Chapter 6: Huh?

Before he even realized what was happening, Reid found himself hugging her back, and something about it felt right. It was as if there had been a piece missing that he hadn't realized was supposed to be there, that was now filled in. Finally, after a moment that seemed to be quite a bit longer, the two let go.

"I'm so happy you decided to come…" she told him.

"Well, I have to admit, I was really surprised when Anna showed up, but I had been trying to find a way to locate you guys for over a month, so how could I turn down a chance like this?" he asked.

"I suppose you can't, I certainly wouldn't…" she admitted. "Now, let Anna and I show you around the castle, at least the part of it that we usually live in anyway."

"Ok…" he agreed.

Anna gave Kristoff a kiss and told him that she'd see him later at dinner. Then the three siblings began exploring the various rooms of the castle's main floor and the west wing of the upper floors. Reid noticed that Elsa seemed to grow more and more excited the closer they got to the third floor. He was also noticing that no-matter where they were in the castle, every room they entered seemed to grow colder the longer they lingered in it.

They came to a set of ornate double doors made of thick oak and painted white like the rest. Anna gave her sister a questioning look, Elsa responded by subtly winking at her.

"Um…where are we?" Reid asked.

Elsa reached for one of the door knobs. "This…" she began, turning it and gently pushing the door open. "Is your room…" she explained, opening the other door and stepping out of the way to let him inside. The room was large and cavernous and yet roomy and inviting, almost like a cave might seem to a hibernating bear. The walls had been painted a soft, golden tan color, the crown-molding had been stained a dark oak. There was a fireplace just waiting to be lit, with bookshelves on both sides and a loveseat facing the fireplace. Against the wall off to the right of the door, there was a large, four-poster double bed, the frame was made of sturdy, reddish wood, and the comforter was a dark, forest green. On each side of the bed there was a wide, rectangular end table with green, stone tops that was a slightly lighter shade than the comforter itself.

"Elsa, Anna…This room is almost the size of my whole apartment…" Reid exclaimed, dumfounded by the idea that anyone would need a room this large all to themselves.

Elsa and Anna however, looked at each other and then at Reid, then back to each other with equal confusion.

"This is standard size in this castle, actually it's hard to find anything much smaller than this. Narrower and deeper, maybe, but smaller, no." Anna explained.

"Huh…guess I should've expected it, given the size of this place." Reid admitted.

"Well, the room is yours whenever and as long as you're here…after all, this is your home too." Elsa told him.

Suddenly, Anika appeared in the doorway.

"Elsa…" she began. "I hate to interrupt but um…"

"Anika," Elsa interrupted, having not heard her. "I want you to meet someone…" She turned to Spencer. "Anika, this is Spencer, my brother…" Elsa explained.

"Hi…" Anika replied.

"Spencer, this is Anika, our housekeeper and best friend…"

"Hi, nice to meet you…" Reid told her.

"The pleasure is all mine…" Anika replied.

"Now, what was it you came to tell me Anika…?"

"They're here…"

"Already?" Elsa asked. "For some reason I thought it would take at least another day…"

"Well they're waiting for you in the royal office…." Anika replied.

"Very well. Thank you, Anika. Spencer I'm sorry but I have to go…I'll see you at dinner." Elsa told them, and started to leave.

"Elsa wait…what's happening…? Who's here?" Spencer asked, the profiler in him told him that Elsa wasn't just surprised that whoever was waiting for her now had arrived early, she was anxious, maybe even terrified of the reason they were here.

"Some people who can help me with a problem that I need to solve. It's my responsibility, so I will handle it." Elsa replied, then she left.

Spencer turned to Anna. "What was that all about? What's going on?" he asked.

Anna averted her eyes, then sighed. "I didn't know about this until after we were already on our way to the palace, apparently over the last few weeks, a series of American visitors have turned up dead, each one stabbed with a sword, and dumped, the guard seems to think they're being dumped in the river, one was found in the river, the others must have drifted down into the harbor…"

"Then who did Elsa bring in to help with the case? The CIA?" He asked.

"That…is an excellent question. I can honestly say that I don't know…"

Elsewhere in the palace, Elsa found the BAU waiting in her office. The royal office looked like a miniature library with a single desk, a decorative tile floor, and a high, domed ceiling. What ordinarily seemed to be a fairly large room, now seemed almost crowded with a total of seven people inside of it at once.

"Thank you all for waiting, my apologies, I was not expecting you all for another several hours."

"Your Majesty…" Hotch greeted her with a bow, the others followed his lead.

Elsa walked around to stand behind her desk. "Thank you for coming, the royal guard has hit dead end after dead end, and I now have both my duma and your state department breathing down my neck. My hope is that with our governments cooperating we can put a stop to this rather quickly and avoid any trouble between our nations."

"Exactly what are you proposing?" Hotch asked.

"You help the two captains of the guard, who are currently working this case, and whoever is behind this, if they are captured alive, will be taken into our custody and prosecuted to the fullest extent of our laws here in Arendelle."

"Fair enough…" Hotch replied.

At that moment, they heard a knock on the office door.

"We're a little busy in here, this is a closed meeting." Elsa told whoever was on the other side.

"Elsa, what is going on around here?" Came Reid's voice.

Elsa sighed heavily, realizing that he must have learned about the case. While the members of the BAU stared at each other in shock. By now, Hotch had told them that Reid had gone to Arendelle and why, but none of them could understand why Reid would be here in the royal palace, or why he'd be on first name basis with the queen.

"That's my brother…"

"You're…brother?"

"Yes, why?"

"Because he's one of us…"

"Oh…" Elsa appeared taken aback for a second and then immediately let him in.

"Elsa what exactly is going on?" Spencer asked the second he entered the room. He didn't even notice that the other people in the room were his teammates.

"Actually, I think you'd be better off asking them…" she told him.

"Who's them?" Reid asked.

"Reid?" Hotch asked.

"Hotch? W-what are you guys doing here?"

"We were about to ask you the same thing…"