Chapter 5 – The Big Game
"Hey Morgan! Be careful! The one in the back could take your wallet" Lilith called out laughing as she carried a tray full of drinks over to Hotch and Haley.
"It's all right, I'll be a broke, happy man" Morgan called back as he danced with 4 women dancing around him.
"Cheers!" Hotch said holding up his drink
"Cheers!" Haley and Lilith replied
"How are they treating you at the B.A.U, Lilith?" Haley asked
"She means, am I being nice to you?" Hotch joked
"Actually, everyone has been incredibly nice" Lilith replied seriously
"Look at him move" Garcia said from the table next to them, staring at Morgan dance.
"It's like a cat" Garcia added
"More like a dog!" Lilith joked
"He did not ask them to dance. They asked him." Garcia defended
"Ok. Ok, he's a cat. An alley cat." Lilith replied laughing
"Come on, Haley, let's go show them how it's done" Hotch said
"Game if you are!" Haley replied as they walked into the dance floor.
"That is so sweet" Lilith said
"I'm going to the loo. Do not let anyone steal my seat" Garcia said firmly to Lilith
"I'll guard it with my life" Lilith replied jokingly.
She looked over to find JJ kicking some guys asses at darts.
"Another perfect toss!" JJ said laughing
"How did you get so good at this?" One of them asked
"Where I grew up, darts was like a national sport" JJ explained
"Seriously?" He asked
"Yeah, we were too small for a bowling alley" JJ replied before her phone went off.
"Sorry, boys, you're gonna have to find someone else to humiliate you" JJ said after looking at her phone.
Lilith then moved her gaze over to her best friend.
"Ask me anything, any question" Reid said to Agent Anderson
"Return to tomorrow" Anderson asked simply as Garcia returned to her seat so Lilith moved through the crowd and stood next to Reid, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Return to tomorrow, season 2, production number 51, an alien entity, Sargon, takes over Kirk's body while 2 others kick over Spock and Dr. Mulhall" Reid explained
"Alien race or Terran?" Anderson asked
"Trick question. A race is never identified. Sargon is a disembodied mind" Reid explained as Lilith smirked.
"What did Dr. McCoy quote?" Anderson asked and Reid looked confused. He had at look on his face when he searched through the palace that was his mind.
"5... 4... 3... 2..." Anderson counted down
"'I will not peddle flesh. I'm a physician' Drink!" Reid said excitedly as he turned to Lilith and pulled her down onto his lap, laughing.
"How much as he had to drink?" Lilith asked Anderson laughing.
"Not as much as I have" Anderson replied before standing up and leaving.
"Having fun?" Lilith asked and Reid hugged his best friend tightly.
"I love you, you know that right?" Reid whispered and Lilith hugged him back tightly and nodded.
"Sorry to interrupt, guys, we got a case" JJ said to them as they looked up to see JJ, Hotch, Haley, Garcia and Morgan looking at them with an amused look.
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"You know, it never fails. Just as I'm getting my groove thing going, bam. We're back at the B.A.U" Morgan complained as they walked into the conference room, drinking coffee.
"You know, statistically a case doesn't come in with any more frequency if you're at a party or a gathering and if you aren't. It's a trick of the mind. We merely remember the ones that came in that way more" Reid explained
"So is it really that hard for you to get your groove "thang" going again?" Lilith asked jokingly
"Only when he's sleeping" Gideon said walking into the room.
"Where were you tonight?" Hotch asked
"I told you, I went to the Smithsonian" Gideon replied
"You missed a good time" Lilith said
"I had a good time" Gideon replied smoothly
"Well, that's definitely over. Georgia. The Kyles, Dennis and Lacy were murdered an hour ago in their suburban Atlanta home" JJ explained walking into the room.
"An hour ago?" Hotch asked surprised
"Police were on scene unusually fast" JJ explained
"Why?" Gideon asked
"One of the unsubs called them and told them that the other was about to murder the victims" JJ explained
"You're kidding" Morgan said
"From inside the house. According to the dispatcher, the first male sounded terrified and begged them to get there before the other, who they both identified as Raphael, was about to kill the sinners that lived there" JJ explained
"Sinners?" Hotch asked
"The 9-1-1 center is going to send Garcia a copy of the tape" JJ said
"How fast was the police response time?" Reid asked
"4 minutes,26 seconds. During which time... Raphael managed to do this" JJ explained pulling up a photo of the bodies.
"In 4 1/2 minutes?" Lilith asked shocked
"Mr. Kyle is a dot com millionaire. His company is one of the largest employers in the community. There's gonna be media coverage. Also, when they arrived, the police found this displayed prominently on the bed" JJ explained as she showed a photo of the bible with a highlighted passage.
"Revelations chapter 6, verse 8" Hotch said
"They're killing sinners" Morgan explained
"These guys are on a mission. And mission-based killers will not stop killing" Reid explained
"And I looked in behold a pale horse, and his name that sat upon m was death" Hotch quoted
"And hell followed with him" Gideon finished
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"This is a bad one, isn't it?" Lilith asked as they sat on the plane to Georgia.
"Unsubs with a cause are never good" Morgan explained
"Pets, I just got the 9-1-1 call from the Georgia state police" Garcia explained as she played it through the computer. "
9-1-1, what's your emergency?" A lady asked
"I'm at 1527 chestnut drive" A scared male said
"I know where you're calling from calling from. What's the emergency?" The lady asked again
"He thinks they're too greedy. They have too much" The male said
"Too much what?" The lady asked
"Stuff, you know, possessions. Things they don't need. Hurry!" The male said
"You're calling because these people have too much stuff?" The lady asked
"No, I'm calling because Raphael…" The male said before another male cut in.
"That's enough. I know why he's calling, because Raphael is going to kill the sinners that live here" The second male said
"I'm sorry, did you say someone is killing somebody?" The lady asked confused
"Well, unsub one definitely sounds frightened. Maybe he's doing this against his will" Lilith suggested
"I doubt it. He whispered" Gideon said
"He could have called out to save them instead of calling 9-1-1" Hotch explained
'Not if he had a gun to his head" Morgan explained
"If he had a gun to his head, why would he have dialled 9-1-1?" Gideon asked
"The second unsub said Raphael was going to kill someone. Is there a third?" JJ asked
"Referring to oneself in the third person is not uncommon for an unsub. Ted Bundy gave thoroughly detailed accounts of his murders, but he never actually admitted to doing it. He would just say, 'The killer'" Reid explained
"Ok, so I'm gonna go ahead and the name Raphael through the Georgia criminal databases as well as our own" Garcia explained
"Thanks, Garcia" Hotch said
"Ever so welcome, my liege" Garcia said before hanging up.
"We have a killing team on a mission in rural Georgia. We know what that means" Hotch said
"They're not gonna stop until the mission's complete" Morgan said simply
"We need to hit the ground running. J.J., We need an inside picture of the victims. Victimology can be critically important in a mission-based spree" Hotch said
"Already on it" JJ said firmly
"Fallon, go where the bodies are. Examine the wounds. They managed to kill 2 victims in 4 1/2 minutes" Hotch said
"You got it" Lilith said
"We need to know how" Hotch added
"I'm gonna set up at the Atlanta field office and go over case files from the state. It would be highly unusual for a first kill to be this efficient" Hotch explained
"Reid, you and Morgan, come with me to the crime scene" Gideon said
"We land in less than an hour. Everybody try to get some rest" Hotch said
Lilith and Reid went and sat on the three-seater lounge. Lilith curled up in a ball and rested her head on Reid's lap as she slept. Reid was able to sleep by resting his head back on the lounge and stretching his feet out.
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