Rescuing The Doctor ~Spencer Reid FF~

Chapter 5

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars." Khalil Gibran

*EDITED*

I get up and head towards the door about to leave Spencer's house when my cell phone rings. I glance at the caller ID, "It's Garcia," I tell Spencer before answering the call. "Yes, Garcia. All right. I'll be right there." I say to her on the phone.

"We have a case." I tell him before grabbing my things. "Tonight? Are you serious?!" Spencer complains. "Yeah I know it sucks." I say, "I'll meet you there I need to get my clothes."

"Ok," He says opening the door for me, "See you in 16 minutes, approximately."

I laugh as I walk out his door and get into my car, driving to my apartment to get my work clothes on and my travel bag. I drive to the office and walk into the conference room being the last one of us to arrive.

"Sorry I wasn't home." I say taking the empty seat next to Emily.

"Oh, my fighters of crime, I hate to call us all in on Halloween, but there are wicked things afoot." Garcia says standing up. "Last Halloween-" Garcia starts but is interrupted by thunder outside causing the lights to go out.

"Uh-oh." Garcia mumbles.

"Generator should kick in." Hotch says and quickly after the emergency lights come on.

"Well that was spooky. Anyway, Joshua Parker. Chronic runaway and disciplinary problems. San Diego P.D. never classified it as an abduction until this morning, Joshua turned up in a pumpkin patch from where he was last seen."

"I know this case." I speak up, "Same thing happened in Miami last year."

"Yeah, that would be Tommy Wilcox, 10 years old. He was found at the beach on Halloween, and he went missing the previous November 1st, too."

"Yeah. He died a few hours after they got him to the hospital." I say. "We caught that guy. He had a bunch of stalker pics of the boy, he confessed and pled guilty."

"Yes and yes." Garcia says putting up a picture of the unsub, "That would be Rodney Tanner, pedophile sex offender, all-around icky person, currently residing at Chino state prison."

"So what do we have, a copycat or a coincidence?" Emily asks.

"We also need to consider the possibility of there being a partner." Hotch says. "How's the Parker kid doing?"

"He's physically stable, but he's vacillating between catatonics and completely freaked out. So I'm guessing he's not talking much." Garcia informs him.

"If the pattern holds, another boy will go missing tomorrow night." JJ says.

"And we're headed to San Diego to prevent that from happening. Weather permitting, wheels up in 30."

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On the jet the team goes over the case again with more detail, "Both victims were found exactly 364 days after their disappearance, which suggests they were actually released." Rossi says. "And someone wanted them found."

"Well, they were each Caucasian boys about the same age." Morgan says.

"Both grabbed one day after Halloween night." Spencer says.

"So the victimology is consistent, and clearly Halloween is significant because that's when the boys are being found." Hotch says.

"The question is, what did he do with them for 364 days?" Emily asks.