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The Tribe

Aunt Gina called me this morning. My cousin Kelly is pregnant. She went on and on about how Kelly, and her husband Simon need to redecorate the spare room in their house for a nursery. Aunt Gina doesn't think that Kelly can take care of things on her own, even though she's not due for another seven and a half months. The way that Aunt Gina was carrying on, you would think that Kelly was about to pop at any day.

Then she goes on and on about me and how I don't have a husband or kids. She thinks I'm wasting away here in the FBI. I don't know what to say to her to make her understand that I'm not ready for children yet. I don't know if I'm every going to be ready for kids. I get along with older kids pretty well, but I don't do well with little tiny babies. See… here I am thinking about it, which is what my aunt wants.

She gave me the third degree about Henry. I'm starting to wish that I hadn't told her about him. She wants to know how serious things are with us, and am I going to bring him home to meet the family. Honestly, she's worse than Morgan. At least she hasn't seen him and isn't accusing me of dating a substitute for Spence. I'm not dating him because he looks like Spence. Why would I do that? I don't play games! If I wanted to go out with Spence, I'd just ask him. He wouldn't say no, would he? He was the one that said we should be friends. Damn it… I'm not going to think about it!

Anyway, Henry called this morning and we're going out to dinner tonight. He says that he wants to make up for the other night when our skating date was interrupted. I'm glad, it's been almost a week since either of us have had time to see each other. See… I want to see Henry, not some Spence substitute.

I'm tired tonight… We just got back from a case in New Mexico. It started out with five college students getting massacred in this empty house. They had broken in for a night of romance and got killed by what the bosses call a pack.

It was Spence that pointed out the similarities of the murder to Native American rituals. We were in Apache country and since the victims were skinned alive, the first thing the team thought was Indians.

We found an expert on Native American culture at the reservation. His name is John Blackwolf. He's an activist, a teacher and a reservation cop. I didn't see it, but Spence told me that he and Hotch really clashed at the beginning. Spence said that Hotch didn't like it that Blackwolf could tell from Hotch's footprints that he carried two guns. Hotch didn't seem to think there was any perceptible difference in the depths of his prints. I think he was still mad at his brother.

I almost forgot that Hotch's brother Sean came to Quantico. He doesn't look anything like Hotch… In fact he was pretty hot. It's not that Hotch isn't attractive, but it's just that… Okay… I'm not going to go there. This is my boss we're talking about. Anyway… they had a loud fight and when Sean left he yelled up at Hotch not to profile him. He had the same look on his face that Hotch gets when he's really mad. Then I could see the resemblance between them.

So where was I? Oh yeah… I was talking about the case. The first suspect that we had was a man that headed up a group that wanted to develop Apache land that the government had seized. The guys talked to him, but it turned out that he's just greedy.

The pack attacked again that night and killed this man and his family along with a police officer that was supposed to be watching him. We wanted to know for sure that his group hadn't planned anything.

We talked to the father of the kidnapped girl. He didn't want to, but I convinced him to talk on the television and ask the kidnappers for her release. It's always hard for the parents to get up and ask for their children to be returned. I've seen them react to a missing child in many ways. This guy seemed way too calm for me. There was just something wrong. I think Hotch thought so too.

After we did the press conference we got a call from the kidnappers. It turned out that the girl was kidnapped on purpose. The father wanted to get her away from a cult she was in. John Blackwolf talked to her and Elle said he really told her off for pretending to be an Apache. She was spouting off all this stuff that someone called the Grandfather taught her. Blackwolf wasn't happy with her at all. At least they got a location on the rest of the cult.

When the team got out to this abandoned motel, only the leader was there. Hotch let Blackwolf talk to him and he got the leader to show his true colors. He never cared about the Indians and their problems. He was just your garden variety racist. Spence said he was like Charles Manson, who wanted to start a race war. When this guy didn't get the response he wanted form the murders, he sent his cult against the kids at the reservation.

Hotch and John Blackwolf saved the kids and the teacher. Reid said it was almost funny to see those kids all trussed up like cattle in a rodeo. I like John Blackwolf. I've never seen anyone talk to Hotch that way and it was funny. I'd never laugh out loud of course… It was just fun to see him with that look on his face twice in two days. Reid told me that Blackwolf called Hotch, Captain America. I wish I could have seen the look on his face after hearing that.

My hand is hurting from all this writing. I'm going to bed and I'm going right to sleep. I'm going to go out with Henry and not compare him to Spence. What's to compare anyway. I guess they're both tall, and they both had brown hair and hazel eyes. Henry is on the skinny side, but he's not like a long lost twin or anything.

Now, I'm going to close my eyes and not think about either of them. I wonder if Spence is having trouble sleeping tonight. Do you suppose he ever thinks about me? I 'm sure he doesn't, he probably goes to sleep thinking about calculus or the mating habits of penguins or something equally weird or boring. Why am I writing about this? I need sleep!