Chapter 3

Sorry for the time it took to write this, I hope you'll like it anyway.

Turtledove

Police was in Jordan's office as well as Emily. They passed the parcel through many detectors and apparently nothing was wrong with it. An officer opened it with a lot of precaution. Jordan was waiting outside along with her patients and others doctors sharing the cabinet with her; she was worried like hell for Emily. She hoped there was no bomb inside it; she didn't want her sister to die. God her day had begun like any other when suddenly…

Emily exited the building and Jordan was relieved to see she was fine. She noticed that she looked uneasy however.

"What's in it?"

"Come with me…I don't want to talk in front of everyone else."

They entered the cabinet and Jordan saw inside the parcel a dead turtledove. Her heart clenched at this, it was just so sick! She loved turtledoves and she felt sad for this poor beast.

"Who did this?"

"I don't know, I will call to join Spencer's investigation."

"Hey, I found something," said a cop, "it's a letter, it was under the bird's corpse."

Emily took the letter and read it with Jordan

"Very Dear Jordan,

This present is for you, I hope you'll like it. I sent something that should please Spencer too. Emily will receive something soon but I want to make her wait a little, she was always the one saying: waiting for something makes it better. She will wait a little, I hope you'll come back to Bangor, the three of you, you are precious to me.

Love,

Anonymous.

The two looked at each other, how the hell did this psycho know them so well? To Emily's surprise Jordan didn't look distressed but resigned.

"It's seems I will have to go with you."

Emily wanted to protest but realised Jordan was right, even if the Unsub didn't write a clear demand it was highly possible that Jordan's absence would anger them. Still, she didn't want her to be a part of this; after all she was a civilian and the only one she considered as family. She called Spencer.

Meanwhile, Reid was talking in the conference room, he had everyone's attention focused on him and he didn't like it one bit. They told the police to search for the man who delivered the parcel and while they were searching, Reid was giving his team some explanations.

"Emily and Jordan are childhood friends, when we were kids we were always playing together with another boy, Gary Michaels. He was a very good friend…He disappeared when he was eleven and no one knows what happened to him."

He hated it, they all had looks of sympathy on their face and he knew they were thinking that they just discovered why he decided to become a FBI agent. He hated to be exposed like this.

"We were playing in the forest most of the time and we had taken the habit to tell each others stories of our own each Friday once school was over. Gary wrote each one of them in some notebooks, I received the very first one he used with the head. He was always saying…That when he would be older he would try to make a book with it and publish the stories, of course it never happened. After Gary disappeared, the person who took him or…killed him broke in his parent's house and stole some stuff, like clothes and the notebooks. None of his stuff was ever found that's why the only one who could have done this is Gary's kidnapper."

He took a breath and tried to ignore the eyes directed on him.

"I told Emily, she wishes to join our investigation and I think she would be a good asset."

"It's no problem, we will have to talk to her and Jordan Todd anyway," said Gideon, "now I want you to tell us more about the victim."

Spencer bit his lip. If he began to talk about Potter he would have to talk about many other things.

"He was a farmer, he didn't like us and it was reciprocated. From times to times we stole some things from his production, me especially."

"It was a payback?" Asked Morgan

"No. Anyway we always saw him as some kind of enemy, some kind of bogeyman. We stopped when another farmer took a liking on us. He proposed us to help him sometimes with farm work and in exchange he would give us some food and sometimes money so we didn't approach Potter's farm again."

Elle wanted to ask him something but she was interrupted when Reid's phone rang.

"Turn it off," said Hotch.

"It's Emily."

"Okay, put her on speakers."

"Hi, Emily, you're on speakers my team hears you."

"Hi Spencer, and hi to all of you, I am with Jordan right now and she received a parcel too, it contained a dead turtledove and a letter. I'll read it to you."

They listened to Emily's reading. Spencer paled when he heard it, he didn't like to have Jordan involved this way.

"Is Jordan okay?"

"I am fine Spence," said Jordan who was listening at their conversation.

He smiled slightly.

"I think the letter imply that the killer wants Jordan to come with us."

"It's possible,' said Hotch, "Reid told me you want to join the investigation, our liaison agent will make a request to our superior. Did you interrogate the delivery man?"

"Yeah but he said he doesn't know anything, it was sent from Bangor and it had been delivered to Jordan's office, nothing more. What about you?"

"We still have to find him; he exited the building before Reid opened it."

"Emily, there is something I am thinking about," said Reid, "a dead turtledove and a cut head…"

"Yeah, I thought about it too. What is he going to send me, a dead wolf?"

The team couldn't understand what it could mean but Reid did.

"I don't know."

"Okay, continue to investigate on your side, we will contact you later agent Prentiss."

Emily hung up the phone, knowing Reid's boss wanted some explanation for him. Anyway, she had to call her superiors about all this. Hotch told JJ to do a request about agent Prentiss joining the team along with a civilian who would help as a witness. The blond nodded, though she wished to hear more from Reid she had to do her job. She realised she didn't know anything about him but she remembered she never took much time to try to know him really well. Morgan, Garcia and Elle were thinking quite the same thing right now and once again they were surprised at the way Reid handled this.

The young man didn't even wait for someone to ask him what Emily and he thought about, he knew they would.

"There is something I realised, the cut head and the dead turtledove are elements of stories we invented. It could be written in the notebook that was sent to us, Jordan's story was about a man who liked to raise turtledoves and kill them and mine was about a ghost who beheaded people."

Reid was feeling anxious, he knew his team would read the stories and after that their poor opinion of him would be lower than ever. Even Hotch and Gideon wouldn't look at him the same way.

"It was horror stories you would tell each others," concluded Gideon.

"Yeah, and I guess you'll read it."

"It will be necessary; there could be a message in it."

Spencer didn't protest but he hated it. He knew however it could be his chance to know what happened to Gary so he had to accept it.

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