Ghosts • Aaron Hotchner

Chapter Two

Fallon

Fallon was sitting at her desk, chatting with Elle, a new recruit who had joined a few months ago, when she saw Garcia walking through the door with a funny look on her face.

"What are you doing out of your bunker?" Fallon asked as she walked over to her friend, Elle close behind her. Garcia rarely came out of her little office, so both of them were a little concerned.

"I was on my way to file the things that I...file," Garcia said looking at something over Fallon's shoulder. Elle and Fallon both turned to see a clueless looking man standing in the middle of the room. He had dirty blonde hair that fell to the nape of his neck and when he turned, Fallon could see why Garcia was so focused on him. He was very attractive. He wasn't her normal type, as she usually went for dark haired men, but Fallon could still appreciate this mystery man's good genes.

"Excuse me," he said walking over to the three of them.

"Hey," Elle said in response.

"I'm looking for.."

"Sean. Hey," Morgan said walking into the room.

"Derek," the mystery man replies, before shaking Morgan's hand.

"You must be looking for your brother."

"Yeah," Sean replied.

"Right this way," Morgan told him and then he lead Sean off, giving the three of them a quick nod in greeting.

"Brother as in? That's Hotch's brother?" Elle asked in shock.

"Maybe Hotch is adopted," Garcia suggests. Fallon laughed lightly and the three of them made their way over to Elle's desk. JJ soon joined them and Garcia gushed about Sean as they waited for him to walk back out of Hotch's office.

"Here he comes," Reid said and the four women all turned to see him storming out of Hotch's office.

"That's Hotch's brother?" JJ asked.

"Yes it is," Fallon responded.

"I don't see it," JJ said.

"Sean, listen to me. All I'm saying is that you're twenty five years old.." Hotch started, following him out into the bullpen, but Sean cut him off.

"You know what? Don't profile me Aaron," Sean said. Fallon pursed her lips as Sean walked away.

"Now I see it," JJ muttered. With that, she, Elle and Fallon dispersed. Fallon went back to her desk, JJ headed back to her office, and Elle went back to sorting through files, which left Garcia all alone at Elle's desk.

Soon after, JJ calls us into the conference room to present a case.

"Terra Mesa, New Mexico. Five dead, all from Mesa university. No signs of sexual assault and no sign of theft," JJ told them as she hands out the files in her hands, one to each person.

"Five nineteen year old's, minimal defensive wounds. One of them was impaled on a six foot wooden pole," Morgan spoke, after a moment of silence.

"Who would want to torture five college freshman?" Elle asked.

"They weren't tied up and no one escaped?" I asked, looking up at Spencer.