Chapter 6

Hotch carefully watched his team's reactions as they watched the video. They ranged from shocked to even more shocked. He took a deep breath. The next thing he was going to say was going to stupefy them,"Team, the girl who killed Officer Warden was Samantha Wong."

Vague confusion replaced their shock. Huh, Hotch realized, less than what he thought. This could actually go in his favour.

"April fools isn't for another few months, Hotch," Prentiss told him, a smile playing on her lips, "But good try."

JJ nodded, "A bit too soon, though. What with Officer Warden dying less than a week ago."

Hotch shook his head, "This isn't a joke. This is Garcia's recovered copy of the security tape that was filming at the time."

"Are you saying that our Unsub is some kind of superhuman? A dead college girl superhuman?" Prentiss asked, disbelief and sarcasm lacing her voice. Hotch frowned at Prentiss' outburst. He had hoped the team would be slightly more open minded about the whole dead girl killing someone situation.

"Look at the evidence Prentiss," Morgan told her, "What else could it be?"

"Steroids? A new drug?" She responded. She was panicking, trying to find a logical way for a dead girl to throw a armed security guard into a wall so hard it broke his neck, "The tape could of been tampered with! The Sunnydale police have already proven they could hide tapes."

Hotch shook his head, "Garcia looked it over. She can't find any faults with it."

"Maybe Garcia missed something. There are better hackers than her, not many, but at least three or four," Prentiss replied.

"When has Garcia been wrong before? And besides, this offers a reasonable explanation to how

"We don't know what it could be, but so far vampire is the only logical explanation," Reid exclaimed.

Everyone turned to stare at him. Reid was always relying on facts, disproving most things people believed in as disillusions or fakes, but here he was, talking about vampires.

"Don't tell me you're on the superhuman train too," Prentiss said, running a hand through her hair, "And vampire? Reid, we're discussing actual suspects, not Twilight."

"We've always followed where the evidence leads us, no matter how strange it's been before," Reid stated.

"Hotch," Rossi said, his voice was cautious, "Let's pretend that the Unsub is a vampire,"

Prentiss glared at him, but Rossi ignored her, "How do you expect us to fight a vampire?"

Prentiss stared at Rossi, as if saying Is my team full of lunatics?, "Forget the whole fight part, if, and its a huge if, vampires are real, how in the world do we get them into custody, not to mention a jail sentence?"

"We don't," Hotch's short answer rang through the room.

"We just let them keep killing people?" Morgan sounded exasperated.

"No, but if vampires have been infesting this town since the 1800s, we can count that at least one person in a town of 30,000 people knows about this and is trying to stop it," Hotch rebutted.

The rest of the team agreed grudgingly.

"Now, has anyone in this town, that anyone's met, seemed like they would know something?"

"Officer Crainyard probably knew about them," Morgan speculated.

Rossi shook his head, "He tried to conceal evidence of them from us before, he could easily do it again."

"But we have to keep him as an option, considering we have no one else right now."

"Does anyone know anyone who could of possibly of had the smallest knowledge of vampires?" Hotch asked.

No one said anything, so Hotch tried a different technique, "Alright then, has anyone heard of any suspicious activities or things thats happened in the town recently that left any survivors?"

"The town wide hoax!" Reid said suddenly, "Remember? Six murders and everyone claimed that they couldn't hear any screams. I heard that one of the victims had a roommate who discovered the body once he woke up."

"Better than nothing," Morgan said, as he brought out his phone to call Garcia, to see if the roommate was nearby.

Once Morgan left the room the discussion continued.

"JJ, you read a bunch of articles didn't you? For the case?" Rossi pressed.

JJ nodded, as she struggled to remember a few of them, "Fraternity house halloween party, one student was found dead in the basement, even though he had broken his neck by falling down the second floor stairs. A bunch of students swear up and down that all the decorations had come alive. All of them were traumatized."

"No bites though?" Prentiss asked.

"Nah, but there was a parent teacher night in 1998 that resulted in a death of one parent."

"Vampire?"

"Well, I remember the report saying something ridiculous about sticks, so I'm assuming that it was."

"Morgan?" Rossi yelled.

A faint "Yes?" came from the doors.

"Are you still on the phone?"

"I am," he responded.

"Ask about parent teacher night of 1988."

"Sure."

A minute later, Morgan walked back into the room, frowning.

"Well Garcia found the roommate," Morgan said.

"Where?"

"In a mental hospital, undergoing treatment for mental trauma," Morgan explained, finishing with a sigh.

"What about parent teacher night?"

"The official story is that a gang on PCP invaded the school," Morgan said, only to be interrupted by JJ.

"Impossible, no gangs have ever been formed in Sunnydale and no gangs have visited it either."

"So the police lied to the public that time," Reid said.

"Sounds like it. We have to consider banning the Sunnydale Police from the case," Hotch told the group.

"No, if anything, that will make them more uncooperative and they will probably hold even more evidence from us," Reid explained.

"Alright so, we won't tell them anything for now on then?" Prentiss asked.

"Exactly. Now Morgan, did Garcia give you any witnesses?"

"Oh, she gave me a list," Morgan exclaimed, "Willow Rosenberg, Lucy Broderick, Anthony Charleston, Buffy Summers, Jacob McGrew—"

"So a few then," Rossi said, "Is there any guarantee that any of them actually saw the vampires?"

"No, most of the reports said that they were in a different part of the school, only one student was reportedly in danger."

"Who?"

"A Buffy Summers," Morgan revealed, "According to a few parents who got trapped in a closet with her, Buffy climbed out the vents into the hallway," Morgan looked at Reid while he was explaining.

Reid got a puzzled look on his face, "Wasn't she the one who we ran into a few hours ago?"

"That's her alright."

"How do you know Miss Summers?" Hotch asked.

"We were walking back to the car and we bumped into her and thought that she had been attacked," Morgan explained, "Her sweater had been ripped, but she claimed that she had fallen into a bush."

"She was a good lier, very experienced, even with authority figures," Reid said.

Rossi frowned, "We'll keep a lookout for her, but she is probably just some unlucky college student."

The rest of the team agreed.

"Is there anything else we want to pay attention to?"

The team looked around at each other, before answering no.

Hotch sighed, "Considering this is our only lead right now, we'll approach it an open mind," He said eyeing Prentiss, "JJ and Reid can visit the mental asylum, try to find out more about the halloween murder. Morgan, Reid, find the Summers girl too. Find out if she's lying to you to hide the vampires or just a trivial thing. Rossi and I will hold the fort, try to find the other things the Sunnydale Police have covered up. Report back to us if you find anything."

Oh wow, I'm kind of in a stupor right now, because I just realized that it's been over half a year since I first published The Barbecue Fork Killer. One of the things thats kept me going (however sporadically) was the amazing reviewers, followers and everyone else who managed to get to chapter 6. Seriously, thank everyone who's managed to actually stick with me to get to chapter 6. If anyone has any questions, comments, ideas for the story don't hesitate for a second to review or PM me, it's really nice to know that people take time to write something for you. I feel like this is starting to repeat, so all in all, thanks for reading this.

*Updated October 9th, 2015