A/U Thanks To all you lovely people reading my story and giving me some advice! I've edited the first chapter to a tipper topper shape and I Hope you Enjoy this next chapter! I'll try to keep writing chapters as soon as possible I have some other great stories planned for you all so hopefully I can write this one pretty quick this Story won't be terribly long but be prepared for 6 or so upcoming chapters! Love you all! :)
-CM doesn't belong to me a well as any of the characters, I know so sad :"O-
Morgan looked down at his phone for what seemed like the hundredth time. It had been almost 3 hours and Reid hadn't replied to his text or shown up for work yet. Something wasn't right. Morgan looked over at JJ who was leaning on the side of Emily's desk.
JJ looked up from Prentiss and saw Morgan staring at her. They both gave a concerned face as Morgan glanced at Reid's desk.
JJ walked over to Morgan and folded her arms "No word on Reid?"
"Nothing." Morgan's voice became annoyed as he looked toward Reid's empty desk. "You think Hotch knows what's up? " Morgan looked up at JJ. She sighed and turned around to look at Hotch's office.
She could see him gathering up some files about to head to the door but not before looking back to Reid's desk. " I don't know, But better if Hotch knew then to have him just disappear on us" She looked back to Morgan and frowned before walking back to prentiss. Morgan then got up and started walking to Hotch who had just then opened the door.
Hotch gathered up the files sitting on his desk He'd just got the word from Saint George's police department in Utah that there had been a series of murders in their town and believed to be done by the same Unsub and based on the report he could see why. Hotch got up from his desk and headed for the door when he noticed the empty desk across from Morgan. Hotch walked out of the room and slowly made his way to the conferencing room Stopping when he met eye contact with Morgan who had been walking toward him.
"Hotch did Reid say anything about not coming into work today?" Morgan's voice as serious and sounded worried. Hotch looked over again to Reids desk then back to Morgan.
"No, I never got a call from him." Hotch sounded a little mad but Reid not calling and not showing up to work was not the best idea. Letting go of the small grudge Hotch looked up at JJ and prentiss who started to walk to the conference room followed by Rossie and Garcia. "No one's heard from him?" he said softly with more concern
"No." Morgan looked back at the team " You don't think something happened did you?"
"I'll find out." Hotch then handed Morgan the files, "Start the meeting I'm going to see what I can find out." Hotch then walked back into his office reaching for the phone. Morgan turned around and started walking to the conference room everyone looked from inside with worried looks.
Sitting down Morgan opened the case files and gestured to Garcia "Go ahead baby girl."
"alright, well In the town of Saint Georgia Utah its not the Beautiful landscapes catching people's attention today but the horrifying number of bodies" Garcia turned to the screen to reveal a set of 6 different bodies, 4 female 2 Male , all the bodies were placed face down with nothing but their undergarments on laying in alleys ways and a couple under of bridges. " Our first 3 ladies Sherri Hoffman, Elizabeth Angelo and Jenny Burke where prostitutes and their ID's were found nearby as well as the others. Sarah Mullins is a local college student and the two men where Local contraction workers by the names of William Settles and Henry Benitez."
JJ looked to Morgan and pointed to on of the photos in the file " all the bodies are faced down so that could be a sign of remorse."
Morgan nodded as he looked into the files writing "Says here that the Victim's were not violated in any way and showed no signs of struggle and that they died because from overdose of benzodiazepines, So it wasn't the torture Our unsub was looking for, and he's showing remorse to the victim's."
Rossi then spoke up looking to the board filled with images "So what was the Unsub trying to show us..." everyone looked around expecting Reid to give statistic's but was left without an answer.
Prentiss sighedand looked down at the photos trying to find something to break the tension of the room and squinted her eyes to the victim's backs. "Whats that on the back?" Looking up at her teammates. On the body a series of lines were placed on the backs of each victim the lines were about 2 inches long and were spaced in rows filling the whole back. Everyone looked down and gave a confused look as spoke up to respond to Emily "I'm so glad you asked," The images then changed to a close-up of the victim's back. " all Victims how these little lines on their back, now the strange thing is the lines are never in the same pattern its almost like some kind of -.."
"Morse code." Garcia turned around to face Rossie who cut her off.
"how do you know?" she asked
Rossie pointed to the lines of the back " Each line represent a beep and the spaces between the lines define the letter before it. "
"Can you figure it out?" Morgen asked. This whole code seemed like something Reid could figure out in a matter of seconds and him not being here made the problem a lot harder than it would have been.
"I can try but my morse is a little rusty and it'll take me some time to translate for each victim...This is more of Reid's house, not mine." Rossi looked to the empty seat across from him taking a pause before looking back to Morgan. " Do we know where he is yet?"
Morgan shook his head as he looked over to hotch who was still on the phone. "Hotch is figuring that out as we speak.
Prentiss gave a sympathetic look " I would not want to be Reid right about now if were him." She looked over to Hotch on the phone and hoped he wasn't too mad at him, this was a pretty reckless move and could cause a lot of lecturing with Hotch which she presumed was hopping on the phone.
Soon everyone got up and agreed to finish reviewing the case on the plane so that hotch and hopefully Reid could get caught up in the case before they land.
As the team got there to-go bags and headed to the door Rossi walked up the steps to hotch office and knocked lightly on the door before opening it. " we all decide to finish reviewing on the plane...Any news?" Rossi stared at Hotch as he set the phone down and shook his head.
"I called him but know one picked up. I left a message about the case and where we'll be, but I'm worried something happened." Hotch slowly picked up his to go bag and set it on the table. Reid was the youngest of the team at the age of 28, he's always been on time and even called him when he his train was delayed and that he was going to be 10min late. This was not like Reid and he wasn't sure rather be mad for Reid acting carelessly for not calling or worried that something else could have happened.
Rossi walked over to hotch " Lets give it some time and if he doesn't call back in the hour we'll have Garcia track him down for us." he said with a smile and a jokingly manner but in reality if Reid did not reply to Hotch's voice mail they would have to find the answer whether heading to his house or calling in Garcia's expertise.
They both walked out of the office and headed to the elevators like the rest of the team had when Hotch's phone suddenly went off. Both stopped and Rossi looked down as hotch pulled the phone from his pocket. It was a text.
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