"Hotch doesn't actually think Morgan's guilty, does he?" Emily asks Reid in a hushed voice.
"We know he's not," Reid replies simply.
"Yeah, but..." she says, letting the rest of her sentence hang there in the air. When Reid doesn't respond after a moment, she looks up from her file. He's already engrossed in whatever he's reading. In his genius mind, their conversation is already over.
She presses her lips into a flat line and looks back towards where Hotch and Gideon are heatedly discussing something. She can only catch tone, not actual words, but she can guess based on what JJ told her earlier that there's tension between the two men because this morning Hotch referred to Morgan as a suspect.
Which he definitely isn't, if they believe he's innocent. Which they all obviously do.
But it seems like Hotch isn't convinced. God, does he really think Morgan is capable of something like this? Of killing children?
She's only been here for twelve days and she knows there's no way Morgan did this.
Prentiss turns away from them then, not wanting to risk her boss seeing the look of vague disgust on her face.
God, what a jackass, she thinks.
And if he still doesn't trust Morgan after four years, how the hell is she supposed to get him to trust her?
