Christina crosses her arms across her chest and looks across the desk at Hotch, "You can't just put your neck out there Aaron, it's gonna get chopped off one of these days."
"You are the best in your class, you've been around this stuff anyways." Hotch watches her.
"You can't do this just because of who my father is or was. I know you and Gideon both trained under him, but come one." Christina sighs deeply.
"This team needs you." Hotch says, "It's already cleared for you to stay."
"I'm barely in and I'm already BAU material?" Christina laughs, "I may think highly of myself Aaron, but I'm pretty sure even I don't think that highly of myself."
"Christina," Hotch looks at her seriously, "You've basically been training for this you're whole life. We need fresh eyes, we need you're eyes. I can't force you to stay, nor can I demand you be happy about it. However, I can ask that you give it a try."
"As long as it's not my neck getting chopped, I'll do whatever you ask." Christina sets up, "Besides, I'm kinda enjoying it."
There's a knock at the door, and JJ opens it slightly, "There's a case guys." she says.
"We'll be right there." Hotch says, turning back to Christina, "I trust this conversation is over?"
"Oh yes, you're big bad bossiness, it's over." Christina smiles.
"You know a little respect wouldn't be uncalled for." Hotch says leading her out of the room.
"Oh come on Hotch, I'm respectful. When I wanna be." she shoots him a smile before heading to the conference room.
"What in the world have I gotten myself into?" Hotch asks quietly.
"Hole worlda trouble if I had to guess," Garcia says, patting him on the back, "Kids go spunk."
Hotch shakes his head, sighing as her enters the conference room with his team. "Okay, little boys anywhere from five to seven are being abducted and killed. They are all strangled, with signs of sexual assault." JJ says ounce everybody is seated.
"Reeks of Petifile." Christina says.
"That's one way to say it." Reid says, "But what makes this a case for us, I mean..."
"This mark." JJ says pointing to a picture on the bored.
"Is that a..." Morgan asks.
"Yes, it's carved into the boys chest, and his penis had been removed." JJ says.
"Could suggest the killer has sexual issues." Emily says. "Or he's keeping them as trophies."
"Well, it's not unlikely that he's keeping them as trophies." Reid says.
"Well, either way this is just sick." Morgan says.
"The fact that he's carving it into their chest suggest that he's having second thoughts about the removal." Rossi says.
Christina looks down at the picture, "There's blood." She says mostly to herself, "Blood suggests that the boys were still alive while he disfigured them. And the carving is careful, and bloodless. Suggesting they were dead when he done them. It's possible he could be replacing what he took." She looks up.
"You mean he removed the boys penis, then when he's finished he puts it back, by carving it into their chest?" Emily asks.
"Makes since, if he's sexual confused, then he could be removing it, having sex then putting it back." Rossi says.
"He strangles them right?" Christina asks.
"Yes," JJ says.
"How, manually?" Christina asks.
"Yeah there's hand prints on all of them." JJ says.
"We need Garcia to look through files from surrounding states. With the precision of these three bodies, he's most likely killed before perfecting his method." Christina says.
"Right," Reid nods.
"I'll get right on that," JJ says.
"Okay, legs up in an hour." Hotch says.
Everybody leaves the conference room, making their way back to the bullpen. Christina sets down at the desk they had given her, and finds a large envelope. She opens it to find picture of herself and the team with a note that reads, 'Nice new team you got there, mind if I kill them?' She looks around quickly to see who may have delivered such an envelope. Nobody stands out. Sighing, she quickly puts it away in the brief case she's taking with her. They were headed to Texas; surely this could wait, right?
As promised legs went up in an hour, they arrived without hassle or delay. All minds focused souly on the case in front of them. A new body had been discovered at a local lake area. Reid, Morgan, and Christina make their way there quickly. Ounce there they go about looking over the body of the seven year old, throwing out ideas and observations. Christina stands up to look around to things that may come to mind in the surrounding area, while Reid wonders a little ways away to talk to one of the local officers. There's only three on scene as it is. Just as her eyes are sweeping the hillside across the creek she sees it. She's not sure what it is at first, but upon closer inspection she knows exactly what it is, "Everybody down!" she yells, tackling Morgan as a shock rings out.
"What in the hell?" Morgan asks, but she's already got her gun drawn looking to where she had seen the gunman. Nobody is there.
"Who would be shooting at the FBI?" Reid asks ounce the danger has passed, "And you're bleeding, are you hit?" He sees the blood stain on Christina's shoulder.
"No, just grazed. Lets get back to the station, I need to see the team know!" Christina says.
Morgan stops her, "Cool your jets there, first we get you looked at."
"You don't understand Morgan, you're all in danger." Christina insists.
"What do you mean?" Reid asks.
"There was an envelope on my desk after the meeting, had pictures and a note in it. But I thought, we would be safe, I mean who else could have known we were coming to Texas." Christina says.
"What did this note say?" Morgan asks leading her to the EMTs.
"It said, 'nice team you got there, mid if I kill them?'" Christina recites.
"Well, that's just great. When you get shit like that you tell us, okay Kid?" Morgan says.
"First off, don't call me a kid, second off, I thought it was a prank on the new girl." Christina says.
"She's right, it coulda been a prank." Reid says putting an arm around Christina ounce the EMTs are done.
Christina wraps her arms around herself not looking anybody in the eyes. Hotch huffs very loudly, "Do you know much danger you put all of us, yourself included in? Do you realize that we were all very unprotected out there?" Hotch looks over at her.
"I thought it was a joke!" Christina yells, "Some sort of new initiation, I mean, it happened at my old unit." She sighs heavily, "I didn't mean anybody to get hurt. I'm just glad I'm the one, I'd never forgive myself if it was one of you and you all know that."
J.J. stands up "Come on guys.. I think we need to focus on finding this guy rather than getting all worked up about what is done with. I've already called Garcia and she is looking over the security videos trying to find out who dropped the envelope on Christina's desk"
Morgan rubs his head, "Did you happen to bring it with you?" He asks Christina who nods, "Let me see it."
"So is this priority or is the serial killer we're after?" Emily asks.
"The serial killed, look I got us into this somehow I'll get us out okay?" Christina says, she hands the envelope to Morgan, "But I want you guys to find who's killing these boys."
Reid looks around at the group and speaks up "Curious" as he stands up "This unsub surfacing now.. Is it possible that maybe our two unsubs are one in the same? Maybe these killings have no meaning to our guy. Maybe he is using the nature of the crime simply to draw us out to where he is comfortable."
"But why use me?" Christina asks looking up at him, "Because I'm the new girl?"
"No..Not that you are the new girl" Reid responds "Our unsub has probably been following you for awhile now, and has simply chosen now to act"
Morgan looks up, "He's right. Did you work on any murders while on the until?"
"Yeah, several actually. Mostly second strain, but a couple higher profile." Christina answers.
"Any stalkers?" Emily asks.
"Not really. There was one guys who stalked his victims...but he's in jail." Christina answers
Rossi looks at her and asks "Is it possible that he's gotten out? We should check it out and rule him out"
Christina frowns, "Thing is, the guy we picked up, he was a bad ass guy. But he wasn't a stalker. I mean he confessed, but I told them he didn't do it." She pauses, "He had killed before, you could tell, but he wasn't patient enough for that type of murder."
"So, you're saying the guy is still out there?" Emily asks.
"I'm saying we put a bad man behind bars, but it wasn't the bad man we were looking for I don't think." Christina says, "But that's between us, my old supervisor finds out I told you that and I'm in trouble."
"Do you have any idea who this guy is?" Reid asks "Anything to go by??"
Christina shakes her head, "No all my files were left at Quantico. They're locked in my desk, but if Garcia could get into my desk she could fax what we needed."
Hotch nods, "I'll call, give her permission to break the locks."
Christina rolls her eyes, "Or tell her to use the spare keep taped to the underside."
"Right," Hotch nods.
Christina sighs, "I'll tell you what I remember. The case was four cops, murdered while out with their families. They were shot sniper style. But the guy followed them for weeks before they actually killed them. He sent cards after each murder that said, 'See I can kill just like you.' When Sam Patricks was caught he had the sniper rifle, but they never tested the handwriting. He um, confessed immediately, but the case was all kinds of public." Christina says.
JJ looks around at the room, "I'll pull the file" she heads out of the room to call Garcia and get the file...
Morgan frowns, "If you were if-y about this then why did go along with it?"
"I was second chair so to speak. The detective ahead of me, well he wanted the big break. What really happened or who done it, didn't matter."
Morgan shakes his head, "That's a bunch of shit. But maybe he new that you were working this case?"
"Yeah he new, we kept getting letters from him." Christina says, trying not to wince in pain from her shoulder.
Reid looks over at Christina "Maybe you should go back to the hotel and get some rest. And get a fresh start in the morning. We can't do anything until we get the file anyway"
Christina looks up at him, "I'm okay Spencer, I just want to find this guy. Especially if he's killing kids because of me." She pauses, "But I could use a shower, and maybe fresh bandage."
"You go nowhere alone, why don't you let Reid take you?" Hotch says looking at Reid.
Reid gets up and follows Christina toward the door
Emily comes after them, "Chris," she calls and waits for her to turn around, "This isn't your fault, and don't let anybody tell you differently. Get some rest okay?"
Christina gives her a small smile, "I will, just work on finding this guy."
Christina and Reid make their way back to the hotel, she slumps down on the bed, "God I can't believe this!"
"You didn't know, don't beat yourself up Cristina," Reid says setting down beside her, "We all do it."
"What, try to get each other killed?" Christina looks sideways at him.
Reid shakes his head, "No we all get so caught up that we lose it. We all make mistakes, as long as you learn from them, then that's all we can really ask."
Christina raises an eye brow, "I put the whole team in danger Reid. I'm surprised Hotch hasn't kicked my ass off yet."
"He won't. Because you made a mistake. It happens." Reid says trying to console her.
Christina sighs, "I should hit the showers, and get this rebandaged." She motions toward her shoulder.
"I'll um…I'll wait here, I don't want you alone." Reid says, "Brought a book." He pulls a book out of his satchel.
Christina laughs, "That'll take all on five minutes."
Reid laughs quietly and looks at her "If I try I can make it last longer... Plus it's a thick book"
Christina smiles and makes her way into the bathroom, turning on the water and climbing under it. She sighs a sigh of relief, allowing the water to wash over her. She takes her time in showering and climbs out realizing she's forgotten her clothes. She debates for a second, but knows she has to have clothes so she dries off, and opens the door, "Reid?" She says stepping into veiw, a towel wrapped around her body.
Reid looks up, starts to ask what when he sees her wrapped in a towel then he goes quiet....
Christina blushes, "I forgot clothes," she says shyly. She moves closer to the bed, leaning over it, Reid not taking his eyes off her, "You'd think I'd now I needed clothes." She laughs a little, looking sideways at Reid.
Reid starts to get flustered and can't get out a full sentence
Christina giggles, "You okay Hot Stuff?' She asks moving her face closer to his.
"You look kinda.....pale." Her lips are inches from Reid's. "I need you to bandage my shoulder too..." she swallows hard, still not moving away from him.
Reid stutters a little "Bandage your shoulder..." he nods "Yeah sure..." He just stands there looking her in the eyes
Christina leans in, not sure if she should do this or not, but she slowly captures Reid's lips with her own. She pulls back slowly, "I um..."
Christina, glanced uncertainly around the room. It had been twenty minutes since she'd kissed Reid. And still neither had really said anything, with a sigh she looks back at him, "I'm sorry," She offers lamely.
Reid's eyes roamed over her face, "You see when there's body chemistry, and you're stress and..."
He stops Christina with a small smile, "I didn't pull back."
Christina nods her understand, a small smile still playing on her lips, "So, since you didn't pull back would it be bad if I tried again?"
Reid gets up out of the chair and walks across the room to where she is sitting on the edge of the bed, sits down beside her and says "No, actually I think it would be ......"
Before he can finish his sentence Christina leans closer to him and kisses him again.
Running her tongue along his lower lips she feels him open them, as she depends the kiss, her body moving it's self closer to him, without her conscious thought. She groans into Reid's mouth when there's a knock at the door, pulling back she smiles at him, "If we let them knock long enough you think they'll go away?"
Reid looks her in the eyes not catching the sarcasm right away..."No actually I think.... " when it hits him and he laughs lightly as he gets up and goes over to answer the door
Morgan doesn't bother asking before entering, just barges in, "Garcia's got your files, she's faxed them. Who's this Mike guy you interviewed?"
Christina raises an eye brow, "Well, he's just a guy that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was a witness why?"
"Because he just so happens to be in this area, and his hand writing matches." Morgan says.
"Can't find him," Morgan says, "Any ideas where this guy would go?"
Christina frowns, "No, but we should find him sooner rather then later, I want to look over my files again, lets go." She says charging out of the room.
Reid follows her "Christina wait up... You shouldn't be going anywhere alone..."
"Then come with me!" Christina calls over her shoulder.
"She's trouble, that's all there is to it," Morgan says as they reach the entrance, "Wait up!"
Reid looks to Morgan about to say something about her not being trouble but changes his mind "I think I am going to have to agree with you this time" the two speed up a little to try to catch up with her.
Outside Christina stops, turns and glares at the guys. "I suppose the two of you have something to say?"
Morgan is rolls his eyes, but then the focus in on something...a gun barel from a window across the street, "Get down!" He calls pulling her behind a pillar.
Hearing a shot ring out Reid jumps behind another pillar and pulls out his weapon and starts scanning a building across the street trying to see where the shot came from.
"Where did it come from?" Christina asked, also drawing her weapon.
"Building across the street," Morgan answered.
Reid looks to his right seeing that Christina and Morgan are okay he turns his attention back to the building across the street....
Christian scans the building, "I don't see him," she says frowning, "He was aiming at me wasn't he?"
Reid slowly puts is gun away and turns toward the other two...
"Who was it?" Morgan asks, "Did you get a look at him kid?"
Continuing to scan the buildings across the street "I didn't see a thing...You?"
"Just the barel of a gun pointed at our girl's head." Morgan motions toward Christina who's still leaning against the pillar.
Christina leans her head back against the pillar, "I can not believe this!" she says rubbing her still sore shoulder.
Reid looks at the two "We should probably get back to talk to the others and see if they have found anything yet."
Morgan nods and lowers his voice, "Somebody's gonna have to be with her at all times, you ready for Christina duity?"
"Let's get going." Reid says and turns toward the car...
Christina follows Reid, as they silently go to the station to meet the others, Morgan wondering if something he should, or rather would really like know, happened while they were in the hotel room
Christina set playing with the stir stick in her coffee looking over the files. "So we think he's after me? Because he's taunting me?" They had received a call from somebody claiming to be the guy, threatening to kill them all.
"Garcia is trying to trace the call now" JJ says to the group...
"I don't get it," Christina says frowning, still playing with the stir stick in what she thought was her coffee, "Why me? I was second chair."
Reid sits in the chair across from Christina just staring at what was his coffee, then decides to just get up and get another one rather than bother her....
Christina looks up watching Reid, "I thought you had a coffee?" she says shrugging when he shakes his head, "I just don't understand this guys problem, other then him being crazy."
The phone in front of JJ rings and she answers it, "JJ here,"
"Hello Princess, in need of information?" Garcia says brightly, "Cause the Goddess of Information has arrived, I got ya an address."
Hotch breaks in "Let's have it Garcia.."
Garcia sighs and gives him the address, "Oh and word of advice guys armed pretty damn good, the cops have been out twice and he shot two of them, each time. You uh you ant taking Chrissy with you are you?" she asks anxiously.
Christina rolls her eyes, "I'm going Garcia, I'll see you when I get back to Quantico."
Reid looks at her. "Are you sure that it's wise for you to go with us?"
Christina, unconsciously leans over and pecks him on the cheek, "Yup hot stuff, I'm sure." she says getting up and following Hotch out.
Morgan raises an eye brow, "Come on hot stuff." he mocks smirking at Reid.
Reid blushes and follows everyone out to the cars....
Christina is about to climb into the car when she feels a gun barely in her back, "So you finally got close enough? You gonna shoot me? Cause there's five other agents with guns to your head."
Mike laughs "You'd like that wouldn't you..."
"No," Christina shakes her head, "I don't want anybody to die."
"You should have thought about that ages ago...." he replies
"Ages ago huh?" Christina says glancing over toward Hotch, silently telling him to hold his stance, "Why did you do it? All those murders? And you taunted the head agent. Why are you after me?"
"Because I felt like it.. and it was fun..."
"I think maybe you needed help, you needed us to catch you, you new what you were doing was wrong, you disgusted yourself." Christina says feeling the gun poking into her back harder, "Did I strike a nerve?"
He grabs her neck and squeezes it and leans in. "I don't need you to do anything. I didn't need to be caught.....I just wanted to see how long it would take you" shrugging as he laughs "And it took you long enough"
"Wasn't my fault," Christina says, "I was only second string and you new it." She pauses, "I wanted to catch you. Just as bad as you wanted to be caught."
Reid sneaks around the corner of the SUV and comes up behind Mike and holds his gun up the guys back... "Put it down and take a step back"
Christina hears Reid's voice, "Back off Reid!" She yells as Mike's grip tightens on her.
"I'm taking her with me," He says laughing slightly.
Christina kicks him in the balls and moves, just as a shot rings out, and Mike falls to the ground.
This chapter was co-written with the help of Lynn, my sissy, and yes she's the best adopted Sissy in the world, she rocks. I can't say enough good things about her so I'll just stop with she rocks. I'm in suck and awesome mood today, that I'm gonna post as many new chapters of my fics as I can, and guess what?! This is one of them!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you enjoy the fic, let me know, chapter three is in the works as we speak, actually not because I'm typing this but as soon as I'm done it will be. Okay so enjoy!