Aaron Hotchner x Female Reader
You just moved back into the country, barely even unpacked the boxes laying around your apartment, before Jack Garrett came to you with a proposal for a new job. Little did you know, this job would have you stumbling i...
TW: typical criminal minds case jargon. a tiny bit of angst because reader is mad at Aaron for a second. talks of pregnancy, some nice little fluff in here for reader and Aaron along with some Penelope Garcia love.
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"The NSA and the DEA are both involved, so we'll be part of a joint Taskforce. Go ahead, Garcia." Aaron informs the team in the conference room and giving Garcia orders to start the debrief.
"Ok. Uh, 3 weeks ago undercover DEA agent Mark Bowers disappeared." She brings the pictures onto the screen, "His body was found 5 days ago in Ciudad Juarez."
"Ciudad Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in the world." Tara comments.
"Not only was agent Bowers found strangled, but he also had another human face covering his face." Garcia continues.
"Another human face?" JJ questions, not believing she heard right.
Garcia grimaces, "Yes. I guess skinned or scalped. I don't know what you call it, but I couldn't put the pictures up here. You can see them on your own tablets."
"It is typical for drug cartels to send a message through the corpse." You suggest, choosing to not look at the pictures on the tablet, you'll let the rest of the team handle that.
"Yeah, body parts sent to family members." Tara agrees.
"A face on top of another face could easily mean he's undercover or he's two-faced." JJ theorizes.
Aaron sighs next to you, "Which is back news for the two missing agents. They were both undercover."
"Yeah," Garcia pulls up there pictures, "John Portman vanished a week ago. And then Sarah Miles disappeared yesterday. All of these agents were investigating the Libertad Drug Cartel."
"If someone knew that they were undercover, then there has to be a mole on the inside." Derek informs.
"Well," Aaron says, "We have to consider all possibilities." The way he says it has you believing he's holding something back. And based off of how Rossi continues to study the tablet, you conclude that he is aware of whatever it is. "This cartel is, in fact, unique in a few ways."
Garcia hums, "It appeared on the darkness after the Silk Road was shut down. It has online and an on-the-ground component based in El Paso. It's run by someone named George Washington."
"An identity that can be assumed by different individuals." Aaron states.
"El Paso's just across the Rio Grande from some of the worst drug violence there is." Rossi finally looks up, "Not a bad place to set up."
"it would be easy to fly under the radar when there's bigger fish to fry right down the road." You shrug.
"All right. You'll all head to El Paso and find out what happened to the missing agents." Aaron orders the team, before turning to you, "You'll stick with me, I'll run the cyber part of the investigation from here."
