Chapter 4
Both Hotch and I were waiting desperately in Rosewood PD for any news on Jack. I got up from the uncomfortable chair and walked to the water color to get a drink when Morgan brought in a cuffed Ezra, who shared a smirk grin with me. Mrs. Fields walked up and gave me a friendly hug just as Emily and Hanna walked in with food in hand.
"Can't believe he's 'A'." Emily said as I took one last sip of my water and tossed the cup in the trashed.
"I still don't trust him." I said making Emily look at funny.
"I brought some food."
"Thanks but I'm not hungry." I left the two and headed for the interview room.
"I'll make sure she eats." Hotch said as Hanna handed him the food.
I quietly walked into the interview room and watched Morgan interrogate Ezra. I stared at his eyes that held no emotion as I was playing with my necklace that Aaron had given to me.
"You sure, you should be watching?" JJ asked.
"It's better than waiting." Morgan walked out.
"He's not budging."
"Why don't I give it a try?"
"Is that a great idea?" JJ asked.
"Look, Fitz has to know where Jack is, if he won't talk to an agent, maybe he'll talk to a parent."
"I still don't like it." Morgan said.
"I don't either. But what other choice do we have?" I asked. "We still don't know where Vanderwaal is." I left the two standing there before they could answer.
"Miss Brooks, it's good to see you again." Ezra said as I sat down across from him.
"We've known each other long enough that you can call me by my first name."
"Right. I'm guessing you want answers?"
"I do." I placed the pictures of his other 'place' in front of him.
"What's this?"
"You tell me."
"You seem to have this all figured out." I arched an eyebrow as Hotch walked in on the other side.
"How's she doing?" he asked.
"Surprisingly well." JJ said.
"If you think I'm going to tell where your son is, Agent." I started to tense up. "You have another thing coming towards you."
"Is that a threat Fitzgerald?"
"We may know each other from way back, but you and your team are getting in way to deep." I raised my eyebrow at him. "How about that lawyer?" He gave me a smirk grin as he crossed his arms.
"Give me the name of the person." I placed the pen and paper in front of him.
"Then I'll get my lawyer?" JJ walked in.
"You have a minute?" I nodded.
"What is it, JJ?" I asked.
"We've located Jack."
Just outside of Rosewood
Both Hotch and I pulled up just as Morgan and Prentiss ran out with Jack to meet up with the paramedics as Aaron's arms wrapped around my body for comfort.
"He's ok." Prentiss said as I sighed into his chest. "Mona didn't hurt him." The two of us looked over Emily's shoulder just as Rossi was walking out with Mona.
"Where's CeCe?!"
The hospital room was quiet except for the machines quietly beeping, I could see the stars, well barely through window as I was sitting across from Jack's hospital bed; Aaron walked in with what smelled to be Starbucks in hand and a sandwich.
"Any change?" I turned to face him.
"Still asleep. A nurse came back a few minutes ago." A yawn escaped my mouth as I felt his hand come to my back.
"Get some sleep." My stomach rumbled making us both let out a small laugh.
"My stomach on the other hand says I need to eat." He tossed the sandwich back and forth from each hand.
"Good thing I got you a sandwich." I returned a small smile.
Later I was at my parent's old place, I opened the barn doors to see my ol' man's motorcycle haunting me. I walked towards it as I was putting my hair in a ponytail. After I got some music playing softly, I started to examine the bike just as Hotch walked up.
"So this is where I get to see the old Alexandra Brooks?" I walked up to him and greeted him with a kiss.
"Hey."
"Now this is some greeting I can get used to." I smiled.
"I couldn't agree more." Aaron leaned in for another kiss but I rejected.
"What's wrong?"
"I can't do this." I walked towards my dad's motorcycle and leaned against it.
"I know you're worried and we'll find him." He gave me a concern look as he rubbed his hands up and down on my arms.
"I know that."
"Then what is it?"
"I think we should tell the team."
It felt just like happened yesterday I squatted down at Ali's grave just as it was about to rain. I kept on thinking that someone was following me since I came back, as I turned my towards the black iron gate, as a blue mustang driving by making me tense as I stood up. I called the Hanna to meet me at the Brew.
"How are you holding up?" Hanna asked as the two of us exchanged hugs.
"Barely slept."
"If you and-." Aria, Spencer and Emily walked up.
"Hey." Aria gave us a confuse look. "Are we missing something?" We took a seat on the couch as I pulled out my cell with the picture of Jack.
"You have a son?" I nodded as the girls look at the photo.
"Why didn't you tell us before?" Emily asked.
"I was, but then Mona 5.0 happened." Spencer's eyes traveled toward Hanna.
"You knew?"
"It was my idea."
"So, when do we get to me the little guy?" Aria asked as I let out a sigh of relief.
Weeks later things had slow down or at least I had thought. I dragged myself to the sound of the doorbell to be greeted by JJ.
"You look-." I let out a stiff laugh as I brushed back some fallen hair out of my face.
"Yeah, I feel it." I moved to let her in.
"Well my homemade chicken soup should help." I gave her a week smile.
"Honestly, I…" I rushed to bathroom as Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily walked up to the door.
"Alex is in the bathroom." JJ said as Spencer nodded.
"How is she?" Aria asked as they walked in.
"She feels like crap." I said sarcastically walking to the couch.
"That should be my cue. Call if you need anything." I gave a slow nod.
"Thanks for coming by." She nodded and left.
"So, are you up for a movie marathon?" Emily turned to see me already curled up on the oversize chair asleep.
"I think we lost our fifth movie buddy."
JJ walked back into the BAU and found Hotch in the lounge pouring him a cup of coffee and offered her one as well.
"Hey thanks, for checking on Alex for me." She smiled.
"No problem. Her friends showed up just as I was leaving." He nodded.
"I don't want to put you and Will out of-."
"Hotch it's not a problem, besides, Henry and Jack love playing together."
The credits were rolling when I woke up with what felt like to be a blanket draped over my body. I got off the couch with the blanket still wrapped around me, when I smelled food coming from kitchen.
"You find everything ok there Spence?" She turned around.
"Hey you're up." I nodded. "And to answer your question, I did. Your soup should be ready anytime." I nodded as I grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and went back to the oversize chair.
As I was flipping through channels, I stopped at some random black and white movie as Spencer walked in with the soup. "What are we watching?"
"I have no idea. I'm actually never home at this time."
"Looks…"
"Old?" I asked.
"I was going to say classic, but yes." Something clicked the texts that we have received from 'A' over the years. "Alex what is it?"
"Back when we received the texts from 'A' we had Caleb try triangulate where they came from."
"Right. What are you getting at?" Aria, Hanna and Emily walked in.
"Apparently we missed something." Aria said as the three placed groceries on the island.
"Are you pregnant, Alex?" I rolled my eyes at her.
"Shut up Hanna." Emily said. Some things never have change, I thought to myself.
"I think I may have an idea by get a triangulation on the text…"
"I can call-."
"No offense, Han, I know Caleb knows his stuff-."
"But you know someone better?" I nodded.
I walked into the BAU wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt and of course was stopped by Hotch who had a concern look on his face.
"Hey, everything ok?"
"Yeah. I had to get out of the house." Garcia walked up.
"You're back."
"Technically no. I had to get out of the house. Since you're here, I need your help with something." Hotch arched an eyebrow at me.
Both Garcia and I entered her analyst room as I pulled out my cell phone and went through my text.
"What do you need me to do?"
"Find out where this text came from."
"Unblocked number can tricky." I pulled up a nearby chair.
"Tell me about."
"Should I be concern?"
"No."
"I'll let you know when I have something." I gave a slight nod and left.
Meanwhile I was making my way towards the break room I wiped the sweat from my forehead just as I caught up with Morgan and JJ who had a concern look on their faces. I started to open my mouth to say something, but my knees decided to collapse on me.
Hotch's office
I began to stir some and felt the present of the team standing around waiting.
"How are you feeling?"
"I know not to eat anything from JJ from now on." They all looked at her.
"She's kidding." I began to cough.
"We need to get you to the hospital." Hotch said I just nodded as I was attacked by another cough.
The city lights covered the stars as they shined through the hospital window while the monitors were beeping softly as the doctor walked out of Alex's room with the clipboard in hand. The team rose and the lairs rose from their seats all with concern looks on their faces.
"How is she, doctor?"
"The test results came back and she was poison by a clear substance. We gave her some medication to sooth the pain." He began to leave but stopped in mid step.
"Is there something else doctor?" Rossi asked.
"She kept on saying the name, CeCe Drake. I don't know if that means anything."
"Thank you doctor." Hotch said.
"CeCe is still out there?" Aria questioned.
"We don't know that for sure." Morgan said.
"Actually, Alex had me to run some unknown text messages from cell phone." Garcia added.
"When were you going to tell me this?" Hotch asked.
I was slowly starting to wake up when the door open revealing JJ's present walking in what looked like to be a teddy bear.
"A bear?" I asked groggily.
"I figured it would be the safest way to go." I smiled a little.
"It wasn't your fault, JJ." Hotch walked in.
"She's right." I yawned.
"Maybe I should…"
"JJ."
"Yes Alex?"
"Thanks for the bear." She smiled and left.
"How are you feeling?"
"Like I coughed up my lung." Aaron smiled as he started to rub my forehead with his thumb.
"Get some sleep." My eyelids grew heavy as he continued to rub my head.
Aaron and I walked into the house and greeted by Jack, who nearly knocked me down just as Aaron placed his hand on my lower back.
"I missed you, mommy." I ruffled his hair.
"I missed you to buddy." Aria walked out of the kitchen wiping her hands.
"Hey guys."
"Aria made me lunch." I let out a small laugh.
"She did?"
"Hey Jack, why don't you show me what Aria made?" Aaron asked.
"Ok." The two walked off as both Aria and I made our way towards the living room and sat down on the couch.
"I hope he wasn't any trouble."
"He wasn't. Besides he's a cutie." I turned to face the two to see both Jack and Aaron eating. "I still don't know how you do it?"
"Do what?" I asked.
"This. Being a mom and working for the F.B.I." Jack came back over and crawled onto my lap and kissed him on the top of his head.
"One step at a time."
Here's Chapter 4, y'all. So tell me what you think. Not sure where the next chapter is going. So yeah, enjoy.