A NUMB3RS story by Valerie Vancollie that has Don and the team investigating a serial killer who uses four elements to go after agents in various agents. There are more stakes involved when one of their own is kidnapped.
the fic can be found on Fanfiction.Net:
It was completed on September 16, 2008:
Tropes for the fic:
- Badass in Distress: Don is targeted by the killer and taken near the ocean and left to drown before being rescued.
- Call-Back: Charlie makes reference to the Season 2 episode "Mind Games" when they were discussing the symbols and he makes a sarcastic comment about the case being up Simon Kraft's alley.
- Extremely Short Timespan: Takes place in a week.
- How We Got Here: The story beings with Don being chained in a bay with water rushing him and the next chapter begins when the team first gets the case.
- Theme Serial Killer: The killer in the story uses the four elements to kill agents.
