Chapter 6

Back at the police station, JJ had Garcia on speaker...

"Ok, so... can't you find any of Heather Johnston's health records?" JJ was scraping around to try to find anything that might help her team to find Rose-Alicia, and so far she had come up dry.

"No, sorry my love. Zilch," was the deflated reply from Garcia. "Unless... Aha! I may have just accidentally stumbled across some very, very classified information, Commander JJ. It will, however, require some long-length hacking - Oh! Did I say that? Haha back in a jiffy!"

JJ smiled in response to their bubbly tech's enthusiasm.

"Although," Rossi piped up from the mountain of papers he was looking through, "do you really think that health records will help us find Sasha?"

"Well, I'm sort of hoping that it will help us understand Rose-Alicia – if we want to get her talking properly, we need to know what she or her mother have been through..."

Rossi shrugged, "Ok... I think I've found something about Rose's father, he has been arrested several times... for, petty theft and attempted murder of...Oh! A man named Dean Rivers, hey, Garcia? I've found you a sir-name for Dean; can you find anything on Rivers?"

Garcia transferred from bubbly-mode into business woman-mode, and began to type furiously, "Ok, your so-called Dean was the magical man who had the heart to marry poor old Heather Johnston after she was hospitalised, but Heather insisted that her two children Rose-Alicia and Stephenie – who is the young girl who had appendicitis by the way – lived with their biological father instead of Sir-Knight Rivers, who quite frankly has no criminal record." She took a deep breath after her ramble.

"Ok, so Reid was right – If Rose-Alicia was looking to get revenge on her sister because of her lack of abuse from her father, then Rivers would be the one helping her."

Garcia spoke again, "Oh, and the one you call Rivers was the one who filed for Heather's hospitalization, and those are the only medical records in the whole of the computer-hacking realm. Oh, hang on! Oh no... Dean was killed only 5 months ago..." Garcia sounded sad, and a little deflated.

"That must have been the trigger for Rose to start acting out..." JJ mused more to herself than anyone else.

"So let me get this straight – Heather is schizophrenic, her husband divorces her, supposedly, and Dean comes along, and hospitalizes Heather. Heather wants her children living with their real father, but Rose is schizophrenic as well, but her father is ashamed of her state, and expunges all of their medical records, aside from the ones that Dean has protected. Rose's father abuses her, but not her sister because of her mental state, and know Dean is dead, she wants to know why her sister – who is also dead – was never abused. So she goes after girls similar to her sister, with a phantom Dean as her motivator." Rossi looked at JJ, and she laughed a little.

"Yep, you got it Rossi."

"I, however, goddess of all things technical, am not so good at following family stories, unless they are laid out in technical form, not Rossi-Rambling form...!"

JJ laughed again, "So now we understand Rose, how the hell do we get her to talk?"

Rossi gave her a slightly blank look, then said simply, "I'll call Reid."

Reid jumped when his phone rang, he had been quite happy just sitting still with his eyes shut.

He reached into his back pocket and said quickly, "Hello?"

"Reid this is Rossi, we've found some information on Rose-Alicia's background." Reid sighed inwardly – he felt guilty for not telling anyone but Emily what he knew, but he didn't want the team to have a clouded look at the case – his never-failing memory was, for some reason, being a bit foggy on that particular part of his family history.

"Ok, what've you got?" He asked slowly, hoping his voice did not fail him, "And how has it helped?"

"Well, we understand Rose enough to use the information to help her talk – where is Emily?"

"She's in the ward with Rose now, should I get her? She's... she's finding it... a lot easier to get through to her than I am..." Reid told Rossi the very least he could about why Emily was doing the talking, not him.

"Ok, tell her to come on out and I'll tell her things that could help."

Reid braced himself to go into the ward, but just as he put his hand on the door-handle, he heard a terrible scream from inside the ward.

I hope that chapter was better, I know the last one was rubbish, sorry about that! Please review! :D