Confused? "But Alitote! I thought Orbus was a bad guy!" Well, no. No he's not. You think anyone inhabiting REIDS body can be evil? Whats wrong with you?
Ha anyway, now that you've gotten a chance to look at the "real" Orbus, back to the story! Who else wants to see Reid back home doing what he does best?
The team drove quietly up to the tent, almost like they felt the Witch could still watch them.
The car made quiet crunching sounds driving up the drive dirt road, but it was defenying racket to the frightened team. Theyre nerves were frayed and their patience was begining to wear thin.
Prentiss had almost cried when Morgan had told everyone what Orbus had said in the interogation room. That sucked, it really did.
They parked the car just outside Maleficiis tent, walking carefully inside while snapping the blue latex gloves on.
The place was just as dusty and cluttered as before. Excpet now it felt empty... and yet like there was something here, waiting for them.
"This place gives me the creeps!" Prentiss shivered as she walked in behind Rossi.
"Good. We dont want to be comfortable here." Rossi said.
This time they paid special attention to the photos, the ornaments covering the bookshelves and tables. Even the ground was carefully searched.
"This could take awhile." Morgan sighed to himself.
Reid and JJ had been trying to fall asleep for hours. Now finally he could feel sleep weighing down his eye lids.
Finally...
Reid closed his eyes, sighing deeply.
Here we go...
Rossi picked up a picture frame carefully. The photo was of Lyssa and her dad. But Richard's face had been burned out completely, from what looked like a cigarette.
"She still hold's a grudge obviously."
Prentiss crouched infront of a trunk, picking the lock and lifting the heavy lid. Inside was a collection of books and more knick knacks. She picked up what looked like a photo album.
"And she's been... o my-!" Prentiss covered her mouth, handing the photo album to the first person. She dry heaved right there.
Hotch recoiled at the photos. They were the crime scene photos. Every single one, only they seemed more grisly. Everyone pictured was burned and had died in alot of pain.
Towards the back there were photos of people Hotch didn't recognize. They were unburned, but obviously dead and had died in pain. They were dressed in circus outifts and died a number of ways. But most looked like theyd just dropped there, dead.
"These must be the bodies of other people she's abducted." Hotch guessed. "Take it, we can show it to Orbus, see if he knows anything." He handed it to Rossi who placed it in a plastic evidence bag.
Morgan stared at a line of dolls sitting on a shelf. One was of a boy in a tailcoat and top hat holding a cane above his head, the other was a girl in a tutu and the stand had a small silver line painted under her feet. The third was of a boy in a clown costume, throwing a green ball in the air while catching a red one. The last one was a boy holding a torch opening his mouth wide while smiling and giving Morgan a thumbs up. He was dressed in red tights and orange boots.
"These must be important."
"Maybe." Hotch said, not looking away from what he was doing.
"Hey! Look at this!" Prentiss said near a dutch oven that had been buried in the dirt (And for those of you you dont know what a dutch over is, ive outlined it in the a.n. below)
There was a bound stack of photos and two little painted and melted figurines that had been placed under the dutch oven. The papers were burned and falling appart.
"What are they?" Rossi asked.
"Photos of Tiffany and Richard Goldebourne. Im guessing that what the figurines are too."
A shiver passed over the whole tent.
"Okay, is that all we need?" Morgan asked, rubbing his arms.
Reid felt like he was floating, JJ lay next to him, her eyes closed. He was sure they were gonna float away.
"Reid?" JJ whispered.
"Yeah?"
"Race you!" And with that, JJ rocketed towards the sky, towards home.
"No fair!" Reid laughed, flying after her and into the maze like multicolored swirls of the sky.
A Dutch oven is a large iron bowl with a lid you put in the ground when camping to cook food when you dont have a grill and dont want everything you have there to smell like smoke from a fire. You fill an area with hot coals and such and bury the dutch oven in it, placing the lid ontop and leaving it there to cook. its very useful to old evil witches living in tents trying to take out there agression on good parents keeping there daughters from them. :)
