The BAU

(2)Pluck thy eyes out

"So how was the museum date?" Prentiss asked grinning at me. All the girls were out on a girls night. Sadly Tara couldn't make it due to other plans but we had gone to the mall to grab something to eat and catch up, we also had a few too many drinks. We were currently walking to an ice cream place for dessert. "It wasn't a date," I chuckled. "We were friends going out for a day and spending time together."

"Sounds like a date to me." JJ chuckled.

I told them about the museum. It was a world war 2 museum. Everyone knew I was a history buff back in high school. It was genuinely an amazing experience to go and have Spencer tell me random facts about history ever 5 minutes. We spoke some more about JJ and Will and the kids, Emily and how she is thinking of getting a cat and how Garcia already has her platonic soulmate in the form of Derek Morgan.

Suddenly all of our phones pinged as we finished paying for our ice cream. "You've got to be kidding me." Emily groaned. "Another one." I said flatly looking at the message on my phone. "I think we've had to much to drink for this." Garcia groaned. She was probably right but hopefully we sobered up a bit on our way there. "Well let's get going girls." JJ said licking her ice cream. We sighed in unison and made our way to headquarters.

By the time we got there we had finished our ice cream and another silly conversation. We all walked into the debriefing room and took a seat. All except for Penelope who grabbed the remote and started talking us through the case.

"We currently have four victims, all male and in their late 20's to early 30's. All the victims have had their..um eyes..plucked out." I could hear Garcia was struggling to say the last part. She was a sweet and sensitive person, it was something we all loved about her.

We continue to mull over the case. "It's not easy to remove someone's eyes." Reid started. "It's called enucleation. The unsub could be keeping them as trophies or even consuming them." He continued. I saw Garcia's face twisted in repulsion. Everyone had their eyes glued to their tablets swiping through to get all the information.

"The unsub also doesn't seem to have a long cooling off period, Rossi said, "he might be on a mission of sorts." This meant he wouldn't stop anytime soon and Hotch knew that. "We need to get there before more people start dying. Wheels up in 30." And with that we all jumped up to grab our bags and get everything we needed.

*

Hotch sent Tara and Reid to the ME, Rossi and Morgan to the first crime scene and the rest of us went to the P.D to set up. After all the formal greetings Officer Wood showed us to the room where we found a board with all the victims and a map with notes indicating all the attacks and where they took place as well as where the men had lived.

Aaron Backer. Tom Reeves. Luke Todd. And our latest victim, Henry Clay. All their names and photos were up on the board as well as photos from the crime scenes. We spent our time going through files and calling Garcia for any information. Not all four men were married, two were single. Currently there wasn't much connecting them. But we kept digging.

"Hello crime fighters. I found some dirt on our victims. So as we know not all of them were married, BUT, they do have something in common, all four of them have inappropriate records, I'm talking sexual harassment, restraining orders and all that nasty stuff."

"The unsub could view them as bad men and be taking them out." JJ said hesitantly. "I think there's more to it, if that were the case why not just kill them. Instead our unsub is taking the victims to a second location and taking their eyes. That's a ritual indicating something more." I responded. We just needed to find out what was fouling our unsub.

Tara and Reid walked in with new information. "All our victims were drugged with a date rape drug." Tara stated. "Which is weird because it's usually used on women by men." Reid added talking with his hand like he always did. "However it is easy to come by, maybe he chose it for accessibility." Prentiss said.