[Criminal Minds] The Waiting Behind

"Hi! Got back to your senses, girl!" Man walked up to Michelle, and found that the girl hadn't noticed their group yet, but was looking in the direction of the door in a daze. Man raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look over, nothing special, what is she looking at?He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the girl's eyes, finally getting her attention back.

"Ah! Man! Spencer!" Michelle also saw other people in the same group, but as the original deity, she really didn't know everyone in BAU, so she could only pretend to be puzzled and smiled at these handsome men and beauties, and looked at the The two who explained her confusion.

"Hey, Michelle, I didn't expect you to be here." The curious baby Reid froze, obviously affected by the jokes just now, not knowing what to do with his hands and feet.Tightening the straps of the backpack in his hand, Reid stroked his hair nervously, ignoring the gossiping eyes behind him, "I only heard on the phone that you planned to come to Virginia, but I didn't expect you to come so soon. Why did you come here?" Didn't you tell me?"

Garcia standing next to her is indeed the queen of fashion. She has light-colored hair with brown highlights at the ends, which looks majestic and fashionable.The suit jacket with orange and black vertical stripes is paired with a beige inner layer. The design of the puff sleeves on the shoulders adds a lovely color to the OL's office attire.She pressed the square glasses with red frames on the bridge of her nose with her index finger, and quickly exchanged a look that you understand and I understand with JJ and Emily on the left and right, and her gorgeous red lips made a light "Oh! Phone !" mouth shape.

Michelle glanced here from the corner of her eye, pretending not to see the small movements of the crowd, and staring at Reid, who was stiff in front of her, with a smile, deliberately adding fuel to the fire, "I'm going to be crazy busy in a short time, I was busy looking for a place to live when I first came here. place, and later I was busy looking for a place to work, and I just got free these two days, so I didn't have time to call you. Why, miss me?"

"Michelle!" Reid ignored the whistling and booing of a group of inexplicably excited people behind him, and gave Michelle a headache.This Michelle was still as eccentric as ever, she could clearly see that everyone was looking at his jokes and even helped to play tricks on him.Reid, who gave up completely, vigorously took off the messenger bag on his body and put it on the table, making a "bang" sound.How did he think that she was a gentle and understanding girl at the beginning! Reid thought fiercely, well, it's barely enough to be considerate, and the rest is definitely an illusion that he just woke up and the sun was too good! ! !

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, all ignoring Reid who was sitting beside him gnashing his teeth. It's been a long time since I saw such a lively BAU mascot!This girl really fits in with them, especially when it comes to teasing Reid, and the BAU ladies look at each other to confirm that point.

Steve, who was sitting on the side and watching Michelle tenderly, didn't care that he had been ignored for a long time. Seeing that everyone had stopped joking and sat down to order, he said slowly, "Michelle, do you want to introduce the people around you?" Are these handsome men and beauties?"

As soon as the words came out, he immediately gained the favor of the ladies present.Take a closer look, the appearance is very good, the temperament is very good, and the demeanor is very good! Emily made a funny comparison and looked at Reid, who was still sulking and fiddled with the cup in his hand. The result of the comparison was unbearable.If Reid really has a crush on this girl, she and JJ must give a good lesson to the genius and good boy. How can the person BAU fancy be taken into the bag by others! Emily was very satisfied to see the same meaning in Man's eyes, very good, a deal has been reached!Ask Reid later.

"Well, these are BAU's elite agents, and you don't usually see them!" Michelle put a top hat on the elites present, and Michelle introduced them to Steve one by one, "This is Agent Man, this is Agent Man. Doctor Reid..." The two followed Michelle's words and nodded to Steve respectively.

"Doctor? To be called this, you must have a lot of degrees!" Steve admired sincerely.

"Oh yes, I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Engineering, and a BA in Psychology, Sociology, and ongoing Philosophy..." Reid is tired of having to correct people every time he introduces himself This Doctor is not that Doctor , this time it's rare to meet someone who understands me, and I can't help feeling a little fond of this man with a gentle smile on his face.

The fool! Emily and Man stared at Reid who didn't realize it, this is your rival in love. Hey!What are you doing so enthusiastically, and you started chatting with him without Michelle, did you get the wrong person!

Fortunately, Reid and Michelle don't know the inner thoughts of these two people, otherwise they will definitely have a black line. They are really a pure relationship between men and women! [Everyone interjects: Who would believe it! 】

"Oh, so you're the demolition police of the ATF who just joined the job?" After hearing Steve's self-introduction, everyone in the BAU was a little interested, and their feelings were a little bit of a peer. "Maybe we will meet again at the scene in the future." Garcia said with interest, but she didn't know that this sentence would come to fruition soon.

"Dididi" was enjoying the stolen leisure time happily, when JJ's cell phone rang suddenly. "Oh——" JJ held up the mobile phone in his hand regretfully, gave everyone a look of God's blessing, and went out to answer the phone.

"No way!" Emily and Garcia lamented together, "Please forgive me."

"Is there a new case?" Michelle looked at the calm Reid with a curious baby.

"Well, the expression on JJ's face when he was leaving indicated that this is most likely a call from work, and there is an 80% chance that we need to go back to Quantico now." Reid lowered his head and took another sip of his coffee, frowning, "Too It’s sweet, but I still prefer black coffee.”

"I think you like the refreshing effect of black coffee!" Michelle pointed to the dark circles under Reid's eyes angrily, "such deep dark circles."

Reid blinked his big eyes innocently, mouthed at Steve, who couldn't help laughing, and lowered his head to sip his coffee.It's not that he doesn't understand other people's kind actions, but he is often clumsy in expressing them, so he can only treat others' kindness in silence.

Unexpectedly, after a while, JJ came in with a embarrassed expression on his mobile phone, and sighed as soon as he sat down.

"What's the matter, JJ?" If there was a case in the past, JJ would immediately organize everyone to go to Quantico for a meeting or meet on the plane, but this time he showed such a look, Garcia knew that such a JJ was very rare.

"Well, it was Inspector McGee from the Kansas City Police Department just now, and he was talking about the missing cases of the local urban population. However, because no one has reported the missing files, and there is no official invitation from the local police to intervene in the investigation, so I Rejected." JJ answered absently, picking at the flowers in the vase with his fingers.

"In this case, why are you troubled? Tell him to let him go to the person in charge of the case to go through the formal procedure."

"63 people." JJ's eyebrows were still unfurled. "These people are mostly homeless, prostitutes, drug addicts on the street corner. Maybe people are missing all the time as we speak."

Emily leaned over and spread her hands across her chest, "Isn't it the nature of these groups? They just appear temporarily?"

"No, 63 is just the number he has been seeing and then disappeared not long after." JJ tilted his head, still thinking that something must have happened.

"Reid, is there any data about the ratio..." Man held the unfinished coffee in his left hand, opened his right hand, and gestured to Reid, "I really don't know how to express this question."

Fortunately, Reid, who has been with him for a long time and has a tacit understanding, instantly understood the meaning of Man, and began to play the role of his living dictionary: "Missing homeless people? Homelessness is a mobile way of life. But to be honest, they are not as good as As unstable as you can imagine, they usually gather in a small area. The choice of location is generally established in an area that is more familiar and has complete service facilities.”

"So you don't think they'll just disappear for no reason?" Emily caught Reid's subtext right away.

"Normally not." The Doctor, who brushed his long hair behind his ears, squinted his eyes and answered in the affirmative.

From the moment JJ ​​started talking about the case, Steve thoughtfully and consciously left his seat to avoid suspicion, while Michelle didn't leave out of curiosity but also stopped chirping and silently lowered her sense of existence. At this moment, she couldn't help but say, "Since So, why not talk to Agent Hotch and see if we can convince the authorities to step in and gain jurisdiction from the BAU's perspective?"