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"Spence? You with us?" Reid heard JJ say. He snapped out of his memory and looked around. He hadn't realized that he was out of it for so long. He was sitting on the plane, his colleagues had already begun to move around so they must already be in the air.
"Yeah, sorry." Spencer said.
"What were you thinking about?" Emily asked him.
"He was probably thinking about that waitress." Morgan laughed. Reid threw him a look.
"No I wasn't thinking about her." He said as he shot a look over to JJ.
"Then who were you thinking about?" Morgan asked him with a smirk.
"So the case, we should probably discuss it before we land. Yes?" he said ignoring the question as he grabbed a file off the table in front of him. The team seemed to forget questioning him for the time being as they discussed the case and the probable unsub.
When they landed in Atlanta and before they all went their separate ways JJ pulled Reid aside.
"Are you ok?" she asked him concerned.
"I'm fine, I was just a little distracted on the plane." He told her.
"What were you thinking about?" she asked him.
"The day we met." He said smiling at her. She gave him a smile and nodded.
"The weekend Lexi, Tara and I were in Vegas." She said nodding.
"Come on we should get going before they leave us here." He said smiling. They walked over to the cars and they all went their separate ways.
They didn't see each other again for a few hours. And when they did it was only to talk about the case. As they sat around a table in the Atlanta field office tossing around ideas on the unsubs profile, JJ couldn't help but to stare at Reid as he worked. He always looked so cute when he was rambling on about the unsubs. It always reminded her of a little kid trying to solve some exciting puzzle.
"So what do we've got so far?" Hotch said as he sat down at the table.
"Well the killings are clinically efficient. They have the ear marks of a slaughter, as in an animal." Emily said as she turned around playing with the marker in her hand.
"Or a sacrifice." Morgan chimed in.
"We haven't been able to find anything in federal or state databases that suggests similar crimes. As far as I can tell it's the first in the series." Hotch told them.
"At least one member of the team may believe that he's killing in the name of God, suggesting a psycopathy that should display extreme levels of disorganization." Reid rambled as he took a piece of paper off one of the boards they had set up.
"Yet there are forensic counter measures and someone in control enough to do complicated computer work. One member of the team is organized the other is extremely disorganized but what is strange is that the one that would be most in control is the one that made the phone call can't seem to stop the other from killing. Usually the frenzied personality is the one that takes direction from the cooler head." Reid continued confused.
"Alright well let's look at that. Unsub one called the police before the killing but he didn't leave time for them to get there. Was the phone call just a guy working on a defense just in case of capture. I'm mean maybe he didn't wanna stop the other, but he did whatever he had to do to cover himself." Morgan suggested. Everyone nodded their head considering what he said.
"So what do we have so far?" Gideon asked the team. They all looked around at each other, none of them saying a word. "Not enough."
They got back to work, Morgan and Emily left to talk to Garcia about what she found the Kyle's phone records and Gideon went to talk to the lead detective again. This left JJ, Hotch and Reid mulling over the profile.
"JJ did you ever get anywhere with those open knife cases that Franks gave you?" Hotch asked her.
"Half way through and nothing yet, but I'm working on it." JJ said as she stood up and left the table to go through the files again. JJ smiled at Reid gave him a wink before she walked away. Reid smiled and watched her walk towards the file room.
"Hey Hotch can I ask you a personal question?" Reid asked still looking in the direction JJ walked off in.
"Is this about telling the team?" Hotch asked as he turned and looked at Reid.
"Yeah. Do you think that they will be really mad that we haven't told them yet?" he asked.
"I don't know Reid I really don't. They might be mad for a while but once you both explain yourselves I think that they will understand." Hotch told him. Reid hung his head and nodded.
"Yeah I figured that they might understand but I just hope that they aren't mad for too long. We really didn't mean anything by it." Reid said.
"I know Reid. But you don't even know how they will take it yet so let's make it through this case and then you can worry." Hotch told him. Reid nodded and went back to looking at the papers on the table.
A few minutes later JJ walked back into the office carrying a file in her hand.
"So Franks is right none of the open knife cases fit." JJ told Hotch.
"Tell me there's a but." Hotch said disappointed.
"Well I looked at it a different way. I looked for unsolved home invasions. Three months ago there was a prowler called in directly outside of the Kyle's house." JJ told him as she looked in the file.
"A prowler?" Reid asked her.
"The witness was walking his dog in a nearby park going back to his car saw a man in dark clothing go over the back wall and start sneaking up to the house. By the time the state police got there the prowler was gone." She told them with a hopeful look on her face.
"Only one man?" Hotch asked confused.
"Apparently." JJ said her face falling a little.
"Was the witness able to describe him?" Reid asked her. JJ opened the file and flipped a couple of pages.
"If he did it's not in this case file." JJ replied.
"Is there a name and address for the witness?" Hotch asked JJ. She looked down into the file again flipping to another page.
"Tobias Henkel, lives about an hour from here." JJ told him looking up from the file.
"It's a long shot, but he might be able to give us a description. Why don't you and Reid go out there and find Mr. Henkel and see if he remembers something. And before you say anything, I know what I said but everyone else is occupied so I'll just have to trust you two to handle it." Hotch said giving them stern looks.
"Absolutely. Everything will be fine you'll see." JJ said as she pulled Reid up out of the chair and they walk out of the office.
They drove away from the field office in silence. After ten minutes of silence Reid turned to JJ.
"You're still thinking about it aren't you?" he asked. She sighed and turned to him for just a second before looking back at the road.
"No I just can't shake a bad feeling that's all." JJ told him with a small smile.
"About the case? Or telling the team?" he asked her.
"I don't know, it's just a feeling I've been having since we got to Atlanta." Reid looked over at her worried. JJ caught his look and gave him a reassuring smile. "Don't worry Spence I'm sure it's nothing." Reid nodded and looked out the window at the passing scenery. As he watched the many farms fly past his window, he started to remember the day he ran into JJ again.