Okay Rogue, maybe Insidious did a little. Especially with the Prentiss getting possesed part...

anyway yeah, great tip for anyone writing something creepy: inspiration comes when its dark, and theres lots of candy! =^-^=

JJ stared hard at the "sky". It was tie-dye multicolor. Swirls of reds and greens and blues. It was kind of hypnotizing.

"So, are we dead Reid?" JJ asked.

"I don't know. But I don't really wanna find out now." Reid said, tearing his eyes away to look at a crying JJ. "Hey, com on. Don't be like that. We'll be okay." He threw an arm around her, pulling her close.

JJ nodded, looking at the ground.

"We need to find a way out of here. We need to help the others Reid."

"I know."

Rossi had just returned to the BAU room after driving Prentiss home so she could sleep her "little adventure", as Ivona had called it, off. He found it weird when they were leaving though. She'd been a good hostess and all up until the very end. She practically shoved them out the door and when he'd looked back through her winddow, he saw her sitting with her crystal ball, talking very fast to it.

He'd been on the phone explaining everything he and Prentiss had learned and recounting the experience with the whole team on speaker.

When he walked in he'd expected a whole team of male nurses with nets and tranquilizers ready but instead he found a busy work place.

Garcia and Morgan were busy pinning up photo's of a little blonde girl, a circus, and a group photo with a dozn different people.

"Is that Lyssa?" He asked, gesturing to the photo of the little blonde girl in sunday best holding a rabbit.

"Yep." Garcia nodded, her voice thick, "That's the photo they used for her obituary. It was one of the few that survived the fire that killed everyone."

"So, what's the story?" Rossi asked taking a seat.

"Nine year old Alyssa Goldbourne was playing near her family's caravan in July 19th, 1932. The one witness account said she ran inside after hearing her mother call her inside the caravan. The fire wiped the whole circus out ten minutes later."

"How do you not notice something like that kind of fire burning your whole life away?" Morgan asked, pinning a close up of a young slender man in a top hat and a green and gold tux.

"The fire only lasted a half hour, from the time it started to the time it took out the entire place. It was about the size of a regular elementary school! Playgrounds and parking lots included! And probably the next street over!" Garcia said, flipping through her laptop windows trying to find something. "But the weirder thing is, Alyssa Goldebourne's mother Tiffany was found on the outer grounds farthest from her caravan along with her husband Richard and the Ringmaster, Mr. David Lionel Orbus. Autopsy says they'd been dead about ten minutes before the fire. Tiffany couldn't hae called Alyssa into the caravan cause she was busy dying!"

"So who called her in?"

"They don't know."

Rossi stared at the group picture, only half listening. The group included clowns, trapeze artists, animals and their tamers, staff wearing black and yellow shirts, Orbus near the middle with the Gouldbournes next to him. Tiffany and Richard standing next to him, Richard holding Lyssa. She was holding the white stuffed bunny in the Ringmaster costume.

There was no Maleficiis anywhere in the photo.

JJ stood up, forcing Reid to stand up next to her.

"Where gonna do what that lady did." she said.

"Tackle me?"

"No! The one Prentiss sent. Tell me, what happened when she made contact?"

Reid thought back.

"It was like being hugged really tightly. But not by a man, like your mom was hugging you. Which makes sense, she was a woman after all." JJ nodded, hinting at him to hurry, "Anyway, I saw these... purple? Yeah, purple spots and then I had to sit down. I was to tired to move."

"Okay, what about when you closed your eyes?"

"Oh! It was weird, like a giant multicolored maze. A stone maze I was looking down on from a birds eye view. And then it changed to Lyssa's face." Reid shuddered, "The really gross face. She was laughing and screaming at the same time. Then I saw some goth with frizzy black hair for a second before she started talking and I ended up back here."

JJ was silent, "So we have no idea how to get out of this field except to keep walking."

"Yep. And that aint working." Reid said unhelpfully.

JJ gently smacked him and sat down, staring at the sky.

It was all swirling in different directions, intertwining and locking together against a black backdrop.

"Like a maze..." JJ said. (haha sorry. Cheesy i know)

"What?" Reid asked.

"Look at the sky! That's what you were doing before I got here right? Watching the sky?"

"Yeah, and falling asleep because of it."

"Maybe its like a hypnosis thing! Maybe were not really here! Maybe thats our door out!"

"Of course!" Reid exclaimed! "This makes sense!"

"Really?" JJ asked.

"No, but Im desperate enough to try anything to get out of here." Reid addmitted.

So they jumped onto the grass field and stared at the sky in silence.

Morgan calmly opened the door to Maleficiis cell. They'd moved her into one once they'd secured enough proof to tie her to the case. Most of it was her own statments they had recorded on tape.

"Hello Derek. Ready to talk somemore?" Maleficiis smiled.

Morgan stared at her through the bars, holding the group photo out to her.

"You aren't in here. Why? You where in the other one."

Maleficiis grew stonily quiet.

"Where did you go before you got this picture?"

"Me?" Derek laughed, "No where. Now my friends, they went somewhere allright." He let out a giggle, hoping to unsettle her.

"Where?" Maleficiis asked acidly.

"A place." Maleficiis growled, "With a very special woman who made contact with our missing friend. She reached Reid I guess. And JJ to. They were happy to talk."

"Well this 'place' is a very dangerous place. Maybe you should leave them there for their own good."

"And maybe you can go to hell." Morgan said in the most pleasant tone he could muster.

"Your friends are cursed Derek. Cursed in ways you do not understand. They are doomed."

"Why? Because you say so?"

"Yes."

"Why aren't you in that picture?"

"I never was."

"What?"

Just then, a beat cop came running through the door.

"Agent Morgan sir, we've just tracked down Orbus again and we need everyone if we're going to make a successful arrest!"

Morgan had taken back the photo by then so they could walk out after the cop said this.

"Creepy old woman huh?" the young cop said.

Morgan grunted in agreement.

"I thought you guys squeezed everything out of her though."

"We did. Until this photo came up." Morgan held it up for the cop to see. The cop took it to view, scanning the photo.

"What's so important?"

"She's not in it, and she was before." Morgan pointed to a spot off to the left. "She's supposed to be inbetween the fire breather and the animal tamer there."

"But she is."

"What?" Morgan turned to look at him.

"She is, right there, inbetween the fire eater and the animal tamer. She's smiling right at the camera."

Morgan took the picture back. She wasn't there.