"Erica! Big man and women at door!" My eight year old brother yells from the door a bit scared and I chuckle before scolding him.
"Julio, you aren't supposed to open the door only Marisol and I open the door! Apoderarse de su hermano y hermana y sentarse en la habitación de Marisol con ella decirle que hay gente de miedo abajo y agarrar el señor Abrazos para Fiona" I tell him as I walk to the door fixing my crop top with my tights and see Derek and a lady with blonde hair and I tell them to come in watching my little brothers and sister walk upstairs with Mr. Cuddles waiting to hear a door close.
"Hey Erica, this is JJ, I thought you would actually be able to trust her more than Hotch because she is a female," Derek said and I nodded waving at her giving a small smile as I lead them to the living room.
"Does she know about what I already told you?" I ask Derek and he nods and I nod back before opening my mouth to start speaking, "Okay so basically, we all have our secrets some that only Ali would know and after her funeral we started getting texts hinting that that person, A, knew what our secrets are mine having to do with my father, who was always in and out of jail for as long as I can remember due to gang stuff and yeah."
"And it started before the funeral so we thought it was Alison messing with us, hence the A and the fact that those type of games is what Ali used to play all the time but when her funeral arrived and the messages kept coming, we knew it wasn't her or it wasn't her anymore. And then the next day we see Jenna, an enemy of Alison's" I say and get cut off by JJ
"Would she be capable of doing this do you think?" JJ asks and I immediately answer.
"Yes and no," I tell them and they look at me curiously, "Yes because she is angry at Alison and no she is blind but that is another reason she could be behind this and have a team because Alison is the one who took her sight away from her."
"What do you mean 'took her sight away from her'?" Derek asks and I sigh pinching my eyes closed.
"I wasn't there when this, I stayed at the house while this happened, Alison swore she saw somebody peeking through the window at us while we changed and she decided she was going to get revenge, I knew Alison longer than the girls did to know that she wasn't going to do some petty threat she burnt down the little hut thingy she had in the back of her house. Alison claimed that she didn't know that Jenna was in there I don't know if that was true or not, but Jenna survived but her vision didn't and then she put the blame on Toby Cavanaugh and sent him to jail and then Jenna came back all of a sudden and was acting all type of nice to them and it was a little too nice for my liking because we never really ever talked to her."
"That's a motive," JJ said and wrote down her name, "but how would she do it?"
"Here is the thing," I said to them making me look at them, "there is a lot more to this long story that wouldn't make sense without any of the stuff I just told you also the fact that it might not even be her Ali stepped on a lot of people and I am telling you that seventy percent of Rosewood hates her with a passion."
"That would be a lot of possibilities," Derek stated.
"It would be a while until this story is over," I shrug and they look at me, "It's a four year time space that I have to tell you."
"Well we have time so let's get all of what we can get out of this day and go from there," JJ says and I nod continuing to tell him everything from Wilden to Hanna being run over, me being followed and assaulted, minorly just a bruise that was on my wrist to my elbow, and homecoming and the state FBI coming and they looked at me in surprise before nodding and getting ready.
"And one last thing, that has nothing to do with the story but to do with us being kidnapped," I say and they look at me and I turn around moving my hair, "He or she put a tracker in me as well as Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer."
JJ leaves and I am in the room with Derek and I give him a smile and walk to the kitchen with him and offer him cookies as he sees all my FBI books along with my college stuff and spread all over the table and he pointed to them and I let out a small laugh.
"Yeah I needed to distract myself and the girls had to talk to their parents last night," I tell him giving him his warm chocolate cookies I heated up for him which he took and ate gratefully. When Jayce, my four year old brother waddles into the kitchen and tugs on my leg making me scoop him up, "What's up bubba?"
"I want cookies and Fiona thirsty," he mumbles in my neck wrapping his arms around my shoulders.
"You seem more tired than hungry," I chuckle and I point at Derek, "You see him? That's Derek he's nice do you mind if he holds you for a minute so I can get you your cookies and Fiona her sippy cup?"
He nods and stretches out his arms for Derek who comes and takes him from me and I give him a thankful smile and he just nods talking to Jayce as I heat up some cookies for him and get out Fiona's sippy cup pouring some milk in there heating it up as well for a minute because she likes warm milk and I walk to them as Jayce is giggling at something Derek said and they notice me.
"You ready to be a big boy bubba?" I ask him and he nods as Derek lets him down and I hand him Fiona's sippy as well as his cookies sending him off to Marisol's room ruffling his hair making him whine and me to giggle as he carefully walks up the steps as I watch him all the way up before looking at Derek with a smile as I pull my hair up.
"How old are your siblings?" Derek asks me.
"Marisol is sixteen, Julio is eight, Jayce is four the one who just came down, and Fiona is three I also have an older brother who doesn't live here anymore named Dominic who is twenty-four," I tell him, "He is coming down because mom told him what happened and yeah."
"I understand as an older brother myself," Derek told me, "if my little sister was going through what you are I would be there for her when she needs me."
"Yeah," I tell him leaning against the counter.
"Is your father around?" Derek asked curiously and I shook my head.
"He got arrested when Fiona was one and was released a year ago haven't seen him since, I know where he is but I don't get a call or anything and neither does my brothers and sisters," I tell him and he immediately gets angry and I give him a joke to try and lighten the mood, "Don't go all hulk on me."
"You joke a lot when something serious or painful is brought up or just happened," Derek says and I nod agreeing with him I knew that.
"I know it's a coping mechanism I guess, to brush things off a joke," I tell him biting down on my lip, "it is also a defense mechanism."
Derek looks at me questionably, "What do you mean?"
"When I don't want to let someone in or I don't trust them I either be completely rude or I joke all the time I never have serious conversation with them," I tell him with a shrug and soon JJ comes back with some other guys to take the tracking device out of the back of my neck.
I sit down and Derek is across from me looking at me as they start to try to remove it as I hold my hair. We kind of have a silent conversation as the whole process happens. Which I find really weird, but I guess actions speak louder than words. After they take it out, they all begin to leave minus JJ and Derek and I ask where they are taking that.
"That needs to be with us I just really needed that out of my body, but we have normal routines and if that doesn't show up bad things will happen," I tell them, "A is capable of a lot."
They look at each other and nod calling Hotch, who I still call Mr. Old Guy, to see what to do about that situation and they tell me that I need to come down to the station. I do and I believe that the other girls do too and it is confirmed when I am sitting down next to Spencer, Emily, Aria and Hanna.
"So why does Erica always get the cute one?" Hanna asks with a scoff.
"Because I just attract all the hot men," I say with a grin half joking when Derek is behind me and I had no clue.
"Is that so?" Derek asks and I close my eyes tightly knowing he can't see me flipping Emily off because she is across from me before I turn to him giving him a once over before giving him a cheeky grin and a playful wink.
"Well you are standing here aren't you?" I ask with a raised eyebrow and he just laughs patting my back walking away from me.
"Wow Erica I thought I was the one into older guys," Aria said with a laugh and I laugh with her wiggling my eyebrows.
"What did you tell them?" Hanna asks us and we all say 'Everything', "like everything everything?"
"Yes everything everything Hanna," I raise an eyebrow at her and then all the agents come in and we stop talking and they look us all over.
"Look it seems like we will be here longer than expected so we will assign you to a agent so if you need to go somewhere? They are taking you okay?" Mr. Old Guy says and we all nod.
"Erica it's you and Derek, Hanna it is you and Rossi, Spencer it is you and Spencer, Aria it is you and JJ, and Emily it is you and Emily," Guy finishes and we all get up to leave and I leave with Derek back to my house and as I walk through the door I see Dominic in the living room and I hug him tightly.
"Who's this?" Dominic asks me and I immediately turn to Derek and motion between the two as I introduce.
"This is Derek, he's an FBI Agent, Derek this is Dominic, my older brother," I tell him and they shake hands and Dom looks at me as if we got to talk later and I nod when my mom comes upstairs she sees me and she grabs my face asking if I am okay. "Mama I am fine, this is Derek Derek this is my mom."
"Hello I am here to help protect Erica nice to meet you Ms. Santiago," Derek said in a rough voice, one that I found incredibly hot, that man is incredibly sexy.
"It's Ms. Martin," she said with a little flirtiness and I groan at her telling her to cut it in spanish and she immediately smirks at me and I can see Derek is very uncomfortable.
"You are making our guest very uncomfortable," I tell her and wrap an arm around him and that makes him laugh crossing his arms bowing his head tilting his head to look at me amusement floating through his eyes and I give him a wink and he just shakes his head and I look back at my mom who looks surprised that my flirtiness worked and hers didn't even though I was messing and she was dead serious, "él es demasiado viejo para ti, pero no demasiado viejo para mí."
I give her a playful look so she knows I am kidding, maybe she doesn't really ever believe me when I say I am joking, in which she playfully rolls her eyes at me. I think. She turns away to hug Dom before turning back to us.
"Are you gonna stay the nights over here?" my mom asks raising an eyebrow, "because if you are Eri has a extra bed and because you are here to protect you could stay there."
"No I don't think so," Derek says and he looks at me as I pat his back moving my arm, "when does this guy strike or text you or does whatever it is that he does?"
"Whenever he feels like," I tell him and shrug as he looks down at me almost like he is profiling me, "what?"
He shakes his head before continuing to ask, "So 2 in the morning?"
I nod at him and he curses under his breath taking out his phone to call someone most likely Mr. Old Guy, "Hotch," I was right. "This guy strikes 24 hours a day these girls will need 24 hour protection."
"Okay," Derek says hanging up, "Looks like we are staying but I need my stuff so we have to go get it because she needs 24 hour protection, yes you can protect her but if you do they will come after you to and you have kids here so I wanna make sure they are safe as well as Erica and she is if she is with me while if she was here you and the kids will get hurt."
"Do whatever it is you need to do," My mom nods and glances over at me as if to say 'behave' and I raise my arms in a surrender motion making Dom and Derek raise an eyebrow and I point a finger at her as if to say 'shut it' and she chuckles nodding and Derek and I walk to the car and I get in with him.
"What was that all about?" Derek asked and I looked at him confused, "You and your mom."
"Oh I guess you could say that is where I get my playful, flirtiness from I am just like her and we have the same taste in guys and it usually is older guys so when we were talking in spanish, that you don't need to know and when she looked at me in that way she was just telling me to be safe," I tell him half lying.
"See and that is where you started to lie," Derek said cooly with a smirk on his face and I roll my eyes before flailing my arms.
"Okay fine she thinks that I want to fuck you," I say nonchalantly and became playful, "I'm just gonna say that I know you want me but you gotta stay professional and when the case is over you can definitely have a piece of this ass."
He laughs loudly and smiles at me, "You really want me don't you?"
"I wouldn't say no is all I'm saying," I smirk at him sending him a wink as we get out I pat his chest as I walk ahead of him, "Room 230?"
"How'd you-"
"The room key."