"Hey Elle." I say
"Hey." she said
"Hey, listen; we got the guys who kidnapped you. They were identified crossing the boarder to Mexico." I explain.
She just silently nods.
"Listen Elle, I've been pushing this off until you were ready but I still need your..."
"I know Morgan, you still need my statement." She sighs, and sits up in her hospital bed.
"Hotch says I need to get it from you by tomorrow." I say to her.
"Well, I remember pouring my coffee when you were attacked..."
"Elle, we just need to know what happened when you were taken." I say
"Ok, Sorry. Umm, well, you were making me laugh trying to impersonate a waiter, and by the way, doing a bad job at it, then I tried to get some sleep. I was dosing when I heard someone come in. I thought it was you, so I kept my eyes closed. But then, I felt sick, like I was going to pass out. I opened my eyes and this guy was standing over me, with a syringe in my drip. Things started to go fuzzy, but I remember seeing you come in. Then he grabbed you from behind, and stuck another needle in your neck, and then I passed out." she said.
"Ok, what happened in his house?" I ask her
"Umm, I woke up. I was still fully clothed then. There where three guys there. I can't remember what they were saying, because I had too much of a headache from the drugs. Then the perp's brother came in, and he started to talk to me. Then he left, a-and, the, uh, o-other guy, he g-got on top of m-me..."
She was crying now, and I only just realized the hot tears streaking down my own face.
"He pinned me down."
"How so?" I ask gently
"He had his h-hands on my wrists. A-and he was b-biting my n-neck. I remember trying to cross my ankles, so that he couldn't spread my l-legs. I guess I was hoping that he would let go of my wrists so I could defend myself."
"And did he?"
"Yes. As soon as he let go of my wrists I grabbed his hair, and I bit him." she said
"Umm, yea, just a little creepy there Elle."
"Shut-up and let me finish." She said with a laugh
"Ok, go a head"
"I threw him off me, he called me a bitch, and then someone hit my from behind. And everything went black. When I woke up again, I was in a pink baby doll, one of the new ones from Victoria's Secret. I couldn't remember anything after me biting him."
"What were they doing now?"
"One of them was poking me. I remember one said 'Dude, be careful, she bites man' or something like that. I don't remember names, sorry. I told the one poking me that if he didn't get that finger out of my face I was going to bite it off."
"So that would explain why we found a finger. It's probably a good thing too, or we might not have identified one of them." I say
"Yea, well, it was gross."
"Ok, so what happened next?"
"He knocked me out again, and when I woke up, I thought you where him, that's why I pushed you, i'm sorry." She said, focusing her gaze on the floor.
"It's ok."
"DO you know what they did to me during the times I was knocked out?" She said, looking at me with fearful brown eyes.
"Well, they are giving us clues as to what they did, but we really need you to let us get a rape kit ordered." I said.
"Ok." She said,
I could tell that she was suppressing sobs and tears. But when I moved over to the bed and pulled her to me, she lost it. I felt so horrible. I was so mad that someone could do this to her. I was cry tears of rage. When we found the guy, I swear to God I saw red. Gideon almost took me off the case because I went after him. I swear if Reid and Hotch hadn't pulled me off him, I would be going to jail for murder.
Slowly I felt her breathing ease to a steady pace. I knew she was asleep. As quietly, and with as little movement as possible, I picked her up, moved the covers back and lay us both beneath them. Soon after, I found myself thinking that this was how I wanted it to be. I wanted to wake up every morning with her in my arms, and go to bed the same way. I'll follow Reid's advice tomorrow, when she wakes up.