"…I am upset. FanFic keeps screwing up the little image of my profile pic on my story page and it won't let me open over half the stories on the CM archieves! ;( I hope you guys like the story! R&R…?"

White Light- Chapter 2

The Usual 'Storyline'

The team landed in Las Vegas a few hours later. As soon as they reached the station, they were given a place to set up and greeted by the police force. With grim looks on their faces, they retired smaller details of the case to the BAU team.

"The victims are all young children who excel in school. All A's, skipped grades, advanced classes- the usuals. All of them received a letter convincing them to commit suicide." The deputy said. "We need to find the sick bastard who's doing this before he hurts another kid."

"That's why we're here." Hotch nodded. "If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to have one of your cops join my agents at the crime scenes. We need to go back over the scenes to look for more information that we can use to help shape a more accurate profile. While my agents do that, I want the BAU team liaison to help handle the press."

"Sounds like a plan." Deputy Aisley nodded. "I'll send Greg Maeyers out with your agents."

"Thanks." Hotch nodded.

Aisley motioned for a black-haired officer to join their gathering, and he introduced the man as Greg. With a curt nod from the officer, Greg and Hotch left to the crime scene….

~* WL *~

Reid and Prentiss visited the latest crime scene with Greg and Hotch. While Greg and Hotch processed the evidence and started gathering information about the victim, Prentiss and Reid focused on the crime through the UnSub's point of view.

"It's going to be harder to build a profile than usual." Hotch explained as Greg asked why they were going to about the investigation so differently. "The crime scene only consists of a dead child and whatever the child touched. That's why we need more than just a crime scene."

"What else do we need?" Greg asked.

"We need to get inside the child's mind- think like he did, react the way he did." Reid answered. "We have to find out how the UnSub knows these children."

"Wait, so he knows his victims?"

"Of course." Prentiss nodded. "He knew they were going through counseling because of their parent's divorce, knew they were smart, and probably knew a lot more than that as well."

"We've gotten all we needed from here." Hotch said as he stood up. "Let's go back to the station and put everything together. After Morgan and Rossi come back from the morgue, I'm going to send Reid and Greg to the child's house."

"So you're going to gather everything you can first before you come to a conclusion?" Greg guessed. "Will that help build a more accurate profile?"

"Yes, it will." Hotch nodded. "In this case, there's little to go by from the crime scenes, and the information we have gathered may be taken different ways. In order to understand what each piece of evidence means about our UnSub's character traits, we have to have more to go on."

"All right." Greg nodded. "I think I'm starting to get this whole profiler thing." Prentiss smirked at that.

"Come on, let's go back to the station."

Hotch and Prentiss headed back to the first SUV, and Greg and Reid hopped in the second one. With a final nod from the profilers, they left the crime scene….

~* WL *~

Greg and Reid knocked on the door of the victim's house, both of them a little on edge. They both hated cases involving children, and trying to calm down the victim's parents wasn't very fun either.

"How can I help you?" a petite brunette sniffed from the doorway.

"Hi, my name is SSA Spencer Reid, and this is Greg Maeyers. We're working the case-"

"Involving my child. Yes, I've heard about the BAU's entrance on the case." She nodded. "What can I do to help?"

"We need to see you son's room, if you wouldn't mind. We're looking for anything that could tell us more about how the man who did this could have contacted him- maybe from a school event, online, or maybe not at all. With your permission, we'll search his room to find that information out." Greg explained.

The mother seemed doubtful, but she shook her head. "If it'll help find out who took my son away from me, yes. His room's on- was on the second floor, first door on the right."

"Thank you." Reid nodded. "You're doing a great job helping your son and all those other children's parents have closure. You're doing the right thing."

"T-thanks." The shaken mother sighed. "I needed to hear that."

With a sad smile from Reid, Greg and himself walked up the staircase and into the child's room. The two young men scanned the room, looking for any obvious signs of trouble.

"Dinosaurs…. books…. posters…pictures…." Greg droned. "Nothing here screams suicidal to me."

"Just the usual storyline." Reid mumbled.

"Meaning…?"

"This child isn't suicidal, that much we can establish. Something pushed him, though, and we need to find out what that is. It seems most likely that the UnSub might have actually told the child to commit suicide. Assuming this, the UnSub is someone important to the child, and he will do anything to please him." Reid explained.

"Or the kid thought the UnSub was someone important to hi." Greg sighed. "Come here; we've got a letter." The cop carefully picked the letter up and passed it to read, who quickly read the letter.

"This is it." Reid nodded. "This is how the UnSub targets his victims."

"Yeah, and I bet that if we go back to the other victims' houses, we'd find the exact same letter."

"You're right; this is the UnSub's signature. Good work."

"Tell that to my supervisor." He smirked.

"Well, I'm sure he all ready knows that." Reid smiled.

"Yeah, well, he doesn't take well to the skinny jeans or jet black hair, if you get my drift." Greg sighed. "He says I need to look more professional, but I told him this was Vegas; a cop dressed like a teenaged punk was to be expected." Greg and Reid shared a quick laugh before heading down the stairs with straight faces and the letter in hand.

"Did you find anything?" the mother asked hopefully.

"Yes, we did actually" Greg nodded.

"We found a letter addressed to you son, and it was signed in his father's name. It… it says that he should kill himself because he's such a disappointment." Reid said.

"No, Daniel wouldn't have done that. He loved his son!"

"Loved…?" Greg asked.

"Well, yes." The mother nodded. "Daniel died shortly after we divorced. It was part of the reason why my son, Davis, was in therapy for so long."

"When exactly did he die?" Reid asked.

"About six months ago. Why?"

"He couldn't have written this letter, than." Greg replied. "This letter was written less than a week ago."

"How can you tell?"

"It's not faded yet, for one thing, and someone used a fountain pen to write this. Fountain pen ink would have smudged a little after a few weeks, but these letters are still perfectly crafted." Reid said.

"And the less complicated answer is that your son would have almost immediately committed suicide upon reading this letter. There was no way he would have just held on to it for so long without acting upon it."

"So my husband didn't do this, right?"

"Your husband's innocent." Reid reassured.

"I never thought he wasn't, to be honest." She sighed. "Is there anything else you need?"

"No ma'am. That would be all."

"Well, all right. I'll… I'll show you to the door, then." She nodded. "If there's anything I can do, just let me know, all right?"

"Of course." Reid nodded. Greg waved good-bye and the woman and followed Reid out the door. Just as he was about to say something, Reid's phone started ringing.

"Hotch, what is it….? Of course; we'll be right there." He sighed.

"What is it?" Greg asked.

"They found another body."

"….You should know that I didn't purposely try to rip off Greg of CSI, but I think I kinda did. I decided to name him Greg, and it all went kinda downhill from there. Whoops. Also, sorry for all the dialogue, but there really was no other way for me to get all that info out any other way ;( Things get interesting in the next chap. Hehehe….R&R….?"