This is based on one of my favorite scenes on CM. It's very JJ oriented right now, but I promise more Morgan and other characters soon.
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Chapter 3
JJ hit the light switch as she and Morgan walked out of Jacobs room. He was now asleep, curled on his side, on the bed.
They waited outside of his room for Hotch to return.
"The doctor said he is stable and can leave in the morning. He also said Jacob is very malnourished."
"He was only with Richmond for a couple of days. This much Malnourishment wouldn't have happened over that short amount of time." Morgan said.
"So what he wasn't being fed at home? Before they were abducted?" JJ asked confused looking to Morgan.
Morgan shrugged. "What about the fact that he will be in the room with me, but once I go to touch him he shy's away."
"JJ I want you to look for any bruises or any signs of abuse when he wakes up." JJ nodded at Hotch and walked back into Jake's room. "Morgan call Garcia and ask her to look up Jacob's medical history. Any hospital visits in the last couple years that don't belong. Also have her look into David Miller's past, if he's not comfortable around men it was most likely his fathers doing." Morgan nodded pulling out his phone and stepped away.
"Hey baby-girl it's me. I need you to do a search on Jacob Miller's hospital visits, and not just check-ups, look for anything that stands out. Also we need anything you can dig up on David Miller."
"The dead guy?" She asked confused.
"Yeah, we think there may have been abuse in the home."
"He's lucky he's dead, I'll email it to your phones when I'm done."
"Thanks." Derek took his phone away from his ear to hang up.
"Wait!" He looked at his phone and put it back to his ear. "When are you guys coming back? We caught our guy already."
"Soon hopefully. Maybe tomorrow. It depends on how fast we can have those results." He teased.
"Lady G. out."
Morgan laughed and hung up his phone. He found Hotch around the corner getting coffee. Morgan grabbed a cup, took a sip, and threw it into the trash.
"What you think hospital coffee is going to taste different here then it does everywhere else across the country?" Hotch asked with a small smirk.
"I was hoping." Morgan wrinkled his nose up at the coffee maker.
"There's a vending machine down the hall." Hotch pointed over his shoulder and Morgan hurried in that direction.
JJ sat in the plastic chair next to Jacob's bed, and watched as his chest rose and fell. How could someone hurt someone so innocent? How can a child do something so terrible that it would result in abuse? She wondered.
There was only one thing that would make her feel better.
JJ pulled out her phone and put it to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey mom, is Henry awake?"
"I just put him down to go to bed he should still be awake. Do you want to talk to him?"
"Yes, thank you." JJ waited until her mom brought the phone into Henry.
"Hey Henry, guess who's on the phone?" She heard her mothers exaggerated tone.
Followed by Henry's squeaky "Mom-my!"
"Hey bud!" JJ kept her voice quiet to not disturbed Jacob. "How are you? Are you having fun with nana?"
"Are you coming home mom-my?"
"Soon buddy, I promise."
"Story?"
"Of course." JJ took a deep breath, and waited for her mother to get the book.
"Ready." She heard her mother through the phone.
"Okay. Once there was a baby star, he lived up near the sun, and every night at bedtime that baby star wanted to have some fun. He would shine, and shine and fall and shoot and twinkle oh so bright and he said, 'Mommy I'll run away if you make me say goodnight.' And his Mommy kissed him on his sparkly nose and said, 'No matter where you go, no matter where you are, no matter how big you grow," JJ sighed her eyes watering, "and even if you stray far, I'll love you forever, because you'll -'"
"'Always be my baby star.'"
JJ jerked her head to Jacob, his eyes now staring back at her. She smiled at him, "'always be my baby star.'"
"Night Mom-my." Henry's soft voice came through the phone.
"Good-night baby."
JJ closed her phone after her mom had hung up and put it back into her pocket.
Jacob's eyes were still on her. "My Mommy used to read that to me."
JJ stood up and sat on the edge of his bed. She gently ran her fingers through his dark curls. "Whose going to read bedtime stories now Jen'fer?"
"I don't know buddy. I wish I did." She told him honestly.
"I want my Mommy Jen'fer." Jacob croaked, tears shining in his blue eyes.
"I know baby."
Jacob sat up and pushed the blanket from him. He stood on his knees and flung his tiny arms around JJ's neck. "Don't weave me too, Jen'fer. Pwease don't go."
"I'm not going anywhere baby, I promise."JJ lied down on the bed with Jacobs small frame curled into her body. She gently ran her fingers through his hair as he drifted back to sleep. "I'm not going anywhere."
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