It all started last month.
The case file that looked like any other had crossed her desk like the many others she got. But this wasn't like the others. It was worse, a nightmare returned.
She ignored it the first time, she saw many cases that the BAU didn't cover, maybe this would be one of them. At least that is what she told herself, until the third file came in a month later and she knew she could no longer ignore it.
Jennifer Jareu sat in her small office, the room lit only by the small table lamp she liked to work with, especially late into the evening. She took a deep breath before opening the file, she was used to looking at these cases, she was often the first to see them with part of her job being to decide which cases the BAU are going to investigate, it was something that haunted her, something she tried not to think about too much.
There had been 3 victims so far, all female, blonde hair, blue eyes ages 23 to 30... her age group, each victim had been held for approximately 5 days whilst being sexually assaulted and tortured before being stabbed in the stomach then strangled with bare hands. She knew this bad, it was a brutal killing, to kill someone with your bare hands was hard, it was personal.
She forced herself to read the file before printing off some extra copies, one for each member of the team. Standing, she straightened her pencil skirt, took a deep breath, put on that media mask and walked into the bull pen "Sorry guys, we got a case" she chuckled softly listening to the groaning and bickering of Morgan and Prentiss as they, plus Reid, followed her into the conference room where Garcia, Rossi and Hotch were already waiting.
Once everyone had a seat and a fire she began, "We have three female victims, each held for several days before being killed and dumped. They have a lot of injuries, medical examiner concluded they have been clearly tortured the first two victims were held for 5 days but the last one was held for 6" she flipped the screen showing the dump sites. "All three women went missing from a small town, everyone knows everyone that kinda thing, the first two vitims lived there, the other seems to have just been passing through, one of them was volunteering at a wilderness school there, and another had provided a movie night in her diner for them too so it seems the school may be the connection." she took a deep breath before switching the screens to show the victims of the faces.
Each of the women looked like they could be sisters, even more disturbingly, they looked like they could be JJ's sisters. She avoided the eye contact of her team as she heard Penelope gasp, Reid frowned the way he did when he was in deep thought, the two older agents in their team were unreadable, as always whilst morgan and Prentiss looked at each other than JJ with concern.
"Where are we going?" It was Rossi who decided to break the tension.
"Seattle, Washington" JJ looked at him and turned off the screen.
"Wheels up in 20 then, let's go." Hotch ordered as he gathered the file, watching closely as JJ couldn't get out of the room fast enough.