Disclaimer: How i wish i own matthew gray gubler, but sadly no, i own nothing :")
AN: this is my first criminal minds stories, i hope you guys enjoy it, and maybe please be nice to me? hehe
"Morgan and Reid take the garage. JJ and Rossi you guys go round the back, Prentiss you're with me, we'll cover the front."
As soon as they received their respective order from Hotch, the team broke out.
6 people had been reported missing for the past week. The age range was 25 to mid 50, it was too large to be use as a preference in victimology so the team had ruled that out. It was seem at first that the victims were taken randomly, they were merely victims of opportunities.
After meeting some dead ends, the team was finally able to find some kind of connection on the last two victims. Kyle Port, 27 years old, and his fiancé Amanda were reported missing three days ago when they failed to show up at the reception hall to meet Amanda's mom. Amanda's body was found the day after. She was the first missing victim who had turned up dead. The cause of death had been asphyxiation, she was choked to death. Her face was disfigured as a result of sulfuric acid which the unsub had poured over her post mortem, which was an overkill, it points out that the killing was rather personal and out of rage. The bruising mark that were left behind indicated that the unsub has small feminine hand, which supports the team given profile that the unsub's a woman.
And it turned out that 2 years ago Kyle was supposed to marry another girl named Sarah Jones. She's a genius microbiologist and chemist who had been working on a government project called 'Fair Youth' before an accident that occurred on the workplace had left her partially disfigured and jobless. Kyle left her soon after the accident happened, and she was never heard of again, until last week, when Kyle and Amanda had announced that they were going to be married. It looks like the announcement had been the stressor for Sarah's action.
"Sarah Jones FBI!", Hotch shouted.
Prentiss walked cautiously behind Hotch as the unit chief slowly opened the front door.
"Clear!", Emily said to the intercom after checking the living room and the study.
"The kitchen and the backroom are clear.", JJ called in.
"Guys, there's something you should see.", Rossi sounded like he was in somekind of shock.
Emily and JJ both ran upstairs to where Rossi was and Hotch who was already upstairs approached Rossi quickly.
"What did you find?", Hotch said as soon as he reached Rossi while JJ and Emily trailed behind him.
"I.. I.. see for yourself.", Rossi gestured to the room.
The room was dark, but the light that shone through the window was enough to show that 5 kids were all scattered on the ground, lifeless. Blood came out from both their eyes and mouth.
"No, this is wrong, the profile never said anything about Sarah being a pedophile.", Emily said when she was finally able to find her voice.
"Hotch i got visual on her! Sarah Jones FBI put the lighter down!", Morgan voice shouted from the intercom.
Before any of them had a chance to respond, a loud explosion boomed throughout the place.
"Morgan i think this is her lab.", Reid said as soon as they entered the garage.
"Look, she's boiling something here!", Reid pointed to the bunsen burner that's connected to a lot more glass pipes and tubes.
"Methanol, Calcium Carbonate solvent, Potassium, these all have different purposes what is she trying to make here?.", Reid observed the erlenmeyer flask as he pointed his flashlight on them one by one.
"Tch, what do stupid FBI agents know about science.", a woman voice was suddenly heard from the far corner of the room.
Both Reid and Morgan quickly pointed their light on the coming source. There on the corner stood Sarah. Her hair was disheveled and her white night gown has some blood stains on them. Fear and terror shone from her eyes. Her right hand's holding a lighter.
"Hotch i got visual on her! Sarah Jones FBI put the lighter down!", Morgan shouted.
Reid raised his gun at her while at the same time trying his best to see what she was going to light up with the fire under the dimmed light. That's when he noticed that the whole garage floor had been covered in methanol which was a very good conductor for fire. He mentally kicked himself, he out of most people should've known that the piercing smell he smelt when he entered the garage was methanol. Seeing from the numbers of chemicals this room has, not to mention the one that had been boiling since the moment they got here, the blast could actually be deathly enough for the tree of them.
Crack! The boiling flask beside Reid suddenly shattered, spraying hot solvent as well as white gasses everywhere when it did so.
"MORGAN RUN!", Reid shouted to Morgan when he saw that Sarah was starting to let go of the lighter.
They both ran towards the exit. Morgan got out first since he was nearer to the door while Reid followed him soon after. They were merely 5 feet away when the garage blew up. It wasn't as big as a bomb would be but the power was enough to send both Reid and Morgan falling flat to the ground.
The team quickly ran towards their two fallen agents.
"Morgan are you alright?", Hotch asked as he and Emily helped Morgan to get up.
"*cough*Yeah.. yeah i'm fine. Pretty boy?", Morgan slowly sat up, turning his head to where his surrogate baby brother had fallen.
"*cough*I'm okay.", Reid said slowly as JJ and Rossi were helping him up.
"What happened?", Hotch asked them as soon as they stood up.
"Don't know man, Sarah Jones appeared with a lighter on her hand and, boom.", Morgan said, shaking his head slightly.
"She, she covered the ground in methanol *cough* i think she was making something before we got here *cough cough*.", Reid added up.
Hotch nodded at their answer.
"Did you guys find anything?", Reid asked, his voice a bit hoarse.
"Well, we found five children upstairs, all dead.", Rossi sighed.
"What? But there weren't any children reported missing. How about the 5 victims, did you find them?", Morgan said, confuse.
"I don't know how to say this, but we believe that whatever she was making inside that garage must be responsible for turning 5 missing grownups into those kids we found.", Hotch shook his head lightly.
"Wait, you're saying that that woman actually made something that can turned adults into kids?", Emily asked incredulously.
"What are those guys doing here?", Reid nudged his head towards the fully anti-radiation clothed guys who was entering the garage.
"I don't know.", Hotch answered both of them, "But the case is finished, and Strauss had asked us to be back at Quantico by morning, it's time to leave.", he continued before walking away without waiting for any kind of responses.
The rest of the team said nothing as they followed their unit chief away. Although some of them can't help but to turn around couple of times just to make sure that there's nothing more to whatever happened there that day.
The flight on the jet had been uneventful, most of the team were bunked out along the ride. Reid laying on the couch as usual while the others slept on the seats, even Hotch was sleeping even though he did wake up somewhere in the middle of the ride.
As soon as the plane landed somewhere around 8 pm, the team scattered away, heading to their respective home.
"I'll see you guys in the morning.", Hotch said, getting bunch of yeah, sure, bye, and take care as replies.
Morgan flicked the lamp switch on. It had been one of those really confusing case for him. Sure they had gotten the unsub, well she killed herself, but they found out who she was so that's saying something.
"Those kids can't be the missing victims, i mean come on, that's logically impossible.", Morgan shook his head as he grabbed on a beer from his fridge.
Before he got a chance to gulp down the drink, everything around him started to spin. Morgan dropped down the bottle as he tried to grab on to the counter to prevent him from falling. He could hear Clooney's barking beside him but the sound just seems so blur somehow. Not just the sound, everything started to blur. Dark clouds were starting to cover his vision. He felt burned up and he was suffocating, his head hurts like hell. Seconds later, Morgan found himself falling unconscious to the ground.
As soon as Spencer reached his house he went straight to the bathroom and took a quick shower, then he went straight to bed. His head had been pounding mercilessly after the explosion, and covering it up from his team had made it more exhausting. It was just a mere headache, he got it all the time, so no, he would never told his team about it, the least thing he need is to feel babied.
Couple hours into the night, Spencer started to stir in his sleep. He kicked down the blanket as he kept on tossing around. He was starting to feel really hot, like he was being burned alive. He tried to muffle his screams but the feeling that his skins were being melted away had failed that. Spencer screamed in pain as he gripped the bed sheet tightly, he tried to open up his eyes, thinking that maybe it's all just a nightmare, but he couldn't. He was starting to suffocate, he was covered in sweat and the heat was now too much too handle. He reached his hand out for the phone on the bed side, but before he could, Spencer Reid fell unconscious.
AN: SOOOOO WAIT WHY AM I USING CAPS?! well anywayyy, there you go i guess (?) oh oh btw i forgot whether methanol was odorless or not so yeah none of the things said in this story are fact alright its all fiction x) anyway, the story is not beta and english is not my mother language, so if any of you find any kind of mistakes please do let me know so i can correct them x) DONT FORGET TO GIVE ME UR REVIEWS ALRIGHT HEHE ALL KIND OF REVIEWS ARE ACCEPTED x)
i'll see you guys on the next chapter x)