Metanoia [Book 3]

six

six; the earth's mightiest heroes.

"Wait, so you're telling me, you haven't seen any of the Marvel movies?" Anthony asked as we both walked in, coffee and doughnuts in hand. I nodded and he shook his head and rolled his eyes. "You're disgrace, LaMontagne."He said and I laughed and he opened the doors to the BAU.

"I think you should name him Tony. Oh, wait, Steve, he can be like Captain America." He said and I rolled my eyes and shook his head. "Who said it was a boy? It could be a girl. And no baby talk at work, you know this." I said and he sighed and brought his coffee to his lips.

We walked into the briefing room and saw everyone sitting down, getting ready. Hotch looked at me and gave me a nod. "Let's get started." He said and Garcia nodded and passed around the files to all of us. "Oh, okay. Three days ago, Bruce Phillips was found dead with his blonde hair dyed black. He had been put in a box and was left on a bust street." She said and Anthony hissed. "Ouch. That's cold." He said and I moved the pictures and saw the dead body and shook my head. "Both legs hyper-extended and folded forward. We've got bruises on his left and right arms along with his neck as well." I said and Anthony wrote the notes down and Penelope sighed.

"The plot thickens, yesterday, Justin Marks and Connie Foster, who were dating, they went missing two hours away from the first abduction site." She said and Blake raised an eyebrow. "Well, the question is... what does he do with Connie." She said and and I shrugged ad looked at the man. "He kind of looks like a dummy in a box. Something out of Goosebumps." I said and Anthony snorted.

"Wheel's up in thirty. Hadley, we could use your crime scene investigation skills on this one." He said and gave me a small nod and I nodded and stood up.  Spencer walked over to me and gave me a small smile. "So, Ellie's going over to Sarah's tonight. I offered to pay Sarah's mom and dad, but they said it was fine." He said and I nodded and gave him a smile, putting my hand in his. "Are you excited for our trip?" I asked and he nodded and licked his lips.

"Yeah, I get to meet your other side of the family. It's going to be fun. Plus, JJ and Will are going to be there with Henry." He said and I nodded and gave him a smile, leaning it to peck his cheek. I looked him in the eyes and walked towards my office. "I got to go pack up my gear, I'll meet you on the jet." I said and he nodded  and we parted ways.

"Was Connie with her boyfriend when she was abducted?" Spencer asked and I nodded looking down at the file. "It looks that way. Her purse was found outside on the ground outside of his house." I said and Anthony took his seat next to me and glanced over at me. "So, what should we be called? The Earth's Mightests Heroes? Ooo, wait maybe Avengers 2.0" He said and I rolled my eyes and shook my head.

"We don't have superpowers, Anthony." I said and he gave me a smirk. "I don't know. Maybe your power could be like controlling minds, and it can be red, maybe scarlet. Mine would definitely be like Loki's or maybe Thor's." He said and I raised an eyebrow and turned to him.

"Who?" I asked and he rolled his eyes and shook his head. "I don't even know why I bother anymore." He said and I rolled my eyes and Alyssa sat down with a coffee in her hand. "Is he going on about the Avengers again? He called me at 7 in the morning for that bullshit." She stated and he gasped and shook his head.

"I'm getting you back, Larsen." He said and I laughed and then Hotch's voice brought us back to the case. "LaMontagne, Reid and Rossi, I want you guys in the morgue. Walton, Blake and JJ, you guys on the newer body. Larsen, you're with me. Morgan, you're at the house." He said and we all nodded and got ready to go where we needed to.

"I've been getting lame GSWs, a few bus crash victims, but a hanging? This is fun." The medical examiner said and I let out a laugh. I looked down at my grey blazer and matching pants and my knee started to ache were with prosthesis was. She gave us a nod and looked down. 

"There are numerous amounts of ligature marks on the neck, indicating he was hung multiple times. The ones without abrasions were probably made by something soft, fabric almost." She said and I nodded and looked at the marks.

"Based on the different varying coloration of the bruising, this had probably gone on for about 12 hours, give or take." I said and the examiner nodded and spoke

"We also found Ketamine in his system." She said and I cocked my head back. "Ketamine?" I asked and she nodded, I looked to the back were the X-Rays were hanging and pointed to them. "The perfect dislocation of the joints? What does that have to do with this?" I asked and she sighed and gave us a sad look. "It was done antemortem." She said and gave us a smile as the other people came to give her the other body.

"Hey, can you check to see if the bones were dislocated in the same way?" Spencer asked pointing to the body in the black body bag and she nodded and I spoke out after.

"Can you also check to see if anything happened to the penis of the body. I want to make sure this wasn't anything sexual either, I'll have my partner come collect some DNA from these two bodies." I said and she nodded and gave me a toothy smile.

She left and I looked at Spencer. "What are you thinking?" I asked and he looked into my eyes and spoke softly. "The question is, why is he doing this?" He asked and I sighed and looked down at the body once more.

a/n:

q: how have you been??

a: good! i started school ( which was stressful) and i started taking forensics which is so much fun! thanks for asking, how are you guys??

also, i'm so sorry for not updating. please don't hate me.

if you were wondering why i had time to upload a new book, it's because i had written that book months ago (when I first wrote lacuna), so thanks to everyone who is reading it, you guys are amazing!

i know the gif has nothing to really do with the chap, but it's paul walker, so it's a good enough excuse hehe love y'all!