Back to Atlanta Sequel ch5
I'm really sorry for the delay guys, I started working (I couldn't start my summer job until I turned 16 on the 14th of July) anyway that takes up a lot of time so I have like none to write or to think about what to write. Because of this I honestly don't know when the next xhapter will be up, but I will get it done as soon as possible.
"Oh my God" said Emily.
Emily and Morgan were in the car headed to the BAU when Emily thought of something.
"What?" asked Morgan.
"All these marks, the whole point of this is that they were hidden from public view. Now the first three were posted online for a short period but the other three, he would have had to witness what happened personally." Said Emily.
"So wait, you're saying he was there when you got an abortion?" asked Derek, clearly confused.
"No, those clinics are extremely private, I don't see how he could have been there, and I don't remember any guy who was paying particular attention to me, except for Matty. Maybe my father's mark wasn't my pregnancy, but the fact that my father hit me? He could have been in the police station when I went to report it. There were a ton of people in that police station." Said Emily.
"How do you remember that so clearly?" asked Morgan.
"It was the most traumatic time of my childhood, I remember it like it was yesterday." Said Emily.
"Right, I'm sorry." Said Morgan.
"It's ok" said Emily. They were silent for the rest of the car ride, they got to the BAU ten minutes later. When they walked inside together they found their team standing around the round table, a manila envelope in Hotch's hands.
"What's going on?" asked Emily.
"This came for you, don't worry there's nothing dangerous inside we had it screened." Said Hotch, handing Emily the envelope.
"No return address, could it be from the Unsub?" asked Morgan.
"Possibly." Said Hotch. Emily opened up the package, pulling out a note and some photos, Emily immediately started sifting through the pictures.
"Oh my God, this asshole's been following me for years, ever since I was fifteen. This is me running out of the police station after they refused to charge my father." Said Emily, showing a photograph of a crying girl running down the street, people had stopped to stare at her as she passed.
"These are in chronological order" continued Emily.
"And the most recent was taken this morning, when I was walking into my apartment building." Said Emily softly.
"So this guy has been following you for nearly 30 years?" asked JJ.
"On and off, there are a few months here and there when I was undercover while I was working for Clyde and he couldn't find me." Said Emily.
"We should check with the objects of the other marks, see if they got the same sort of thing." Said Rossi.
"I'll take care of that." Said JJ, before walking out of the room.
"What does the note say?" asked Reid, Emily read the note out loud.
"Dear Emily, I am so sorry for what you went through all those years ago, you did not deserve that. I almost quit the force when I witnessed how your father, the perpetrator, came first before the victim, you. Such injustice should never have occurred. You were passed over too many times in your childhood and I have decided to take a stand. I did not act for so long because I believed you were dead and I hoped that your soul was resting in peace but then I learned that you were alive! I will rectify the wrong done to you. Sincerely, your Savior." Read out Emily.
"It's personal for him, in every way possible." Said Morgan as JJ walked back in.
"Hey so all the other marks did get envelopes with photos of them and personalized notes, I asked them all to come in." said JJ.
"Alright, thanks" said Hotch.
'So what do we do? This guy knows where you live Emily, how do we know that you'll be safe?" asked Reid.
"I'm a trained FBI Agent, I think I can handle this guy, that's if he does come after me at all." Said Emily.
"Prentiss you know how these guys are, they make up stuff in their minds about how a relationship between them and the object of their fantasy, in this case you and the other marks, goes both ways. He thinks that you are helpless and that he is your savior, if you do anything to disrupt that image he will get violent." Said Rossi, Emily was about to protest again when Hotch stepped in.
"Prentiss, this is not a discussion. Protocol dictates that you go to a safe house but because I need you here we can settle for checking you into a hotel." Said Hotch.
"I'm sick of hotels" grumbled Emily.
"Then stay at my place." Suggested Morgan, Emily shrugged and thought about it.
"Sounds better than a hotel." Said Emily after a minute, Morgan smiled.
"Great" said Morgan. Anderson walked in a moment later.
"Excuse me sir, there are some people who said that you requested for them to come to the BAU waiting outside." Said Anderson.
"Thank you, can you send them up here?" asked Hotch, Anderson nodded and exited the room swiftly. A moment later three women walked in, they were the wives of the first three victims. The women are white and have black hair, they're clearly nervous. Each of them handed over a manila envelope with the photos and the note they received. Reid quickly collected all the letters and began to analyze them.
"Can you tell us when the earliest photo was taken?" asked JJ.
"About 10 years ago" answered all three women at once. The other two women arrived, they looked exactly like the first three.
"Oh good could I please have your letters?" asked Dr. Reid, the women handed them over.
"What's the earliest photo in the stacks you received?"
"Um about eight years ago" answered one of them.
"My earliest was seven years ago." Said the other.
"Prentiss that means you were his first." Said Rossi.
"And everyone knows that there is always something special about the first." Replied Emily.
"Ladies would you mind waiting in my office, Agent Anderson will take you there?" asked Hotch, nodding to Anderson who was just outside. The women all nodded and left, following Anderson out.
"Maybe you reminded him of someone, a sister maybe?" asked JJ.
"We can get back to that, Emily tell everyone what you realized in the car." Said Morgan.
"I think that in order to be able to know about all of these things he would have had to witness them all firsthand. Something else just occurred to me while reading the letter he sent me. He's talking about the injustice done to me and that my father wasn't punished for it. I don't think the marks are exactly what they did to themselves but what they did to their wives because of drugs or alcohol or purely getting mad." Said Emily
"You think that these women were abused?" asked JJ.
"In some way yes, it might not all have been physical but it would have had to have happened in front of someone else. Someone no one would even give a second thought if they saw them in the neighborhood." Said Emily.
"Like a mailman" suggested Morgan.
"Yeah." Said Emily.
"But how would that fit into the part of the profile about having been knocked down by one of the marks?" asked JJ.
"Maybe we got that part wrong, maybe we were right earlier in saying that he recognized something in me that day when I was denied the right to charge my father for hitting me." Said Emily/
"Odds are they are not going to admit it if their husbands abused them, if it happened eight to ten years ago and they never reported it, they won't want to come clean now." said Morgan.
"Then we will have to get them to, because we need them to try and remember if anybody was paying particularly close attention to them both during the event and the days following it. Morgan, JJ, Rossi, Reid and I will each take one. Prentiss stand by, if we need to we can use you to connect with them since you went through something similar." said Hotch, everybody around the room nodded and went to do their jobs.
This chapter is not as long as I would like, and I apologize for that, I hope you liked it anyway! I wish I could tell you when the next will be up! I can promise you that there will be a lot of Demily in the next.
-daughterofathena2
