Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Ten.
"I look at you and I find it incredible that you are Kathy's Aaron and David's Aaron. Both have told me so much about you. I probably know more about you than any other person in the world. Kathy told me about your life before your marriage and David told me about your life after your marriage, when you abandoned Kathy. Oh, you sent her pictures and called her about your cases and she was there to talk to, to comfort you and to give you the stroke on your back that you did good. She made sure that you always remembered that you were a hero. David also talked about you and that you were a good agent, easy to work with, hard headed, stubborn and a true leader of people. Who are you really Aaron Hotchner? The spoiled brat who ignored the woman who made him who he was or the strong, virile gentle man who rescues those in danger and profiles the most sadistic, cruel and horrific of peoples."
He looks at her and wonders about her and did she really know about everything in his life like that.
"What do know of Kathy? Do you know anything about her life and what she did? Did you care? She would tell me all about you and your life, but what did you know about hers? Oh, sorry you don't talk anymore so you can't tell me what you know of her. Did you know that she had been raped by the very person who kidnapped you? She helped to convict him. You were a prosecutor yourself at this time, so you know about how to do that and what it takes to do it. You remember what you have to do to the victims of the crime in order to prosecute the perpetrator. You make them remember the crime over and over again, they have to relive it and Kathy was brutally treated by that man and then by the prosecutor. You could have helped, you could have talked with her and supported her but you didn't even answer her phone calls. Why didn't you answer her phone calls? The worst time of her life and you weren't there to help. She was always there for you but you couldn't bother to be there for her. That is why I have hated you for twenty years and now to learn that during that time you were saving others, you were the hero that she admired and loved makes it hard for me to hate you. I am sorry that I did this to you. If had known that when we rescued you the methods that I used to help you would cause you to regress and not be the man that you should be. A man who puts others before himself and protects them rather than looking for your needs. I am sorry."
She turns away and unlocks the door, after which David and Spencer came rushing in to check on the boss, who has tears in his eyes and wants so much to talk with and comfort the woman now leaving his room. He tries to get up and follow her but cannot stand on his legs. He falls into the arms of David and Spencer, who put him back into the bed. David tells the man, "You need to stay in bed. If you want something tell us and we'll get it for you." Aaron just looks at him with despair because he still doesn't believe that Jack is safe from that man and now he knows why the man did this but how can he stop this man? How can he protect his son, his brothers, his friends, his team and himself from his master?
Several days past
Our agent still has the attitude of not doing anything for himself, he refuses to talk, and he will not feed himself or chew food that is placed in his mouth. He refuses to do anything for himself, but just lies there and listens to the others talk to him. Penelope has brought several of her little people and has brought a stuffed lion to sleep with the boss. The day she brings it and places it in bed with him, she tells him, "This is someone for you to talk to since you won't talk to any of us. Remember that he is the leader just as you are our leader." The man did a slight smile before he scowled at the toy as it was placed in his arms. He wanted to throw it on the ground but kept it because he didn't want to hurt Garcia's feelings.
One of the agents, a friend or a brother was with the man twenty-four hours a day in three hour shifts. They still refuse to allow Jack to come and see his father even though the boy has begged his mom to let him. Angie comes daily to visit the man and still does not understand why he continues to regress. Physically he is healing and they plan to start him in physical therapy to begin to walk again and yet, mentally he has stopped. The hospital has assigned his a case worker and the agency has assigned him a personal psychiatrist.
Angie has decided to leave and return home. She has done her job of finding her brother and helping rescue his boss. She is saddened at the revelations that she learned in the past week and doesn't what she will do now. The woman that she has lived with for eighteen years is no longer there, the woman she went to school with is dead; her brother doesn't need her here and this sad gentle man that she has hated and loved for years is deteriorating before her eyes and she can't stop it. She can't stop it and doesn't want to watch it. She decides to go home to New York and her own life.
Sean has obtained a temporary guardianship order for the protection of Aaron and his interests; which basically means that Sean is in control of his brother and his needs, he has taken up residence in Aaron's apartment and sees his brother every day to talk to him about what he is doing. Aaron does not respond to Sean about what he is doing because he still believes that the unsub has Jack and if afraid that his master might hurt Sean as well. So he doesn't listen to his brother when he should. Sean is deciding what to do the Aaron when he is physically able to leave the hospital. Should he put him in living care facility or care for him at home? Sean has been discussing this with Rossi and the other agents of the BAU as well as the psychiatrist and mental health officials. He has visited some of the living care facilities that would take a case like his brothers. Not all are able to handle someone who requires extreme full time care. Sean is uncertain that he wants strangers looking after his brother and taking care of his personal needs and yet is also uncertain that he can do that himself.
Sean knows how his mother took care of Aaron but he wonders can he do the same thing to the man that he respects and admires above all men. Will Aaron need this for the rest of his life or can he be brought back from this regressive life? Can he take care of his big brother like this? Today, he comes by for his babysitting shift and Aaron is sleeping with the lion in his arms and still holding a bottle in his mouth. Sean removes the bottle and caresses his hair while looking at his big brother sleeping. He sits by the bed and reads more information about different facilities in the tri-state area. After about an hour, Aaron wakes up and sees his brother sitting there, he looks at the brochures that his brother brought in and picks one up. He reads one on a nursing home in D. C.; another is a group home and still another about home aide services. He looks quizzingly at Sean.
Sean answers, "You can't stay in the hospital forever. You will have to come home or enter a facility that can take care of you." Aaron shakes his head no and looks desperately scared about what his brother is saying. "You cannot take care of yourself anymore. You don't even feed yourself or chew or able to ask for assistance when you need it. You will need twenty-four hour care and I am not can do that for you." Aaron gets mad and shakes his head no. He throws the brochures across the room in a fit of anger and screams loudly. Sean just smiles wanly and says. "I expected that you would have a temper tantrum about it, but it is not going to change the fact that I have to choose something about what is best for you." Aaron gets angry at that as well and indicts to himself as if to say that he will choose what is best for him. "You can't choose what is best for you. You have been declared incompetent and I am your guardian. I make the choices for you and believe me it will not be an easy choice. I love you and I want what's best for you." He kisses Aaron on the forehead and begins to pick up the brochures that had been tossed around the room. A nurse comes in the room and proceeds to check Aaron's vitals and then to change his diaper. She leaves a bottle of milk for his next meal. Sean proceeds to feed his brother.
Aaron thinks on what his brother said about being his, Aaron's, guardian. He vaguely remembers Angie mentioning that his brothers were planning to do this but he didn't expect them to actually do it. He wonders what now. He is losing everything about himself. If Sean puts him in one of those places, will he ever get out again, once again Aaron is becoming scared of the future or the lack of control in the future. He starts to cry because he doesn't want this but is confused and befuddled is twisting him in the wind. Sean sees the tears on his brother's face and wipes them, he lifts the man forward and sits on the bed behind and gently places him in his arms while he continues to give him his bottle. Sean rocks Aaron in his arms and tries to soothe his big baby brother. Aaron feels good in these arms even if he really does not want to be held like this but he does not stop it. He cuddles closer to his brother as he drinks his bottle.
Meanwhile in an empty room in the hospital, the man is listening to everything that Sean says to Aaron and how Aaron reacted. He laughs and says to himself, I can't believe how good of a baby he actually came out to be. I wonder where I can find a small finger to send him. As he laughs and laughs.