A/N: Well what do we have here, another chapter. And a really long one! This is because I wrote like crazy today and already got to chapter 19. We're getting close to the meeting of Caitlyn and Spencer's mom meeting. Thank you guys so much for the reviews, they're appreciated as always! And come on, I see you others who are favoriting, drop a review- not like I don't appreciate the usual reviewers I love you guys a lot. So here goes! I have more and I'm off tomorrow so come onnnnn review so I can give you more! The next chapter was one of my favorites to write so far so you should want it!

May your feet serve you well and the rest be sent to hell
Where they always have belonged, cold hearts brew colder songs
Fate will play us out with a song of pure romance~ Panic! At The Disco

A day had passed and all of the agents were still looking at all of the case files. Caitlyn felt like Strauss was always looking at her. They felt like they were looking at the whole case the wrong way. Caitlyn was looking over the case files and waiting to find any connection between fathers and trouble students.

"Hey, look whose here." Spencer said light heartedly. Caitlyn spun around in her chair and almost spun over as Prentiss and Hotch made their way into the room. Hotch walked over to Morgan, giving him a firm handshake.

"How fast can you get us up to speed?" Emily said giving Caitlyn a smile, who let out an ultimate sigh of relief. Spencer squeezed her knee under the table.

"How fast can you sit down?" JJ gleamed.

"Thank god." Caitlyn breathed until Strauss came into the room and it was like every bit of good air was sucked out of it. She stared at all of the agents whose smiles slid from their faces.

"We're only here to help." Emily said sternly, looking up from a case file. Hotch gave her his signature stone glance that Caitlyn normally wanted to avoid but was giving her an overwhelming amount of joy.

"We'll deal with this later." Strauss said. Caitlyn couldn't keep a smile from widening on her face as most of the team was back together and they began to look at the case. Caitlyn could tell that Spencer was waiting for Gideon to come through the door, or even call. But she had a feeling that he wouldn't. Finally Garcia got copies of the trouble students over to the agents. It seemed like days had passed as the agents dug through the pages and pages of children in the public school system.

"This is impossible, they're are too many." Spencer groaned, flipping through the pages two times as fast as any of the other agents. Another body was found and the agents were on the scene. There was a small hill leading down to where the body was and Strauss headed down first, tripping and almost falling on top of the victim. Hotch grabbed her for support and helped her away.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"I stepped on her hair," Strauss said, finally starting to unravel.

"Take a second if you need it, this is what is is. Just don't let the public see you unravel." Hotch instructed her as she placed her hand over her mouth.

"If it makes you feel any better, she didn't feel it." Caitlyn said, Hotch shot her a glare that indicated that she didn't help the situation at all. Caitlyn mouthed a 'Sorry' at him as an assisting officer led Strauss away, and Derek gave her a secretive fist bump. The victim was left in a different area this time, the un sub was getting smart and knowing where all the man power would be changed his location of where he would dump the victim.

"If he changes when and where he abducts them, we're back to square one." Caitlyn pointed out.

The husband of the dead woman arrived, screaming her name as he made his way over to the crime scene.

"No no no, we gotta keep him out of here." Morgan said, him and JJ running over to the man as the rest of the agents stood over the victim. Caitlyn walked over to help try and calm the man down.

"I hear you're worried about Gideon," Hotch said to Reid as he leaned over the body.

"I keep trying to call him." Spencer confessed.

"He's probably at his cabin that's where he goes when he needs to… get away." Hotch assured him.

"Reid, I need your head in this."

"I know," he answered, shaking his head. "Can I ask you something?"

"Yes?" Hitch turned to look at him.

"Did you really put up a case to Strauss for me and Caitlyn?" Spencer asked him. Hotch kept his face straight, even though the idea of the young agent's relationship made him think of the one that was probably ruined for him at home. Haley didn't want him to leave for this case but Hotch couldn't stay away.

"Yes, I did." Hotch answered, keeping it short. Not wanting to tell him that the two young agents worked incredibly well together and he had hope for them. Just like the hope he had for Haley and their future when they started dating.

"Thanks." Spencer said walking away and Hotch smiled the world's tiniest smirk.

They had gone through the paperwork, they had gone through atleast seven pots of coffee. Hotch was such an essential part of the team and so was Emily. The two extra set of brilliant eyes helped all of the agents work better with one another.

"Reid, what are you thinking?" Hotch asked, noticing the young genius deep in thought.

"What if he isn't a problem child?" Reid spoke up, "it's going away from the basic profile."

"No, what is it?" Caitlyn pressed him.

"Sometimes when a parent is unstable, especially if the other one is out of the picture, you'll do anything to be the perfect child." Spencer said. No one except for Caitlyn noticed the slip of they'd and you'd. Caitlyn knew about Spencer's mother, and it broke her heart thinking that Spencer grew up under the pressure of trying to be perfect. He had told her about having to send her away to get help and how hard it was, but he never got close to talking about it around the rest of the team, this was the first time there would be any hint of a connection.

"Like helping their father abduct women?" Emily asked raising a brow.

"They're never late for school, all the abductions and dumping were timed exactly in perfect timing for a kid to get to school. I don't think the killer would care, I think the kid would." Reid continued. Garcia was called to the table and they waited for her to work her magic and send over the files. Spencer and JJ were sent over to talk to some of the principals, Caitlyn stopped him before he left.

"You don't have to tell me to be careful, I really don't think the un sub is a school principal." Spencer started, Caitlyn grabbed his wrist.

"When you were talking in there, you said when there's a parent with a problem, you'll do anything to be the perfect child."

"I did?" Spencer said, not noticing his slip of tounge.

"Yeah. I just wanted to make sure you're okay and your head is in the right place with Gideon worrying you, and I know you probably are feeling some kind of connection to this poor kid." Caitlyn said grabbing his hands.

"I'm okay, I guess I do feel a connection but that's leading us closer so it's a good thing, right?" Spencer said, Caitlyn caught eyes of Strauss around the corner. Caitlyn took a quick step away from him and gave him a friendly pat on the back.

"You go and get that information, Dr. Reid." she said acting over professional, Spencer rolled his eyes and she winked at him as he went with J.J to the school and Caitlyn went back into the conference room.

The interview was more than a success. They had a child's name and found out that the father of the child was diagnosed with cancer. Hello, trigger. Spencer called to let Hotch know that David complained about being sick and the school nurse drove him home. That was their time to move, the woman who was probably just trying to be nice and do her job drove herself right into a trap. Spencer and JJ were to meet the other agents at the house. Caitlyn looked around for her FBI vest,

"Caitlyn!" Prentiss said, throwing her bulletproof vest at her, Caitlyn caught it and smiled.

"Thanks."

"Well you're my buddy, remember." she teased and the two agents headed to the scene. Hotch sent Prentiss and JJ to go and have an eyeline to cover the back incase anyone tried to sneak out from inside the house. Caitlyn crawled up to the window, trying to be as careful as possible and then ran back to where the remainder of the team was.

"The kid is alone in the living room." She informed them.

"No sign of the nurse or the dad?" Morgan asked, Caitlyn shook her head no.

"We need to get in there, he already changed how he abducts them do we want to chance that he sticks to the rest of the model?" Morgan stated.

"Let's just pound down the door!" The assisting officer exclaimed.

"We can't do that, he could spook just enough to kill her early." Hotch said.

"I could go in alone, the boy is in the family room alone, he'll answer the door." Caitlyn suggested.

"No!" Reid and Strauss said at the same time.

"We need to get in that door. He's looking for female authority figures, if he lets me in, as soon as I see anything that gives us cause I can call you guys in." Caitlyn said.

"You aren't even officially apart of this team. You're still assigned to the SWAT unit your papers aren't signed yet." Strauss tried to stop the young agent.

"All the better." Hotch said.

"If I'm not apart of this team and still in the SWAT unit, then you have no authority over me." Caitlyn said, unstrapping her bullet proof vest.

"You're going to let her go?" Strauss looked at Spencer, whose face was scrunched with worry, trying to keep the agent from going in against her orders.

"I can't let her do or not do anything, and no matter how much I don't want her to go in there, it's the best chance of saving that woman's life and getting the un sub." Spencer said, the unit chief shook her head. Hotch handed a cellphone over to Caitlyn, telling her to page as soon as she saw anything that would give probable cause. He then looked over at Spencer and back at Caitlyn, giving her a nod of approval for quick display of affection before going into somewhere she may not come out of. Caitlyn walked over to him and kissed him quickly.

"Now I have to tell you to be careful, because I know you're going in that house no matter what anyone says." Spencer frowned.

"You really do know me well. I'll see you when I get out. I love you." Caitlyn said turning around and walking up to the door.

"I love you too." Spencer said to her as she walked away.

To say that she was nervous was an understatement. Except for the car bomb on the roof almost every time Caitlyn took the risk or the lead in a case it had gone wrong. She was nervous that she would be walking into a trap and never come out, or that another woman or the young child would die in a result of her actions. Caitlyn knocked on the door lightly, the young boy opened it.

"Hello," Caitlyn said smiling sweetly at the young boy, "I'm Caitlyn your dad asked me to come by."

"He's busy." The young boy replied.

"Would it be okay if I came in and waited?" She asked, the young boy shrugged and gave her access to the house. Caitlyn made sure to look at every inch of the room as fast as she possibly could in order to make sure she wouldn't get cheap shotted or attacked. The young boy locked the door. Fuck.

"My dad says it's unsafe to leave the door unlocked." The boy stated. Caitlyn used every muscle in her face to smile.

"Smart man… Where is your dad anyways?" Caitlyn said quietly, but not too quiet as to alarm the boy or raise his suspicions.

"Caitlyn is in, we're waiting on her go." Morgan stated. Reid and Morgan put on their bullet proof vests and went to be by the house for as soon as Caitlyn gave them a reason to come in or if something went wrong.

"He's working in there." The boy pointed to a door.

"Is he alone?" Caitlyn asked, earning no response from the boy. Caitlyn started to step towards the door, taking in a deep breath and exhaling a smile. "Would it be okay if I went down there to let him know I was waiting?"

"He doesn't let me go down there when he's working." The boy answered. Caitlyn shook her head,

"Oh you don't have to, I'm just going to go and see if he's too busy. And we're both going to be really quiet, okay?" she said stepping towards the door. And slowly opening it as the boy nodded and watched. Caitlyn pulled her gun out of the back of her pants and held it up, opening the second door with force and seeing the missing woman tied up. The woman was shaking her head and Caitlyn didn't have enough time to be confused. The un sub came from behind the door, hitting her in the face with a loose piece of wood. Luckily she wasn't knocked unconscious this time, even though she dropped her gun. She let out a groan of agony as the un sub grabbed it and pointed it at her. He yelled at his son to grab the gun and point it at her. Even though she wasn't unconcious, she was spinning and trying to get her head to work properly. Her vision was blurred and she couldn't think straight, the un sub grabbed her arms and then finally Caitlyn clicked the phone, hoping the rest of the team would be able to get there in time.