Tuesday arrives for the whole team with an urgent case that sends them off to San Antonio, Texas.
When they arrive in San Antonio they are taken to the local prescient and are provide with all the information they have on the case.
Two bodies have been found. Not yet identified. Hotch quickly gets Garcia to run the DNA profile through her data base to see if they can any matches. Sadly they can't get fingerprints from the victims as their fingers have been burned; teeth are missing from their mouths. Their only real hope of getting the true identity of the victims is via DNA.
By late afternoon they have a match on one body. It was of a missing nineteen year old boy. During the afternoon they found more things in common with the bodies, not just the dumb site.
Once they got the name of the first victim Hotch sent Morgan and Reid off to talk to his family and as it was late Hotch knew he could have dinner with Emily without causing too much of a stir. He asked JJ and Rossi what they wonted and he ordered in Chinese for the four of them and some extra for Morgan and Reid.
An office brings in their order to the room that they have. They push some of the files aside and take out the food and start eating.
Hotch sits down beside Emily but not to close just in case an officer comes in, Rossi and JJ does the same of the course the girls are side by side as well.
As they are eating Thy have photos of the crime senses out in front of them looking at them hoping something might come up as they are talking in general about what is going on with each other and also Rossi and JJ being pleased the two have taken that next step in their relationship.
While they are eating and talking Hotch moves his hand so it is resting on Emily's knee, he gentle caresses her knee as they are talking. Once their meal is finished they get back to working on the case, it wasn't long later when Morgan and Reid enter with more information, and Morgan notices Emily is on the phone and what looks like Hotch's phone. He semi listens in and catches her saying "goodnight" and "I love you" to whoever it is, before saying "goodbye and see you when I get home." She doesn't say any names or anything and when she hangs up she notices Morgan looking at her.
"No Morgan you're not finding out who it is." She says before sitting down. JJ Gives Emily a smile before Hotch asks for Morgan to go over what they got.
Hotch's phone then goes off and Morgan notices that he has a different looking phone to the one he had on their last case. As he is talking he says the name Jack and they all know it is his son he is talking to.
"Ok why have you two got different phones?" Morgan asks as he points to Emily and Hotch.
"Present from my in-law's." Hotch says to them, even though in truth he had to change because his old phone and Emily's phone were too much alike neither one wanted to accidently pick up the others phone.
"Prentiss?" Morgan asks again.
"I sort of dropped mine and it is now broken, Hotch loaned me his old one since it was a company issued phone and plus I didn't have time this morning to go sort out getting issued with a new one." She plays off the whole thing as if it really happened, while Rossi rolls his eyes into the back of his head. Yea right my foot, hers didn't break, and that one is not from his in-laws, they just need different looking phones now they live together. Rossi thinks to himself.
It ended up being a late night for them all.
The following morning the team arrive early after Hotch received a phone call from Garcia with information on their second victim. She also was a missing child. They start to work background on both finding places they may have been, anyone they may both know. JJ and Reid head off to interview the parents to get anything they can do to help.
The day goes by quickly and they find a pattern. The two were last seen in the same area as each other, when they search the missing data base they find eight more taken from the same area. They start getting the families in to interview them. To see if there was any link between all the missing people. They also find that the age ranged from eighteen to twenty; all had decided to take a break from study their current studies or before starting their studies.
This helps them with the profile of the unsub.
By late afternoon they have more information to go on from the families and as Garcia is doing her magic at her end she also comes up with something in common with all the suspected victims.
Though come eleven o'clock that night they still have no idea who is behind it all.
All they have is 2 dead, 8 missing, all last seen in the same area, all at some stage went to the same travel agency, and also all talked to the same career adviser that travelled around the school in the area, and then the mall, they all visited the mall the day they disappeared. That was the only thing that was common before they were taken; the others were weeks, days, and months before going missing. The Mall was the only thing that they all visited the day they went missing.
The reports back show that they were feed, and given water. They were cared for in away, but they did die from the internal injuries they suffered. The female showed signs of sexual activity before her death.
For Emily that night she struggled to go to sleep around 1am she texted Hotch and told him she was coming to his room. She need someone to hold her, she was having another bad day, well night. His door is already ajar when she gets there she lets herself in and shuts it behind her before crawling into bed with Hotch and snuggling up to him he wraps his arms around her and she lets the tears fall, he gentle rubs her back providing words of comfort before they both drift off to sleep. Wrapped up in each other's arms.