this chapter didn't really turn out how I wanted but I ran out of time. I wanted this chapter to be the big one but the big twist in the story will have to come on the next chapter instead, I have tried to make it a bit obvious what is going to happen but sorry if it is too obvious. The next chapter probably won't be on until next week sometime because I have a big French assessment on Friday (booooooooo) and I need to concentrate on learning that! But please bare with me I will update it eventually.
5:30 AM
My phone rang, it was Hotch. What did he want at this time? "Hello" I said half asleep, I knew what was coming.
"I'm sorry JJ, we have a case and it's urgent."
"But I haven't seen anything"
"I know this one is urgent, I will fill you in on the plane"
"Okay, I will be there in 20 minutes"
Will stirred hearing me on the phone, he looked at the clock.
"JJ it's 5:30 in the morning you can't have a case now" he asked annoyed that I had woken him.
"This one is urgent apparently" I said as I got up out of bed throwing some clothes on. Will got up with me.
"Go back to bed Will"
"It's okay Jen, I will make some coffee whilst you get dressed." Even though I had woken him up at 5:30 he still did his best for me. After I got dressed I went downstairs. "Thank you"
"It's okay Jen" he said handing me the coffee, he had even put it in a travel mug so I could drink it in the car. "Be safe" he added placing a kiss on my forehead.
As I walked in to the BAU building I saw Emily, "hey em nice to see you at this hour!" I joked.
"I know I just love going to work before the sun rises"
"Do you even know why we are here?" I asked hoping she did.
"No idea, it better be desperate" she joked.
As we walked into the BAU room we could tell Hotch wanted to get going as quick as possible.
"We will discuss this on the plane, we really need to get going" he said agitatedly as he hurried us into the plane.
On the plane.
Hotch handed out the case files. "Over the last eleven weeks there have been 3 home invasions resulting in the parents being killed during the invasion all around Pennsylvania. All the families targeted had one child, this child would be taken and is then dumped three days afterwards, the autopsy shows that the child was kept alive for 2 of those days. Last night a 4th family was attacked and they called us in to help locate the child before it is too late."
"Do we know much about victimology" Derek asked.
"All parents were in their late 30's and the children were female aged between 8 and 11. But apart from that there is not apparent connection between the families."
We all considered this for a while, this unsub wasn't leaving us many clues.
After consulting with the local detectives I rang Will to fill him in on the case.
"Hey Jen" he answered sounding half asleep.
"Hey sorry did I wake you?"
"No, I'm fine" he was more awake now.
"Any way, we're in Pennsylvania trying to locate a missing child. Who's parents were murdered last night"
"Are you okay?" He knew child cases got to me.
"Yeah, I've got a press conference later so hopefully it will drive him out."
"Okay, stay safe Jen, I love you"
"I love you too" I said hanging up the phone.
After giving the press conference we had no luck, nobody had seem or heard anything unusual yesterday night. We had no leads. The sun set that night and with that so did our opes of finding the child alive, as he hours past it was one less our we had to find her. The next day we got to the office at 6 am, it was the second day she was missing, meaning if the unsub stuck to their M.O. We might have only hours left to save her.
No luck, we still had no leads, the families had no connections, there was no DNA left at the crime scene. Nothing, we could barely give a preliminary profile. We went to our hotel that night without finding the girl. I couldn't sleep, I laid in my bed cold and alone. I needed to call Will, to hear his voice would be like music to my ears. As I picked up my phone there was an incoming call from Will, I swear that man is psycic.
"Hey Will I was just about to call you"
"I thought you would need to talk."
"Yeah, it's a rough one"
"Have you not found her?"
"Nope, we have absolutely nothing on the Unsub. Will, he had 2 days to find her before her body gets dumped on the 3rd day, and it's 10pm on the 2nd day and we haven't found her."
"Cher, you can't save everyone"
"I know,I know. But..."
"But what?"
"Nothing it doesn't matter"
"Okay, I love you Jen"
"I love you too Will"
The call came in about 9 am, they had found the girl. Our efforts had been in vain. We had a debrief with the local police department, we decided our work there was done, we offered to stay in case the unsub struck again but they assured us they could handle it themselves. So, reluctantly we bordered the plane. For some reason the case just kept replaying in my mind, Emily picked up on my emotion.
"Jj are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I was just thinking"
"We did our best, the local PD doesn't want our help anymore." She thought the fact we didn't catch him was the matter, which it partly was.
"But how easily could that have been Adriana"
"I know JJ, but it wasn't"
"It could have been, Brad is in his late thirties and Adriana is 10 ... And they haven't even caught him yet."
"Jen, they will be fine there are thousands of families fitting that description in Pennsylvania, stop worrying! " She was right... I hoped...
Back in DC.
As I placed my bag in the hallway and I looked into the living room to find Will asleep on the sofa with a the TV still on. I walked over to turn the TV off and as I did he woke up and sat up. "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked, it always amazed me how he knew when I was upset even if I tried to hide it. " in the morning, but now I think we both need some sleep"
"okay Hun." He said as he out his arms round me, I was so tired it felt like I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
the next morning
It had been a long week, the case had taken a lot out of me and Will knew that. He decided try and cheer me up, he woke me up on Friday morning, later than he usually does. We didn't have a case so and we had worked so hard in Pennsylvania that Hotch had give us a long weekend.
"Morning sleepy head" he said sitting on the bed next to me.
"Urghh" I groaned as I rolled over to look at him, even though it was 10:30 I was still tired.
"I'm happy to see you too." He joked pretending to be offended.
"Sorry" I kissed him good morning to make it up to him.
"Fancy getting away for the weekend" this plan was like music to my ears.
"I would love to, but where?"
"I have somewhere planned, it's writhing driving distance."
"Trust my amazing boyfriend to always have a surprise up his sleeve for me"
"I do try" he said helping me up out of bed. And with that we started to pack for our weekend away.
