Tara Lewis was still new, only having been with the BAU 'A' team for a few months, was still trying to find her place in the weird kind of family they had. It was like being in High school again, not knowing how she exactly fit in, and the feeling of self consciousness crushing down sometimes. She wouldn't let it stop her though, because instead of that awkward 14 year old in a New High school in a new country, she was Tara Lewis of the FBI. Plus it didn't seem like the team hated her. They were actually really nice, helping her through tough times. Sure they may have more memories, but she wasn't the first, nor will she be the last to join this tight knit group.
"We have a case." JJ walked in, her arms filled with ever pilling files that keep on staking in her office. Tara got up from her desk, leaving the last report she had to get down on top of it. It was kind of disappointing that she couldn't finish this one more report, but people needed to be saved and locked away, and that was her true job.
"This is Melinda Stewart, Kathy Reign, and Jenny Karter. All women in their late thirties and single." Garcia started, pictures of these women appeared on the screen behind her, illustrating what was in their files on their tablets. Although Spencer insisted on having a paper copy. "All were kidnapped three days from each other, in South Dakota."
"Jet and Len are still locked up?" Reid asked, and Hotch stiffened just a bit. Tara looked at her team in confusion at this sudden change in rolls. Not saying that Reid was timid, but Hotch was usually one to ask the questions. She had heard about something going down in South Dakota, but never got any details.
"As well as all their followers, but if we find anything that even resembles they're trying to make a comeback, we'll call the boys." Hotch decreed.
"Jet and Len?" Tara asked.
"We'll explain on the jet." Hotch stated, turning back to Garcia to finish the debrief.
Tara couldn't think about the one dead body of the first victim, Melinda Stewart. All she could wonder was who the heck was Jet and Len, and why did it bother her team so much. And who were these boys they were talking about? Where they actual boys, or were they code for a bigger FBI division?
"Wheels up in thirty." Tara looked up as the rest of the BAU team were packing up and trickling out of the room. Hotch staid behind with her. "Jet and Len are in prison, it's no use wasting energy worrying about two criminals we already have incapacitated. These women need our full attention." And then he left.
Tara tried to pay attention to the case, but it was like she was on auto pilot. She consoled families with JJ, and interviewed friends with Morgan. She looked over files after files of evidence with Reid, but she couldn't tell you anything specific about these women. Her mind was still tied around Jet and Len.
After the first day they all went back to their hotel, and hopefully tomorrow Tara could get these two guys out of her head.
There was a knock on her door. It was the team. Not even just one of them, it was all of them.
"We didn't talk about Jet and Len on the jet." Rossi stated.
"And maybe ignoring it wasn't the best, it's affecting all of our work." Hotch continued. Tara nodded, letting everyone into her room. Reid and Morgan sat on one of the beds; JJ sat next to Tara, and Rossi and Hotch grabbed chairs from the mini dinning room and brought them closer to the group.
"About three years ago, we had a case in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Two brothers were kidnapping, torturing and killing groups of four people at a time. They were in pairs, two adults who knew each other, and two teenagers who knew each other. They thought if they found the right pair they could appease god and bring their father back." Rossi started. "By the time we got there the brothers, Jet and Len Shepherd, had already taken the two teenagers, now they were in search for the adult pair."
"They thought there was this prophecy which needed, an angel, a sinner, a doctor, and a victim. They decided Hotch and I were the best candidates to fill in the rest of their requirements." Reid said. "That's when things got weird."
"What do you mean 'Weird'?" Tara asked, not believing that anyone could make a drop on Hotch. Reid, not to be rude, but he was like a breathing bean pole.
"Castiel Novak, and Dean Winchester. They were the teens. But Castiel was special, he was an actual angel, with wings and Enochian and all." Hotch said. Before Tara could stop herself, she snorted. She wasn't such a religious person herself, but angels? That was slightly insane.
"I have a picture." Morgan said, pulling out his phone and showing her two teenagers, one was blonde with vibrant green eyes and the other was dark haired, either black or really dark brown, with swirling blue eyes that pulled you in. And at his back were large arching wings with obsidian black wings that glinted different colors in the sun. Before Tara could say it was fake, Morgan swiped to another picture, an X-ray of the kid's back, showing that the wings were infused to his spinal chord, and this was no joke.
"In the end we captured Jet and Len and saved everyone. A year later, the two escaped from jail and got a group to charge into Dean and Castiel's school. There were casualties, but once again Jet and Len are in prison. We're having a closer eye on them, but they still could do anything." Hotch wrapped it up.
"What do you mean? They're in jail." Tara said, looking from team mate to team mate.
"Castiel was an angel before the Shepherds got to him, they bond his grace and exposed in wings, but he wasn't human way before any of this started. There are other things in this world too. Things that can get a few guys out of prison with a snap of their fingers if they so choose." Morgan said. "So that's why we're still on edge. These people know about the real world, they could call upon anything they want as long as they have the right ingredients."
They talked some more, but Tara was still shaken by the things her team mates are telling her. And the kicker is, she can't tell any one, because they'd think she's crazy. Why isn't she thinking her team crazy? It's probably the pictures as proof, or the conviction at which all of them speak of this. Of course crazy people believe what they're saying, but this seems different. Either way it helped get her mind off of the mystery of the Shepherd brothers.
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The case went smoother after that. They realized that each women have all signed up to volunteer at the local soup kitchen via social media. Three days after they served they were kidnapped, and a week after that Melinda Stewart was killed.
They did find Kathy Reign's body on their second day of investigation, and the window of finding Jenny Karter was slowly but steadily closing.
In the end it was Tod Anderson, a regular volunteer. He kept them in his summer cabin up the road a little in the mountains. Kathy Reigns was not found alive. She was the first to die, but Tod had kept her.
It was always hard to walk away from a case that didn't end well. Of course they have the bad guy locked away, but they hadn't save anyone, he still got away with killing people.
The BAU isn't Tara's first team, but it was much more interactive then where she came from. Not only in the case and out in the field, but with each other too. She started having nightmares from all the bad they were dealing with, but couldn't feel gloomy with Garcia greeting the team with homemade cookies. She couldn't think about bad when Reid, the giant kid, was curled up at the window, mouth open as he clutched his bag to his chest. She couldn't think about anything but her team as she looks over them as they rest up in the jet. Hotch is going over files and paper work so he could go home to Jack sooner. Rossi playing 'words with friends' on his phone with his daughter. Morgan was snoozing with head phones in, and JJ drinking coffee as she read some book. It was nice.
And even though Tara now has to think about the supernatural of the world, and all that could imply, she was content in just relaxing on the jet and watching her team. Her family.