Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds
~ Chapter Five ~
"& I cry, and my tears don't seem to dry."
"What are you doing here?" Brianna looked up at her old best friend, confused. JJ shrugged,
"Jamie's case was reopened, I am with the BAU, FBI. So I got called on the case as well."
"Jamie would be jealous." Brianna laughed as JJ smiled sadly,
"They know we will find him, I work with the best minds in the FBI. If anyone can find him, they can." Brianna bit her lip, nodding.
"Why did you want to meet me?"
"They want to interview you, you were one of his friends at the time and they were looking at your old statement so they just wanted to talk to you again."
"But if they have my old statement then why do they want to speak to me?"
"To profile you I guess." JJ laughed lightly, turning around before she could see the fear in Brianna's face.
"Ready?" JJ said,
"Sure." Brianna sighed, hoping she was a good enough liar.
~ .. ~
"In your statement you said that Jamie told you that he wasn't happy with Jennifer." Emily hated saying the name so officially, but she had to detach herself from one of the many victims somehow,
"Yes. He came up to me one day after school and he said that they weren't getting along well, that he wanted to leave her but she was so dependant on him that he thought she would hurt herself if he broke up with her."
"So he ran away?" Brianna shrugged,
"He must have, it was the only way he could get away from her. She was clingy, he needed to breathe."
~ .. ~
JJ looked from Brianna in the other room to all her friends, shaking her head as her face paled,
"He wouldn't do that, I swear to you." Hotch nodded, not knowing what to believe right then,
"You don't understand, I wasn't clingy. I loved him a lot, and he loved me but we didn't spend every waking hour with each other – even if we wanted to. We decided it was for the best because we didn't want to get annoyed with each other before university." She looked at Reid for any form of help, hating to be called clingy.
"And Jamie would never say that, he was the type that if he had a problem he would tell the person he was having a problem with. It was one of the things I admired about him because at the time I couldn't do it." She laughed a little, looking down at the floor as tears fell from her face,
"He wouldn't do that to me... he wouldn't say that to her. He hated her and he never hid the fact that he didn't like me being her friend either." Reid snapped his head up to look at her,
"What?"
"They didn't get on, she wanted to but he said something wasn't right about her. I didn't mind, it was hard having my best friend and boyfriend fighting all the time but it was the way things were. Why would she say he said that when I know for a fact he didn't?" Hotch shook his head, walking out of the room to talk to Emily.
~ .. ~
"Can I speak to you a minute?" He opened the door to the interview room, looking at Emily who nodded and quickly walked out after him.
"I need you to ask her about her and Jamie's relationship." She nodded,
"Can I ask why?"
"JJ said that they never got on, constantly arguing all the time. He didn't think that something was right with her, and I don't know about you but I believe JJ over anyone else." Emily nodded,
"I will say something to her now, thanks." She turned to go back into the room, shaking her head as she did, knowing that this girl had something to hide.
"Tell me about you and Jamie." She said as she got in, sitting down and looking at Brianna.
"What about us?"
"Did you get on?" Brianna grinned,
"You could say that."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Brianna sighed, putting her head in her hands before looking at the woman across from her, grinning.
"Can Jennifer hear us?" Emily nodded, wondering if that was the right thing to do,
"Good. Jamie and I were great friends, he would come over to mine when he was done with little miss frigid."
"So you and Jamie were in a relationship?"
"Yes, we thought it best to keep him going with the perfect girl until he got his scholarship." She looked through the window, grinning at the woman she knew was behind there.
~ .. ~
"She is such a liar!" JJ gritted her teeth, folding her arms as she glared at Brianna.
"JJ you're going to have to calm down."
"Whatever, just find Jamie instead of wasting your time with her." She muttered, walking out and propping herself against the wall by the interview room, waiting for her to come out.
"How dare you?" She finally said as Brianna walked out with Emily,
"What? Can't take the truth?" Brianna shook her head, laughing loudly,
"You're such a liar! He wouldn't touch you, he could barely look at you. What kind of sick game are you playing?" She felt Emily's hand on her shoulder quickly shrugging it off as she walked closer to Brianna,
"Oh come on! Jamie hated you, what kind of fantasy world do you live in?"
"It wasn't fantasy, it was real."
"Still jealous? Soccer star gets jock, while little Goth girl fades even more into the background than she already was? Face it Brianna, you were always the loser of the school." JJ took another step forward, ignoring the whole team as they surrounded them, probably waiting for Brianna to explode.
JJ gasped as the woman slapped her across the face, reacting quickly as she punched her before anyone could grab the two.
"Pathetic." JJ spat at her before pushing everyone away from her and walking off, Emily not far behind her.
"I have never seen JJ like that." Reid shook his head, looking at the blood dripping from Brianna's nose,
"She loved him." Hotch answered simply, helping Brianna up to get her cleared up.