Brief Note: Please forgive the very weak attempt made in writing the BAU's profiling. I consider that in the province of science, and science has never been my strong suit...or even one of my weak suits for that matter.

It had been a quiet day for the CBI, no murders, no kidnapings, no blindings, nothing to do but catch up on some old paper work. Jane was lying on the couch, eyes closed, when he heard a movement coming down the hall. He raised his head.

A group of six people being lead by Hightower were coming in this direction. Lisbon, who had come out of her office briefly to give Van Pelt some papers, stopped next to Jane and studied the approaching figures.

"Agent Lisbon," smiled Hightower, "This is Agent Hotchner and Gideon from the BAU."

"BAU? What are you doing here?" asked Lisbon.

"Agent Hightower invited us here to help find Red John," explained Hotchner.

"What?" Jane rose, "No, no, absolutely not. You can't do that!"

"Jane," explained Hightower, "The BAU is very good at what it does, if anyone can find him, they can."

"Exactly! 45 minutes, he's gone!"

"What?"

"They have dozens of serial killers to catch, we've got one. One. They can't just swoop in an steal him."

"Jane, if the BAU can catch him, I see nothing wrong with that." Hightower turned to Hotchner, "Agent, you can set up right here. Anything you need, just call me."

"Alright, so what do we know?" Gideon was standing in front of the white board, looking around at his agents. To his left, stood Lisbon, hands in back pockets, watching with interest, and behind, sitting on his couch was Jane, looking highly disgruntled.

"We know he lives in California, he moves freely about the state, kills elaborately, takes his time, and even once, on very short notice, went to Mexico, implying he has either a job with loose hours, or is independently wealthy," said Prentiss.

"I'll have Garcia check wealthy males who have been located in the state for the past twelve years, and see what she can find out about their location during the time of the murders."

"Oh come on. You don't think we looked into that angle?" snapped Jane. Much quieter, to Lisbon, his whispered, "We did look into that angle didn't we?"

"Ahhh...hum..." Lisbon sat down next to him on the couch looking sheepish.

"We know that the unsub largely kills women, only attacking men when they're in the way," offered Morgan.

"He's also has an incredible amount of influence over others, both male and female, who are fully aware of his criminal activities and whom he has also convinced to kill for him in the past, creating a large network of people willing to protect, lie and murder for him." said Reid.

"In fact, with this high-profile a killer, clearly one for the history books, with this level of influence, I don't see why we weren't called in sooner," said Hotch. "He's clearly got cult-like leadership abilities."

"Ooohhh right," murmured Lisbon.

"He's egocentric, a psychopath and manipulative," murmured Gideon.

"Lisbon we have to do something!" hissed Jane. "We can't just let them do this! You know what they're like. They pull together a profile and half an hour later they've caught him! Do you have any idea what that would mean?"

"Less smiley faced murders?"

"Yes, if you want to take the worm's eye view of it. More importantly, I might actually have to furnish my house! Wallpaper my bed room! Interior decorators! Or worse, I might have to be even more emotionally healthy, and move, that means realtors. Realtors! And if that weren't bad enough, I'd have to move on! Live an actually healthy lifestyle; you and I might even have to decide once for all whether there is, or is not, any feelings other then friendship between us. Which would throw 'will-they-won't-they' right out the window...actually, no, we could still drag that on forever. But still, we'd be short on plot! I will no longer be able to ask, oh so subtly, every revenge killer we run into whether it was worth it or not. I'll know! Actually, they arrest him, I will never be able to make the moral decision on to revenge or not to revenge, that will no longer be the question. At least not on Red John. I'll be stuck with his friends, which is totally not the same thing, and after all I've been through, I deserve better then that! The BAU nabs the serial killer, we'd be left picking up the accomplices, do you have any idea how unrewarding that would be? The entire CBI would be second-tier characters. Will LaMontagne let the BAU capture his arch-nemesis serial killer, and look at his importance? (Or lack thereof.) We'd have no over-arcing mystery! We would be completely uncool, out of the loop, and totally last season next to our peers. Lisbon we can't let this happen!"

"Calm down Jane and behave. I think you're way ahead of yourself. We don't even know if they're going to find anything."

Jane thought for a moment. "You're right," he said at last. "I've been trying to find my family's killer for eight years now...I'm sure, with the evidence we've got, we've tried all obvious paths of investigation."

30 Minutes Later

"We've got him!" yelled Hotch, hanging up the phone.

"What!" Jane leapt to his feet.

"His name is Leonard Jones."

"But you can't seriously mean to do this to me!"

"Inherited fortune from father-"

"You can't just sweep in here and wipe out our best story line in slightly under 45 minutes!"

"His fiancé went missing ten years ago after they had a public argument, she was never found."

"No, no, NO! I catch him! Me! This is my trauma, my emotional baggage, my personal serial killer!"

"He was sued once by an Angie Richie who accused him of severe emotional abuse. She accused him of being controlling and vindictive. Believed him to have many other relationship."

"You just don't go around arresting other people's killers! You don't go after Jack Of All Trades, you don't arrest the Carver, you leave Brennan's and Beckett's mothers' alone, and you darn well let them catch Yin and Yang in their own good time!"

"And she also testified that near the end of their relationship he tried to convince her to kill her pet dog."

"Why on earth would you do this to me? I never went after the Reaper!"

"He lives 30 minutes away. Let's go!"

"Can't you even try and appreciate how hard it's going to be for us from now on?" The last of the BAU agents rushed off. "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FOR SEASON FINALES NOW?"

For the record, I just want to make it clear, I really am a huge fan of both shows :-), it has just occurred to me on several occasions that the two shows really couldn't mix.