I am so glad everyone is liking the story so far. So I know I said I would not have many more chapters left but I looked at my outline and there is so much more that needs to be covered so at this point I have no clue how long this story will be.
Once more I do not own Harry Potter or Criminal Minds.
Back at the BAU Morgan and Spencer were still worried about Hermione.
"I can't believe she wouldn't tell us. After everything we have all told her she still kept it a secret." Morgan said to Spencer. The days paperwork had been finished as the day was coming to a close.
"It is not uncommon for survivors of extreme acts of violence to never speak to anyone who has not been through something similar . It has nothing to do with trust but rather logically no one else would have a starting point of comparison" Reid said as he sat back in his chair. He understood Hermione's reason but he could not help feeling lost. When he saw the scar on her arm and the way her eyes glazed over as she was telling her story as if she was reliving it, made Spencer's heart break. He liked Hermione she was smart and funny and kind. She had a confidence that he had yet to master. Where he came off sometimes weird Hermione managed to perfectly straddle the two personalities. She could go out and have fun or she could stay at home and discuss black holes.
Seeing her on the plane was the first time Spencer had seen her so vulnerable.
"Hey Reid you listening man?" Morgan asked as he snapped his fingers in front of Spencer's face to gather his attention.
"What.. oh yeah sorry I was just thinking. What did you say?"
"I said I was thinking about stopping by Hermione's place after work tonight maybe try to get her to go out to dinner. I don't think she should be alone right now. Plus I want to make sure she is really alright."
"Yeah sounds like a plan."
"Great let me just finish this up and we can leave in about 15."
As the two men walked up to Hhermione's ffront door they heard voices inside the apartment. They looked at each other and Morgan knocked on the door.
Hermione answered the door smiling. "Oh Derek, Spencer hey what's up?" she asked.
"Nothing much" Morgan said looking past her and seeing two people sitting in her living room "We just wanted to come by and see you. Maybe see if you wanted to go grab a bite to eat."
Hermione caught Morgan looking inside so she said "Oh come in and meet my friends."
As the men entered her apartment they saw a man with messy black hair and glasses stand up and help a small women with bright red hair who was clearly pregnant stand to her feet.
"Derek, Spencer may I introduce Mr Harry Potter and his Wife Mrs. Ginny Potter." Hermione said "Gin, Harry this here is SSA Derek Morgan and Dr. Spencer Reid"She used her hands to indicate who was who to the Potters.
"Pleasure to meet you" Spencer said
"Wait Harry as in your best friend Harry?" Morgan asked arching his eyebrow "I thought you guys were in England."
"We live there yes. But as you can see my wife here is going to be having our first child here in a few more months. We decided to come on a baby moon. We have actually been in the area for a few days. We were going to surprise Mione here tomorrow on her day off." Harry said repeating the story they thought of earlier in case someone showed up. "We called her today to let her know and she told us she had today off too. So we decided to come a day early to see her."
"That makes sense. I am kind of glad you did. We have been worry about you today Hermione" Morgan said as he turned to her. "We wanted to make sure you were okay. I was going to drag you out of here for some of your favorite Italian but seeing as you have friends here we can do it another time."
"No you should go with them Hermione. Clearly your friends have been worried about you. We know your okay. They need to know too."Harry said "Besides we will be here until tomorrow afternoon when our flight leaves."
Before Hermione could decide what to do Ginny spoke up "Why don't we all go? Hermione has told us so much about her team we would love to get to know you a little better seeing as you are protecting our sister"
"Gin I don't need protecting" Hermione snuffed out at her red headed friend.
"I know you don't, but seeing as I really would like for you to meet your godson when he is born I would feel better knowing a little bit more about the people who are with you when you go do your crazy stunts." Ginny said smiling.
Hermione knew the reason she had offered this was because she really wanted to get to know Spencer better but Hermione could not say that right there.
"Sounds like a plan to me" Morgan said "Reid?"
"Yeah, sounds good." Spencer said.
"Great. We will meet you guys there say in 15. Give us a chance to freshen up?" Hermione asked
"Sure thing. We will go ahead a grab a table" Morgan said as he walked back out the door with Spencer following him.
David Rossi was at his cabin in the woods. He knew something was not right with Hermione's story. He liked the girl, she was a good agent. But there was something about that word carved on her arm and the story she gave that did not sound right to David. He knew he had heard that word before but just could not remember where.
As he laid down in bed he looked over at the nightstand. On it was an old picture of a younger David and a young boy about 10 years old. Then it hit him. His best friend had a stepson who David called his nephew. He was the one who had told him about that word! Could it be possible? Could Hermione Granger be like his nephew? Could she be a witch? David looked at the clock. His nephew lived in upper England and David knew he would already be asleep by now. So David set his alarm for 3 in the morning to catch the boy before he went to work the next day. David had to get to the bottom of this.
CUE creepy music now. So who do you think Rossi's nephew is? Leave me a review and let me know. I will be telling everyone in the next chapter. I meant to get this out earlier but I had a PTA thing at my son's school this morning so I could not do anything until he went down for his nap.