"Hail the conquering hero!" Kyle was singing and dancing around us in sporadic energetic circles making enough noise I swear he could wake the dead all on his own every time he did this. He always had too much energy for my liking especially when it was late at night when all reason vanished from most normal people like us. We always were out late a lot and were used to it but Kyle never lost his endless boundless energy and we always thought he'd lost his mind even in the middle of the day after a really good night's sleep like a average person. Even if we got out in the middle of the night we were okay as long as we didn't get caught by anyone or get in any trouble. We were out to cause trouble like some people who are out in the middle of night are.
We took a quick short cut through the dark cemetery in our own neighborhood. We always took many short cuts to avoid being seen by people out driving late at night especially cops so we would be caught out at this untimely hour. Not like we cared whatever time we got back home but we didn't want a cop to find us and take us all home because we didn't have a really good excuse for being out this late at night without our parent's knowledge.
"Don't you ever get tired at all Crazy Kyle? Or does your boundless energy come from some other source like aliens for example." I said sarcastically and then I groaned as we walked quickly out of the cemetery but we girls were being quiet while Kyle continued to be loud.
Kyle laughed and said sarcastically. "I was kidnapped by aliens my dear sweet sister Danni." He then continued dancing as if it was a very special and important dance competition for him that was between life and death if he wasn't chosen for first place or something similar. I rolled my eyes as did Mandy and Jessie.
"You know I wouldn't surprise if you were kidnapped by aliens but they let you go because you drove them up the wall and down the other side." Mandy said shaking her head with a sigh.
We walked down the road as usual that night sense we had stopped running as soon as we got to the High School and hidden like all the other times. Jessie had put her hand over Kyle's unstoppable mouth while we were hiding. It was because Morgan had chased us there before but only one time. We always got away when we arrived at the school that was less than a mile from our homes and we hid in the garden area around the front behind some rocks that time. It a senior gift from year 2001. Morgan never tried that again because it was pretty spooky to him how we had just suddenly vanished. He hadn't bothered to look behind the larger rocks or he would have found us hiding.
Kyle quieted down a bit when we got to our street so if any of our neighbors were up they wouldn't see or hear us and tell our parents that we were out past midnight. We were grateful he was quiet now because that it meant he was finally tired too. We were all were ready to jump in to bed and get some much needed sleep before another day at school tomorrow.
My house was the first one we came too on our quiet dark street. We went to the backyard though the gate in the fence that circled around our yard and with a boost from Jessie I climbed a tree and climbed through my window. I poked my head out and called softly, "See you all tomorrow girls, Kyle." I closed my window silently and repositioned the screen so my parents wouldn't notice that it was a little off. If they discovered I was actually sneaking out every night and never really slept over with Jessie or Mandy like I told them I'd be grounded for a month or even worse put in Juvie. My parents were too strict when it came to rules sometimes and all my friends agreed with me on that. My parents hardly ever accepted sleep over's until I begged on my knees to let me go. It was funny that they finally allowed them when I begged and Jessie and Mandy begged as well. What did my mom have against sleep over's we all wondered? She said she'd stay up all night worried. My mother was a worry wart and not to mention she had way too much anxiety over board.
Jessie's was the next house that they came to. They said goodbye on her porch and she slipped in the front door sense her parents would sleep though a bomb explosion right outside their window. Her mom and dad's snores told her no one had even missed her except for her sister Meka who sat on the couch watching TV looked up when she entered. They had a troubled sibling truce; 'Don't tell on me and I won't tell on you.' so Meka pretended it was nothing when she saw her older sister walk in the front door even though it was past midnight and that was totally against the rules in her house. If her parents knew she was out that late she would be stuck in Juvie too. Meka and her both would be because they both broke the curfew rule nightly so it was as if they knew their parents couldn't know about their little rule breaking streaks. They ignored each other after they saw each other breaking the rules and no one was the wiser.
Mandy was last girl and then it was Kyle. Mandy also went to the backyard and up a tree but she climbed along the roof and slid smoothing into her bedroom she leaned out to wave goodbye to Kyle then shut the window and replaced her screen. If her parents knew she would probably be grounded. They weren't a strict as mine or Jessie's but still they wouldn't like her sneaking out every night.
Kyle ran home to get some much needed sleep until school the next day and he had an emergency fire escape ladder that he used to escape his house as he got in he pulled the ladder in replaced it in a box under his window and replaced the screen. Kyle knew if he was caught he'd be thrown in Juvie or more than likely jail. Not to mention he had a record unlike the rest of us. That made three of us that if we were caught would most likely be in Juvie and make it a lot more fun than it should be and Mandy would ask her parents to put her in there as well so she wouldn't miss out on all the fun. We probably would be thrown out on our tails because it would be more like a fun and fantastic party then a punishment to us.
Kyle knocked on Mandy's door the next day as usual so we could walk to school together. None of us had been caught by our parents as far as he could tell. He would know soon enough.
Her dad opened it. "Mandy left earlier this morning I believe." He said to Kyle and shut the door.
Kyle walked to Jessie's, no Jessie.
He went to my house when he knocked but I wasn't there either.
He went to school alone really worried. We always met and walked to school together unless Mandy got a call telling her Kyle was sick or something but why hadn't we waited for him today. He hadn't called so we should have all should've waited for him unless we were going to be late if we kept waiting. Why hadn't we all waited? He wasn't going to be late either
We always skipped second hour to watch the Criminal Minds Clan walk into their offices not that it mattered we dropped out of those classes. In fact our parents didn't know we didn't have a second period class or that we called each other in sick when we got on the Criminal Minds Crew jets. Kyle went alone to watch them enter their office building worried again. He was really worried by the time school ended. He hurried toward our houses and police cars were everywhere in sight especially in front of our houses.
Kyle nearly panicked and he reversed his direction. No way was he going to let them just sit there and ignore him right now. They had to help us as we had all helped them in the past. It was time they returned the favor.
It was obvious our parents realized we hadn't been at school all day. That meant we hadn't left as we usually would in the morning.
Kyle didn't stop until he was standing in the foyer to the offices where the Criminal Mind Clan worked. He gasped out a message to the guards between breaths but they didn't let him in. He had to talk to them. He could help them again and they would help him.
They made him leave thinking he was just an annoying kid trying to get a glimpse of the teams that worked for the FBI.
He paced outside trying to think of what he could do. His closest friends, and only friends he had ever had that had took him into a group of friends that really accepted him for who he was and not what they wanted him to be as far back as he could remember, were missing how stupid was he not to think of a plan quickly. Lucky for him Hotch could see him pacing and wondered why Kyle was here alone. He didn't know we, the girls, were missing quite yet.
Hotch couldn't concentrate any longer with Kyle pacing right outside the window in the parking lot where he could see him trying to think of some kind of ingenuous plan that would work without him being completely suicidal or just plain stupid. Though he knew he was a spy he didn't mind us following them around everywhere even though he acted like it for several reasons which included: we weren't actually official agents, hadn't got through any FBI training yet, we were all still in high school, and we sometimes showed them up very badly which was very embarrassing when it was in front of a bunch of important people. Usually it felt like were where 'little birdies' in the saying 'a little birdie told me.' We knew a lot about investigating and profiling a crime scene and it was sometimes made them feel quite stupid when a kid found out more than a profiler who had been trained for that sort of thing. We showed them up more then he liked to admit and sometimes it just plain embarrassing to them all especially in front of a big group of people who were important in the case they were on.
One time a cop broke out laughing at their faces when we found out the un-sub had dyed his hair green or another unnatural color and put in colored contacts before he went into a shopping mall and started shooting up the place though the camera only showed black and white. The cop said after he stopped laughing. "Why don't we just call these kids instead of the FBI? They do better then you all who are trained for this sort of thing."
"Hotch," Dr. Spencer Reid came in. "We have a call just nearby about a mysterious triple kidnapping. Three girls who are close friends have all have disappeared last night and they are requesting our… Hotch are you even listening to me?" No answer from his head agent who was starring out the window at Kyle's frantic pacing. "Are you all right?" Still nothing "Hotch? What is with you?"
Hotch just stared out the window not even noticing Reid which was not normal for him at anytime. Usually he'd jump into action immediately as soon as he knew they had a case. Finally Reid curiously looked out the window to see what was distracting Hotch and saw Kyle run back into the foyer. He was thrown out this time forcefully by the guards who were getting pretty annoyed with the determined kid. Sometimes kids would do this for a dare but were not as persistent as Kyle was right now because he had to get their help to find us as quickly as possible but not quickly enough for him.
"Hotch, doesn't he look like one of the spies that follow us around everywhere we go! Kyle is his name or that's what the girls called him actually! We don't know if they decided to use aliases around us!" Reid was as surprised as Hotch was that he was alone outside the offices pacing frantically and trying desperately to get to them so he could help them find us.
"Go get the others. Something has got to be wrong or he wouldn't be here all alone without those girls he's always with." He got up as Reid ran to find Gideon, Morgan, JJ, and Garcia. They were surprised as he was that Kyle was here alone and pacing in the middle of the parking lot without the three of us nearby.
They went downstairs and out to see Kyle who was talking to himself angrily. "I just can't believe this. I just don't believe this. I'm never going to talk to them until tonight when they go home. This is totally a disaster. I told them why I was there and what I needed but will they let me up the stairs? No. If I can't talk to them how am I suppose to find the girls? Danni, Jessie, and Mandy are my best friends and my sisters and they have suddenly disappeared and I can't talk to the group so what am I going to do about it right now? I'm not just going to sit here until night. I'm just a kid they say. Doing this for a dare they say. Trying to get a glimpse of the FBI headquarters they say. I'm not just like any other annoying kid that they probably get sometimes. My little, older sisters would have thought of something by now I bet. Oh how I wish one of them was here with me right now. Besides I know they'd do the same thing for me if it was me missing. I can't give up now. I've got to find a way to talk to them. To help them find my little older sisters."
"Of course you aren't just any other annoying kid that comes in sometimes," Garcia said startling him.
"If you mean us when you say 'them' then here we are," Morgan also spoke up behind him.
Kyle whirled around in surprise to see the team of agents they followed and spied on standing behind him.
"I could see you from my office window and you were distracting me." Hotch said. "It's nice to see you again Kyle. Is that your real name or is it an alias you use around us?"
"Kyle is actually my real name." He shrugged "To tell you the truth we aren't dumb enough to think of names for aliases or remember them for that matter unless we are making up a movie which we do for fun during the summer vacation sometimes and then it's funny. So we just use our real names or in Danni's case our nick names and not aliases because aliases are for people how don't really use their brains."
"Where are your friends, the girl's that you spy and follow us around with?" Gideon asked
"The spying thing was Jessie's idea, but all three of them disappeared last night sometime between about twelve thirty am and five am." Kyle told them.
"What?" Reid said.
"I walked them home last night and we got home at about that time." Then Kyle corrected himself. "Well, more like we all walked home together. I live the furthest away. I pick them up every day for school unless I call or am running late and today they weren't there when I went to get them for school and I wasn't going to be late or called to tell them I wasn't coming because I was sick or something. That is a very rare occurrence for one of us not to show when we go. Unless Danni has early morning but she doesn't have those until next week and we usually would know unless it was a last minute one because we are on the technical crew or something to that effect and normally we don't get called for those or if we are sick with a cold or cough crude as we call it we sleep in to get better if we don't have to go to the early morning rehearsals."
"So your three friends, disappeared after you walked home with them last night." JJ said.
"Yes, and that is why I came here. I want your help to find them even if the cops haven't asked for your assistance. Will you help me find them?" Kyle was hopeful that they would say 'yes.' "I know the cops probably haven't requested your assistance yet and you usually wait for that but I am requesting it right now and not taking 'no' for an answer."
"That's why you're here now?" JJ asked. "We will help because you've helped us all many times before and the cops have all ready requested our assistance just about five minutes ago."
"Yes we will help you find your friends for helping us so many times in the past with some of our most difficult cases when you have all shown up and pointed out things we missed," Hotch agreed nodding.
He remembered another case when he had been studying a crime scene and looked up to see us. He had caught us spying on the roof of the apartment building overlooking the crime scene. After yelling at us we all just grinned at him and then we all said. "There's another body that looks worse than that one in the dumpster behind you if you would only take a look. Not to mention we found the bullet shell casings up here so this is where the shooter was when he killed those guys. He might have left a print on the dumpster guy or these shell casings. Oh and we can see their wallets three feet away on the other side of the dumpster. So you can find out their identities if you check them. Any more information you'd like to know? We'll tell you when we find out more."
"What's in the profile?" Morgan had challenged us.
"Let's see." I said. "A white male, between the ages of 16 to 25, he is smart and organized. In fact looks like he has probably done this before and..."
"Okay we get it." Morgan shouted wishing he hadn't challenged us at all when we rattled of stuff they all ready knew from looking at the crime scene.
That was in front of about two dozen police officers and a crowd that had come to see the FBI at work and we had stood them up and embarrassed them once again and that was one of the last times he swore to not call our parents on us when we found out who the killer was before they had a suspect and convinced them to bring him in first and we suggested how they could get a confusion out of him. Though he threatened to call them every time he caught us watching and following them he never did. Besides he didn't know our last names so how was he supposed to call our parents.