Demons Criminal Minds and Higher Ground

Chapter 1

Hey! This is the first chapter!! It is set in season two, prior to Jones. Please read and vote!! Feel free to comment, good or bad!

I DO NOT OWN CRIMINAL MINDS OR HIGHER GROUND.

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The rain pounded as Jennifer Jareau tapped her hands against the steering wheel in fustration at the umorning traffic. She was already running late. The nightmares had started again. Almost ten years had passed and she was still haunted by the same thing. But she wasn't the same person, she left that person behind and was never going to return to her.

"You are Jeniffer Jareau," she said aloud to herself.

The traffic finally eased up and she pulled into the parking lot.

"Hey sorry I'm late," JJ said apologetically, when she finally arrived to the conference room. "There was a lot of t-traffic."

"It's okay we'll brief you on the jet. Wheels up in 20." Hotch said to her and the rest of the team.

"Wait Hotch," JJ said confused. "No cases came through me."

"This one came straight to me. It is urgent." Hotch replied.

"Where are we going?" JJ asked Reid as they exited the room.

"A small town in the north-western part of Washington State. Some town called...." Before the words escaped his mouth, JJ knew where they were going. She tensed up, as if his words had summoned far pressed memories. "There has been five murders of women in the town and surounding areas," Reid finished.

"...... JJ? Are you okay?" Reid asked noticing her demeanor had changed. She was staring blankly ahead as if trapped in her own thoughts.

"... What? Um yeah, okay, uh thanks, Spence, I'll s-see you on the plane." JJ said rushing off.

What just happened, JJ thought to herself. She hasn't let herself be affected by that for a long time and she wasn't about to start now.

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"So all the victims are Caucasian, female and 25-35 years old. They were stabbed multiple times, were there any signs of sexual assault?" JJ asked, catching up on the case. Even as she asked the question, she feared the answer.

"Yes, they were all raped." Emily said.

The files showed that they were all very different. One was a teacher, one owned a small clothing store, and another two were prostitutes. JJ's heart sped up as she read the last one. She closed her eyes for a second and took a deep breath, relieved that her odd behavior was going unnoticed by the team of profilers sitting right beside her.

Breaking her from her thoughts, Rossi spoke.

"Okay so while the teacher and waitress lived in the small town, the others lived just outside Seattle, a five to six hour drive away. How did our unsub get the victims all the way there."

"Actually," Reid started. "The drive is on average if you are maintaining speed limits, 5 hours and 47 minutes. But if you factor in the-"

"-Well, to state the obvious he has a car. A bus or car is is only way to get there, and he couldn't have taken the victims on a bus, there would be to many witnesses." Emily said, cutting Reid off.

"The dump sites were different than were the unsub killed the women, so he has a secondary location. It is probably in between the town and Seattle.

A beeping sound went off and Garcia popped up on screen.

"Hey buttercups," she said as cheery as alway.