Helen was a charming woman for someone nearing her fifties, and also innocently informative about Hanna and her personality. All it took was an hour of stories about Hanna and Hotchner and the others already had her profiled. Surprisingly enough she was one of the few people that they had come across over the years that was what they termed as 'a silent guardian' or 'avenging angel'.

She was someone who didn't like intrusions. People who damaged and broke things were seen as a threat to her home and family and regarded as something that must be gotten rid of. And after being shown a copy of her Juvi record that Helen said Hanna kept for job interveiw purposes- she wasn't a violent person unless she deemed violence necessary.

Like in self defense or defense of friends or family. She was however very good at hot wiring cars and hacking into computer systems. Which shocked and surprised the hell out of the agents for several reasons.

It's no wonder she was at Garcia's yesterday. Reid thought as he looked over at the girl. She and Garcia must have found out about each other and started hanging out to keep Hanna out of trouble. Either that or she might have asked Hanna's help on some of our cases...

Hotchner was starting to get a little bit agitated. Did Garcia share case files with this kid? If so then some of the cases they had solved might have been comprimised. Not only that but if Garcia hasd shared files with the kid then she now knew, and had seen more than she should have which meant that they should arrest her or something.

After all those case files were supposed to stay within the agency.

However more than anything he was worried. If it was true that the kid had been helping them solve cases- then it was entirely possible that Garcia exposed her to someone that they hadn't caught yet. He wasn't the only one that must be thinking along those lines, Derek had a look on his face that could turn a person's blood to ice and stop their heart too.

"Helen, did you or your daughter know a woman named Penelope Garcia?"

Helen got a thoughtful look on her face for a moment then brightened and started to speak when a forceful voice cut her off with a stern sounding, "Mother!" Helen and everyone else looked towards Hanna as she sat up and gave them a dark look before saying to Helen in a softer tone. "Did you take your medicine earlier?"

Helen sat there for a moment blinking owlishly before gasping and jumping up. "No, I forgot!"

"Then go get the bottles and a glass of water so I can give you your medicine."

"Oh, okay but-" Helen looked at them and then back at her daughter as if to say, 'what about them?' causing Hanna to sigh. "I'd like to visit some more."

"Go get your pills and after you've taken them, you can visit a little bit longer." Hanna said. Derek, Reid and Hotchner waited until Helen was out of the room before one of them commented.

"I thought it was a little odd that she would give out so much information easily."

"What's wrong with her?" Reid asked temporarily forgetting the question that Hotchner had asked.

"Brain tumor." Hanna said as she slowly sat up. "The meds she's on now is for nothing more than pain or discomfort if she feels any."

"She's dying." It wasn't a question. Still, Hanna nodded her head.

"Yeah. She went in for surgery several months ago and once the doctors had a nice hole opened up they realised that there was nothing that they could do. So they patched her up and sent her home to die. They told me that her mind would go through different phases, then her body would either shut down or she'd just go from an aneurysm. They said that the pills would cut down on her pain and keep her comfortable."

"Sorry. We should have realised that something was-"

"Hush." Hanna snapped as her mother came back into the room with several pill bottols in one hand and a cup of water and handed the pills to Hanna who popped the tops off. And quickly handed her mother three pink pills and one white then put the lids back on the bottles as Helen took her medicine.

Helen popped the pills and then downed her drink and set her glass aside as she swallowed then asked, "Can I visit some more now?"

"You can visit with the nice men a bit longer but after that they have to go back to work, okay."

"Okay!"

"Fantastic-" Hanna said as she started to stand up and would have fallen if not for one of the men, the one with the mocha colored skin, jumping up to help steady her. "I-I need to get some asprin. My head is killing me." Hanna said in a pained tone as everythign faded in and out for a moment.

"Maybe you should sit back down." The man holding her up said in a concerned tone.

"No. I just need some asprin-" The world was spinning now, Hanna noted in wry humor. It had been a while since she had had a concussion but apparently she had suffered more than she had initally thought upon waking since she suddenly felt sick. "And maybe a plastic bag..."

"You going to be sick?" The guy asked. Hanna wanted to answer him but before she could so much as warn him she threw up on his feet.