Strings That Tie Us Together

@ sugarplum.
(sorry, I'm on my phone so my responses are a little short and im just so darn tired but i wanted to give you something to work with.)

Reid sighed and studied the work before him in silence, he really had only ideas and facts that lead him to dead ends. To listen to Eleanor's voice as she verbally worked out the issues with the limited information they had didn't do anything to help or hurt his thought process either. He was so frustrated. Usually Spencer saw the connections nearly right away but this case didn't have any real dots to connect.

He groaned and somewhat forcefully put the papers away from him and rubbed his eyes, "The parents have to know something."

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"Eleanor knows that there's next to nothing that I'll actually enjoy doing besides autopsy and scene investigation," mumbled Valarie as she waited for them to arrive.

The rest of the ride she spent sulking though as soon as they arrived and the body was laid out before her, it was like a lock opened. Instantly Val fell into her old rhythm of efficiency, she asked the coroner questions about their original report as she studied the body before her. Something had to be there.

Eleanor looked over at Spencer, "They've already been called and asked to come in. We may not know a lot now, but we will" She looked at the attractive young genius, this was frustrating for them all but they couldn't let that get to them otherwise they'd probably miss something important.

They needed all the focus they could get, minding their minds needed to stay on the task before them. Talking to the parents of the victims and asking any questions that they feel needed to be answered or heard in a voice rather than be on paper, "The first parents shouldn't be far away now" She told the agents.

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Morgan watched from further back in the room, "Do you see anything out of place?" He asked Agent Arlow, not wanting to get too close to the dead body. He felt uneasy and didn't understand how she could do a job like this, though his mother said the same about the BAU.

He was glad that Valeria was the one who had to look over the bodies, he was fine in the field when a dead body was found but this was a whole different story.

@ sugarplum.
(I'm so sorry, I could have sworn I responded to this..)

Reid sighed again as he ran a hand through his face and then back to rub at his eyes. "What do we have so far? Each of the girls have the same look and build, but that's about it. All of their majors were different so it's unlikely they knew each other at all before their death..." Reid suddenly lifted his head and looked at Eleanor with enlightened eyes, "What about their elective or Gen.Ed. classes?" He rushed back over to where he'd been sitting and looked through his papers with a wild but calm pace. "Students with different majors often get put in the same classes for general credit courses or elective classes." Reid groaned when the papers didn't surface in his pile, "We need to get our hands on the class schedules the girls were following at their time of death."

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Val studied the body with a focus so precise yet tender it surprised even Valarie sometimes. The coroner hadn't missed anything it seemed like, which only added to Val's pent up frustration. She studied and studied the body, checked under her fingernails, toenails, in sections of her hair, everywhere possible without actually opening up the body again. She asked the coroner question after question and agreed with each answer they came up with. "This guy's good," she finally sighed in defeat. "He's covered his tracks like no other."

"What makes you say the suspect is a male?" Asked the coroner out of curiosity.

Valarie gently brushed the hair from the victim's face and tucked it tenderly behind her ear, "A woman couldn't do what this man did to her."

(Don't worry, I do that all the time.)

Eleanor watched as Spencer got onto something, she looked at him and nodded her head. "You can calm down, Spence. I was going to head over to the college shortly, I'll leave Rossi and Hotch to speak with the parents" She told the young genius, even if he did find it a little cute how worked up Spencer could get when he thinks of something new. The parents would turn up shortly or whenever they could make it into the station, they were after all trying to grieve and move on with their lives.

This was another part of her job that she hated, now the parents would have to relive losing a child all over again. If there was a way to spare them this but still get the information that they needed, she'd do it in a heartbeat. She could never imagine what people went through at a time like this, she never wanted to go through anything like this.

"Are you going to join me?" She asked Reid in case he wanted to get out of the police station, if not she'd be fine going to the college by herself. She wouldn't be doing much that day, just getting the full class schedules and maybe speaking with a few friends of the victims if their up to it.

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Morgan sighed softly at Valarie's comment about it being a male who killed these girls, they already knew that but it was always good to hear that a professional thought so too. "If there isn't else for us to look for here, then we should get back to the station. Thank you again for letting us in here" He gave the coroner a weak grin, honestly he couldn't wait to leave the morgue.

He'd never understand anyone who'd want to work full time with dead bodies, but people enjoyed different things. He caught criminals and a coroner also helps catch criminals, he'd rather just stick with working in the BAU.

"The parents should be around soon, we can talk to them and try to figure all of this out" He suggested knowing he had to try and keep the new agent as busy as the case would let them, if she wasn't allowed near or on the college campus then they'd have to do everything else they could.

Hey, sorry I'm such a bad Thread partner. I've lost my mojo for this one..

@ anima d'amore;;
No that's alright, thanks for letting me know.