Reviews were slightly better for the last chapter so, Surprise here's another. It would have been up sooner but I had to go to Kansas for a few days. My little brother graduated high school! Remember to review please. The more reviews I get the faster I update!

False Pretense

Chapter 5

The rest of the night in the new apartment went fairly smooth, after Lexie had finished eating I gave her a bath and she played with her toys for about half and hour before crashing, the long day had finally caught up with her. After tucking her into bed and kissing her goodnight for both me and Derek I slip quietly out of her room and back into the living room. The Erie quiet of the house drives me nuts so I turn the TV on for a little background noise and pull out my laptop. I might as well get started and check the damn profile, at least it would take my mind off of the idea of Derek and all of my friends and family being hundreds of miles away. For the millionth time since leaving Hotch's office this morning I ask myself why I agreed to this. I quickly pull up the website, God this is so wrong I shouldn't even be doing this I'm a happily married woman I tell myself then the rational side of me kicks in and reminds me that I have to do this, if I don't some other innocent woman would end up dead and it would be my fault. With a deep breath I begin typing in my user name and password. When I see what the password is I can't help but laugh, really PG. Once I'm logged in a little box pops up telling me I have 12 messages from interested parties. Really the damn profile's only been up for a day. After checking the messages I can quickly eliminate 8 of them. The brief preliminary profile that had been established that the person we were looking for was a black man in his late thirties of early forties. Two of the men had been Latinos and 6 of them had been white so now it was down to the last 4. playing the part I send the names to Garcia through the secure line she set up to get them checked and log out after posting a short reply to each message. When that was done I head to my room and begin unpacking my bags. Lexie's could wait till tomorrow I don't want to wake her. By the time I finish unpacking and showering it's almost 11 and I can barely keep my eyes open. I get in bed but find it impossible to sleep, I'm still wide awake 3 hours later, what I really want is Derek her with me but I would settle for a phone call. Too bad that's not allowed. By the time Lexie wakes up at 7:30 the next morning I had managed to get a couple of hours of sleep.

I hear Lexie in her room laughing at something, this is my cue that she is awake. Usually when she wakes up she will stay in her room and play until Derek and I came and got her. I stretch and get up to go get her. She doesn't notice me when I open her door so I stand against the frame and watch her as she carries on a conversation with her teddy bear. A smile slowly creeps up on my face an before I know it I'm laughing with her. She hears me laugh and turns to me her fathers grin on her face.

"mommy!' she exclaims ad runs to me. I bend down and pick her up as she nears me.

"good morning baby." I kiss her forehead. "did you sleep okay?" I ask her. She doesn't answer just buries her head in my shoulder and shakes her head no.

"what's the matter sweetie, do you miss daddy." She nods her head yes.

"me too, but you get to talk to him in a couple of days and you'll see him soon." I remind her. "why don't we go and get you some breakfast then we have to get ready to go okay?"

"Kay, mommy walk" she replies.

"you want to walk?" I tickle her.

"y- yes" she says in between giggles.

"Okay.." I sigh dramatically and set her down. She runs into the kitchen and I follow after her.

After a quick breakfast of cereal for her and toast and coffee for me, I shower while Lexie Plays with her toys and then get dressed. By 9 o'clock we are both dressed and cleaned up for the day, I head into the 'office' in the new apartment and take Lexie with me since I had to get to work. Luckily I would be working from home most of the time, I would also be working with the immigration office when needed. The day passes fairly easily, I manage to get a decent amount of translating done. Lexie had been pretty good, I finally call it quits around 3 and take Lexie out to the park. This cheers her up and then the rest of the night we stay 'home' and watch movies on the couch after Lexie goes to bed I pull out my laptop and log on to my profile I'd gotten a couple more hits, nothing that really stands out. Also, I had a message from Garcia informing me that the guys from the day before had checked out. So I make a date with a couple of them in an effort to put my face out there and get the unsub's attention. This was the part I was really dreading. I really don't want to 'date' any of these guys but based on the other victims profile activity it was obvious that the unsub wouldn't contact me out right, he was more of a lurker watching while his victim surfed from man to man until he's had enough and went after said victim. So it's official I have a date with Orlando Moore tomorrow night at eight p.m, and a date with Jeremiah Lewis the next night at the same time. God I feel like a slut. With that thought I turn the TV on to whatever crime drama was on. Another hour of that and I head for bed. The last thought on my mind being I really wanted this guy to come after me as twisted as that sounds. It just means I can get out of here and go home.

Okay there it is, let me know what you think. It's just a filler chapter so that I can jump forward a little bit next chapter!