Forgotten Lies – Part Four
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"Hey, Hen..." JJ said as she walked back into the dining room where Henry was eating his pancakes, and after Will said 'bye' to him. Henry looked up at her with his eyes slightly wide. He had maple syrup all over his hands and cheek. JJ laughed a little. "What happened?" Henry looked at JJ.
"I dropped it," he explained. "Like this." he said as he picked up a piece of the pancake and dropped it on his shirt.
"Don't do it again silly goose!" JJ exclaimed. "Now we gotta go clean you off." she explained. Henry picked up the piece of the pancake and looked up at JJ as he slowly raised it to his mouth, hoping his mom wouldn't tell him not to eat it. It was his last piece. And he was still hungry. JJ raised her eyebrows as he put it in his mouth. "Taste good?" Henry nodded with a smile on his face. "Okay, now let's clean you up," JJ said as she grabbed his plate as he stood up. "In the kitchen," she said, Henry led the way to the kitchen and sat on the chair as JJ put the plates in the sink and grabbed a wet paper towel. "Here you go." she said as she threw the paper towel at him, he caught it with a smile and wiped his hands and face off. "Guess what we're going to do today while daddy's out..." JJ said, Henry looked up at her.
"I dunno." he said with a shrug, JJ laughed.
"Remember I said we could go to the park?" she asked, Henry's face lit up as he nodded. "Well, we're going to do that, and we're gonna get you some new clothes... and go out to eat with Auntie Penelope." JJ said, Henry smiled.
"Wow! That's awesome!" he said as he stood up. JJ nodded. "You gots to go get ready mommy!" he exclaimed, JJ laughed.
"Okay, I will." she said as she leaned down. "But we have to do something first..." she said.
"What mommy?" he asked.
"We have to see how much you grew.." she said as she held up a marker. Henry smiled.
"Oh yeah!" he said as he ran over to the spot where they do the measuring, JJ laughed as she walked over to him.
x x x
"How are your chicken nuggets?" Penelope asked Henry with a smile, Henry always made race car 'zoom' noises as he ate, mostly because JJ did that when he was a baby. If she just tried to give him the food he'd sit there with a blank expression on his face, then JJ decided to do car noises and he ate every time. "They any good?" she asked as Henry nodded and chewed.
"They're fummy" he mumbled with food in his mouth, Penelope laughed.
"Oh, hey, no talking with your mouth full." JJ reminded him as she handed him his chocolate milk, he took a sip as JJ's phone started ringing. Penelope looked at her as she looked down. "It's Hotch." JJ said, Penelope made a face, knowing that it was probably about a case. "I'll be right back, you okay with him?" JJ asked Penelope to make sure.
"Of course," Penelope said with a smile, JJ smiled back as she walked outside quickly so she could hear.
"Jennifer Jareau." she answered as she normally did when she either didn't recognize the number or when it was work related.
"Hey JJ," Hotch said. "We have a case, I know it's late, but they need us there as soon as we can." he told her.
"Okay..."
"It's local so you don't need anything, I already talked to Dave and he's on his way." Hotch said.
"Alright, I will tell the others. Meet at the BAU?"
"Yes. Tell them to get her as soon as they can."
"Okay, I will."
"I'll send everyone the case via email so we don't have to go over it."
"Thanks Hotch,"
"Bye," Hotch said before the line went dead. JJ didn't take it personally, Hotch normally ended the conversations with a quick 'bye', she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting out a sigh as she pulled out her phone to call Will.
"Hey, everything alright?" Penelope asked as JJ walked back into the restaurant after talking to Will and sending Derek and Spencer a text.
"We have a case..." JJ answered, Penelope stuck her tongue out and pouted. "And we have to go in as soon as we can." she said.
"Did you talk to Will?" Penelope asked on Henry's behalf.
"Actually... yeah, and he's..." JJ glanced over at Henry, who was making bubbles in his chocolate milk. "Drank a lot of juice." JJ said, Penelope's face fell.
"Well then he'll have to stay with me, in my office, until we can get someone to watch him." Penelope said, JJ looked at her.
"No, Penelope, I can't ask you to-" JJ began to say, Penelope shook her head and cut her off, politely of course.
"I already said I would. Now, we should be going," Penelope said as she flagged down the waiter. "Check please!"
x x x
"Hey, Hotch, I'm sorry I had to bring Henry in, Penelope said she'll stay with him in her office..." Hotch wasn't upset, he was walking from another section of the building towards his office as JJ was talking to Henry.
"It's fine, I understand." Hotch told her. "Did you read over the case?"
"I read over a some of it," JJ answered.
"Good. The others should be here any minute, we'll go over the case quickly and get started. Can you make sure Garcia get's all the information?" he asked, JJ nodded, knowing that the only reason he said that was because Penelope wasn't going to join them for this briefing because she had to stay with Henry. JJ read over the case quickly so she could deliver the briefing, it was her first briefing for more than 9 months, and now that she's a profiler, Penelope usually does the briefings. It wasn't the case she was expecting and that she told Derek about, it was a different one. She let out a breath as Hotch walked in the conference room, where she was reading it over. Derek and Spencer both came in at the same time and walked in through the back, appearing in the doorway just seconds after Hotch walked in. Rossi made his way in from his office. Derek went straight to the coffee, Hotch gave JJ the 'go' look.
"The bodies of three women were found in Bethel, in a field just off of Lacebark Elm... " JJ began to brief as she pulled up the pictures from the crime scene as Hotch handed out the Ipads, JJ didn't get the chance to use it the first case she had. She knew they had them and that Penelope did an unnamed thing that landed them all Ipads. Hotch put one down in front of an empty seat before taking his seat, JJ sat down in front of it. "Their not sure exactly when each of them died, but considering the conditions of the bodies, they were dumped at different times..." JJ said as the team scrolled through the pictures.
"The detective looked into missing persons that fit the victimology." Hotch said, all of the women were between the ages of 23 and 26 and had light brown to dark blonde hair.
"The first two women were killed a week after being reported missing and were reported missing 3 weeks apart, however the last victim was reported missing 3 days ago and just a week apart from the other victims," JJ said.
"The pattern between abduction and the actual killing is speeding up," Spencer said. "Not to mention the wounds on the last victim are slightly different to those on the previous two victims."
"He was rushing," Derek said.
"Maybe he almost got caught and thought the quicker the better." Rossi said.
"Why would he then go out and abduct another women?" JJ spoke up.
"He is probably suffering from a mental disorder that is causing him to have the urge to kill quicker. A form of Psychosis would most likely start to manifest if all he started thinking about was killing another woman after the first.." Spencer said.
"JJ and Morgan, head to the crime scene, the rest of us will set up at the police department." Hotch told them as he flipped the cover on his Ipad and stood up, then everyone started packing their things up and followed Hotch's orders.
x x x
"Was that Penelope?" Derek asked as they headed to the crime scene, JJ looked up at him after hanging up the phone.
"Yeah."
"Is everything okay? Why wasn't she at the briefing?" he was wondering why JJ ran the briefing that time as opposed to Penelope. Hotch said Penelope would be doing the briefings from then on.
"Oh, uh, we were having dinner with Henry when Hotch called me and Will couldn't take him, so he's staying in Penelope's office until Will sobers up." JJ said, she didn't actually mean to say the last part. She didn't have the intentions of telling Derek that Will was drunk, but she wasn't thinking about it, she looked back down at the pictures.
"Is everything alright?" he asked, JJ looked up with a confused expression on her face. "With you and Will, I mean." JJ opened her mouth to answer, but nothing came out. "If you don't mind me asking.." he added, JJ nodded slowly, getting her thoughts together.
"Yeah... I mean, no, well, everything's been fine." JJ answered, Derek nodded slowly.
"It doesn't sound all that great by the tone of your voice..." Derek told her.
"It's nothing." JJ defended, Derek nodded and looked at the road. "I'll tell you later..." she then said, Derek nodded as they pulled up to the crime scene.
x x x
"How are you guys doing?" JJ asked as she walked into Penelope's office later on, Henry was actually sleeping on the couch in her office, with Penelope's brightly colored jacket as a pillow, and that's why Penelope put her finger to her lips. "Oh," JJ said with a smile as she walked over to Penelope. "How are you doing?" JJ asked.
"I am cross referencing employees," Penelope answered in a lower voice, JJ nodded slowly. "As hard as it may be to believe, there are a lot of male employees in this system that match this profile, shy from the psychopathic part." she said, JJ laughed quietly. The profile was pretty basic and matched a lot of males in general and that's all Penelope could get, she had to go through the employees virtually one-by-one because of the poor record keeping. Something Penelope would have a word about to whomever keeps the records afterwords.
"If you're too busy to talk, I can come back..." JJ said, Penelope shook her head.
"No, no, sit sit. It's easy to multitask." Penelope said without taking her eyes off the computer, JJ smiled.
"I can't stay for long, I just wanted to see how Henry was."
"Well, he was an angel..." Penelope began as she stared at the computer screen and typed, she would have gone on about what he had been doing up to the point he landed on the couch, which was drawing, but then someone popped up. "Oh hello there." Penelope said as the picture pulled up, JJ looked over her shoulder. "JJ." Penelope said, JJ read his information.
"I'll tell Hotch." JJ said quickly as she rushed out of the room, she explained to Hotch the man Penelope found that seemed to match the profile to a tee, Hotch called Penelope and told her to get a search warrant, even though she was in the same building. The search warrant came through 20 minutes later and the team was off.
x x x
The team went into the house like any other suspects house they went into, with a tactical team along side them. Hotch and Reid took the front, Rossi scaled the perimeter with the SWAT team and JJ and Derek took the back. 'FBI' was coming from every room of the house, Hotch and Reid in the living room, JJ and Derek in the kitchen, followed by 'clears' as they went in and out of every room. Hotch and Reid went up the stairs, JJ and Derek stopped at a door, Derek put his finger up, JJ nodded to tell him she was ready as he mouthed 'one, two, three' on the third he opened the door. They headed down the stairs quietly and quickly. There was nothing in the big room, but there was a hallway they both went down, Derek went to a room on the left while JJ went to a room on the right. Two members of the SWAT team started heading down the stairs at that time. JJ moved her gun back and forth as she cautiously looked around the room. She heard the door shut behind her and she turned around quickly. Something was thrown at her, but before she knew what it was, it hit her and she fell back onto the ground. She didn't know what it was at the time, but it was big and wooden. She picked up her hand to shoot, but didn't have the gun in her hand, she looked as the unsub made his way over to her, she wasn't sure what to do, but whatever she did in that split second before he did something, was a life or death decision.