My favourite part of this chapter is the phone call Sonic(Gideon originally) has with the Unsub. It's quite the comic relief in the dark world of CM. Enjoy!
Sonic and Tails went with Evan and Cheryl Davenport into their sitting room.
"We can't let Cheryl speak with him any further," Sonic said to the family.
"Why not?" The girl asked.
"It's only feeding his psychosis to allow your interaction," Tails informed them. "Was Trish involved in any serious relationships prior to the kidnapping?"
"With the boy that was killed," Evan told them. "They were together for 2 years."
"Trish didn't want me to tell you," Cheryl said to her father, not wanting to betray her sister's trust but she had to. "They were getting engaged."
"Well, that certainly could have been the unsub's stressor," Sonic said out loud.
"What does that mean?" Evan asked the agents. "Will someone please tell me what we're dealing with here?"
"De Clerambault's syndrome," Tails said to the father. "Otherwise known as erotomania: the belief that someone, usually of a higher social status but not necessarily a celebrity, is in love with you. Erotomanics believe that the objects of their affection are subtly professing their love for them through looks, gestures-"
"Glances," Sonic finished off for Tails. "He said, 'you asked me with your glances.'" Tails continued with his knowledge.
"The Unsub truly and full-heartedly believes that Cheryl and Trish are in love with him. They don't tell him this with their voices. No, with gestures and looks. He's obsessed with them."
"What does this mean?" Evan asked them.
"He is the most determined kind of criminal," Sonic told them.
Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles and Fiona were in the kitchen talking about obsessional crime, all while Sonic was cutting an orange.
"Crime of obsession," Shadow said to the echidna. "Your specialty, your lead, Knuckles."
"I think we should recheck everyone on Davenport's staff against the profile of a stalker," Knuckles said to the team.
"Aren't stalking behaviors pretty diverse?" Fiona asked.
"There's overlap. Narcissistic, inflated sense of self-worth, history of bad relationships."
"What do we know so far?" Shadow asked.
"He's probably white, obviously male sophisticated speech patterns."
"Sophisticated, yet bizarre," Sonic popped in the conversation as he continued to cut the orange. "He rarely uses contractions. It's not 'you're,' it's 'you are.'
"This guy's pretentious. He wants to sound smarter than he actually is. Whatever position of authority or level of success this guy has he had to struggle for it."
"We also have to face the possibility at this point-" Shadow started off.
"That Trish may already be dead," Fiona finished off. Sonic finished cutting the orange and gave everyone a piece each.
"You know, so far he's called every play," Knuckles said. "I say we apply some pressure, make him sweat."
"Well, there's only one way to do that," Sonic said, he had a brilliant idea on how to shake the Unsub.
Everyone, the team and the Davenports, was gathered in the living room. The phone started to ring, but instead of answering it right away like before, Sonic let it ring a little while. Evan is ready to answer the call when Sonic says, "Hold on, hold on, hold on."
The phone rings two more times and then Sonic presses the button to answer it only to hang it up right away.
"What are you doing?" Evan asked the blue hedgehog, the phone starts ringing again. "Agent Rossi."
This time Sonic answered the call but didn't hang up.
"Hello?" He says like he's oblivion to the whole situation.
"Tell me there was a technical issue with the line because if you actually just hung up on m-" the Unsub started to say but Sonic hung up on him again.
"What the hell are you doing?" Evan asked again, now he was confused and scared. The phone started ringing again and Sonic nodded his head, the Unsub was playing right in his hands.
"Are you gonna answer it?" Cheryl asked him.
"Why is he doing this? What is he-" Evan was trying to get to the phone but Knuckles held him back. "What- you're gonna drive this guy crazy."
"Just- quiet," Sonic said softly. "Please, quiet."
Cheryl was crying now because the phone wasn't getting answered and she was ready to answer it. Fiona managed to hold her back saying to her, "Cheryl, he knows what he's doing."
"Somebody has to answer it!" Cheryl was freaking out, trying to get to the phone.
"Just answer the phone, for God's sake! Pick up the phone-" Evan reached out to press the button to answer.
"Don't touch it!" Sonic said to him, using his own hands to cover the button.
"He knows what he's doing," Knuckles said to Evan, trying to comfort him.
Sonic answered the phone, again pretending to be oblivion to the situation.
"Davenport residence," he said calmly.
"Are you out of your mind? You do realize, you do understand, that I'll kill her?! Do you-" the Unsub was interrupted again by Sonic's rude hanging ups. Seconds barely went by when the phone started ringing again; Sonic laughed softly knowing he had control of the conversation now.
"You're killing my daughter!" Evan yelled. "Pick up that phone!"
"Get him quiet," Sonic told the agents holding the sobbing family members. "Get him quiet."
"I-"
"Mr. Davenport, get a hold of yourself."
"Answer the phone!"
"Quiet him!" Evan and Cheryl Davenport were now sobbing, ready to collapse on the floor if it wasn't for Knuckles and Fiona holding them up. Sonic answered the ringing phone.
"She is dead!" The Unsub yelled angry, Cheryl cried out in terror. "You hang up on me again, and I rip her open!"
"I'm sorry. You must have the wrong number."
Sonic hung up the phone again.
"Come on, Sonic," Knuckles said, thinking that was enough of the agony.
"You killed her," Evan sobbed.
"No, sir," Sonic simply replied.
"Oh, yeah. Then what-what the hell do you think you're doing?"
"I'm saving your daughter, Mr. Davenport," the phone started to ring once more. "Have a little faith."
Sonic answered the phone once more as well.
"Put Cheryl on the phone," the Unsub demanded.
"No," Sonic said to the Unsub in a slow manner. "You're finished talking to Cheryl."
"Listen to that tone of authority. Just like your published work, Agent Rossi. Fascinating to hear the same arrogant quality in your own voice. You are a bit of a pedant, Sonic, a bit didactic?"
"Well, that's a very interesting conclusion. You sound intelligent, and you certainly sound educated, and we both know that's not true."
"Oh, I know all about all of you. The ambitious Agent Hotchner? Do you wanna be director of the FBI someday, Agent Hotchner? Would you step on Sonic Rossi to get there? I think you would. Even your sick, pregnant wife can't get you to leave your post. Sonic Rossi, an expert in the criminal psyche yet unable to diagnose the autistic leanings of the very insecure Dr. Reid. Well, maybe he can make money counting cards in Las Vegas. The lovely Fiona was promoted too soon. She doesn't have what it takes to make it in the B.A.U. boys club. You're no threat to me, you're no threat to anyone. And Token Knuckles Morgan wants to be taken seriously but he is just a pumped-up side of beef (this made Knuckles chuckle). I know who you are, I know how you think and I know what to do next! Do you?"
The Unsub slammed his phone on the hook, leaving everyone at the Davenport residence listening to a dial tone.
"What the hell was that?" Evan asked in tears. "Why did he say that he knows what to do next? Is he gonna hurt my daughter?"
"He was grandstanding," Sonic informed him.
"You don't know that. You-you can't possibly know that."
"Mr. Davenport, I have learned more in the last 5 minutes than in the last 24 hours."
"Oh, really? Well, I don't understand. "Why is he focused on you right now?"
"Because we are interfering in his relationship with the girls," Knuckles answered.
"He said he knows all about you."
"Yes, apparently," Shadow added.
"He profiled us, Mr. Davenport," Knuckles informed him.
"Why would he do that?" Evan asked.
"To show us how smart he is," Fiona replied.
"Often times the best profilers are the Unsub's themselves," Tails informed the grieving father. "They're the ones able to walk into an arcade full of children and pinpoint the boy or girl that can be led out quietly."
"But he made a mistake, because he gave us something he didn't expect."
"Which is?" Evan asked.
"He told us how to find him," Sonic smiled.
I personally giggled when the Unsub called Morgan a "pumped up side of beef" cause he is one good looking one to boot! And I personally like Reid and his autistic leanings. So (stick out tongue to Unsub) to you! I also put a new picture up for the story. It may not be Photoshop, I did it on my tab, but I think I did good with what I had. It's Shadow as Agent H.