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Chapter Two.
Spencer Reid was sat in an office in the Fort Lauderdale Police Department trying to find a geographical connection between the victims but so far he could not find one. Morgan and Garcia had already called him to find out why he did not have the answer yet. However he did suspect that Garcia had been informed of his distraction because of Morgan and that he would not have had a phone call if Morgan had minded his own business.
This case was bothering Reid and the only reason he could come up with as to why is that the girl from the coffee shop had a striking resemblance to one of the victims. Victim number 3 – Stacey Williams, was a student that had grown up in Texas but had moved to Florida as a teenager. This was what Spencer assumed had happened to the mystery girl he was so obsessed about. The physical resemblance was uncanny – both women were tanned, brown eyes and hair that came to their waist. He was jolted out of his train of thought by his phone ringing – JJ. He knew that meant that there had been another body discovered.
"Spence, we've got another body, this one in a park about 2 miles away from the last victim"
"Ok, thanks JJ"
He hung up and tacked another pin into the map, hoping it would give him some kinds of comfort zone for the UnSub. He took a step back. Moved a strand of light brown hair from in front of his face and stared at his geographical profile. After he had placed the 6th pin on the map he realised that the victim dumpsites and places that they went missing from made 2 large overlapping circles. The gap where the 2 circles overlapped meant that that was a place of significance to him as he was placing bodies around that but never in that specific one. That was the UnSub's comfort zone. He phoned Morgan and told him what he had found out. They started heading over to that area. Reid met them there. They BAU, SWAT and local police force we spread out in the park waiting for the UnSub to try and take another victim. Unfortunately when the UnSub had entered the park he had seen one of the SWAT teams waiting for him and he ran. Morgan ran after him, tackled him to the ground and cuffed his hands behind his back but not before the UnSub had taken a swipe at Morgan's face.
Back at the station it was pretty easy for Rossi to get – Connor Matthews – the UnSub to confess. The more he tried to deny the killings the more confused he became until he finally got so angry that he shouted at Rossi that he had killed those girls. Reid was watching the interview and thought that something didn't make sense. Connor could talk about all 6 victims by name but there was another one that he only referred to as 'she'. There was a victim that they hadn't found out about yet. He ran through the station and back to his map with JJ and Prentiss close behind him.
"What's the rush Reid?" Prentiss asked with a slight smile on her face as she watched the younger agent staring intently at the map on the board.
"There's a 7th victim" he said. "We profiled that one of the victims would have a personal connection to the UnSub but none of them do."
"they were probably a substitute for a woman who rejected him or turned him down, like a girlfriend or a fiancé" Prentiss said "but none of the victims do. The only connection they have to the UnSub is that they all look like his sister, but they have been estranged for years. She was supposed to take custody of him when their parents died but she refused."
"Exactly" stated Reid. "She should have been the victim that he cared about the most. She was the one all the other victims were a substitute for."
"Ok, so she was his first victim then" asked JJ
"Yes. She should be buried somewhere that is significant to him – but he never took a victim or buried a victim there." Replied Reid. "There's a park about 20 minutes outside of town, witnesses say that they saw him with a brunette lady that matches the victims' appearance and they seemed to be having an argument."
I'll tell Hotch" said Prentiss as she walked back to the interrogation room where he was watching Rossi interrogate Connor Matthews.
30 minutes later the BAU team – minus Rossi – and the Dog unit were searching the park for Matthews's sister Lucy. The dogs found her buried at the edge of the park. Hotch phoned Rossi to let them know that they had found his sister's body. After confronting Connor about murdering his sister he broke down and said that she was going to leave him again and he didn't want her to go. So he killed her. And then repeated it over and over again.
Before long the team were on the jet back home. Reid was sat staring out the window, JJ was listening to music and the rest of the team was asleep in various different seats. JJ turned off her music and quietly moved to a seat opposite Reid.
"Who is she?" She asked softly.
He cleared his throat before speaking, "I don't know," he smiled "I met her at a coffee shop before the case yesterday morning. I spoke to her for about a minute before I had leave for the BAU but I can't stop thinking about her."
JJ smiled at the thought of the geeky agent finally falling for someone. She hoped that things will work out for him because he was a great guy who deserved someone who loved him. She knew that he struggled with getting a woman's attention. "maybe she's the same, maybe she can't stop thinking about you either" she said.
He scoffed and said "I doubt that. She's beautiful – why would she be interested in me?" he looked rather disappointed at the prospect of her not being interested in him.
"She'd be interested because you're an amazing guy – you're smart, sensitive and one of the kindest most genuine guy I've ever met and any girl would be lucky to have your attention – so you never know maybe this is your chance" she said with a soft smile, she squeezed his hand and returned to her seat as he returned to staring out the window of the jet.
Walking to her seat she saw Rossi smiling at her. Saying nothing she returned to her seat, put on her ear phones and played her music again.
After leaving the airstrip Spencer headed for the same coffee shop that he visited every morning and every night, his thoughts occupied by the Texan wonder who had stolen his thoughts. He bought his coffee and went to leave when he saw her sat in a booth in the corner of the shop with a coffee and the same book that she had been reading the morning before. He took a deep breath walked over to her and said "Hello"
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