Being a Victim (Criminal Minds episode fanfic)

Chapter 6

Setting up in the police station, everyone was silent. JJ set up the board with all the faces of the missing girls and for most of them, a picture of their untimely death was displayed beside that. The juxtaposition of the pictures was enough to silence anyone who walked in the room and send chills down their spines. The girls' names and ages went up, along with their jobs. Morgan watched on from the background as JJ wrote down their information but when JJ began writing the background information on Grace and Penny he sighed, shook his head and walked out of the room. JJ wrote up a timeline of their last steps and noted quotes from their last phone conversations. The whiteboard beside it remained untouched but hopefully soon it would contain all the scribbles of the team as they worked out traits of this unsub and solved the case.

The team set their files up on the large table in the middle of the room and sat around it, Morgan reluctant to take a seat.

"Right, remember this unsub varies his time scale on how well the girls act out his fantasy. These girls might only have 24 hours - but then again could have 72. We need to find this guy and tackle this case just like we do with any others on a timescale. Quick and efficient." Rossi said.

"We need to be notified as soon as you have a suspect no matter how farfetched it is. Right now we have nothing to go by." Hotch sighed. JJ clasped her hands on the table and let out a sigh.

"I've spoken with Keeley's family and to Riley, they're all happy to come down and talk to us in the hope it would help." She smiled, in the hope this would give them the quick lead they needed.

"Right, lets go!" Prentiss stood up with an extra boost of energy. "I dont wanna be sitting around until we've caught this guy." Everyone stood up and split to head in their separate directions. Reid stood up slowly, reading through the notes one last time. His phone began to rang in his pocket and unlike last time, he answered it straight away.

"Doctor Reid." He began. "Yeah... Okay... Yeah... Keeley? Oh right... And that's everything?... Thats a great help! Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!" He hung up slightly more enthusiastically and turned straight towards the two boards, JJ watching his every step.

Reid was the first to add to the board JJ had set up so nicely, jotting down the concoction of drugs that the lab had called him about. Opium, marijuana and ecstacy. It was a strange mix for a person to think of and as Reid now knew, every single one of these poor women had that same concoction in their systems... This was definitely a signature for this unsub. All he needed to do was work out what it was about these particular drugs that helped him. He needed to know why this unsub fed these girls that particular set of drugs and what effect it had on them. It was obviously a good one because he'd seen it work from day one - or was that just an assumption? How did Reid know he hadn't killed before and just had a cooling off period?

He rummaged around his pocket for the phone he'd only just put away and dialled Garcia.

"Hey Garcia." He began, already feeling like this conversation needed to be over as quickly as possible so they could work out more on this case and grab this bad guy. "Can you look into any murders in this area where the victims had ecstasy, marijuana and opium in their systems? In fact, surrounding areas too..."

"Hi Reid." She said sarcastically. "I'll get started now, it may take a while but I'll call you as soon as I find anything!"

"Thanks Garcia." He said and swiftly hung up the phone. He turned to JJ. "That mix of drugs has been found in every girl's system. That means he knew it'd work from the beginning... Now he's either a drug genius or he's practiced before, working out which drugs are best." JJ smiled at him with a determined look on her face.

"I think you may have something there Reid... Lets see what Garcia can find out. I'm going to talk to Riley, the best friend, and see if anything can help. Let us know when you hear back from her." Reid nodded as he set off, JJ assumed it was to find out more about these drugs. He always liked talking to professors and reading books to learn more about why these people did what they did and used what they used. She knew he'd come up with something.