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Minutes after they discovered the bodies the streets were crawling with cops and CSIs. Erik was sitting on the curb his head in his hands. "Daddy?" Phe asked in a timed voice. She could count on one hand the number of times she had seen him sad. But she had never seen him this broken. It hurt her to see him like this.
Phe sat down beside him. "Daddy?" She asked again. Erik looked up at her. Phe let out a tiny gasp. He looked distraught, to say the least. 'The very least.' Phe thought. "Are you alright?" She asked in the same timed voice. Erik tried to smile; all he got was a solemn smirk. "Yeah, sweetie, I'm ok." He lied. "You're lying. Whats wrong?" She asked a bit more forcefully. He sighed and sat up straight. "I should have been able to catch him." He said. Phe couldn't think of much to say. "You did your best." She told him, although she knew that the words would mean absolutely nothing to him. "And my best wasn't good enough." He said spitefully. "Don't say that. Think of all the people that are alive today because of you. Me for one. That's two times you've saved my life now." She reminded hi,.
"At least that's worth something." He said. Erik was aiming for humor, but Phe didn't laugh. But Phe didn't laugh. "Would you stop with the self-pity? It's the one thing that's go on my nerves." She said. "Sorry Phe. I don't like to let them get away." He gave her a real smiled this time. "I know that you won't." She said. Erik threw an arm around his daughters shoulders and kissed her forehead. "Go, Spencer gets nervous when you're not around. And I like that kid." He said as he shoved her to her feet.
Phe stumbled on the hem of her skirt. Reid moved just in time to catch her. "Am I always going to have to catch you?" He asked laughing. "You know you like it." She said smoothing out her skirt. "So maybe I do. How's your father?" He asked looking past Phe. "Self-loathing and annoying the hell out of me." She admitted. "Is it that bad?" He asked. "Yeah. I've never seen him this bad." She told him. Reid could see that he had gone back to sulking. "Do you want me to go talk to him?" Reid asked as he held Phe's shoulders. "Would you really do that?" She asked. He answered by kissing her gently and then letting go of her. "Now go do our job." He said. Phe nodded and went off to work.
Phe snapped on a pair of latex gloves and bent down beside the woman's body. She noticed that not only had the victims been shot but their throats had split as well. "May I?" She asked the cornier. The coroner nodded and backed away. "Poor Lucy." Phe murmured under her breath. "Hmmm?" JJ asked. "Sweeney Todd." Gideon said. "Is that who they are?" Emily asked. "Yeah, this is Lucy and that looks like Sweeney." Morgan said. Phe shot him a questioning look. "What you think I don't watch musicals?" He asked. "Penelope is a fan, isn't she?" Phe asked. Gideon chuckled when Morgan nodded.
Phe carefully titled the woman's head back. She looked into the wound carefully. "There." She said pointing to the tiny tip of a knife in her neck. A CSI quickly ran over and removed it. Phe moved over to the male and looked at his wound. "The cut is smooth and his gun wound is non-fatal. He died first." She announced looking up at the group.
"That suggests that he is too small, or weak to fight." Hotch said. "Or that he's crippled. He shot them to subdue them." Emily said. "What did I miss?" Erik asked as he came over to the group. He looked much more like his normal self, but Reid on the other hand looked like he was going to be sick. Phe gave him a confused look, but he shook his head. "Your kids a friggin' genius." Sarah said. "Yeah, I know. What did she figure out this time?" He asked. "The man died first. Phe saw the tip of the UNSUBs knife in the woman's wound. The man's wound was smooth." Rossi told him. "Good job, Phe." Reid said awkwardly.
Phe got up and slipped off her gloves. She pulled Spencer aside when the others were working on a profile. "Whats wrong?" She asked. He wouldn't meet her eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine." He said. Phe but a hand on his cheek and forced him to look at her. "Baby, what is it?" She asked. "Nothing. Really, Phe, I'm fine. Let's get back to work." He took her hand and led her back to the alley.
"I think we should go back to patrolling the streets. Let's switch streets, too." Gideon said. "The UNSUB ran towards Central. We should canvas the area around there. "Erik told them. "Good idea." Hotch said and the he started to assign streets. Sarah was holding onto his arm tightly. She always got scared when it came down to killers. Hotch smiled at her and told her "I'm not going to let anything happen to you." He said as they walked down the street. Then he rested a hand on her cheek and kissed her gentely on the lips.