We know your sins
Storyteller: Isla de Muerta
Genre: General/Tragedy/Mystery/Romance
Rating: T to be sure
Disclaimer: Mare, Emmett, Tilly and others you don't recognize are mine. Characters of Criminal Minds aren't. Similarities to anything and everything between earth and sky are purely accidental, not there intentionally. All mistakes are mine.
Summary: An odd, scary crime wave hits, just when Mare and the kids moves to Virginia. Her life won't stay intact when Reid goes missing too. A sequel to a story Menace behind your name.
Chapter I: Prologue: Arrival
"Look mommy, look, Reid's there!" a joyful voice, of a little boy, yelled.
"I see him, pumpkin. Wanna race to him?" Mare asked from Emmett, her six-year-old son. Their flight from New York had just landed, in schedule.
"But can we mommy? You have Tilly," Emmett worried.
"Sure we can," Mare laughed and placed Tilly on piggyback. Her daughter grabbed her tightly around her neck.
"OK, ready or not, here we go!" Mare said and started to run. With happily screaming Mathilda on her back, she arrived two steps after Emmett, to Reid.
"Hey, slow down or you'll run over me," Reid greeted the happy bunch.
"Hello Reid," Mathilda or Tilly, as she was called, beamed to Reid. She had learned to say R but it still sounded very French, coming from her throat.
"Hello Tilly, hi Emmett. Shall we fetch your luggage?" Reid asked.
"We don't have much with us. Just few bags of clothes that we need before our stuffs arrive. They should be here tomorrow," Mare explained.
"Then we fetch what you have and after that, I'll drive you to your new home."
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Reid parked the car to the driveway of Mare's house.
"I've got a surprise for you inside," he said to Mare when they walked to the door.
"Oh, really? What is it?" Mare sounded excited.
"You'll see."
Mare opened the door into a spacious hall. In the middle of that room, was a big basket. From within of it, Mare heard funny, oinking noise.
"What is that?" she asked but Reid didn't had to answer because whatever was in the basket, decided to come out. A small snout came out first and after that, the whole creature appeared.
"Is that a pig?" Tilly asked from her mother.
"Actually, it's a miniature pig," Mare explained, "What shall we call it?"
Emmett examined the pig carefully and noticed a little, white spot on its left ear.
"Pepper," he said and as an agreement, Pepper came to Emmett, when he said the name. The boy disappeared to upstairs, Pepper following closely him. Tilly wanted to go to the backyard after Reid had said that it would be safe.
"You want to see your kitchen?" Reid asked and led Mare to a big room. It made Mare breathless. She was opening and closing the cabinet doors, when she heard a high-pitched voice from the backyard.
"Mommy, what's that?!" Tilly shrieked. Mare glanced Reid questioningly.
"Oh, I forgot that. Tilly has probably met Puck," Reid grinned apologizing.
"Puck?" Mare asked, before she ran to the backdoor to see what was happening.
"A goat. He came with the house but if you don't want to keep him, Mr. Wilsen, your neighbor, can take him," Reid explained.
Outside, they were confronted a hilarious sight. Tilly was frozen in the middle of the yard and little further, tied to a pole; a gentle looking goat was baaing and eating hay. Mare burst to laugh.
"Is Puck dangerous?" she asked. Reid shook his head.
"No, he's quite gentle and harmless," he said.
"Then we keep him," Mare decided and went to pat the animal. Tilly came to see the goat after her mother, when she noticed that the animal wasn't gonna hurt her.