As Reid finished telling the team about his encounter with the Unsub. They all looked at him incredulously.

'So. Our Unsub is going after the sniper? How the hell did he get the laptop from Deadshot?' queried Rossi.

'Not by asking judging by the amount of bullet holes in the casing' replied Lance.

'It's already been hacked!' exclaimed Garcia suddenly. When everyone looked in her direction she explained.

'This laptop was protected by an asymmetric key algorithm. Only people with the right paired private key should be able to decrypt the information on it but when I booted it up all the files were already decrypted.'

'Is there any way to track how or where it was hacked?' asked Morgan.

'No, but…..' replied Garcia. 'The coding used in the hack looks familiar for some reason. I can't place it though.'

'Ok. Garcia, keep looking into the coding. Maybe we'll learn something about our Unsub' ordered Hotch. 'The rest of us need to put a tactical plan together. We don't know if there is a specific target but the Unsub is convinced. Which means there will be at least one armed killer on site.'

The following evening a plan was in place for the FBI team to attend the auction. Lance and his team were providing sniper support. Sharp-shooters were stationed around the perimeter of the building.

As soon as Warren Patel was spotted he was quietly escorted from the premises and arrested. The information on the laptop clearly showed that he was the one who had hired the sniper.

The team were spaced out among the crowd – JJ was with Rossi, Hotch was with Reid and Morgan was with Detective Lance. Lance checked in with each of the units he had posted on the perimeter and they called the all clear.

'Doesn't look likely that anything going to happen. Surely this sniper guy would have to be on site to check things out before making his move' Lance said to Morgan.

Just then Lance spotted Oliver with Diggle a few paces behind him.

'Well, don't you scrub up nice?' Lance said sarcastically

'Just here to support my family. My step-father, Walter, is bidding in the auction. Excuse me. I need to talk to my mother' Oliver said before walking away towards his mother and sister.

'Who is the young girl with Mrs. Queen?' asked Morgan.

'That's Thea Queen. Oliver's little sister' replied Lance before looking around the room again.

Suddenly Morgan spotted a flicker of red light out of the corner of his eye and looked over in Walter's direction. There was a red laser dot hovering over the centre of his chest. It took Morgan only a second to realise what was happening and then he ran, tackling Walter to the floor just as he heard the sound of shattered glass. He shouted out for people to take cover while trying to locate his fellow team members in the growing chaos.

Morgan could see across the room where Diggle and Oliver were ushering his mom and sister out of the room and away from danger.

'Guess that rules them both out as suspects' he thought to himself.

A few minutes later the shooting stopped abruptly. After making sure that Walter was unharmed, he turned him over to the care of one of the police officers milling around.

'Morgan, Lance? You guys ok?' asked Hotch as he ran over.

Just as they were about to reply they heard more gunfire. However, no shots seemed to be coming into the building.

Trying to gauge where the shots were coming from Reid was the first to figure it out - 'The shots are coming from the parking structure across the road.'

'I thought there was a team stationed there' Rossi directed at Lance.

'There was. They called in the all clear before the shooting started' Lance replied worriedly.

As a group they made their way to the adjoining building with their sidearms drawn. Just as they reached the building the gunfire stopped abruptly.

They carefully cleared each floor until they made it to the top level where Lance's men had been stationed.

The 2 officers were lying behind a pillar to the right of the entrance. Rossi and Morgan quickly went over and checked their vitals. Both were alive and appeared to have been simply knocked unconscious.

There were a lot bullets lying on the floor and in the walls. Along with the bullets there were several arrows. And in the centre of the room there was a small amount of blood but no bodies.

'Looks like the Unsub found the sniper' concluded JJ humourlessly.

'Then where is the body?' asked Rossi in confusion.