Embers~Criminal Minds 2

Blood Relations

Naomi: "Wake up." she playfully whispers tickling Spencer's nose with a feather. He jumps awake a little and sees her sitting next to him on the couch chuckling a little

Spencer: "Hey." he rasps stretching his arms a little

Naomi: "Good morning. What are you doing out here?"

Spencer: "Sleeping."

Naomi: "Yeah I saw that. What are you doing sleeping out here?"

Spencer: "What do you mean?"

Naomi: "Well I clearly remembered you laying next to me when I fell asleep."

Spencer: "I didn't want to overstep." he shrugs and she goes to say something but her phone goes off making her glance at the text from Garcia

Naomi: "Saved by the serial killer." she shakes her phone a little before getting up to go get dressed

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Naomi: "I'm just saying the whole point of spending the night together is to spend the night together." she says as she comes off the elevator with Spencer beside her

Spencer: "Yeah. I just didn't want you to feel uncomfortable."

Naomi: "I'm the one who suggested it."

Spencer: "What's the big deal anyway. You didn't even notice I was gone."

Naomi: "You don't know what I noticed. Because you were asleep. On the couch."

Spencer: "We ate dinner, watched a movie and then you fell asleep. Which is what you wanted."

Naomi: "What if I wanted to do more than just sleep?" she turns to face him as they stand in front of the doors to the bullpen

Spencer: "You didn't."

Naomi: "How do you know? You were on the couch." she goes into the bullpen and he watches her before following after stuttering a little

Spencer: "You-you didn't."

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Garcia: "Get your barf bags ready, my creatures, because these pictures are even more not pretty than usual. Clark Howard, till last night, in Wheeling, West Virginia. Murder weapon left on the scene."

Morgan: "Is that barbed wire?"

Garcia: "Indeed it is. Arranged to fit like a noose."

Watson: "How do you wrap that into a noose?"

Garcia: "I guess it's the same way that porcupines make love. Very carefully."

Rossi: "Yeah, but the tensile strength wouldn't allow you to tie it like rope."

Reid: "It can if you're strong enough, which speaks to the unsub's physicality."

JJ: "And the fact that he twisted a head completely around speaks more to the unsub's physicality."

Alex: "It's a redundancy in the M.O., isn't it? The unsub possibly tried to hang-"

Reid: "Or decapitate."

Alex: "Yeah, or decapitate Clark Howard. The noose wasn't effective, so he kills him by hand."

Watson: "Report says he's victim number two. Who's victim number one?"

Garcia: "That would be Matthias Lee. Mr. Lee was killed when he was out hunting. He was caught in a bear trap. Accident, you say? I say, no, because the bear trap was launched from a makeshift projectile hidden inside a tree, and it was also lined with barbed wire, which is why Wheeling P.D. has invited us in."