Chapter Eleven

The moment Mary got to the top of the stairs; she noticed that Maggie's bedroom door is fully closed. Seeing that but knowing that Maggie sometimes shut the world out when she get pisses out by closing the door, Mary couldn't let her daughter do that. She saw what happened between her and Aaron. She was there. Those two used to be close to each other but in this rate, this could develop to something not good and Mary doesn't want that to happen.

To get Maggie to talk to her, Mary walked over to the first door on the right and knocked softly on the oak door. At first, it looked like that she is not there in her bedroom but on the second try, Mary could hear Maggie's lovely voice, saying to her, "Come in, unless that you are Aaron Hotchner so get the hell out!"

"Maggie, it's me, Mom. May I come in?" asked Mary. "Are you sure about that?" "I'm sure about that, Darling."

There was a second of silence and Mary knew that this is going to be a bad idea until she heard, "Okay, then. You can come in, Mom."

Mary smiled when she heard that from Maggie. She put her hand on the doorknob and let herself in. She looked around the room and finally founded her. Maggie is sitting on her desk chair near her desk, silently reading one of her books. Mary felt a soft breeze in the room, knowing that Maggie had opened up her window to not let the room be all stuffy. Also, there is someone else in the room but that someone is full of cotton and keeping one of its owners company. It is a Winnie the Pooh bear.

Noticing the yellow bear with its faded red shirt and smiling at her and Maggie, Mary smiled back at the stuffed bear and said to Maggie, "Aw! It looks like that Lucy had forgotten to bring Pooh bear with her."

"I'm guessing that she does." said Maggie who looked at Pooh bear for a moment before turning to her mother and saying to her, "Hey, Mom."

"Hey, Maggie. How are you feeling right now?" asked Mary, who is asking the question as warmly as possible. "I'm doing fine here, now. It turned out that reading and Pooh bear had kept me from blowing up stream." Mary noticed that Maggie is about to turn her back to her but she doesn't. Maggie just turned her chair toward her and looking at her with long reddish-brown hair framing her face and those blue eyes are staring at that, doing the same thing that Robert sometimes looked at her with when he was alive. A mixture of hope but questionable.

"Mom, why are you asking me this?" asked Maggie, still doing that stare to her. Noticing it again, Mary cleared her voice a bit before looking at her daughter again, "Honey, this is about what happened between you and Aaron earlier?"

"Mom, I do not want to talk about it." "I know that, Maggie but we still have to talk about it. It's for the greater good." responded back by Mary, who doesn't take this type of talk at all, even though that she is doing this to her adult daughter. "Do you want to do this with me?"

Maggie was very silence about this but it seems to go away when a small smile appeared on Maggie's face and answered her mother's question with one word, "Fine."

"Good, then and sit next to me." which is requesting by Mary to Maggie. Immediately, Maggie got up from her chair and sat next to Mary on her bed, which is near to the window. With the both of them sitting on the soft quilted covered bed, Mary put her hand on Maggie's and said to her with a lovely voice, "Maggie, I know that Aaron had got you upset today but he was trying to do that the right thing for you."

"But Mom, he didn't let me try to help. I meant that we both have the same job but he is still trying to protect me from it. He knows that I am not a teenager anymore but he still doesn't understand." said Maggie with a tone of anger in her voice.

"He does understand about that, Maggie. He does and…" Mary was about to say about some more about his understanding but Maggie interrupted her speaking. "What are you saying about this?"

This time, Mary holds Maggie's hands a little tighter when she told her this. "He knows that you are a hard-working profiler. Actually, he called me on the weekend you and Lucy moved to Virginia for the job."

Maggie looked very shocked when Mary let that comes out of her mouth. "Whoa, Mom. Since when Aaron called you?"

"I think that it was around nine at night when I got the call. He told me that he just got back from your place and told me first about Lucy's little pizza coma."

A smile was appearing on Maggie's face when she told her about that. Mary smiled at Maggie as well before heading back to the talk, "He also told her that you and him had a long talk about the job while Lucy slept and with the words he used, he seems well, excited about you being with him for six weeks."

"What do you means about that?" asked Maggie. Mary cleared her voice again and said to her while looking straight in the eyes, "Margaret, he told me that he knew that you're right for the job. He knows that this will be harsh work for you to deal with but he know that you can do it because he knows you too well and your work ethics. You're a good person but very hard-working and is willing to do anything for the job. He really appreciated you being there, helping out."

"But you do know the rules and you can't help out on certain things. I know that you loved your father so much and wanted to find his killer but rules are rules. You can't do it all. You just can't."

There is another batch of silence between them until Maggie looked at Mary. "Mom, are you telling that I cannot do everything and I just have to sit out on certain things." Mary nodded to her daughter and said, "Yes, Aaron and I would want that for you. We just don't want to see you all worn-out and Lucy couldn't play with you after work because of it."

Maggie laughed at the last words Mary told her in the sentence and ended up giving her mother a hug. Mary returned the hug to her daughter and asked her another question, "Honey, are you okay with everything now?"

"I am, Mom. I am okay with everything." "Good, then and Maggie?" asked Mary, who just kissed her daughter on the forehead. "Yeah, Mom?" Eyeing the Winnie the Pooh bear on the desk, Mary asked her to bring the bear back to Lucy so she could get some sweet dreams in Virginia. In return, Maggie told her, "Sure."

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Maggie couldn't sleep. It was around twelve-thirty in the morning and she is still wide-awake. She had tossed and turned for an hour now. She also pretended to close her eyelids in order to fall asleep but that doesn't work. She had tried everything she could to catch some sleep but yet, her brain told her not to do that. Her mind is full-on about her father's case.

Every time she closes her eyes, the image of her father kept appearing and every time she opens her eyes, the image of him disappeared. She got most of his genes from the tall height to the blue eyes to the 'don't take any bullcrap' seriousness.

She remembered what he looked like on the day he died. He was wearing a brown sports jacket, khakis, and a navy blue polo shirt with brown loafers on his feet. His graying hair was cut very short like a crew cut from the week before and she ended up remembering the last thing she ever did to him: She kissed him on the cheek and told him that she'll see him later before walking out of the house for school. He might had smiled at her in return and told her 'see you later'.

From thinking about this, Maggie realized that no one will ever replace him, not even Aaron who always seems like an older brother to her. Robert McMahon always is in her heart and soul and she'll let it always be like that, no matter what.

Maggie imagined what her father would say to her if he's still alive. He would say to her that she don't have to take anyone's bullcrap about these things, even if that came from your mother. Go help out on the case, Maggie. Don't worry about what will happen after this. Things will hopefully going to be okay. Just make sure that the killer goes to where he belongs. I will always love you, no matter what.

This sent Maggie into tears when she heard his deep voice, saying those words. He always believed in her. Always cared about her and he would definitely want this from her. He would definitely want this from her. To grant her father's wish, Maggie has a plan.

In order to do that, Maggie got out of her bed and put on some clothes: jeans, a v-neck shirt, and a brown jacket since the room felt cold from the opened window. After she did that, Maggie went to the bathroom to wash her face, brushed her teeth and also her hair with a hairbrush from going bed-head. The moment she came back from the bathroom, she put her cell phone into her jacket pocket before heading to her mother's bedroom.

Mary was sound asleep in her bed when Maggie came into the room. With a piece of written paper in her hand, Maggie put the paper on the nightstand and kissed her mother on the cheek and said silently to her, "Don't worry about me, Mom. Everything will be okay after this."

She watched her sleeping mother for a few seconds and leaving the room to get herself downstairs to get the keys with the note on the nightstand,

Mom, I am driving over to work with your car. Don't worry. I'll bring it back to you when I get done with work. Maggie.

With everything she needed, Maggie unlocked the silver Accord's driver door, and got herself into the car. The moment she got into the car, Maggie pulled the engine, got the car out of its parking space, and drove off, hoping that people who knows her will understand.


A/N: Sorry about the small amount of Hotchness, guys but that will come along with our team in the next chapter I am doing in my Birthday weekend this week. Thanks for reading the story. :)