So here is chapter two:) Sorry it's taken me so long to update, I've had

major writers block and I also suck at writing case fics so I'm entering new territory writing this fanfiction.

Disclaimer: I don't own criminal minds or the characters.

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"So your saying that the footage of the person who sent the package has been erased?" Matt asked Reid pointing at the conference room screen.

"Yes. Whoever did it must have some serious skill. They would of had to hack into the security cameras without alerting anyone and they'd have to have the technical skills to erase footage and make it look smooth as if nothing had happened." Reid finished.

"So we have nothing." Emily stated exasperated.

"We just have to keep digging, there will be something, we just have to find it." Tara assured her.

Emily nodded and sighed, she hoped the tape would've given them something, anything that could have given them any indication as to who this guy was.

"Well I'm going to get this to the crime lab," Rossi said pointing to the envelope in his hand. "Maybe this guy isn't as smart as to wear gloves." He gave Emily's shoulder a reassuring squeeze before leaving the room.

"We've got to treat this like any other case. We profile him, we find him." Emily told the group, her stoic expression quickly masking her face. It was clear she was distancing herself from them, making sure to show no emotion.

"Em-" Luke started, but was cut off by Emily.

"Not now." She said giving him a soft but stern look. He bit his lip, a habit he'd picked up from her, and stopped talking. He knew the look she'd given him, it was her saying "we'll talk about it later" without words.

She was silent for a moment, gathering her thoughts.

"Look, we need to keep this quiet. If Cruz finds out we're investigating this without his consent, or god forbid sees those photos... I'll more than likely get fired... and maybe Luke too." She told them. She was dreading the next few days. She had no idea what would be revealed, it was bad enough that her and Luke's relationship had been so badly exposed, what else was going to happen? There were a lot of things about the two of them that she and Luke wanted to keep between themselves, how much of that would be out in the open over the course of the next few days?

Everyone in the room nodded, the last thing any of them wanted was for Emily or Luke to be fired. After Stephen's death, the group of profilers bond had gotten even closer, if it were even possible.

"Good. Now lets get back to work."

"First we need to figure out how long our unsub has been watching you, do you think one of you could recall when the first of these pictures were taken?" Matt asked addressing both Luke and Emily.

Luke studied the photos intently, his arms crossed stiffly over his chest. A few seconds later he leaned forward and picked up one that had caught his eye.

"This one was taken recently." Luke said pointing to the photograph, "It was on Sunday, Em had picked up breakfast and we were getting ready to eat." He shuffled around the photos some more, careful not to mess them up to much.

"And this one had to have been taken months ago," He said indicating to a photo of them at a restaurant. "We've been together roughly five months and it looks like this one was taken only a few weeks after we got together. I remember on one of our first dates I took her to that restaurant for the first time, we've only went there once." Everyone in the room felt a twinge of sadness at the revelation of how long the two of them had been in a relationship, but decided to put it aside, now wasn't the time.

"So this guy has been watching us for what, four months?" Emily said incredulously.

"It would seem so." Luke mumbled, barely audible as his eyes roamed over the other photographs scattered all over the table.

"How did I not notice?" Emily asked, her once shocked face turning into one of unmissable anger.

"Emily... I didn't notice either." Luke said comfortingly, stepping closer to the brunette. He placed a hand on her shoulder in attempt to help calm her, he hated seeing her so upset and angry, deep down he was feeling the same, all he wanted was to lash out and hit something but he kept a cool facade, he needed to stay strong for Emily.

"Maybe so, but after all the undercover ops, after all the disturbing cases you'd think I would've sensed it. I was trained to notice when something wasn't right and to watch my back, and look where we are now! I'm a profiler! I should have noticed someone was watching us!" She sat down in the chair she was leaning on and angrily put her head in her hands.

Luke could see how tense she was, her jaw was clenched and her shoulders rigid, it took all of his self control not to pull her into his arms and never let go, but he knew that would probably end up with him getting a broken nose. If they were alone, he knew from experience that she would gladly open up to him and let him hold her, but as they were surrounded by the team, she wanted to be as professional as possible. She didn't want them to see her break down or think she relied on Luke's comforting touch. Luke was the only person in the world she found she could be completely herself around, she would let her inner nerd come out, she would tell him what was worrying her or what had her in a daze but she felt reluctant to be anything but professional with the team under such serious circumstances.

"Em this isn't your fault." Luke said seriously.

Emily put her hands down on the table and shook her head, her gaze fixed on her fingers that were anxiously picking at her nails. After a moment of awkward silence, JJ spoke up.

"Do you guys have any idea who this could be? Any enemies that particularly stand out?"

"JJ with our job it could be anybody." Emily sighed.

"I know, but what about personal enemies? From your old jobs, exes or... I don't know, old friends with a criminal history. Anyone who could have done this."

Emily's body immediately stilled. It can't be him can it?

No, no Emily he's in jail, has been for eighteen years.

But he could be out.

You would have been told.

Not necessarily.

Emily shook her head from her internal debate. "No, I can't think of anyone." She said, surprised by how confident she sounded. "Luke? What about you?"

He shook his head. "Anyone who I thought could have done this is in jail as far as I'm aware."

"Damn it, uh Garcia is there anyway you can find the deleted footage?" JJ said.

"Yeah but if this guy is as good as I think he is, it's gonna take some time."

"How long are we talking?" Emily asked her.

"Maybe a couple of hours? It really depends on how far this guy has went to cover his tracks."

Emily nodded with a defeated sigh. "Alright, get started on recovering it, the rest of us will see what else we can find."

Garcia nodded and got out of her chair with her laptop securely tucked under her arm. "Got it captain." She grabbed her phone and quickly left the room, perkily walking off to her office.

"Alright. So this unsub left nothing else for us to see. No note, just the photos, what's that telling us?" Tara said.

"That he wants to stay hidden." JJ said.

"Exactly, but why take the pictures? Stalking is a pretty difficult crime to get away with, he could've easily been caught, or you guys could've found the cameras he'd placed around."

"So he's also pretty confident in himself. Maybe he's committed crimes like this before." Reid said.

"I'll go ask Garcia to check reports that have been made that are similar to this." JJ stated as she got up from her chair and made her way towards the techs office.

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"Hey Pen." JJ said as she entered Garcia's lair.

"Hey blondie, I have good news and bad news. Good news is I've started recovering the footage, bad news is that this sicko is smart, he's covered his tracks well. It's gonna take a while."

JJ sighed in disappointment. "Ugh that sucks. I just want this to be over already, I can see this is tearing Emily up inside."

Garcia's sigh matched JJ's. "I know, I hate seeing her so... out of it."

The two blondes were silent for a moment. "What can I do for you JJ?"

"I need you to look into any reports that have been made that are similar to this case. We think the unsub has done this before."

"All of them?" JJ nodded. "Jayje that's going to be a lot."

"I know but you can narrow it down by saying that the offender only took pictures at first, these reports may not be helpful now as we don't have much to go on, but we don't know if this guy will evolve, as we build his profile we'll find more information and it may help us find him."

"Alright, let's see what we can find." Garcia said and she began typing furiously at her laptop.

JJ took the seat next to Garcia's and sat in silence. The only sound in the room was their breathing and the sound of the techs perky nails clicking away on her keyboard.

Suddenly she stopped typing and turned to face JJ with a look of confusion on her face.

"Pen?"

"Why do you think they never told us?"

JJ pursed her lips and shook her head. "I don't know."

"We've all been best friends since the day Emily walked through that door. Five months is a long time not to tell your best friends that there's a new man in your life."

"Pen I think it's more than that. Don't get me wrong I'm equally as hurt as you are by their revelation... but I understand. Emily's the unit chief, this kind of relationship is forbidden, no one knows what could've happened if the higher ups find out. And Emily's always been a closed off person, she likes keeping her private life private. If I were in their shoes I would've done the same thing."

"I know but I still wish we knew, but I guess I'm just happy she's happy. I know I've been harsh on Luke since he's joined the team but I can tell he's a good guy. I mean did you see the way he comforted Emily in her office? The love in his eyes could be seen from a mile away! And I've never seen Em so relaxed before, I think it's good for both of them."

"I know." JJ smiled.

The two were silent with smiles on their faces, until Garcia smirked and looked back up at her friend.

"So when do you think the wedding will be?" She said raising a perfectly manicured eyebrow.

"Penelope!"

Garcia chuckled. "What? Are you seriously surprised that I'm dreaming about a perfect Lukily wedding?"

JJ furrowed her eyebrows. "Lukily?"

"Uh duh. That's their ship name!"

JJ continued to look confused.

"Oh my god Jayje have you seriously never read fanfiction?" Garcia said squinting her eyes at JJ.

"Pen what the hell is fanfiction?"

Garcia groaned and shook her head. "You know what never mind. But don't try and tell me that their wedding wouldn't be perfect!" Garcia said, closing her eyes dreamily as if this would help prove her point.

JJ nodded her head and raised her eyebrows. "It would."

"I mean can you imagine Emily getting married? It would be amazing! Her gorgeous raven hair all curled and pretty, ooh and not to mention how stunning she would look in a wedding dress-"

JJ cut off the tech before she passed out from excitement. "Pen breathe!"

"Sorry." She said sheepishly. "I've always wanted her to find her happy ending, and I think she's finally found him."

"I know. After all the crap she's been through she deserves it. Let's just find the son of a bitch whose doing all this."

"Ah yes." Garcia said turning back to one of her many computers and continuing to type. "Uh yeah like I guessed there are a lot of results."

"Okay send them to me and the rest of the team. Thanks Pen." JJ got up and started heading towards the door.

"Not a problem girlie, oh and Jayje?" Garcia said, turning in her seat.

"Yeah?" She said turning back to face her friend.

"Take care of our girl and newbie."

JJ chuckled. "Of course Garcia." And with that JJ walked out of Garcia's office and back up to the conference room where the rest of the team were.

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"As I suspected, there have been a lot of reports made that are similar to this case, when we have more to go on we can ask Garcia to narrow the list down." JJ said as she re-entered the conference room.

"Well at least that's something." Emily sighed.

"Has anyone heard anything from Rossi?" JJ questioned.

"Not yet but I assume he'll be back soon."

"I can't believe we haven't got anything yet." Luke said in defeat.

"We'll find something. This can't be all this guy has planned. I mean, what would be the point of taking and sending all those photographs if this was all he wanted to do. That would just be one massive waste of time." Tara reasoned.

Emily nodded. She turned her head to the left as she saw a figure approaching them.

"Speak of the devil."

Rossi entered the room. "I come bearing good news." The way he said it had the team questioning what he meant, his voice didn't match his words. Considering he said he had good news, he didn't sound happy about it.

"But?" Emily said.

"It's not great news." He said sadly

"I think any form of good news is better than what we have now."

"Well apart from mine and Emily's fingerprints, the analyst downstairs found a partial, but it unfortunately wasn't enough to identify."

Emily groaned in frustration. "And how is this good news Dave?"

Dave smirked. "You didn't let me finish. The good news is that if we find a suspect, the analyst thinks we should be able to match up the partial fingerprint with the suspects."

"That's great." Emily said. "Too bad we have nothing on this guy." A bitter laugh escaped her lips as she put her face in her hands.

"I know but we know now that when we do find this guy we have the prints to make sure it's him."

"I guess. I just wish he wasn't so determined to stay hidden."

"Don't we all. But we're going to catch this guy, no matter how long it takes, we just need to stay focused. Now you know what I think we all need to do?"

"What?" Emily said, her voice sounding exhausted.

"Go home."

Emily was about to protest but Dave held up his hand and continued before she had the chance to get a word out.

"Go home and get some rest. All of you. We can start tomorrow, level headed and ready to catch this guy."