Chapter 4

Ash's POV

Palm Beach, 9.00am. 20 March 2005

"What are you doing here?" Sneered Rosa and I looked back down at my file.

"I'm kinda trying to do my job," I stated and I heard her scoff.

"You. Oh please." She said and I looked up at her just as JJ and Hotch entered the room.

"What did you mean by that?" Asked JJ "Ash is our best agent." She stated right in front of me and I put my hand on hers.

"Don't try and reason with Rosa, she won't listen," I said and she sighed.

"At least I wasn't abused," Stated Rosa and I looked up at her before closing my eyes to keep the tears from falling, I then stood up and walked over to her and grabbed her by her hair and pulled her closer to me so I was near her ear.

"We don't talk about that, and if you do, It won't be me," I sneered sincerely before pushing her away disgusted by her, Why would she bring that up in front of my team, I looked round at them to see that they were both looking between us debating on who to believe. I rolled my eyes before walking out of the offices, I breathed in the fresh air as tears came down my face before I heard someone behind me. I let out a sigh before turning round to look at whoever was behind me, I saw Reid standing there and I bit my lip.

"Was it true? That you were abused?" He asked me and I sighed before walking over to him and wrapped my arms around him.

"No, It wasn't," I whispered as I nudged my head into his shoulders but I think everyone had decided to believe Rosa, but I didn't mind as long as they didn't find out who it was or what he did to me. I will be fine telling everyone that I was abused but not and what he did to me.

"Okay, it was true," I whispered and I heard him sigh before he stroked my hair, he pulls me a little closer to me. My body touching his and his hands placed neatly against my head and kissed my temple, I knew that the rest of the team was watching from afar and I didn't care at least they now knew.

"Oh A, Why didn't you tell us?" Asked JJ and the rest of the team in sync and they all glared at each other before coming over to me and pulling us into them, Gideon looked at me once more before patting my shoulder.

I sighed as JJ pulled me into a tight hug, "Don't tell Morgan, we both know what he is like." I said to the rest of the team and they all nodded before heading back into the office.

"You want to get a coffee?" I asked and she nodded, we started to walk away.

"You can talk to me, Always." She said and I nodded, JJ smiled at me as we entered the small cafe, JJ ordered for the both of us and come and sat down beside me.

"Okay, talk," She said and I sighed as I leaned against my hands, JJ pulled one down of my hands to look at me sympathetically. "A, Come on. Talk to me." I said before sighing.

"It all started in North Dakota. I was dating someone and we were happily in love, like one of those clichè love story's you see written every day." I scoffed as our coffee came out and JJ thanked him before nodding at me to carry on.

"Well after two years, he started to physically and mentally abuse me, badly. Well one day I was pregnant and then the next I wasn't." I said and she gasped and her eyes turned from worried to sympathetic again. I shock my head.

"Don't worry, it was a long time ago." I said before my phone rang and I looked down to see Morgan's name pop up, I smiled before answering the call.

"Hey Morgan!" I screeched a little to loud as we were in a busy cafè, No one looked over at me. I leaned against the chair I was sitting on, I nearly fell off my bed but I didn't because I managed to steady myself. I nodded at JJ before pulling the phone away from my ear.

"I'm heading back to Quantico, so I can get a break due to all this shit." I said and JJ nodded before telling me that she would tell Hotch that I was heading back to Quantico. I stood up before walking away with my phone pushed up against my ear.

"Morgan, what is up?" I asked.

"We've got the bomb fragments, were sending them to Hotch now. Just thought I would tell you," He said and I sighed in relief.

"Okay, I'm coming back." I said, as I got to my car but not before I was caught up by Reid. He stopped me with one hand before smiling.

"I heard your going back? What is going on?" He asked me and I sighed before ending the call I was on with Morgan and looked over at Reid.

"I just need a break from this Reid, I can't work with Rosa because she is being such a bitch about what happened to me." I said and he nodded before walking over to me and hugging me.

"Take a break Rosie, if you need it take it. We're all here for you," He whispered kissing my side of my head.

"Reid, I kinda love you." I whispered and he let out a little of a chuckle.

"I love you too Rosie." He said and I nodded before I pulled back and smiled at him. I got into my car and opened up my window.

"Make sure everyone is okay? Please Reid, I need to know that everyone is okay?" I asked him and he nodded as he leaned on my window, "I like this Reid, confident and bold." I said before I touched his nose, he scrunched it up before rolling his eyes at me.

"I'll make sure everyone is okay, and I don't like when you do that you know that." He said and I rolled my eyes before slowly shutting the window before starting to driving away. It took 2 hours to drive back to Quantico, I got into the BAU offices before seeing Erin Strauss standing at my desk and Morgan talking to her. His eyes made eye contact with me before he smiled and headed over to me, wrapping his big arms around me, my bag was still hugging onto my neck and his arms were around my back.

"Huh. I thought you guys weren't allowed to touch or make contact with other BAU members?" Asked Strauss, We both looked over at her.

"We don't follow that rule, We can hug and kiss each other on the head when we want to and no one cares." Said Morgan and Strauss nodded before walking away. I sighed in relief before placing my bag on my desk and wrapping my arms around him. I knew he was going to ask questions about why I was so huggy cause I wasn't always like this.

Morgan lifted me up around my waist and I didn't put my legs around him, I just let him carry me up to where he and Garcia were working on the bomb fragments, when we got there Garcia lifted her eyebrows at the both of us before putting me down on a chair near them and he walked over to Garcia. "The more I look at this, the more it looks like Adrian Bale," Stated Morgan. I almost chocked on my coffee that I was drinking, Adrian Bale was put into federal prison and is doing life imprisonment due to killing six agents in Boston last year. It was one that Gideon was working on, Morgan looked over at me as I chocked and he came over to me and rubbed my back.

"Are you okay mama?" He asked me and I nodded.

"So you think that this has something to do with Bale?" I asked and he nodded, Garcia was a bit confused.

"Bale killed 6 agents last year when he kept someone hostage," I said and Garcia nodded.

I looked through the file and pictures before noticing something, I squinted before picking up the phone and texting Hotch's number into it, "Hotch, I've just realised something, Bale was always smart remember? Who was Bale close to?" I asked.

"No one, because he was shy, manipulative, arrogant and confident." Hotch said.

"Bale was somewhat smart, this guy he is forging his bombs. Hotch this guy is forging money or something like that." I sneered and he sighed.

"And why didn't we think of that?" He asked and I laughed.

"I don't know why Hotch," I said before ending the call, Morgan just rolled his eyes and messed up my hair and Garcia sat down at the table and putting her head against it. Her stomach growling.

"Have you not been eating?" I asked her and she shook her head, "Go get food, I'll deal with Morgan here." I stated and she nodded before heading out to get food and I turned to look at my best friend.

"Have you not been letting her get any food?" I asked and he sighed and sat down beside me, I leaned my head against his shoulder blade as he rubbed circles in my back.

"It's not that I was trying to keep her from eating but we have a really serious case." He said and I nodded before wrapping my arms around him as he continued to rub circles around my back.

I let myself slowly let my eyes shut, "Hey mama, stay awake we've got one more hour." he whispered and I sighed before opening them fully again. "You can stay at my place tonight, it's closer." I said and he nodded before I rested my head against his shoulder again, I heard someone coming back in and I knew instantly it was Garcia.

"Awe you two are just to cute," She said and I rolled my eyes before nudging my head against his shoulder in embarrassment, my face was probably red as a tomato at the moment and I knew that. Morgan just smiled before stroking my hair, and kissing my hair line and continuing to talk to Garcia. As he let me lean on his shoulder and fall asleep.

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7 Hours Later...

I woke up screaming and crying and Morgan came running into my room, I was now cowering under the covers in fear. I had gotten another nightmare, Morgan came over to my bed and got in beside me before pulling me onto his shirt, I gripped at it as he stroked my hair I was taking deep breaths trying to grip my breathing so I could calm myself down.

"Shh mama, I'm here." He whispered as he stroked my hair, I let out a sob of horror as I went back over the nightmare I just had, it was about my child and how she was going to get killed.

"Morgan, stay with me." I whispered and he sighed before nodding.

"Always." He whispered.