As Reid jogged down the tunnel to the entrance of the plane, he began to slowly let his anger melt away. There was no point staying angry at people who didn't matter to him anymore. Reid had finally had enough or his team constantly babying him and mocking him whenever he started spouting statistics. He couldn't help it, it was his way of communicating, and it hurt him that they didn't understand. They weren't allowed to mock him for being himself and then expect him to be okay in the long run. No. He had had enough, and now they had lost him. He wasn't going to return to the team when he found Jessica, he was going to find another job. He's a genius, it wouldnt be too hard.

Before he stepped onto the plane, he patted the outside of it for luck. He always performed this action, because it made him feel safer. He didn't know why, but he wasn't going to question his own mind. He had booked a coach ticket, and wasn't getting his hopes up on a good seat, but as he made his way down the fuselage of the plane, he spotted his place. It was a window seat, with only one seat next to it, and thankfully It looked to be un occupied. He let out a sigh of relief, finally beginning to feel slightly happier. He deposited his hand luggage into the over head storage and settled into his seat. He didn't like to fly, but over his years of working in the B.A.U he had slowly gotten used to it. He still only liked to travel when necessary, but this was an emergency. His best friend was in danger.

1 hour later

Since the little run in with his team at the airport, Reid had not received any new messages or phonecalls. They must have finally gotten the message. As the plane began to prepare to land, Reid switched off his phone. Nothing was going to distract him from Jessica, and it was highly unlikely that the unsub would be stupid enough to leave his phone in easy reach of Jessica again. Once the plane had landed and reid had made it successfully to the taxi bay, he breathed another sigh of relief. Finally, somewhere the team couldn't ambush him.

Hotch:

The flight to texas was long, but it gave Hotch time to think. He was still coming up empty on why Reid would want to go to new York, but he knew there would have to be some valid reason. He decided to bring the team in on his thoughts and wondered aloud. "why would reid want to go to new York?" his agents heads whipped around at the sound of their bosses voice, and each had a questioning look on their face, apart from J.J, who already knew about reids little new York adventure. Hotch remembered that the team were still in the dark about which flight reid had taken, so he began to explain everything he knew. " after I had sent you all over to the doors after reid left, I went over to the desk to ask which flight it was. The attendant told me that it was a new York flight" he finished glancing at each of his agents. After a few moments of silence Rossi spoke.

"It could have something to do with that phone call he had. You know when he freaked out and ran off". His eyebrows furrowed remembering the stress that was evident on the youngest agents face.

"Yeah that phone call seemed pretty urgent. Explains why he got a flight so quickly" Morgan offered.

Emily spoke. "Wait! Didn't reid go on an undercover mission a few months back? I remember Strauss saying something about new York!" She looked at hotch for confirmation.

"He did I remember now" hotch frowned. "he didn't tell me he was going. He just left. Strauss told me a couple of days later" Hotch sighed at the similarity of the situation.

The team became silent. They were all thinking the same thing. Could the case have opened back up? Is reid in danger? No one wanted to think of the consequences or Reid going on a mission without them. Suddleny, the laptop that was opened up on the table lit up.

*DING*

The team were drawn from the thoughts and began to focus all of their attention on the colourful woman on the screen. Garcia's bright smile faltered as she saw the grim faces staring back at her and she started to feel uncomfortable.

"Garcia?" hotch urged, wondering if she had any information that could help them on their case.

"uh…ermm…. Oh yeh!" Garcia stammered, feeling unusually nervous under the defeated stares of her babies. "The texas state officers have caught and arrested a young male in his twenties leaving a womans house through an open window after an alarm was triggered" she explained. "the officers found the womans body in the house and the murder weapon in the suspects bag".

"How similar was the killing to the previous homocides?"hotch questioned, his face twisted into a slight frown.

"remarkably similar sir" Garcia's rarely heard serious voice replied.

"okay I want you to contact them and tell them that we will be there soon to question the suspect. No matter how much evidence there is, this case isn't over until I say so" Hotch ordered. He was hopeful that the officers had caught the right subject. It meant that they could return home and focus on helping reid, whether he wanted their help or not.