Friends and Lovers
Chapter 55
Penelope and Derek arrived at FBI building and got out of the car Derek grabbed their go bags from the back seat and made their way to the elevator as soon as the elevator doors opened they got in and pressed the button to the BAU floor when the elevator reached the seventh floor it came to a stop the doors opened and Derek and Penelope exited the elevator and headed for the round table room.
When they entered the round room they saw that JJ had begun to present the case JJ smiled at the couple as they walked into the room and took their seats as continued saying that the women who had been found were all women who worked the streets and they had been beaten to death, there were 8 women they had been so severely beaten that they were almost unrecognizable, Penelope knew that it would be her job to try and find out who they were so that their families could be notified.
Once the briefing was over Penelope made her way to her lair where was packing up her equipment to take with them she was just packing her last laptop into the travel case when Derek entered her office quickly making his way over to her he wrapped his arm around her which made her jump a little, she stood up and turned in his arm and slapped his chest as she said "Handsome don't scare me like that" he bent down and kissed her nose and said "sorry Baby I thought you heard me come in" she smiled and said "it's ok Handsome" Derek said "are you just about done packing all you equipment" Penelope nodded her head and bent down and picked up the handles of the travel cases and headed for the door with Derek right on her heels.
When everyone was ready they headed down to the parking garage and loaded the SUV's with everything before getting into the SUV's and headed for the airport, the jet was loaded with all their belongings and everyone boarded jet and found a place to sit everyone sat with their significant other except for Rossi, Penelope and Derek sat in the seats at the table with Emily and Hotch across from them as Penelope set up one of her laptops so that she could begin to find out who these women were, Derek wraps his arm around Penelope he leans in whispers something reassuring to her and it doesn't take long before she gets the clue.
Penelope's fingers were flying over the keyboard as she searched the areas of where the bodies were found, there were camera's at the front of the zoo and she was able to see a car pull up and what looked like two teenagers that dumped the body Penelope couldn't quite make out whether the teenagers were male or female as they were hidden by large hooded jackets she tried to see if she could zoom in on the licence plate but it was no good, so she continued searching the places that the women had been dumped to see if there was any camera's in the area to see if there was any sight of either the car or the unsubs, Derek was watching as Penelope worked her magic she found nothing from the park but still Penelope continued until she got to the hospital footage and this time she was able to get a better look at the unsubs and they were teenage boys even though they had hoods on their heads and partially over their faces there was enough light coming from where they dumped the body for her to be able to recognize that they were boys.
Derek said "have you found anything Baby Girl" Penelope nodded and said "yeah I have managed to get some camera footage from the zoo and the hospital, I can tell you that we are looking for two teenage boys aged somewhere between 16-18 years" Hotch said "ok were you able to get a photo of the two boys" Penelope again nodded and said "yes sir I managed to get a clear enough photo of one of the boys and I am going to run his photo through my facial recognition program to see what I come up with" she then put the transferred the photo to the facial recognition program and it didn't take long for a result.
Penelope's laptop dinged as the facial recognition results were completed there was a sealed file that appeared on her screen and she quickly got to work on unsealing the file, once the file was unsealed she saw that the boy in the photo his name is Brayden Withers and he is just 15 years old and had already being significant trouble with the law and it that he and his brother 17 year old Jacob Withers were now wards of the state due to their mother who was a street worker having been killed by one of her clients and their father was unknown.
The jet pilot's voice came over the intercom saying "we will be landing in about 10 minutes so please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts" everyone took their seats and fastened their seatbelts and Penelope said "sir the photo that I was able to get of one of the boys I have his name and his brother's name by sir it may be hard to track them down as they became wards of the state 2 years ago but they haven't been back to their foster home and they are now missing persons" Hotch looked at Penelope and said "what are these boys names and how old are they" Penelope sighed and said "Brayden Withers is 15 years old and his brother Jacob Withers is 17 years old."
Finally the jet landed and everyone got off the jet and made their way to the black SUV's that were waiting for them, once everything was loaded the three SUV's each went in a different direction Derek, Penelope and Hotch headed for the station while Rossi and Emily headed for the ME's office and Reid and JJ were going to the last dump site.
