1991

A Young Emily Prentiss stood at the entrance of the party. It could probably have been considered a block party or a house party, she wasn't really sure. She was not even really sure why she let Amanda talk her into this, it was her day off from all the waitressing she had been Working the shifts so long in the hours of the day she just wanted to sit in his quiet room and read some of her Kurt Vonnegut books before she had to go to sleep before her classes at Yale in the morning.

Amanda's Boyfriend Nolan Greaves was the only other person at the party she recognized so far. Every part of Emily found her situation boring and tedious as the seconds turned into minutes and then into hours before it felt like time was standing still to her.

Then time seemed to speed up for her when she saw Amanda and Nolan greeting a young man who arrived at the party a couple of minutes alone with a brotherly hug. He was young in Emily's age group, probably a year younger than her. His jaw covered in small stubbles still coming out of his skin, he had dark brown hair like Nolan only his was really short but he had gray eyes in contrast to Nolan's sapphire blue eyes. He had rugged hansom look about him.

Amanda motions her hand at Emily to come over to them. Emily sighs with a slight smile and roll of the eyes before relenting and she walks to them to meet the young man. It was probably just an old friend or relative that Amanda wanted t try and hook her up with. She always would try to at parties like these, it was nice of her in an annoying way, but it would never lead to anything.

"Jesus, man James, You look like hell. What happened to you?" Emily could hear Nolan asks then the young man replies "One of your snobby Yale chums didn't like it when I came asking around about you then he and some of his buddies tried to jump me when I refused to leave."

When Emily was in view of the young man he then asks "Hey Nolan, who's the Raven head?"

Nolan and Amanda then proceed to chuckle and laugh at the comment of his brash nature, Nolan knowing as wells as Amanda when he had taken a liking to someone.

Then Emily says "Raven head? At least I don't sound like a backwoods redneck hillbilly."

"Redneck? Hillbilly?" the young man says in a combination of shock, annoyance and irritation and then replies sarcastically a couple of seconds later "Talk about stereotyping." Causing even Emily to smirk and chuckle at his personality and Nolan introduces him "Emily this is my little brother James Greaves." Then Emily watches as he extends out his hand and she complies with a shake.

Present day

Emily once again found herself back in the present, having forced herself back out of the memory from the night she first met James Greaves, the first night a small chapter in her life started. As she was riding in the back of the car the thought of seeing him again after so long repeatedly came to her, causing her nerves to go completely off the reservation of normal.

She could feel the anxiety as she sat in the back seat of the car with Morgan driving and Reid sat in the passenger seat. Then she hears J.J. who was sitting in the seat next to her "Hey Emily, are you alright?"

Emily would face her, but could not think of the right words. Hotchner and Rossi not being with them and instead going to speak with the survivor made thing easier on her, but she still was hard pressed for the words and strong incentive to help her use them. They were about to go question a man she had a past connection with and to make it slightly worse, he was the brother-in-law of one of her friends.

Reid looks in the rear view mirror taking a closer look at her facial features as she finally begins to speak "It's nothing, I'm just still a little tired from the long drive over here."

Reid immediately sees through the deception and notices the avoiding of the question combined with the stress showing on her face as she was trying to avoid human contact. J.J. noticed it too then Reid says "Good fib Emily, you could probably do better with it if you try to make more eye contact."

Emily felt every part of her insides crawling. She wanted to say something, but it felt like something was holding her words back, like a cat had her tongue. J.J. was the first to speak after Reid, hoping it was nothing serious "Emily what's wrong? You look like someone was holding a gun to your back."

Emily finally opened her mouth, able to break and speak normally again and says "You remember that friend of mine that I said I was going to visit? Amanda Greaves."

Then J.J. asks "Is this James guy her brother?" to which she replies"Close, he's her brother-in-law."

Morgan looks back at her, trying to understand how well she could possibly know this man and asks "Is he a friend of yours Emily?" then she retorts "Close, We dated for a while, then after we split he just up and disappeared. Last I heard of him was Nolan mentioning him being in South Dakota."

"And Nolan's his older or younger brother?" Morgan asks and then Emily says "His oldest brother. He has another brother named Scott, but he's not goanna be found near here."

"Why?" Morgan asks

"I heard Nolan say while I was over at their house that he was still serving in the Marines. He's captain now." Emily clarifies.

"How well do you know him Emily? Is he violent?" Morgan asks and Emily immediately dismisses it saying "NO, NO. He's actually very nice once you get to know him. He would probably shoot you though if he thought you were trying to kill him."

"Did he do that once?" Morgan asks and then J.J. asks her own question "What do you mean once you get to know him?"

"He can be kind of sarcastic and have a bad attitude with most people. And Morgan I'm not sure if he ever did really kill anyone before, I remember one time someone tried to mug him, he disarmed that and probably have hurt him if I hadn't talked him out of it." Emily says and Reid replies sarcastically "Sounds like a fun guy."

Emily felt a combination of excitement and dread as they came closer and closer to the scrap yard. The last time she had seen James Greaves he was a young adult with an attitude problem still trying to find his place in the world. They both must have changed so much since they last saw each other. She steps out of the car as they arrive on the scene with Police Chief Brody, his Detectives Stabler and Deeks and a squad full of SWAT officers. Emily could just see this turning into a fist fight between one of them and James, she knew how much he loathed cops, how he saw them as thugs with badges.

The sign to the place said Greaves salvage. A name fitting the kind of place she could imagine James working on.

The employee's were all rounded up by the police into a crowd. All of whom were middle aged men and women of various ages, some were with old dog tags around their necks. The SWAT's were standing by as the Chief, two detectives and the BAU members questioned the employees, all of whom seemed to choose not to answer the question. Emily had taken a look at the sketch that the witness had given to the police; she still had her doubts about him being the one behind this.

Detective Stabler tries to get the workers to sell him out "Look, I know this guy's your boss and all, but he's not worth going to jail. He's wanted for murder and if you don't tell us where he is, we will have to arrest all of you for obstruction of justice."

Emily found both of the detectives horrible, like the ones from the West Memphis case. The kind that would lock away an innocent man and not lose a night's sleep over it. There was more to it though. They seemed to have a personnel distain for the man. Deeks was more of a good guy than Stabler, he seemed to hold less of a low opinion on James

Emil heard a foot step in the rock gravel and the dirt behind her before hearing a all too familiar voice "Hey Brody, you looking for me?" The voice was more than familiar, it was almost unchanged since she last heard it. She looked back and saw him as he finished his sentence "Sorry, I was doing a house call down the road."

James Greaves stood around her height, still one year behind her. His dark brown hair was very short cut and possessed a pair of blue eyes. He still wearing his families old dark brown leather jacket. Emily remembered how once he said his father bought the jacket after he returned from Vietnam still in his twenties.

Emily and James exchanged glances before he was the first to speak in confusion "Raven?" he said with a smile ready to form on his face, but then the SWAT aimed their weapon at him on full auto before one of them yell at him "PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" He just seemed almost unaffected by them for a few seconds "Great, ass holes with Automatics." James says before complying and one of the officers. Then one of them begins to search him for a weapon before pulling out a old Colt M1911, Emily recognized it as his old personnel weapon, and James says sarcastically "Enjoying yourself there?"

Then Stabler says "Yeah, you're a real comedian." Before putting handcuffs around his wrists behind his back and putting him into the back of one of the cars. All the while Morgan, Reid and J.J. all noticed the look he was giving Prentiss and the look she was giving him right back and then She looks to them and asks "What?" upon seeing the looks she was getting. They all remained silent as they stared at herm then the team gets into the car and follow behind the police to the station.