Title : The Seventh Couple

Summary : The team find that some of their own are being targeted and there is a shocking revelation.

Chapter 1

"Good morning, Agent Hotchner. Thank you very much for taking the time to see me. I do appreciate that you and your team have just finished your case and you're on your way home. But I think you'll want to see this ," said the slim female detective as they shook hands.

"Agent Jareau deemed it important that we take a look at this and I trust her judgement," explained Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner curtly. He did not mince his words. He was tired and so was the team. They had solved the case and caught the UnSub but were unable to stop him from killing his latest victim. Hotch was not in the mood to be nice or polite.

The only reason he had even considered agreeing to meet this brazen detective who had barged in with a case without going through the proper channels was because he knew with certainty that JJ would have had a very good reason for bending protocol. JJ insisted that the team needed to look at this case urgently and she had even seemed shaken. Not many things could shake the petite media liason. She had been through too much as part of the team. Hotch was willing to yield to her request because he trusted her and he hadn't even reprimanded her for breaking the rules. He probably would have if it had been another member of the team but that was a subject he simply chose to ignore.

"Right, well. I'm hoping that the information I have will help you in the case you're pursuing," said Detective Lewis, as she drew out files and pictures from her bag.

"What do you mean the case we're pursuing, detective?" asked Agent Dave Rossi.

Detective Lewis stopped pulling out papers and glanced up at the puzzled faces gathered around the table.

"You're team isn't currently involved in an undercover operation to catch a serial killer?" she asked slowly.

"Detective, we've finished the case that we came here to do and as a rule we only work one case at the time. Do you want to start from the beginning and tell us what is going on?" said Agent Rossi.

"Oh," said Detective Lewis, obviously flustered and her eyes quickly darted towards Agents Prentiss and Morgan.

"I apologize for causing you all this confusion. And I apologize in advance to Agents Prentiss and Morgan. I work in the narcotics division. A week ago, we raided a large house on the outskirts for drugs. We found the drugs but we also found something else," she began pulling out enlarged photographs and placed them on the table.

"The drug dealers used the space on the street level and the one above. The second and third level was empty and the fourth looked empty initially but we found a locked room. There was an area where a person had obviously been living and adjoining it was something that looked like some kind of shrine. As it was a drug raid and the main aim was to locate the drugs there were only a few pictures taken to record the initial scene before the dogs were let loose," said Detective Lewis.

"We didn't find any drugs there but as I looked at the pictures, I realized that I recognized some of them and that this was a crime scene but it had nothing to do with drugs," here she paused and passed around the pictures of the 'shrine'.

"These look like pictures of couples. A lot of pictures of interracial couples," said Dr Spencer Reid after a quick glance.

"That's right Dr Reid. I recognized them from when I worked in the 'Missing Persons' division. I just transferred a year ago. I recognized two of the couples and when I realized that, I got our tech to run the rest of the couples are various pictures of seven couples. All these couples have gone missing except one couple. And then we found a loose board and we found more pictures of all the six missing couples, dead," said Detective Lewis, she spoke in a cold, detached voice. She handed out copies of pictures of the six couples alive, then dead.

"You said there are pictures of seven couples. Do you know if the seventh couple are missing yet?" said Hotch after a brief silence as everyone looked through the pictures being passed around.

There was a peculiar expression on the detective's face as she hesitantly slid over another stack of pictures.

There was an even more omnimous silence as everyone took a look at the pictures of the seventh couple.

"That's!" Reid stopped, his jaw dropping open in shock.

"Detective, is this some kind of joke?" asked Hotch in a soft but dangerous voice.

"No, sir," said Lewis, looking straight back at him.

All the others had their eyes elsewhere. Reid, Rossi and JJ were staring at Morgan and Prentiss. Morgan's eyes were locked on the pictures gripped tightly in his hands. Prentiss was wide-eyed and not meeting anyone's eyes.

"Agent Morgan and Agent Prentiss! What the hell is going on?" said Hotch, shifting his attention over to them.