4. I'm going in

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Aaron

Two weeks had passed since I drove Amelia home. She had come by one afternoon just a couple days after wanting to talk. It had been one of my few days Jack at home with me, but I didn't wanna tell her no. So I asked if she felt comfortable even though he was there. She told me she was, so we spent the afternoon together talking in between listening to Jack who insisted on showing Amelia every single one of his actions figures.

It had gotten later and she was just about to get up to leave. When Jack ran up to us by the front door. "Amelia can't you stay and eat with us?" Jack had asked her. Amelia had given me a smile before squatting down to be the same height as him. "You have to ask dad if it's alright."

"Daddy can Amelia please stay."

"Alright buddy, sure she can"

"Yes" Jack had said excitedly doing a little victory jump.

"Okay go wash your hand so you can help us with dinner."

Jack had scurried back further into the apartment so I turned to Amelia again. "You really don't have to stay if you don't want to, you probably have better things to do."

"Hotch the only thing waiting for me is a glass of wine and some leftover chinese food. Besides I've had a great time so far. Jack is a really nice kid"

A knock on my office door pulled me out from my thoughts from that afternoon and back to reality.

"Come in" I raised my voice.

"We have a case" JJ popped her head through the door.

"Alright, gather everyone in the conference room."

JJ left me alone again. I quickly finished with the file in front of me and headed to the round table.

I sat down at at the table. Last one to enter the room.

"Alright so we have a series of bank robberies around the California area. They've also connected the same unsubs to a robbery in Portland but it wasn't connected until now. They've hit different cities making their way down the state. Latest one confirmed was in Bakersfield." JJ said pull up different photos on the screen.

"Okay but why are we getting called in?" Morgan questioned.

JJ pressed a button and a photo of the security guard cuffed to a desk with his own cuffs shot in the head execution style plopped up.

"Yesterday they also did this. There was a note left on the body." She pressed the same button again.

'Set us free or they all die next time'

"Set us free. That's a very weird way to phrase it considering we have little to no information about the unsubs" Reid expressed. Just as he was about to continue Amelia walked through the doorway and sat down at the end of the table.

"Sorry that I'm late, doctors appointment. Please continue" She smiled softly opening the file in front of her.

"The state police are worried they're working down towards the border and with this escalation there's no telling how long we have to find them" JJ told us.

"Alright everyone.Wheels up in 30 then" I said and everyone made their way out from the room. "Woods may I speak with you for a moment"

"Sure" She smiled.

I walked in my office and she followed after.

"Are you sure it's a good idea to comeback this soon?"

"Hotch. I'm going crazy just sitting at home and I got a clean bill of health. So you can't stop me from coming back."

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