Who is the Victim Here

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Chapter Twelve.

Three days later, Aaron's mental health is still in question and because even though he talks a little bit, the sentences are fragmented and very simple. He has still chosen to not to walk or eat food or anything that would define him as ready to resume his adult life. Sean is getting very worried along with the agents who have had to return full time to work even though they still try to spend some of each of their day with Aaron. One at a time they spend a few hours after work with their leader. David has been given temporary leadership of the team and really wants Aaron back, he doesn't want the responsibility. David thinks that Aaron is ready for Angie's type of mental health healing but Sean is cautious about it. David has told him about Angie and her connection with Kathy and Aaron and Sean isn't sure he wants Aaron to be with someone who doesn't like him. But Sean trusts David and allows him to ask Angie to come and see Aaron, but when he calls her, she is not as eager as he wants her to be.

"I don't think I should come and maybe make a bad situation worse. He is very vulnerable right now and I don't want to push it further. Did you ever tell him what was in that box?"

"No, we didn't tell him, he doesn't need to know that someone put a box of a dead child's index finger in his lap."

"Exactly, someone is still trying to torment that man. I don't want him to feel tormented by me because of what I do in the nursery. I break them down to build them up and return them to what they are inside without judgment. That is what I do, I don't know if I can do that with him. He's not like someone I don't know. My feelings for him might interfere with my being able to help him."

"Come and talk with Dr. Pitt and his psychiatrist, maybe between the three of you, you can come up with a way of helping him, otherwise I don't know what Sean can do with him."

"What do mean David?"

"Physically he is ready to leave the hospital, but mentally he is very infantile. He needs constant care and attention and Sean doesn't think he can do the job, so he's looking into an institution or group home or something like that, where they can take care of him in his infantile state."

"I will be there tomorrow to assess the situation, but no promises David."

The Next Day (Wednesday)

Angie arrives and begins to observe Aaron and read the reports. She consulted with Dr. Pitt and the psychiatrist assigned to him. Sean is the person with Aaron all day as he goes from therapy back to the room. Sean has been the person feeding him, cleaning him and talking with him. They play games between naps. She looks at this younger brother and is so proud of the way that he is caring for his brother. She knows a little of this man from Kathy and sees quite a bit of her in the man.

Aaron is sleeping when she walks into the room and introduces herself to Sean.

"So you're Angie, Kathy used to talk about you when she came home and she said you were a good friend."

"I didn't know that she talked about me."

"Yeah, I was just little kid but she said that if I ever needed anything that I couldn't get from Aaron to go to you. That you knew everything about the family."

"I don't think I knew everything."

"No, but I think you know a lot. Can you help him?"

"Do you think I can? For so many years I hated Kathy's Aaron."

"Yeah, I know and I don't understand why. Kathy loved Aaron more than anybody in the world and he loved her too, he would have done anything for her. I remember that time twenty years ago that David mentioned when you got upset with Aaron, he would call me once a month for about eight months. He said he wasn't allowed to make any more phone calls, it seems he was on a case that they had to keep the people working it in a very secure spot and incommunicado. Momma hated it because Aaron couldn't come home for his weekend during those months. He always asked if Kathy was okay, because she was calling him and sounded upset but he couldn't call her back. I didn't know what to tell him because I didn't know. Kathy didn't confide in me about her life like she did you or Aaron. He would tell me to tell her that he couldn't call her but that he loved her and was thinking about her. But I was a kid and didn't remember to tell her, I thought she knew. David told me what you said about that time. It wasn't Aaron that you should be mad at because I didn't give Kathy his messages." Angie listened to what this man tells her. That the anger she felt for Aaron was wrong and occurred because of a young boy's slippery memory. "I am sorry that you feel that way about Aaron but I want you to know that he would never deliberately hurt Kathy, he loved her too much. She was a sister, mother and secret lover for him. The man needed her more than you can imagine." Angie has tears in her eyes at this statement by Sean, because she knows in her heart, her anger wasn't because she felt that the man hurt Kathy, but because she was jealous of her best friend for having a man love her like that. Doesn't every woman want a man who puts her on a pedestal and believe that she can do no wrong?

She looks at the man sleeping on the bed and wonders if she can help him recover the person that he is hiding. She walks to stand beside him and sweeps a lock of hair off his forehead and smiles when he opens his eyes and says, "Can I spend thirty days in your nursery?" as clear as can be and with adult comprehension. She looks up and sees Sean looking at her from the other side of Aaron. His eyes were asking the same question and that power of the Hotchner men was overwhelming to her. When the Hotchners join together, nothing can sway them from getting what they want.

She tells Sean to bring him up Friday morning and walks out of the room. The men look at each other and smile and then Sean checks and changes Aaron's diaper after Aaron points to the cooler for a bottle. Don't make the mistake that Aaron doesn't know what he wants or how to get it.

What we have forgotten is that the reason that Aaron doesn't like to talk is because the unsub man can still hear what he says because of the transmitter on his neck. The transmitter has been overlooked during all baths and since Aaron had no throat or voice injuries, the neck and throat area is never checked. Only Aaron knows it is there and he does not bring attention to it because he is still afraid that his master can hurt the people he loves.

Friday morning arrives and the hospital has cleared Aaron to go, Sean had packed up the room the night before with everything that has to be cleared from the room. He had brought a pair of dockers a shirt, pullover, Velcro sneakers and two pairs of socks for Aaron to wear. He did not bring any underwear because Aaron would be in diapers when he leaves. He feeds a bottle to him and then fixes his overnight bag with extra clothes, diapers, lotion, powder, cleansing wipes and his daily bottles. He put all his food and his toys in the bag on the outside pockets of the bag. The BAU agents come in before work to say goodbye and let him know that they are waiting for him to come back to work. Spencer carries his bag while walking behind Sean pushing the wheelchair. Morgan has gotten the SUV car that Sean will be taking Aaron to New York in. They put Aaron in the backseat in the center of the seat, his bag next to him and he was buckled safely in. Sean had bought a harness which would hold the man upright in the seat, a head rest which would keep his head and neck in good order if he fell asleep and a booster pillow that he put on his lap to keep him from going too forward if the car needed to suddenly stop. He placed the lion in his arms and then Sean got into the driver's seat to take his brother to Angie's nursery. Will this be a blessing or a curse for our leader? Can he really get back from where he had hidden himself?