Not Your Typical Reid [Aaron Hotchner x Reader]

Chapter 12

[Y/N] knew this case was going to be tough, considering it was her first - however, she didn't expect it to be rough because of the local police she was working with. [Y/N], first and foremost, was a historian and an anthropologist, she was still working on her profiling classes and was only a probationary agent with the bureau. She knew her history and anthropology, though. This, to the small-town Texan officers, made her a threat to their masculinity, especially since what she was saying went against their small-town belief system.

"All I'm saying is that their citizens are not what they seem to be! I've learned about this, I've /researched/ about this. This isn't the local tribe, I'm telling you. They're so defensive about it because if it's not the tribe, then it means that there's no one they can blame these killings on !" [Y/N] whisper-shouted at her brother, crossing her arms. The sheriff of the town had yelled at her, telling her that if she was just going to bring up conspiracies instead of actually helping to bring in the local natives for murder charges, that he would have to rescind his invitation for help from the FBI, which had irritated Hotch enough to pull Spencer to the side to have him talk to [Y/N].

Spencer sighed deeply and shook his head, running his hand through his hair, there just wasn't enough evidence. "[Y/N], look. These are ritualistic Native killings. The evidence points to the reservation," he explained, pointing to the evidence board.

"No, Spencer. It does not point towards the reservation. Yes, these are ritualistic, and historically Native killings, but it's not /how/ the natives would carry this out. Do you see how this victim was impaled? That was historically used as a torture technique by the Indigenous tribes of the Seminole in South Texas. We're in West Texas, meaning that the Apache tribes' rituals would be used in this area, none of which included /impaling/," She argued back, crossing her arms as she stared up at her brother. Contrary to both their training and professionalism, sometimes their sibling rivalry took over, and this was certainly one of those times. Spencer refused to believe what she was saying, he was looking at the facts of the case, not what she was saying.

"[Y/N], until you have evidence that points to the unsub being someone other than someone in the native community, I don't want to hear it," Spencer said with finality, clearly using not only his rank, but his status as her older brother against her.

[Y/N] shook her head angrily, storming out of the conference room that they had all been set up in as she left the station. She was so frustrated, and she knew she was on the right track with her theory about this not being the work of the Native community, it was a set up to frame them, and she knew it. As she sat down outside the station, she held back little tears of frustration, putting her head in her hands as her elbows rested on her knees. She knew this was because she was the new agent on the team, and she also knew the reason the local police blew her off was because she was a woman, and there was clear misogyny within the police department, she knew that when the sheriff blew Emily and JJ off when they introduced themselves. She just hated it so much and didn't know how to go about solving the case without the support of her peers, especially from her brother.

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"I got it!" [Y/N] shouted as she ran into the conference room, her hair up in a bun that stuck out in every direction, the area under her eyes dark from the lack of sleep as she got the attention from all of her team, and the officers that were in the room.

"[Y/N].." Spencer started, frowning as he looked at his sister.

"No, let her share," Aaron stated, holding his hand up to stop Reid from finishing off his sentence.

[Y/N] nodded, going to one of the blank evidence boards as she started pinning up articles, newspapers, pictures, and more before she began explaining. "There's a war going on in this town, and none of us were aware because none of /them/ wanted to let us in on it. There's so much racism going on in this town, it's not even funny, but they didn't want us to know that. However, since the murders crossed the racial line from the teens at the house, to the natives on the reserve, I know exactly what is going on here. There's a cult, one that wants to start a race war, especially since the election is now coming down between two candidates who have opposing views on the issue of the reservation. Our unsub is someone who is getting his cult members to kill both natives and white people in order to make it look like the reservation and the town are at war, but it's the same group of people. That's why the ritualistic killing was /so/ off in the first murders, because it's not someone from the tribe, it's someone that has studied the anthropology of native tribes and used that ritual to frame the tribe." She explained, putting the last photo on the board of the outline of a person that had a question mark in the middle of it.