Maura’s relief showed as she smiled back and leaned over to
ask Dr. Reid a question.

Morgan’s questioning look to
Prentiss was dismissed with a nod.
Morgan made a note to question her later about what went on between her
and the troubled detective.  He noticed JJ looking at her as well, but
with nothing forthcoming from Emily, he knew she would let it go until later.
This was going to be an interesting case.

“Thank you for joining us again
detective.” Hotch’s nod at the others got their attention.

Looking at Prentiss, Jane smiled
“did I really have a choice?”

Confidant they were back on track,  “no I’m sorry detective, we need your help
and it seems you need ours as well.”
Looking back at the pictures that had shocked them all just a little
while ago, “apparently we have a problem.”

“Agent Hotchner, let me just say
that until just a few minutes ago, I hadn’t seen the resemblance either, but
you all didn’t seem to be interested in looking at that aspect at all anyway,
so…I won’t apologize for leaving.” Jane’s no nonsense tone was blunt and to the
point.

Hotch understood, they had made the
mistake of hubris.  They wouldn’t do that
again.

“Point taken detective” Looking
around at the combined team in front of him he was happy for the expertise and
experience in the room since obviously their serial killer problem now had a
new twist.

“How about we start again, Dave,
would you?” He trusted the older man to lead this profile.

“Certainly,” looking around, he let
his eyes settle on Jane, “well, given the new information, it appears we may
have more of a connection between these victims than we previously
thought.  Obviously the similarities
between them are now obvious to all of
us.  We let ourselves get misled, and
that won’t happen again.” Rossi looked pointedly at Jane.

Maura listened to the discussion
around her and was a just a little upset with herself.  She too had let herself get caught up in the
profiling being done, profiling that were really just assumptions.  She didn’t deal in assumptions and she was
embarrassed that she had gotten caught up in the ‘profiling’ done by the BAU at
Jane’s expense.  Add that to that fact
that she herself had missed the physical similarities of the victims and their
resemblance to her favorite detective.
She found herself doubting her own hypothesis and initial contributions.
And, while she knew Jane had forgiven her, she felt terrible about the events
that had transpired bringing them to this point.