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Excluding Garcia, the team gathered in the parking lot. Heads down, eyes wet, giving a moment to a lost friend and colleague. Seeing the coroner wheel his body into the vehicle, they slowly and wordlessly walked up the stairs into Reid's former apartment.

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Morgan stood in the doorway. He couldn't bring himself to walk inside. After all those times he had tried to protect the young genius, this is what it came down to. A brutal murder that no one could prevent.

After looking around, Prentiss was the first to come to her senses.

"Someone cleaned up in here. There is no blood on the walls or the ceiling." She had been standing behind the couch.

"You guys," Morgan spoke up from the door. "…you guys should check on the floor in front of the couch."

They crowded around, looking at the blood stained message on the floor. JJ gasped while Hotch's already pale face got whiter than anyone had ever thought it could. Prentiss and Rossi's face stony, not wanting to think of whose blood was on the floor.

"But that's impossible! He-he's dead! We all saw him, both of them…" JJ exclaimed, panic taking her words.

"Who is Charles Hankel and why did he target Reid?" Rossi asked.

"I'll fill you in on the way back. We're done here." Hotch replied, rearranging his features into the familiar stoic expression. And they left the depressing apartment.

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"Reid had a drug problem?" Rossi stared disbelievingly back at Hotch. He had listened to every horrifying word. The others were in a different SUV so they could talk alone. They didn't really want to go over Georgia.

"Hard to believe, I know. And you should have heard how he argued with Prentiss." Hotch told him, remembering the disputes that had let the team know how bad Reid was really suffering.

"So that's what he meant in Texas, when he said he was at a movie. He was trying to stay clean."

"Yes, he knew I knew about them. I told him afterward, on the plane. I don't know if he still-if he was ever went back again." Hotch stuttered. Rossi just looked at him.

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"Okay, so what do we know about the killer." Hotch spoke to the in the conference room. Morgan, Hotch, and Rossi standing out of restlessness, while Prentiss and JJ were sitting, Prentiss holding JJ's hand to comfort her.

"He takes trophies. I didn't find his credentials anywhere." Prentiss started. She couldn't speak Reid's name, so she resorted to 'he'. Everyone knew who she was talking about.

"It's almost like Georgia. Two partners, if not a split identity, one dominant, the disorganized one, and one submissive, the organized. Someone had to clean up the blood." Morgan also added his two cents, wanting to punch something all the while.

"He's efficient, though, the dominant one. Slashing throats offers no sexual relief." Rossi piped up.

"You know, this is too much like Georgia. What if we are dealing with a copycat? Probably a family member. We never released to the public that Hankel left Bible passages, and he didn't leave one now." Prentiss had a look dawning on her face.

"So we have a white male, mid thirties to late forties. A family member that wasn't close to the Tobias or Charles. Trying to avenge either Tobias or his father." As Morgan was summing it up, he got off the wall he'd been leaning on.

"Morgan, I want you to go ask Garcia if Charles has any living family members, rule out anyone who doesn't live in Georgia or near Quantico. And go over the Hankel file." Hotch began giving orders.

"But we went over the Hankel file a thousand times in Georgia!"

"Ya, but none of us have an eidetic memory, here, now do we?" Hotch snapped back. A silence came over the group. Hotch could see a softened look come over Morgan's face.

"Morgan…"

"No Hotch, just-just forget it." As Morgan walked out of the room, Rossi gave Hotch a look and followed after him. Aaron watched them go as JJ and Prentiss walked to the women's bathroom. He just sat down and buried his head in his hands.

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