Derek stood there just staring silently. He couldn't believe this. They died just a few months apart. One by a psychotic man who had been seeking revenge on her and everyone who imprisoned him, then just a few months later right after had had asked her the life altering question but this time it was just a motor vehicle accident. That still didn't make hurt any less. The team was losing everyone the loved. Derek couldn't stand it. XXXX
Laughing and giggling with each as they drive home from a day at the beach. She had insisted on driving even through it was raining and she hated driving in the rain.
They were just seven blocks from home and then out of nowhere a car came barreling down the road and hit the drives side. It sent the car rolling five times then it finally stopped and he could hear the sirens of the police cars and rescue vehicles. He had looked over at her and he couldn't see her breathing her face was bloody and that worried him.
"Babe!" he says going to shake her but groaning when he went to move his arm.
"Fuck!" he hisses.
They eventually get pulled from the car and rushed to the hospital. Everyone had called JJ so she could be there with them for this one as well. She sat with Garcia keeping her in one piece. Reid was sitting alone trying to keep his cool. Reid saw her like a sister to him with the way she protected him and picked on him. Rossi, Hotch and JJ all looked as if they were hiding something but everyone ignored it just worrying for her.
Derek just continually paced. His arm had gotten put into a cast and he was checked over thoroughly and nothing was found wrong with him besides the broken arm and a few cuts and bruises.
They all look up when the ER doctor comes out and he just closes his eyes and shakes his head.
"GOD DAMN IT!" Derek yells walking out of the visitors lounge.
Ashley went to go after him but Rossi stops her.
"Leave him. All he'll do right now is bite your head off and be a real bastard right now." He said.
She nods in tears as he pulls her close to him.
He was looking at her like a second daughter he had to protect. He did his ultimate best to protect her but now that a killer she put away herself a while ago made her as she was an undercover FBI agent before she went to the BAU. She had infiltrated him a few years back when she was only twenty. She had taken dual enrollment in high school her junior and senior years so she had two years of college done then she finished the academy in record time then Rossi had gotten some strings pulled and gotten her in. She was with that unit for five years then she transferred to the BAU. The first and only case she worked there she was made and she wanted out. She transferred over to the BAU and met Derek and they hit off instantly. The group she infiltrated was known for drug, gun and human smuggling and dealing. The moment she got made he was arrested. They had taken down the head of the ring and everyone working for that ring dispersed and ran when he got arrested. XXXX
The funeral goes well and JJ, Rossi and Hotch all know it's just for show but they can't let the team know for the danger of him finding out and hunting her down.
They all head back to Rossi's place and he, Hotch and JJ are all out back talking to each other quietly.
"Are you sure she's 100% safe?"
"For the time being yes. I'm leaving right after this and heading to the where the State Department has taken her and giving her a few choices to pick from and a ton of money to mull her over for a while and that will keep her perfect until you guys find this bastard and can bring her home." XXXX
"Here's five new names in five different country with a good lump of cash in accounts there. Just stay for Derek's sake. The team is going to find him and bring you home."
"Thanks." She said picking up the manila envelope then sliding her own across to JJ as she gets up and walks away.
She frowns and opens it and gasps.
A note inside asked her to show Rossi the envelope and to keep it between them. She didn't want anyone else knowing the contents of that folder.
Author's Note: everything in italics is a flashback everything in normal print is present time
