Preponderance

A Criminal Minds Story

Aaron Hotchner had never felt like throwing up at a crime scene before. Not even when he was new and saw a dead body for the first time.

But this was different.

He was looking at a small boy that he knew.

A boy that played with his own son,

The only son of one of his agents,

And that boy was dead.

His father lay next to him covered with red stained white sheets.

Strange people were crowding the house, taking pictures and looking for evidence.

They stepped around the bodies like they didn't mean anything, like they didn't matter.

They were just doing their job,

But it felt wrong.

So Aaron Hotchner fought the urge to dump the contents of his stomachs on the entry room floor. Taking one more devastated look at the two bodies before Regaining his 'man in charge' demeanor, Hotch walked over to Detective Sheridan who was the lead detective of the Virginia Police Department and a friend of Will's.

"Detective Sheridan, Agent Hotchner with the FBI, can you tell me what happened here?"

"Why does the FBI care?" Agent Sheridan questioned letting go of Hotch's hand.

"Agent Jareau, the woman who lives in this house is my agent? Where is she?"

"Well Agent Hotchner, you've got a rouge officer on your hands," Sheridan stated.

"What do you mean?" Hotch questioned.

"Well Ms. Jareau killed them." Hotch was taken aback. He did have scenarios running h is head about what had happened, but none of them led up to JJ killing her own son. She just wouldn't do it.

"I'm sorry Detective, but you have the wrong person. Agent Jareau would never hurt her son."

"We all have our breaking points," The Detective shrugged, "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish this crime scene."

"One more question, where is Agent Jareau now?"

"Back at the station. I'm fairly certain we have enough evidence to convict her, but you know that a written confession always helps." He smiled and walked off, rubbing his right arm.

"Hotch?" A frightened voice called out from behind him. It was Emily. Her hands covered her mouth as she stared at the two bodies on the floor."Hotch what happened?"

Emily was going to be sick. In fact she was going to throw up. She didn't know what to expect when Garcia called reporting that an ambulance had just been dispatched to JJ's house, but she did not expect this. Never in a million eons would she have seen this coming. She couldn't even imagine how JJ was holding up… Wait. She didn't even know where JJ was. Was she hurt? Is she at the hospital? She looked back at Hotch.

"Where is JJ? Is she hurt? Hotch, where is she?"Emily bombarded her boss with questions, but stopped when she saw the look in his eyes. She had seen that look very few times. It was a look of sheer fear.

"She's at the station," He looked at Emily's confused expression, "They think she killed them."

Emily stepped back astounded. She was in utter shock, a nauseating feeling crept its way up her esophagus and Emily Prentiss ran outside and puked in the front yard.

Derek Morgan pulled up with a hysterical Garcia and worried Dr. Reid. He jumped out of the car to see Emily clear out the inside of her stomach. The red and blue lights flashed all around them. And a horrid fear crawled across his body. Something was wrong. Derek placed a hand on Emily's back as the three of them surrounded her. She looked up at Derek.

"Don't let Penelope inside, she shouldn't see that," She weakly whispered.

"See what Emily? What happened?" Derek stammered glancing over at Garcia who had left his side and was trying desperately to get inside. She was screaming something about her Godson and her Vanilla Cupcake.

"Henry's dead. Will too." Derek stood up straight, blocking out everything around him. It couldn't be true. He didn't believe it. But then he saw two stretchers come out of the house. One with a very small body attached to it.

"No!" A wailing shriek emanated from his left, it was Garcia fighting her way towards the body bags as several officers tried to hold her back.

"Garcia. Stop. There is nothing you can do," Derek held onto her, "There is nothing you can do."

"But Henry and JJ, that isn't them right. That's not them. What happened, Derek?"

And Agent Morgan didn't know what to tell her.

Because whatever did happen.

It wasn't right.

"We need to gather. Now," Rossi demanded, appearing out of nowhere and then disappearing as he rounded up the rest of the team.

Just outside of JJ's house…

"We have a problem," Hotch stated as he stood among the circle that his agents created.

"Hotch what happened?" Derek demanded.

"From what I could gather, Officers entered JJ's home after receiving a call about a domestic dispute. They found her with a gun on the floor, covered in blood."

"Where is she now?" Garcia asked.

"They think she did it!" Emily yelled, outraged. Hotch examined each of the shocked emotions that were plastered on their faces.

"You can't be serious," Morgan added incredulously, "JJ would never harm Henry."

"I agree. But the evidence points to the contrary."

"So what do we do?" Rossi questioned.

"We find the truth. We treat this like a case; we examine the crime scene, interview the 911 caller, and the first on scene. The officers aren't going to be too accommodating. Right now they're blinded by rage, Will was one of them and that makes JJ a cop killer. They won't be too thrilled about us trying to get her off."

"And what if she did do it?"Morgan asked, receiving killer stares from the two women.

"If any of us actually believed that, I don't think we would be standing here right now," everyone nodded in agreement, "One more thing. I know you are all upset, but right now we need to focus on JJ and figure out what actually happened. So Derek and Rossi, I want you to go over the crime scene, talk to the neighbors and see who the first responders are. Reid I need you to go back to the BAU with Garcia and look at cameras leading in and out of JJ's block. Emily and I will head to the station."

Breaking apart they headed off in different directions,

Each of them held a new found determination,

For their hearts mourned for the lives lost tonight,

But if they could help it,

They were not going to lose one more.

God help whoever gets in their way.

Okay, so I know that wasn't the best chapter of all time, but I am really excited about the next one. So please stick with me.

Anyway what do you think? Will the team clear her name? Or will they find that she actually did kill them? If you have any suggestions please let me know. And huge thanks for the reviews. They really mean a lot.

-HCB