Here's chapter 18, sorry it's taken so long to get this posted!
Dave came into the bullpen, laden down with bags from the various fast food places around Quantico.
"Dinner's here," Rossi's voice broke into the conversation Emily and Nicole were having; Nicole was using her hands and talking excitedly about a book.
"The ham sandwich kid's meal for you JJ, they were all too happy to provide you with the under two toy, but now the local subway thinks that I have a child."
"If you want, I will gladly let you borrow mine for a few days," JJ offered as Rossi handed one of the Italian BMT's to Nicole and then pushed the Snickers bar over to her. Nicole's eyes lit up when she saw it.
"No thank you," Rossi said. "The two year olds I know could give terrorists nightmares."
Nicole reached over and grabbed the candy bar. "Thank you Agent Rossi." She said, grinning.
"You're welcome," David said.
Nicole opened the sandwich and took a big bite and the group ate in near silence. "When am I going to my Foster care family?" Nicole asked, after she had swallowed her first bite.
The group turned to Mia who spoke, "I'm trying to find a home for you, I've made a few calls; I'm just waiting for people to call me back."
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Emily asked quietly. She moved so that she and Mia weren't facing the group and Nicole couldn't hear them.
Mia shook her head. "Unless you know of an all female foster family who is willing to take in sexual assault victims." She took in a breath and stole a quick glance at Nicole who was now talking to JJ. "I don't mean this negatively towards Nicole, but sexual assault victims are hard to place."
"Oh that sucks," Emily breathed as the door to the bull pen opened and a man came in and went up to the nearest agent.
"Excuse me," he spoke to Morgan, "Could you tell me where Agent Hotchner is?"
"Hey, Hotch." Morgan turned and got the Unit Chief's attention. He motioned to the man, who stepped around Morgan and began to talk to Hotch,
"Your office has put the fingerprints of two criminals through VICAP, correct?" he asked. Emily paused eating; did this have to do with Nicole?"
"And you are…." Hotch asked.
"Agent Erikson," the man said. "I've been searching for Jared and Helen Morris for nearly a decade." At Hotch's surprised look he kept talking, "Back in the late 80's, and early to mid 90's Jared and Helen Morris were known Paul and Sharon Kensington." The rest of the team stopped eating and began paying attention to Hotch and the new agent.
"They are responsible for the kidnapping of 37 children and the murder of Robert and Ann Waterton." The man said, "They would kidnap children usually ages 3 to 5 and then place them for adoption either in Alaska or Washington. I was very close to catching them when they changed their names and went underground, they even found the couple who was going to testify against them and they killed them and either killed or captured Robert and Ann's little girl, Michaela."
"How do you know Paul and Sharon are Jared and Helen?" Hotch asked.
"Your tech guy put Paul and Sharon's fingerprints through VICAP."
"Garcia mentioned that she was going to do that, but I am confused as to why she didn't tell us this information herself." Hotch said.
"That would be because of my tech guy," the Agent explained. "He's made it so that if anybody put Paul and Sharon's fingerprints through VICAP they wouldn't find the answers, but I would be alerted to the search and who Paul and Sharon are now."
"We originally arrested Jared Morris on the torture of 118 women, the murder of 2 and the intent to harm an unborn child. We transferred the charges to his wife, Helen Morris and are now charging Jared Morris with sexual abuse and prostitution of a minor instead and at least ten counts of child pornography."
"That doesn't surprise me," Erikson said. "Sharon was always jealous of women who could have children."
"She was always saying that all she wanted was a child," Nicole spoke up. She was shaking slightly while holding back tears. It was clear that whatever Helen had said had hurt Nicole deeply. "And that people should stop complaining about the beautiful miracles they were given."
"And you are…?" Agent Erikson was kind, but it was clear that he had no idea who Nicole was.
"Nicole Morris. I'm Jared and Helen's daughter."
Erikson looked taken aback for a moment, his eyebrows furrowing in concern, "How old are you?" he asked.
"I just turned 15 last week," Nicole supplied.
Erikson turned to Hotch. "Do you have her finger prints on file?"
"Yes we do. We had to book her when we thought she was destroying evidence," Hotch said.
Nicole turned to Emily. "What's going on?" she whispered.
"I don't know, but I'll make sure nothing bad happens to you, Nicole," Emily promised. Nicole nodded and they turned back to Erikson and Hotch.
"After I'm done talking with my tech guy, could you have your tech guy run her finger prints through CODIS?"
"Of course," Hotch said. Quickly he got Garcia on the phone and after Erikson talked his technical analyst, he told Garcia: "Put Nicole's fingerprints through CODIS, would you?"
"Oh hey look, I'm actually allowed to use my own computers now," Garcia said, clearly in a bad mood.
"Sorry about that," Erikson spoke up. "My tech made it so that there would be restrictions on the computer that Paul and Sharon's fingerprints were put through."
"Who are Paul and Sharon?" Garcia asked.
"We'll explain later Garcia," Hotch promised, "Please put Nicole's finger prints through CODIS."
"I just put Nikki's fingerprints through and…." Garcia drew out the last word as she waited for her computer to give her the answer she was looking for. "And oh my goodness this explains everything. Like, this explanation is akin to Snape loving Lily Evans and that's the reason behind his worst memory shown in the 5th book. This explains the adoption questions I had to… this explains everything!"
"Baby Girl…." Morgan began to talk, but Garcia interrupted him.
"Nicole Morris was born Michaela Waterton, July 4th 1995, to Robert and Ann Waterton. The entire family entered the Witness Protection Program on…."
"July 5th 1997." Erikson interrupted "I was the head agent on that case."
"Apparently they were found six weeks later and the family had to leave Alaska where they were originally put, they were transferred to Montana." Garcia kept talking they could hear the clicking of the keyboard and then silence. "Holy Crap," she finally spoke.
"What is it Garcia?" Hotch asked.
"Well, for safety of the family, they were separated during the transfer from Alaska to Montana. They were taken to Montana using different routes. Agents Andrea Cook and Steven Brewster took the parents to Montana and the agents who took the little girl were…." Garcia trailed off.
"Who were they, Garcia?" Hotch asked.
Garcia took in a breath "Agents William Yarmin and Emily Prentiss."
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