Baby Market

Red Hot

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Thanks,

Cinny

Chapter 4

Now….

"Reid, are you going to tell me what the hell is going on?" Morgan barked at him. "And slow down!" Reid took a corner a little to fast and the SUV fish tailed briefly before he got it back under control. Morgan was slammed against the door and he held on for dear life. He realized exactly why Hotch never let Reid drive. He was too aggressive, a complete departure from his normal ways. If he could channel some of this into his personality people wouldn't take advantage of him like they normally did. Morgan thought of that for a minute, what kind of crazy idea was that. Aggressive Reid would never shut up. He barely spent a moment with his mouth closed now. Add a little bit of boldness and Reid would not only give you statistics, he would shove them down your throat. That was the scariest thing Morgan could imagine.

Reid slammed on the breaks in front of the police station, he had the car in park and the engine off before it came to a complete stop. He hit the ground running and Morgan had to sprint to keep up with him. That was until he realized just how ridiculous this all was. It wasn't as if he didn't know where Reid was going, or that he would get away. Morgan slowed down and walked calmly into the station. Reid was on the phone with Hotch telling him he needed them all to come back in when Morgan made it to the interrogation room.

"Reid I swear to God if you don't tell me what is going on in that over sized brain of yours I'm gonna…."

"Morgan, we profiled two people selling their baby and one of them being the shooter the male, but why do they only kill the women?"

"They kill them alone. They isolate the women and then shoot them. Because of what they represent, a mother influence?" Morgan was running all of that through his head thinking on the lines of what Reid was getting at.

Reid asked "Could they be modeling what happened to them? Or could it be something else?"

"Like what?" Morgan had hit that mental wall again and he needed to have some questions answered.

Hotch and the rest of the team arrived shortly after that and Reid told them what he was thinking. Hotch nodded, "Get Garcia on it."

Reid dialed Garcia's number, she answered on the third ring.

"Penelope Garcia." He tone was strong and annoyed.

Reid was sidelined for a minute when she answered the phone that way, "Garcia, are you ok?"

"Yes Reid I am fine. How can I help you?" Reid looked at the team.

"I ah…um…." Reid looked at the team again shaking his head, opening his mouth but nothing came out.

"Spencer you called me, I can't read your mind."

"Um right, I need get me a list of people who have applied for and have been turned down recently for adoptions"

"Reid, that's not going to be easy. Most adoptions are sealed and private."

Reid looked at Hotch with a concerned look on his face. "Oh and can you look for one more thing young girls who may have had their children taken away, put up for adoption or maybe placed in foster care?"

Penelope sighed loudly, and then she said, "I'll let you know if I find anything."

"Baby girl what gives?" But the only answer Morgan received was a dial tone.

"What? Oh no, she didn't just hang up on me."

"Sir I think when we get back Penelope could use some time off." JJ said to Hotch.

Morgan called Penelope again

"What?" she scowled into the phone.

"Hold up, why the icy attitude."

"Oh you don't like the icy attitude, fine how about red hot them? Leave me alone and let me do my damn job!" The line went dead and Morgan looked at his phone as if it had turned into some alien life form.

Emily watched Morgan and then a thought occurred to her, 'The date.' "Oh no!" All the agents looked at Emily "We forgot the anniversary, our first case together."

Reid said, "But that isn't until…..Yesterday."