Hey guys, it's official: I'm going to write my first multi-chapter Jemily fic. I can't promise you it will be that long but I'm so excited about this storyline and hope you'll love it just as much!
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Anyway, here we go, enjoy reading!

„What do we have Garcia? " Hotch asked once the team was gathered around the table. It had been a slow week for them so far but that was about to change when they saw Garcia's serious face as she was about to tell them about their newest case.

"Three families have been found murdered at their homes within the past 3 weeks in Jacksonville. The children all showed signs of abuse and the autopsies showed fractures that were never medically treated. They all died from a single shot in the chest. The police is currently looking for potential suspects." When Garcia stopped her explanation it was silent for a moment until JJ voiced what they all thought.
"Oh god, this is horrible." Her voice was quiet and it was clearly visible that the case made her uncomfortable even after all the years of working with the BAU.

"The common link seems to be the abuse of the children. It can be assumed that one of the parents has been abusive and that leads us to the assumption that our unsub might have suffered from abuse in his childhood as well and now he wants to safe those children from what he went through." Spencer was the first one to analyze the case at hand and the others nodded in agreement until Hotch spoke up once again.
"Alright, wheels up in 30, it will be a short flight." With that they all began to file out except for Emily who stayed behind with JJ.

"Are you ok?" She shot a concerned look towards her partner and girlfriend and rested one of her hands on the blonde's shoulder.
"You know it's always more difficult when children are involved. I will be ok once we found whoever is doing this." JJ allowed herself to lean into the brunette for a moment before taking a deep breath and gesturing Emily to get going.

The flight was mostly spent in silence as they all read through the files Garcia had given them while Emily continued to reassuringly rub calming circles onto the back of JJ's hand with her thumb.
Every once in a while Spencer would come up with new conclusions or information until they were told that they would land within the next 10 minutes.
Luckily the local police department was close to the airport and they should go straight to work once they had been assigned to a conference room.

"Ok, I want Reid and Emily to work on a geographic profile and JJ and Morgan to interview friends and neighbours of the victims. Rossi and I are going to talk to the locals and try to work on a full profile of our suspect. I want us to meet up again at 4pm." Hotch ordered after taking a glance at his watch, noticing that it would give them enough time to work on their tasks.

"Stay safe." Emily gently pulled JJ aside for a moment and gave her a small kiss, something they always did when one of them was in the field without the other. At first Hotch had been concerned their relationship would affect their jobs but he had soon come to realize that they remained professional and that's why he granted them their small moments when they weren't out in the field, knowing they both needed it.

Emily and Reid were still discussing the map they had worked on when the rest of the team began to file into the conference room again and it was only then that they noticed how much time had really passed while they had been marking locations on the map.

When Emily turned around she found JJ already standing behind her with two coffees in her hand.
"I thought you could need it after the work with our little nerd." She smirked knowingly and handed her one of the cups which Emily gratefully accepted to find it was just the way she liked her coffee.
"Thanks, we didn't really have a break and I think we'll be in for a longer night so caffeine is very welcome." She smiled at the blonde as they all began to gather in front of the map to exchange their newest information.

"The friends of the families all said they never noticed anything. They seemed to be low-key and nice people in public and never raised any suspicions. The neighbours of the Miller family said their two daughters seemed a little shy and introvert and it seemed to be the same with the other children which is nothing unusual considering they were abused." JJ started to share what they had found out during their interviews and looked over to Morgan and gestured him to tell them about the rest.

"We seem to have found the common link though. Friends or other family members mentioned that the families were all members of a local church which could be where they met our unsub." Morgan shot the team a knowing look and that's when Hotch spoke up as well.
"We asked Garcia to run a background check on the families' social lives and her results support yours. Only two of the children were at the same preschool so we can mostly rule this out as the link between them." While he had been talking Reid had already scanned the map again and marked the church that was right in the area they had pinpointed as the radius their unsub acted in.

"The geographic profile fits into this theory as well. We should ask Garcia if she can run a background check of the church members and see if the families were friends with the same person." Reid suggested and the others nodded while Morgan was already calling the tech analyst again.
"If we're right about the church we might be able to find our unsub within the next 72 hours and stop the murders." This time it was Rossi to speak up and they all hoped he was right about this because neither of them wanted more victims than they already had.

Once Garcia had received her new orders they decided to call it a night since there wasn't much they could do until they had a list of potential unsubs and they all gladly went to the hotel to get their much needed rest before they would start working again bright and early the next morning.

"I really hope we're going to find this guy soon." JJ sighed as she and Emily walked towards the car to head to the hotel and reached out her hand for Emily to take.
"Trust me, so do I. This man needs to be stopped as soon as possible." Emily replied and squeezed JJ's hand in a comforting manner before opening the car for them and as they drove off she prayed that this case would be over soon, not only because of the children but also because she knew JJ had a hard time as well.