Just a disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds just Hope A. Bering. Please feel free to review!
An empty house can be viewed two ways:
An empty house can be seen as a new beginning. Any couple just starting out in life will tell you that finding a house is a huge step into independence and once that perfect place is found it can finally be made into a home. An empty house can be filled with happiness, joy, and love.
However, for some, an empty house becomes a reminder of loss. For whatever reason, life has become hard and circumstances have forced the owner to move on before their time. What was once a home, filled with love and peace, has become an unbearable tomb, holding memories but providing no comfort.
Unfortunately, it was the later view that Hope A. Bering was taking. She was moving away today, leaving the city that had been her home for a new place. But that house was a reminder of why she was leaving. What had once been a home to a happy couple became merely a place to sleep in a short time. She was relieved that she was leaving; it meant a new start for her. She was running and she knew it, but she didn't know how else to move on.
There was one more box to finish packing, a few more items to take off the walls. The cross that her parents had presented her with when she and Josiah had moved in, several different pictures: their wedding picture, a picture with her and her brothers, and two group pictures. The first was she and Josiah with many of their mutual friends and the second was she and the BAU team with a group of children that they had just rescued.
She was admittedly nervous, the BAU team was nice enough when they came and helped her two years ago, but actually working with them, as a team member was a different story. She decided a head of time that she wouldn't tell them right away about Josiah or the circumstances surrounding his death. Eight months later she was still struggling emotionally and she didn't want them to think she was incapable of doing the job.
Finally she closed up the last box and loaded it into her car. She came back up to the door and after looking into the empty house one last time she closed it, got into her car and drove away, never once looking back.
A huge shout out goes to my beta crazykelly101. I highly recommend you all to read her story Here I Go; it is an amazing CM fan fiction. Chapters 21 and 22 of her story relate the case that Hope first works with the BAU team, check it out!
Hope you all are enjoying! Please leave a review! –Blessings, Hope'sFace.