Chapter Seven:
A/N- I know things are going slow right now but if you just stick with me I promise things will pick up! Enjoy! I also want to thank everyone who as either reviewed or added my story. I ask that you keep reviewing and I promise to keep writing.
Monroe, Washington
"Are you sure you should be driving right now?" Reid asked drumming on the folder that held the info Garcia had sent him on Silver Merrick. He hadn't opened it yet, he wasn't sure it was his place though from Garcia's text he knew whatever was inside was directly related to J.J.
Ask and you shall receive Sweet Cheeks… This Silver chick looks a lot like J.J… Weird right? …Garcia.
"I'm fine to drive," J.J. said clutching down on the steering wheel as if she intended to break it, "We're almost there."
Reid sat nervously and watched out the window until they pulled into a small driveway. The house was a sad faded white color and leaned slightly to the right as if staring in curiosity at an odd painting of some sort.
"Home sweet home," J.J. said sarcastically as she and Reid got out of the SUV and headed up the driveway.
J.J. put her sunglasses on though the sun was slightly hidden and knocked firmly on the door and waited as she heard banging around before a woman answered.
"Mrs. Blaine?" J.J. asked holding up her credentials.
"Can I help you?" The older woman asked tying her bathrobe tightly around her thin waist.
"Can we come in m'am?" Reid asked worried about how J.J. was going to handle the reunion with what he assumed to be her mother.
"I suppose, what's this all about?" She asked opening the door and leading the two into the small living room.
J.J. froze for a moment the memories of the last time she was in that house flooding back to her. The knives scattered on the kitchen floor, her sister crying up stairs, a monster sitting helplessly in his recliner, and the sound of sirens growing closer.
Reid nudged her gently on the arm and the two continued to follow the sad faced woman into a room with a TV and shag carpeting.
"Fine," J.J. said to herself taking off her sunglasses and staring at her hands for a good moment still unsure of how to tell the woman that had both earned her hate and had given her life, that her favorite daughter was dead.
"Mrs. Blaine we have some bad news…" Reid trailed off uncertain if he should be the one to tell her.
"Walt I think you should get in here," Mrs. Blaine shouted loudly as she lit a cigarette.
"Just a sec," A man called from the kitchen.
J.J. automatically tensed at his voice, the voice she had tried to erase from her memory for almost a decade. She heard his footsteps as he walked into the living room but refused to lift her head.
"Walt these F.B.I. agents said they have some bad news," She said placing her hand inside of his.
"Ok," Walt said looking at both of the people in front of them thinking to himself that both looked a little young to be F.B.I. agents, "What's going on?"
"Jess is dead," J.J. blurted out before Reid could think of something to say, "We found her this morning, she was, murdered."
"Excuse me?" Mrs. Blaine asked in an irritated tone.
J.J. looked up from her hands and opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by Walt, "Kitten?"
"Don't call me that," She spat bitterly looking up at her mother and the man she hated.
"Shelby?" Mrs. Blaine asked leaning closer to the young blonde agent, "I thought you were dead."
"That was the point mom," J.J. said with more anger in her voice than Reid had ever heard.
"Jess is dead?" Walt asked ignoring the mounting tension between the two women.
"Yes, I'm very sorry for your loss sir," Reid said noticing the guilt in the older man's voice.
"Good," Mrs. Blaine said anger and resentment dripping from her tongue.
"Love…" Walt started before he was cut off by a very angry J.J..
"Are you serious?" J.J. shouted, "Giving birth was enough? After that we're on our own!"
"I gave you what I could you little parasite," J.J.'s mother spat looking as if she might punch someone.
"When's the last time you saw Jess?" Reid asked ignoring her mother's last statement hoping he might be able to get both women to focus.
"When she graduated from that freak school," She said forcefully staring at J.J., "After all those lies you put in her head she didn't want to come back here."
"I'm the liar?" J.J. stood up as if she were about to lunge at someone.
"CPS thought so," Mrs. Blaine said smugly, before she continued in an angry tone "That bitch turned my baby against me."
"I'm burying her up at Horizon this weekend, just so you know. Come on Reid," J.J. said standing up though still starring at her mother.
"Kitten, we can help," Walt said as he and Mrs. Blaine stood up.
"You've done enough," J.J. said before looking back at Reid hoping he understood how badly she wanted to get out of there.
"Let her do it Walt, it will be the only good thing she's ever done. You're a liar and a whore," Her mother screamed as her husband stood in-between the two women, "You think you're something now? Huh? You're as big a loser now as the day your daddy brought you back from the streets."
"I made something of my self," J.J. said smugly as she and Reid headed towards the front door, "That's more than you can say."
"Kitten wait," Walt shouted grabbing J.J.'s wrist.
Her skin burned when grabbed her causing J.J. to automatically reach for her gun and rip her wrist out of his hand, bringing her gun to a proper position, pointing it directly at his head, "You touch me again and I will arrest you for assaulting a federal agent."
"Kitten," Walt pleaded in the voice he used when she was younger, when they were 'close'.
"Let's go Reid," J.J. said turning around and pushing in front of him.
Once they were outside J.J. practically ran to the passenger side door.
"That was intense," Reid said starting the vehicle and putting it in reverse.
"Just drive," J.J said softly as she desperately tried to push the images of that house and every sin committed inside of it out of her mind.