Running around chasing a now six year old Levi around trying to get him dressed for his first day of school a twenty four year old Christi chases him. He was just like Jack in being stubborn when he didn't want to do something.
"Levi Derek McKnight get over here!" Christi called still chasing him.
Levi stopped dead in his tracks as he knew when his mom used his full name he better stop.
"I'm sorry mommy. I don't want to start first grade."
"It's going to be fine sweetie. You're going to see all of your friends from kindergarten in your first grade class. Now please lets go and get you into your uniform for school and leave or mommy is going to be even later for work." She said as Dustin came up behind his wife of three years.
"Babe go and get dressed, I'll take care of him. You can't be late again or Strauss is going to go ballistic."
"Ugh don't remind me of the witch!" she giggles.
"Hey Dust, do me a favor please go and grab the files I brought home last night from the desk in the den please." She calls.
"Sure thing babe." He yells back.
After Dustin gets Levi dressed and ready for school and sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast he goes and grabs the files he brings them up and puts them on the dresser and goes up behind Christi wrapping his arms around her waist and leaning his chin on her shoulder.
"You look nice today."
She laughs and looks at him in the full length mirror she was standing in front of.
"I'm only in my jeans and bra. Of course to you I look nice today!" she laughs leaning back against him smiling. She had been really happy these last few years. Sure they had problems with Jack over the years and still do they hadn't heard from him in a while and they were greatfull. Every time he came over he made Levi feel slightly awkward and he made that known with his parents.
"You're going to be late if you don't hurry up." He said kissing her neck and he gets wise and leaves a hickey on her neck then goes to get ready.
"DUSTIN! YOU PAIN IN THE ASS! NOW I HAVE TO COVER THAT UP!" she yells laughing.
"Oh you know you love it!" he calls going to check on Levi to see if he was almost done eating because now they were running incredibly late do to his stubbornness and him refusing to get dressed or go to school.
Christi finishes getting ready pulls her hair up into a tight bun and then slips on her shoes then grabs everything she needs then her keys to her metallic black Volvo C70 T5 that Dustin had gotten her just because. Since he was such a high rank he made a lot of money.
"So we'll see you tonight?" Dustin asks as she comes into the kitchen.
"Yea that's right if we don't get a case that is. So far we've been good with not getting a case, all it's been is paper work and all these stupid seminars for newbie's. It's like starting high school all over again its mind numbing!"
Dustin laughs and he goes and steals a quick kiss from her then she goes and places a kiss on top of Levi's head.
"By mommy, love you! Have a good day!"
"You to baby boy and behave in school today."
"Yes mommy." He said.
Christi goes and grabs a few pieces of toast and her travel mug and then heads out as she was running really late now.
She takes all the back roads Derek had showed her just in case she was running late so that she didn't get caught in traffic and be even later then she already was.
She gets to the BAU in thirty minutes and she heads up to the bullpen and sees Strauss there looking furious.
"Chief Strauss, I'm so sorry, I'm late. My son was refusing to get dressed this morning and we had to chase him around the house. We finally caught him and got him dressed."
"No excuses." She growls and walks away.
She hears Derek trying to surpress his laughter.
"Not funny. We literally chased him around the house for an hour. He can squeeze under the bed and hides under there laughing like its funny. I finally got him to stop when I yelled his full name at him." she says.
"Like you when you were six."
"I did it just to annoy you he's doing it because he doesn't want to go to school. So he's just like Jack. Because when the dick head doesn't want to do anything he runs. So that's what Levi is starting to do. It's all in the genes." She says.
"Conference room got a case." Hotch called walking across the catwalk.
Christi grins and Derek and Reid laugh.
"I don't think I've seen her this excited since my mom and sisters got her Range Rover when she was sixteen." Derek laughs.
"Okay after months of all those stupid seminars, lectures and everything else your mind starts going numb and it's like freshman year at Baker Academy again." She said.
Derek start laughing hysterically and Christi just pokes her tongue out at him.
"You know I'm just teasing you baby girl." Derek said as they all got in there and sat down.
JJ grins and says, "So you've finished all those mind numbing seminars, lectures and everything else?"
"Finally. I was beginning to think it was never going to end."
She smiles and nods.
Once everyone gets there and gets all the teasing out and finished JJ starts debriefing everyone on the case.
Once she finishes they all go and grab their go-bags then go and head over to the jet.
Christi pulls her cell out and calls Dustin.
"Hey babe." He greets.
"Hey, look we got a case in Salem, Oregon." She says.
"Okay, babe, just be careful."
"You know I will. Trust me I don't think anyone is going to let me out of their site till this case is over. I can't say much at the moment you know. On going case blah blah blah."
"Yea, I get it. Call me when you get there."
"I will. Love you."
"Love you too."
"Send my love to Levi please."
"I will now get going." He said laughing.
"Haha. Love you."
"You too." He said as they hung up.
"How cute." Derek says.
Christi playfully glares and shoves him over and goes and sits down and pulls out her laptop and iPod. She waits for them to be at cruising altitude before she turns them on.
They get there in a few hours and Christi is leaning against the window out cold listening to her iPod. Jack had been calling every few hours the night before and she was exhausted as she barely got any sleep last night.
Hotch goes over and gently shakes her to wake her up since he was closest to her.
"Christi, sweetie." He said.
She wakes up with a startle and looks him.
"Hey Uncle Aaron."
"Hey sweetie. We're here."
She nods and shuts everything off and sits up and stretches hearing her joints pop.
"What has you so tired?" Hotch asks her.
"I barely got any sleep. Jack kept calling every three hours last night and kept us up all night with annoying drunken and possibly high phone calls." She said.
"I'll talk to him and try and get him to stop."
"It's fine. He'll grow up sooner or later."
Hotch nods and they all get off the plane and head toward the hotel and get settled in then head over to the police station.
Her cell rings and she looks at the display and sees that it's Jack.
"Excuse me." She said going outside where she has better service and answers her phone.
"What Jackson I'm on a case."
"So the FBI is letting a prissy whore join the FBI now! Wow! Amazing! Just letting you know that Rustin will NEVER be Liver's father."
"It's Dustin and his name is Levi. Jack go to an AA meeting then go into rehab and get clean and sober. You're an alcoholic and drug addict."
"I am not and they're names are whatever I say they are!" he growls.
"Jack go to hell." She said and hung up.
She heads back inside and back over to the team and leans against the closest desk.
They discuss everything. Christi looks over the case file and all the crime scene photos and isn't sure on if she should say something or not.
Rossi picks up on it and looks over at her.
"Christi?" he asks.
"I'm not sure but I think I have a profile on the unsub."
"Okay share." Rossi says.
"Okay, he goes after young mothers, athletic, hard working, they have high positions in their jobs, they're either aren't home much or have to leave home for an extended period of time for their jobs, they're usually out for a run, and someone in their families makes enough money to pay the ransom but in the end he still kills them even though he got the money he demanded. He over powers them even though they're athletic. He most likely sees them as a threat. Being a young mother and in a high position and traveling a lot yet still have a good relationship with their child. The father is either a step-father or adoptive father because the biological father isn't in the picture for some reason. He's either an alcoholic or drug addict or even a convict or has a rap sheet a mile long. He thinks he's saving the child from having a bad mother and biological father leaving the child with the step or adoptive father. He probably comes from a home life like that and I think his very first victim could possibly been have his own mother." Christi says taking a breath then adds, "He's probably around 6'1", and he's athletic as well and he should be around 170lbs."
"She could be right." Spencer said making her go bright red in the face.
"That was good Christi that was really good. You look really deep into the fact and put together a possible profile. Good job." Hotch says.
"Thanks." She says going as red as fully cooked lobster.
§A few days later§
It's been a few days now and they've put the profile out that Christi came up with and it's early morning they're all heading toward the police station. There had been three more victims in the last two days but one lived by a miracle. So they had a sketch of the unsub's face that they had presented to the media along with Christi's profile that she had came up with. Christi stays outside and calls Dustin and talks to him for a bit. As she's heading back inside the unsub sneaks up behind her and grabs her.
"You bitch. You put me out there! My wife and left me and took my kid! I'm gonna snap your neck like the rest of them!" he growls wrapping an arm around head getting ready to snap her neck. Christi snorts and stomps on his foot and he lets her go and she turns swiftly and kicks him in the chest knocking him down but he gets back up and goes to attack her again. She knocks him back and she grabs his arm and twists it behind his back and knocks his feet out from under him and get him face down on the ground and she gets his other arm behind his back and then she cuffs him and sits on his back as the others come running out as a local officer saw what was happening and he ran inside and told team what was happening.
Derek and Reid got to her first and started looking her over.
"You okay baby girl talk to me?"
"Stop! I'm fine. I'm not 6! I'm 24 and can defend myself." She said noticing a few of the patrol officers who were sexist pigs and didn't think that women shouldn't be allowed to get a job. They could go and get an education but not put it to use. They saw them at home with the family and taking care of the house and cooking and cleaning and bearing children and that was it. She knew she was never going to hear the end of it from now that Derek and Reid are freaking out over what happened. She had been paired with each of them over the last few days.
Rossi helps her up then Hotch and Emily grab the guy and yank him to his feet.
Two officers take him into custody and Derek and Reid look at her.
"THAT WAS SO STUPID CHRISTINA LYNN! WHY DIDN'T YOU SCREAM FOR HELP?" Derek growls.
"Because I need to prove to fucking higher up that I can do this job and that I just didn't get the job because of you two! I'm fine and I can defend myself."
"You don't have to prove anything!" Reid says.
"YES I DO! I HEAR THEM TALK ABOUT HOW I GOT THIS JOB ALL BECAUSE OF YOU TWO AND THAT IT'S FAVORTISM! I NEED TO PROVE MYSELF TO THE HIGH UPS!" she snaps then walks away to go and call Dustin to talk to Levi.
She finds a small park near by and she goes and sits on one of the benches and calls Dustin.
"Hey there Mrs. McKnight." Dustin teases answering his cell.
"Hey." She said softly.
"Hey what's the matter? You sound upset and shaken up."
Christi sighs heavily and goes on to tell him what happened and by the time she finishes she's in tears.
"oh babe, don't be to upset. They were just worried about you. Don't be so hard on them. But you're okay right?"
"Yea I'm fine. Just some bruising on my neck and that's it. But I'm fine other than that. Is Levi there? I need to hear his voice."
"Yea hang on."
She hears Dustin tell Levi to talk to her as she's upset and that she really wants to talk to him.
"Hi Mommy. Daddy says you're hurt! Are you okay?"
"Yea, I'm okay baby boy. I miss you loads."
"I miss you loads too. When are you coming home?"
"Soon honey. I'm sorry I missed your t-ball game. I wish I could have been there."
"It's okay mommy, daddy taped it! You can watch it when you get home! I made a home run and got someone out!"
"That's a boy!" she said looking up and seeing Hotch walking over to her.
"Hey I have to go, Uncle Aaron is coming okay?"
"Okay mommy. I'll call you before I go to bed."
"Okay bye sweetie. Love you."
"Bye mommy, love you too." He said hanging up.
Christi sighs and puts her phone on her pocket as Hotch sits next to her.
"You okay sweetie?"
"Yea I'm fine. I'm just frustrated with my dad's right now. They just practically degraded me in front of the entire Salem police precinct and made it look like I can't do my job or defend myself. And three of the guys there are sexist pigs and with my dad's doing that gives them even more ammunition to use against me since I'm the youngest on the team oh and not to mention Jack being a total fucking jackass. I'm really starting to think about letting Dustin go and kick his ass. I'm sorry to say that Uncle Aaron I love you and all but Jack is getting on my last nerve." She said
He just gathers his niece into his arms and lets her rant it all out as he knew she needed to do that. Once he did that she leaned into him crying violently. He rubs her back and holds her close. Ever since that party where she and Jack had, had sex where someone spiked the punch all Jack did was drink. He had turned into a alcoholic and had started drugs when Levi was ten months old.
After sitting there like that for a few minutes she looks up at him.
"Sorry about that. I guess I just kinda lost it."
"It's okay we're all allowed to lose it every once in a while. You have more stress than any of us and we get it. And I agree with you. What Morgan and Reid did was uncalled for. They know you can defend yourself and keep yourself safe, they shouldn't have over reacted like they did."
They sit there and talk for a while then they go and head back to the police precinct and head inside. Christi goes into the bathroom to see how bad the bruising is on her neck while Hotch goes to yell at Derek and Reid.
When she sees the bruising she sighs. It was bad and was going to take a lot of make-up to cover that up.
She sighs and walks out only to get stopped by the three cops who are sexist.
"See little lady women shouldn't be allowed to work such a dangerous job they could get hurt like you did." One of them, Jonathan, said.
"Jonathan shut the fuck up and back the hell off. That mother fucker caught me off guard. But as you saw I can defend my self and if you try and shit like he did I can kick your ass and make sure you never have children now get the fuck out of my way before I make you move. I am not in the mood today. Today is a really shitty day for me." She growls getting in his face not afraid to take him or to back down.
Right about now the team is gathered in the door way where the police chief had set a room up for them to work while they were there and Derek and Reid were getting ready to go and help her out.
"Stop right there you two. This is her battle and so far she's winning. You two degraded her in front of this entire precinct and those three are sexist and have been getting under her skin ever since we got here. Now back off and let her fight her own battles and you better apologize to her for acting like you did. You know she can defend and protect herself." Hotch says.
"But Hotch!" Derek says.
"Apologize to her and that is final."
"Fine." Derek snorts.
They see one of the guys grab her arm and she snorts and she grabs his arm and twists it behind his back and pins him to the wall.
"Bitch let go!" he shouts.
She just puts more pressure on his arm.
"OKAY! I'LL BACK OFF!" he yells.
She smirks and lets him go.
"You two want to go next?"
They just shake their heads wide eyed.
"Good choice." She said.
She walks off and sighs running her fingers through her hair.
Derek and Reid follow her and Derek clears his throat.
"If you're hear to degrade me even more and tell me that I can't do this job just get it over with then when we get home I'll hand in my resignation letter and my credentials then go and be a little house wife like every testosterone running male expects me to be."
Reid took a deep breath before facing the clearly angry female agent. "Look, we're both sorry for degrading you and especially the fact that we did it in front of those three cops. Derek and I just worry about you, but we realize that's no reason to act how we did."
"Yeah, baby girl, he's right. We never meant to do that to you. Can you forgive two stupid agents who love you dearly?" he asked hopefully.
"Maybe." She says incredibly stubborn.
After thinking for a moment, Christi nodded. "Okay, I forgive you, but don't ever do that again, okay?"
"Yes, ma'am," Derek said hugging her.
"Will do," Reid said hugging her once Derek had released her.
"Now, let's go finish booking this guy so we can get home," Christi said as she turned and headed back into the station.
TBC?
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