“I got you, its happy hour, so how about if Agent Jareau and
I,”

“JJ, Detective, you can call me JJ,” smiling Jennifer knew
exactly what Hotch and the detective were getting at.

“JJ then.  We’ll head
out and see if we can’t find more information on our first victim.” Looking at
Hotch, “Supposedly she wasn’t dating anyone, but she may have been friendly
with someone we’ve overlooked.” Even knowing that Maura was watching, Jane
couldn’t help but look at JJ appreciatively, “time to get friendly with the
locals.”

Watching Jane leave with the blond agent, Korsak hazarded a
look in Maura’s direction. “Yep, she’s
pissed…”  Maura was glaring at the
both of them as they left.  She and Jane
had only recently acknowledged their feelings for one another and had been
dating for three months.  They had only
come out to their friends two weeks ago when Korsak had caught them kissing
outside the Dirty Robber.  ‘And now here she was flirting with someone
else in right in front of her!’

“Dr Isles…Dr Isles?”

“What! Oh I’m sorry Agent Hotchner I didn’t mean to…I mean…”
flustered Maura tried to excuse her outburst. “I…were you asking me something?”

Hotch knew what was going on, he saw it everyday between
Emily and JJ.  Smiling, he couldn’t help
but think of the two women as a bit of an odd pairing.  Having been filled in by Rossi, he knew Dr
Isles came from money and a background that was completely the opposite that of
Detective Rizzoli but then come to think of it, Emily and JJ were also from
opposite backgrounds as it were; One the daughter of an ambassador, raised
abroad and to privilege, the other a middle class girl from Pennsylvania who
made it to college on a soccer scholarship. Chuckling to himself at the irony
of these two pairs working together, “Hmm
I guess opposites do attract.”

“Yes doctor I need you to find me a common denominator.  Obviously these women are being dumped at the
sites they’ve been found and are being beaten elsewhere.  We need to find that elsewhere. There has to
be something we’re missing.”

“Agent Hotchner I’ve been through everything I have so far…”
Maura doubted she would be able to find anything that she hadn’t already turned
up.

“Dr I’m just asking you to take a look again with the
additional information we have as well as your hypothesis about how the
beatings were conducted.”