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A/n some info about JJ's childhood in this chapter is made up by me as we don't know a lot about her family.
The Fisher King 1 and 2
I never thought that lightning would strike twice against the team. I thought that after Boston we'd had our dose a terrible luck, but I was wrong. I learned that unexpected and horrible things can happen when you least expect it.
The team was supposed to go on vacation for two weeks. I was to stay here in the office and make sure that they had plenty of work for them to do when they got back. Everything was going according to plan. Hotch was over the moon to have two weeks with Haley and Jack. Morgan and Elle were on their way to Jamaica and a singles resort. Gideon was thrilled to be going to his cabin in the woods and Spence was going - actually I don't know where he was going - but he didn't look happy about it. It was like he was on his way to perform a chore he hated, but felt duty bound to finish. I have no idea what Garcia was planning to do.
Speaking of Garcia, I went to her office, and she started telling me all about her adventures in a fictional world and how great her 'knight' was. It sounded great to me and instead of talking to her about Spence as I had planned, I found myself asking her if the alter-ego of the fictional character she plays with has a brother or uncle. Not sure why I asked that, maybe my friend Cindy was right, I can't face the idea that Spence is the one that could make me truly happy. I don't want to get hurt again.
Everyone got away okay, but less than twenty-four hours later, Gideon received a package at his cabin with a human head and a Nelly Fox baseball card in it. Hotch got a phone call from someone that said something about helping the youngest to save her, that he held the key. We had no clue who 'her' was at that time, but Hotch came into the office anyway.
Elle got arrested in Jamaica, and boy you should have heard what she had to say about the detective down there. Not that I blame her, he sounded like a real chauvinistic jackass. Hotch had to go down there to help her and to bring her and Morgan back here to Quantico.
We identified the headless corpse they brought back from Jamaica, and got to work on trying to figure out the clues we had and the profile. I felt so bad for Garcia. The virtual game she was playing gave the un-sub the means to hack the FBI and get the locations of the team. I've never seen Gideon so angry or Penelope so upset. But she found the hacker, or so we thought.
Reid got back and helped the team find another clue that was right out of a movie like "Indiana Jones." There was a CD with the guy talking on it, and all of our pictures, and a lock of blond hair in a music box. Reid got set a skeleton key and it unlocked the music box. I got a pale clouded yellow butterfly delivered to my desk.
Hotch was pissed when Haley showed up with another clue that a delivery guy just brought to their house. He wasn't mad at Haley, but he was really upset with the situation and I don't blame him. The CD we got said we weren't supposed to have help with the case, but Gideon told me to do a press conference anyway and ask for help finding the delivery guy. The hair ended up belonging to Rebecca Bryant, a girl that had been missing for two years.
The clue that Haley got was some kind of book code according to Spence, and I didn't doubt that he's right. I kept expecting him to just look at all the clues and know everything. I think everyone was stunned when he didn't. We shouldn't have been stunned though, it's not fair to expect him to have all the answers all the time. I should have said something to him to say that it was okay if he didn't have the answer, but I couldn't, it wasn't the right time.
We found Rebecca's family, and on the way to South Boston VA, Morgan and I got the call that Elle had been shot by the un-sub. Morgan was pissed and wanted to go back, but I made him drive on. We had to know more about Rebecca.
She was adopted and we found out her whole family except her father was killed in a bad fire in Nevada. She was only five when it happened. I can relate, I remember when my mom and dad died. I was only ten and it was the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
Spence found the right book he need for the coded, and he and Garcia and the woman they found that had the book, were able to solve the riddle and get another clue to find the girl.
Spence's mother was in the BAU when Morgan and I got there. It was strange to meet her. She seemed to know this man that called himself the Fisher King. She gave us the information we needed to find where the man was living and get Rebecca.
I wasn't there, but Morgan told me that Reid was the one that tried to talk the Fisher King down, but the man thought that Spence was Percival or something and that he could heal him. Reid's mother is a paranoid schizophrenic. She lives in a sanitarium in Las Vegas. The Fisher King was there too and he thought that Rebecca was the Holy Grail.
Anyway… the Fisher King had a bomb strapped to his chest and he detonated it. Spence almost got blown up. I'm glad that I wasn't there to see it. Morgan that told me all about it in private, I don't know what I would've done if he got killed. I should talk to him. I don't care if he told all of our secrets to his mother. Garcia said that he writes to her every day. How sweet is that?
They saved Rebecca thanks to Dianna Reid. Spence took her back to Las Vegas and I'm sitting here wondering if he's going to stay there for the next two weeks or will he come back. The rest of the team is going back on vacation. I wonder if while he's there, he'll go down to LA and see Lila. Morgan says that they still talk to each other.
Aunt Gina called and wanted to know how things were going. She also wanted to know if I'd talked to the "good looking Dr. Reid," yet. I had to say no because she would know if I lied. Garcia called me after she got her computers fixed. So I bit the bullet and asked her about Reid. After enduring her teasing about Spence, she told me that Lila is really pushing Reid to move out to LA and he doesn't want to go. Garcia said that I should give him an incentive to stay. I asked her what she meant by that and she just laughed and said "Use your imagination, Sunshine."
See… that's the problem, my imagination is really good when it comes to Spence.
