REUNITED AND IT FEELS AWKWARD

SCENE TWENTY-ONE

It was the end to a long dreadful case for the Behavior Analysis Unit and their silence on the jet was a sign of it. Agent Spencer Reid settled for a corner bench and fell asleep with no struggle. Agent Aaron Hotchner couldn't shake the case. His job was to know the un-sub, to think a mile in his shoes and know his every move since the day he was born and every move till the day he died. But this case rattled his logic, tore holes into his years of training. He looked at Reid and wondered how such a genius could accept the large gaps in the case and realized he probably didn't and that is why Reid was so tired. He had to shut down his brain and would probably wake up refreshed and have the un-sub figured out.

Looking at Agent Derek Morgan who seemed disturbed Hotchner got up from his back corner seat and joined Derek at the table. "Derek you look like something is troubling you beside the lump on your head." Hotchner watches him lean back in the chair, then look at him.

"Some cases like this one Hotch just leave you wondering what kind of crazies are really out there and how many we don't understand." He hands Hotch some papers with information from Garcia. "This woman who ever she is starts on the west coast and convinces people to follow her. Almost like Manson, but not."

Derek sits up in his chair. "Hotch this woman convinced a successful man to just walk out of a ceremony dinner without question. The dinner was in his honor and he just up and walks away leaving his career, wife and two children behind," Derek's voice is serious. "Another man was working in his field, on his farm, where he has for fifty years and this woman comes along and what? Takes him by the hand and walks him to the promise land. The man left his tractor running Hotch, what kind of a woman can make these men walk away from there life's?"

While listening to Derek trying to find some sort of logic Hotchner reads over the papers. "I don't know how she does what she does but she does it fast. She also changed her pattern. The first crime scene they found twenty young girls from three States left inside an abandoned house. There bodies mutilated in the same manner as this case. The only difference is she didn't stick them in barrels or leave them for someone to find and she was more careful by choosing a few girls from different towns." Hotchner put the papers down and looks out the jet window. "The one thing she is consistent on is young girls who have lost their virtue."

From the forward cabin Kevin Lynch appears. "Hi." He sits on the edge of the seat, across from Hotchner, feeling a little nervous about loosing the laptop. "I just want to say I am sorry. I made such a mess of things." He is at a loss for words.

Both Derek and Hotchner look at him, but only Hotchner answers back. "Kevin, you are not a field agent. You came to do a job. If we had sent the laptop to you it could have detonated at high altitude." Hotchner gives him a tired smile.

"Oh, ah OK!" I umm, I am going to go." Kevin gets up and heads back to the forward cabin then turns. "Hey, Agent Nick is he going to be ok? It has to be hard on him loosing his partner."

"Nick is going to be fine, so is his Partner Jonas." Hotchner sees a surprised look on Kevin's face. "Jonas was lucky. He and Nick would have been even luckier if they had stayed on vacation instead of jumping in this case." Hotchner leans his chair back and closes his eyes giving Kevin the cue the conversation was over.

Far below the Impala is traveling down a dark roadway. Sam is looking out the window, watching a jet pass by overhead. He is exhausted both physical and mental but doesn't want to sleep. He looks at Dean who was dead set on driving. "Hey", he sees the break in silence startle Dean, but lets it go. "Did you get a chance to talk with that Agent Lynch, the one who was trying to break the encryption? He is one of us. Well, sort of. Apparently years ago he was a demon hunter, then just gave it up and went into computers. Now he works for the government and helps hunters when he can.

Responding, his voice a single monotone Dean stares at the road ahead. "Good for us, we now have the demon hotline straight to the FBI." After a moment pause he looks to Sam and then back at the road. "Sam", his voice filled with concern, helping express how unsatisfied with the way things ended in the cave and sick from what he saw. "That was one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen." He looks to Sam. "There is some hell bitch Demon named Onyx out there in charge and she is in the wind. Somewhere out there she is finding another place to do what ever it is she is doing." Turning back to the road Dean seems lost in thought. "We may have helped save three kids tonight, but who knows how many are going to die tomorrow because we didn't get the job done?"

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