Disclaimers in the summary! Here is the next chapter for anyone who is reading, please review thanks!
Chapter 3 – Well for starters
Dave smiled. There it was the question he'd been apprehensively waiting for over the last three days. He imagined different scenarios of how to answer or not answer it. He'd imagined laughing, yelling, storming off maybe even threatening the man who left his family in turmoil seven years ago. Now however looking at Gideon he did not see the obnoxious and obstinate 'super' profiler but instead saw a struggling and rather pathetic man.
"How are they?" Dave repeated
"I know I don't deserve to know but,"
Rossi interrupted, "life carried on without you Jason hope you didn't expect the team to be still dwelling on your sudden and rather dramatic departure?"
"Of course not, I knew they'd be better off without me. I just need to know that they're all doing ok."
"To help yourself feel better about leaving in the first place? Well they managed just fine without you, Jason. They're close tight knit group which I'm extremely protective of so, let's be clear right now, I'm not here to be the go to guy that brings you back into their lives and drags up all of their godforsaken daddy issues"
Gideon smirked acknowledging the team's personal demons and then he nodded accepting that he wasn't a part of their lives anymore and it was because of his own doing.
Dave adjusted his position and leaned back, "Well for starters only Morgan, Prentiss and Garcia are still in the BAU. JJ was the first to leave, shortly followed by Reid, then Hotch and lastly me. Everyone is close still though, we all meet up at least once a week for a poker game or a dinner or something. Everyone has a family, everyone is happy and getting on with their lives"
"Thats good. I'm glad you are all happy" There was a slight pang to his voice
"Garcia married another tech, Kevin, god it must be nearly five years ago now, their wedding was eclectic to say the least and we had a whole dramatic shoot out after the reception, in retrospect it was climatic you know like it could have been a big season ending on some procedural TV drama, but luckily no one was seriously hurt. JJ got a bullet in the shoulder which kind of started the end of her relationship with her then boyfriend whatshisname but at the end of the day Garcia and Kevin were happily married and sent off on their honeymoon and everyone else on the team were safe." Dave grinned at the memory of the way in which Garcia had to be restrained when they caught the gang leader that had ordered the shooting to delay his court process. "Garcia and Kevin have three four year old boys and let me tell you that pregnancy strengthened the teams bond if only by trying to keep Garcia happy. But the team got through all the death threats and Garcia is an amazing, albeit unique mother she works from home quite a bit but hasn't left the BAU. She says she has to be there to protect all of her little munchkins through using her worldly knowledge of all things technical"
They both expressed amusement in Garcia's statement then Gideon's face tensed and he asked "So there have been some dangerous times for the team then?"
Dave took a sip of his beverage "You've got no idea"
Up next is a bit about Reid if anyone is interested!
