Celeste and Aaron walked into the bull pen and made there way to the conference room, everyone was sitting there and looking rather uneasy. Celeste looked around with raised eyebrows.
"what's wrong?" she asked as she took a seat next to Emily and Reid, Prentiss shook her head at her.
"Garcia" Hotch said as he took a seat in the last chair at the end of the table.
"Yes sir, this morning local Pd got a call of a young couple found dead on the side of the road" Garcia let out as she clicked the remote and pictures showed up.
"there were stopped at a rest stop. both stabed multiple times" she then said as she clicked the remote a second time with pictures of the girl and the guy, blood everywhere. The team looked at the pictures for a moment in silence.
"this looks like..." Celeste snapped her head towards Hotch who was looking at the case files, then quickly stood up and walked out of the conference room. Celeste looked at Rossi.
"Gang get ready were leaving in ten minutes" he let out, Celeste grabbed the file and got up and quickly made her way towards Hotch's office. Getting at the door it was closed, Celeste gave a quick knock before opening the door and walking in the office. Celeste looked at Aaron who was standing on the other side of the room where the window was, he looked at her.
"I can't do this" he said in a tired tone to his voice, Celeste looked at him.
"He's dead Aaron, can't hurt anyone" she let out, Aaron shook his head at her.
"A copy cat can be just as worst" he let out, Celeste let out a hum as she turned and took a few steps in the office.
"do you trust me?" she asked, Aaron at at her.
"I trust you with my life" he replied, Celeste walked up to Aaron until she was so close the her swollen belly was touching him, they both looked down and Celeste let out a chuckle.
"she's already getting in the way" she said making Aaron chuckle, Celeste looked up at him as he looked in her eyes.
"I want you to trust me that I will not let you fall, you were there for me when I needed you, let me be there for you now"she let out, Aaron let his head fall foward as he let out an exhale. Celeste reached up and ran her hands up his shoulders to his neck and planted both hands on each side of Aaron's face and lifted his head a little so he would look at her.
"I love you" she said as she gave him a little smile, Aaron returned the smile as he gently put his hands on her stomach.
"I love you" he whispered, Aaron looked down between both of them.
"How is she today?" he asked gently rubbing her belly, Celeste let out a hum as she looked down.
"she's doing summersults today, kinda uncomfortable" she let out, Aaron let out a hum with a little smile.
"it's going to get worst"
"I know!" Celeste let out as she swatted his hands away. Aaron let out a chuckle, Celeste moved away from Aaron.
"Are you good?" she asked, Aaron looked at her for a moment before he gave her a nod. Celeste returned the nod.
"Let's go find a monster" she said, Aaron took two steps to her and bend down and gave her a kiss. they both walked out of the office joining the team that was waiting at the elevator.
Tirty minutes of driving the SUV parked beside the police cars.
"Okay, I don't know what your doing in there, but mommy needs to work so chill" Celeste let out as he looked down at her stomach, Emily let out a laugh as she looked at her.
"Just like her momma" Emily said as Celeste narrowed her eyes at her, Emily gave her an air kiss before getting out of the SUV. Celeste got out and looked around this wasn't a busy highway, the rest stop was one of those woodsy park looking one with the building that had the bathrooms, Celeste fallowed Rossi who was walking towards the yellow tape that was setting a parameter for the news people that was going to show up as soon they get wind of this. The team walked up to the local sherrif that gave them a nod and shook Hotch's hand.
"Call came from the phone booth" the officer pointed towards the far side of the parking lot.
"the caller used a voice changer, dispatch said it sounded mechanical..."
"Will need that phone recording" Hotch let out, the officer gave him a nod.
"the call said we needed to get here fast if we wanted to save them, but by the time we got here...they were gone" he said, Hotch nodded to him and turned around.
"Reid go check the phone booth, JJ call Garcia to tell her to get the 911 call. Morgan check around, Rossi go with Morgan the rest fallow me" he said, the team seperated and Celeste and Prentiss started fallowing Hotch towards the car that had all the four doors open and police was standing around. Celeste walked to the car and stood at the drivers side and looked in the vehicle. the medical examiner already took the bodies out, Celeste took the tablet and started going over the pictures that Garcia uploaded.
"Weird that he had his belt, but she didn't" Celeste said as she looked at Hotch who was standing on the other side of the car.
"She was maybe getting ready to get out?" Prentiss said as she stood behind the car.
"Why not lock the doors if someone was coming towards them?" Hotch asked, Celeste looked at the car.
"The windows are not broken in, do you think the UNSUB was in the car with them?" Celeste asked.
"If so, might be someone they knew...trusted" Emily said, Celeste turned and looked around.
"So let's just say that the UNSUB wasn't in the car, he had to park somewhere to be able to see them" Celeste let out, she looked at Hotch who was looking around as he shook his head.
"Foyet used to take something from the victims and then leave it at the next one" Hotch said in a monotone tone to his voice, Celeste looked at him.
"Kinda hard to figure if the UNSUB took anything" Prentiss said.
"So what? we wait for a second victim?" Celeste asked as she looked at both of them, she then let out a deep exhale as she threw her head back.
"you good?"Aaron asked as he walked around the car, Celeste gave him a little nod.
"your daughter is something today" she let out as she gave him the tablet. Hotch shook his head.
"focus" he whispered, Celeste let out a huff as she gave him a look to back off.
"HEY GUYS!" Morgan let out, Celeste turned and saw him gesturing for them to come over , who was at the door of the pit stop bathroom. Hotch, Celeste and Emily started walking towards the building.
"In here" Morgan said walking in the women's bathroom, the team walked into the bathroom and made the corner. Derek pointed at the mirror, Celeste took in a sharp breath as she saw what he pointed at. The mirror was plastered with all the pictures of the Boston reaper cases, Celeste quickly turned around and looked at Hotch who was looking at the pictures before looking at her. Celeste saw it in his eyes that emotion that she knew so well, fear. Hotch took his phone out and turned around and walked out of the bathroom, Celeste turned and looked around the space as the rest of the team who was looking at her.
"Has to be a copy cat" JJ let out, Celeste shook her head.
"Did you see the picture of the victims, this UNSUB is all over the place. attacking in the car and then this, putting pictures up. A copycat would do everything perfect, this..." Celeste looked at the pictures again.
"This is sending a message" Celeste let out.
"Message to who? us? or Hotch?" Morgan said behind her, Celeste looked at the pictures. she had spend a few hours looking at these pictures a couple of days ago.
"How would someone get these pictures? are they not sealed to the public?" she asked as she turned around.
"We might be looking at a hacker?" JJ said, Morgan took his phone out and pressed a button.
"How may I be of service, my beautiful chocolate thunder" Pen said on the other end.
"Garcia, can you tell if someone hacked the files and downloaded some pictures from the foyet cases?"
"Honey, I'm a genius in my field, there's no way that someone would have been able to get those pictures" she said, Morgan looked at Celeste.
"Alright momma, thank you" he said before hanging up, Celeste let out a big exhale. the space went quiet as everyone stood there thinking about something to say.
"Let's get these down and go back to Quantico" Rossi broke the silence, Celeste turned around and walked out of the bathroom, letting out a deep breath as the air hit her. Celeste looked towards the parking lot, she could see Aaron pacing back and forth on the phone and she could tell he was shouting. looking at the scene and thinking of how Aaron was feeling made her feel sick to her stomach, Celeste started walking towards the SUV passing Aaron and making her way to the SUV and getting in the passenger side. Closing the door Celeste let out a a big deep breath as she gently rubbed her belly.
"It's okay baby girl" she whispered as she let out a slow breath. Aaron turned around and looked at the SUV and saw Celeste sitting in the passanger seat and doing some sort of breathing retual he knew she usually does if the situation was to much.
"I have to go, I'll meet you in your office when I get back" he said before hanging up, he looked at the crime scene as he let out a breath as he ran his hand threw his hair, he turned and walked towards the SUV. Aaron got to the passenger door and looked at Celeste who looked at him with a weird look on her face, He open the door.
"Something is wrong" she let out sounding in pain as she looked down at her stomach, Aaron moved so he was closer to her.
"What do you mean?" he asked looking down.
"It hurts, not like kicking...Aaron something is wrong" she let out, Aaron quickly closed the door and hurried around the SUV towards the driver side. Shouting something at someone as he open the door and jumpping in. Aaron turned the SUV on and turned on the lights and drove off before even putting his belt on, he looked at Celeste who had her eyes close and was breathing heavly as she gently rubbed her belly.
"Everything is going to be okay baby, were going to be okay" he said as he looked at the road trying to stay calm as they sped down the highway to the hospital.