A/N: This takes place two years after Revelations. Rated T for Language, Violence, and Mention of Sexual Abuse. This is not Moreid/ but it is based around their brotherly love for one another. I am not an amazing writer, but I hope you enjoy. I'm sorry if my updates come slow.

Chapter 1: The Case that Started it All

A large room split by a wall, door, and a pane glass

Two Days Earlier

"If you hurt him I will tear you apart. You lay one filthy finger on him and I swear I will kill you."

"Oh, but Derek… the fun is only just beginning."

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Behavioural Analysis Unit, Quantico, Virginia

8:00 am

Among the quiet mummers at the coffee machine and the shuffling of papers at desks, Aaron Hotchner's stern voice rang out calling to his team, "Conference room… now!" The members of the BAU team filed in and filled the chairs awaiting the briefing for their next case.

"What we got JJ" Supervisory Special agent, Derek Morgan, broke the silence that settled after everyone was seated. His relaxed voice directed itself at their Communications Liaison Jennifer Jareau.

"Over the last two years, all over Virginia, fourteen bodies have turned up, all two at a time making there seven discoveries total. Each pair of bodies were connected in a personal way, either a couple, siblings, or even best friends." JJ stopped to catch her breath but also to try and sort out and ready herself for what she was about to explain. "Besides there always being two bodies, the way the victims died were also similar. In each pair, both had ligature marks on their wrists and ankles, one was shot in the back of the head, and the other had various evidence of torture."

"OK, so let's get this straight, in each pair, one victim was shot execution style and the other was tortured to death?" Emily Prentiss was the first to speak after JJ's briefing. Her voice hinting to confusing, but never truly being detected. "What would be the point of killing one but torturing the others?"

"Prentiss is right. If they didn't want the another victim why did they abduct the and kill them without really harming them?" Morgan's confusion was noticed by the team but was related to.

"Actually, the coroner for each case stated that the tortured victims died before the ones that were shot." JJ's voice quivered for a slight second because based on the looks given by the rest of the team told JJ that this was going to be a long case. "Um…the first two victims were Alyssa, age 32, and James, 33, Sertas, newlyweds who were abducted from a parking lot outside a Greek restaurant in Stafford, victims three and four were Dave Gradon, 36. and Haden Cambel, 35, who were dating at the time. Abducted from a park, mid-day, in Charlottesville. The fifth and sixth victims were abducted off the sidewalk in Harrisonburg at night. They were Adam Morison, 29 and his younger sister Lilly, 27. Tim, 35, and Samantha, 32, Dickson were the seventh and eighth victims abducted in Strasburg, from a baby store… she was two and a half months pregnant." There was a pain in JJ's eyes that, without even looking, the team knew was there. "At a night club in Leesburg, the ninth and tenth victims, William Skyly, 31, and Chloe Phillips, 29, were abducted and are listed here as best friends. Husband and wife, Dean, 35, and Cassidy, 29, Richards, are the eleventh and twelfth victims who went missing from their home in Arlington."

"In each set of victims, the male was the older and the one who was shot while the females were the ones tortured. There doesn't seem to be any interest in sexual abuse." The agent Rossi's voice was unyielding as the truth from the pages in his file revealed themselves. "What about the last victims?"

"Matthew,28, and Jason, 36, Moore. Jason was older of the older of the two brothers. Disappeared from diner Woodbridge. They were found yesterday. Evidence of sexual assault"

"Why the sudden change in victimology? The wounds are still the same and the younger victim was the one tortured, but why suddenly go after two male victims." Hotch's question matching the one going through all of the team members heads.

"Well considering that there was no evidence sexual assault on any of the victims except the last younger male. Perhaps the reason he kept hunting male and females because it was easier to catch them. It was practice to gain his confidence. I-I…"

"What is it Reid,?" Hotch focused his voice his voice on the youngest member of the team.

"Can I start the geographic profile?" the young genius focused his attention on the images on the screen.

"OK, Reid you start the geographic profile, JJ, Rossi, and I will go talk to some of the victims' families. Prentiss and Morgan, you go and look at the crime scenes. We will meet back here." Hotch's orders rang out clear and the team started to disband.

Behavioural Analysis Unit, Quantico, Virginia

9:45 pm

"Reid, do you have anything?"

"Almost, Hotch. All of the victims disappeared from where the red dots indicate. They were found half way between the city were one pair disappeared and the city where the next pair would soon disappear from, indicated by the black dots." Reid's hands glided over the map attached to the white board as he spoke. "Now if we connect the dots in order, it creates a semi-circle… right around us."