Reid had spent most of his time in Emilie's house. It had been two weeks since he got out of hospital. Morgan didn't suspect anything. Well, at least Reid hoped so. The new case they were dealing with was harder than he expected it to be.

So far, the only thing they could tell about the killer was that they were organized. He sat on Emilie's couch, staring at the file, a million things going through his head. Emilie brought some Pepsi in, throwing a bottle at him and glancing at the files.

"They killed children?"

Reid blinked at looked up at her. "Yes, he strangled them until they were unconscious, then changed their clothes, and left them in their beds until he injected them with a poison."

"I think it was a woman," Emilie said simply.

"Why would you think that?"

"Just by the way she tucked them in instead of just putting them on the bed. I mean, it's not like men don't tuck kids in, but it's just the way she laid them out."

Emilie bent towards the coffee table and pointed at the picture of a young boy. He was wrapped up with a teddy next to him. Reid shuddered at the picture.

"Well, what else makes you think it's a woman and not a man?"

"She bothered to make him comfortable. I could be wrong you know, but she put them in a different pair of pajamas, clearly fluffed up the pillows and tucked them in as if they were her own child."

"A man could easily do the same thing," Reid murmured, though he could see Emilie had a point. "And a female serial killer is rare."

"Rare," she repeated. "But it doesn't mean they're not there."

Emilie crossed her legs like she always did when she sat on the couch and took a sip of her Pepsi. They sat like this most days, or Reid would go for a walk around the house with her.

His phone started vibrating, and he stood up to answer it. Seeing on the screen that it was Morgan who was calling, he began walking towards the kitchen to answer.

"Hey kid," Morgan said. Reid could tell by his tone he wasn't exactly happy today. Reid's eyes drifted towards the door that let to the basement, noting it still had police tape across it. He would ask Emilie about it later.

"Yeah Morgan?"

"Where are you?"

"Just…at home," Reid lied. "Why?"

"You might want to turn on the news."

Reid walked back to the sitting room and took the remote.

"What channel?"

"Any," Morgan muttered.

Emilie looked up from a book she was reading, hearing Morgan's voice. She looked over at the TV as Reid turned on a news station. A red-haired woman in a suit was talking animatedly to the camera.

"Yet another young boy has been murdered in cold blood at five today. This is the seventh child to be killed, yet the killer is still at large…."

Reid sighed in frustration, glancing at Emilie. She raised an eyebrow at the TV, then started looking at the files laid out messily on the coffee table in front of her.

"We'll need you to be here in an hour or two Reid," Morgan said. "We're at the house. I'll text you on the address."

"Yeah, sure. I'm on it."

"Kid…" Morgan sighed. He paused, and Reid waited. "Are you sure you're okay? I mean, you came back to the BAU a little quickly…."

Reid cleared his throat. "I uh, told you Morgan. I'm fine."

"Okay kid."

.*.*.*.

Emilie sat in the house, waiting for Reid to come back.

It was quiet. It always was when he wasn't there. It's why she got so sad when he left. Then all she was stuck with was her own thoughts. She sat in the middle of the living room, just staring at the blood stain on the floor.

Blood was hard to get rid of. She knew that when Corey used to ask her to wash his clothes. She always did, but no matter how hard she tried the blood would only fade to an orange or brown kind of colour.

All she did now was read, or listen to old music from 1940. It was the only music Corey would bother listening too. Everything else was garbage to him. Singers these days were just sluts. Emilie sighed, thinking about the time she asked to listen to a song on the radio from this time, and he freaked.

Reid said he'd be gone for two days. It was going to be a long, long two days.

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