"We need to put the previous case on low there is a serial killer in Ohio,and that is of top priority."
"Sir,you said that this was family orientated?"I asked meekly,not knowing whether I was allowed to ask questions.
"Yes, let JJ explain."Embarrassed,I slunk down in my chair,nodding.
Reid was still staring at me,and I repressed the compulsion to run from the room, my mood swings concerning him hadn't changed after all. I pulled up the pictures of the family,and I searched them quickly,looking for something that stood out
"This was the Hunter family,parents and one child. The father,Ronald Hunter was stabbed multiple times in the eyes,gut,and chest. The mother,Renee Hunter was shot,once a .44 to the head. The child,Ari Hunter was extensively tortured. There were burn marks,bruises,strangulation, and he was severely beaten."
The rest of the team cringed and even gasped when the picture of the child came up,but I just scanned the picture,something was wrong here.
"Something's wrong with the picture."
"What do you mean Clifton?"
"Look at the way the body is the child was beaten. He was stabbed from the front then the blood should have splattered to the front of the room,right?"
"Yes,so?"
"Then why is the blood splattered everywhere?"
"Maybe he was moved."
"While he was being tortured?"
"The Unsub had a strict time limit here,why would he take time out of his precious schedule to move the kid?"
"Good job,Clifton."
The discussion continued,but I could no longer concentrate.I was being drawn to his eyes,which were staring intently at me. How long had I hoped that he would come back for me?For how long had I wished that I could even glimpse my long gone best friend?I had lied to them all,I couldn't stand them finding out my one weakness,the one and only thing that ever got to was my best friend,in every sense of the word,but then he it all whole team probably thought that we had been 'together' or something like that,but they they couldn't be more wrong.
My life was not come corny love story.
"Clifton!"Hotch's annoyed voice nearly yelled,and I snapped my head up,startled.
"Yes?"
"Can we stop staring at Reid and pay attention?"My face heated up,and I quickly nodded. At this rate I was going to be fired before I completed my first case. It would be a new record.
"I want you to make a geographical profile with Reid based off of the crime scenes."
Oh great,my first case,and I was to be paired up with Reid.
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"Anna…"He pleaded with me, as if he had that right.
"It's Clifton to you. Should we start?"
"We should use the perimeter of the crime scenes to zoom in on the UNSUB's location."
"You take the first two crime scenes,and I'll take the last two."
"Ok."
The silence was so awkward it was wrong move,and BOOM,it would all explode into pandemonium. We worked quietly,each getting our work done as fast as the other. When Reid looked up, done I was reviewing my work. He seemed surprised that I was already completed,and I just quirked an eyebrow in response,challenging him to say something about it.
"Lets go over what we have then."We exchanged papers,making sure not to make any skin contact. It was awkward enough already. We didn't need to make it worse.
"Soo,Clifton?"Morgan sing-songed from across the room,not enjoying the quiet peace in the from his voice I could tell this wasn't going to be pretty,but I decided to entertain him anyway.
"Yes?"
"Got anyone special waiting back home?"He glanced at Reid,lingering on his expression,and I was trying to make Reid jealous,because he thought that we had been romantically paired before.
"No I don't."
"Are you sureeee?"He sang,trying to lighten the now heavy atmosphere.
"I'm perfectly sure,Morgan.I think that I would know if I had someone like that waiting for me."
"This isn't over,Clifton."
"Sure,sure."I scanned the board behind Reid,checking if his info matched the crime scene addresses,but my eyes fell upon him,seeing his reaction.I tore my eyes away. Why would he care anyway?But I didn't know that if I had looked for just a second longer,I would of seen the despair etched upon his face.
"This is wrong."
"What do you mean?I checked my work."Reid sounded utterly perplexed,as if he was never wrong.
"This crime scene is in Northern Akron,not in Dayton."
"What?Oh,it I'm never wrong."
"Well you are now."
" Wait,did you just say that pretty boy here was wrong?He's never wrong."Morgan sounded just as confused as he he seriously never wrong?
"Why do you all keep saying that?He is wrong."
Reid with Morgan leaning over his shoulder looked over the map again.
"She's are wrong,pretty boy."
"But I'm never wrong."
"I can name off a whole list where you were wrong,Reid so how are you apparently never wrong?"He looked up in surprise,I had never said his name this casually before. How did I today? I didn't know.
"Technically,he's a literal genius.187 IQ,eidetic memory,reading 20,000 words per minute and all."I already knew all of this,knowing him since we were both born and all,but this was where I trumped him.
"So?191 IQ,eidetic memory,26,750 words per minute. An added bonus is that I'm not as klutzy or socially else do you think I got in this young?"
At my words, Morgan looked dumbstruck. I usually didn't like bragging about my smarts, but it was done now.
"HA!Pretty boy,she's got you!Finally someone smarter than him!We were starting to think that he was the smartest person on Earth."
" He isn't."
"So why did they put you in here?No offence,but we didn't really need another genius in here."
Meanwhile,Reid was still staring,amazed at me,and my face once again started to warm up.I shook it off,and answered Morgan's question.I would have to phrase this carefully.
"I specialize in family related cases and the victims.I'm the person that talks to the survivors and needed someone who specialized in things like that here."
And with that,the mood shifted,and after an ok, we all got back to work.
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"Can we talk?"He grabbed my wrist,just as the three of us were leaving,and I snatched it my head to both answer his question and shake off the nausea.
"Please.I just need to talk to you."
"What you need doesn't matter to me."Now that we were out of the workplace, I had no reason to be civil with him.
"You've got it all wrong."
"Oh,do I?Did I just imagine you leaving me like that?Right when you promised that you would always be there?'Cause if I did,let me know!"
"No,no you don't -"
"I don't want to hear what you have to say.I'm done.I have to be getting home."I stomped off,unable to keep the burning behind my eyes in any longer.
Once I got home,I let the pain escape. Escape for the first time in 8 years.
I had to be strong. He would not be my weakness. Not any more.
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