The Final Goodbye
Disclaimer : I do not own criminal minds coz if I did there is no way in hell Paget Brewster could leave the show...
The sound of the rain falling onto the windshield reminds her of the first night they were together. The night when she, broken on the inside from the last case, broken from telling the parents of 6 kids how their kids would never come back, broken from trying to console them and hugging the mothers, trying to soothe their pain, all the while knowing that nothing could take the pain away, nothing could fix the lives of these parents, knocked on the door of her best friend's apartment, seeking some form of solace in the comfort of her friend's arms. Tonight, as she drives towards the same apartment, under the pouring rain just like that first night, she recalls that night that changed her life forever, for better or for worse.
Flashback
"I'm coming I'm coming. Hold on" shouted Emily as she runs down the stairs of her two-storey apartment in her yoga pants while at the same time trying to button up her shirt. The last case hit the team hard and she was no exception. 6 kids kidnapped, at the same time. The team was just 5 minutes late from trying to save the kids. The unsub had kidnapped 6 kids, who were all best friends, and slashed their throats just mere minutes before the team busted through the door. He looked at the team in the eyes and said "The parents will one day move on, but you all have to live knowing that you were 5 minutes too late. 5 minutes. You could have saved them if you were 5 minutes early. Hope you enjoy the rest of your lives. Remember, 5 minutes." As soon as he was done, he slashed his own throat and falls to the ground, dead, leaving the members of the BAU frozen on the ground. What they saw would scar them for the rest of their lives. Basement full of blood spatter, bloody knives scattered near the dead bodies of 6 innocent kids. After that moment, they were all on auto-pilot. They cleaned up the boxes, wrote the reports, drove home, all in all trying to make some kind of sense, trying to find some way to forgive themselves.
"JJ, what are you doing here? You're drenched. You must be freezing!"
When she saw that JJ just stood there, looking at her with her unfocused, lifeless eyes, she extended her arms to touch JJ's.
"Jayje? You OK?"
That's when JJ finally crumbled. She couldn't stand it anymore. The pain, the helplessness, the emotions, the guilt, all came out and she broke down in the arms of her best friend, sobbing. Emily's heart broke for her friend. She knew that the blonde had taken it the hardest of all. After all, the rest of the team did not have to hold the crying mothers in their arms.
"Come on , Jayje. Let's get you inside and change your clothes. Come on". Emily led her inside the apartment, unaware that the moment JJ stepped into the apartment, her life was about to change forvever, for better or for worse...
TBC...
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