-Lost in the Dark Chapter 5-
As the team was giving the profile out to the public Kimberlee went to be with her sister in the tech office with Garcia. Janie had gone through five lollipops by the time Kimberlee came into the room. Garcia smiled at their interaction. Janie's smile lit up whenever she saw her sister.
"What's the matter, Kimi? You seem sad." Janie said cupping her sister's cheek.
"Nothing's wrong." Kimberlee answered. Garcia looked behind her and saw worry in Janie's eyes. These two sisters watched out for each other. The odd thing was, Janie looked worry for her sister while Kimberlee looked disappointed. She was doing a bad job at hiding her emotions from her sister, but to anyone else, she was an open book.
"Janie, dear, why don't you go sneak that candy from Agent Boone's desk? She's at the very end of the hall. Be very slow and stealthy." Garcia said to the little girl. She got up joyfully and inched out the door and down the office hallway. Kimberlee got up from the floor and sat down in one of the chairs in the office. The silence was setting in and she began to scratch her arms again, like she had done in the interrogation room with Prentiss.
"Are you alright over there, teenager?" Garcia asked Kimberlee. She nodded quickly and continued to scratch her arm. Her arm was beginning to turn red. Garcia grabbed her hand to stop the scratching. Kimberlee looked up, shock in her eyes. "You don't realize you're doing that do, you?" Garcia asked.
"It's just habit." Kimberlee said simply. Garcia kept her hand on her arm. The mild swelling was going down and the redness was starting to fade.
"I may not be a profiler like your uncle, but I can tell when someone is nervous." Garcia said with a small smile. Kimberlee looked into Garcia's eyes and she could've sworn she saw pure kindness. Suddenly Janie came back into the room with a full bag of candy. Kimberlee's arms dropped and the scratching fit was over.
"Janie, you know you don't need that much candy." Kimberlee said sweetly. Janie smiled and handed over the bag. Garcia watched as Kimberlee picked Janie's favorite candy out of the bag and took out her own and wrapped up the bag. Janie propped herself up on Kimberlee's lap and ate her candy happily. Garcia smiled at her innocence, but there was something off with Kimberlee. She excused herself from her office and went to find Morgan.
She found him in the briefing room along with everyone else on the team. They had just finished giving the profile and had found out another murder had happened last night, so they were reviewing the similarities.
"That poor little girl is suffering." Garcia said. Everyone dropped what they were doing. They could all see that Kimberlee was uncomfortable. "She scratches her arms uncontrollably whenever Janie is out of her sight."
"It was the same thing at the hospital. Everything that she said was about Janie. She had to know where she was." JJ added.
"She's protective of her sister, but this had to have been going on for a while for her to act this way." Prentiss said.
"Something had to have triggered that kind of response from her." Reid concluded. "Morgan, do you know if anything happened at their house to make her so protective?"
"I'm not sure, kid. If there was trouble, Sarah would've called me." Morgan said with a huff. He wishes so badly he knew what was happening and why.
"She would've called if she knewsomething was wrong." Reid said.
"Every time you mentioned Janie and Michael in the same sentence she became frazzled, even a little confused." Hotch said.
"You think he did something to her?" Morgan asked frantically.
"He most likely did something to Janie." Reid said. Morgan brushed his hands over his head in frustration.
"When was the last time you talked to them, Derek?" Garcia asked.
"I saw them when Sarah and Michael got married." Morgan answered.
"That was three years ago, Derek." Garcia said. Morgan's eyes widened and he sat himself down in a chair.
"We need to question Janie. Garcia I need you to do this. You've spent the most time with her." Hotch ordered.
"Yes, sir." Garcia responded with a hint of pain. She went back to the tech office to get Janie. Kimberlee was reluctant to let them question her and she put up one hell of an argument, but Garcia convinced her it was just simple questions.