Morgan watched her go with a sigh, despite her asking not to be followed all he wanted to do was follow his friend to make sure she is safe. He ran a hand over his face before kicking the chair across the room in anger "Son of a bitch" he mumbled before going back out to the team.
"You good?" Hotch asked him, the only response he got back was a glare.
"That is not JJ… That isn't out girl Hotch we have got to get this sick son of a bitch,"
"We will… now that we know who he is its only a matter of time."
"Look… doesn't anyone else find it odd that he hasn't picked up another yet?" Prentiss added.
"Why does that matter? Isn't that a good thing?" Sophie frowned.
"Of course," Emily continued, "it's just that he has stuck to a pattern. Most killers start to speed up the process but not the opposite…" she trailed off.
"She is saying that he probably knows JJ is here and is waiting for the opportunity" Reid sighed.
"Yeah… that" Prentiss sighed.
"Well this place is safe, security is top notch, much better then it was all them years ago. He's not getting onto these grounds." Peter shook his head.
"Even still. She cant be on this case any more and she does not leave this property alone. At all." Hotch added "we don't know where this guy is and until we do she stays here."
The team agreed and headed back to the room they were using as a base, now they knew who he was they could use that to try and build the profile to try and figure out his next move and where he may be hiding these women, he clearly needed somewhere with space and privacy.
"Garcia you're on speaker." Morgan spoke the minute she answered.
"How is she? How is our little cupcake?" She asked, skipping their usual banter from how worried she was about their friend and colleague.
"She's… not great" Morgan sighed, he just couldn't bring himself to lie to her "but she will be fine because she has all of us. Garcia we need everything you have on Walt but umm… we need everything on JJ too… or Shelby I guess. We have her full name and dob here so that should be a start."
"I cant snoop on my friend like that I just cant."
"Garcia…" Emily jumped in "I get it, it feels wrong but this will help. We are helping her, I just think it would be better for you to find this stuff, she's told us allot but I cant help but feel she's holding back still and she's… not in a good place right now."
"Fine. But don't expect me to like it."she snapped the phone off without waiting for a reply.
The rest of the team worked, mostly in silence, it felt wrong, they were breaking the one inner team rule, no profiling each other. It had been about an hour when Morgan answered his phone "Yeah baby girl what have you got?
"I send over everything I have on Walt. It doesn't look like he owns any property but he must do so I'm still looking into that. I've sent you everything I have on him and our girl. But umm here's the thing… I found a file… its sealed."
The room remained silent as they all looked at each other knowing what that normally meant, "Unseal it Garcia." Hotch ordered.
"What but this is our friend I cant do that."
"Garcia, I know this is hard, non of us like this but it could be important."
"Fine but I wont read it." The clicking of her keyboard could be heard over the phones "Unsealed and sent. I don't want to know what's in it. If she wanted us to know we would know… Look after our girl… Garcia out." With that, she hung up again.
Each of the remaining agents opened the file on their tablets, as usual, Hotch and Rossi were unreadable, Reid just looked uncomfortable as Morgan clenched his jaw and sat upright in his chair. Emily ran a hand through her hair and began to read out loud "charges of possession, petty theft, shoplifting and… prostitution." She sighed "all common charges we see with young run always"
"How the hell does she work in the BAU with all of that?" Morgan frowned
"Well non of it is in her file I would know. It looks like after the abuse allegations stuck Peter and a few others from here wrote letters to the judge, he sealed them as she was going for her scholarship.
"I can't do this right now." Emily mumbled, normally well put together and level headed it was finally all getting to much. "I am going to check on JJ…"
"I think we should call it a day" Hotch nodded "Its been long and emotional for all of us"
Emily didn't need to be told twice, they headed out with the files and back towards the guest cabins, when Emily entered there's she frowned, the room was empty, she knew she wasn't in the bathroom as the door was open but there, on Emily's bed was a folded piece of paper with Emilys name written in beautiful neat font. She frowned, opening and ran back out just as the others were entering their cabins.
"Hotch! It's JJ… she's gone."
