James Greaves sat motionlessly and calmly in the interrogation room as he held his hands together on his stomach as he breathed in and out slowly. Refusing to have a lawyer represent him. Emily watched from the other side of the one sided window with J.J. beside her. Morgan and Reid having decided to go through his home while they stayed back at the Police station. Emily could practically feel his breathing from memory as she watched him. The only sound to be heard coming out of James was the humming.

They could hear James's humming through the window, J.J. probably did not know the song he was humming, but Emily knew him all too well, even better than most. the only other people left being his older brother Nolan Greaves and his younger brother Scott Sylvane, She recognized the sounds of his favorite song by R.E.M. It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine).

Over the course of time that Emily had known James she had seen many expressions on his face. Joy, anger, sorrow and even confusion, but the look he now wore over his face like a mask was different. Like he had been beaten and he was just waiting for it all to end. She found it extremely odd and out of character for him and his old lively attitude.

Hotchner and Rossi arrived from visiting the witness. With them were Morgan and Reid who arrived seconds after them. Morgan and Reid seemed to be giving Emily an even more teasing judgmental look, causing her to once again ask with an eye brow up "What?"

Then Morgan says as he puts a few photo's down on a desk "Well we went through your ex's house. A lot of books on mythology, he had a collection of Steinbeck. We even found a few of photos in a little compartment in the floor by a rifle, but nothing like what was used to kill the victims."

"So why are you guys giving Emily that look?" J.J. asks.

Rossi then says with a smirk "Oh it's nothing; we've just found it amusing how much Emily's taste in men has changed over the years."

"Ha, ha very funny Rossi. At least I'm not the one who's been married three times." Emily says in laughing spite to Rossi's dismay and amusement before Hotchner asks "Have the police interrogated him yet?"

"No? Chief Brody asked that Stabler and Deeks were put back the streets to find more leads. What about the survivor?" Emily replies with her own question to which Hotchner replies "Greaves does not fit the profile or her description, the man she saw in the woods has a physical resemblance to his face but the hair and eyes are wrong."

"Plus the witness said one of her attackers, the one she ID'd had a tattoo on his right hand. Seems to have a clean hand to me." Rossi says.

"So basically they arrested the wrong guy?" Prentiss says and then Hotchner says "Prentiss you know Greaves more so go in and speak with him then tell him he can leave."

"What makes you think he'll talk to me? I haven't seen him since I was in college." Emily says, unsure of how to be around James anymore, the last time they spoke they did not exactly part on good terms.

"Well he was giving you quiet the look." J.J. says and then Emily replies in her and James defense "What look?"

"The serious it's been awhile look." J.J. says before Hotchner steps in and says "Greaves will only speak to someone he knows well enough that he believes is trustworthy."

Emily sighs as she looks at James before taking the pictures and was ready for going into the interrogation room before she realized that they had not heard from Garcia yet and asks "What about Garcia, have any of you even talked to her since you arrived in Parker?" trying to prolong the chance of her having a real conversation again with James.

"We did."Reid replies and then Morgan clarifies "Basically what Garcia found in the data base was a James Greaves, born in 1971 and raised in Seattle. His parents Silas and Mary divorced when he was eighteen then his dad died of a stroke a couple of months later before he ran away from home. He has two brothers like you said Nolan Greaves and Scott Greaves, only Scott is his half brother and a former Marine. James has spent most of his life doing various jobs; usually a Mechanic or construction then he eventually joined the Navy Seals in 1994 eventually earning the rank of sergeant specializing in sniper rifles then left in 2005 went back to odd jobs until he came here two years ago."

"Oh is that all? Or is there more I need to know before I go into a room with a highly trained killer?" Emily says sarcastically, still reluctant to be near James and then forces herself to open the door. James face was ice cold when she first walked then sees it change to a warm smile upon seeing her again.

"Hello Emily. So how've you been? I was having a nice day till you and your buddies showed up with captain Street and those trigger happy goons showed up on my front door step." James says in his usual rough around the edges tone. Hiding the real him like he always does.

Emily sits across from her old boyfriend examining him more; his jaw and the front of his neck were no longer covered in stubbles. His face and life had certainly cleaned up since she last saw him.

She searched for the right words and finally tries to break the ice with him "Good to see you again James. You look good." Then James says "Yeah well being thrown into an interrogation room tends to bring out my good side." as she returned the photo's to James to see his reaction saying "I thought you would like to have these back" and the first photo James saw was that of a picture showing him and his Father when he was a kid. The picture than forced his mind into a memory of his own.

To the night his life was first put on this course.

1989 Seattle

A young 18 year old James Greaves stood at the grave of his father Silas Greaves with a cross erected over the grave with his old leather jacket hanging from it. James was alone, his hand holding his father's Family antique the Colt M1911 that once belonged to his grandfather James Robert Greaves who served in the Second World War.

He had tired of life. His older brother Nolan was now off in college and his younger brother Scott was off living with another family. His mother he could no longer stand to be around, he hated her with every part of his being for how she destroyed their family and refused to even try to save it. His father was the only one who ever understood him, his family was dead in his eyes, and he just wanted it to all be over. He tried to kill himself in front of that grave, to die near the only person he had left to care for in the world, but he could never do it.

So he chose to leave, putting the weapon away he says to the grave "I'm sorry Dad. I should have helped more, I should have tried more. Maybe if I cared more you would still be alive. Well, I'm done with this town dad. There's nothing but traitors and back stabbers. I think I'll see if there's a better life for me out there."

James then looks at the leather jacket hanging from the cross and takes it into his hands before throwing it on himself and saying before leaving "Thanks dad, I'll bring this back one day, I promise."

Back in the Present

Emily could see the pain on his face as he turned the page around and asks as he puts the pictures away in his pocket "So uh, did you need something Emily?"

"You're free to go James; I just wanted to see if I could ask you a few questions." Emily says laying back in her chair noticing his slow breathing as he seemed to be searching his mind for the answer and then finally says "Sure thing Emily. What do you want to know?"

"What do you know about the murders that have been happening around Parker?" Emily asks and then James replies "Pretty much everything that people in town are saying 'people found in the woods, shot and stabbed then eaten.' Some guy out there is playing a little Wendigo act."

There was a moment of silence between Emily and James as they stared at each other then finally he asks "Why did you think I would know anything about it? Was it that ass hole Stabler?"

"Know a survivor was found a while back and she was able to ID her attacker as a guy that looks like you only with a tattoo on his hand." Emily replies then continues with another question "What made you think Stabler was the reason we brought you here?"

"Are you kidding me? That bastard will take any excuse to throw a happy person in jail. He really hates me though because I got his last partner fired. Course she did brutally attack me in an attempt at a false confession." James replies.

"You really expect me to believe one cop would try to blame any crime on you?" Emily asks in disbelief. And then James replies sarcastically "A cop trying to convict a guy for something he didn't do, no that never happens."

Then he continues by saying "Emily you and I both know what people are capable of a lot of things. Women have abortions and guys turn their backs on their mothers. You're a grown up, I thought you would have learn this by now."

Emily then believing there was no further reason to hold him and she says "Well if you're ready to leave you can go now."

James then stands up ready to go but then stops in the door way and asks "Wait, wasn't someone from the BAU supposed to be coming by to see me?" to which he replies "I'm one of them." Then James smirks and says "Small world after all."

Then he leaves to retrieve his things.