This will be a multi chapter companion piece on the Hotchniss storyline. It will follow through until Gideon leaves the team. I came up with idea for this part of the story after watching a rerun of Secrets and Lies. I hope you enjoy it.
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Set after 1x21- Secrets and Lies
Jason Gideon sat at his desk, looking at the newspaper in front of him.
It had been a week since the team had been called into to find a mole within the CIA. At the end of the day, the mole was caught and it had turn out to be Gideon's old friend and department head Bruno Hawks.
As Gideon spoke to Bruno as the team arrested him, Gideon realized it was more than just Summers call that had forced Bruno's hand in needing to call Gideon and by extension, his team in to investigate.
Bruno was arrogant enough to believe that he wouldn't be caught, at least not before he made sure Hassan Nadir was dead which would remove all proof of his duplicity. He was also arrogant enough to believe that his years of knowledge would protect him from consequences if his actions were discovered.
But today, Gideon had just read the front page story about the car accident that took the life of Bruno. Though that he actually died in a car accident was improbable considering he was still in custody.
But that wasn't the part that concerned Gideon about the whole situation. What had stuck with him since that day was what Bruno said to him as he was being arrested -
I think the consequences of what you're doing to me my friend are gonna be a lot harder to live with than you think.
Gideon had been focused on that statement since they left Langley that day. It wasn't this first time a suspect had made a threat when caught.
But this was different. Bruno wasn't a typical UNSUB. Given the amount of time he had been in his position in the CIA, he had the capability to follow through with his threat in multiple ways.
Had Bruno just been trying to get under his skin?
Or when Summers triggered the protocol that had obligated him to consult the BAU had Bruno activated a premeditated plan at the same time in case he was arrested knowing that if one person could figure out what Bruno's nefarious plan was, it would be Jason Gideon?
Or had he been arrogant enough to think he would be able to talk his way out when caught and seek revenge himself?
Gideon had no doubt the Bruno would be capable of hurting him. Over the course of their investigation, the team had found that Bruno had killed one member of his team, framed another one for it and gave another a direct order to kill the one person who had the evidence the BAU needed to identify the mole. Gideon had no illusions that the years that they had known each other wouldn't protect him from Bruno's wrath if it ever came to that.
And then the question was whether Bruno threat included just to him personally or to the entire BAU. And for all his experience of a profiler, Gideon just didn't know for sure. And that uncertainty especially with the lives of the team was unnerving. The first anniversary of the deaths of his six agents in Boston had just past. He didn't know if he had it in him to come back from losing a team again.