The Heart Knows-Ch 54

A few minutes later after everything had calmed down Derek smiled as he looked across the room to see Emily and Penelope talking, he was so relieved and happy that she was safe. Hotch interrupted his chain of thought by saying, "she's okay Morgan, she's safe", he nodded his head and said, "I know but it could so easily have been different".

Hotch said, "it could have but it wasn't", Derek said, "I could have lost them"?, Hotch said, "them"?, Derek said, "yeah baby girl's pregnant", Hotch smiled and said, "congratulations that's great". Emily said, "what's great. what are you two talking about over here"?, Derek said, "I was just telling Hotch the news".

Emily said, "news, what news"?, Penelope said, "didn't you get your text"?, Emily said, "uhhh text, what text"? as she started scrolling through her cell. She smiled when she saw it and said, "ohhhh PG that's amazing, congtatulations", Penelope laughed and said, "I sent a short text to everybody on the team but that was some time ago what were you" and then she blushed and said, "ohhhhh right, sorry".

Hotch said, "nothing to be sorry about, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was making mad passionate love to my sexy wife", Emily slapped his shoulder and said, "Aaron". He grinned as he wrapped his arm around her and said, "are you ashamed to admit it Em"?, she shook her head and said, "definitely not" as the two couples started laughing.

Derek looked at Hotch and said, "we need to look into Scotts background and see what we can find"?, Hotch said, "what are you hoping to find"?, Derek said, "maybe an ex wife or girlfriend who'll be willing to talk to us about him". Penelope said, "and if we find nothing"?, Derek said, "then we find nothing but sweetness we have to try, I owe Savannah that much", Penelope intertwined fingers with her husband and said, "I'll see what I can find out" and then he watched as she walked toward the home office.

A few minutes later she looked up and said, "I found something", Derek said, "what did you find goddess, anything we can use"?, she said, "he was married to a Jillian Desmond back in 2013". Hotch said, "what happened"?, Penelope scanned through the papers and said, "it seems here that Jillian had a daughter from a previous relationship and the little girl was 3 when they got married and it wasn't long before she started getting bruises on her back that the step father said she got from falling".

Derek said, "that sick son of a" and Hotch said, "where is she now"?, Penelope said, "she lives here in town, she's a few minutes away bossman at 22 Bowman Lane", Hotch looked at Derek and said, "feel like making a trip"?, Derek said, "sure do", they both kissed their wives and headed across the room and out the front door.

It wasn't long before they were pulling up in front of Jillians home, Derek blew out a deep breath as they climbed out of the car and made their way toward the steps. As they walked up onto the porch Hotch raised his hand and knocked on the door, a few seconds later the door opened revealing a little girl who looked to be about 9 or 10 years old.

Derek said, "hi sweetie is your mommy home"?, she said, "uh huh", she then said, "mommy their are two men here that want to talk to you". They heard her say, "coming sweetheart" she then stepped into the living room and said, "can I help you"?, Derek said, "are you Jillian Desmond"?, she said, "that's right".

Hotch and Derek then flashed their badges and Hotch said, "I'm SSA Aaron Hotchner and this is SSA Derek Morgan, we're with the FBI may we have a few words with you"?, she opened the door and said, "yes, please, please come in", they walked into the living room and she said, "have a seat" as they walked over and sat down on the couch".

She looked at them and said, "what can I help you with"?, Derek said, "we need to talk to you about your ex husband Scott", Jillian said, "baby why don't you go finish your homework okay"?, she said, "sure mommy" and then turned around and walked back into the other room.

Jillian said, "why do you want to talk about him, I haven't thought about him for a long time"?, Hotch said, "we need to talk to you about his behavior with your daughter". Jillian said, "he would beat on her while I was at work and then when I saw the bruises he' tell me that she fell while she was playing but how many times can a child fall when they play, right"?, and both men nodded their heads yes in agreement.

Derek said, "Scott married my ex wife last year and started doing the same thing to my son, he's 4", she said, "I'm so sorry, is he alright"?, Derek said, "he's fine but his mother isn't so lucky". Jillian said, "what happened"?, Derek said, "he beat her and tied her up in the trunk of her car, she had been in the hospital for almost 3 days when he arranged for her to be killed, we're not sure what happened, we're waiting on the results of the autopsy".

Jillian said, "I'm so sorry", Hotch said, "is their anything else you can tell us about Scott"?, she then spent the next hour or so telling them everything she knew about Scott and his family.