"Take my jacket, it's cold outside."
Emily loved the Upper Peninsula of Michigan precisely four months out of the year, which was when it wasn't snowing. They were cutting it close with this case. It was beautiful out, the air was crisp, the leaves had changed colours and were beginning to drop off of the trees. It was warm apple cider and pumpkin picking weather, not hunt down serial killer who drowns his victims in Lake Superior weather. And yet, here they were, all crowded around the phone speaker in the room at the local PD they'd set up in to listen to Garcia give them the latest update.
Emily pinched the bridge of her nose to stave off a headache. She felt like they were going around in circles and judging from the somber faces around the conference table, the rest of the team thought so too.
"Run those IDs for any background information you can find; focus on domestic violence and child abuse flags." Hotch was saying, staring at the pinup board where the faces of the victims stared back.
"Righty-o!" Garcia's chipper voice sounded fuzzy and tinny over the little speaker, but it brought a smile to all their faces. "I'll get back to you in two shakes, Garcia out!" the line went dead as Penelope disconnected and JJ pressed a button on the phone so they wouldn't have to hear the dial tone anymore.
Hotch looked at his watch, his jaw clenching and unclenching almost imperceptibly. "We can't really do anything until we hear back from Garcia." He said.
"But she should be back with info pretty quickly." Rossi pointed out.
Hotch nodded and glanced at his watch again. "Alright, get some air, stretch, meet back here in twenty."
Everyone nodded and started to get up from the table. "I'm going to get some real coffee." JJ announced, pressing two fingers to her forehead. She touched Emily on the shoulder, pulling the brunette out of whatever she had been thinking about while staring at the map on the table. "You want to come?"
Emily shook her head. "I'm going to stay here with Reid and go over the geographical profile of the abduction sites again. I feel like we're missing something…" she trailed off as she went back to studying the map.
"I'll go with you, JJ." Morgan said, rolling his head to release some of the tension out of his neck.
JJ nodded and addressed Emily; "I'll bring you back a coffee then." She dropped her hand away from Emily's shoulder when she nodded distractedly. "Spence? Coffee?"
"Yes, please." Reid replied, not looking away from what he was doing.
"Take my jacket, it's cold outside." Emily suggested, glancing out of the window. The sun had started to go down already and the temperature was dropping.
JJ nodded, shrugging on Emily's pea coat and shoving her hands into the silken pockets before she followed Morgan out into the blustery evening.