Penelope, JJ and Emily were the first to make it back to the BAU, they were laughing and talking as they walked into the room and made their way over to the table. Hotch, Derek, Reid and Rossi walked into the room a few minutes later and made their way over to the girls, Hotch looked at JJ and said,
"what do we have JJ"?, she put the pictures up on the screen and said, "we have a bad one, a real bad one", the team watched as picture after picture went across the screen.
Reid leaned in and said, "it looks like the unsub couldn't decied on the method of death so the victim was made to suffer several different ways", JJ nodded her head and said, "strangulation, stabbing, each was burned and had 3 fingers cut off before they died". Hotch said, "definite overkill,
were the women raped JJ"?, she nodded her head and said, "yes, all 4 victims were raped several times before they died and the semen in each woman came from several different men".
Derek said, "so we are dealing with a team", Rossi said, "maybe the women did something that the men viewed they needed to be puinished for"?, Emily said, "sounds like the leader or the dominant is in total control of the submissives". JJ said, "the women all disappeared on Friday's and Saturdays after leaving a dance club named Vertigo in Dallas Texas", Hotch looked around the room and said, "alright everybody wheels up in 30 and Garcia you are coming with us, we are gonna need you there to handle all of the searches".
Penelope looked at him and said, "yes sir", one by one they headed out of the room, Emily looked at her fiancee and said, "we are suppose to be getting married in 3 days Aaron". He kissed her lips and said, "I know honey, but if we can't make it back before the date of the wedding we will just postpone it a few days", she sighed as Hotch wrapped his arm around her waist as they headed out to door.
Emily looked at Hotch and said, "what are we gonna do about Jack"?, he kissed her lips and said, "it's ok I called Jessica, she's Haleys sister and she is the one that takes care of him when I am out of town on cases". She smiled and said, "well Mr. Hotchner it looks like you thought of everything haven't you"?, he grinned and said, I do try Ms. Prentiss", they smiled as they walked towards the elevator.
About an hour later everybody was sitting around the table discussing the case, Reid looked at Penelope and said, "do any of the women have anything in common, like a job, church, boyfriend, friends, anything like that"?, her fingers sped across the keyboard and she said, "you young doctor Reid are a genius, they all had at one time the same boyfriend".
Derek said, "what was his name goddess"?, she smiled and said, "his name is Anthony Gannon and he lives at 3232 Round Road", Hotch said, "when we land Garcia you and JJ head to the police station and the rest of us will head to that address". Penelope said, "yes sir", Reid said, "what about letting the local police know about Anthony"?, Hotch said, "we will let them know once we land so they can make the arrest".
Once the plane landed Penelope and JJ headed to the police station as the rest of the team and the police headed to Anthonys place, but when they got there the only thing they found was another body. Reid leaned down and said, "apparent strangulation marks around hte neck, several stab wounds to the ribs and chest, severe burns over parts of her body and she has 3 fingers removed just like the others".
Hotch said, "I bet when they do a rape kit on her she will have been raped repeatedly by several different men", the police chief looked at Aaron and said, "this makes 5 women in the past 2 weeks that this sick freak has killed". Rossi said, "he is speeding up his kills, don't worry he is gonna make a mistake and we will find him".
It took the team almost 5 weeks to finally find Anthony but in that time he and his team had killed 5 other women, they were all cornered at a ball field and the only surviver was Anthony. He looked at the team and said, "they deserved it, all of those bitches deserved everything we did to them",
Rossi said, "you are the one that is about to get what they deserve son", Anthony spit at the team as the police pulled him away.
Rossi clapped his hand on Hotchs shoulder and said, "well by this time tomorrow we will be back home and we can get you and Emily married by Friday,
well baring there is no more cases". Derek grinned and said, "are you getting nervous man"?, Hotch grinned and said, "you know I figured that I would be but no I'm not nervous at all", Reid grinned as they headed back to the station.
The plane lifted off in Texas at 6:00 the next morning and the team wearily walked into the BAU a few long hours later and were met by Erin strauss,
she looked at the team and said, "after you finish your paperwork, you are all off on a mandatory 3 week break". Hotch smiled and said, "thank you mam", she smiled and said, "this will give you time to get married and have that wonderful honeymoon that you have been planning Aaron", Emily smiled as she turned to face her future husband.
The team worked as fast as they could on their paperwork, they couldn't wait to get started on their break, Penelope stood behind Derek and gave him a massage as he worked on his paperwork. Reid said, "heyyyyyyyyyy no fair, Morgan isn't the only one that worked on this case", Penelope kissed the top of Dereks head and made her way over to Reid and he smiled as she started giving him a massage, he looked at Derek and stuck out his tongue, Derek laughed as he continued to work on his paperwork.