It's been a long time to go on a date to someone else when Zack passed away. Spen rambles a lot regarding Ice Skating and telling me when it's been originated. It caught him off surprise why I didn't look annoyed and listening to his facts.
He asks my dad to know what are my likes and dislikes or even if I have a food allergy which is none but only alcohol. It's a bit irony the fact I'm the only girl in our family who has an allergy to it whereas some of them are heavy drinkers. Spen is a sweet guy and always looking out for me aside from taking me on a date but also for my health.
Zack would never do that to me before. He usually takes me a posh date and never asks what my ideal type of date. I know it's wrong for me to compare between him and Spen but- whenever I'm with him, there's no spark or any love at all as lovers.
If I am with Spen, I always feel butterflies in my stomach. Heck, he manages to make me blush. Being with Spen on a date is the best wish that I could ever ask for. ~Novilene Cruz
Novilene knew someone is looking at her while she finishes the last report. Sighing heavily and looking at Elle with a deadpanned expression. "Yes, Elle?"
"Soo~" Elle comes closer to her desk. "How's your date with Reid?" She wanted Novilene to tell her date with Reid last weekend.
"I don't share my personal dating life, Elle." Novilene answered bluntly and never wanting to share her dating experience with Reid.
Novilene finally removes her locket necklace been given to Zack. She finally moves on from her love life and giving a chance to fall in love. It's hard for her to let go but it's the only way to let go of her pasts. Her grandmother, Maricar, is very proud of her and always support Novilene's love life.
"Come on, please!" Elle pleads and Novilene didn't spill even one bit of information. "I bet Gideon knows."
"It doesn't matter if my dad knows it or not. Even my grandma didn't know my date with Spen." Novilene pointed out and her phone buzz. "Ugh, not him again." She groaned and open her message.
"Let me guess, Holmes is also asking your date?" Elle guessed and Novilene fake smile.
"More like pestering me. I swear you guys are going to ask an autograph from us and become celebrities soon." Novilene commented sarcastically and slapping Elle's head gently using a manila folder.
"You also give each other nickname and that's cute." Elle grinned and Novilene sighs heavily. "What? It's true!? Morgan, tell me I'm right about them giving each other's nickname!" Novilene turned around to see Morgan and Reid are approaching them.
"It's true, mini Gideon." Morgan smirked and Novilene just glares at them. "Don't deny it!"
"Are we back in High School?" Novilene asks sarcastically and Reid just smiled by her sassy remarks. "Ooh! Oh my gosh! I just had a first date with a boy! Isn't it amazing!?" Pretending to be gushing of her first experience and Morgan rolls his eyes.
"Such a Drama Queen." Elle pointed out with a grins. "Speaking of your grandma, how is she?" She asks curiously. Elle joined Novilene to fetch Maricar the moment she landed on the plane. Her grandmother is a very kind and loving elder as she wanted to stay with Novilene. Missing her granddaughter very much and wanted to live in Novilene.
"She enjoyed Virginia and wanted to stroll around the park by herself." Novilene answered and couldn't wait to spend time with her grandma.
"What is she look-" Morgan was cut off by Hotch's voice.
"Reid, Morgan and Cruz document's up on the screen regarding the kidnapping of Trish Davenport." Informing his remaining teammates.
"Have you read those documents, Sir?" Novilene asks the Unit Chief as they headed up towards the briefing room to join Elle and Hotch.
"Yeah, got a copy from the document examiner." Hotch answered.
"What does it say?" Morgan asks them.
"That we've got until 8:00 tonight." He answered with a grim look on his face.
Everyone is in the briefing room as Novilene, Reid and Gideon are reading the letter.
"'You will follow instructions carefully. You will do this to ensure the safety of your daughter. You will wait for the call. You will answer the call at 8:00 P.M. You will write down the instructions and follow them to the letter.'" Reid read the letter out.
"That gives us less than 9 hours to get to Connecticut work up victimology on Trish Davenport and prepare her father for the ransom drop." Hotch explained to his team.
"How do we know the letter's real?" Gideon asks Hotch curiously.
Hotch scroll down the letters. "The handwriting is a match for Trish's. He dictated it to her, and they found saline on the paper."
"Ang luha niya (her tears)." Novilene muttered in Filipino and Gideon agreed with her.
"He doesn't say 'I'. He doesn't say 'I will call'. He says 'you will call'. He's distancing himself from the kidnapping." Morgan pointed out. "If he said 'I', he'd be taking responsibility for it."
"There's also another missing element." Hotch pointed out.
"No mention of the police. Ransom notes almost always forbid Police involvement." Elle commented.
"So is he expecting Law Enforcement to get involved?"
"Well, if he's expecting us, let's not disappoint him." Gideon commented.
"Anyone familiar with the father?" Hotch asks his team.
"Evan Davenport, U.S Attorney, executive assistant. Southern District, New York. Widower." Novilene spoke and reading the messages again coming from her Uncle Jay as she didn't look up at their stares. "Assigned U.S Marshals 3 times in the past 10 years due to death threats."
To: Uncle Jay
My dad, the team and I are going to help and save Trish. You got a lot of explanations from me Mr-I-am-dating-with-his-daughter!
Novilene presses the sent button. She leans back in the chair to calm herself down before snapping at someone.
"Is the protective detail still current?" Morgan asks.
"Around the clock, but Trish declined protection when she turned 18." Hotch answered.
"Too bad for the boyfriend." He feels sorry for the boyfriend got killed without any protection.
"But why kill him?" Reid questioned.
"Well, if I'm gonna kidnap someone. I know I have to take out whoever's with them." Morgan answered and flipping the next picture. "It says here she's got a sister."
"Cheryl." Novilene answered Morgan's question.
"How did you know this, Mini Gideon?" He asks curiously.
"Cheryl is dating my Uncle Jay." Earning strange looks from her and she sighs heavily. "Uncle is 2 years older than me and he hasn't told anyone including Ma that he's dating Trish sister." Crossing her arms with a bitter look on her face.
"Yikes, your Uncle is going to get himself in trouble by you." He cringed and whoever Jay is, he felt sorry for him. Morgan knew Novilene is known to be brutal when she's going to beat someone behind her hourglass appearance. "Any problems? Were they close?"
"Yeah. They're identical twins." Reid showed it to Morgan the pictures of the twins, two blonde girls wearing their cheerleader outfit with pompom. Gideon sent Novilene a look that the twins are a sensitive topic for her.
|| Connecticut, New Haven
"I have 6 people on my staff. I have 3 bodyguards. They've all had polygraphs. Everybody's been vetted." Evan Davenport explained to Reid, Gideon, Hotch and Novilene.
"And they all have alibis for the night of the kidnapping?" Hotch asks Davenport.
"All accounted for by the local FBI field office. Cheryl flew in yesterday and she's bringing Jay with her because..." He stared at Novilene that they have similar features to her daughter's boyfriend. She also has the same eyes as the older man standing right next to her. "Jay is worried about her well-being and you must be his niece?"
"Yes and I'm sorry that we meet in a different situation." Novilene spoke up giving him a sympathetic smile. At least her Uncle informs Davenport about their family relationship.
"Me too. Jay won't let her leave alone even for-" He exhales and rubbing her forehead. "Sorry. I just feel like I'm suffocating here. I just want somebody to tell me that she's okay." He's still dreading for Cheryl's safety.
"Dr. Reid." She called Spen in a soft tone as Spen stared at her then approaching them.
"What do the statistics tell us?" Gideon asks him.
"If you follow their instructions and give them the money, your daughter will be returned." Reid answered.
"Done." One of the FBI agents, Vincent Shyer, announced. "This house is bug-free."
"All right, bring it in." Agent Shyer announced and calling the staff members to bring the pieces of equipment in. She glanced at the man and can't help but feel suspicious about him.
"So, what are your theories so far about this kidnapper?" Davenport asks the man who's standing right next to Novilene.
"He targeted you for a reason. Every line of the letter starts with the word 'you'. He's angry at you probably feels like you owe him. That everything you own, you don't deserve." Gideon explained to him.
"And from the language in the ransom, we most likely believe that he's working alone." Hotch commented.
Davenport grabs one of the books with his reading glasses on. He approached them to explain about his daughters. "They're not entirely identical. They're mirror twins." He explained to them. "Some of Trish's organs are on the right side that should be on the left. The Doctor assured us that it wasn't life-threatening." Handing them the book.
"Situs inversus." Novilene pointed out since she was a former Doctor and been through cases like this before. Gideon handed the book to Reid since Novilene knew about mirror twins before.
"They had self-defense training?" Gideon asks Davenport.
"Yeah. I insisted on it." Davenport answered. "The protective detail rankled when they hit puberty and I was sure that they would refuse their bodyguards when they left for College." He noticed Reid's reading too fast. "Excuse me. Can you actually read that fast?"
"Our conscious minds can process 16 bits of information per second." Reid answered to Davenport as Novilene could tell he's going to ramble soon. "Our unconscious, however, can process 11 million."
"Yes, Dr. Reid can read fast." Novilene spoke in simple words seeing a confused looked from Davenport.
"If whoever took her wants me to blow cases or suppress evidence or stand down, I... " Davenport stopped talking as Gideon intervened.
"What makes you think it's someone you prosecuted?" He questioned him.
"Well, I have money, but I don't have millions. I mean, what else could it be?" He questioned them.
"In our experience, Mr Davenport. Every case is different." He stared at Novilene. "Nov?"
"What if this Unsub loves your daughters, Mr Davenport?" Novilene spoke up and crossing her arms. "I mean- he shot Trish boyfriend something personal and... I can't explain it further till we can hear him speaking."
"It can't be Jay that he killed Trish boyfriend and kidnapped her. He treated them as his own siblings." Davenport denied the thought of Jay is capable of murdering and kidnapping.
"I'm not saying Jay is the Unsub here." She shakes her head and knowing Jay is a good guy that he could never kill and kidnap someone for their own crazy minds. "There's something in my instincts telling me that this Unsub 'wanting to get what I want'. That something could be your daughters." Novilene exhales and crosses her arms.
"You're..." He is speechless and not knowing what to say any rude things about her.
"Weird and that I'm sort of a fortune teller. I quite get that a lot." She smiled sheepishly at Davenport. Mostly her and Sherlock got that look whenever they solve crimes together.
"Is she always like this?" Wanting to hear their opinions.
"Yes." Gideon answered with no hesitation. "Trust me when I say this, never doubt at her skills for this."
"This button answers the call. This button makes everyone in the room. It'll flash red." Reid explained to Davenport as Novilene is standing right next to Jay. "You'll be able to hear his side of the conversation. He won't be able to hear us."
"We'll be running the trace through the field office." Agent Shyer explained to Davenport. "But you're in good hands with Agent Gideon and his team." He left and didn't notice the cold look of Novilene's dark brown eyes gazes at him.
"Cheryl, can I borrow my Uncle for a second?" Novilene asks the blonde girl.
"Sure." Cheryl smiled weakly and she already knew her because Jay told her a lot that his niece is older than her, 22 years old while she's 18.
Novilene and Jay went to the private room to talk with each other before the Unsub called them. Jay can tell he's going to get himself in trouble for hiding the relationship with them especially his mother.
"Seren-"
"Jason Dave Cruz!" She whispered angrily and smacking his shoulder. "Why didn't you tell us you have a girlfriend?"
"Ow! Do you really have to smack me that hard?" He asks and rubbing his right shoulder where she hits it. "I was about to tell you... when I'm flying back to the Philippines and bring Cheryl with me to introduce you guys at my holiday breaks."
"Ma is going to kill me for this." She groaned and holding her head. She imagines the wrath of her grandmother for hiding the secret relationship with her. "How long have you guys been dating?"
"8 months-"
"8 months!? Bloody-"
Knock!
Knock!
Someone opened the door to see Cheryl's head. She smiled nervously and seeing Novilene's face is red with anger, wanting to strangle Jay.
"Um... it's almost time. Is everything alright?" Cheryl asks them worriedly that she might interrupt their conversations.
"Yeah, we're fine." Jay assured his girlfriend. "She's angry for keeping our relationship in secret."
"We three are going to speak after the case, okay?" Novilene asks the two lovers. "Let's focus on saving your sister first. Let's go." She went ahead of them before they could say anything.
"I think she doesn't like me, Jay." Cheryl whispered and Jay grasps her hand then grips it gently.
"She likes you and Serenity was upset for keeping it to her and my family." He whispered back.
Everyone is waiting for the call of the Unsub and the atmosphere is filled with huge tensions and anxious. Gideon stared at Davenport and decided to give him a piece of advice.
"Remember, keep your voice even and calm and agree with everything he says." He spoke in a low tone and seeing Jay is wrapping his arms around Cheryl's shoulder to pull her close to him.
"He's late." Davenport commented.
"He'll call." Novilene assured him. "Just try to relax. This is his strategy, he wants you on edge."
The phone rings as Reid and Morgan wearing the headphones to get themselves ready. "Remember to repeat any important information he gives you to make sure you understand. You try to keep him talking to reveal something about Trish or about himself." Gideon explained as he answered the call.
"This is Evan Davenport." Davenport introduced himself to the Unsub.
"Hello, Mr Davenport." The Unsub greets and Novilene noticed her Uncle thought the same thing as her. They heard the familiar voice somewhere but the question is who?
"Are you the man who has my daughter Patricia?"
"I have your daughter." The Unsub told them.
"Can I ask you-"
"You may ask me nothing. This is not an interrogatory. You will listen only to my instructions." He spoke in a stern tone.
"Okay."
"But I will not give them to you."
"I don't understand."
"I do not want to talk to you, Mr Davenport." Novilene guessed the Unsub wanted to talk to Cheryl alone and no one else.
"Excuse me?"
"I want to talk to her. I want to talk to Cheryl." Gideon pressed the mute button.
"What's he doing?" Davenport asks them.
"What most of the offenders we catch try to do... establish dominance." Morgan answered.
"How long can we keep him on hold?" Elle asks them.
"There's no way I'm letting Cheryl talk with him." Jay denied the idea of his girlfriend talking to a criminal.
"Why not, Jay? I want to help. I'll talk to him." Cheryl pleaded and Jay shakes his head.
"Cheryl doesn't have the authority that Davenport holds. He shouldn't want to talk to her." Morgan pointed out.
"I think that she should speak to him." Elle voiced out her opinion.
"Do I need to repeat myself? I want to talk to Cheryl. Put her on the phone. Now." The Unsub demanded and Novilene glared at the phone in hatred.
"No." Gideon denied to the idea as well.
"I think she should speak to him. He wants to talk to her. The more he speaks, the more he reveals." Elle tried to persuade Gideon.
"She's right Gideon." Morgan agreed at her point.
"He has my sister." Cheryl spoke up and stared at Jay. "Please Jay, you have to let me do it." Pleading her boyfriend to do it and wanting to save her sister whereas he shook his head.
"Cher..." Jay stared at her with a worried expression.
"No." Gideon denied as well.
"I'm waiting."
"Novilene." He knew Novilene is the master of disguise including the voices as well.
She approached them and standing behind Davenport. Novilene clearing her throat and giving her dad a thumbs up that she's ready.
"This is Cheryl." Novilene's tone changed that it looks exactly the same tone as Cheryl. They gaped in surprised excluding Jay and Gideon to hear Novilene's tone changed including her facial expression.
"Hello, Cheryl. How are you?" The Unsub tone changed into soft and gentle that he fell off her bait.
"I'd be a lot of better if I knew that my sister..." Her tone is filled with empathy. "Patricia's ok." Hoping she won't be screwed her job for this.
"I can tell you have a lot of empathy, Cheryl. You care about others." Everyone in this room didn't expect the Unsub fell for that.
"Yes, I do." Her voice wavered and trying herself to become Cheryl. "And it sounds like you understand."
"You mean that I empathize?" He asks her. "I do. Very much. I empathize. I empathize with you, Cheryl more than your boyfriend, Jay. I know you want to be with your sister."
"Yes, I want Trish back." Novilene pleads and they want to know where Trish's hideout.
"Good. Tell me what you want, Cheryl. I'm very interested. Tell me all about yourself that your boyfriend doesn't know more about you. What's your favorite color?" In a soft tone and Novilene noticed Cheryl is comforting Jay to calm himself down. Gideon paused the mute as Elle immediately go to her side.
"Don't answer that. Stay with Trish." Elle ordered Novilene and she nodded her head.
"If I tell you, will you let me talk to my sister?" She asks the Unsub while giving Cheryl and Jay a hand signal to get in close to her in case they heard Trish voice.
"Maybe. Maybe not." He chuckled as the couple stands behind her.
"I like blue." Her voice wavered and sniffs. Jay could even tell that his niece is almost compromising her task knowing the twin's case is very sensitive to her.
"How ordinary." He commented. "Do you like chocolate, Cheryl?" Novilene furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "Do... you... like... chocolate?" He repeated the question slowly.
"Yes." Novilene closing her eyes shut and feeling the warmth of the person's hand to her hands. She opened her eyes to see Gideon is holding her hand. It is a hard task for her but she keeps on doing it for the sake of the case.
"I do as well."
"Please, let me talk to my sister." Novilene pleads the Unsub as her voice is still Cheryl, giving the blonde girl a look to continue it for her.
"All I want to do is hear her voice, please?" Cheryl takes the role for Novilene as she steps back and Jay caught her before she falls down. Novilene ignored the worried looks from them.
"Okay ka lang? (Are you okay?)" Jay whispered at Novilene's ear.
"Medyo (A little)." She whispered back in her original voice at her Uncle as Novilene stand up straightly. Still shaking from what she'd done and feeling loss for not having her twin sister alive. "Salamat (thanks)."
"Cher..." They heard the weak of Trish's voice.
"Trish!"
"Cher, is that you?" Trish asks her sister's and her conscious is not fully aware of the situation.
"Trish, it's me. I'm here. Are you okay?" Cheryl asks her sister worriedly.
"Cher, I can't..." She groaned and squinting her eyes.
"Where are you? What do you see?"
"I... I see the moon." They heard another crack.
"Trish!" She cried out the name of her sister's voice.
"Have 500,000 ready." The Unsub ordered them.
"Let me talk to her!"
"$500,00 is what I'm owed. The Davenports will wait by the phone. You will receive a call with precise instructions in exactly 15 minutes." He ends up the call.
Cheryl cried and decided to walk out of the room as her father following his daughter. Jay is having the conflict of whether to stay with Novilene or Cheryl. Novilene giving him an assured look to chase them before he kissed her on the forehead and followed them.
"Were you able to trace it?" Gideon asks Reid.
"No. He's probably using a disposable cellphone. They're impossible to trace." Reid explained to his mentor. "How did you changed your voice into Cheryl?"
"Lots of practice." Novilene answered and drinking a bottle of water from her father's messenger bag.
"She said she could see the moon." Elle pointed out.
"She sounded delirious." Gideon commented.
"She was sedated." Reid spoke bluntly.
"Could have been a light."
"If he's keeping her drugged, it might mean he's not very strong." Morgan pointed out. "He might have to keep her weak just so he can dominate her."
"Or he's keeping her quiet." Elle pointed out.
"Let's not forget the way he has hatred towards my Uncle." Novilene spoke up and blinking her eyes that she finished everything in the bottle. "He's jealous that Uncle Jay stole Cheryl's heart and decided to ask questions about herself. Has Mr Davenport told us everything about his staff?"
"Oh, yeah, we have detailed reports but we should probably revisit background on household staff aides and current docket." Hotch answered the young woman's question. "You can still back out this case, Cruz." He also knew that this case is very sensitive to her because she used to have a twin before.
"No way." Novilene denied the thought of sitting here and doing nothing. "I absolutely refuse to back out the case, sir. I'm a bit sensitive when it comes to twin's case but I'll do anything in my skills to solve it and save their lives." She spoke in a determined tone staring at Hotch in her stern expression.
"We need mini Gideon, Hotch. She nailed it and the Unsub doesn't know it was her not Cheryl." Morgan defended the young woman. "Guys, she wasn't blindfolded."
"No." Gideon answered.
"If she's seen his face as soon as he gets that money..."
"He'll kill her."
"He said owed." Novilene stared at the paper to read the letter again as Reid stand close to her.
"$500,000. His demand sounded scripted like he was reading it to us." Reid spoke up.
"But the rest of the conversation wasn't." She pointed out.
"He was most relaxed just talking to mini Gideon as Cheryl." Morgan commented giving her a look. "Which it creeps me out the way you acted out there."
"What does that mean?" Gideon questions him.
"Maybe he already knew her. How much time we got?"
"6 minutes." Reid answered and stared at the wall clock of the time.
"How quickly can you get the money?" Novilene asks Davenport.
Jay went to the kitchen to grab a drink of water. Noticing Cheryl is going to have a glass of wine and he snatch it. She gave him a look but Jay ignored it.
"Look, I know I shouldn't drink, but under the circumstances, you'd think you could let this one slide, Jay?" Cheryl asks her boyfriend and wondering how he could be so calm in this kind of situation.
"Babe..." He pulls her closer and hugging his girlfriend. "As much as I hated to say this... He's gonna call back and they need you at your best." Jay noticed Elle is watching them far.
"How could be you so calm for this, Jay?" She stared at his hazel eyes. "How did you stomach it?"
"I remember my ex-brother-in-law, Jason Gideon, told me that panicking won't solve the problem." He answered and caressing her head. "Sometimes, I feared for Serenity's safety because she chooses a very dangerous job that I could have an early white hair." Cheryl chuckled and imagining her boyfriend having an early white hair.
"It suits you." She teased and Jay shakes his head and giving her a chaste kiss.
"I'd rather stay young before I reach a certain age to become a grandpa." He spoke sarcastically. "You trusted your feelings this far and hold onto that. Serenity and his team will save Trish."
"Serenity is Novilene right?" He nodded his head. "Why are you calling Serenity, not Novilene?"
"She has the same name as my late grandmother. I decided to call her Serenity and sorry about her... She had a hard life." He smiled at her sadly.
"That she almost breakdown?" Cheryl couldn't forget the almost breakdown look from Novilene when she's trying to be her.
"Yeah, she had a twin younger sister, Angelique, she died after she was born." Jay explained to his girlfriend. "When she grew older, Serenity told me she felt like her other half is missing and we explained everything to her about Angelique."
"It must've been hard on her." She can't help but feel sympathy towards Novilene and finally understand why she almost had a breakdown.
"If anyone is going to save Trish, it's her and her team. That man doesn't even know who he's dealing with... challenging them is a huge mistake."
Their plan failed however, the Unsub failed to captured Cheryl. All of them didn't know why the Unsub knew their plan and even Novilene started to get suspicious about it.
"How on earth did he knew about our plan?" Novilene muttered and clenching her hands into fist filled with anger as the phone rings then she decided to press the green button.
"That was fun, wasn't it?" The Unsub asks sarcastically and Novilene glared at the phone in hatred. "A little running around, getting our pulses racing. Are you there, Cheryl?" She gave Cheryl a look of don't answer his question. "Are you there!? Tell me you didn't feel a slight tingle, a thrill run up your spine. Huh? But those clever and cunning FBI Agents deduced my little plan just in time. They figured it out. If they hadn't, I would have had you both and kill Jay next, the love of your life." Jay clenching his hand into a fist that he's going to captured Cheryl and kill him next. "The whole set. The matching pair."
"Why are you doing this? Jay hasn't done anything wrong." Cheryl asks the Unsub as she holds Jay's hands tightly.
"Because you asked me to, Cheryl. You asked me with your glances." She looks confused and stared down the phone. "The way you talk. Those little gestures." Novilene pressed the mute button and couldn't bear to hear it anymore.
"What are you doing?" She stared at Novilene in disbelief expressions.
"Do not answer this man." Novilene warned her.
"You asked for this! You asked for it, Cheryl!" He exclaimed angrily.
"Cher-" Cheryl shoved Novilene's hands away and letting go of Jay's hand.
"What do you want!?" Cheryl asks angrily.
"What do I want!? You! It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow but I promise you, we will be together. Right after I kill your beloved Jay." She ends up the call.
Jay slumps down the chair and rubbing his face. He couldn't believe this man is crazy in love with Cheryl and use Trish to lure her out. Novilene comforted Jay knowing that she's here for him and do anything in her abilities to capture the Unsub and save Trish.
Gideon, Novilene and Reid are in the library room to talked Cheryl, Jay and Davenport about the Unsub.
"We can't let Cheryl speak with him any further that also includes Novilene." Gideon spoke up.
"Why not?" Cheryl asks Gideon and wondering why he won't allow Novilene to do the same thing.
"It's only feeding his psychosis to allow your interaction." Novilene explained and twiddling her thumbs when she's in deep thought.
"Was Trish involved in any serious relationships prior to the kidnapping?" Reid asks curiously.
"With the boy that was killed." Davenport answered as Novilene noticed the nervous look of Cheryl and Jay. "They were together for 2 years."
"Trish didn't want us to tell you." Cheryl spoke up and stared at her father. "They were getting engaged."
Novilene sighs mentally and understands Trish's feelings. Seeing their boyfriend died right in front of them as she closes her eyes to calm herself down.
"Well, that certainly could have been the Unsub's stressor." Gideon commented.
"What does that mean?" Jay asks them.
"Will someone please tell me what we're dealing with here?" Davenport demanded and Novilene stared at Jay's eyes filled with worried and angry.
"De Clerambault's syndrome, otherwise known as erotomania the belief that someone, usually of higher social status but not necessarily a celebrity, is in love with you." Reid explained and Novilene decided to spoke up as well.
"Erotomanics believe that the objects of their affection are subtly professing their love for them through looks, gestures and glances." She paused and licked her lips slightly. "He said, 'you asked me with your glances'."
"The Unsub truly and fully-heartedly believes that Cheryl and Trish are in love with him. They don't tell him this with their voices. No, with gestures and looks. He's obsessed with them."
"That also explains why he killed Trish boyfriend and now he's going to kill you next, Uncle Jay. You took her away from him like how Trish boyfriend did as well." Jay sighs heavily that he agreed with her opinion.
"What does this mean?" Davenport asks and looks confused together with Cheryl while Jay manages to catch up on what they're talking about.
"He is the most determined kind of criminal." Gideon answered.
Novilene is munching one of her favorite food, melon bread while listening to their conversation.
"Crime obsession. Your specialty, your lead, Morgan." Hotch ordered Morgan.
"I think we should recheck everyone on Davenport's staff against the profile of a stalker." Morgan pointed out.
"Aren't stalking behaviors pretty diverse?" Elle asks him curiously.
"There's overlap. Narcissistic, inflated sense of self-worth, history of bad relationships." He explained.
"What do we know so far?" Novilene asks and finishing the last piece of melon bread. She opens the plastic container full of rice and beef that her Uncle Jay cooked for her late dinner. Jay knows her since they were children and her appetite is always huge compares to him.
"He's probably white, obviously male... sophisticated speech patterns." Morgan and Novilene hum in response as she eats her late dinner.
"Sophisticated, yet bizarre. He rarely uses contractions." Gideon pointed out. "It's not 'your' it's 'you are'."
"This guy's pretentious. He wants to sound smarter than he actually is. Whatever position of authority or level of success this guy has, he had to struggle for it." Morgan commented.
"We also have to face the possibility at this point..."Hotch spoke up.
"That Trish may already be dead." Elle finished the thought.
"I don't believe that Trish is dead." Novilene spoke up right after she swallowed her food then pointing her fork at Elle. "He won't kill Trish not until he gets Cheryl. It'll be like killing two birds with one stone." The young woman continues eating her food again as Reid observing her. It isn't surprising that she had a huge appetite.
"You know, so far he's called everyday." Morgan commented and suggested something. "I say we apply pressure, make him sweat."
"Well, there's only one way to do that." She finished her food and eating her strawberries next. "Unc-"
"Hey, Seren-" Jay stopped seeing their serious expression and made a bad timing to interrupt their meeting. "I'll talk to you guys later." He turned around and trying to leave.
"Hold up! Jason Dave Cruz." She chokes her own strawberries and coughs as Reid patted her back gently. "Thanks. On a scale of 1-10, how are you feeling?"
"8." Jay answered truthfully and snatching her strawberries ignoring her whining. "I'm trying my best to be strong for Cheryl and her dad. "
"Everything will be alright, Jason." Morgan assured him and feels weird that her Uncle has the same name as Gideon.
"It's Jay, I don't want to get you guys confused who Jason you referring to." He corrected the man and stared at Novilene's face closely. "You have this look."
"What look?" She smiled innocently and blinking her eyes as the team stared at them with an amused expression.
"This look." Jay gestured his own face. "I'm going to annoy someone till I get what I want a thing."
"Did I mention how much I love you?" She squeaks as Jay pinching her cheeks. "Stopy itsh hurties!"
"Whatever your plan is, don't get me to involve by your shenanigans of yours." Jay stopped pinching her cheeks and stared at Gideon in pleading looked. "Please stop your daughter if she goes too far."
"I can't promise you that, Jay." Gideon spoke up smiling sheepishly at him. "You're her Uncle and we both know that Novilene is quite unpredictable sometimes."
"Yeah, and she'll be the first person who's giving us a white or grey hair early." He sighs heavily and patted her head. "I always wonder how much stomach you have... how much have you eaten?"
"She ate 6 melon bread, 1/2 of rice with beef and 10 strawberries." Reid answered and Jay blinks his eyes then gaped at him in a surprised looked.
"You must be Spencer- hmph!" Novilene shoved the strawberries inside of his mouth.
"Go after your girlfriend." She jumps off the table and pushing him away from them leaving the others chuckled and confused expression from Reid.
The phone rings just when Davenport is about to answer, Gideon, stops him from answering the call. "Hold on, hold on, hold on."
Novilene raises her hand and ended the call as Jay already knew what their plan is.
"What are you doing?" Davenport asks Novilene as she ignores him then the phone rings again. "Agent Cruz..."
Novilene decided to call. "Hello?" In a low tone.
"Tell me there was a technical issue with the line because if you actually just hung up on m-" She ended the call.
"What the hell are you doing?" Davenport stared at Novilene in disbelief expression.
"Aren't you going to answer it?" Cheryl asks when the phone rings again.
"Why is she doing this? What is she-what- you're gonna drive this guy crazy. Just-"
"I need silence, Sir." Novilene told Davenport and stared at him. "I know what I'm doing."
Cheryl couldn't take it anymore as Jay hold her in his arms. "Cher, Serenity knows what she's doing."
"Somebody has to answer it!" Cheryl exclaimed and stared at Jay in hurtful expression. "Why did you let her do it!"
"Just answer the phone, for God's sake!" Davenport exclaimed angrily. "Pick up the phone!" Morgan, Hotch stopped him to picking up the phone.
"Don't touch it!" Novilene spoke up and slaps his hands.
"She knows what she's doing." Morgan assured him.
"Davenport residence and how may I help you?" Novilene spoke up in a fake cheerful tone.
"Are you out of your mind? You do realize, you do understand, that I'll kill her!?" He asks angrily. "Do you-" Novilene ended up the call.
The phone rings again as she smirked in a cold expression. "You're killing my daughter! Pick up that phone!" Davenport screamed at Novilene as Morgan stopped him to grab her.
"Get him quiet." Novilene ordered them. "Mr Davenport, get a hold of yourself."
"Answer the phone!"
"Quiet him!" The father and daughter cried as Jay doesn't even know whether to smack his niece into her senses or not. Novilene accepts the call again.
"She is dead!" The Unsub declared as Cheryl cried into Jay's arm while Novilene didn't believe his lies. "You hang up on me again, and I rip her open!"
"I'm sorry. You must have the wrong number." Novile spoke in a fake apologizing as she ended the call.
"Come on, Mini Gideon." Morgan muttered.
"You killed her." Davenport spoke up in a hurtful tone. "Jay, how could you let your niece do it?"
"Evan and Cheryl, Serenity didn't kill Trish." Jay assured them.
"Oh, yeah. Then what - what the hell do you think you're doing?"
"She's saving your daughter, Mr Davenport." Gideon answered as the phone rings again. "Have a little faith."
"And hope." Novilene added as she accepts the call.
"Put Cheryl on the phone." The Unsub demanded.
"No, you're finished talking to Cheryl." Gideon spoke up this time instead of his daughter.
He scoffed. "Listen to that tone of authority. Just like your published work, Agent Gideon. Fascinating to hear the same arrogant quality in your own voice. You are a bit of a pedant, Jason, a bit of didactic?"
"Well, that's a very interesting conclusion. You sound intelligent, and you certainly sounded educated, and.." He exhales. "We both know that's not true."
"Oh, I know all about all of you?" Novilene raises her eyebrow that she's getting close to knowing the Unsub is. "The ambitious Agent Hotchner? Do you wanna be the Director of the FBI someday? Agent Hotchner? Would you step on Jason Gideon to get there? I think you would. Post-traumatic stress is a very good excuse. Even your sick, pregnant wife can't get you to leave your post."
"Jason Gideon, an expert in the Criminal psyche yet unable to diagnose the autistic leanings of the very insecure Dr. Reid. Well, maybe he can make money counting cards in Las Vegas."
"Let's not forget your Novilene Cruz, or should I say, Novilene Gideon, the little Ms Demon Captain of London Metropolitan Police fear of everyone. Always ordering someone to do your work before you quit and joining your daddy dearest. Faking your documents that you're 22 years old but you're actually 17 years old." Jay cringed as Novilene snaps the pen by using one hand.
"The lovely Elle was promoted too soon. She doesn't have what it takes to make it in the BAU Boys Club. You're no threat to me, you're no threat to anyone." Elle looked angry the same as Novilene and they both have thinking the same thing. They'll be going to show him that they're not in damsel in distress.
"And Token Derek Morgan wants to be taken seriously but he is just a pumped-up side of beef." Morgan just shrugged and stepping back away from Novilene that she's obviously in a bad mood for the Unsub bad mouthing her and assuming she's doing fake documents to get in the London Metropolitan Police before BAU. "I know who are you, I know how you think and I know what to do next! Do you?" He hangs up the call.
"What the hell was that?" Davenport asks them demandingly. "Why did he say that he knows what to do next? Is he gonna hurt my daughter?"
"He was grandstanding." Gideon spoke up and handing Novilene a tissue for breaking the pen as her hand stain with blue ink.
"You don't know that." Morgan stops Davenport to walk closer towards Gideon. "You-you can't possibly know that."
"Mr Davenport, I have learned more in the last 5 minutes than in the last 24 hours. Even my daughter learned as well." Gideon answered in a soft tone.
"Oh, really? Well, I don't understand. Why is he focused on you right now?" He asks them.
"Because we are interfering in his relationships with the girls and prevents Jay to get himself killed." Morgan commented.
"He said he knows all about you."
"Yes, apparently." Hotch agreed at Davenport's words.
"He profiled us, Mr Davenport." Morgan pointed out.
"Why would he do that?" Cheryl asks them.
"To show us how smart he is." Elle answered.
"Often times the best profilers are the Unsub's themselves. They're the ones able to walk into an arcade full of children and pinpoint the boy or girl that can be led out quietly." Reid explained.
"But he made a mistake, because he gave us something he didn't expect." Novilene pointed out and smirked coldly.
"Which is?" Davenport asks them.
"He told us how to find him." Gideon answered.
"You said you knew how to find him, that you were gonna save my daughter." He steps closer to Gideon. "Why don't you get out there and do something? What are you- everybody's standing around here, looking-"
"Mr Davenport-" Gideon trying to calm Davenport down.
"Don't condescend to me. Don't patronize me."
"Evan, Evan. Evan." Agent Shyher stopped Davenport as Novilene stared at him with a serious expression. "Everybody is doing the best that they can. Come on. Come on. Take a break, come on." He drags him away from them.
"For the suspect to know that much about us he has to be one of us." Morgan spoke up.
"I'm gonna have Garcia do a search of the New Haven FBI Field office." Hotch spoke up and Novilene started to connect the dots. "The guy we're looking for knows this house, he knows the family."
"There's 700 Agents in New Haven and another 70 in satellite offices. Davenport knows quite a few of them." Reid pointed out.
"While we're narrowing the list, Cheryl and Jay can't stay here. If he's one of us, he has access, weapons and you bet he's got a strategy." Elle pointed out.
"So who can we trust?" Morgan asks.
"No one. We need to get Chery and Jay to a safe house." Hotch spoke up.
"And limit the number of Agents she comes in contact with."
Cheryl, Jay, Elle, Morgan and few of the Agents left to stay at the safe house. Novilene immediately destroying the phone and grabbing the listening device as she leaves the confuse Reid while Gideon approaching Davenport while holding the cup.
"I'm, uh, sorry about before." Davenport apologizes for his aggressive behavior.
"It's your daughters. You-" He puffs out in the air. "You don't have to apologize for anything. If I was in your position, I would've done the same thing."
"Your daughter is a strong woman." Davenport spoke up and remembering Jay's proud expression whenever he mentions about Novilene. "Jay spoke highly of her and saying he's proud to be her Uncle."
"Her mother sides family adored Novilene and-"
"Dad!" Novilene throws the listening device in his direction and he caught it with ease. "Agent Shyer is our Unsub and they're both in danger!"
"How did you know?" Davenport asks the young woman with a surprised expression.
"Why would Agent Shyer left when we need him? His voice is almost exactly the same when he called us. The way he glared at Jay filled with jealousy and wanting to kill him, whenever he's close to your daughter, Sir." Novilene explained and calling Elle. "Elle, Shyer is the Unsub and give him the taste of his own medicine."
"Copy that." Elle smirked and glancing at Jay staring at her with confusion.
Novilene hums that they already found Trish inside of the abandoned garage. Jay sending a thankful look from her, Gideon and Reid as it closes the door to head to the hospital.
"Hey, dad." Gideon stared at Novilene. "I'm glad that it's finally over and Cheryl didn't lose her sister."
"Me too." Gideon agreed with her as he patted her shoulder.
"Hey, how did Elle get Shyre to give us Trish's location?" Reid asks curiously as Novilene giggled like a teenager.
"I imagine she found some creative way to persuade him." Gideon knew why his daughter is giggling.
"What do you think-"
"Oh, Spen." Novilene spoke up and shaking her head. "You just don't need to ask so many questions. Let's... just enjoy the moment."
"You won't tell me? Why are you giggling?" He stared at him in confusion.
"I have nothing to say~" Novilene sang as she walked away happily.
"Your daughter is very chirpy." Reid commented and couldn't understand the girl's behavior.