My love won't let you down - A Jemily happy ending

Jeffrey Charles

*One week later*

The team was still at the safe house, working the case and 'chilling' at the same time; everyone wanted to catch whoever was behind all of that but they were trying to stay calm and not push everything and make some mistakes.

That morning they were around the table eating breakfast, it was almost 10am and everyone was awake.

"Any news?" Hotch asked as he was speaking on the phone with the Marshals. "Oh. Ok, thank you. Yes, we will analyze that later." he said and hang up, looking at them. "Another parcel. This time there are some pics of us heading to the jet, luckily it seems that he doesn't know where we are yet. The Marshals sent two agents to deliver some copies of them."

"Hotch we need to find this son of a bitch, we can't stay here forever." Derek said and the rest of the team nodded looking at the unit chief.

"I know, let's get to work while we wait for the copies."

Everyone started to clean the table and brought in the files. They arranged a little board on some windows in the living room and added a copy of the note they received.
Someone knocked at the door and Hotch asked the password they chose - to avoid strangers at the door -, he looked through the peephole and opened it.

"Thank you, everything is ok." he took the copies and went back in the living room. He opened the parcel and put the pics on the table. "Ok, here they are."

Reid and JJ were looking at them while Rossi and Emily were discussing about the M.O., Garcia was checking that no one tried to discover their location through the IP address they were using; it was against protocol to use any type of device but the Marshals permitted them to have an encrypted computer, after all Garcia was capable of hiding it in the best way.

"Guys, wait..." Reid said and took the first pics they received, he looked at them and squeezed his eyes. "He has a partner."

Everyone looked at him confused waiting for an explanation. He put all the pics on the table and drew red circles on the dates and times of every pic.

"These two photos were taken at the same time, look. 3.22pm on the same day. There are at least two people." he said, then he checked the other pics. "I thought so. Every pair of photos is taken at the same time, always."

"So what? Two people take photos of us during the day, but they want to take them at the same exact moment?" Emily asked while looking at her pictures. They seemed random, they were taken during their routine but while they were always doing something different.

"Garcia see if there's someone who got out of prison recently, someone we put inside. There must be a pattern. At this point I think that this is someone we know and they think that it's our fault if they spent time in jail." Hotch said, while Garcia was searching for someone who fit the profile.

"Wait, Hotch. Didn't you say that it could've been also someone in the bureau?" Derek asked after putting down the pics.

"Wait a minute. There's this guy, Michael... Thompson." Rossi said getting up from the chair. "I know him. He's younger than me, not too much tho. When Gideon and I started talking about the BAU, he wanted to join us but to be honest, he wasn't competent enough. Since then, he always tried to enter the BAU in vain."

"Guys, let's think about it for a second. If he's trying to join the BAU, it's possible that he wants us to be put away in one way or another. I think that he doesn't want to be caught in something like this, he would be kicked out from the FBI, so he found a partner. A partner that hates us as much as this guy Michael does." JJ said while looking at each of them. It started to make sense, if it was true they were on the right track.

"JJ is right. Garcia find everything about this man, but we need proofs he wants us to leave the team."

Ding!

The computer started to open tabs about Michael Thompson and Garcia looked at them. "Ok guys... our old Michael Liam Thompson filed a lot of requests for a role in the BAU, always denied. He also tried to apply to the role of Unit chief..." Garcia said wrinkling her eyebrows and looking at Hotch. "Oh, interesting."

"What Garcia?" Hotch asked.

"He sent a loooot of emails, texts and everything to the same number this month. There are also some phone calls. Let me try to find whose this number is."

Meanwhile the rest of the team was trying to connect some dots.

"Hmm, we said there were two people. What if there are three of them? I mean, if Michael can't do this because he could lose his job and his chance to be in the BAU, but the photos are taken at the same time, he could've asked two people to do this." Emily said pacing through the room.

"Yea, right." JJ answered and some minutes later she went to make some coffe. « I just need this to be over. I wanna go back home, I even miss the office. I wanna spend some time with Emily, these days it's so hard. Fuck. » Someone followed her and hugged her from behind. "Hi."

"Hi gorgeous." Emily said kissing her cheek. "I miss spending time together, alone." she sighed and put her head on JJ's shoulder.

"I know babe, me too. I hope we're right so this bullshit ends." she put some coffee in two cups and gave one to the brunette, then she kissed her. "Let's get back there, maybe tonight we could do something... funny." she winkled and walked away, leaving Emily with coffee in her hands, heart racing.

*Two hours later*

"Guys, guys!" Garcia yelled, getting everyone's attention. "I found something. The number that Michael texted several times belongs to Jeffrey Charles. But I remember that name..."

"Jeffrey... oh my god, Jeffrey!" JJ said loudly. Emily and Rossi looked at her confused, they didn't know who she was talking about.

"Jeffrey Charles, yes I remember him." Reid nodded and went on to explain that to Emily and Dave. "Years ago we went to Ozona, Texas where three people were killed and the community thought it was the Boogeyman. Two days later we found out that the killer was him, Jeffrey Charles, a 12 years old boy. He was put in juvie."

Emily and Dave looked at him shocked while the others were nodding.

"Yes. He spent 6 years in juvie, he got released but he went back in for minor crimes. He got out two months ago, when he started texting Michael."  Garcia said looking at the screen.

"We need proofs Garcia, did you find texts or something that proves it's him?" Hotch asked.

"Wait, if it's him... who's the third person?" Emily squeezed her eyes and looked at the board.

"Garcia check texts or phone calls from and to Jeffrey. Another number must pop up besides Michael's." Reid said and Garcia began to search.

Five minutes later Garcia found something digging through all the files.

"Guys, Jeffrey always texted and called this number before or after texting Michael. Look at this." she said showing all the texts and emails. "They are our unsubs."

"Perfect, let me call the Marshals. Pack your bags, we're going home." Hotch said as he was dialing the number and everyone went back in their room to get their stuff.
They found them, they were about to go back home and catch those assholes. The team spent only one week in LA, but it was stressful because they had to be isolated in every way so they were pretty happy to leave that house.

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Hii🥺
This chapter doesn't contain a lot of Jemily content, but I wanted to add something like that for a while sooo
Also, it takes place (more or less) between season 12 and 13 but with the cast of season 5. Let me know if you want me to add Tara, Luke, Matt or anyone else!!
Thank you <3

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