Treasure Hunt -/ Criminal Minds/Spencer Reid

2 - The Hurricane

OVERVIEW

After Hotchner introduced Katherine to the rest of the team, Garcia was waiting for everyone to take seat around the round table, so she could start with introducing the case.
"Madison Scott, 23," she turned on the screen for everyone to see, a blonde girl
"She was killed as a bomb exploded in her home, Georgia, Atlanta." She glanced quickly at Hotch as he was wearing the same old neutral expression on his face as usual.
"And 2 days after," she started again "A restaurant was set on fire, where one man died."
Rossi glanced in his tablet with thoughtful look " The second victim was also shot."
Garcia peeked on the screen "Yes, Ian Peterson was apparently shot in the torso, then dragged and locked in the kitchen, where the fire started."
" Was anyone else injured during the restaurant fire?" Reid asked Garcia.
"No, no one else was hurt."
Hotch stood up " Wheels up in thirty."

"An archaeologist?" Derek questioned Katherine who sat across from him on a jet.
"Yhea..." she looked out of the window like she didn't know what to say exactly.
Next to her, Blake was reading a book
"Did you usually work in the institude or did you go out in the field too?"
"I went to Iraq and Egypt a couple of times." the answer came quickly.
Spencer stood up across from Blake "Coffee anyone?"
He took a quick glance at everyone, holding a little longer eye contact with Katherine. Everyone except Kat shook heads
"I'd take one... with two sugars please".

After a while, Hotch and Rossi stood up from their seats from the back of the plane and joined others.
"When we land then JJ, you are going to talk to Madison's parents, Rossi, Reid and Katherine, you are going to the second crime scene, and Blake, Morgan you'll come with me to the station and after we'll go to Madison's house." Hotch told everyone.

Rossi, Reid and Katherine were in the restaurant, all looking the blood line from the tables to the kitchen.
Rossi started" So the unsub shot him and dragged him to the kitchen, but what I don't understand is why he didn't set the fire in the dining hall and block the exits. It would have been a lot easier."
Katherine looked the puzzled man "Victim's date said she didn't see the man who shot him, so the unsub started the fire first, to let all possible witnesses run out in panic. Everyone was running around, it was a great moment for him to take Ian down, no one would've noticed. He started fire in the kitchen, because unsub DIDN'T want anyone else to get hurt. So that means that..-"
"It was personal for the unsub, he new the victim." Spencer finished her sentence... They shared a long look between each other and didn't see Rossi staring at them "Hey kids!....Hello!"
Spencer spotted the older man in front of them
"What?" both of their cheeks turned a little pink.
"It's time to go."

Local officers were running around in the station. The team gathered in the room what was set up for them.
"JJ, what you've got?" Hotch asked the blond woman.
"Well... they were depressed as excepted. They don't have a glue who would've done this. She was a social butterfly, had many friends, boyfriends. They told me that things went pretty good for her after she moved out to live on her own."
"Did she recently have a boyfriend?"
"Not that they know of."
Hotch then turned to Spencer, Rossi and Katherine
"Did you catch anything up from the restaurant?"
"The unsub most likely knew the victim, he clearly didn't want to hurt anyone else." Spencer shared what they found out.
"Okey"
Hotch's phone started to ring and he put it to speaker "Garcia, what did you find?"
"I'm glad you asked, I went trough Madison's computer and she recently received a weird email from unknown."
Morgan was curious " What did it say"
"I already sent it to your tablets."

I am THE hurricane. I know you like storms, so I let you in. Turns out you can only, handle a little rain, but I am a hurricane.

"Its some kind of a poem?" Rossi asked
"Apparently," Hotch turned his attention back to his phone
"Garcia, anything else?"
"About the email? Well,..... nothing, sender is still unknown, I only managed to find out that whoever sent it was in the local park when he did. But I found out that Madison Scott and Ian Peterson went to the same college, they seemed to be both pretty popular according to pictures, but I already sneaked in their personal stuff and found out that there weren't any exchanged messages or simply anything between them in recent years. And yeah, that's pretty much all."
"Ok Garcia, thanks, I think you should go home and sleep."
"Oh, doesn't have to tell me twice! Sweet dreams, my lovelies. Garcia out..."
Hotch looked the clock on his wrist, it was 1:58 AM
"We should too head to hotel and catch up some sleep, since we have no more leads."
Everyone took their bags and stepped towards the door, without saying anything.

Everyone went to their rooms and so did Katherine. She went straight to her bed and collapsed, god she was tired, but somehow she still managed to force herself to go to the bathroom to get ready for bed.

When she returned, she picked up her phone and hopped onto the bed.
She had nine missing calls from Raphael. Nine calls. Maybe something has happened.
She called him back, it didn't matter that it was 2:31AM, he probably wasn't asleep anyway.
"Hey, is everything alright?"
"Hey I just wanted to ask you the same..."
"Why wouldn't I be alright?" She asked him curiously, but then a big smirk grew on her face "I mean, I'm surrounded by FBI agents." she joked
"......." then her smirk faded "But yea, yeah I'm fine. But why?"
"Oh never mind, just checking in..." "Raphael? C'mon, I know you better than this.... what's wrong."
"It's just,.... you haven't got the feeling that you're stalked recently?"
"No...., Raphael you're scaring me!"
"Ok sorry, I guess I'm just being paranoid..... be careful okey?!"
"But-" he cut her off
"Bye!".