The Killer's POV:

You'd foolishly hoped that your attempt at a cover up would have been enough; however, you had a feeling that they would only view it as antagonizing them. You poke Spencer with the gun, hoping to frighten him a little further, and prod him forwards. Once you reach a suitable looking vehicle – a pick up truck- you poke him into the back and put the cover over his head. You reach into your purse and inject a sedative into his bare arm, for good measure; after all you wouldn't want him thrashing around in the back now would you? You hop in the front and start up the engine, glad to be on your way out. You step on the gas, eager to leave the place as quickly as possible and get that phase of the kill over with. You never really enjoyed the hunt, or the capture, for you… it was all about the kill. And this kill, would be a special one.

Finding Reid had been a piece of cake. You'd known where he lived for a while; he mentioned it once when in conversation with you. You found out that he lived on the fourth floor in a six floor building, and that his apartment number was 24 from a helpful man behind the desk of his apartment block. The apartment number seemed quite symbolic, since the first time you met he was 24. Getting to his apartment building hadn't been as easy, escaping the BAU hadn't been much of a problem, escaping the FBI compound was the problem. Although, to be clear, it wasn't that much of a problem either. Getting to Spencer's house had been quite easy, you walked. You knew boy-genius would live close to work, and you could walk or take the tram, you did a bit of both in truth, as you suspect Spencer used to do on his daily commute before buying a car . Once you arrived, you were in luck. Spencer had just arrived home, driving his worn out car. You hid amongst the cars for a while, debating just running in, snatching and sedating him before he knew what hit him. But that was not an option. You wanted to see his face as he figured out who you are, you wanted to see his face crumple, twist and eventually tear up. You wanted him to pay. And pay he would, there was no doubt about it.

Hotch's POV:

You head up with the rest of the team in the conference room, treating this like just another case. Except, it isn't just another case, and you can feel the tension in the room as everybody tries their hardest to bring Reid back. Word gets round to Garcia as soon as the team arrives in the BAU, you see her come into the conference room with her laptop, ready to help. You feel for her, as Garcia probably feels Reid's loss more keenly than the others, not being as hardened as you and the team.

"Alright, what do we know so far?" you ask the team, hoping to ignite some ideas.

"We know that the unsub is a white female, between the ages of 25 and 35. Her previous kills all mimicked one person, all the same type of person as Reid", Interjected Morgan.

"From the victimology we can assume that the men she killed were surrogates for one male, she probably has disdain for them due to loss of a similar person in her life, or being hurt by someone similar to them. This can be seen by the way she stabs her victims repeatedly post-mortem, after having previously tortured them, as seen by the ligature marks and various other bruising and markings", Continues Prentiss.

"What was the name she was operating under again?" you ask.

"The Archer" replies JJ.

"Garcia, I want you to research the significance of 'The Archer', mythology, historically, anything that may be of importance to this killer."

"Yes sir. Would you like me to run her prints again from the hand cuffs in the interrogation room?" asks Garcia.

"That would be helpful, try to gather anything else you can find on our killer, we didn't get to question her, which means we have a lot of blank spaces here." You say, "Also, Prentiss and Morgan, I want you to go over previous kills, safe houses and favourite areas to kill. Try to get an indication of why she likes these areas, why in particular did she choose whichever place to kill her victims. Try to build a geographical profile. I want to know her comfort zone, and her home."

You watch as Morgan and Prentiss stand to leave the room, their faces showing determination. Garcia has already started running multiple searches, you will never know how she can do so many things at once, but you know that it has saved a case on many occasions. You turn to address JJ.

"JJ, I need you to deal with the press, make sure that they don't get wind of this, or our entire search will be a media circus."

"I'm on it. Should I also deal with any media surrounding the previous murders, or just Reid's abduction?"

"I suggest that you cover all the media surrounding the entire case, but pay close attention that nothing of Reid's abduction is covered, we need the killer to think that her efforts have gone unnoticed for now."

"Understood." She affirms.

She stands up and leaves the room, leaving you, Rossi and Garcia together. Rossi is watching Garcia with awe as her hands move at lightning speed to cover the entire keyboard.

"Rossi, I need you to come with me, we're going back over the killer's profile, there has to be something we've missed."

"Alright, but I think we should take a closer look at the scene at Reid's, something about it doesn't fit with the profile we'd already put out for this killer. For instance, it's far too dramatized to be her, yet, we know for a fact it is her. Do you think that the other victims were all surrogates, and Reid is her final target?"

"What would make you think that?"

"At all the other scenes she left some indication of where we would find the bodies of her victims, in this case, she left no indications, teasing clues, nothing. Also, she hasn't killed him. That in itself is odd as she always tortures victims in their own homes, murders them there and then dumps them in a far off location. She's never abducted anyone before."

"You're right. We could be looking at an unsub for whom Reid is the final target. This means that it will also be the most spectacular in her mind and she will stop killing after confronting him. We need to find him before she reaches that goal."

You and Rossi walk out of the conference room and into the bullpen to find Prentiss hunched over a map, the look on her face cool and determined. She is deep in concentration and you don't want to hinder any progress she may be making. Morgan, on the other hand, is busy organizing crime scene shots around a map, trying to figure out what it is about the location that struck the unsub as useful.

Rossi's POV:

You sit in the passenger seat of the SUV, not trusting yourself to drive carefully with the onslaught of rage bubbling through your veins. You wait patiently as Hotch climbs into the driver's seat and turns on the ignition and begins to drive out of the car park below the FBI. Once you're on the open road, you resign yourself to the thoughts that have been swirling in your head since visiting Reid's apartment.

The Unsub must have gotten in somehow, either through the front door, posing as a friend of Reid's then sneaking into the electrical room and cutting the floor's power supply, or through the back and followed Reid up to his apartment. In which case, how did she manage to cut the power so efficiently, and get into Reid's apartment at just the right time? It doesn't make sense. However, if she already knew what floor and which apartment he lived in, and then took the trouble of throwing you off by shorting the entire floor, it would have been remarkably easy for her to watch Reid and wait for the opportunity to present itself. However, you suspect that she arrived at the same time that Reid did, took the opportunity to watch him from a distance. Then, she stole inside, picked the lock of the electrical room, shorted out the floor and snuck upstairs before Reid could suspect a thing. Reid would have entered to a dark apartment, and would have been unable to turn on the lights. Not knowing if it was just his apartment or not, he would have gone into the landing to check, and, seeing the lights, would have assumed that every other apartment had electricity. If any other tenants had the same qualms about their electricity they would only need to check the landing, and seeing as it had electricity, they would draw the same conclusion as Reid. Having watched him walk out to the middle of the landing and try the lift for electricity, she took the opportunity to walk into his apartment and settle herself in wait for Reid. A simple yet effective plan.

Now all you have to do is figure out what motives are fuelling this unsub.

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