Another short chapter, but the next one is more than twice as long, I promise! :)
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From Darkness to Light
A CM fanfic
Chapter 5
It was a cold fall day in Illinois when the plane carrying the BAU team landed. Jennifer 'J.J.' Jareau could see for miles out the window of the black SUV that was being driven by a local police officer taking them from the airstrip to the police station. Most of the fields had already been harvested, leaving nothing but bare strips of land between the occasional clump of trees and few houses they passed.
With each empty field or pasture they passed having been stripped of the life that once lived there, like a tree full of leaves and wildlife in the summer only to be left barren and alone in the winter, its summer inhabitants gone with the leaves to find a home better suited to their cold weather needs J.J. began to wonder if she could ever rebuild her life from the shattered pieces her nightmares, guilt and sleepless nights had left it. She wondered of the team could forgiver her, if Reid could forgive her for the torture he endured, but most of all she wondered if she could forgive herself.
"We found Justine Nevius's body this morning." The local cop, Detective Bowman said. Everyone just looked at him, waiting for him to continue. "Two boys on their way to school found her in a vacant lot near the sidewalk. She was like the others and I'm tired not only of what this guys doing to these girls, but he's leaving them where anyone can see them. Children shouldn't have to see what he's done."
"That's why we're here detective. We will find him." J.J. said from her seat in the back, attempting to comfort the older man and trying to push her own personal demons to the back of her mind and focus on the case.