SUMMARY AND WARNING!

This story takes place somewhere during season 4 when Emily is still present. Somehow, Spencer Reid got caught in the experiment of one UNSUB and got turned into a child. I am so sorry to change the story a bit where Hotch is not married. There will be no Haley, Jack, Will or Henry.

English is not my first language so I want to apologize for any error in grammar or vocabulary. I hope you enjoy and review. Thank you.

" In California, 3 children were found dead in the alley behind a shopping mall. 2 girls and 1 boy, all of them are between 7-10 years old. They were kidnapped on their way to home after school and local polices believes that the children are held captive for few days before the unsub kill them and dump their body in the alley. There are no signs of sexual assault and cause of death is strangulation. The polices are afraid that the unsub may take on a new victim soon and therefore ahs requested our help."

JJ explained as she stood in front of the monitor while Hotch, Morgan, Rossi and Emily sat around the round table, staring at their tablet while listening to JJ briefed about their newest case.

"It looks like the unsub is escalating. It says here the first victim is found on 2nd January and the second victim is found 3 weeks after that and the third victim is found 1 week after that." Morgan said as he stared at the picture of the victims.

"And we are going to stop the unsub before more bodies are found. JJ tell the local officers we will arrive in the evening. Wheels up in 30." Said Hotch as he gathered his file and stood up.

"What about Reid?" Rossi questioned and everyone else looked at Hotch expecting his answer.

"We can't bring him with us this time. He will be a whole lot safer with Garcia here. I will talk to Garcia and asked her to take care of him for a few days." Hotch answered.

"Well, good luck in telling him that." Morgan said as he smirked. He could imagine his little brother's reaction when they tell him that he could not go with them.

"I don't want him to know yet. Get your go bag ready and before we go, we can tell him goodbye. He is in Garcia's office at this moment right?" Hotch looked at JJ who nodded her head.

"Go get ready and meet me at Garcia's office in a few." Hotch said before he got out of the conference room. Everyone else follow his lead as they too went and get ready for their newest case in California.

As Hotch entered his office, he shook his head seeing the toys scattered on the floor, courtesy of Spencer Reid. After being turned to two years old, it was difficult for Spencer to focus and sit still for a long time. At first, it worries them when Spencer would act a lot like children but nowadays, they tend to encourage him to enjoy his new attempt in childhood. They knew that with William Reid leaving when he was 10 and leaving him to take care of his schizophrenic mother, there was no way he had a happy childhood. So now, they kind of believe that there is a good reason why he was the only who got caught in the unsub's sick experiment resulting him to become a two years old but if you ask Spencer, he would strongly protest saying that he is 3 years old instead of two but anybody could tell from looking at his size that he could be no more than two years old. But, they knew better than to argue with him and have him throwing a tantrum regarding his age so they just kept their mouth shut and secretly bought him everything for a 2 years old.

After finished getting his things ready, Hotch proceeded to clean up Spencer's toys and things and put them in his bag for Garcia to take later on. He made sure that Spencer has everything that he needs in the bag to stay over at someone else's house. From his clothes, pull ups, toys, sippy cups, favourite snacks and milks, baby monitor, and not to forget his blankie. After finished with that, Hotch grabbed his go bag and made his way out of his office, where he met with Morgan, JJ, Emily and Rossi who were on their way to Garcia's office to bid goodbyes to Spencer before flying to California to catch the unsub before another child is found dead.

"You guys ready?" at this, Hotch received several nods from his team members.

"Then lets do this." Together they made their way to Garcia's office.