To Solve

Chapter 31: No Way Out, Part II (The Evilution of Frank)

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellects."

Oscar Wilde.

"There's food in the fridge, Melody still needs to take her bath and Shawn gets his bottle at six," instructed Lily, the mother of the children and wife of Parker's cousin Daniel.

Parker was babysitting the kids that night so the parents could go on a date.

Daniel and Lily had recently moved to the city and Parker was very happy to be closer to some of the family again.

Their cousin followed the two with Melody in his arms. He gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead and sat her on the floor.

"Be nice to Parker, okay?"

Melody nodded and held up her hand as if in a vow.

"Great. Love you, munchkin."

"Are you sure?" Lily asked a third time.

The young agent reassured the woman a third time that everything was fine and had to practically push her out the door.

Parker turned around. The four-year-old stood in the hallway and looked at you with a cheeky grin.

Parker scoffed, wondering where she got her dramatic streak.

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"Yeah, Gideon had a book, a black leather-bound book. Garcia discovered something. It looks like the first page has been ripped out. You can only really see what's left on the side of the page. But it's definitely Gideon's handwriting. It looks like some kind of a list," JJ reported.

"It's his murder book," Hotch explained.

"Murder book?" Emily asked.

"When he opens it to the first page it reminds him why he does what he does," said Hotch.

"It's a list of all the people he's ever saved. Names, dates, personal details," Spencer added.

"And now, Frank has the list."

"Frank said, 'I'll kill them all.'" Spencer said. "That's who he's... going... after... No..."

Spencer suddenly reached for his phone in a panic.

"Reid?"

"Please... please..." Spencer mumbled as he dialed the number again and was already halfway to the car.

The others followed him.

"Reid? What's going on? Talk to us," Morgan spoke to the younger profiler a second time.

"Parker is on the list."

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Parker closed the bedroom door quietly. It took Melody two bedtime stories to finally fall asleep.

They sat on the couch and grabbed their phone.

6 missed calls from Spencer

6 missed calls? This was unusual for Spencer– something wasn't right.

Parker was about to call back when there was a knock on the door.

They put the phone on the table and walked to the door, causing Parker to miss the seventh call.

"You are back early," Parker said, expecting to open the door for Daniel and Lily. "I thought you–"

The words got stock in their throat as the young agent realized who was standing in front of them.