Life and Love Reborn

Chapter 3

Twenty years later

"Guys, we have another case." Said J.J. from atop the stairs, holding case files for the team. The others picked themselves up from their desk walking towards the room. Derek Morgan walked over to Aaron Hotchner's and then David Rossi's doors and knocking on them letting the older agents know what was up. Garcia was already in the room with J.J. waiting for the rest of them.

The whole team was still at the F.B.I., and still a team. After the death of Spencer Reid all of them were sad and depressed, but somehow they managed to get through it all. Hotch's wife, Hailey, was murdered by Fayette. Now Hotch was taking care of Jack with the help of family when he needed it. Emily Prentiss was still single and still very much happy about it. David Rossi was working on wife number four, and things actually seemed like they were doing very well. She apparently liked her alone time so she could relax and redecorate their house every other week. Derek Morgan was the same as ever, a ladies man, but has matured quite a lot over the years although he is still not ready to settle down. J.J. was still the sympathetic, kind woman she always was but hasn't been as bright since Spencer passed on. Garcia though was getting married! Her and her techy boy-toy were doing great and it would be any day he would pop the question.

"We will be leaving for Florida where there has been a series of abductions and murders. Five women all around the age of twenty have been murdered around, Orlando, and Miami Florida." J.J. clicked the button and five pictures showed up on the screen of blondes in their twenties. "All the women had no husbands, but they did have boyfriends. They lived alone and not much family in the area because all the women were from different states." She looked towards her team waiting for them to make their own observations before she moved on.

"Florida seems to be the only thing that connects the victims, their credit cards don't cross with each other; nothing really seems to connect them." Prentiss said looking through the papers.

Derek looked at the pictures of the girls and how they were posed. "It looks like he felt guilty for what he did by the way he folds their hands over their chest. Also how he dresses them in the old night gowns while lying them on their beds scattered with rose petals, and the M.O. doesn't change either."

Rossie looked at them. "It seems like he's playing out a fantasy, like he can be the hero and there the sleeping princesses so to speak." J.J decided to move on now that they had a chance to look.

The places where they were last seen popped up. "These places were where they last were seen and were they were frequently seen as well."

"Okay everyone, we rollout in ten." Hotch said before walking out to go grab his go bag and call Hailey's sister to ask her to look after Jack. Before he got out of the door way of the briefing room the Supervisory agent's cell phone started to ring. He fished it out of his pocket and looked at the number which resulted in an annoyed look on the man's face. "Hotchner," He answered. "Strausse, what can I do for you?" Strausse had been a lot nicer and lenient with them since Spencer had passed on but she was still trying to butt her way in like always. Aaron was silent for a while, listening to his boss. "I understand ma'am. We will make sure to bring him back." He hung up the phone and met everyone else down in the bullpen. "Hey guys" He said grabbing their attention. "We are going to be meeting someone in Florida who's going to help us." He walked out to the elevators with the rest of his team behind him.

"Who?" Derek asked confused on who it could be. Hotch looked at him. "I'm not sure, but I do know we are going to be bringing extra luggage back home." That being said, the team was on their way to Florida.

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Miami, Florida police station; it was hot, no it was more than hot, it was extremely humid.

Once the team had made it and set up at the station, Hotch had them set up what evidence they actually had before they headed over to the crime scene where Hotch and Rossi already were. Derek turned towards J.J. "So, I don't suppose that you know who this guy is that we are supposed to be meeting?" J.J. gave a thoughtful look. "No, I can't say I do. I don't remember Strausse saying anything to me about a new member joining." She turned back to what she was doing, leaving Derek to muse over the mysterious member of the team. He supposed this person must be either really good or a real kiss ass for Strausse to want him on the team.

Emily was coming down the stairs that lead to the center of the station so she could get Morgan and J.J. so they could all head over to the crime scene when something caught her eye. A file was sticking out from under some papers that looked suspiciously like a new recruit file. A mischievous smile crept onto her face as she grabbed said file and scurried over to her co-workers.

"Hey guys! Look what I found." She sang, tossing the file on the table. Derek came over and peered at the file, a smile appearing on his own face to match that of Prentiss's. "This is interesting." He said reaching over for the information, but before he could pick it up a hand slapped his away. Morgan looked up at the blonde mother figure who just slapped his hand like he was a child reaching for something he was not supposed to. "No." she said sternly pointing a finger at him. "If Hotch didn't want us to see the file then we should respect that. She picked up the file and returned it to their superior's desk. Morgan and Prentiss were basically pouting at this point. Morgan's phone began to ring showing that his boss was calling him. "Hotch," "Morgan we need all of you down here we have another body. I sent the address to your phone." Hotchner hung up the phone after a quick bye. Morgan called for J.J. and Emily over to fill them in and head over to the poor unfortunate woman who was now their latest victim.

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Hotch and Rossi were examining the body while waiting for the rest of the team to show up.

This scene was exactly like the others; the victim was a blonde woman in her twenties, posed with her hands folded over her chest, and dressed in an old timey nightgown with rose petals scattered around her. The C.O.D. was a knife to the heart.

Hotch turned to Rossie. "Who found the victim?" Rossi flipped through some papers before stopping at the witness statements. "She was found by her house keeper that she has come in once a week." Hotch looked around the room, he knew they were missing something, but he couldn't figure out what it was.

"Hotch." Morgan and Prentiss came up the stairs ready to get to work. "Where's J.J.?" Hotch asked not seeing the blonde woman. "She's working with trying to calm down the press." Derek said in an amused tone just thinking about the reporters while walking closer to the body. Hotch nodded.

After examining the body and bagging and tagging evidence, the team decided to go back to the station and see if they could find anything that they may have missed at the scene itself.

Three hours, that's what it took for the B.A.U. team of the F.B.I. to feel totally lost and hopeless. They couldn't find a single hair out of place at the scene but they did all agree that something about it felt off. Derek threw down the files on the victims he had been examining with an exhausted sigh. "Nothing connects the women except that they were all blonde women in their twenties not native to Florida. None of them seemed to use credit cards and had no immediate family here."

Prentiss patted him on the shoulder knowing exactly how he was feeling at the moment. Aaron's phone rang. He prayed as he looked at the screen that it wasn't Strausse and was most definitely relieved when he saw that it wasn't her but a unknown number. "Hotchner," He said into the speaker before he started to rise from his seat. "Sure, we will see you there." The Supervisory agent slipped the phone back into his pocket after a quick good bye.

"We're going to meet someone, come on." Everyone got up to follow him wondering what was actually happening.

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The team was confused, well at least Derek, Rossi, Prentiss and J.J. were, as to why this person they were meeting wanted to meet at a coffee shop of all places, but deciding not to complain they all got out of the black sedans and walked into the little cafe. Hotch seemed to know where he was going as he walked to the farthest back corner where a kid sat with a cup of coffee and a book, which it seemed like he was going threw at a particularly fast pace. Why the hell were they meeting up with a kid when they had an seriously important investigation going on.

Hotch and the mystery person had already started up a conversation a conversation by the time they rest of the team had reached the two.

"Team," Hotch motioned towards the kid, who looked younger and younger by the second. "This is Jamie Nelson; he will be joining out team from today on."

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