Criminal Minds|FanFic|Boy X Boy

Case Three|The Abused|Day 1

"I can no longer stay quiet in this world,
I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my
internal walls, making its slow climb upward
until its melody can be heard all around."
-Elin Stebbins Waldal

2 Months Later

Reid sighed heavily as he sat at his desk, staring blankly at the picture of him and casey. A girl who was a photography major at her school took it. It was a beautiful picture of them sitting together in a park, laughing, as the sun highlighted their skin in an attractive way. "Okay Reid, what's wrong?" Prentiss asked as she leaned against his desk. "What do you mean?" Reid asked, sitting up in his chair, attempting to look busy. "Don't give me that, Reid! You've been staring at that picture for seven minutes now, and sighing heavily." Prentiss profiled. Reid mumbled under his breath, something along the lines of hating profilers, before sighing uncontrollably. "Today marks 1 year of Casey's and I relationship." Reid recalled.

"Congratulations!" Prentiss smiled, but instantly frowned. "Isn't that a happy thing?" Prentiss asked, confused why Reid wasn't happy. "Casey and I had a fall out and he went back home to San Diego." Reid said. "I told him that it was okay, and that i didn't blame him, but..." Reid trailed off. Prentiss was beyond confused about what Reid was going on about. She went to go ask him to explain, but was cut off by JJ. "Hey guys, we have a case." JJ called, as she hurried towards the conference room, with Hotch and Rossi following behind her. Prentiss looked at Reid worriedly, before getting up and following after him to the briefing room.

"St. Louis, Missouri has a serial killer on their hands. Their first victim is Damien Fields, 26, he was found in Clifton Heights Park by a jogger. He was blunged with a rock to the head, then stabbed over 40 times in the abdomen and genitals. Oddly enough that's not what killed him." JJ explained, then showed the photos of Damian. He has dark hair,  green eyes, and is quite muscular. What caught everyone's eye however, was a wooden cross with a pointed end, stabbed into the victim's heart. "Wow, talk about anger." Prentiss said aloud. "The UNSUB has to be male. I mean this guy is fit. A women wouldn't be able to take him down." Morgan noted. Reid looked intently at the wounds on the victim. "I disagree..." Reid mumbled. "You think it's a woman?" Rossi asks. Reid shook his head, his eyes never leaving the cross. "The fact that the UNSUB attacked the victim's genitals, definitely points to a woman. The blow to the head, could've been the way she subdued him." Reid said, explaining his theory.

" So she brought along a knife and the cross, but used a rock she found at her feet to subdue him. Why not bring something along with her to do the job?" Prentiss asked. "I think she did." Reid noted as he noticed words engraved on the rock and cross. "Both the rock and cross, have words engraved on them. It's Japanese." Reid said. "Do you know what it says?" Hotch asked, looking at the pictures intently. "Till death do us part." Reid translated. "Now I think it's a female, I mean "till death do us part" that sounds  like an angry woman." Prentiss said agreeing with Reid. "Yeah well there's 3 other victims." JJ interrupted. "Three?" Morgan asked. "Yep, Michael Saunders, 32, and Henry Williams, 40, they were found 2 weeks apart same MO. And finally, Patrick Fitzgerald, 54, he was found 2 hours ago." JJ announced bringing up the crime scene photos.

"She's getting progressively older with her victims, so it's an understatement if we things she's angry at men. She despises them." Reid said. "Okay, why boy genius?" Rossi asked. "Well, she probably had a husband or significant other that betrayed her. Husband cheated, boyfriend...abused her, she probably was even scared by watching her parents divorce, and she felt like her father betrayed her and her mother." Reid suggested. "Well if she is going after men, than she's far from done. Wheels up in 30." Hotch said, ending the briefing. Everyone headed out to get their go bags, and head downstairs to the SUVs. When Reid arrived to his desk, he suddenly got a call. It was Casey.