Warning: shooting someone & death
You were pulled out of your thoughts, "Y/n you coming?" Emily said to you before you nodded and followed.
You two got into the SUVs alone and you let Emily drive because you did not feel like driving. You also knew that she was gonna interrogate you so it was better if her eyes were on the road and not yours. And yet the car ride was silent. Maybe she won't say anything...
"I know you want to ask me a million questions," you said to her frankly. "I'd rather have you annoy me than sit here in silence and pretend that nothing is on your mind. I thought we didn't do that to each other." you looked at her before she quickly glanced over.
"And I thought we didn't profile each other," Emily said back at you with a small grin. She was joking around but was also kind of serious. "That was not profiling, Em. A senseless rat could smell the tension in the car."
You made her laugh before she finally admitted wanting to ask a question. "I need to know what happened in that hotel room. He walked into the lobby and talked to us like he was not upset. and I know two too well, you two must've fought." She said before turning to look at you for a second but then pulled her eyes back on the road.
I need to tell her about everything, the office, the sex, the hickeys, the hugs. She is gonna kill me. What if I just extended the truth? What she doesn't know won't kill her.
"We argued for most of it," you said reluctantly. "Shocker," she said back at you and you laughed but rolled your eyes. "I was mad, he was mad, we yelled, and got over it." you finished talking. Emily hummed in response to tell you she understood and then paused for a second.
"So what aren't you telling me?" she said looking you right in the eyes. Fuck, I'm caught, I should just confess and get it over with.
"We slept.... In the same bed that night," you said before you continued. I've already lied. I might as well just keep it up.
"After we stopped fighting I showered because I smelled and when I finished I walked out of the shower to him in the room shirtless." Emily gasped slightly to mock you before she said, "Oh my, shirtless you say? Such scandal, you're the new Derek of the team." she finished fully making fun of you.
"Would you like me to continue or do you want to spend the rest of this car ride making fun of me?" You said seriously to her while she laughed. "Please continue, I'm sorry." she laughed again trying to contain a straight face.
"I don't know if you knew but Hotch is ripped. I thought he would have a dad bod but nope he is ripped all to shit. And before you say anything, no, I didn't just stand there and stare at him." you were trying to deflect any questions for fear that you would be caught in a lie.
"I coughed a little and then said 'i can leave if you want me to let you finish getting changed.' and then he looked at me and said 'It's not a big deal y/n' before he threw his shirt on." You heard Emily scoff
"Why are you scoffing?" you looked at her confused. "Well, he put his shirt on, he ended all the fun." you laughed before you nudged her in the arm. "Emily, he is our boss, it would be weird if he stayed shirtless."
Little does she know I have seen way more than just him shirtless.
"So then he looked at the bed for a second and asked me if I wanted him to take the couch and I felt bad so I said no." You said basically excusing your actions, that wasn't even real. "So we slept in the same bed." you finished hoping that Emily would take that as an answer.
You guys had pulled up to the station before Emily started to talk again.
"Are you sure that's it?" she said before you answered, "Em, believe me, I would tell you if anything more happened, I literally told you about Reid's boner, all limits are off, I tell you everything." you finished. I feel like a master manipulator but Em just can't know, not yet at least.
"Okay yeah you're right, you do tell me everything," she said to you very convinced that you had told her everything. Wow, I'm shocked that actually worked... and she calls herself a profiler.
Yout two walked into the station and were greeted by a very tall buff man who looked like the leader. "Hello sir," you said sticking out your hand to shake his, "I'm agent y/n y/l/n and this is agent Emily Prentiss, you probably spoke on the phone with Agent Jennifer Jareau."
The man shook your and Emily's hand, "I'm Officer Kyle James. I spoke on the phone with her previously."
"We are here to run through some of the case information to possibly set up a profile for this unsub and as best as we can make a general location for where he operates. The rest of the team will be joining us later."
"Perfect, I have a room set up for you guys to do all you need and everything on the case is in there," Kyle said before guiding you to the bright large room filled with case files. He began to leave the room before turning around and leaning against the door frame to face you. "Please do not hesitate to talk to us here, its a small town and this isn't the type of place where stuff like this happens. We are a tight-knit community so we might know a lot more about the people in this town than what a case says."
Emily looked at Kyle before remarking, "With all due respect sir, no town is unlikely to have a murderer, every person has these qualities in them. It just takes one stressor to make a murderer."
Kyle nodded his head before leaving the office. "Why is it every small town like this that think they're invincible from any tragedy?" Emily sighed before looking at you. " I could not tell ya." You said before the two of you dove into case files and maps.
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After a long day of reading, calling Garcia, and putting points on a board, The team joined you to give the profile.
You started, "This unsub is a mother in her late 30s to mid-40s who recently lost a child of their own most likely a five-year-old child."
Reid picked up after you, "This woman lives in this area" he points to a circle on the map "as all the kids have disappeared from the places outside of it."
Emily jumped in, "This woman is taking children that look like her own, blonde hair and brown eyes, they are all boys and are a bit pudgier than most kids."
Rossi finished saying, "That is all we have for now, and please be on the lookout." The police officers and guards scattered to go into offices and leave the building to do their jobs and search for what the team gave them.
That is when something clicked in your head and you called Garica, "Hey baby" she said to you, "Sexy mama i need you to look something up for me." you started, "Look where all of the kids that went missing went to school. I did not even think to check that and it's literally the most obvious place to start."
"Will do sugar give me a hot sec." you heard her fingers tapping on the keyboard with extreme speed before she spoke, "Y/n" she paused for a second, "Y/n they all go to the same preschool," Garcia said before you waved to all of the team and put her on speakerphone.
"All of the boys go to Georgetown Hill Early School. Each of them were in the same grade and some had classes together."
You started, "Okay Garcia from that grade I need you to look up people who recently dropped out." and you heard fingers tapping again
"Okay, so there are three, Amy-Jane Belanger, Colleen Anderson, and Maris Hayes." Garcia spewed off and Hotch chimed in.
"Are any of them listed as having a recent death in the family?" and an air of silence filled with keys tapping played in everyone's ears before you heard a gasp.
"Maria Hayes, her son, Andrew, just died of leukemia three days before his fifth birthday." Garcia finished and hotch said under his breath "that's the stressor of our unsub." before announcing to Garcia to send her address to which Garcia responded, "Always for you my big bad wolf." and hung up the call
"Big bad wolf" you tapped on his shoulder a few times "That one is sticking," before everyone laughed and headed into the SUVs in a spree to get to her house. Morgan practically almost hitting every car on the road while he was driving like a speed demon.
You all got out of the car and carefully walked to the front of the house, Hotch then said, "JJ and Morgan and Rossi to the front, Emily and Reid left, y/n, you and me to the right." before everyone went their separate ways.
You began to walk carefully but with purpose as hotch followed you and quickly caught up, "Hey stay behind me I want you to be safe." he said while putting his hand on your shoulder. Bitch please I'm like 10 years younger than you. You are more likely to go into cardiac arrest than me dying right now.
You shrugged his hand off of your shoulder and walked ahead of him. You wanted to show off a bit just to prove him wrong and pulled a Derek, You kicked the door down. Ow. why did that hurt so badly? Brush it off that didn't hurt you, show no weakness.
You turned around for a second and gave Hotch a look that literally screamed 'and I'll do it again' and carefully walked into the house. You heard 'clears' flood through the house before you thought that the house was completely empty.
Then you saw it, a bookshelf with hinges. "Hotch" you whisper-screamed to him before you signaled to the hinges on the bookshelf and he opened it. Behind the door revealed a disheveled woman holding three kids tightly in her arms and a gun in one hand.
"Maria." Hotch said calmly, "those kids aren't Andrew, please put the gun down and let them go." Hotch begged the woman before an eardrum piercing scream was let out by the woman and she moved her gun to a kids head and almost pulled the trigger on his head
An overwhelming sound of "No's" were let out by each member of the team before Hotch shot the woman in the head and killed her. Her arms hung loose and the kids practically sprinted into your arms sobbing.
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