So here's the next chapter my pretties. I know my chapters aren't overly long like my other stories, but if you drag it out too much sometimes I feel that people can lose interest, and we don't want that to happen now do we. I am a firm believer of quality over quantity.

So things are seriously hotting up now. Now it's getting intense and the BAU aren't getting away unscathed.

A big thank you to everyone who has reviewed, favourited and followed this story. I'll try and get back to you all with your questions.

So without further ado…

Emily was sat in the makeshift office they had created at police station. Still she couldn't get the horrible image of that poor woman's head out of her mind. She'd expected him to step up his MO, but not even she had thought he would go to those extremes. JJ's voice snapped her out of her musings and she turned to look at her blonde headed friend.

"We've got an ID on the latest victim. Rebecca Warburton, 27 years old. She was born and raised in that house, inherited it when her parents died in a car crash five years ago" JJ spoke sitting down opposite Emily as they waited for the others to arrive. Emily nodded at her and took the file off of JJ. Opening it the first thing she saw once again was the head.

"How many murders have we seen over the years? And yet I don't think I've seen one as gruesome as this" Emily said blankly, compartmentalizing the incident. She couldn't let it get to her, she wouldn't let it get to her. Flipping through the folder, ignoring the pictures and going straight to the background information Garcia had managed to dig out on her.

"Couldn't agree more" JJ spoke scanning Emily intently. She could see that Emily's steel walls had been brought up. Which could only mean that this case was getting to her and she'd noticed it since she had given them the case 24 hours ago. She thought back to when she first met her and began to get to know her, when they all believed she had come off of a desk job. She dealt with everything in a crisp and clean professional manner, and dealt with what they saw better than most. Better than them even.

Then they found out about Doyle, about Emily's shady past. She was a trained spy, trained to kill and trained to be someone she wasn't. That's why she was dubbed the queen of compartmentalizing by the other members of the BAU. She just pretended to be someone else. But something had changed within her best friend. Ever since she had returned, ever since she had risen from the dead she lost herself a little more in cases, and as soon as she felt that, those walls that barricaded her emotions would fly up in an instant. "JJ you're staring at me, please stop" Emily said not even looking up from the folder.

"Sorry" JJ cringed not knowing how the hell Emily could have known that she'd been watching her.

"It's alright" She spoke still scanning the contents of the folder. Pulling up another one she laid out all the photos from the murders in front of her as well as the initials. It was looking more and more familiar every-time she looked at them. She was close to something, she knew she was. Rossi, Hotch, Reid and Morgan entered the room and parked themselves down. "What have we got?".

"I spoke to the boy who found the body. Bobby Benton, 15, he'd had an argument with his parents so took the dog for a walk to get away from them for a bit. He was walking up the same way he always does and could see the door hanging off it's hinges. So he went to take a look to see if Rebecca Warburton was okay, said he always spoke to her and was a lovely girl. He went into the house and found her body, then rang us" Rossi said informing his family of what he'd learnt of the severely traumatised boy.

"And he didn't see anyone drive away, or heard anything?" Emily asked and Rossi shook his head.

"Nope, it was completely silent".

"Damn" Morgan groaned. This guy was like a ghost, no one knew who he was.

Hotch clicked dial on his phone and placed it on speaker. "Yes my super troopers what do you need?" Garcia's bubbly voice resonated through the speaker.

"Do you have anymore leads on DW Repairs?" Hotch asked strongly hearing her fingers hit at the keyboard hard and fast.

"Nothing Sir. I've got nothing on the number he used to ring Emma Davidson and Max Barnes either. Not even I can tell you how he got his phone to bounce of so many different satellites across the world, it's really quite incredible" Garcia spoke a hint of envy in her voice. She didn't like it when these sickos were nearly as tech savvy as her. "But, once again I have found a similar white van, with different plates coming down the intersection just off of where Rebecca Warburton lived so it's him most definitely" She finished continuing her scan of the net.

"Okay thanks Garcia, I'll let you know if we need anything else" Hotch thanked quickly before hanging up and looking at his team. "Okay then. This latest murder is brutal, he's gone from stabbing someone to death to cutting them into bits. I don't think he'll be able to escalate anymore unless it's a group massacre, so we have to be prepared for something different. We literally have nothing on this man, so we just have to keep out eyes peeled. Our best hope right now is people coming forward with descriptions of him and a clear catch of his van. Morgan, Prentiss, Reid and JJ I want you four to go back to the latest scene. It'll be good to have two pairs of fresh eyes to take in the place and you two can guide them through what you got from the place. Rossi me and you have got to keep getting this profile sorted" Hotch ordered once again and as usual, like the well-oiled machine that they were everyone immediately jumped to their tasks. All but one.

Emily was glued to her seat as everything began to piece together. "WAIT!" She called beckoning them back into the room. Everyone came in eyebrows raised wondering what she was getting at. Her entire frame was stiff with tension and her eyes were literally stuck to the photos in front of her. "I knew I'd seen these killings before!" She said jumping up so fast she nearly knocked Spencer over. Grabbing the pen she walked over to the whiteboard.

"Prentiss?" Hotch questioned as she scribbled onto the board.

"Look at the first murder, boy killed by a meat hook and the initials BW. This is a trademark kill from the film 'I know what you did last summer'. He kills his victims with a fishing hook and the name of the killer, Ben Willis. BW. Now you move onto the second one, girl stabbed to death, stripped naked, this is the first killing from the 'Halloween' films. And the killer in those is Michael Myers, MM" She continued writing it all down. She was on a roll now and nothing could stop her. "The third double murder, that's the opening scene from the 'Scream' films, boyfriend tied to a patio and girlfriend strung up to a tree after being violently murdered, the killer in those is Ghostface or as we see GF. Also in that before the killer strikes he phones them, and taunts them. And the final one is pretty obvious and I should have spotted this earlier, chainsaw and the initials LF. Leatherface, he's re-creating iconic moments from horror films" She finished and the other's were looking at her in literal awe.

"We've got our link" Hotch said coming back over to the table. "We need to re-work the profile a bit. Obviously he's a big horror film buff, which will make him more reclusive, these films are old, he must have grown up watching them, I'll get Garcia to have a look for youngsters in the nineties, early noughties that were arrested for violent conduct, animal killings" Hotch added on drawing his phone once again getting ready to call Garcia.

"We said he was escalating, if this is the pattern then there is literally nowhere more graphic he could go to. We thought he was going to do a drastic change, I think he's done with remakes. He's going to start making his own movie" Emily surmised dropping the pen. She felt a thousand times better already. She knew there was something else.

"Good work Emily" Rossi said a supportive smile on his lips. If anyone could have cracked this and seen the link it would have been her. She just nodded at him and gathered her stuff together.

"Let's hit that crime scene, see if we can find something that ties in with these films" Morgan said walking out, the other three on his tail.

"Is that what's been eating at you all day?" JJ asked falling into step with her friend. Finally they were getting somewhere, they knew the link, they knew a bit more, they expanded on the profile. Finally they were moving forward with the case.

Emily nodded. "Yeah, I knew I'd seen these killings somewhere. I just couldn't put my finger on it, but when I saw the last scene it was as if he was putting on a show. Put two and two together and now we know we've got a horror film obsessed nut who's probably planning out his next act" She grimaced wondering what his next move would be.

They fell into silence but the small reprieve as they made their way to the SUV was broken as Reid began to speak, spouting his facts as they were accustomed to.

"Did you know that chainsaw attacks are one of the lowest causes of deaths in the United States" Reid began spouting off as the four made their way out of the precinct. "Most of the deaths are caused accidentally, blades that haven't been put on right, not having enough body mass to contain the weight and power of the chainsaw" He continued and Emily and Derek looked at each and shook their heads laughing lightly. Reid and his facts.

"Nice to know Spence" JJ grinned patting his shoulder affectionately. "So guys tell me just how bad this scene really is?" JJ asked wanting to know what they were walking into, hell at least we get the luxury she mumbled inwardly.

"A hundred times worse than the photos, but hopefully if they've removed the woman's remains then it'll just be a room covered in blood" Emily reassured buckling herself into the front next to Morgan, Spencer and JJ jumping into the back.

"If it's any consolation, the amount of blood she would have lost after the initial attack then she probably wouldn't have felt it and died relatively quickly. She would have been in so much pain the endorphins running from her brain would have gone into overload, shutting down everything she didn't need to ease her pain" Spencer said sadly as he thought of the woman. He hoped that the facts applied to her, he wouldn't want anyone to suffer like that.

"That's comforting" Emily mumbled running a hand through her hair as they made their way towards the house which was around ten minutes out. They were so preoccupied with talking that they had completely missed the medium sized white truck that had turned off on one of the side roads behind them, vanishing from sight.

"I can't believe you got all that in there Prentiss, is Reid corrupting you. He's the king of pulling things off of the top of his head" Derek laughed lightly once again lightening the atmosphere in the car. Finally they had something solid to work with. The other's laughed at his words bar Reid who was just sat in his own world.

"He does it straight away, It took me twenty four hours!" Emily sighed sending a look at Reid who had come back into the conversation a smile on his face.

"You don't give yourself enough credit Emily, the only difference with us is I'm basically a proven genius" He said a small snigger in his voice as he spoke. Emily looked at him and rolled her eyes and the other's let out another laugh.

"Okay kid" Derek smiled his gaze flicking between the road and the raven haired woman to his right. He shouldn't have thought that they wouldn't have found link, with her around. Reid was the mindboggling genius who found everything in the details, JJ was the woman who could see from the outside in. Hotch was straight and direct and got the job done with ridiculous ease, Rossi did what was needed and Emily, well Emily was simply amazing. She could piece anything together, she could truly see into the mind of these killers and find what made them tick and it was that which usually unlocked these cases. And once again she had done it. She turned to look at him and caught his eye sending him a sheepish glance with a hint of a smile playing on her lips. He gave her one of his dazzling ones, one that didn't go unnoticed in the back by JJ who couldn't help but smile slightly. Spencer as usual when it came to emotional signals didn't even pick up on the gesture.

"Hey Reid. You saying I'm not a genius. Way to make a girl feel good about herself" Emily laughed turning her head to look at the youngest member of the group.

"That's not what I'm saying" He began not noticing the playful tone and JJ clamped a hand over his mouth stopping him before he could start. "It's a joke Reid, it's just a joke" Emily laughed turning back to look at the road.

"Oh… I didn't get it" He spoke up fiddling with the Ipad in his hand.

"For a genius you ain't half clueless sometimes are you" Derek chuckled heartily his eyes now planted firmly on the road. This stretch was narrow and there was an embankment that sloped right up against the side of the road. He drove along it being cautious of where he was going, it was this stretch that had slowed his and Emily's effort to get to the house. Emily… His mind wandered back to her but he shook those thoughts away. They were unprofessional, and he had a job to do, people to save, so those selfish and treacherous thoughts would just have to wait for all this to be over. He didn't know what he felt for the woman, only that it was something far more than just friendship.

"So let's run this, we've got a killer copying iconic film moments who's probably ready to make the leap to his own style. He knows how to kill, how to cover his tracks and he's unpredictable" Emily spoke looking around at the two behind her.

"And that's the most dangerous thing about him. I'm not happy that we may have to wait till someone else dies to nail his ass to the wall" JJ spoke up thinking about who they were dealing. Which would be a lot easier if they knew.

"Hopefully we'll get something soon, with the new information Emily's got us then the chances of this case bringing us more are extremely high" Spencer chipped in as he continued to fiddle with the Ipad. "He eviscerated Emma Davidson, which is commonly substituted for some sort of sexual release, but he had the patience to strip Lynsey and pose her but there was no sexual assault. His victimology and the way he's killing is all over the place, yet it's also organized" Reid added on looking between the group.

"His philia is horror films, he's been so submerged in them that he wants to make his own, he wants to feel what he sees on screen. It's obvious he's idolizing these specific film killers, they mean something to him" Emily chipped in readjusting herself in her seat.

"From the off out the threat assessment was high. This guy is impossible to read, until we get background on him there is nothing more we can add to the profile" JJ sighed unimpressed by things. Their cases were never straight forward but they were also never as confusing as this. The Unsub was a complete contradiction.

"We'll get something. We have to" Emily said strongly pushing that Prentiss power into her voice. She was determined to get justice for these people.

In the white van the man was waiting for the car to go past. Now was their first test, were they strong enough to survive. Was SSA Prentiss worthy to be his final girl. If she survived then she would most definitely be, but if she didn't then he'd have to settle for one of the others. He'd done his research on the BAU, and they were truly a force to be reckoned with. But then again he mused inwardly starting up the engine as he saw large headlights come around the bend, so was he.

"How far out are we?" JJ asked as she placed her stuff in her bag.

"About five minutes, the house is literally just up this-" Emily spoke but stopped when a loud roaring hit her ears. Turning her head she just about managed to catch a glimpe of a white van barrelling down towards them before she was blinded by the headlights. And before she could even do a thing the car slammed into her side of the vehicle, the metal buckling. That was the last thing she saw before her head smashed against the window as her entire world plunged into darkness.

The force of the car hitting them knocked the car off the side of the embankment and rolled continuously down it, the car fracturing apart as it smashed to pieces. Finally the car managed to come to a stop at the bottom of the steep slope. And as smoke filtered out from the vehicle that was on its side there was no sign of life resonating from the SUV.

Cliffhanger for you all. I told you things were getting nasty. So who will get out of this unscathed. So as you've discovered he's completely barking and things are finally starting to make sense, the way he's been killing etc.

For those who don't know what a 'final girl' is then it's basically in horror films, 'Scream' as a perfect example it's always the last woman standing aka Sidney Prescott. The one the story moves around, we still haven't established why he wants Prentiss to be his final girl but he's got her in his sights and that was her first test. Also he needs a supporting cast who need to be culled in order to get her alone, so that was killing two birds with one stone.

Hope I've cleared that up for you friends. I really do hope you're still enjoying this, because I certainly am. You'll be doing me a massive favour by giving me feedback, this story is for you guys, and if you're not enjoying it as much as you should then I need to know what I'm doing wrong or right.

So thanks again guys, next chapter will be up soon.

Gwen.