𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 , 𝙟𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙟𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙪

06

𝙰𝚁𝙻𝙾𝚆𝙴 𝙴𝚅𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙴𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙴, 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙽𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝚂𝚄𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙿𝚈

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Arlowe's cheeks had managed to settle back to their pale colour from the blushing pink JJ had previously turned them. Yet his eyes still held sadness and looked rather droopy, the man already hated having to come into work on Monday's but the one little ray of hope in his life had disappeared. The blue eyed man careful craddled his herbal tea to his chest, ''Arl, do you want me to walk you down to Mallory's office or will you be okay?'' JJ's voice dragged Arlowe out of his deep daydream, ''I'll be fine JJ, I don't think Malls even in today. She was feeling a bit unwell when she rang me yesterday, so I'll probably be doing something else while the local forensics handles it.'' Arlowe stated dozing back into his daydream, his ocean orbs watching his fingertips trace shapes over the cup.

''oh, sorry to burst your bubble but message from Penny, Mallory and Em are out sick and Morgan thinks he's coming down with something. Reckon you could fill in?'' Arlowe pondered on the question, after all, if Mallory wasn't going to be there, what was the point of sitting in the office sitting on a spinny chair until he could go home when he could use his talents elsewhere, ''yeah sure I can fill in, where are we off to today.'' Arlowe softly smiled at the blonde, ''kidnapping in Tennessee, bit sad but with you optimism I'm sure we can help that family feel right on track again.'' JJ encouraged the man.

By the time Arlowe and JJ stepped foot through the BAU doors, Hotch and what was left of the team was rushing past them to the jet, ''why are we rushing I thought it was just one kidnapping?'' Arlowe hushed to Spencer, ''no there's been a murder as well, and another has just gone missing.'' Spencer whispered back pulling his bag over his shoulder, ''oh that's not good, I hope I can help as much as I can.'' ''Evangeline, come on stop chatting and pick up the pace.'' Hotch's voice called to the flaxen haired man making his speed up his walk.

Arlowe slowly filled the seat next to Spencer as a loud cough rang in his ears, ''do you want a throat sweet, Morgan? It'll help with the cough I promise?'' Arlowe asked digging through his pockets serching for the homemade sweet, ''bring it on boy genius,'' Derek chuckled as Arlowe chucked the throat sweet at him, ''more bad news I'm afraid, whatever Mallory and Emily have Penny seems to have caught so we're a bit stuck with no tech now... but onto the case.'' JJ stated placing her phone down on the plane table, ''so a week ago Daniella and Michael Cassidy reported their seven year old Theodore Cassidy as missing he has yet to be found yet but at the scene where Theodore went missing 27 year old nanny Jane Lewis and  8 month old Flora Cole were pronounced dead at the scene two days later. Jane had the more brutal death, she had been strangled, stabbed and beaten whereas Flora looks as if she was cared for before she was killed, forensics don't know how yet.'' JJ read from the file as Arlowe observed the picture of Flora better.

''we're probably look for a woman late 20s to early 30s who has had a traumatic experience with a nanny more than likely a younger sibling died at the hands of the nanny or carer and possibly the nanny may've also hurt the unsub.'' Spencer states closing his file as Hotch picked up on Arlowe observing Flora's photo, ''what's wrong Evangeline?'' ''nothing...well its faint but there's a little blood spot on her wrist, the kind you'd expect after an injection so maybe it was a vaccination or overdose of something that killed her.'' Arlowe closed his file observing Hotch's non-changing face, ''woah, that's got a kick. What the hell did you put in these boy genius, its working but my god it burns.'' Derek comments making Arlowe lightly giggle at him, ''he's right there is a spot right there.'' Rossi circles the little red dot with his finger.

The cerulean eyed man smiles to himself as the other's compliment him, ''good job Evangeline, now when we land JJ you will go with Evangline to talk to the family see if there's any information, Reid and Rossi you can you go visit any local hospitals see if any chemicals have gone missing in the past month and I will be going to the coroner's office with the Sheriff see if they got anything off the body.'' Hotch orders as Arlowe places his glasses on, ''what are you reading?'' Spencer peers over Arlowe's shoulder, ''To Kill A Mockingbird, one of my favourite's.'' Arlowe beamed, eyes twinkling with happiness.

The Cassidy Residence was much like Arlowe expected it to be. A silent, cream coloured house surrounded by echoing birds with an unused swing sits sitting in the backgarden just waiting to be used. Arlowe tried to shake away his nerves before lightly tapping on the door, ''Mr and Mrs Cassidy, I'm Agent Jareau and this is my partner Agent Evangeline, do you mind if we come in?'' JJ and Arlowe offered the mourning parents an empathetic smile, ''sure, would you like a coffee? tea?'' Mrs Cassidy chirped from behind her husband, ''no I'm okay thank you but why don't I make you a nice cup of chamomile tea while we have a little chat.'' Arlowe offered earning a soft nod of Mrs Cassidy.

''its a lovely home you've got here Mrs Cassidy.'' Arlowe complimented, following the brunette woman up the stairs, ''please call me Daniella.'' the petite woman pushed her way into her shared bedroom, ''what is it you wanted to talk about Agent.'' Daniella continued moving to sit in front of Arlowe, ''you can call me Arlowe if you like, but I just want to know a bit about what your son enjoyed doing and his routine.'' Arlowe pulled a flipbook from his pocket. Daniella stuttered on about her son's routine, ''well 08:00 I drop him off for the bus, 09:30 to 15:05 he's in school, since it was a Tuesday he would've walked with his friend from the bus stop back home and stayed alone until my husband got home at 15:30 in which then he would be at baseball practise from 16:00 to 18:30, is that all?''

''for now yes but is there anything you can think of that may've distracted him from his usual routine?'' Arlowe quizzes clicking his pen. The brunette eyes flicker between sadness and thinking, ''well unless the person had a chess set or an animal with them, I don't think Theo would've gone with them.''

''thank you for you time and patience Daniella, I know it can be hard when someone you love gets hurt.'' Arlowe tightly hugged the woman.

''no thank you Agent Evangeline. Your just what the FBI needs with all the overly-masculine men that work there and you're a really comforting person, thank you again.''

''its no problem.''