The group sat on the plane and watched her. She typed away on her computer, content in ignoring the group. Hotch cleared his throat and she looked up. She typed something else then closed her laptop.
"Yes?" she said.
"How do you know the girls are still alive?" asked Rossi.
"All the women found were roughly five foot five. All five women were sedated with something, but nothing's coming back in the toxicology reports," said Dr. Cara.
"Ms. Cara," started Hotch.
"It's doctor," she said. "And Cara is my first name."
"Why do you go by your first name?" asked Rossi.
"Because I can. Anyway, no results in toxicology, no pulse, presumed dead," she said.
The group looked perplexed as she opened her laptop again. Hotch started to walk over to her when Morgan stopped him. Reid has already moved to the empty seat in front of Cara.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"How do you know this?" asked Reid.
"Learn a lot in school," said Cara.
Cara smiled and put on a pair of headphones and continued to type away on her computer. The plane landed and everyone made their way to the police department. While the team was setting up in the main conference room, Cara was setting up in a private office. While Cara was setting up her things Derek walked into the room.
"What are you doing?" asked Derek.
"Excuse me?" said Cara.
"I told you to talk to Strauss about getting a job. Not taking over the team," said Derek.
"I'm not taking over your team," said Cara. "Have faith in that."
Derek huffed and walked out of the room. Cara sighed and sat down in a chair. She opened her laptop and one of the files. After an hour her peace was disturbed when she looked up and Reid was sitting across the table from her.
"Can I help you, Dr. Reid?" she asked.
"Hotch wanted me to check on you," said Reid. "And…"
"And to see what I know," said Cara.
"Yeah," said Reid.
"Come on. You know how things go when you play telephone," said Cara.
"Telephone?" asked Reid as they walked out of the room.
"You never played Telephone as a child?" asked Cara.
"Don't," said Derek. "He was in high school when he was twelve."
"Oh. Boy genius, huh?" said Cara. "Then boy genius, tell them why the girls are alive."
"I don't know. All the evidence says that…" started Reid.
"I'm going to stop you there. Bridgett Monroe's file said that there was an overwhelming smell of Lavender," said Cara. "Same with Casie Knight and Jamie Bridges."
"Those were attributed to body spray and perfumes worn by the women," said Rossi.
"Seaver, did you put on perfume or body spray this morning?" asked Cara.
"Um, yeah. About seven hours ago," said Ashley. "It probably doesn't smell anymore."
"Right. I wear a Vanilla body spray. When I got here no one commented on it being too strong or smelling nice," said Cara. "When I went to meet Director Strauss almost seven hours ago she made a comment about it."
"What are you getting at?" asked Hotch.
"What I'm getting at is that I've got make up that lasts longer than my body spray," said Cara.
Everybody was looking at her like she was crazy. Cara sighed and pulled out a bag. In the bag were three plants.
"What are they?" she asked
"Lavender," said Seaver taking the bag.
"And the other two?" asked Cara.
The group shook their heads. Reid had the bag and was studying the contents.
"The other flowered plant is the Valerian Herb. The leaf belongs to the Kava Kava plant," he said.
"All three are used as sedatives," said Cara. "All undetectable in tox reports."
