As the team exited the elevator on the sixth floor of the BAU, the team either went their separate offices or sat down in their desks.

As JJ began working through the case files that filled her office from top to bottom, her office phone rang.

"Agent Jareau," JJ said answering the phone professionally.


Shortly after sitting down at their desks and doing whatever paperwork they had, Garcia came in with a plate full of cookies.

Reid being the sugar-lover he was, was the first to see the cookies.

Garcia smiled a little at the sight of how Reid was looking at the cookies, like he was a little kid, and gave him first pick of the cookies.

As Reid went to bite down into chocolate chip cookie he had, JJ walked in through the double glass door, then headed straight to Hotch's office and walked right in without knocking first.

The four team members in the bullpen stared at Hotch's office in, confusion and curiosity.

It didn't take long for Hotch and JJ to exit his offices, and go straight into Rossi's.

"That doesn't look very good," Morgan said absent-mindedly.

No sooner had Morgan said that, Rossi and Hotch exited the office and headed in the direction of Strauss'. JJ stood in the doorway of Rossi's office for a moment, collecting her thoughts, before looking at the confused team members in in the middle of the bullpen, and headed over to them.

The four colleagues stared at JJ as she made her way to them, all of them wanting to ask the same question.

"What's going on JJ," Morgan asked as she got closer to the group.

JJ stood still for a moment gathering whatever strength she needed for what she was to say next.

Prentiss looked straight in JJ's eyes and asked, "JJ, what's happening?"

JJ fought back the tears threatening to spill over and said, "Gideon."

"What about Gideon," Reid asked.

"While en route to the prison, Gideon got hold of one the officers' guns and killed them before taking his own life," JJ stated. "Gideon is dead."

When Garcia heard the word 'dead', the plate off cookies she was holding, crashed to the floor as shook and grief over-took her at the same time.

Morgan placed his elbows on hs desk and let his head fall into his hands.

Prentiss just sat in her chair, completely frozen from shock.

Reid sat his desk, his mind going a million times faster as the shock hit him. How could Gideon of taken his life like. They had never profiled him as suicidal. Murderer or not, Gideon had still mentored him. As much as Reid wanted to hate for leaving so long ago and for murdering those two innocent people, he couldn't. All those thoughts ran through his mind, before the word 'dead' had left JJ's lips.

JJ's reaction to her own words, had been shown more than anyone else's. She practically fell into the chair across from Reid's desk then buried her head in her hands and began to cry.


Rossi, Hotch and Strauss, stood the center of her office, taking a silent oath, to act professional around this and to make sure the news never left the team. As a former agent of the BAU who turned deadly, was now dead, and no one outside the team was to known how he had died.

Gideon, a legend to the history of the BAU, had killed himself along with two cops. As far as Strauss was concerned his secrets died with him and his legend went to the team who resented him and no one else. She was fine with that


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