Change My Mind ~ Criminal Minds (Aaron Hotchner x OC)

103.0: The Past In The Present

"A kid."

"I will throw everything on my desk at you."

Reid smiled at this and put his pen down, "I think that whatever you give Hotch would make his day, you could give him anything and he'd treasure it." Crystal smiled and looked up at his office fondly, "I know, which is why I don't want to give him just anything. I want to do something special for him." Reid picked up his calendar, "Well you've got until this weekend, that should be enough time to find something. You know Hotch better then any of us, maybe you could get him something that means special to the both of you." Crystal rolled over to him and hugged him, "And this is why I come to talk to you about things."

Crystal was going to roll back when Reid stopped her, he looked around before clearing his throat with a smile. "Actually, I uh...I'm sorta seeing someone too." He had whispered it and Crystal almost missed it, "Really?" Reid nodded happily and she smiled widely, "Reid, that's wonderful."

"You can't tell anyone."

"Do I look like Garcia?"

"No one knows, you're the first." Reid told her and she leaned on her hand, "Do I know this lucky lady?" Reid shook his head, "It's the specialist I called about my headaches, we sorta started talking and it went from there. I've never met her though, she has reasons to not see anyone at the moment so we've just been calling. I don't even know what she looks like." Crystal hummed at this, "Well, when you do meet I think that's going to be magical. I'm happy for you Doc, you seem happy." They continued to talk about it and Crystal smiled how happily Reid told her about him and Maeve, that was her name and he said it so fondly.

Reid didn't tell her about Maeve's reason for not being able to see anyone, and Crystal didn't push for an answer because it wasn't her business. She went back to working on her files and sighed, she really needed to think of a good present for Hotch.

He deserves it after all.

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TRIGGER WARNING

Crystal rushed into the BAU office with Hotch not far behind, "I'll go get everyone grouped." Crystal told him and he gave a nod, "And I'll see which units are missing." He kissed her before leaving and Crystal went to grabbed the team and the officers who were here, an abduction of 24 students, their teacher, and the bus driver. It was all over the news, it happened at 1 PM that afternoon and Crystal had just been out to a late lunch with Hotch when they got the phone call. Everyone was on this case, the last known GPS ping was over two hours ago and the GPS was disabled after that.

Highway patrol was going on the route the bus was supposed to, but had no luck on finding any signs of an accident or the captives. Helicopters were on the search as well as ground units, search and rescue was their top priority. It had to be the work of more than one unsub, a team most likely. The team got together to fill in the officers on what they had so far, "We've attempted to contact everyone on board, but so far all calls have gone unanswered." Reid told them and JJ gave a nod, "But we can confirm that the students dropped off at the first two stops have been accounted for."

"The average school bus holds approximately 80 gallons of diesel fuel, making it possible for them to travel up to 550 miles on a single tank."

"Which is why we believe they're still in a 200 mile radius." JJ told them and the officers nodded, Crystal checked her watch. "Our unsub's have a two hour head start over us, this could be a kidnapping or an act of terrorist act to a child trafficking ring. Either way, we're treating this as a mass abduction. If you find any signs that could lead us to the holding sites of the kids, call it in." The officers left after that and Crystal sighed, they would be heading to Central High as their command center since that's the high school the victims attended. This was going to be a long case.