Chapter 4. (This is rated M in this chapter, because of the flash back of child abuse and language.)

Danielle's nightmare dream: Danielle was a kid when Ted was at the BAU for a case. Ellen was at home with Danielle and Eric, who were home from school. Ellen sat down in her arm chair and she was watching the news to see what was going on worldwide. 39 year old Danielle saw herself as an 8 year old little girl, who was walking into the living with her homework from school and she sat down, working on it. Her mother gave her the evil eye. "Sit down over there on the couch and shut up while you do your homework you stupid girl." Ellen said bitterly as she sneered at her as she was smoking her cigarette. "Little F! king bitch." Ellen murmured bitterly at her. Dani didn't say anything. She knew how her mother was like that. She was a moderate smoker. Eric was in the kitchen, getting something to drink from the fridge and he walked up stairs to do his homework as well. He hoped he could help his sister, but he didn't want to interfere. He knew how his mother gets. He was afriad to get spanked by her. Eric also hoped that Danielle wouldn't get hurt for no reason at all, like Ellen did the last time to her, but she hurt her anyway.

After she got done with her homework, Danielle stood up from the couch without saying a word and she was just about to go upstairs to her bedroom when Ellen grabbed her arm violently as Dani flinched with a loud gasp. Ellen completely snapped. She just lost it. Then, all of a sudden, her mother bolted out of the chair and she threw Danielle onto the floor like a rag doll. "Mom! Please don't do it! Please don't! Stop!" Danielle was yelling, sobbing and screaming in pleading and begging for her mother to stop of what she was about to do to her, just before Ellen had trapped her underneath her. Dani's 39 year old self had watched in horror as she saw her 8 year old self getting beaten by her own mother. She had remembered that day when her mother had done that to hurt her. Ellen then lifted Danielle's tee shirt hight enough as her daughter was struggling to try to get herself out of there, but her mother was stronger than her. Dani felt useless and vulnerable right there and then. Ellen took her cigarette from what was left of it when she took it from her mouth to her own daughter's bare back and when that landed on there, Dani was screaming bloody murder. It hurts like a son of a bitch. Like a bat out of hell. Danielle didn't want to hear anymore of her younger self, going through it all. She closed her eyes to make her dream come back to reality. Every single thing in her dream faded into pitch black. She hated seeing herself going through like that repeatedly over and over after what Ellen did. She felt like she was reliving it all over again. End of Danielle's nightmare.

At 5:30 the next morning when everyone else was asleep, David woke up from a sound sleep when he heard Danielle panting next to him. He rolled over on the bed to look at her and it looked like that she was in a not so pleasant nightmare. Rossi bolted out of bed as fast as he could and he rushed over to her. He was right at her side in seconds, wondering what she was dreaming about. He had to wake her up from whatever bad dream she was having. "Wake up, Danielle. Wake up there, bella." He said loud enough, but gentle for her to hear as he tenderly rubbed her forehead and her shoulders gently as he could without scaring her off if he made a wrong move for her to run away, or something of it. Rossi hoped that he didn't scare her in anyway.

Just then by his words, Danielle shot her eyes opened and she bolted straight up on the bed in cold sweat and she breathed heavily. She turned her head when she looked at Rossi. "David?" She said in a broken whispered voice. She then threw herself into his arms and she softly cried. Although, she knew that they needed to get up out of bed and meet the team by 8 that morning, so they could go to the Police station to work Officers and Detectives and they need to find some ways to catch the unsub, who was abusing and killing the victims who looked like her and why.

David moved up behind her and he stayed with her on the bed while he held her close to him. He buried his face into her hair whispering. "Shh, bella, it's okay. Shh. I'm right here with you, bella Danielle." Rossi said quietly as he stroke her hair while he was trying to calm her down. He really cared for her and he knew that she felt safe and secure around him and David was not complaining about it at all. He actually liked being around her and he was okay with that. He was also falling deeply in love with her too. Even though, Rossi knew that he wouldn't let go of her unless if she asked him to, but he knew that she wouldn't. She too was falling for him also. He wants her to be in his life. To keep her safe from whoever was either haunting her, or harming her. David Rossi would find out sooner, or later of what was going with her. He would take very good care of her and he would help her go through a tough time together with her. After she had calmed down, Danielle knew that David was behind her, holding her in his arms against his chest in a gentle tight embrace. She felt so safe and secure into his strong arms as she placed her hands on his forearms to hold him there. She was afraid that if she were to let him go, he would disappear and he would never be heard from again and she doesn't want that at all.

Danielle knew that she and David had to get up out of bed to go to the Portland Police station work on catching the unsub. David then kissed the top of her head as he rested his head on her shoulder. "Come on, Danielle, we need to get out of bed, so we can meet Hotch and the team down stairs in the lobby by 8." Rossi said softly to her. He felt her nod against his shoulder even though, she didn't trust her voice to say anything. David kissed her head once again before they got up from the bed and they were getting dressed and get freshened themselves up to get ready to go to work. When they got down stairs, Hotch was waiting for the rest of the team down stairs in the lobby and they were already for work.

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After the Agents got to the Police station, Danielle was looking at the murder victims, by reading from the case files with her head down. They were in a way of creeping her out that the victims were murdered, who looked like Dani by the Unsub and why. David was sitting right beside her and he was making sure that she was okay. Rossi and the rest of the Agents, including the chief of police were watching her reaction when she was looking at the case files of the victims. This unsub was either a he, or a she, who were doing the killings. There had to be a very good reason for this unsub to do such a thing like this. Dani wasn't sure which 1 what so ever. Both Hotch and Alex looked at Danielle with concern. Morgan, JJ and Ried had gotten used to Dani a little bit better, but they still blame her for Emily's leaving. Derek got a little bit more better with her and he took out his cell phone and he called up Penelope. "Hey, baby girl, got a question to ask you. When did the killings start for the last 10 to 25 years, or a bit more than that here in Portland?" Morgan asked. He was also a bit concern about Danielle as well in a way. "And so let's start with 25 years and see what you got, my sweet Goddess." Derek added. Half of the agents looked at him like, 'what was that about.' With their puzzled looks on their faces, but they didn't say anything. They looked outside and it looked as if it was going to rain, coming down from Canada from the weather forecast on the news after they watched the news reporters were talking about the killings.

Garcia knew she was on speaker phone as she looked at her computer screen in her office at the BAU. "Okay, my little sweet things. Let's see what we got here for the murders in the last 25 years here." Penelope said as she typed on her computer. And then an article appeared onto her screen. "Oh, boy." Garcia said softly over the phone. She was a little freaked out when she started reading the newspaper article popped up on her screen with slightly wide eyes. "You guys are not going to believe this." She said. "It all started when this had happened here in Quantico 25 years ago when a woman abused her 14 year old daughter, Danielle when her mother, Ellen Prentiss heard the door closed and her husband came home and he caught her beating the hell out of their daughter." At Garcia's words, Danielle's head shot up at Morgan when every single Agent was looking at her like, 'what the hell happened to her' or 'why didn't you tell us?' or 'who would do such a thing like that to her own daughter.' Only Strauss, the Director, Hotch, Ted and Emily knew of Dani's secret past. David, along with JJ, Morgan, Reid, Penelope and Blake, who never knew of her past. But now they do know about her. Then Garcia said. "But I'll help you guys as I can to catch this culprit who is doing the killings." Penelope added. The others agreed, before she hung up the phone.

Everyone was in the room, who looked over at Danielle in a moment of silence. The ones, who knew about her past looked at her in concern. Dani felt nervous at the moment as the Agents looked at her and she had her eyes locked onto the case file of the victim when she felt David's hand holding hers in his and he squeezed to reassure her that he wasn't mad, or worse at her. Shocked, maybe, but he wasn't mad at her for her not telling her colleagues of her past. They need to find the unsub and fast, before another murder occurs.