I felt arms wrapped around my waist. Luke was up. We both cuddled, his head on my shoulder.

"How are you feeling?" He said in his morning voice. "And the little pizza?" I chuckled. Pizza you my ask, since I thought it was the bad pizza i had when I found out i was pregnant and now the baby is nicknamed pizza until we find out the gender. I got up and changed into my clothes. "I'll drop you off today okay."

"Alright." I took my time to get dressed and headed to the car. We held hands as we drove off.

"Have you told anyone yet?" He asked. I threw my head back. I havent, I mean ive been busy with work, coming home late, i just couldnt find the time to call my family nor the team that I was pregnant.

"Uh not yet. But I will! Whenever we have a free time since we been having a bunch of cases lately." I looked at him. "Have you told your mom yet?"

"Looks like we're on the same boat." We grinned. "I will, soon as I get to work." We stopped at the headquarters.

"Ill text you." I kissed him.

"Be safe."

"You too." I closed the car door and headed in. I got the the floor and set my things down.

"Hey Hazel, JJ wanted me to give you these." Anderson handed me a case file.

"Thanks Grant." I smiled, he smiled back and walked away. I headed up to the conference room to see Morgan, Reid and JJ. My arms fell to my side. Its been two weeks since the last we saw and heard of Hotch, Gideon and Emily. "Wheres hotch?" I said as I sat down.

"Nothing yet." Morgan told me as he sits next to me.

"And where's prentiss? Gideon?" I listed off. I didn't like how small the team was now.

"Her phone keeps going straight to voicemail." JJ sighs.

"Nothing on Gideon either." Reid was sad.

"Well, this room just keeps getting smaller and smaller, doesn't it?"

"Should we wait 15 minutes?" Morgan taps the table, sitting up.

"We can just brief them on the plane." JJ sighs. "Right now the police taskforce in milwaukee needs our help. They've had 4 murders over the past 3 weeks, and in addition, another woman has been missing the last 2 days. They've all the women are in their 30s, married with children." We looked at the screen. they've all been abducted from the area of wauwatosa, all from very public places, but there's no witnesses. All of the bodies have been dumped in the city's third ward. We got a closer look, their hearts have been cut from their bodies.

—

I got my go bag to head to Milwaukee. I saw Hotch in his office, I was happy to see him.

"Hey!" I smiled as I walked in. He looks at me. He didn't look happy. My smile dropped. "Im glad you're back, let me tell you, ive got some news." I clapped my hands. "You know, 2 weeks without you were dreadful, I missed you Boss."

"Im not back." I frowned. "Im meeting the section chief." I cleared my throat.

"And after that, you're coming with us right?"

"No. Im requesting a transfer." I stood up straight. He cant leave. Not Aaron. "You will get a new unit chief."

"Come on Aaron, that suspension was mierda!"

"It's been a privilege Hazel." He then walked away. I stood in the office, thinking, what the actual hell. The four of us were on the jet, reviewing the case again. Then here comes Strauss. What is she doing here?

"You know, from this angle, she almost looks human." JJ whispers as she looks at her.

"Has anyone talked to Emily yet?" Reid looks at us.

"She was gone before I heard the news." She was gone too. Emily, Aaron, Gideon, all gone.

"I told you, reid, now we're down 2 agents and gideon's M. I. A." I sighed from this all of this was uncalled for. "

"Doesn't strauss ever do any-- " I stopped Reid as she was coming our way. She looked down on him.

"correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's protocol to brief everyone before we arrive at the crime scene." Look at her, she probably doesnt know whats shes doing.

"Yes, ma'am. This unsub is abducting women from very public places, with no witnesses. He holds them 48 hours, with no sexual assault, and then he dumps their bodies with their hearts carved out of their chests." I handed her the crime scene photos and she took a moment before she grabbed them.

"There's an obvious dichotomy in the skill the unsub exhibits in abducting these women and the fact that he cuts their hearts out so crudely."

"We're probably looking at someone in a psychotic break. Could be a butcher. Might be a hunter." I told the group. She was strange, disturbed. "Somebody who's very comfortable being around blood, but as you can see, he obviously doesn't have the skills of a surgeon."

"So do we have a working theory?" She crosses her arms. Morgan chuckles. Oh no.

"Sure we do. Somebody really doesn't like women." He gets up and leaves. I looked at JJ, and we both widen our eyes, this is going to be a long day.

—

We landed and headed straight to the scene. Everyone was surrounding the place, people trying to see through the cops.

"You the fbi?" A shorter gentleman walked up to us.

"Derek morgan. Spencer reid, Hazel Santos, jennifer jareau, and section chief strauss." We all waved at him.

"Vic wolynski, milwaukee pd."

"Hey, i know you, you worked the jeffrey dahmer case. I found it incredible!" I geeked out. Eyes were on me.

"And you remember my name?"

"Sorry." I shrunk down.

"What can you tell us?" Strauss said.

"Uh, local merchant noticed her a few hours ago. Uh, but considering he didn't see her when he first came to work, uh, we figure she was dumped there between 7:50 and 8:05. Same window as the others."

"All the bodies were found in this area, right?"

"Uh, wauwatosa is an upper-middle-class suburb approximately 15 minutes from here. All the women were abducted from there in the afternoon and turned up here in the morning 2 days later."

"All this foot traffic and no one saw anything." I scuffed. Theres no way, someone had to see something odd, including here.

"Well, he, up, wraps the bodies, uh, loosely so they're not immediately recognizable. Eventually the, uh, wrapping comes open, my guess is he, uh, has a van or a truck, something he can back up so he's shielded when he makes the drop." We got to the body.

"No prints on whatever he wraps them in?" He shook his head.

"There have been traces of paint and wood stain, but most of it's just common stuff you'd get at any hardware store."

"He's trying to demean them, putting them out like trash."

"This guy might work or live around here. Gets off on the reaction to his... handiwork."

"What can you tell us about the victim?"

"She was taken from a supermarket. Her husband says that most days she would have been picking up her son at school, but he was spending the afternoon at a friend'S."

"This is your fifth victim, right?" Strauss looks down at him. He nods. "You should have called us sooner."

"I thought we had a handle on it."

"Apparently not." She sassed. I looked at Derek.

"Ma'am." JJ stood up. "Excuse me, sir." She takes her to the side. The hell is her problem. Morgan went to call Hotch, leaving me and Reid.

"If she questions me, hold me back." I whispered to him as I stared at Strauss.

"You should tell Morgan, I dont think I have the strength to." He made me chuckle. I ruffled his hair, he then fixes it.

"Come on." I squatted down, checking the body.

—

We went to the station, following Vic. We got a call saying we got another one. Claire Thompson, her husband tried to call her but didnt pick up. Her car was at the parking lot and wasn't inside the store.

Derek called the one and only Penelope, sending us the security footage of Claire at the department store. Nobody was around her. Then a kid popped out and she didn't have a son, she only has a 2 year old daughter. Derek said that hotch told him about the abductions and disposals have been timed around school. We thought the unsub might work in the system. The guy's actually using his own son to lure his victims.

It can be true. I mean, nobody will suspect anything, just a lost kid looking for his parents. After that, profile time. Morgan, Reid and I gave the information out.  When that was done, I went to the conference room, Strauss already there.

"If we need to lure this guy, you want be bait?" I slowly turned around. What did she say to me?

"Excuse me?"

"I-"

"No, we need to catch the guy. We don't need to lure him with anyone. We got this." I set the file down on the table.

"Aaron Hotchner said you will put your life on the life for someone in need." I clenched my jaw.

"We dont know where the guy is. He has her and we have less then 24 hours to save her, and you're thinking about me going in next?" I forced a laugh. "And you're the chief?"

"Are you questioning my job Agent Santos?" JJ comes in.

"Alright! Uh Hazel, Derek wants to talk to you about the case." She saved me. Oooh i swear if she didn't come, I wouldn't have a job right now. I rolled my eyes and headed out of the room.

"Thought you needed to get away from her." Derek said to me as he looked at the board.

"You thought correctly."

"I have triple patrol in the area and I've got every available unit recanvassing." Vic comes in.

"It's tough knowing they're out there and we're still a step behind."

"You know, it used to be a running joke that if you told people you were from milwaukee, all they wanted to talk about was happy days reruns. And then dahmer happens and they ask you about it as if it's the same thing." We headed back to the conference room. Strauss eyed me as I sat down, me not giving a single shit. "As if it's entertainment. But I was in that apartment."

"Gideon, one of our bosses, says that there are things that attach to you that... You can never wash off."

"All righ it, is it possible we're looking at this the wrong way?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we're trying to zero in on the unsub. Now, you guys tell me, but... If he really is using his son, wouldn't the trauma manifest more clearly on the boy?" We all stayed quiet. Jennifer Jareau, you smart beautiful woman.

"Can your analyst get a list of all the children in the area that we're targeting?"

"Garcia can get you whatever you want." Derek calls Penelope and puts her on speaker.

"Talk dirty to me." I closed my eyes from embarrassment. Oh poor Penelope.

"This is section chief Erin Strauss." I can hear the panic attack that shes going through. I hid my smile under my hair.

"Ma'am, I think it goes without saying that I was expecting it to be someone else." Strauss gave Penelope stuff to do and after Garcia was going to apologize, she hung her up before she can finished. "You need to present these counselors with a profile of a troubled kid." She gets up and leaves.

"Tells us what do and and doesn't come with us. What a section chief." I mumbled and I picked myself up and headed to school. I partnered with Morgan, telling teachers and staff about the boy. JJ got some files and we headed back to the station.

"All right, the boy doesn't look like he could be any older than 7. Let's work youngest to oldest. Start with the worst behavior." We got the files and started looking through. "Get the names of the parents, send them over to garcia. She can cross-check for criminal records. This guy's dumping bodies between 7:30 and 8:00. That gives us... A little over 12 hours to make something hit. Let's get it done."

"Look who's here." Reid chuckles as I saw Hotch and Emily walking in. This has to be a dream.

"Hey. Where do we start?" Emily winks at me as she sat down next to me.

"How fast can you get us up to speed?"

"How fast can you sit down?" I smiled. Strauss walks in, the room got quiet. Aaron looks at her.

"We're only here to help." Emily tells her.

"We'll deal with this later." We read, flipped, turned, tossed every file. There was too many.

"It's impossible. There's too many."

"Keep looking, reid. We still have an hour."

"Thank you, by the way, for giving garcia that file to give to me." Hotch tells JJ.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't see garcia before I left." Garcia you clever girl. I nodded my head as I went back to reading.

—

We got a call. Claire was found, dead. We drove up to the scene. Hotch and Strauss headed to look at the body, us following behind. As we walked down the steep hill, Strauss trips.

"Are you all right?" Hotch catches her fall.

"I st--I stepped on her hair." She sobs.

"If you need a second, take a second. This is what it is. Just don't let the public see you break down." She walks away.

"This is a different area from the other dump sites, isn't it?"

"He's getting smart. He knows where all of our manpower will be so he's changing locations."

"How long before he changes when and where he abducts them?"

"He does that, we're back at zero."

"Claire?" Oh no. The husband.

"No, no, no, no. We gotta keep him out of here." I yelled as I ran to stop Claires husband entering. "Sir, I need you to back up."

"Is that Claire? I need to know."

"Sir, im sorry." I held him. He shakes his head. "What we need you to do right now, is stand back and let us catch this guy." He cries. "Trust me, you dont need this in your head. Take my word for it." Morgan takes him away.

—

We met up with JJ and Reid at David Smiths house. They checked around, they came back as I stood with Strauss and Emily.

"The boy's alone in the family room." Aaron said as he walked back.

"Where are your other agents?"

"Covering the other side. They have an eye-line just in case somebody tries to sneak out the back."

"Is there any sign of the nurse or the dad?"

"No." We all huddled around.

"So what are we doing here?"

"We call in S. W. A. T., Secure the perimeter, and wait for him to come out."

"Ma'am, he's holding a woman inside." I raised my voice.

"We don't know that for certain." I frowned. "We don't have probable cause."

"She's right."

"If he's got her, he waits 48 hours. He's not gonna kill her yet."

"He's changed the pattern of the dump sites, and now he's changed how he abducts them. Do we really want to gamble that he's sticking to the rest of the model?"

"So let's pound on the door." Vic points at the house. "Maybe he'll panic."

"Oh yeah, do that and he'll get spooked and kill her right there." I added, putting my hands on my hips.

"Let me go in alone." We turned to Emily. "The boy's in the family room. He'll answer the door."

"No."

"We need to get invited in that door. He's looking for female authority figures. If he lets me in, I can signal as soon as I see anything that gives us cause."

"Technically, you're not even in the fbi." She looks at me. "Santos-

"All the better."

"She's interfering with a federal investigation, might as well put Santos in." Emily saw how worried I looked.

"Well, like it or not, if I'm no longer in the fbi, then you have no authority over me. I'm just a civilian knocking on a little boy's door." I gave Emily my gun.

"As soon as you have probable cause, give us a signal and get out of there." She headed up to the house. "Everybody knows what we need to make this arrest legal."

"Santos." Strauss pulls me to the side. "I gave you an order, I expected you to do it."

"Due all respect ma'am, i cant." I sighed. "Im pregnant and I dont want to put myself in harms way. And if you have a problem with that, fire me, lets see your excuse is when they ask why you fired me." I huffed and walked back to Hotch, watching the house. The call was made and everyone charged in. An ambulance came and it was for Emily. I waked up to her. "Damn."

"Just a scratch." It wasnt. She needed stitches and blood was all over. She got hit over the head.

"Thats what my brother said when he crashed my car into a tree." I joked, making her laugh. "Welcome back Em."

"Glad to see your pretty face once again."

"Oh hush."

—

Luke picked up from work and had a night out. Him being him, he picked up a pizza, laughing as we finally got together, cracking jokes.

"I hope it has your smile." He touched my lips with his thumb. "I just hope it gets everything from you."

"Luke." I whispered as he pulled me into his arms.

"Its true. I mean-" i interrupted him with a kiss.

"You know theres no returns right?" I cracked a joke. "You're going to be the greatest dad in the world. Its going to love you for you. I promise." He shyly smiles.

"It better get your eyes, I swear if it dont." I laughed.

"And your curly hair, imagine having a baby with the Luke Alvez curly hair." I played his hair. "If it doesnt, we'll love this child no matter what."

"I already do."