"The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a new baby ? That first day is an ecstatic high. Now, it's time to go to work." - Roger McDowell
"Everyday is a newday. I don't believe in momentum because we have to go out there everyday and start with zeros on the scoreboard." - Glen Gardner
When she was on her run her mind was clear. All she thought about was how her feet were hitting the ground, the twists and turns she practiced. By the time she left the park and jogged back home she was ready for a small rest. Taking another quick shower to wash away the sweat she again let herself air dry. Then she took out her medicine kit from its hiding place behind the bathrooms medicine cabinet and laid it out on the table. There were two bottles of clear liquid, three needles, some cotton balls and a long rubber tube and a small bottle of alcohol. Sitting down she opened the bottle of alcohol and pored some on a cotton ball. Setting it aside she took the rubber tube and tied it tight around her bicep then picked up the cotton ball and cleaned the area of her inner elbow. Then she picked up a needle and a bottle of liquid. She gently rolled the bottle before turning it upside down and inserting the needle in the top. Measuring out a dosage she put the bottle back on the table. Then she pushed a tiny bit of the liquid out of the needle along with any air bubbles. At last she placed it on her skin above the now raised blood vain then pressing down it slipped in. Pushing down the plunger she sighed as the liquid flowed into her system. When the needle was empty she slowly pulled it out and placed another cotton ball on her inner elbow. Pulling her arm up she trapped the cotton there and untied the rubber tubing. She sat for a minute to make sure the small spot on her arm had stopped bleeding before repacking her kit minus the used cotton balls and needle. "Note to self get more needles," she mumbled as she put the kit back in its hiding spot. She redressed in casual cloths and gathered her car keys going out to her car. It was early to mid morning now, she figured George was still at his residence. The man was lazy and slept in just about every day which was fine with her, it let her take her time with her morning runs. The pack of hunters would most likely be at the police station. She wasn't sure who she wanted to check in on first, them, or George. Looking at the clock on the dashboard she decided to look in on the pack. George would be asleep for a bit longer. Smiling she drove toward the station and got there just in time to see the omega and the beta female coming out and getting into a standard issue SUV. As they pulled out she followed them from a distance.
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As JJ and Reid left Prentiss came back in with a few sheets of paper. She passed out copies of the list Garcia had sent.
"Wow Garcia wasn't kidding when she said the list was a bit long," Morgan flipped through the three pages he got.
"Yes but you have to remember that this is for the whole county not just this and its neighbor towns." Rossi said not looking up from his own copy of the list.
"Garcia sent a note too, the names at the top of the list are the ones with the more sever and longer time of complete filed." Prentiss took her seat with her own list, the note mentioned was attached to the copy she had given Hotch.
"Good between interviewing more of the victim's families let's see if we can get an interview with some of these people. I'll ask Scotts if he can spare a few men to round up some the people in this area. When JJ gets back I may need her to contact other police stations in the county." Hotch read over the list after he was done speaking.
"Where she and Reid go anyway?" Prentiss asked looking at Hotch.
"He sent them on a coffee run and to pick up on the latest gossip about the case," Morgan answered first.
"Since when do listen to gossip?" Prentiss was suddenly curious.
"We're not we're just getting a feel for what is out there so we can present good facts without panicking everyone. We also don't want to create a bigger victim pool by having everyone complain about every person with some kind of history," Hotch stopped any further discussion about the gossiping.
They were all silent for a moment before a knock came on the door. Gideon got up to answer it finding an officer waiting.
"There's a call on line three for a Doctor Reid. It's the local medical examiner," the deputy looked around the room over Gideon's shoulder.
"Thank you, we'll take care of that" Gideon said pulling the officer's attention back to him.
"Sure thing" and the officer went back to the bull pen.
Gideon turned to Hotch "I'll handle it until Reid gets back" and he followed the officer closing the door behind him.
"Morgan, I want you and Kipel to take a look at Evan Thompson, victim three's crime scene today. Talk to his family, I believe his file said his father is still in the area. JJ can work on the press release and getting things together for the profile we'll give later this afternoon. Gideon can help Reid with the medical examiner and anything else. Prentiss you'll be with me, I want to interview the first victim, Rachel Marsden's family." Hotch handed out assignments to keep him teammates minds occupied.
Gideon came back in a few minutes later and retook his seat.
"You're scheduled to help out Reid today, I want you to go to the morgue with him, see if you two can't find something else out" Hotch informed him. He nodded and went back to studying the list before opening his case file.
Morgan stretched in his seat before getting up and beginning to pace. After a few turns around the room he went over to Hotch. "I'm going to see if Kipel's here yet," just barely waiting for Hotch's nod to leave the room.
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Morgan walked out into the bull pen to see it only half full. The night shift having gone home for a little bit of sleep before coming in to hear their profile. He scanned the area for Kipel when he saw the man's desk was empty. He spotted Kipel coming out of the break room with a cup of coffee in hand. He met him at his desk and let him sit before talking.
"Morning Kipel, you ready to start a new day?"
"Do I have a choice? So I guess you being here means we are going to go somewhere," he said before taking a swig of his drink.
"Yup, we are going to look into Evan Thompson today. Might give us an insight to what the unsub is doing and why."
"Don't you kind of already know that? I mean with everything from yesterday don't you have a good idea?"
"Yes we do but we need to cover every angle and every body is a different story. It's a new day and every new day is a fresh start. We have information but we go at it as if we can take anything today as new to add and maximize what we already have."
"Yeah we kind of do the same thing, but I'm sure at nowhere near your level." Kipel gave Morgan a quick smile and drank more of his coffee. "So when do we leave?"
"Not for another half hour at least, get your day started here and I'll come back when it's time to go."
Kipel nodded and Morgan headed back to the conference room. Shortly after he sat back down and opened his file JJ and Reid came back in. They came holding trays of coffee and muffins and some apples. Start of a new day was going to be on a slightly healthy note it looked like.
(So sorry for the long wait in updating but RL is kinda busy right now. Shortish chapter but I got lots to do besides copying and editing one thing so… Hope you enjoyed the chapter anyway. Thanks for wait, reading and reviewing.)