I wanted to have a holiday so badly. Why can't the IMF leave me alone despite I'm no longer active with them? They managed to pull me whenever Ethan screwed the mission because of the impulsive and reckless actions he caused. Me, being the lovable stepsister I am, I have to save his ass. I swear Ethan is going to kill me someday. ~Novilene Cruz
|| Baltimore, Maryland ||
Novilene fixes her scarf not wanting her father or anyone to fuss over the bandage around her neck. She and the others accomplished the mission of sending the Vipers back to prison. None of her teammate's injuries are in critical condition but only bruises. Other than that, they are fine. Novilene gave the Doctor permission slip towards Hotch that she can continue her job as long as she'll not scream out loud before going to the crime scene.
Needless to say, Novilene convinced Hotch not to say anything to them especially to her father if they knew she almost lost her head because of getting strangled by the thermal cut wire. Hotch agreed since Gideon is always overprotective towards her especially joining the secret organization.
"It was teaching an in-service. At the Baltimore Field Office when this came in." Morgan explained to them as they are inside of the victim's house. "Baltimore P.D's seen some grisly stuff, but never anything like this. We've got 2 bodies I.D'd as William and Hellen Dimarco. Retired, lived here for 37 years, no kids. Neighbor reports a white male 20-40 years old fleeing the scene and I quote, 'Hopped up on those damn drugs'."
"Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable." Gideon commented as they are headed towards upstairs.
"So far it sounds like a standard double homicide. Why are we here?" Hotch questioned as Novilene couldn't help but think why they called them for?
Novilene blinked her eyes seeing the room is splattered with blood. "Massive overkill." She muttered and fixing her scarf as Reid noticed she's wearing a scarf around her neck. She ignored his stares by focusing on her work. "It's like we went back to the Vikings era on how they brutally murdered people."
"You got that right, mini Gideon." Morgan agreed with her statement. "Helen Dimarco was found here, tied to the chair in front of the vanity. No defensive wounds. Ligature marks around the wrists, one clean laceration from ear to ear."
"Looks arterial. Probably the carotid." Elle commented and staring at the ceiling. "At least she went quickly."
"The husband William was found in the shower but he wasn't quite as lucky. Ligature marks on the wrist and ankles and one long laceration up the abdomen through both layers of muscle."
"Evisceration- that's typical of disorganized behavior." Reid pointed out as Novilene wondered who would do this such a thing? To kill someone so brutal?
"Despite all the blood, this crime scene shows method, order, control. I'd say it's pretty organized." Elle pointed out and glancing at Novilene when she's busy analyzing the room in her cold calculative look. Elle didn't expect the young woman is a Spy and her skills are quite extraordinary that she understood why the IMF couldn't lose a potential woman like Novilene.
"There was also evidence of torture with the husband. Burns, contusions, lacerations. You name it, this guy tried it." Morgan pointed out.
"If torture is the unsub's signature, the methodology is usually unique." Novilene commented and crossing her arms. "A person who burns someone doesn't normally use a knife."
"So maybe we have more than one killer or we have one killer with more than one personality." Hotch spoke up and glancing to see if the young woman is alright as Novilene nodded that she pretends to think.
"We also have 3 victims." Gideon pointed out. "Blood on the vanity, wife's body was found there, husband was in the shower. From the looks of the level of the ring in this tub, whoever was in it lost their entire blood volume."
"Approximately 10.6 pints." Reid answered and widening his eyes slightly to see a small white bandage around Novilene's neck.
"Which means the victim was dismembered." Elle commented.
"It looks like our guy took all the parts with him." Morgan spoke up in his grim expression.
Novilene silently sighs and frowned thinking how did the unsub take all the body parts. All she ever wanted is to lay down on the bed, sleeping the whole day to shut the world out.
"Ok, what do we know about the unsub? Based on the 2 bodies we do have?" Hotch questioned Reid, Elle and Novilene.
"Typically, torture falls into 2 categories-" Reid gave Novilene an encouraging look that she knew what he's saying right now. He also knew that working in a secret organization is a lot more dangerous than being an FBI Agent profiler.
"Sadistic and functional." Novilene finished Reid's thought. "Functional torture is used to extract information or to punish. It's measured, impersonal, completely disinterested."
"Like a military tactic." Hotch suggested as Novilene hums in response then letting Reid explained the sadistic torture.
"Exactly." Reid agreed and seeing Novilene is fixing her scarf again to hide the bandages around her neck. "Then there's sadistic torture, which is used to extract some sort of emotional need."
"But sadists are sexually deviant, yet there's no evidence of sexual contact." Elle pointed out.
"That we know of." Hotch spoke up and Novilene thought the same thing as him.
"What do you mean?" Reid questioned the Unit Chief.
"Well, we don't have the third body yet."
"This guy is no rookie." Novilene commented and crossing her arms. "It's either a professional killer or a pure psychopath."
Novilene winced silently in pain as she put an ointment on her neck before putting the bandage on. She sighs heavily if Ethan didn't stop one of the members of Vipers, she'll be headless by now.
"Ang sakit (it hurts)." She whispered and was about to put a bandage around her neck someone took it from her hands.
"I'll help you." Novilene turns around to see Reid come inside of their Unit Chief office with her. Hotch silently asks Reid to help Novilene changing the bandages because she got herself hurt by the mission yesterday.
"You don't have to do that, Spen." Novilene protest but Reid ignored her protests. "How did you know?" She only told Hotch of her secret injury and no one else know.
"Hotch told me you got hurt and didn't explain everything to me." He answered and grateful that her hair been tied up in a usual neat bun as he wrapped the bandages around her neck gently. "How did you get this injury?" Ignoring the fragrance of cherry blossom on Novilene's scent and hoping she didn't notice his blush.
"Let's... just say that Ethan saved my life before I could seriously get injured or worse." Novilene answered and didn't want to explain in detail to Reid. She didn't want Reid to remember the reason for her getting an injury in the first place. Once Reid can see and hears, that memory is going to stick with him for the rest of his life.
"How's your brother? I owe him a lot for saving me from those bullies." He's grateful for Ethan saving her life before Gideon loses his daughter.
"Ethan is fine and he was actually surprised that one of my friends happened to be that person who got saved from those bullies." She smiled and he returned the smile back.
"It is actually a coincidence that we bump into each other." He pointed out as Novilene couldn't help but agreed with him.
Reid couldn't deny the fact that he's having a huge crush on Gideon's daughter and Morgan is teasing him often when they're alone. Novilene is a social type of person while he's an awkward type of person who always rambling about statistics that people annoyed him while she listens and didn't complain about it. Despite their polar opposite personalities, their friendship bond never wavers.
"I can't believe they already found a third dead body." Novilene commented as they came inside the briefing room. "To think the unsub dump the body in the trashcan? That's sick and I feel like going to lose my appetite for that." She seats down next to Gideon.
"That's what they do, mini Gideon." Morgan agreed with her last statement. "Third victim was positively I.D'd as a low-level mob guy. Frederick 'Freddy' Condore. He was the nephew of the older couple. Body parts were found in 7 different trash cans 2 blocks from the crime scene." Novilene immediately takes down the notes.
"Were they able to completely reassemble the body?" Reid asks curiously and leaning down to see Novilene is writing a lot of information.
"Killer didn't keep any trophies."
"Is there any evidence that he got off?" Elle questioned.
"No." Morgan answered.
"Lope has a number of unsolved murders in D.C, Virginia and Maryland." Novilene pointed out and tapping her pen lightly on the notebook.
"Over the past 15 years. Many of them have ties to organized crime, all different M.O's." Reid added and hardly understand Novilene's writing considering the words are Filipino mixed with English when he tried to read her notes.
"What's the connection?" Elle asks the two young geniuses.
"Torture." Morgan answered Elle's question. "Marks on the bones are consistent with the same cutting tool."
"Tortured victims, most tied to organized crime... no signs of sexual sadism." Gideon spoke up and flipping the pages.
"We're looking for a hitman?" Elle suggested as Novilene shakes her head slightly.
"No, a hitman doesn't need to torture to get the job done." Novilene answered and crossing her arms. "The hitman killed someone when one of the clients ordered him to do that task."
JJ came into the briefing room. "Two things- Baltimore just forwarded a sketch of the man running from the scene, and, uh, you've got some Agents out there who think that you're poaching on their turf." She commented to Gideon.
"I'll handle it." Gideon assured JJ and glance at Novilene's direction. "You're not off the hook, Novilene Marie Serenity Cruz. I know you got injured and you don't wear a scarf unless it is cold." He left as Novilene breathe out and removing the scarf. She can't hide anything from her father whether he profiles her or not. Calling her full name means Novilene is getting into trouble and going to face his wrath.
"I'm in so much trouble when dad says my mouthful name." Novilene spoke to herself and didn't bother to see their surprised reaction. "I had a feeling that they're going to take over the case."
"How did you get yourself hurt, Nov?" Elle asks worriedly and checking her wounds.
"Thermo cut wire." She smiled sheepishly seeing Morgan and Elle disbelief looks. "It's not deep and the Doctor forbid me to raise my voice loud all the time but I'm cleared to do my work."
Her phone silently beeps and ignoring a certain pesky nosy consultant detective who messaged her.
"On a scale from 1-10, how dangerous was your mission?" Morgan asks curiously and grateful she's alive when Gideon told them about her life of being part of IMF Agent.
"9, the Vipers planted 5 bombs in a different area. We need to stop the bomb together because if we cut the one bomb off-" Novilene was interrupted by Reid.
"The rest of the bomb will explode." Novilene nodded her head in agreement Gideon came back from the briefing room in his grim expression.
"So we just gonna drop it?" Morgan asks Gideon.
"These guys don't know what they're dealing with." Elle pointed out.
"They're a bunch of idiots and don't know the unsub well as we do." Novilene added and pushing her glasses up. "Our unsub is male, intelligent, organized and methodical."
"He has the confidence of a man who's been killing for a long time. Only victim removed from the crime scene is Freddy Condore, indicating some tie to him." Gideon added stared at them. "Elle, you, Novilene and Reid stay on Condore's background with Garcia. Dig deep, see what turns up."
"Condore worked as a Supervisor at a Scrap Metal Yard in Baltimore. It's owned by a guy named Michael Russo, boss of a small mob crew." Morgan explained to them. "I'm gonna grab Hotch and go check him out."
"Spen, don't lean close to Lope." Novilene scolded Reid lightly seeing Garcia is getting annoyed by the closeness.
"Ms Holmes is right, you're breathing on my neck." Garcia spoke bluntly and glance at Novilene. "How's your neck, Holmes?"
"Fine and the Doctor forbid me to raise my voice." Novilene spoke and touching her neck lightly. "I'll be in big trouble when dad wants to talk with me." She groaned and slamming her head using her hands. "Please don't call me Holmes because I don't think the world is going to handle another Holmes." Cringing the idea of her to become like him would bring the world chaos.
"Gideon is worried about you and that goes for everyone." Reid pointed out and stepping back slightly. "Sorry, Garcia. Sorry about that."
"You three having fun?" Elle asks curiously when she gets inside of the room.
"Oh, yeah. Sifting through the life and times of Freddy Condore with Dr. Reid and Agent Cruz here is a party I wouldn't want to miss." Garcia answered sarcastically as Novilene laugh then wincing in pain.
"Ow, I really hate this getting injured on my neck." Novilene stroking her neck gently as Elle chuckled seeing her sulking slightly like a child.
"That's how you get yourself for involving the actions, Ms Holmes." Garcia pointed out and Novilene didn't deny it but just smiled. "Credit card receipts show Freddy love Crabb cakes, preferred light beer, and used to spend his Thursday nights with a woman in fells point. And, uh, expensive woman." She moved a cup of coffee away from the computer.
"What about his associates?" Elle asks the tech analyst.
"Most of them have criminal records." Reid answered.
"That much I guessed." She said bluntly towards the young man.
"But one of them is particularly interesting. Pull up James Barker's rap sheet, please, Lope?" Novilene asks politely towards Garcia as she smiled at her politeness and showed them the files. "He spent time in Juvenile Detention for attempted murder, was released at age 21, and then subsequently arrested for- and this is in order-"
"Armed robbery, petty theft, burglary, narcotics sales and rape." Reid finished Novilene's thoughts and they couldn't help themselves but go with the flow of their ideas.
"But there's no other sexual assault complaints in his file." Elle pointed out.
"Absolutely nothing. We told you it was interesting."
"What's so interesting about that?" Garcia asks the two young geniuses.
"When it comes to psychological behavior, anything is possible. But this criminal history- it just isn't probable." Reid explained to Elle and Garcia. "I mean, as a minor, he began with an attempted murder and then devolved into pettier crimes?"
"It's the criminal history of a fractured schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder and it doesn't make sense." Novilene pointed out seeing amused looks from them as she blushed slightly of embarrassed being the center of attention. "Yeah, there's that."
"Unless someone made that rap sheet up, and they weren't thinking about the behavior- they just plugged in whatever sounded good." Elle pointed out her opinion as Novilene hums in deep thought as the computer suddenly beeps.
"Hold on." Garcia spoke up. "His mug shot's coming up." The picture of a man named James Baker showed up the screen as Reid compared the sketches and the screen seeing the same picture of a man.
Elle immediately calls someone on the phone. "I got an address for you to hit it."
Novilene immediately caught the vest when it's been tossed by her father. "Success." Gideon told them. "Hotch and Morgan just shook Russo's confidence in his hitman. Novilene, you're coming with me." She immediately stands up and follows him.
"He'll want to bring him in and get a read on him." Elle commented.
"What if by playing them against each other, we made Russo as paranoid as his hitman, what would stop them from trying to kill each other?" Reid suggested and wondering how will Novilene do with her glasses on while capturing the unsub?
"If that happens, then we'll never find Jimmy Baker alive."
"We got a surveillance team outside of Russo's office. Stay on it." Gideon explained to his team.
"After this case, I'll be sleeping a whole day- wait, scratch that, I need to do household chores because Ma is coming on weekend." She groaned and banging her head when they went inside the elevator.
"You're also not off the hook Mulan." Gideon reminded her and she laughs nervously.
"Here I thought you're going to forget it." She smiled innocently at him.
"Remember, we need this man alive." Gideon informed his team as Novilene is blending into the shadows to search for the criminal.
Novilene frowned and silently thankful that she changed her glasses into contact lens otherwise, she'll be fighting a half-blinded woman towards the criminals.
"It's all clear." Morgan told them through the comm.
Novilene senses someone is behind the car then hearing a whack. She immediately runs and sending flying kick towards the man while he didn't even saw that coming as Hotch sighs in relief seeing Novilene save him in time. The man immediately runs at her but he made a huge mistake. Novilene jumped over the man and using her legs to throw him down.
"I got him." Novilene spoke up and immediately handcuffing the man. "You shouldn't wear your tie while chasing down the criminal, Sir." She immediately hands the man over the FBI Agents.
Hotch smiled and didn't expect a 5'7 light brown-haired woman could take the man down by wrapping her legs around his neck. He owed her a lot and save him in time. "Thanks, Cruz."
"You're always welcome, sir." Novilene helped him to stand up as Cramer, Morgan and Gideon approached them.
"It reminds me when you taken me that move once, mini Gideon." Morgan cringed and regretting to challenged her. They had a spare few days ago and it caught him off guard when Novilene use her legs to pull him down despite he's taller than her and more muscular than her.
"It's one of my favorite moves, Morgan." She smiled as Morgan patted her shoulder.
"There's a van around the corner looks like blood all over." Agent Cramer explained to them.
"It's being processed right now." Morgan spoke up. "Whatever they find they're going to send over to Quantico."
"They got Jimmy's jacket."
"We have to find him soon or he'll lose a huge amount of blood." Novilene spoke up and can't help but worried about Barker's safety.
They sent Vincent Perotta, the hitman into the interrogation. Novilene is helping Reid and Garcia to look all over the evidence.
"Hey." Novilene looked up to see Reid called her. "I heard you take down Perotta off guard."
"Let me guess, Morgan told you guys?" Novilene asks them and they nodded their head. "I've been trained by my brother and my mother figure, Noelle Cowell, to learned how to defend myself."
"Wow, that explains why you trained so hard." Garcia commented and she hums in response.
"How did you-"
"Ah, Spen. First rule, never ever mentioned it in public." Novilene interrupted him and she looked at her side to see Morgan and Elle approached them. "Hey, guys."
"Hey." Morgan greeted the young woman.
"This was all in his van?" Reid changed the subject and focus the case.
"Yup. The guy wasn't exactly neat." He spoke sarcastically.
"Classic anti-social personality. What are these tapes?" He asks curiously and grabbing some of the tapes.
"I don't know. Why don't you, Cruz and Garcia go take a look, let us know, all right?"
"Yeah. Movie night. I'll make popcorn." Garcia spoke sarcastically and grabbing some of the tapes.
"Hurray, I'll also grab a drink." Novilene commented sarcastically as Garcia giggled and linking her arms.
"You're officially my best friend, Ms Holmes." Novilene gives her a look but Garcia ignores it.
Novilene is staring at the tape in her cold calculative look when she holds it. "10 bucks says this involves naked coeds and a plumber." Garcia made a bet as Novilene cracked a smile then shaking her head slightly.
"What?" Reid looks confused and stared at Novilene wanting to know what Garcia meant.
"Oh, Spen." She smiled in amused at his confusion.
"Never mind, it seems like Ms Holmes knew my sense of humor." Garcia spoke bluntly and played the video of a screaming in pain. "Ok, who's that?"
"I have no idea." Reid narrowed his eyes as Novilene observed more in her cold dark brown eyes. "Put another tape in." They played another tape and Novilene observed the horrified expression from Reid and Garcia.
"Oh my God." Novilene immediately stopped the video and immediately walking out of the office.
"Lenny, wait!" Reid called out her name and followed her.
Novilene opened the door as Reid followed behind her. She stared at everyone with her blank expression. "Barker been tortured and I know how." She spoke showing her grim expression.
"After you." Gideon told Cramer as he went ahead first.
"You're calm seeing-" Reid stopped seeing her hands are shaking slightly in anger. "Lenny?" He called her worriedly.
"I hate seeing someone being tortured to gather their satisfied information." Novilene spoke and massaging her head lightly to calm herself down.
"We'll find him, Lenny." He assured her and Novilene nodded her head.
"You needed me?" JJ asks them when Hotch handed the pictures over her.
"Yeah. These are faces of new victims of the videotapes we found. Check with local P.D's, see if they have any open homicides or missings that might correspond."
"Are those rats?" She cringed seeing the picture and stared at him.
"Yeah."
"What are we gonna do?" Agent Cramer asks the BAU Agents.
"Well, we looked at all the stuff in the van and besides the videotapes, there's nothing that interesting." Elle spoke up.
"I got Garcia going over the sound on the tapes, trying to isolate the background noise. Maybe something there will help." Morgan explained as Novilene is studying her notes while drinking the coffee instead of hers it was from Reid instead.
"The good news is, it seems like they were all filmed in the same space." Reid commented as Novilene almost spit out the drink of the too much sweetness coffee. "It could be some sort of home base for him?"
"Too sweet." Novilene muttered and smiled sheepishly at Reid when she took his drink. "Sorry." Reid waved it off and swap their respective drinks.
"Yeah, but where is it?" Agent Cramer asks them.
"What do we know about Vincent Perotta?" Gideon asks curiously.
"He's off the grid." Morgan answered and crossing his arms. "Garcia can't find a registered phone, utility bill or home address on this hump."
"Come on, everybody lives somewhere." Hotch spoke up and Novilene read more of her notes. "There's gotta be a paper trail."
"If there is, we can't find it." Reid spoke up and playing Novilene's Rubix cube.
"If this day and age you can't live without leaving some sort of trace."
"Unless someone pays your bills for you." Elle spoke up her opinion.
"What about Russo? Could he be taking care of him?" Novilene asks curiously and stops reading her notes.
"No. No, no, no." Agent Cramer answered the young woman's question. "Russo's not paying anybody's bills but his own."
"Well... he has to have a weakness." Gideon pointed out to everyone. "It's in his crime. It's in his behavior. "
"You know, something's just been bugging me." Morgan spoke up and Novilene tilted her head towards his direction. "Freddy. Wasn't he easy to find? He cut up the body. He removed it from the crime scene. But then he leaves it a couple of blocks away where's he gotta know we're gonna find it. It's the whole reason we were able to connect Perotta to the crime."
"He made a mistake." Elle spoke up and realizing at Morgan's statement.
"Yeah, he did. He went off script."
"What does that mean?" Agent Cramer asks and looks confused of their conversation.
"Something knocked him off his game." Novilene answered and sipping her right drink this time.
"That's right." Morgan agreed with her.
"His behavior and what does he do?"
"He tortures." Agent Cramer answered and stared at the young woman.
"Is it always?"
"The difference is Mrs. Dimarco." Hotch started to understand what Novilene is implying.
"Right." Gideon agreed with the Unit Chief. "Want to finish this?"
"I want Cruz to interrogate him." All eyes stared at her while she doesn't look surprised at his request. "I remembered that you can detect lies and I want you to gather the information from him."
"Yes, sir." Novilene agreed and doesn't mind to interrogate the man.
Novilene stands up and headed where the interrogation room is as Hotch and Gideon followed her tracks. She'll do anything to crack the guy for the sake of getting the information.
Novilene came inside of the interrogation. "Hey, look who's here. The woman who takes me down so easily. How's your friend?" Perotta spoke up and didn't expect they send a woman here instead of another man instead. "Where's Jason?"
Novilene ignored his question and seat across from him. "You grew up in a house." Her expression showed with her cold calculative looked and seeing a glimpse of Perotta eyes showed fear. "That looked normal and happy, didn't you, Vincent?"
"Did I?" Perotta asks in monotone.
"But your father beat you every chance he got."
"He smacked me around some. Didn't everybody's old man?" He questioned her and couldn't help that her eyes are similar from someone.
"No." Novilene never experiences getting hurt physically by her biological father and her stepfather.
"Well, maybe if yours had, you would have learned to fight."
"Paranoid personalities develop in childhood." She changed the subject and her expression didn't change even one bit.
"You know, you're saving me thousands of dollars in therapy bills."
"You learned to take the beatings, the abuse. You learned to smile but in the back of your mind, you probably thought... 'one day. One day when I'm big enough.' So you were bullied and abused and you became an abuser and a bully." She mentally smirked seeing Perotta is starting to get uncomfortable around her. "It's a logical progression."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Your father beat your mother, too, didn't he?" Perotta glared at the young woman in hatred.
"My mother's got nothing to do with this." Perotta getting defensive of his mother and Novilene is almost close getting the information.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mirror, Hotch didn't expect she could be so calm in her cold and stoic expression behind that carefree and caring attitude.
"Your daughter, Cruz, can be scary sometimes." Hotch spoke up and Gideon smiled. "The others didn't want her to leave permanently because of her actions."
"Yes, she's a dangerous woman. Whoever crosses her path, she'll show no mercy." Hotch frowned at his statement and needed to learn a lot about Novilene.
"Your mother knew." Novilene spoke up and stared at him. "That he beat you up everyday and she did nothing to help you. Yet, you still loved her. Despite the fact she let you get hurt, you loved her. It makes me wonder why. Why didn't you hate her? Then, of course, I realized that he beat her as he beat you."
"Don't talk about my mother." Novilene could sense he's getting angry in any minute.
"You killed all these people, hundreds of them, and only one woman. That's what made you get sloppy, isn't it? Killing Mrs. Dimarco was hard. That's why you killed her first and you made it quick. I thought it was dominance but it wasn't."
"He was a bastard, all right?" Perotta glared at her but she didn't flinch or scared at all.
"Your father?"
"I call him Frank. He was a mean son of a bitch. Is that what you want to know?" Novilene could tell from the back of her mind that Gideon and Hotch are going to search about Frank Perotta information.
"You were just responding to what you learned, Vincent. When you grow up in an environment like that, an extremely abusive violent household, it's not surprising that some people grow up to become killers." Novilene stands up as the other Agents came in to grab Perotta seeing the facial expression that they found Baker.
"Some people?" He asks curiously at the young woman.
"What's that?" She stared at him in confusion.
"You said some people grow up to become killers."
Novilene nodded her head. "And some people grow up to catch them." She walked out of the interrogation room.
Novilene sighs and sitting down her own chair completely drained from interrogating Perotta. She lay her head down on the desk and decided to have a nap while waiting for the other team to arrive.
Gideon couldn't help but feel proud of being Novilene's father. She didn't use any antics to interrogate someone on her alter ego as an IMF Agent but an FBI Agent. He and the others came into the bullpen to see his daughter is sleeping peacefully on the desk, waiting for them. Gideon approaching Novilene and trying to wake her up but didn't take the heart seeing her peaceful expression.
"She must've been tired from her work." Elle whispered to Gideon and smiled seeing Novilene looks so innocent in her sleep.
"She is." He whispered back and carried Novilene in a piggyback style without any problem of her heaviness. Novilene is always light as a feather despite she eats a lot of food."Can you give her things back tomorrow? She'll be staying at my home tonight."
"Sure." Elle agreed before handing Novilene's phone to Gideon in case someone called her.
"Isn't she heavy enough, Gideon?" Morgan asks seeing Gideon has no problem of carrying his daughter despite she's already an adult no longer a little girl now.
"She may be a huge eater but Novilene is always light as a feather." In a soft tone and Novilene groaned softly as she immediately hugs her father while sleeping. "I need my Mulan to tuck her in bed." Gideon carried his sleeping daughter and left the bullpen together. His daughter never ceases to surprise him after everything she has done so far for being part of an FBI Agent.