Emily Prentiss sat motionlessly still in the driver seat of her car as she drove down the Minnesota countryside. She had been spending the past few days with her old college friend Amanda and her husband Nolan Greaves while on her vacation from work. After the whole business with Ian Doyle and having to fake her death she just wanted to spend some time away and enjoy the peace and quiet of the country, she thought about spending some time with her Mother to relax and unwind, but the faking of her own death the year before seems to have set them back to the bad place where they were before, the bridge between the two having been put back into place after only a brief time of mending fences.

The reunion with Amanda had taken her back a bit. Taking trips down memory lane as they recounted their college days and spending some time in the local town. It had all been going so well. The laughter, the joy, no killers, no UNSUB's and no terrorist committing horrible acts onto another person. She missed moments like those. Then J.J. her best friend called. Telling her of a case in a nearby town, forcing Emily to choose between spending more time with her friend or going to her Family, Emily had to choose her Family.

Emily had enjoyed seeing Amanda and Nolan again and spending some personnel time. Amanda still determined and headstrong and Nolan still the sarcastic and witty man he was back then. Even after eighteen years of marriage and raising two teenagers they still acted the same.

Emily still did feel a bit of jealously though, something she almost never felt. Her life from her point of view was fulfilling, but she sometimes wished she had been married at least once and had a child of her own. It would eat up on the inside of her just to think about even for a few second sometimes, that maybe just maybe there was still more she could have done with her life.

The green road sign to be seen as she passed on her way in told her she was at her destination Parker, Minnesota, Population 5,000.

J.J. gave the location of the police department in the small town. Still the things she heard from J.J. on the case sent a chill up her spine. It was the kind of case that would leave a person shattered to the core, unsure if they could ever be able to look another human in the eye and not question their humanity. Bodies found in the nearby wilderness, all identified as people from big and small towns in out of the state all reported missing. The bodies had been bitten on was really all J.J. was able to tell Emily without having a little reunion with her breakfast from this morning.

Parker was your usual small town in America, one grocery store, a few gas stations medium sized houses, filled with people either dressed in patrolling Police uniforms, formal wear for work or like southern rednecks bumming around town with their lazy selves. There was just barely a few kids to be seen, not that it surprised her, she had arrived around the time that school's were usually over.

It took some navigation and making use of the local signs and finally having to ask for directions, but she finally managed to finally find the station. Rossi was waiting outside for her leaning against the wall with his head scanning the streets as he was waiting and looking for her. Emily quickly parks her car across from the station and locks her doors before walking across the lot and following him inside.

The meeting between the Police department chief Joel Brody and the Team was already happening. J.J. greeted her as Rossi, Morgan and Hotch did, but Reid seemed more focused on and interested in the work before him, showing that he was still a little mad at her for putting him and the team through that whole mess of ordeal that happened the year before.

It was then that Emily finally saw what had her best friend so disturbed. The photos of the bodes, male and female, different ages and back ground all from different parts of the country, tourists and locals from nearby towns.

All killed with a rifle to their backs or a knife was used to slit their throats to put them out of their misery and all had parts of their flesh consumed. It sent chills down her spine with the thought of what happened to these poor people.

The case reminded her of Paul and Johnny Mulford back in 2007. The victims were not really locals, but they were all kidnapped from a single road road, while the Parker victims were kidnapped from various locations where people were barely visible and there were multiple escape routes by car or on foot. Also the Mulford brothers only took the drivers licenses as trophies, they never cannibalized anyone. They also killed with bows and arrows.

Reid took his time with the photos then says as he looked at the photos of the bodies "The Bender family would lure travelers in with their Inn and General store before striking them from behind. Perhaps the victims weren't killed but just taken to a new location for the killer to get control over them."

Then police Chief asks "But why hunt them down in the wilderness? And how did they escape?" To which Emily has an answer "Paul and John Mulford would kidnap people who were physically fit then they allowed them to escape before hunting them down."

Chief Brody goes through the box of evidence that had been collected over the course of the investigation and pulls out a photo of a young woman and says "Well I don't know about the Bender and Mulford cases but for ours we have a survivor who was able to ID the person who kidnapped her and she could only remember one."

Then Hotchner asks "Who did she ID?" then Brody replies "A local named James Greaves. He lives at the little house near the scrap yard he works on."

Those words caused Emily to freeze up as she recognized the name as both her friend Amanda's Husbands last name and the name of a person she knew way back when she was attending at Yale. The team leaves the room and Emily suddenly realizes she was the only one left in the room when she hears J.J. call out to her "Hey Emily are you coming?"

Emily then looks and nods before saying "Yeah I'm coming J.J." unsure about the thought of seeing James again after so long.

Author's note: Sorry about the short chapters, I'm planning out most of the story as I go long. I'm hoping this could turn out well, but anyway here's my chapter, hope you like it, please review.