countless encounters || spencer reid

f o u r t e e n // hand-cuffed

"What do you mean 'it doesn't look good'?", JJ voiced her thoughts.

"Well..", Garcia trailed off, pausing for a moment before mumbling, "..turns out our possible Unsub is already dead? I mean, possibly, most probably dead.. the profile would fit perfectly though."

"How is that possible?", Hotch asked her.

"There's twenty-nine-year-old Jason McIver who was born in Minneapolis, as was his older sister. The siblings were left to their own devices after their parents died in a car crash. Because his blonde and petite sister was already of age by that time she got custody for her half-brother who is twelve years younger than her. Or was. Anyway, he was conspicuous in school and the teachers tried to report all of his blue eyes and cuts, but to no avail.", Garcia started.

"He himself doesn't own a white van but his sister did. Roughly a week ago there was an accident at the bar she worked at that frequently organised dance parties. Both Jason and Eleanor, his sister, seem to have passed away in that fire, there were numerous others hurt and a few people still missing who are assumed to had been present in the accident.", she continued.

"Is there any chance he survived?", Rossi asked.

"I don't think so, if so it would be unlikely. At least, that's what the reports of the fire station and the investigators say. The fire also is believed to have been an accident and not an incendiary."

"But it would correspond with the book. There's also a fire and the dance events would fit the original meaning of the excerpt of the poem which is the title of the second book.", Reid speculated.

"Let's just pretend he caused the fire and somehow had the fire department believe that he was killed in the fire though he wasn't- if he'd be responsible for the killing of his sister why pull the whole Pratchett stunt? I mean he had killed the first victim before the alleged accident that had his sister killed", Morgan wondered.

"You're right, Derek- maybe he had wanted to go through the- let's call it 'colour-circle'- before facing his sister again but saw an earlier opportunity to do so because he had already gained confidence after the first killing, but he still felt the need to carry through with his plan.", JJ tried to see a reasoning behind the Unsubs acts.

"Garcia? Can you send us the details on the license plate and the address of the bar as well as the few names of witnesses and people from the fire service that worked on this case ?", Hotch demanded.

"Will do chef!", Garcia spoke, probably hanging up in placing one of her funky pens on the button that hangs up the phone.

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The team was split into groups to take a closer look at the different clues.

Spencer Reid and David Rossi were to take a look at the bar that was burned down in the fire.

As soon as they entered the bar the sudden contrast of cold fresh air, that hurled in bitter winter winds at this time of the year, and the rich smell of smoke, that lingered on the wooden bar stools, the fabric of the curtains and the carpets, even though the fire was long extinguished , was clear to them. The young agent smelled the flames as if they were still present, though his nose still was stuffy from his cold.

As he mustered the walls and former wooden constructions that had been partly eaten or completely consumed by the fire different text passages tried to make their way to the top of his head.