I don't know if I have mentioned this yet but it is set at the start of series 4.

The next day at the BAU, JJ was reading some of the files that had come in on her desk that morning. Going through the cases she saw one that caught her eye. One that the whole team would want to solve quickly. She knew the team would want to solve this case before anything happened to one of their relatives.

Usually she would go to Hotch before she presented a case but it seemed like she didn't have the time to brief her boss, this time. She gathered the others in the conference room. She saw that Hotch and Reid were as far away from Rossi as it could possibly be. She guessed that they either found out the truth about him or he had told them. She had guessed something had happened after she and Prentiss had left. She hoped it wouldn't affect the case.

"Ok JJ, what do you have?" Hotch asked as everyone entered in the conference room. He knew it was an important case. Maybe it had something to do with the team. Maybe it was a unsub who was murdering at a rate which was faster than 48 hours. Maybe it would affect a team member. Maybe it would effect a few team members. He just didn't know.

"Ok you may not like this," JJ said looking at Hotch and Reid. She looked sad as she spoke. It was definitely bad news. She paused just as she was about to continue. She knew this would hurt Reid the most. She turned mainly to Reid as she spoke "But last night at Bennington Sanitarium, there were 3 murders."

Reid's faced paled slightly when he heard the mention of where his mother was. He couldn't believe that this was happening. He was pained as he thought about what had happened. He just hoped his mum hadn't been murdered or seen the murders. If she did see anything she could be next on the unsub's list.

"Who got killed, last night?" Morgan asked. He could see Reid was scared about it. He knew Reid was affected by what JJ had said. No wonder, his mum could have seen or even worse, been killed. He also could see Hotch was trying to comfort Reid. Both men could swear Reid was either going to faint or cry. They could tell. "Heather Allison, Elizabeth Beling and Olivia Berlina were all shot last night." JJ continued as the photos of their murders flashed onto the screen. The unsub had all shot the victims. Reid paled slightly as he made the connection. Hotch, on the other hand, had no idea that was where his newly found mother was. Only Morgan and JJ knew about Reid's mum. Reid had told them about his mum.

"Garcia, check to see if they have anything in common." Hotch said. Then as Garcia got up to head to her office. She had a lot of work to do.

"They do have something in common. All 3 of them have schizophrenia and the unsub is going down in alphabetical order as it's the first 3 people killed were A and B. He will only decide to stop killing when there are no schizophrenic people in the home left." Reid said. He was slightly relieved when JJ had said their last names. He knew his mum would be quite far down on the list. But he needed to solve the case before his mum was on the top of the list. The team were amazed by what Reid had just said. No wonder they called him their genius! This could be the lead they needed to start profiling the sick person who was killing these poor people.

Reid had turned slightly pale. Everything seemed to be happening at once recently. In the past 2 days he had gone from being an only child to finding out that he had a half-brother that he had worked with for several years and that his half-brother's dad had been working with them for about a year now. And just to top it, his mother was in danger of being killed. He wondered if someone was trying to destroy his life. He was definitely the weakest in the team. Morgan and Hotch could restrain the unsubs. Prentiss was also very strong. Rossi could shoot a gun, so could JJ. His only weapon was his brain. His brain sometimes wasn't enough. It was probably had something to do with Fisher. But Reid had no proof that Fisher had anything to do with the murders. The only thing he wanted to do was keep his mother out of danger. But he didn't want to make her move, it would disrupt her. He would probably lose more of her if he did that. He knew that his mother was in danger and there was almost nothing he could do.

Both Hotch and Rossi could see him paling but before they could say anything Prentiss asked "How do you know that. I understand that you're a genius and everything but how can you tell that by their names?" She asked inquisitive. She knew that Reid was very clever but she couldn't figure out how he could know all the victims had schizophrenia and the unsub was going in an alphabetical order. He must have had inside knowledge. Surely the genius wouldn't revise lists that you couldn't get hold of unless you had a mini Garcia. Reid always tried to stick to rules.

"Because that's the place where my mother is living." Reid gulped looking at Hotch whose eyes suddenly widened. Reid also glanced at Rossi but he had the same expression as Hotch. The only ones who didn't were Moran and JJ. "Also the unsub obvious knows them as there would be no way to know that they had schizophrenia unless you were someone there or a relative. So, he was probably someone who had recently been released. Or he could work there. But that's unlikely because people are extremely vetted before working with such a vulnerable group of people." JJ said. She had a lot of knowledge of this type of unsub. She had worked on a few cases like this in the past but instead of mentally ill people it was children. She didn't like how Reid looked. He looked as pale as a ghost!

"Then we should go and find the unsub." Reid heard a voice he looked round and saw that it was Morgan who had said it after few moments of silence. Reid was thankful for Morgan's words. Morgan had stopped any awkward questions coming to him yet. He knew the plane ride would be full of questions about his and his mum's past. He just hoped Morgan would help him avoid them too. Though that probably wouldn't avoid all the questions forever.

"Garcia, check on any news reports or newspaper articles this morning and see if you can find anything. Everyone one else wheels up in 30!" Hotch said then left the room where Reid followed. Everyone followed. Hotch avoided asking anything. This case needed everyone's full attention. Anything that side tracked the team would be bad for the case. Even potentially the outcome of the team after the case.

Before they left Garcia had said "On it sir." then left to her office. She knew it would be important and she didn't want to get told off again.