It had been two days since they had returned home. Hotch had called the team and told them to come in the following day.

Lorelai was nervous even thought she knew she wasn't in trouble. She also knew that it wasn't going to be ignored like nothing had happened. She was going to have to talk about it at least some of it. She had kind of lost it on a case. In front of her entire team and the bad guys and the victims might have heard something too.

She went into work at 7am. It was a little earlier than normal but that's when Hotch asked her to come in. She noticed no one else as there yet. She then realized. He had asked her to come in earlier than normal earlier than anyone else and that he most likely wanted to talk to her before anyone else came in.

Hotch had asked the young agent to come in early. He knew they needed to discuss some of what happened. He had to inform the director what had happened to a certain degree. The director told him to handle it. To make sure that her past was not going to affect her job again. He of course didn't want to force her to talk about what she had been through. Her past was hers to discuss with whom she wanted when she wanted but he also wanted to see if he could do anything to help her get passed this.

Lorelai went up to Agent Hotchner's office and knocked on the door.

"Enter." He called out.

Lorelai entered. "I get the feeling by the empty squad room that I might have been called in earlier. I just wanted to let you know I'm okay. The few days off was enough to get me passed it."

Hotch looked up at her. "Have a seat." He told her. He saw right through her.

Lorelai let out a breath but did as she was told.

"I'm going to start with don't lie to me. I don't tolerate being lied to. Ever." He told her being very clear that lying was never a good option when it came to him. "Understood?"

Lorelai swallowed hard. She had never seen him quite so stern with her. "Y-yes sir." She answered

He nodded before continuing "Clearly you have a past. We all do. Yours just happens to be more recent compared to others. Its okay. Our past affects us. It forms us. It makes us who we are. I don't think you could have helped that young man the way you did without the past you have had. To say that it, wont impact you again isn't fair or honest to anyone including yourself. It is okay. It is normal. As long as you can do your job professionally, I don't care about your past. It doesn't make me think less of you. In fact, it might even impress me more. You have overcome so much. You are not just another statistic. You graduated highschool at sixteen and before you turn nineteen you have three bachelor's degrees and are a very good FBI agent. Okay?"

Lorelai nodded. "Thank you, sir."

"I do have a question. Do you think there are still children in that home? Going though what you have been through?" He asked Lorelai

She nodded again. "I am sure of it…"

"Is there something that this team can do to help?" He asked her.

Lorelai shook her head. "Unfortunately, no. The FBI can not investigate a case unless they are called in my local law enforcement. Or a crime crosses state line"

"Well, if we told law enforcement what was going on?" He asked.

Lorelai snort laughed and realized she probably just came off as really rude. "Uh. Sorry. No. That wont help."

Agent Hotchner raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"

"They already know. They just don't care. It's a small town. If it got out it wouldn't look good." She told her superior agent. "Look. It kills me inside that I can't go help the kids in that home. I promised them when I left that I would come back for them. I want to I just don't know how to do it legally. It is a known thing if you report it when you are there. They bring you home you get beaten and you don't do it again. If you try again, you are never seen again. Same if you try to run away. The only way out of that situation is to run when you are eighteen and never look back."

Hotch kept getting more and more angry. Law enforcements job is to protect that most vulnerable, and kids are among that group. "Is that state or town law enforcement?" He asked her.

"Its town law enforcement but my understanding is that state, and town law enforcement are run by two brothers so I think state would cover up also. Unless something happens, which makes it so FBI can get involved without being called in there isn't anything we can do." She told him.

Hotch nodded. "Okay. Well, I will see what I can find. But in the meantime, given what I know, you are ordered to counselling." He handed her a card with a therapist's name. "It's mandated when there is an on-the-job situation that can hurt an agents, abilities to do their jobs. It's a one-time thing unless something serious is going on. Make an appointment and get it done with this week." He told her. "And remember you can talk to anyone on the team also if you would like." He told her before telling her she could go.

Lorelai took the card and sighed softly before thanking him and leaving the office. She didn't want to go to this FBI therapist. If she had been straight with him, she would have told him she has been seeing a outside therapist since she had come to the area when she was eighteen. She didn't want him to know. She didn't want to seem weak. She figured she could go to this one session and never have to deal with it again. She called the therapist and made an appointment as soon as possible to just get this over with. Soon after she hung up the rest of the team showed up and it was back to work for them all.