AN- I'm so sorry about the late update. It seems this unusually hot weather is wreaking havoc with our internet and TV. So I'll keep this one short. I just wanted to say thank you for the support in this story and I think the response is generally that you guys are liking it. Keep reading I have lots of stuff planned for this one. So thanks and I'll see you next week.

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Chapter 5

It had been a month since Meghan and Henry had broken up. A month and the shootings had still gone unsolved, with another three victims thrown into the mix. Victimology was all over the place; the only thing linking the victims was that they were all in high school. The whole BAU team were feeling the strain of the case; slowly it was eating away at them. Kids the same ages as Henry and Meghan were being killed. Each time they went to the morgue to look over a victim they saw Meghan or Henry. Each heartbroken parent they spoke to was repeating the words of the parents before, those words slowly being etched into every one of the profilers' minds. It should have been a black and white case; over in a week, but with each new victim it became more chilling and complex.

The BAU sat around the round table, looking over familiar images, reading familiar reports trying to spot something they had missed. "This is getting ridiculous." Morgan finally said.

"We need to see if there is something we have missed." Hotch replied.

"Okay out of the five high schools in the area, the unsub has killed students from four." JJ said.

"Which either says he's waiting to strike the last one or it holds no importance to him." Morgan says.

"Are we sure it's a him?" JJ replied.

Reid nodded. "It's too messy to be a girl."

"Yeah, the amount of shots says rage not revenge." Morgan agreed.

"Garcia, could you check all the students and staff in all fours schools and see if someone has attended or worked at each of them." Hotch instructed.

"I've already checked and I had nothing." Garcia replied.

"Could you check again, just to be sure?" Hotch replied.

"Yeah, if any of you need me, I'll be in the bat cave." Garcia gave a small smile. The weight of the case was even putting a dent into Garcia's spirit.

"We've looked at nearly every angle of this case, who's registered to the guns that have been used, people in the schools, links to the kids; I don't know what else we can do." JJ said saddened.

"There has to be something we missed." Hotch replied, looking to Reid.

"The radius on the geographical profile is too wide to perform any kind of search." Reid responded, running his hand through his hair in frustration.

Morgan looked over a file and grabbed another one quickly afterwards, he paused and thought for a moment before he spoke.

"What's wrong?" Hotch asked.

"I think it's possible that the unsub is their age." Morgan said quietly.

"What makes you think that?" Hotch asked, trying to ignore the fact that it was possible that a seventeen year old was killing his peers.

"It explains why we can't find a link between them, kids just know each other, there doesn't need to be a straight forward link. Whereas with adults most of the time; with these kind of shootings, there has to be some kind of connection. Morgan explained.

"It's true, Henry has God knows how many friends on his facebook I doubt he knows all the kids he's friends with." JJ replied.

"Okay so we're looking for an angry teenage boy." Morgan concluded.

"I think by making our list shorter we've just made it longer, if that makes sense." JJ said. The rest of the team just nodded solemnly.

They sat quiet again for long minutes, before Rossi spoke out "I think we need some fresh eyes."

"Who? We've already had Anderson look over this." Hotch replied.

"Would Strauss be willing for an outsider to help?" Rossi asked.

"I think she just wants this case out of her hair." Hotch said.

"How would she feel about Emily helping us out?" Rossi suggested.

Hotch looked for a minute, he shot a look over to Reid who just shrugged. "I'll go ask, but Reid I think you should call Prentiss before we volunteer her."

Reid nodded. "I'll call her now." He stood up and left the room, leaving the other to chat among themselves.

He reached the front of the building and then phoned Emily, she answered on the second ring.

"Hey,"

"Hi, are you doing anything?" Reid asked.

"Unless you call watching Jerry Springer something, then no. What do you need?" Emily replied.

"We could really use a pair of fresh eyes on this case." Reid started, hoping Emily would get the hint.

"Yeah? I'm sure there's someone in the bullpen that would be more than willing to help." Emily smiled.

"Um" Reid coughed. "We were hoping you would come in."

Silence. "Um, I handed in my badge and gun after everything with Meghan. I'm no longer an agent." Emily replied.

"Hotch is clearing it out with Strauss, so it won't be a problem." Reid stated, "We could really use the help." He added.

"It sounds like it's already been decided." Emily said.

"No, it's up to you; but we really need you Em." Reid assured.

"I uh I don't know if I can." Emily said unsurely.

"Emily please." Reid begged. He could hear her sigh on the other end of the line.

"I'll be there as soon as I can." Emily gave in.

"Thank you so much Emily." Reid thanked.

"Yeah, I'll see you in a bit." Emily said hanging up the phone.

Reid looked at his phone, he could tell Emily was not happy, nor was she looking forward to coming back to the BAU, even if it was for one case. He knew he'd need to thank her properly later. He turned around and made his way up to the bullpen to tell them that Emily was on her way to help.

XXX

Meghan and Stacey sat on the bottom field in school. "Seriously it feels like forever since we last ditched a class." Stacey repeated.

"I know, you've said it four times." Meghan smiled.

"Yeah, I want to know what's happened."

"Nothing has happened; I just wanted to talk to you." Meghan replied.

"You always say that when you don't want to do something." Stacey smirked.

"Okay, I couldn't be bothered to go to Maths, problem?" Meghan asked.

"Yeah, you love Maths, so why do you all of a sudden want to skip it?" Stacey quizzed.

Meghan sighed. "I didn't do this piece of work and I'll get into loads of shit for not doing it."

"Rebel." Stacey laughed.

"Shut up," Meghan laughed back.

"So what stopped you from doing this piece of work?" Stacey asked.

Meghan looked at Stacey, "Well constant texting doesn't create a productive atmosphere."

"Yeah but I don't text you that often." Stacey forced a smile.

Meghan winked at Stacey letting her know that she was kidding. Stacey had been texting Meghan a lot more recently as she kept having massive fights with her aunt, Stacey never went into much detail about what they were about, but Meghan knew that they were bad, there had also been an increase in Stacey staying over Meghan's to get out of her house.

"So what kept you distracted?" Stacey asked again.

"Scott." Meghan said.

"When has he been over?" Stacey asked.

"He hasn't, but we talk a lot." Meghan replied.
"Yeah?" Stacey winked.

"Yes, we talk that is all." Meghan informed.

"Sure it is babe." Stacey winked.

Meghan gave Stacey a shove, "Yeah it is, he knows that I still want time to get over Henry."

"Ah so something has happened." Stacey smiled.

"He told me that he liked me and I said thanks but I'd only just broken up with Henry, he hasn't said anything else." Meghan explained.

Stacey sighed, "Meg, I don't know what you see in him but he's not a good guy."

Meghan rolled her eyes, "You know the 'be careful who your friends are' lecture is seriously getting old.

"I'm not trying to lecture you Meg." Stacey replied.

"Sounds like it." Meghan muttered.

"I'm not, I'm being your friend and I'm trying to look out for you." Stacey reasoned.

"I am perfectly capable of looking out for myself." Meghan replied.

Stacey sighed, knowing she wasn't going to win this argument. Meghan could be too stubborn for her own good.

"Okay, well you know him better than I do." Stacey said.

Meghan chirped up, "He's really great and really funny."

"I'm sure he is." Stacey faked enthusiasm; whether Meghan picked up on it or didn't, Meghan continued to tell Stacey how great Scott was. Stacey nodded and smiled in all the right places but inside she was going insane, everyone else in the school could see that Scott was strange and bad news, so why couldn't Meghan?

"So how are things with your aunt?" Meghan asked.

Stacey looked up at the sudden change of subject. "It's fine." She lied.

"Yeah?" Meghan met Stacey's gaze, "You do know you can tell me what's going on right."

"I know," Stacey nodded.

"Why don't you?" Meghan asked tentatively.

Stacey took a deep breath, "My aunt has got a new boyfriend."

"You don't like him?" Meghan asked.

Stacey scoffed, "He's an asshole, he's stealing off her and I'm sure he's hitting her, yet when I ask her about it she just yells at me and tells me it's none of my business."

Meghan gave Stacey a hug, "I'm sorry,"

Stacey pulled away, "I just don't know what to do."
"Have you tried to prove he's stealing from her to her?" Meghan asked.

"I think she knows."

"Do you want to talk to my dad, I'm sure he'd know what to do."

Stacey shook her head violently, "I can't."

"Sure you can." Meghan disagreed.

"No, I can't, she'd hate me and if I'm wrong then she'll just throw me out."

"Wait, you don't know he's stealing."

"I'm about ninety nine percent sure that he is."

"I'd say that it's worth talking to someone about." Meghan assured.

"I don't know," Stacey sighed.

"If you need anything at all, or if you want to move out, you know my house is as good as yours." Meghan said.

"I don't want to dump myself on you guys."

"Its fine, Emily did it." Meghan smiled.

"I don't think that's the same thing."

"All I'm saying is you are as good as family." Meghan replied.

Stacey gave her another hug. "You're the best."

"So I've been told." Meghan laughed.

Stacey joined in, forgetting about her troubles for just a short time.

XXX

Meghan lingered outside the doorway of her sociology class, waiting for Scott to come out. The teacher had held him behind for some reason and Meghan wanted to know why. Soon enough he walked out of the class.

"Loitering?" He asked as he saw her.

Meghan smiled, "What did she want?"

"Oh just to say well done on my essay and that it's an improvement."

"Yeah," Meghan replied.
"Yeah, I told her that it was thanks to my amazing tutor." Scott beamed.

"Thanks, but it was you that put the work in." Meghan said; they both started walking down the hall.

"So, I know I probably shouldn't be suggesting this but since it's nearly last period, do you fancy skipping it and coming with me to the movies?"

Meghan smiled, "I would but…"
"Relax, it doesn't have to be a date if you don't want it to be." Scott assured her.

"Actually it's not that, I just skipped a period with Stacey so I can't miss another one." Meghan replied.

"Oh, fair enough. Well would you prefer to go to your last period and then go to the movies?" Scott asked again.

"I promised Emily that I'd be home tonight, to help with dinner." Meghan excused herself again.

"Who's Emily?" Scott asked.

"She's my um mom." Meghan replied.

"Do you call your parents by their first names?" Scott asked.
"No, it's a long, complicated and very boring story." Meghan replied.

"Well when are you free?" Scott asked.

Meghan thought for a moment. "I'll call you."

"Right, I'll wait for that call then." Scott smiled.

"I'll see you around."

"See you." Scott waved as Meghan walked into her class.

Meghan sat down at her desk, wandering whether she would call Scott and take him up on his offer of a movie. She wasn't sure how she felt about him, she knew she liked him and found him attractive but with everyone telling her to be weary part of her was screaming to keep him at arms length, she just didn't know how strong that part was.

XXX

Meghan walked through the door of the apartment, "Emily, I'm home." She called out. There was no reply. "Emily?" Meghan called again. She threw her bag on the floor and took slow steps further into the apartment, "Mom?" She tried again. She saw a note lying on the kitchen table as she walked in. She walked over and read over the note.

"Hey, your dad has asked me to go into the BAU, to help with a case, I'm sorry I can't take you out tonight but I'll see you later. Love Emily xx"

Meghan read the note over again. What would the BAU want with Emily and more importantly why did Emily go, when she had said to Meghan that she didn't want to go back. Meghan put the note down on the table and pulled out her phone calling a familiar number.

"So about that movie?"

Hmmm so what do you think of that chapter? Are Meghan and Scott hooking up? What do you think of Emily going back to the BAU? What do you think about the case? Please let me know your thoughts, or you can follow or favourite. I'll see you all next week. Rhian.