Emily nodded as he walked her to the door.

"Bright and early." she said with a small laugh before putting her bag on her shoulder and smiled before walking out. Hotch smiled as he watched her walk to her car, then let out a sigh.

x x x

"There was an abduction in Baltimore, Maryland elementary school," Hotch said as he walked into the conference room.

"And they called us?" Derek asked.

"The same thing happened 6 months ago in Rumford, Main." Hotch said. "And a month ago in Scraton, Pennsylvania." he said as he distributed the files to everyone. "It was a 12 year old girl in Rumford, and a 10 year old in Scarton. Same M.O., the unsub posed as a faculty member and held a gun to a child's head, which allowed for him to get away unharmed."

"Don't we know what this guy looks like then?" Derek asked.

"Not quite," Hotch answered. "Garcia tried to figure out who he was using the pictures from the security cameras, he looks completely different each abduction. Different hair color, style, facial features. It seems we have an expert here." he continued.

"He's most likely doing this for attention then, considering the scenes he makes just by the abduction itself," Emily said as she looked at pictures of the victims. "And he dumps the bodies in public places after brutally murdering them."

"He is most likely suffering from paranoid psychosis. It says here he made all the children hide under their desks, at the most recent one he shot a school teacher on the way out because he was startled." Spencer said.

"We have less than 24 hours until he dumps the body." Hotch said, "They would like us there within the next hour, wheels up in 10." They all dispersed to grab their bags, making it there in the 10 minutes they had.

"I've asked them to keep it out of the media as much as possible." Hotch said once they got into the police station.

"Well, they sure did listen," Derek said. "They're calling him the 'The School Abductor'."

"How clever." Emily groaned as the officer in charge walked over.

"Officer McKinley, I'm Agent-" Hotch began.

"We've been alerted that a body of a 10 year old girl has been found under leaves at a park in the woods. They just alerted us that it is Samantha Sanchez." the officer said, out of breath. Hotch, Emily and Derek all let out a sigh and were disappointed they couldn't have done anything to help, but knew they would still be there trying to figure out any information they could so it wouldn't happen again.

"We still would like to stick around and gather any information that we can to prevent this from happening again." Hotch said, the officer nodded.

"Of course, we have a room set up," the officer said as he pointed to the room, they all went to the room.

"I'll call Reid so he can break the news to the family." Derek said as he walked out, Emily put the pictures of the victims up on the board and stared at them, she started thinking what if it were Avery, she couldn't help it.

"You okay?" Hotch asked, Emily looked over at him, then back to the pictures.

"Yeah..." she said as she snapped out of it. "Should I go down to the coroners whose looking at Samantha Sanchez's body?" she asked, Hotch nodded.

"Take Morgan with you." Hotch said as Derek walked in.

"Where?" Derek asked as he shut his phone.

"I'm driving." Emily smiled as she grabbed the car keys and put the hole around her finger and walked out to the car, Derek shook his head and followed.

x x x

"What's been up with you lately?" Derek asked, Emily gave him a weird look.

"What are you talking about?" she asked him, Derek sighed, he didn't mean for it to come out like that.

"That's not what I meant," he said. "Why did you leave 10 years ago? And what made you come back?" he asked, Emily sighed and looked out the window as her grip on the steering wheel tightened. She couldn't tell him now, but she knew she had to eventually. Then she thought that she didn't, it's none of his business, it's hers. She pulled into the driveway and got out immediately, thanking god that she didn't have to say anything about it.

She was good at avoiding topics, just like she did earlier with Hotch. But once she walked in and saw Samantha Sanchez's body she wished she didn't offer to look at the dead body of a 10 year old when she has a 10 year old daughter. Emily gulped as she listened to what the coroner was saying.

"I did, however find a finger print on her body, I sent it up to the lab for processing."

"Can you send the picture to our technical analyst?" Derek asked, the coroner nodded and talked to Derek while sending it to her. "Thanks." Derek said as he walked over to Emily. "You ready?" he asked, Emily nodded and walked out the door, she handed him the car keys. "What?"

"I know how much you like to be in control." Emily said as she got in the passengers seat.

"See, now that was just uncalled for." Derek said as he got into his seat.

"So is asking about my personal life. It's personal for a reason." Emily told him, Derek sighed.

"Fine, I get it. Alright." Derek said. "I'm sorry," Emily nodded.

"I know you are." she said as she smirked and looked out the window.

x x x

"What do you got for me baby girl?" Derek asked as he put the phone to his ear. Emily rolled her eyes and walked into the police station. "Prentiss!" he snapped when Emily let go of the door instead of hold it open for him. Emily smiled.

"Oops." she said with a smirk as she walked into the conference room where Hotch was.

"How did it go?"

"There was a fingerprint on Samantha's neck, we sent it to Garcia and she's cross referencing it with white men that may have been in jail or juvy in the last 15 years." Emily answered, Hotch nodded.

"Garcia just said she found a match," Derek said as he walked in, putting the phone on speaker phone.

"There is a Peter Simon who was in prison for robbery 10 years ago, he got out last year, he had a probation officer starting at age 14 after being sent to juvy."

"Where did he go to-" Hotch began.

"School?" Penelope asked. "Well here's a shocker. In 1990 he went to Franklin Elementary in Rumford, Maine. In 1991 Scraton Elementary in Scraton, Pennsylvania. And oh you guessed it. Curtis Bay Elementary in Baltimore, in 1992."

"Someone had bad school memories." Emily mumbled.

"Did he go to anymore elementary schools after that?" Hotch asked.

"Yes, Fairfax Villa Elementary in Fairfax, Virginia." Penelope said as she looked. "He was home schooled after that because he was bullied and punched a 10 year old girl."

"Fairfax is an hour and a half away from here, if he was on his way when he dumped the body, he'd already be there." Derek said.

"Garcia, I need you to get a SWAT team to the Elementary school. Lock it down. No one goes in or out. If he's there he'll panic and start shooting. We'll be there as soon as we can." Hotch said as he pulled out his phone to call Dave,it takes 20 minutes to fly from Baltimore to Fairfax. "They're going to come back here and wrap everything up, they're going to meet us in Fairfax in about an hour." Hotch said as he shut the phone. "Let's go." Derek walked out and Emily walked over quickly.

"Hotch," she said quickly, Hotch turned and looked at her. "Avery goes to Fairfax Villa."