Subject: CM Fiction Grade level: 6-8

They were sitting in the bullpen; the victims' pictures are on the screen. "Seven victims in one month, all were young male, between 20 to 30. "JJ said.

"Did they know each other?"

" No, they were not connected to each other."

"What's the other similarity of the 7 victims."

"They had nothing in common."

"Different social class, different races, except they were all young male, maybe one, they were all with their girlfriends seeing the horror movies when they were stabbed."

JJ showed the pictures,

"All the stabs were on the victims' back, according to the police's record, the cut were all made by small knife, no life threatening injury."

"Why three years, nobody took care of these cases?"

" Because compared to the homicide, the victims were only suffered minor injury, not big damages, the police even said that the only damage was for the horror movies, they sold less ticket and got less audience."

"That's what they said?"

"Yes, that's exactly what they said? Since three years, that sort of case had never happened again, they even think the FBI involvement is overqualified, totally a waste. One detective asked me: "Why you guys can not pick some big serious killers but take this prank?"

"And why you picked this one, JJ?" Rossi asked, at fact, he did not expect an answer,

" I don't know, maybe because of the stab, maybe I was thinking that we needed some time to... to take care of Hotch."

"Anyway, let's do this, even these are small cases, but still our job to catch the people who were responsible for. We split into two groups to interview the victims, and Reid, you will go back to the hospital with your crutch and stay tight with Hotch."

" Yes, Sir."

"Kyle was an attractive man at his early thirties. He seemed quite embarrassed by Morgan and Prentiss' interview.

" I think that the case has been already dropped down, nobody cares, already three years. We moved on too."

"Do you still remember what had happened that day?"

Kyle answered with a bitter smile. " Of course, a quite experience in my life, even three years passed, for me, sometimes, it seemed it was happened yesterday. "

"But you just said you move on."

The bitter smile appeared again on the man's face,

"Yes, I move on, but this incidence did change my life, after that happened, my girlfriend left me, it seems I was a weak figure for her."

"We are sorry."

"That's okay. That's life, you never know, sometimes, we were just at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with wrong person, and then you had to live with the consequences. That happened."

"That's the famous dead walking movie, I was never a big fan of horror movie, but my ex-girl friend was. Quite weird, right? That did not mean she was not scared. I remember when the scene when the dead made a fatal attack; my ex-girlfriend screamed and then tried to hide in my arms, that was when the moment the attack happened. I was also shocked by the scene, suddenly a terrible pain on my back, like we were watch a 3D movie, the dead attacked me on my back, I screamed out loudly, that scared hell out of y ex-girlfriend."

" So the people on your back row attacked you?"

" I think so. But at that time nobody realized I was stabbed, they all thought I was frightened by the horror scene, even myself, it didn't seem real. And I felt the pain, I realized somebody attacked me, I stood up, turned around, but it was dark, and the people sitting behind yelled to me, asked me to sit down, I went out with my ex-girlfriend, I touched my back, and I saw my blood on my hand. And I called police. They did not take it seriously, they even thought it's funny"

"Did you notice anything unusual?" "No, just I heard several people laughing, I thought they were laughing at me."

They all gathered in the bullpen.

"Okay, let's see what we got here," Rossi took out his black notebook.

"We have Kevin, now 34, a salesman, he was attacked when he was with his newly dating girlfriend, a horror movie for dating, quite romantic. It was the girl asked to see the horror movie. Why? I don't understand the girls." Rossi said.

"You don't know? Because there are a lot of opportunities for the girls to put themselves into their boyfriends' arms." Prentiss said,

Rossi continue, "The stab was happened exactly at the moment that so call most horrible scene appeared on the screen,"

"The same for the other attacks." Morgan said. "And then he screamed, people laughed at him..."

"Steve, 31 years old, with his girlfriend, he was stabbed when his girlfriend was screaming with the horrible scene and then he screamed loudly too because of the pain. People laughed at him, even his girlfriend stopped screaming." JJ said.

"I assume both of their girlfriend left them after the stab?" Morgan asked,

"No, there was one happy ending, months later after the event, Steve married his girlfriend, because both of them realized how closed they could be with the death, that's made them to get marry very fast and now they have one baby girl." JJ said.

"Oh, that's a relief. Because all the other love stories did not last, seemed all have been cut off by the knife."

"We just discovered the pattern, "Rossi said,

"What? They all ended up their relationship?" Morgan asked,

"No. When they screamed, always some people laughed, they thought people laughed at them because people considered them weak and coward. But maybe these people who laughed were our guys, they laughed because they were really enjoying their prank. Rossi said,

"So we are looking not one unsub, but several, probably teenagers above 18."

"If the local did not take the case seriously by chasing them, why they stopped?"

"Gacia, would you check all the incidents happened after the last attacked, the teenagers above 18 who had accidents, or jail..."

"I'm on it."

"Ryan, open up, it's the FBI."

The door was half opened, Ryan's face appeared.

"Ryan, Derek Morgan and Emily Prentiss, we are with the FBI, we would like to talk with you, can we come in."

"Yes." Ryan opened the door, not one hundred percent willing.

"What do you want to talk about?"

"About your friend's death."

"Eric, it's been already 3 years. I think the case was closed." "It was, but there is another case not closed."

"Which case, I know nothing." "You reported to the police that, at that evening you and your friends were walking out of a movie house, when some street gang boys stopped you three and asked for money, Eric was high, argued with them, and he was stabbed, you and Joe run away. From which movie house you three walked out?"

"I don't remember."

"Try harder."

"What is it about?"

"You know very well Ryan. The horror movie attack case has not been closed. In the forensic report, the police found there was another blood which did not match Eric's DNA, neither matched the DNA of Eric's attacker, and now we found that blood belonged to one of the horror movie attack victims, actually it belonged to your crew's last victim."

Ryan cried out, " I know, one day this will come to my door. Eric was stabbed to death at that evening, Joe ended up overdose. It is KAMA. It was just a teenager's prank. We did not mean to kill, we just wanted to make some fun on making the boys yelling, watching them embarrassed in front of their girlfriends.

"You made fun on harming people, made them suffer physically and mentally, and now you have to pay for that." Prentiss said.

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