Gifted | | A Criminal Minds Fanfic

14. Deal

Arriving at Rossi's house, I quickly climbed out of the car, running towards the front door where Rossi was waiting.

"What's going on?" I asked. "Is it my grandma, is she okay?" My hands were shaking and I could barely function, because my mind was going a mile a minute.

"I...I'm not sure. When I got home, she wasn't here, but...there was signs of struggle and...and..." He couldn't even look at me, which told me something really bad has happened.

"And what?!" I didn't even wait for a respone. I pushed passed him and ran into the house, and that's when I saw it. Blood. Blood everywhere. "Oh my God!" In that very moment, everything went into slow motion, as I slowly dropped to my knees. What the hell happened and who would do this?

"Melanie, come back outside, until the rest of the team gets here." I heard Spencer say, but I ignored him. I wasn't going anywhere, not until I figured out what happened and who was responsible. I took off my gloves, touching the puddle of blood and closing my eyes, not caring that I was contaminating the evidence. I took a deep breath, hearing a pig squeal, before seeing it get sliced in half; while the blood poured from its body into a container.

"It's not her blood!" I said quickly, pulling my hand away. By that time, Hotch and the rest of the team had arrived, while Rossi filled them in.

"Then who's blood is this?" Rossi asked.

"It's pig's blood." I stood up and went to go wash my hands, relieved that it wasn't my grandma's blood that I was washing off, but I still didn't understand...who would take her and why?

Once I got the blood off, I headed upstairs to change, but stopped dead in my tracks when I saw what was sitting on my bed. It was my old stuffed pig bear, that I hadn't seen since I was younger, along with a note attached to it. I took a deep breath, touching the note, seeing a flash of a man who was looking around my room, gripping the pig in his hand. There was no mistaking who the man was, which made me quickly snatch my hand away from the note.

"Oh no." I whispered. I opened the note, feeling a cold chill run down my spine, when I saw a picture of a spider and two words that made me literally sick to my stomach.

Remember Me?

I dropped the note on the floor, backing out of my bedroom, and slamming into a wall.

"ROSSI!!!" I screamed. Moments later, I heard a bunch of footsteps coming up the stairs, as the team appeared with their guns drawn. "It's him...he's...he's back."

"Who's back?" Hotch questioned. I looked up at Rossi, who knew exactly who I was talking about.

"The Spider Man." He said.

"How do we know for sure that it's him?" Emily asked, putting her gun away.

"He left me a note, along with that pig, that was mine when I was little." Derek stepped out of the room, holding the note with a glove.

"That probably explains the pigs blood then." JJ voiced. She helped me up off of the floor, as we all headed back downstairs.

"Dave, did you notice if anything was missing?" Hotch asked.

"I didn't have time to check. When I got here, I noticed my door was slightly opened and that there was a lot of blood, and no signs of Marci."

"So this guy breaks into your house, splatter pigs blood everywhere, and snatches Mel's grandma; who clearly wasn't going down without a fight? What's he trying accomplish?" Morgan questioned.

"He's definitely changed his M.O. Originally The Spider Man only targeted young girls, between the ages of ten and thirteen, but stopped after almost being caught. That was fourteen years ago." Reid said.