I do not own Criminal Minds.

I am like really sorry that it has been so long since I uploaded. "I am trying to make up for it with this extra long chapter, so hope you enjoy.

And I know in the last chapter I said that you would all know what would happen to Hotch, but this story has a mind of its own. But don't worry in the next chapter you will find out what happens, I pinky promise. holds out pinky

As Gage and Austin rode down the road toward the town, Austin tried to get her breathing under control.

Gage noticed what she was doing, "Don't like the country?"

"Not right now no." Austin said distractedly as she looked out the window. She wished Reid was with her, but knew that he was better at what was going to happen.

"I don't blame you, with everything that has been going on lately." Gage said with a grim smile. There was a silence after that as they both thought of the murders. "Don't worry; you will be back with Spencer in a few short hours."

Her head whipped around to look at him in surprise. "What... How did..."

"Spencer is a special man to have you come back to him every night." Gage said with sadness.

"What happened?" Austin asked hearing the sadness in Gage's voice and wanting to know who and what he was thinking about.

"Well two years ago my wife, Susan, met John, Bret, and Danny. We stayed with them for about a week while our electricity was out. Well when we got back into our house, Susan wanted to know everything about the three of them, and how well I knew them. She especially wanted to know about Danny. I really didn't pay much attention to it so I wrote it off as curiosity, but I noticed that whenever we got together, she would watch them, she would always watch Danny the most. I asked her about it and she said that she just didn't like them. I laughed at her and told her that they were good people. It didn't look like she believed me but she stopped watching them. But then one day she told me that she was going into town for some milk, but she never came back."

Tears were in Gage's eyes by the end of the story. "I'm so sorry Gage." Austin said with tears in her eyes as well.

"I asked the guys about it and they told me that she had been flirting with Danny for months. They didn't tell me before because they didn't want to hurt me. That day she had gone to their house and tried to come on to Danny, but he turned her down. She drove off and hasn't been seen since."

Austin didn't have anything to say, but she knew that wasn't what had happened to Susan.

By this time they had made it into town.

They both dried their eyes as they got out of the car. As they walked down the street to the grocers they saw the Sheriff walking towards them. And Gage did exactly what Austin and Reid had wanted him to do.

"Sheriff, how are you today?"

"I'm doing fine Gage, how have you been lately?"

"Just fine, have you met Austin Andrews?" Before the Sheriff could answer Austin interrupted him.

"No, we never had the pleasure of meeting. Hello Sheriff." Austin said taking his hand and smiling.

"Hello Miss. Andrews, it's a pleasure to meet you. Would you two like to come to the station?" The sheriff asked catching on to what Austin was doing.

"We would love to." Austin said as she grabbed Gage's arm and hauled him off after the Sheriff. She wanted him with her just in case something went wrong.

As they went into the station Austin saw the team bent over files and looking at a board covered with pictures of crime scenes.

"What's going on over there?" Gage asked.

"Oh that," the sheriff said looking over to where Gage was pointing to. "That's the FBI I told everyone about. There here to help with the murders out in the country."

"Oh really, do they know who is doing it?" Austin asked. But before the sheriff could answer her she walked away from the small group over to the team. "Hello, I'm Austin Andrews." Austin said smiling at them. Then very discretely she showed them that Gage was with her.

"Hello, can we help you?" Morgan asked at once playing along.

"I just wanted to meet real FBI." Austin said batting her eyes playfully. It took everything that Morgan had to not burst out laughing.

Austin went around the group and shook hands with everyone, feeling déjà vu as she did. She shook hands with Hotch last not saying a word. She then looked around at everyone else and said good-bye.

But as she was heading towards the door and Gage, Gage let out a shocked cry. "Hey why do you have John's photo up on the board?"

Everyone flinched at that. Austin was hoping that Gage would not notice the photos, but it looked like her luck had run out.

Gage saw Austin flinch and try to hide a guilty look off her face. "You know why it's up there don't you?"

"Yes." Austin said looking down. She liked Gage a lot but wasn't sure if she could trust him fully.

Hotch sighed and answered his first question. "John's picture is up there because he, Danny, and Bret are the ones who are killing the people."

"What? No that's impossible." Gage said in shock. "I would have noticed them killing people."

"Are you sure?" J.J. asked.

"Yes I'm… I'm positive." He said but it wasn't with much conviction. He remembered all the times that he had gone to their house and they wouldn't allow him in, or they would mysteriously disappear for hours at a time. "Oh my God," he said in realization, "How could I not have noticed it?" He sat back in the chair that was brought to him to sit in.

"Then… Then that means that you and… and Spencer knew what was going on." He said in shock.

"Yes, we came here to stop them from killing anyone else." Austin said. She then turned around and faced Hotch. "Which is why I'm here right now, Hotch I think you should open the note I gave you."

Hotch unfolded the note that was still in his hand and looked over it for a couple of seconds. "I'm supposed to be shot as soon as I walk out on the street." He said not showing any emotion.

Everyone looked on in shock. "Who is supposed to shoot me?" He asked calmly.

"Spencer is."

"How is he going to pull that off without killing Hotch?" J.J. asked in fear.

"Hotch you're going to need to put on two bullet proof vests, and a pin." Austin said seriously.

"A pin, why?" Hotch asked as he walked over to a chair and got his bullet proof vest.

Austin gave a grave smile as she said, "Because that pin will determine whether you live or die."

"Are you sure you'll be able to make the shot from here?" Bret asked in trepidation.

"I don't know, we may have to go higher up." Reid said not really paying attention. "Are you sure no one can see us from here?"

"Trust me I'm sure." John said with confidence.

Spencer was laid out on the ground. He had his rifle at ready and loaded.

"So how do we know that he will come out of the police station at the time we want him too?" Bret asked.

"That's one of the reasons why Austin went down there." Reid said as he adjusted his scope.

Fisk sneered down at Reid, "How do we know that she didn't go down there and warn them about what's going to happen?"

Reid closed his eyes, looking like he was annoyed as he said, "Why would she do that?"

"Because she's a woman, and women can't keep their damn mouths shut." Fisk said as he walked away.

"What does he mean by that?" Reid asked forgetting all about his scope as he looked up at John and Bret.

"Danny fell in love with a woman." Bret said.

"Shut up Bret." Fisk said in outrage.

"No, he should know. If Austin tells then he should be ready for what happens next." John said stepping up, and making Fisk fume in silence.

John nodded towards Bret for him to keep going. "Well Danny fell in love with Gage's wife, Susanna or something." He said like it didn't matter what her name was.

"They were staying over at the house for a little bit because of something or other." Bret said waving his hand in the air. "Anyways while they were staying with us Danny started flirting with her, but she didn't respond to him. He tried everything with her, but she was full on committed to Gage.

"Finally on the last day they were with us he told her about us killing for fun, and she took it horribly." He shrugged his shoulders like he didn't understand why she would. "He told her that Gage was in it as well. That was why he loved to hunt with us.

"She got into a big hissy and yelled at him, saying that we were all psychos and that her Gage would never do something like that, and stormed out. Then one day she came over and told us that she was going to the police."

At this Reid gripped his gun harder to keep them from shaking. "What happened?"

"What do you think?" Danny asked, his eyes seemed to glisten, but not from tears, from the excitement of remembering what he did to her. "I beat the shit out of her, she's somewhere in the woods. I don't remember where, so don't ask me to show you."

"We told you this story so you could understand what will happen to Austin if she tells what we're doing." John said with no remorse in his voice.

Reid turned around and prayed for the hundredth time that morning that nothing went wrong.