After what felt like hours of putting together the case board we still didn't have it all figured out since we spent most of the time stuck on trying to find a missing time slot on the third victim. It doesn't make sense. She's accounted for 7:30 to 9:30 that night and we assume she was attacked around 11 that night but her whereabouts from at least 10 to 11 are missing. We even got Garcia to check up on a few leads for us but nothing came up, what we need to do is talk to the family, maybe get a closer look at her personality. Was she nice? Did she have any enemies? Was there a boyfriend?
"This is impossible," Emily expresses out loud after god knows how long of just staring at the board as though she's Reid.
"It's not. We can just come back to it, let's focus on the fourth victim and see if we can pull anything from her case." I suggest as I knew Emily wouldn't let this go on her own.
Just then as if on cue I heard some familiar voices growing louder as they came through the precinct. "Thank god," Emily muttered as she was already out of her seat and meeting the team halfway, completely forgetting her crutches but barley even swayed from her loss of balance. Of course she's gonna push herself like this. "So I think we got most of it but what I can't figure out is,"
"Why Paula Ambrose?" Reid asked sounding cocky in the fact that he cut off Emily to finish her sentence.
"Yeah, how did you know?" Emily asked confused as if she hadn't known Reid for almost 4 years now and this is what he does.
"Paula Ambrose isn't our unsubs victim, turns out she was in a highly controlled relationship and my guess is that when she killed herself he covered it up to match the other kills." Morgan explained in his dismay over the horrid reality to the situation.
"Well did you talk to the boyfriend?" Emily asked sounding disappointed about it as well.
"Yeah, he's a piece of work." Morgan's tone saying it all.
Emily only nodded as she made her way back over to the case board to remove what we thought was our third victim from the board. "I think we should look over what we have now as a group and determine the victims motive, it's our only way to distinguish his murders from Paula Ambrose and it might even help us when questioning Paula's boyfriend. Why don't you and Prentiss go on a coffee run and we can regroup when you get back." Hotch suggested as he directed the task to me and added Emily in for convenience. Either way I'm just happy to spend more time with Emily. It's almost unrecognizable how close we've become.
Even as we leave the precinct, Emily hopping slowly behind me on her crutches under both arms I look back at her to see the most annoyed expression on her face. Maybe not the mostannoyed expression because I can't count the countless number of times a suspect or witness has passed an inappropriate look or comment at her, sometimes more than once.
It's not long before I place the source of her irritation at the crutches under her arms and it's even sooner than I can process before I back tracked over to her and took the crutch from under her right arm and replaced the support with my arm. My fingers curling around her waist for the most support and following my set of actions her now free hand wailing it's way around my shoulders to hold herself up. It took us a second, but only a second, the get the gist of things and this way we actually saved a lot of time given we couldn't park our SUVs out front the building. Luckily the parking lot wasn't too far from the precinct in case they ever had to evacuate however we'd still be walking to the car at the pace Emily was going.
"Thanks," Emily grunts just as we hit a small bump in the sidewalk which almost had us both falling to the hard surface below us but luckily we stabled each other up before that could happen.
