Unedited so I could get it posted.
House of Mirrors- Double Feature

As Garcia made her way on stage, Benjamin walked behind the small bench the BAU was sitting on. He then made his way to the other side of it and placed his hand on JJ's shoulder. "Go on, it's your turn, too." JJ's eyes went wide, but before anyone could respond she was being escorted onto the stage. Cole grinned side to side as the BAU agents were forced onto the center stag spotlight. "Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen," Cole greeted once the stage was resituated. "To celebrate the second half the show, we have a special double feature! Our lovely guests here- JJ and Penelope- will be performing for you."

Then, from the corner of the stage, three young women still dressed in the circus's theme appeared back on the stage. "Audience, please welcome back Silas and Clement, and welcome Jamie for the first time to the stage." Cole applauded as the three performers bowed. They quickly popped back up at the same time and arranged themselves on either side of the two profilers. Cole nodded at the three circus freaks before turning his attention back to the bench in the middle of the room surrounding the stage. "Jamie is our juggler this year, and in case you've forget, Silas and Clement are two of our acrobats. Jamie will be working with Penelope, and the other two will be with JJ. Ladies, I hope you're ready- let the show begin!" Cole then took a quick bow and walked off stage.

JJ and Garcia's eyes widened as they shared horrified looks. They were screwed. Fortunately they didn't have time to think of what might go wrong, as they were soon whisked to the sideline by the three ladies as ropes were thrown from the ceiling. "I'm sorry," Silas whispered before placing a hand on JJ's shoulder. "Just follow our lead and you should be okay."

"Yeah, same here," Jamie sighed to Garcia. "Juggling shouldn't be too hard for you to catch on to as long as you watch me a few times before you try. It should be easy enough….hopefully."

"Hopefully," Garcia repeated, nodding her head.

"Now, let the show begin!"

Without any further warning, the two acrobats jumped up on their ceiling swings, pulling JJ up with them. The profiler yelped as she was thrown up in the air, and narrowly did she finally catch on to one of the swings. Seconds later, just as she finally had found a balance, Silas came by and swooped her up and off of her branch. "I'm sorry," the performer whispered before passing her off to Clement. Only then did she catch on to what the performers were doing- they were placing her exactly where she needed to be before she fell trying to do it herself and so she wouldn't just stay still and have Cole yell at her. A small smile graced her face as she turned toward Clement. 'Thank you,' she mouthed. Clement just smiled back before passing her off to the nearest bar.

On the ground Jamie threw a series of rings up in the air. Her eyes flickered over to Garcia before she nodded. It was her turn to try out the 'stunt'. The blonde technical analysis took a deep breath before bracing herself to catch the rings. It seemed simple enough, really. How hard could it be? Finally the ring was tossed at her and interrupted her thoughts. Thankfully she had been paying attention enough to catch it, and without hesitation she threw it back to Jamie. The juggler smiled at her kindly before throwing the next to, this time a bit quicker. Soon enough the rings were flying back and forth between the two of them without skipping a beat.

"Come on," Cole hollered from the sidelines, "make it interesting!"

"Slow down a little bit," Jamie whispered to Garcia. "We have to switch rings."

"To what?" Garcia frowned. She had a feeling whatever they were about to use was just a little too interesting for her.

"The fire sticks."

Without any warning Jamie threw the ring in her hand down and swapped it for said stick. She tossed it at Garcia, who nervously caught it. Soon enough they were juggling with three stick of fire instead of three plastic rings.

"Are you okay?" Jamie asked, trying to distract Garcia from her thoughts.

At that very moment Garcia almost dropped a stick. Luckily she caught it, but unluckily she burnt herself doing that. Jamie made a face, obviously catching it out of the corner of her eye. "I'm fine," Garcia smiled. "It'll be fine." Jamie just smiled; she wasn't convinced.

Up in the air Clement and Silas were frowning at each other as they pushed JJ back and away from them. "He's expecting tricks," Silas sneered. "This isn't going to end well."

"I've got an idea," Clement said quickly. "Whenever we have to do a trick, we make sure JJ's in between us so that he won't see her. Is that okay, JJ?"

"I don't have any other ideas," JJ sighed, nodding her head. "That's fine with me."

"Let's do it," Silas sighed.

The two acrobats grabbed either hand on JJ and flipped in the air, giving the appearance that JJ was flipping too. In reality they had let go of her hands so that she could grab on to the bar and swing back and forth. The mirage seemed to be working, too, as Cole clapped and applauded as they flipped and twirled through the air.

Finally, Cole ran up to the center of the stage and called the acrobats down. Jamie caught the sticks one by one as Garcia threw them at her. Seconds later the sticks were out of flames and went crashing down to the floor. The performers gathered around Cole and waited there for further instruction. "Thank you, everyone, thank you! You were all fantastic, as I'm sure the audience would agree. Now, off with you all! The show isn't over yet!"

As the two FBI agents were escorted off stage, Benjamin made his way back to the audience. The assistant stopped in front of Reid and motioned for the young man to stand. "You're next," he informed.

~* HoM * ~

Rossi and Will came back from the circus grounds with a bit less evidence than they were hoping for. Fortunately they had found enough- a brush with hair on it, a few broken and torn up tents, and a few other little things that may or may not lead to the help of them finding where the circus ended up next. Now they sat in the BAU office waiting for the evidence to be scanned and for their interviews to finally begin. "You need to know we'll find them-" Rossi started, but he was interrupted by Agent Anderson running into the room.

"Agent Rossi, Will, we've got something," he smiled as he slowed down to a halt.

"What is it?" Will asked hopefully.

"We know where the circus went."