road trip

1. miami

a/n: so uh hi :) y'all should vote and comment and stuff, but um welcome i guess. 

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waking up in a random hotel room was something you hadn't gotten used to in your four years of service at the BAU. your go bag was thrown in the corner of the closet, clothes thrown in every direction. 

it had been four days on this case. miami beach during spring break was nice, but staying there for longer than a weekend was too much. you were pretty sure morgan disagreed though. 

the team had been up until around four in the morning working different angles on the abduction case you had all been called in for. you and reid had been working on a geographical profile while the rest of the team tried to analyze the abductor's behavior. it had been a night of countless coffee runs and headaches. 

it was seven am when you got woken up by a phone call from hotch. he must have been feeling generous. 

after kind of waking up, you sorted through the pile of clothes until you finally found a white button-down and black dress pants that were suitable enough to wear to work. 

spencer met you in the lobby of the hotel with two coffees in his hands, wearing a purple sweater vest. you wondered how many of them he actually owned. 

"hey reid," you walked up to him, feeling how tired you were from the night before. 

"wow you look tired," he responded before handing you one of the coffees he was holding.

"oh thanks, genius, you don't look too good yourself," you said, and it was true, he had bags under his eyes and it looked like he hadn't slept at all. 

"i am cursed with the knowledge of knowing exactly how many spiders will crawl into my mouth as i sleep," he joked. 

"ugh reid now i won't be able to sleep," you groaned.

"actually that was a joke, it's a common misconception that spiders crawl in people's mouths while they sleep. the act of respiration actually makes it so that spiders are too scared to go anywhere near us while we sleep," he rambled before taking a sip of his coffee, smiling to himself. 

"thank you boy genius, now let's get to work, shall we?" morgan threw his arm around the genius's shoulders and began walking towards the door. 

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the miami beach police department was a short walk from the hotel and the team had all arrived by 7:30. considering it was already the fourth day of the case, you and the team had already delivered the profile and were now working on finding the unsub. 

"garcia, the unsub would definitely have to be someone who had access to the victims before he abducted them," prentiss flipped her hair over her shoulder and leaned on the table towards the phone in the middle of it.

"try plumbers, electricians, blue-collar jobs," hotch added, furrowing his eyebrows slightly.

"my lovelies, that is quite possibly the longest list i have ever pulled up ever," penelope sighed through the phone

"babygirl, this unsub had deep-rooted abandonment issues. check for people who have been put into the foster care system young and bounced around a lot." morgan added, pinching the bridge of his nose. 

"ok my fine furry friends, the list has significantly shrunk. you have 3 names. james griffin went into foster care at the young age of 4 because his parents died in a car accident and is a plumber. jeff cortland was orphaned when he was 2 and is now an electrician. and lastly, sam crawford who - oh my..." garcia's voice trailed off as she took a shaky breath in. 

"garcia," hotch's voice rang through the phone and penelope resumed her chatter.

"sorry sir, sam crawford was abandoned by the side of the road when he was 7 had an aggressive history with all 7 of his foster families and was spit out by the system when he turned 18. he has multiple counts of public aggression and he is now a janitor who works at a corporate building in downtown miami. i'll send the address to your handhelds. tata for now!" garcia's bubbly voice disconnected and the call ended. 

the whole team was tired, but the breakthrough gave everyone a little burst of energy. 

"ok let's go," hotch grabbed his vest off the table, "reid, y/l/n, prentiss, and jj, head to his last known residence. the rest of us will go to the office and see what we can find."