Criminal Minds - Chaos or Calm

Chapter 12- Another Victim

Rossi's Point of View

"Detective Boyd, I'm SSA Hotchner, these are SSAs Morgan, Prentiss, Jareau, Rossi and Dr. Reid." Hotch said as we approached the detective. 

"Thank you for coming," the detective said, shaking Hotch's hand. 

"Is there anywhere were we can set up." Hotch asked.

"Yes, yes of course." Boyd led us down a hallway to a room with two boards and a rectangular table. It also had about eight boxes of case files.

"As you know we have have had four murders, and it is almost guaranteed that there are going to be more. We have lots of information, but all our leads have gone cold." Boyd said. Well, that explained all the boxes.

"Okay, Reid and JJ go to the last two victims apartments, see if you find anything in common. As we do not know were the abduction site is yet, that is our best bet on finding out how they are connected. Boyd can you go with Rossi to the last dump site?" Boyd nodded. "Morgan and Prentiss, go through the files. We need some fresh eyes on it."

I saw Morgan and Prentiss exchange glaces. 

"Um Aar-Hotch," Prentiss corrected herself. "That is going to take a really, really long time to read all those." 

"Yes maybe Pretty Boy should do it. I mean he can read 20,000 words a minute." Morgan pitched.

"20,000 words a minute, is that even possible?" The detective said, bewildered. 

"Yes it is very possible. Your conscious minds can only read-"

"Reid," Hotch warned, cutting him off.

"Okay Reid, how long do you think it will take to read all of the files and build up victimology?" Hotch asked.

Reid walked over to the boxes.

"Not long, probably only twenty minutes." Reid concluded.

"Twenty minutes! Where can I find one of him?" Boyd exclaimed. 

"I also have an Eidetic Memory and an IQ of 187." Reid said to Boyd.

Morgan rolled his eyes behind Reid and JJ smirked proudly.

"Okay, JJ and Emily go to the apartments, Rossi and Boyd go to the dump sites. Morgan and Reid, the files. I'll talk to the families." Hotch concluded. 

JJ's Point of View 

I got into the driver seat of the SUV and Emily the passenger seat. Emily programmed the first location into the GPS.

"Okay Emily, what is going on between you and Hotch." I asked straightforwardly.

She hesitated before asking. 

"Nothing..." She lied. 

"Hey, I know from experience that hiding a relationship from a group of profilers is impossible. Remember Miami?"

"Of course. It took you long enough to confess." She said, laughing.

"So anything that you confess... anything that I don't already know." I press on. 

Emily sighed. 

"What do you know?" She asked.

"You and Hotch had a thing, you left, now you're both wondering if it can continue the way it was before." I say, knowing I'm right. 

"Right on the dot, Jayje. How.. you know what I don't even want to know."

"Okay, but I'm pretty sure the only person who doesn't know anything is Spence."