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$15, a Lord & Taylor gift card (which I use on family since I don't shop there), an expired Sally's membership card, American Eagle card, Hot Topic gift card ( in there for at least a year), school ID, monthly train pass, Barnes and Nobel gift card, and a membership card to The Body Shop...

In other words, I own nothing that will help you.

(Read A/N at the end of story.)

There was a banging at the door and Reid jumped up to open it. Marena rushed in her face white. "I didn't have a number to contact you. Luci and I have new news on this. It's not good."

Gideon looked over Marena's shoulder. "Where is she?"

Marena leaned against the wall. "She's coming from the train right now. She said she had a problem. Her bag probably ripped open." She shook her head. "I don't know why she doesn't just drive. She has her license, and full range of a car."

"Because I don't feel like paying for gas, and I'm slightly lazy."

The agents and Marena turned around to see Luci standing in the doorway with split lip and a red spot beneath her eye.

"Luci! What-"

Luci held up her hand stopping Marena who had leaned over to check the damage. "Not the problem at the moment. It's nothing." She looked at the agents. "Did Marena tell you what we found?"

Marena folded her arms. "I was waiting for you." She turned back to the agents. "We had a wake to go to last night. On the casket, there were a few chaddagh designs as well as other Celtic symbols. Nothing unexpected at an Irish wake. Then we were talking to one of the women who told us that, yes, the claddaghs were placed there because he was Irish. But there was another reason."

Luci leaned against the railing that overlooked the computer lab. "It's a symbol for protecting the dead. A bit of an old folk tale about binding the dead to the ground. So they wouldn't come back up. I did some research on it and there are a number of people who did this to their dead. Most people know the Egyptians had the ankh on many sarcophagi or panted on a piece of scroll buried with the body. Many symbols could have been used that had a special meaning to the dead."

"However there were no records of the symbols every being painted directly on the body." Marena sighed. "Trust us. We searched everywhere."

Emily shook her head. "So the UNSUB made a mistake. I don't understand what you're getting at."

Gideon stood up grabbing his jacket. "He didn't make a mistake."

Luci shook her head. "These girls were the binding symbols. There are more bodies."

J.J. was speaking on the phone while Gideon and Hotch had gone off to check the crew that had started to uncover the ground where the bodies had been found. Whenever a murder came up involving children people sprang into action, no questions asked. Emily was in the office with the principle checking the records of the girls who had called in sick or had not shown up for school. Morgan was speaking with Garcia, having her check for any missing girls in the area. Reid was sitting next to him watching the two girls arguing a few seats from him.

Luci was batting Marena's hand away from the spot beneath her eye. "Quit it. I am perfectly fine. Just give me some cover-up if you have it. I cannot go to class like this without being sent to guidance. Then I'll lose my temper and say something stupid."

"Fine, but damn it, what happened to you? You can't have pissed someone off this early in the morning. Even for you that would be a miracle. This is exactly why you should drive." Marena looked at her friend sternly.

Reid spoke. "You really should drive. You might be safer driving than taking the train right now. Although the amount of people on the train may be in your favor..." He let his words trail off with the look Morgan gave him and the smirk on the young girls' faces.

Garcia looked from her screen only now seeing the younger girl's face. "Oh! Baby girl. What happened to you?" She turned her eyes to Morgan. "Nice to see you guys keep an eye out."

"It was at the train station. It's no one's fault but my own." Luci shrugged. "Met up with my ex boyfriend. You would think after over two years he'd give up."

Morgan looked at her. "This usually happens?"

Luci shook her head. "Hell no. He followed me on the train from New Haven here. We had a slight argument about how he thought we should get back together. We broke up because I found out he had another girlfriend. I mean we still talked and all but then, recently, he started talking about wanting a relationship again. Now he's acting pissy. All because I'm happy and in a good relationship and he's not. Apparently girls his own age turn him down." She pointed to the small bruise and lip. "He grabbed my arm after I told him to leave me alone. I was a bit surprised he would try grabbing me so I didn't expect it. Trust me. He was in worse condition when I left him." She gave a short laugh. "That and the woman who was calling the police was aiming mace at him. She had an itchy trigger finger." She shrugged it off. "I don't exactly date the most stable people in the world."

Marena had been talking quietly into her phone while Luci explained herself to Morgan and the others. She handed Luci her phone. "Murphy wants to talk to you."

Luci's eyes widened. "You didn't!" She grimaced at the phone and walked away.

Reid watched the girl trying to calm down the person on the other end of the phone. "Who's Murphy?"

Marena sighed. "Luci's boyfriend. Been together for two years and he's the best thing to happen to her. If Luci's too lazy to drive herself to school Murphy's going to take care of it."

Morgan spoke. "What's with this ex-boyfriend?" he turned to the computer as if ready to type in a name.

Marena sighed. "John. He's got a few screws loose. He's a sophomore in college a few towns away. Don't bother thinking he might be your killer. He's not smart enough to understand the symbols that your UNSUB uses." She took the phone from Luci, who had walked back over, and handed her cover up. "Well?"

Luci sighed looking at her reflection in the small mirror. "Murphy's picking me up after school. I just spent that time convincing him he did not need to take me to the hospital. He's going to be like a mother hen now. But thanks. I don't feel like taking the train home and I would prefer not to freak anyone out at home and ask for a ride. Mind you he's probably got half of his army ready to kill John." She turned back to Morgan, Reid, and Garcia. "Okay. So this information may change your profile. Not a lot of work has been done concerning the school grounds. I think someone might notice upturned earth in the back. Than again maybe not. No one really goes back there."

Marena nodded. "It's not impossible. I mean if it had been during vacation or something. We've had a mild vacation."

Garcia brought up pictures on the screen. "The only people missing from Connecticut over your break." The three faces showed two women in their mid thirties. Both had the haggard look of woman who had had a tough life and were looking for a new start. Possibly ran off hoping to create a new identity to make themselves more presentable. It wasn't such a bad idea, as long as you didn't take into consideration running was an offense. The third was a man in his mid-forties. Instead of MISSING, his poster read, WANTED. Beneath his name, it proclaimed he was possibly running to avoid paying child support. Nice guy. "Nothing that would come up as your bodies. Nothing over the Thanksgiving break either."

Gideon walked back over. "Marena, Luci. What did these girls have in common?"

Marena looked at him. "Well all the symbols-"

He shook his head. "Not the symbols. I mean personal lives, social circles, classes. Something that's obvious." He stared down at the girl's school pictures. "There's something here that's too obvious that we overlooked it."

Luci's eyes moved back and forth as if searching her head for information. "Nothing relating to the families. They grew up in different areas. One didn't have both parents, another was an only child. They didn't really go in the same circles. I mean everyone connects somehow here, but you can still try to stay away. As for classes, they were in different levels. AP, Honors, CP1, and CP2, they covered the whole spectrum. The only teacher they had in common would be our music director I suppose."

Gideon looked between the girls. "Janice Pickenson's mother kept mentioning concerts?"

Marena nodded. "Our choir concerts. Janice didn't sing but she played the viola in accompaniment. She was in the school orchestra. There are only about ten people in it but they are talented. As for the concerts, people come from all over. Some schools come and see if any of the girls apply for a music scholarship."

Morgan turned. "Do people have to show ID to get into these concerts?"

Luci shook her head. "No. There are some held at the school and others we sometimes travel to community centers to sing. Sometimes benefits. We did one at an insurance firm a few weeks ago to help fund the trip to Jamestown. No one really worries about ID. Plus people that come concerning scholarships don't want to be singled out. They want everyone to act and sing as they usually do. No need to put on a new pressure and introduce themselves." She paused. "You don't really think that's the connection? "

Gideon nodded. "They dug up some ground. Looks like there's a small ring of bodies."

Marena's face paled. "How many?"

Gideon shook his head. "We're not sure yet. It's not a regular circle or ring. Only two of the recent bodies match the position of the first kills."

Something flicked behind Luci's eyes. She stood up and walked to the whiteboard everyone was facing. Even Garcia watched from her computer screen. She made the top half of a figure eight. "Was it like this?"

Hotch walked over with a large glassy photo in his hand. "We had someone take an aerial shot Gideon." He looked up at the whiteboard noticing what everyone was looking at. His eyes flicked to his paper and back at the symbol. "How did you know?"

Luci turned blank eyes to Marena handing her the marker. "Infinity," she whispered.

Marena walked over drawing a figure eight on its side. "This is the symbol of infinity." She turned back to the agents. "He's not done. He's binding his past murders. He's not going to stop until every one of them is laid to rest."

A/N:

Another chapter done. This seems like a good place to stop.

So as much as I like this little story of mine I had midterms. Now that does not mean I cannot make time. I just choose not to.

This is chapter 5. Still only one review. Therefore, until there is a change in the review status there will not be any updates.

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