The trip through the dirt road in the hunting ground was treacherous for Emily as James instructed her with where the turns were needed for a quick exit back to parker. After they escaped Maggie, who had fired a few rounds with her rifle at them, Emily noticed a change in James domineer after the words he exchanged with Maggie. He was agitated with something; it could have been anything though, The Cullen Family, the stress of being in a shoot out again or it could simply have been that he was good and ready to be home again. Emily found her curiosity to his agitation and asks "Are you okay, James."

James himself felt a strange and confusing anger boiling deep within himself, not quite sure where it was coming from. The hallucinations that had returned to haunt him could have been the reason for it, it literally felt like blood was dripping down his face as the screams could once again be heard from a short distance as Emily was driving. Then he heard Emily ask "Are you okay, James?" He was not sure himself if he was okay, this anger and the newly found hallucinations could just come out of know where at him and all he had to explain it was the Belladonna Caleb forced down his throat.

"Yeah I'm fine Prentiss." James responds in a desperate lie to hide his problem, unintentionally out of character. The entire time Emily and James had known each other he had never addressed her by her last name, always by her first name or his nickname for her. She could tell right away that something was wrong and says "Nice lie there James. What's really going on? You've been acting weird since you woke up this morning. Is there something you need to tell me?"

Emily watched as James's eyes moved left and right as he was trying to think of a way around this, any excuse would have worked for him, but then he figured Emily would probably find out or at the very least suspect that something was wrong and that he was withholding from her and finally relents "I think the Belladonna Caleb gave me is still working, A hallucination or two happened after I woke up. I think I may need to see a doctor about the effects. I'm starting to worry it could be permanent"

"Are you still seeing that Wilson guy?" Emily asks, believing him without hesitation. This probably would have been considered a mistake by her colleagues, but she believed and trusted in him enough that she was confident he was not lying to her. After all why would he? What motivation would he have? James looked her dead in the eyes after she said the name Wilson, a name that to this day he never told a single sole about, just hearing the name brought a sad look on to his face in an instant and caused him to ask "How do you know that name?"

"After that Caleb guy forced you to drink that stuff mixed with Belladonna you were kind of going in and out on me. After a while you were talking to someone, first you said Grandpa, then I could just barely hear you talking to someone, you were saying shut up Wilson. After that you kind of came to." Emily explains to James, making him aware of everything that had happened after the drug was first given to him. James found the fact that she was able to hear what he was saying of itself impressive, from his point of view it was like she was miles away from him and hr could just barely hear himself, to the point that he believed he was mumbling. He then says "When I was on my last tour of Duty in the seals, my team was sent to capture this CIA traitor named Wintergreen. We thought we had him by surprise, but before we knew it he took us with a surprise attack, He almost had me, but my best friend Oliver saved me. We killed the target, but Oliver died as a result. After that I spent the next few months living in a slump, feeling nothing but depression and self-pity. Damien Wilson found me some time later and helped me get my act together, later he offered me a job on his team and from that moment on we were friends."

"What happened to him?" Emily asks, and then James says "We were trying to build a case against the Comescu family, mostly human trafficking and weapon smuggling and being responsible for Oliver getting killed. They got wind of us and responded by sending a team after us, I survived but Wilson didn't make it, he died in my arms as I tried to save him, but it was too late."

Emily noticed as James recounted his time with Wilson and how he recounted the way he saved his life and could not help but hear the respect and admiration he had for the man in his voice and asks "I take it you two were close?" and then James replies "He and Oliver were some of the closest friends I have ever had in my entire life. Then when they were gone it was like when my parents divorced and my grandparents died. My world, my life it all fell apart once again."

Emily became curious and asks "What did you do?" James then said "After that I spent the next years hunting the Comescu's down, chasing their people from North Korea, to the Middle east until I finally found those bastards in their beach house in Romania where they had been the entire time. I attacked their home, got hold of a handgun from a black market dealer, set up a distraction for most of their Mercs and attacked. I snuffed them out one by one until I found the family head and finished it."

When Emily heard James mention how he killed an entire family, she was a little horrified, but as he told the story of how he did that there was no joy or pride in his voice, there was still depressed voice like a monotone. She then asks "You don't sound like that your too happy with what you did." After she said that James replies "To be honest Emily, I'm not sure why I was doing that. I never thought twice about it until I had the head of the Family in my sight in a standoff, I wondered what I was really doing all this for. Was it for revenge for all the people I lost or justice for the good men who died wanting to stop them? Then as I was about to pull the trigger I had my answer, it was both. I'm not proud of what I did, I still lost two of greatest friends a guy could ask for and none of that was going to bring them back. After that I came to Parker two years ago and opened Greaves salvage, thought I could try to start over, not that I ever thought it was going be easy."

There was a long moment of silence between the two, James and Emily both began to withdraw from the conversation. Emily then asks "So James, when we get back to Parker do you want me to take you to the hospital fist?" James nodded his head left and right saying "No, I'm pretty sure if you do that Stabler will think you're trying to help me evade the law or something more ridiculous to charge you with. I imagine you're going to meet up with that team of yours at the police station right?"

Emily confirmed this with a gesture nod of the head of her own and he says "Just take me there. They have a doctor to look at my injuries. They'll probably arrest me for running away and it's better than giving that Sumbitch Stabler the satisfaction of arresting me, again." Emily found it to be entertaining how James seemed to use words to annoy and fight Stabler, rather than just fists and asks "What did you do to make him hate you much?" James looks at her for a moment then says "The first year that I lived in Parker, there was a series of murders and rapes. I was brought in as one of the suspects, kind of gave them an attitude. I was cleared later, but from that moment on Stabler and his partner took any excuse they could get to lock me in the back of a car."

"Sounds like a real ass hole." Emily says, causing James to laugh and say "Emily Prentiss agreeing with me about a cop being an ass hole? Guess the Mayans got it right after all. Now all I need is a pale horseman and I'm set." Emily just looks to James after he made that joke and says "Apocalypse jokes, really? Is that what it's come to with you these days?" James then replied "Well you know me Raven; I'm always full of terrible jokes. Was back then, still am now."

The two were back to laughing and enjoying being together as they returned to Parker. Emily wasted no time in getting them both to the police station and she says as she parks the truck "Don't worry James. I'll do everything I can to help you, I promise." James took her words and believed them, not that he believed he had much choice right now.

James was the first to step out of the truck and then he says to Emily "Alright Raven. I'm trusting you with this one. Oh but to be fair, what happened back at the cabin you'll want to keep from Stabler."

Emily then made a half smile on her face as she begins to tease him "What's the matter James, afraid I'll gossip about you?" James smiled back as he laughed a little saying "No, you can tell your team if you want to, as odd as that is for me to say, but Stabler we'll take any leverage he can to get control of this case."

They both walk into the police station, the first people Emily was able to recognize was J.J. who was shocked and flabbergasted to see her walking inside the building with James. She was also probably the only one in the room who was not pointing a gun at James, not that he was all that surprised.

"Oh goodie more guns and angry cops. What I tell you." James said sarcastically along with "Something on your mind there boys?" every cop in the room was giving him the third degree look as he kept his hands in the air and Chief Brody ordered one of his men to cuff him before James asks "Really? Having one of your suits arrest me? Don't you usually reserve this for Stabler?"

Chief Brody got so angry after he said that, Emily was pretty sure that he was going to punch him across the jaw after he said that to him. Then the officers searched him for weapons, taking his two weapons and Brody says "Have CSU test these guns and see if one of them was the one that killed Deeks and Banks."

The moment James heard that Deeks and Danny were dead, Emily could practically see the devastation on James faces, she could even hear it as he asks "Deeks and Danny are dead?" The Chief didn't even answer his question; he just had his men haul him off.

J.J. then brought Emily into one of her sister hugs, glad to see that she was alive and well then tells her that they had a suspect. Emily wanted to help James, but knew that for now all she could do was finish this case then do what she could for him. There was a shocker for her though when they took her to the suspect, it was Caleb Cullen, restrained and bound to a chain in the interrogation room.

Author's note: Okay, those of you reading who have been reading, the sides where I've been exploring on some of James background in his conversations with Emily, just bare with me on this, I've been wanting to use some of it as a way to explore a possible plot for a second story after this one if I am ever able to.