TO BE LOVED
:: x, smoke screen  

They were already at the station in Sherwood, Nevada. This unsub was using their car to murder. Literally, they would run them over then abruptly stop. It was one of those weird cases. The agents didn't understand how it was happening or if it was a malfunction of the vehicle, none of it made any sense.

They sat in the conference room staring at papers or at the wall with their heads in the case. Spencer's eyes were moving quite fast reading through the papers, it was like he was onto something. Then all of a sudden it hit him. Just as soon as he was about to fill in the team on what he found, a cop came in and informed the agents that another body had been found.

Hotch then gave the order to Emily and jj to go check out the new crime scene while Thomas and Spencer went to the M.E.

The two took one of the black suvs and drove it to the hospital where the M.E was examining the body. That victim had recently just passed because of this crime and from what they were told . . it wasn't instant.

Thomas parked the car in the parking lot. Then him and Spencer unbuckled themselves, heading into the hospital to the talk to the M.E. Was this their worst case yet?

• • •

"What do you we got, doc?" Thomas walked into the room with Spencer behind him.

"Something I've never seen before." The M.E began, "Now this victim — she stayed quite alive before dying."

"How much longer?" Spencer walked around the body to the other side.

"Three minutes tops. Now, I find that weird because she should've died instantly. The questions are why and how." The doctor spoke as he typed away on his computer.

"What were her injuries?" Thomas' brows narrowed.

The doctor soon elaborated and the news was only shocking. This unsub was definitely a psychopath. Spencer and Thomas couldn't believe their ears of these injuries that the victim endured while still alive — her heart beating. It just only wanted him to catch the bastard more.

Spencer and Thomas soon left the M.E and returned back to the station. They told the team what they found out, which added more onto their ongoing profile of the unsub. Spencer then began to come up with the geological profile as Thomas and the rest of the team were looking through files.

As everyone was busy with their own task, Emily grew hungry. She got up from the round table and began to make her way out the door to the vending machine but little did she know, jj was following closely behind.

As Emily was contemplating on what to snack on, Jennifer snuck up behind her, scaring the crap out of her.

"Jeez." Emily jumped a bit.

"Sorry. Got hungry too." Jj mentioned as she began to look at all the snack in the vending machine. As Emily put in her dollar, jj once again sparked up conversation, "So what's been going on with you and Thomas?"

"That's a good question." Emily pressed the two buttons for her snack, "He did ask me out."

"Really?"

Emily nodded, "I'm kind of thinking about it."

Before jj could say anything else, Thomas approached the two women.

"Guess I wasn't the only one hungry." He commented because they're all at the vending machine.

Emily grabbed her snack once it came out its slot. She passed Thomas a small smile as she left back to the room, leaving the two agents alone.

Jj punched in the numbers, selecting her snack.

"So . . . heard you asked Emily out." Jj started.

Thomas nodded in amusement, "So you two talk about me?"

"Not all good things." She teased him, "So you like her?"

He shrugged, "She's cute, yeah. How's Will?"

For some reason jj didn't like hearing that. It made her stomach curl and she didn't understand why that was.

Jj nodded, "We're good."

Jj's snack fell out its slot and she took it out the vending machine. She opened up the bag of the Cheetos and began to eat them as she turned back to face Thomas.

Thomas sighed, "That's good." He walked around Jennifer as he grabbed a Cheeto out the bag, "Right?" He gave her a longingly look as did she.

It was almost an intense feeling, electricity running through their veins. Jennifer felt it, Thomas felt it and all he wanted was for her to give him something that maybe . . just maybe, her feeling the same way.

But she didn't give it to him.

She thought about Will in that moment and then she thought about Emily. She could tell her good friend was beginning to like him a lot and it's rare for Emily to like someone, especially a coworker.

Thomas put the Cheeto in his mouth and turned on his heels, breaking the intense eye contact with jj. He headed back to the conference room, leaving Jennifer to let a sigh of relief out.

Once everyone returned back to the conference room, they all continued to talk about the profile and geological. Spencer soon remembered what he was going to say earlier and filled in the team. After hearing spencer, Hotch declared it was time to give the profile.

• • •

"Garcia—" Hotch grew impatient, "We need a location now."

"I'm sorry, sir. It keeps bouncing from tower to tower. This guy is good." She continued to type away on her computer as Hotch and the team were on speaker.

Thomas ragged his brain, thinking of what could possibly help Garcia and then it suddenly clicked.

"What if it's a smoke screen? All a hoax?"

"Penelope?" Emily called out, seeing if she gotten all that.

Penelope continued to type and type. To her surprise, Thomas was right. It was all a hoax, smoke screen.

"I got it! Got it!" Garcia exclaimed, "Address sent to your phones." With that, Garcia hung up.

"Guess Spencer isn't the only genius, huh?" Emily commented as she glanced at Thomas who passed her a smile.

The team soon and quickly, made their way to the address that was sent to the them. The team broke out in two groups. Morgan, prentiss, Thomas, and jj in one. Hotch, Gideon, Greenaway, and Reid in the other.

Since it was a big house, Thomas' team separated into two to cover more ground. Agents prentiss and jareau went with each other while Morgan and Byers went the other direction.

Morgan was searching another room when the unsub snuck up behind Thomas when he was walking into a room. Thomas was hit on the back of the head and knocked on the floor but that didn't stop him from standing up and tackling the unsub to the floor.

The unsub kneed Thomas in the groined, which caused Thomas to roll over to the floor on his back. The unsub got on top of him and placed their hands around thomas' neck. The unsub squeezed and squeezed as a smile came upon their face.

Thomas hit his arms but it was no use. The unsub overpowered him but that didn't last long because Derek came in and pushed the unsub off of Thomas.

While Thomas began to catch his breath, derek began to take the unsub down. Derek grabbed the unsub and threw him to the ground. Before derek could pull out his cuffs, the unsub was about to get back up but Thomas mustered some strength and walked over there, leaning down over the unsub to punch him in the face.

The team soon made their way down to derek and Thomas. After Morgan cuffed the unsub, he grabbed the guy by the shoulders and aggressively stood him up.

The unsub shared looks with the whole team, especially with Derek and Thomas. He lightly chuckled, "Can't wait for round two boys."

Spencer led the medics in the room and pointed to Thomas in their direction. Spencer thought Thomas should at least be looked at because of how vivid the hand marks imprinted on his neck were and his knuckles being so red.

Thomas rolled his eyes as the medics checked him, "I'm fine."

Emily commented, "Don't listen to him."

The two agents shared a look before Emily turned back to Hotch about something and jj making her way over to Thomas to see if he was okay.

a/n:
idk but Thomas &&
Emily are kinda getting
cute lol