No your eyes don't deceive you!!! This actually is an update!! Wow it really has been a long time since I updated this story! I've settled into uni now and I've just finished my first exams and have a 2 week break before classes start again, so I'm going to try and get back into the story and update more regularly (which shouldn't be hard in comparison to this update!!) Anyway hope this chapter makes up for even a wee bit of the time that has passed... Thanks so much for all those who reviewed and those who urged me to carry on - made me very happy: D

Chapter 4: No Connection

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke

"Everyone in the meeting room now!" Hotch called urgently. "You too," he said to Garcia. Morgan looked at Garcia in confusion and followed behind Hotch.

"What's going on? Do we have a lead on the case?" Morgan asked as they all sat down around the table.

"Well you could say that," Hotch replied. "We have a fourth missing woman."

"Oh great," Morgan said under his breath leaning back in his seat. "The same MO I'm guessing."

"A 27 year old female, blond hair, blue eyes went missing from her house sometime yesterday evening."

Gideon, Reid and Prentiss all looked at each other, the knowledge that he was describing JJ making them feel sick. Hotch pressed the remote and brought some images up on the screen.

"These pictures were taken of her house…" Hotch stood back. Morgan looked at the pictures on the screen when a strange feeling came over him.

"Hey that house looks familiar," he said frowning at the screen.

"That's because it is," Garcia said her wide eyes fixed on the screen.

"What?" Morgan asked looking at her.

"That's JJ's house," she said monotonously, the truth sinking in.

"What," Morgan said with a scoff. "But that would make JJ the…"

"Fourth victim," Hotch finished off his sentence as he clicked the remote bringing up a picture of a smiling JJ. Morgan sat and stared at the picture, his eyes wide. He looked at the rest of the team and noticed that none of them looked surprised at the news except from Garcia who hadn't moved a muscle since the pictures had come up on the screen.

"Wait why do I seem to be the only one that is reacting to this?"

"Umm Reid and I went to JJ's house earlier to see why she never turned up to work but she wasn't home. Her door was unlocked and well you saw the pictures… We phoned Hotch and he set up a crime scene investigation and here we are," Emily explained to him.

"Ok so let me get this straight. Yesterday morning JJ goes on national television and breaks the news of the unsub and then that very evening she goes missing?! Was he already after her or did she just really piss him off by breaking the news?"

"I doubt he was already after her," Gideon commented. "He had to have watched the others for days, weeks even, to know their routines – the days Amy's boyfriend stays over, when Josie's dog walker comes. He's devolving. He took a risk with JJ. For all he knew she could have lived with a boyfriend. He had to have JJ which tells us what?"

"Physical appearance is the key element," Emily said. "We couldn't find any connections between the lives of the others – different careers, different hobbies – but that's because there is no connection other than their appearance."

"The fact that the physical appearance of his victims are all the same suggests that he sees them as a female in his life that is causing or has caused him distress," Reid commented. "Maybe a bad divorce or further back into his childhood - abuse or abandonment by his mother."

"Well whatever it was something has majorly set this guys fuse off," Morgan said leaning back in his chair.

"Right Reid, Prentiss, I want you to go back to JJ's house see if you notice anything, talk to her neighbours," Hotch told them.

"Yes sir," Emily said, nodding to Reid

"Morgan I want you…"

Hotch was cut off when there was a loud knock at the door.

"Sorry to disturb," an agent's head appeared around the door. "Detective Lane from Washington PD is on line one. Said it's urgent."

"Thanks," Hotch leaned over and hit the speaker button. "Detective?"

"Agent Hotchner, I hate to be the deliverer of bad news but…we just found a body."

It was as though at that split second the whole world froze. They all felt themselves holding their breaths, their eyes fixed on the phone. It wasn't that they wanted it to be any of the other women, they just didn't know what they would do if it was JJ.

"Whose body is it?"

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