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The elevator doors closed and Penelope was out of view. She had just revealed she was leaving. Her stuff was packed, desk empty.

The team was standing in the elevator about to leave for the plane. Emily stood in the center of them all and just smiled. She knew Penelope was meant for more than this.

Pen was always the best one on the team. She held them together.

"So now what?" Spencer asked. "Now we go solve a murder. We get a new technical analyst and we keep going." Emily stated.

They boarded the plane and soon were off. An unsub was killing women with high position jobs. They would go missing on their way home and found the next night in a park. There were 4 murders within one week.

"Reid, Tara go to the first victims abduction site and see what you can find. Rossi, Luke take the latest. Matt and JJ go to the park all the victims were found at. I'll head to the station to meet the officers." Emily said. They landed in Boston and split up.

Shelly Cooper's abduction site

Spencer looked around the parking lot Shelly's car was found. He tried to work out what had happened in his head.

"So I'm Shelly and I'm walking to my car." Tara said, acting the scene out. "And I come up behind you and knock you out with chloroform." Reid added.

"How do you know I'm alone?" Lewis says, thinking out loud. "There are so many risks being taken. How did the unsub know the lot wouldn't have cameras?"

"Maybe he stalked them beforehand. That would give him the type of car and job they had." Spencer replied.

Tara called Rossi to share ideas.

Florence Meyers' abduction site.

"We were thinking the same. There's no way this guys could be this lucky." Rossi was saying.

Luke was walking around the parking lot of a law firm. Nothing was out of place or strange. It all looked normal.

The dumping site

Every body was in the same position when found. Almost like the victim was sleeping. JJ and Matt met up with the local police to try and find out more.

The only extra info they got involved the time and location the victims were found. All on the hour near a bench.

"So they know how long it'll take for the victim to be found. They have to come here often." Matt said.

"And they are remorseful, based on the position they were found." JJ added. Her phone buzzed at the same time.

E.P.
Meet at the station ASAP
-P

"That's Emily. We have to go."

Boston PD

Slowly, each group pulled into the station parking lot and met inside. Emily had spent her time setting up their room. Pictures of victims, locations and maps surrounded the room.

"Shelly Cooper, a 41 year old psychologist. Mary Wellis, 43, neurosurgeon. 44 year old Leah Carls, a police chief and Florence Meyer, 43, lawyer. These are our victims. All highly recognized in their fields and in high profile jobs." Emily stated.

Each women had a picture of themselves, their workplace, car and corpse. Spencer started working on a map of the area as everyone compiled their info.

Hours later, Emily called it. They had been working past dark and emptied the coffee pot. "We don't have Pen to figure out hotel rooms, so I did it. Everyone shares a room except Rossi gets a single queen bed." Emily stated.

Whenever the team had a single room it went to Rossi, he had seniority. Normally the team spent the night with the same people: Tara and Emily, Luke and Matt, JJ and Spencer.

While Emily passed out room keys, JJ pulled Tara aside. "Can we switch? I really need to talk to Emily and I won't have time after this." She asked. Tara nodded and they switched keys.

"I'm rooming with you." JJ told Emily. Emily raised an eyebrow and asked what happened.     "I just wanted to talk about something." She said. "Later." Emily added.

They piled into the cars and left for the hotel. All of the bags were already in the rooms so it was an easy transition.

The pair went to the room and JJ took the first shower. Emily put their clothes in the drawers and showered next. JJ started to scroll through her phone but zoned out.

Emily walked out of the bathroom to find JJ staring into space. "Is the paint fun to look at?" Emily laughed. No response.

"Jen?" She sat next to her in the bed and grabbed her phone. "Hey." JJ shook her head and looked at Emily. "What?"

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