Ghosts • Aaron Hotchner

Chapter Twenty Three

Fallon

Fallon sat around the table in the conference room, waiting for Emily, Garcia, and Aaron to join them. 

"Where's Seaver?" Rossi asked, referring to the agent Ashley Seaver, who was going through remission training in their unit. Emily was acting as her training agent.

"She had to take a test at the Academy," Emily answered as she and Garcia walked in, followed closely behind by Aaron. He started handing out files, as he quickly started the briefing. 

"We've all seen the news. Mass murder in Miles City, Montana. Six people shot and killed at a gas station," He told them, before taking his seat in between Rossi and Fallon. 

"Robbery?" Emily asked.

"No apparent motive," Rossi commented as he read through the file.

"Any security footage?" Spencer asked. 

"No. No cameras, no witnesses. Ballistics says we're looking at two shooters," Aaron replied. 

"We'll something at this station must have triggered them," Morgan commented.

"Yeah, it doesn't look like they had much of a plan," Fallon added, sharing glances with her fellow agents. 

"And it may happen again. Spree killers often repeat themselves," Rossi chimed in. 

The team all exchanged glances before standing up to get ready to leave. 

"Does Jack have his bag or do we need to stop by and drop it off?" Fallon asked Aaron, as she gathered the contents of her file. 

"I dropped it off with him this morning," Aaron answered. Fallon nodded and then Aaron gave her a smile before heading to his office. 

As Fallon headed to her desk, she found Emily waiting for her. 

"Hey Em," Fallon greeted, as she got her go bad ready. 

"Hey, did you get a call from Sean?" Emily asked. Fallon looked at her and nodded, frowning in confusion. 

"Not that I know of, why?" Fallon asked. 

"Because he called Garcia and was asking for me. He didn't leave a message, but Garcia said it was urgent."

"Well then I'm sure he'll call again," Fallon replied. Emily shrugged and nodded. "I wonder what he wants."

"I have no idea," Emily admits. 

***

The team was rerouted to Billings, Montana instead of Miles City. 

As they pulled into the gas station, Fallon noted the building gas station that was blown up, and the multiple firetrucks there, continuing to put out small fires.

Fallon got out of the car with the rest of the team and made her way over to the detective. 

"Sorry to reroute you to Billings, but last night this went down," the detective said, as she gestured around them. 

"Have you released a statement to the press?" Aaron asked. 

"No, but it's already hit the air," the detective responded. 

"Where's the car they dumped?" Morgan asked. 

"It's over there, agents are searching it now. One of the vics said the shooters were a male and a female."

"How many people were murdered here?" Emily asked, as Fallon took in the destruction around them. 

"Eight, and if you add the Miles City killings, we're up to fourteen," the detective answered.