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Derek sat with his mouth slightly open, shocked by Curtis' question. "We're friends." He answered, "She's my partner and very close friend."
Curtis closed his eyes, and pinched the bridge in his nose, "Derek, Derek, Derek. I told you the conditions of this interview, and on the first question you decide to break the only rule I had." Curtis opened his eyes looking at the dark agent "I said answer truthfully, and you decided to lie. I already know your secrets Derek, this isn't for me; this is for your friends." He said motioning to the camera "If you feel like JJ's life isn't worth preserving, then I'll just leave right now." Curtis said rising from his seat "I wonder how long JJ will last this time."
"No please." Derek shouted, "I'll tell the truth. Please don't hurt her. It was a mistake." Derek hated himself for pleading and begging, but he couldn't bear the thought of JJ dead because his decision to push the boundaries with Curtis.
Curtis couldn't help but smile as the strong agent groveled. "One last chance, you tell a lie, and our precious JJ dies." Derek nodded in response.
Curtis slowly sunk back into his chair, "Once again, what are your feelings towards Agent Jareau?"
Derek took a deep breath, before looking into the camera lens. "I love Agent Jareau. I hadn't thought about my feelings about her, besides her being one of my friends, until the day Askari abducted her. When she went missing, she was the only thing on my mind, the thought of losing her was unbearable, and I never could fully focus. After the case, the thoughts never went away, I wanted to protect her from all the evils of the world. At night, I dreamt about JJ. And my day never truly began until I heard her laugh and saw that beautiful smile." Derek closed his eyes picturing JJ's smiling face. "I wanted to be the last person she saw before she went to bed every night, I wanted to be the man she opened her eyes to every morning. I love JJ." He opened his eyes, coming back to the world around him, a world where he wasn't able to protect her, wasn't able to hear her laugh, or even see her face. His hand clenched into fists.
"Did you know that Will was cheating on her?" Curtis asked with a smile painted on his face. Derek looked away for a second before returning his gaze to Curtis.
"Yes." He sighed guiltily "I went out from drinks one night after we got back from case, and Will was there, his hair was messed up, he smelled of perfume, but it wasn't JJ's. I connected the dots."
"Did you confront him?"
"Yes, I told him how much of an idiot he was and that he needed to stop being unfaithful to JJ. That he needed to stop seeing this other woman."
"Did you tell JJ?"
"I wanted to… but I wasn't going to hurt JJ by telling her, and Henry, God, I didn't want to be the reason if they called off their marriage. But I told Will that if I caught him again I would. I told him that he needed to tell JJ the truth."
"How noble." Curtis mocked, "You want to know he was screwing. The nanny." He laughed, "It's so cliché, faithful husband falls for the young pretty babysitter."
"Shut up." Derek said
"Why do you think JJ fired her? JJ came home one night early from a case, and guess what she found in her own bed." Curtis couldn't stop chuckling
Derek scrunched his face, as Curtis calmed himself. "Oh but here's the best part. JJ was willing to forgive him to salvage the marriage. Until, Will called on your last case and told JJ that he was going to leave her for the nanny."
Derek closed his eyes and placed his hand over his mouth. He shook his head in response.
"No you're lying. JJ would've told me."
"Oh come on Derek, you know she wouldn't tell you." Curtis answered. "You know she has nightmares of Askari. Hell her PTSD is so bad that she's willing to kill herself to get away from the traumatic memory. JJ wouldn't sleep with Will for almost 7 months, that's why she was willing to over look Will's mistakes, she blamed herself. For everything."
Derek put both hands on his face, covering it from the cameras view as tears fell from his eyes. How could I not see? She needed help. I could've helped her, comforted her. Anything. He took a deep breath and rubbed the watermarks off of his face.
"At least now she has a new nightmare that can haunt her." He smiled "Now anytime somebody touches her, she'll remember me."
"You son of a bitch!" Derek yelled
"Or anytime she sees herself in the mirror, she'll see the creation I made for her."
Derek jumped from his seat, charging at Curtis. The door opened behind him, taking his attention off of Curtis. "Who the hell-" He started to ask before Curtis stuck a needle into his neck plunging the toxin into his blood system. Derek dropped to the ground instantly, watching his vision go blurry and then be consumed by darkness.
Garcia put the picture of the man through a facial recognition database. "Come on, Come on." She whispered impatiently watching the faces whir. 5 minutes passed without any promising results. A tiny beep rang through the computer analyst's lair. Her eyes shifted from her main computers to the tiny laptop, She looked at it quizzically. "What the…"
She gasped at the file blinking in the middle of her screen. ZUGZWANG. She hesitantly hovered her mouse over the file, afraid of what might be inside. A virus, malware, or something regarding her friends. She bit her lip as she clicked the file opening its contents onto her screen. The video frozen on Derek's face waiting to be played. She scooped it into her arms and bolted out of her dark room.
"Garcia and I found something." Reid said walking into the conference room. "We searched through the SCIF database, and found a less redacted file, however the last few pages were still heavily redacted, like locations and more people involved in the operation. When we searched the cabinets for the hard copy file, it was missing." He stopped to catch his breath before continuing "Garcia then checked the surveillance, after finding a glitch that played a recording on loop over the actual video-"
"Reid just get to the point." Hotch interrupted
"Right, there was a guy who went in a took the file."
"Curtis?" Rossi asked
"No. Garcia's running the guy through the facial recognition software now." His eyes shifted to the plump blonde running towards them
"I guess she got a hit." Blake said watching Garcia run into the room.
"So who is it?" Rossi asked
"What?" Garcia gasped "Oh, our mystery accomplice is still being ran through the database, I got something else."
Everyone looked at her puzzled, as she hooked her computer to the TV monitor
"This file just popped up on my laptop, the word ZUGZWANG hovered over the closed file. When I opened it…" She paused clicking on the file "This came up." Morgan's face, beaten and bloodied stared at all of them.
"Play it." Hotch ordered, Garcia nodded in response and clicked the sideways triangle.
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