As Rossi and Morgan finished collecting evidence from Alex, they headed down to where the others were.
Walking down they bumped into a female who was in her late 30's and had long blond hair "Sorry ," she mumbled as she walked past the two federal agents.
"It's fine mam," Morgan said. His mother had always taught him to be respectful to people even ones who bumped into you. That's probably one of the reasons why the women seemed to love him.
"I'm Antonia Straker," She said. Then she walked of suspiciously. The men didn't really notice her but they didn't have to or so they thought! Just as Morgan and Rossi were about to start walking again, Morgan's phone rang. It was Garcia !
"Hey baby girl. What do you have?" He asked in his usual manner. He loved Garcia but not in the way he loved one night stands or anything like that. He loved her in a deeper way but he had never acted on his feelings.
"Ah well, it looks like we have 5 potential suspects, my chocolate Adonis. They've all been released from there in the past 6 months." Garcia said. She was her usual cheery self. Even though they were working something which had the potential to be so sad for the team, she was cheery and kept the team hopeful of finding this son of a bitch who was killing poor, schizophrenic people!
"Narrow it down, Garcia, to people who have schizophrenic." Rossi said. He just wanted this case and the whole situation with him and Hotch to be over. He couldn't wait until he was at his mansion sipping good quality whisky without any worries again.
"Okay just looking. Ah 2 people, Jim Bolton and Antonia Staker. If that helps," Garcia said. Her job was done at the moment and she knew that.
"Yeah it does. Thanks, Garcia." They both said. Then Morgan disconnected the phone.
Rossi looked in the direction Antonia went "I'll go warn the others, you follow Antonia." Rossi ordered. He was in command when Hotch wasn't around! Nothing would change that!
Morgan nodded, and then he headed in the direction Antonia went. Not knowing whether it was too late already. Maybe she had already killed someone else. Maybe… He couldn't let those thought occupy his brain. He needed to take her down and stop her before anyone else got hurt.
As Rossi got down to Diane's room, he paused not initially sure he should of gone down. He knocked on the door then heard Reid say come in. Hotch walked over to him and whispered "What the hell are you doing down here, Rossi? You know you can't be here. I've not told you to come down here. If you really needed someone down here why didn't you send Morgan?" He said annoyed. He was annoyed that Rossi had come down here and was with Diane after what had happened. "David Rossi ?" Diane said looking up from her journal. Rossi couldn't talk. Not her. Not at the moment. Not when her life was in danger. "Can we talk outside?" Rossi asked Reid and Hotch. They nodded. They knew whatever he was going to say it would upset Diane even more than she needed to be. They knew that it would mess with her if Rossi was in the room. Whatever needed to be said couldn't be said to her face!
"Mum, we're just going outside the door, if that's okay. We will be back." Reid said and Diane nodded as the men walked out the room.
"What do you have?" Hotch asked. He was upfront with the question because he wanted to solve this case quickly so that Reid had peace of mind. So that he had peace of mind.
"We found the unsub. She was released 5 months ago but she's here today. Morgan's following her." Rossi said as he felt a panic come over him. 'Oh my god. I've let Morgan go after a psychopath with no protection other than a gun' He thought as the panic descended on to him.
"What's her name?" Reid asked. He needed to know whether he knew the name. He needed to know whether his mum had mentioned her before. He was scared for his mum!
"Antonia Straker. Garcia is finding more information but so far all we know is that she is schizophrenic…" Rossi said as the panic faded a little. He knew Morgan had experience with dealing with unsubs and he was fit so probably wouldn't get hurt.
"Fine I..." Reid stopped at the sound of a gunshot. They rushed back into Diane's room to find her lying on the bed. She had been shot in the neck. She had been dealt a fatal shot.
"Spen...cer " She choked as blood started to pour out of her mouth.
"I'm here mum don't die on us." Reid said almost crying. He had to stay strong in front of his two superiors. He needed to stay strong for her. He knew she didn't have long left. This was definitely a fatal shot.
"Take c...are of your...self" She whispered. She was getting weaker and weaker by the second.
"You're not going to die mum, please…" Reid was almost begging. He couldn't watch her die. She couldn't die! It wasn't fair! Everything bad happened to him! What had he done to deserve this? He wasn't a rapist or a murderer. But he seemed to have everything bad happen to him. Hotch and Rossi came over to him as he started to sob.
"Aaron Hotch...ner, I'm s..orry for ...aband...oning you." Diane said to Hotch. She knew she would die but Reid was pleading her not to .Hotch couldn't reply. He was lost for words. He too was upset but Rossi looked like he could cry. He had to stay strong for everyone especially Reid.
Diane looked almost pleadingly at Rossi "T..ake care of t..hem. I st...ill lo..." She took her last breath and closed her eyes. She was dead but Reid was still pleading for her not to be.
Ok yes I am evil also who thinks that I should bring Reid's father in for Diane's funeral
