Elijah was staring at himself in the bathroom mirror. It was him. But at the same time, it wasn't. When he looked at that mirror, it wasn't Elijah staring back. It was Benjamin.
"Eli?" Reid knocked on the bathroom door.
"Hm?" Elijah glanced over at the door.
"Can I come in?" Reid asked slowly.
"..Of course." Elijah hesitated.
"Elijah."
Elijah bit his cheek as he unlocked the bathroom door.
"What's going on?" Reid tilted his head as he walked in.
"Nothing's going on." Elijah shook his head,"I'm just tired."
"Elijah..I know something's wrong." Reid sighed.
"I'm fine." Elijah ran his fingers through his hair.
"You do this thing, with your hands."
"No I don't." Elijah crossed his arms
"You're doing it now." He pointed out.
"I'm not doing anything."
Reid sighed and looked at him.
"I wasn't trying to hurt myself if that's what you're so concerned about." Elijah shook his head.
"I'm not, I just.. You've been a while and I just get worried for you." Reid told him.
"It takes time to look this good." Elijah pointed.
Reid chuckled,"Promise you're okay."
"I promise."
Reid kissed his cheek,"I love you."
"I love you more." Elijah took his hand and squeezed it.
Reid smiled,"I'll be downstairs, okay?"
"Of course." He nodded.
Reid hummed and let go of Elijah's hand, leaving the bathroom. Elijah let his smile falter as he looked back at the mirror one last time as his reflection before shaking his head and leaving the bathroom as well.
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Everyone walked into the Concerence Room, sitting down as Hotch appeared on the screen. In Manhattan there was a series of deaths, also where Hotch's brother, Sean, lived.
"And the M.E reports showed three other victims bleeding out over the last week." Hotch told them.
"Yeah, one in Harlem, two in the village, all five have been categorised as ecstasy overdoses." Garcia added.
"And one of the victims may have been drugged without her knowledge." Hotch finished.
"Ecstasy is frequently used as a date rape drug, but I've never seen it cause bleeding like this." Fleur tilted her head.
"Could it be a bad batch?" Strauss suggested.
"Well, uh, according to the M.E, the victims had so much MDMA in their systems that it caused their internal body temperature to go out of control.. They boiled from the inside out." Garcia sighed.
"That's not typical of overdose victims either." Elijah shook his head,"We could be looking at product tampering, similar to the Tylenol cyanide poisoning in '86."
"And the working theory in that case was that the UnSub targeted a specific victim but dosed mass quantities to cover his tracks." Hotch nodded.
"So you're telling me these deaths could just be the start." Strauss looked up at him.
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