Rossi put his sunglasses on the moment they stepped off the plane. He didn't know why but he had a feeling that this case was not going to be like the usual cases. He didn't realize at that moment that the feeling was spot on. Rossi looked at the members of the team that where with him. Agent Derek Morgan, Agent Jennifer Jareau, and Agent Emily Prentiss. The four of them climbed into the black Tahou and headed for the Sheriffs office. The drive wasn't far but the traffic was a nightmare. As they waited in almost standstill traffic Morgan received a call from Garcia.
"What's up baby girl your on speaker" Morgan said.
"Well, these women disappeared, I mean straight up Houdini. About a year ago, right after that meteor shower that was like totally unexpected. Anyway, these women straight up where gone. Never to be seen again, until... One of them showed up on TV with this pastor guy who later was found dead. These women left behind husbands, boyfriends, kids, two had amazing careers. They just all up and vanished."
"Get to the point baby girl your rambling." Morgan said trying to calm the stressed Garcia.
"Right, so raining theory after Jessica Gonzales was seen on TV was that she joined a cult. All these women where extremely religious. One of the husbands who was investigated for murder kept saying that his wife was an Angel now. How strange is that?" she paused. "I did some checking there are a few reports of religious cults in the area, I am sending the locations to you now."
"Thanks baby girl let us know if you find anything else." Morgan said then ended the call.
The highway started to clear up and the buildings a little more sparse. As Rossi pulled off the exit ramp he found himself dreading what was to come next, but he couldn't explain why. They pulled up to the Sheriffs office and got out the doors closing almost as one. The four agents walked towards the door as Rossi pulled the door open his gut told him something was off because when they entered the woman behind the counter looked confused. "Can I help you?"
"I'm Agent Rossi, this is Agents Morgan, Prentiss, and Jareau with the BAU. We are here to see the Sheriff."
"Oh, your other two agents where already here they said you where in Florida, amazing you got here so fast." The women perked up.
"Other Agents?" Rossi asked confused.
"Yeah Agent's Maiden and Rolling, nice guys a little intense though they didn't stay long though wanted to get a look at the bodies." she said dialing the Sheriffs line.
"We don't have agents by those names on our team." Morgan spoke up.
"Wait what?" the woman paused. They could hear the sheriff when he picked up the phone. "They had credentials like yours and everything what do you mean they weren't real FBI?" she demanded her southern accent getting stronger with the stress in her voice.
"What?!" Rossi heard come from the phone. He heard someone running towards the front.
"What do you mean they weren't real agents we let them in they looked at the case, they went to see the bodies." The Sheriff exclaimed as he threw open the door to the back.
"Do you have camera's around here? I would like to find out what's going on myself." Rossi frowned.
"Course we do" the sheriff said through pursed lips.
"We will need to send copies of the footage to our analyst she can hopefully get facial recognition to pin these guys in the mean time we still have three murders to solve" J.J. said trying to keep the level head of the group.
"Right, lets get started while we wait to find out who's masquerading as FBI agents" Emily led the way past the sheriff to the room set up for them. "Is anything missing?" she asked looking around.
"Not that I see" the sheriff moved a few things around. "Other then the case files on each women, there is a copy missing of each. All the evidence we collected is here, I don't understand it."
"Neither do I." Rossi shook his head and sat down, so far his gut had been spot on this day was not going to get better.
"Cas!" Dean called into the night. "Cas get your feathery ass down here!" he called again. "Please don't make me pray it's degrading." he called getting more and more frustrated.
"Maybe he likes it when you pray." Sam said trying to keep the smirk off his face.
"Shut up Sammy" Dean growled, his mood was getting increasingly sour as the minutes ticked by and Cas wasn't there.
"Castial I swear to... whatever the hell passes for god these days that if you don't get your feathery..." the swish of wings interrupted Dean's rant.
"Hello Dean, what do you require?" Cas asked. Dean looked Cas over he wore his trademark brown trench coat, white shirt and dark slacks.
"Cas, finally, what do you know about the deaths of three Angels two here in Georgia and one in Florida all killed the same way?"
"I know nothing, are you sure they are Angels?" he asked.
"Sam show him" Dean said gesturing to his brother.
Sam pulled the pictures from the case files and showed them to Cas. Cas took them and looked them over.
"The detail in the burn marks is undeniably Angel Wings." he said and handed them back to Sam. "I will inquire, the women however are not familiar to me, I have never seen these vessels before so I cannot tell you which Angels where killed. I assume you are investigating further."
"Well yeah if someone is going around killing Angels then that's kind of our thing" Dean replied sarcastically.
"Good I will contact you when I know anything and Dean, my ass is not feathery." His deadpan expression made Sam want to laugh.
dean looked at him stunned for a second, then a swish of wings and he was gone.
Hotchner walked into the Sheriffs office and looked around for Rossi and the others. He had been told of the two posing as Agents and hurried to get back to the rest of the team. 'What do we know?" he asked as he entered the conference room set up for them.
"About the case or the fake agents?" Morgan asked looking up.
"Both" Hotchner replied.
"Well, as for the case, not much there wasn't much evidence. There are no traces of accelerant on the burns, nothing on the bodies but the carvings and we can't even identify what they are. Garcia is running a search. As for the fake agents again nothing Garcia is running facial rec trying to find them." Prentiss explained.
"So we have a whole lot of nothing." Hotchner sighed.
As he sat down Morgan's phone went off.
"Baby girl tell me you have something you're on speaker." he warned knowing Garcia's habit of saying sometimes crazy things to him.
"Well good news, I identified the fake agents, bad news they are supposed to be dead. There names are Sam and Dean Winchester, brothers, they go around killing people claiming they are possessed by demons and what have you. Nasty serial killing brothers. They were supposedly killed in a helicopter crash along with the FBI agent bringing them into custody."
"I remember that, the Agent assigned to the case tried to have us help out but we where slammed on other cases." J.J. said.
"Right" Garcia confirmed.
"Are you sure it's them?" Rossi asked.
"100 %" Garcia sounded a little hurt that he doubted her.
"Alright so they must have faked their death. This is probably them and they where here to look at their handy work. They probably get off coming in here right under to cops noses." Morgan said perking up.
"Probably" Emily agreed.
"but why take that risk, especially since they knew we were on the way?" Spencer asked.
"They probably thought they had enough time, wanted to relive their handy work, most likely Sam and Dean have skipped town already, if that's the case we wont find them until they kill again." Spencer speculated.
"If they kill again they have been known to go dormant for awhile and stay off the grid if they think we are getting to close. Garcia pull up everything you have on the Winchesters and send us the information. In the mean time lets all get some rest and meet back here in 4 hours." Hotchner said. "If they are gone then we have time"
"And if the aren't?" Rossi asked, his gut telling him this was far from over.
"Then they are probably stalking their next victim. Either way, we have to sleep sometime." Hotchner frowned, he didn't like this one bit.
"Could it be another faction? I mean these Angels have been killing each other for awhile now for control." Sam said from his computer.
"Could be but why cut them up and pose them like this. Have you figured out what the symbols mean?" Dean asked.
"Not yet, its not Enochian, it's not really anything I have seen before. I was looking at the burn marks and there is something odd about it." Sam said holding one up to show Dean. I think these Angels where trapped in a ring of holy oil. Probably to keep them there while their killer did what he did" Sam explained. "There is also this, inside what I assume is the ring, there are these symbols carved into the ground, they are hard to make out but I think these are Enochian and if I'm right, which I usually am, it's the equivalent of what we use to trap demons in their bodies and render their powers useless. So this person trapped them, kept them powerless, carved this into their chests and then killed them in someway that we can't figure out."
"Thanks for breaking it down for me there Einstein " Dean muttered resentfully.
"We still don't know which Angel's these are or what faction they belong to." Sam went on. A ping from his computer had him looking down. "Wait I think we might have something. It looks like one of the woman was on that show with Buddy" Sam leaned forward. "I've also discovered that all three women where reported missing right after the Angels fell." he read quickly. "Turns out all three women where highly religious and then just one day up and disappeared. It was assumed for the one, Jessica Gonzales, that she joined a cult when she was seen on Buddy Boyles show."
"Are all these women Bartholomew's followers?" Dean asked.
"I don't know hard to tell. I need more information." Sam sighed leaning back.
"Why spread it out? Two here one in Florida, is someone hunting his followers down? I mean he's dead so maybe they scattered. Could it be the Angels in heaven Cas did say they where going after stragglers." Dean asked.
"Or maybe its revenge but this doesn't scream Angel on Angel murder if it where another Angel they would just Angel blade them and be done with it. Not all this staging and carving." Sam replied.
"Unless it's a warning, come back or end up like this." Dean shrugged.
"Maybe... there are just to many unknowns at this point." Sam sighed, "This is dangerous Dean, we should get out of here and come back when the FBI leaves."
"And do what? They already know we are here by now. So we can't come back here as FBI. We could always do our best to disguise ourselves and see what we can get from the locals." Dean looked at his brother and sighed, "we can do this Sam we have to figure out who's killing Angels and why."
"Yeah I suppose your right." Sam said resigned.