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Chapter Fifteen.

When I woke up my head was pounding, most of the light was shut out of the room but I couldn't even look at my phone. "I suppose I deserve this…" I groaned, rolling over and falling out of the bed with a large thud.

"I'm such an idiot."

I sat up slowly, getting to my feet before walking into the bathroom to turn on the shower. I'd forgotten about my arm until I caught a sighting of it in my reflection. Guess this arm will be hanging out of the shower then. I sighed, undressing before stepping under the warm spray, thoughts whirling round my mind.

Why did I have to argue with my senior agent? Seriously, as if I wasn't already on his radar. Not only that Reid has probably already told them about my drunken escapes yesterday so that's another tick on the "you'll be fired" list. Yet another deep sigh escaped me as I finished cleaning myself, stepping out and wrapping myself up in the towel. Agent Hotchner is probably going to suspend me after what I said yesterday, I don't blame the guy.

I shook the thought from my head as I grabbed my clothes, quickly dressing into them before scrapping my wet hair into a bun. In this heat it wouldn't take long to dry so I couldn't be bothered to do it myself.

"Agent Davis?" A voice echoed through my door alongside three knocks, I stopped staring at the door before I walked over and opened it.

"Agent Rossi…" I paused, my eyes gazing down either end of the hall. "What brings you to my door?"

"I just wanted to have a quick chat, mind if I come in?" I shook my head at him and stepped to the side, allowing him to enter. "I overheard the conversation with Agent Hotchner yesterday."

I closed the door, my eyes briefly looking at him before I went over to the bed to pull on some socks. "You did huh?"

"I do understand where you are coming from." He took a seat in the space next to me, my eyes watching him as he continued to talk. "I had a case which involved some children, their parents were brutally killed during the night and they were left orphaned. It took me years to find out who the killer was and bring the guy to justice, by this time they were all adults."

I could see in his face that this case meant a lot to him. "How did you feel?"

"When we caught the guy?"

I nodded and he looked down at my arm for a moment, causing me to pull at my sleeve. "It felt good, I dedicated years of my life to this case and when it was all over, the victims kids and myself finally got closure."

I looked down at the carpet, more thoughts popping into my mind. "You aren't responsible for these kids Clara. You did all you could to stop Miller from hurting his son and yes he died but we also got the bad guy."

"And yet three innocent children's lives are changed forever. You don't understand how having no parents impacts a child of their age, it's traumatic… You worry about getting too close to someone, you're constantly thinking about if you can trust a person. And the nightmares?" I shook my head, my foot tapping the floor. "The nightmares they will have won't ever stop."

Rossi put his hand on my shoulder, "You can't put that on yourself. You need to show these kids that you lived through a similar event, you need to show them that you've come out the other side stronger than before. You're an FBI agent Clara, they look up to you."

I lifted my head to look into his eyes. He smiled, his face warming to me. "Thank you David."

"No problem. Now get your stuff packed, we're leaving in ten." He gave my shoulder a squeeze and stood, leaving me in my room.

I was in the hotel lobby first, my bag on the seat beside me as I took a few gulps of water. I could've been a lot worse yesterday, I'm just glad it's only a headache I'm being punished with right now.

"Clara!"

I heard a familiar girls voice echoing through the lobby, causing me to turn round to face the doors. Jessie running up to me.

"Hey sweetie!" I crouched, my eyes darting to Sarah and Henry walking in after her. "You're all here?"

Jessie nodded, pulling away from me. "I didn't want you to leave without saying goodbye." She smiled, her bright eyes twinkling.

"That's so thoughtful of you."

Sarah and Henry stopped in front of me, Sarah handing me a large bunch of flowers. "W-what are these for?"

"For catching the bad guy and being so nice to us." Henry said and that lump in my throat returned.

"You didn't need to do that…" I smiled at them and I could see their guardians stood a few metres away, letting the kids talk to me alone. "I love them, thank you."

"We are going to be okay, you don't have to worry about us anymore." Jessie said as she played with my lanyard again. "I think I want to be just like you when I'm a grown up."

I let out a little laugh, wiping a tear away from my eye before it rolled down my cheek. "You do? And what about you Sarah?"

"I want to be a dancer." She stood a little taller when she said that, a smile brightening her face.

"I think you'd be a wonderful dancer." I winked at her and looked at Henry. "How about you little man?"

He pondered my question for a few moments and smiled "I want to be a FBI agent just like Dr Reid."

I let out a louder laugh this time, picking Jessie up in my arms as I stood. "You know, I think Reid would like to hear you say that."

"Say what?" Reid spoke as he stopped beside me.

"Go on Henry, tell him what you want to be when you grow up."

Henry grinned and looked up at Reid. "I want to be an FBI agent just like you."

Reid looked slightly surprised and he smiled down at him. "Like me? Why me?"

"You're so smart and cool."

"Never been called cool before…" he paused, crouching down to Henry's height. "I think you'd be a great agent." He and Henry high fived and he stood, messing up the boys hair.

"Right kids! Come up it's time to go!" Sarah and Jessie's god parent called.

"Are you going to miss us?" Jessie said as she looked at me.

"Of course, I am sweetie. I'll never forget any of you." The small girl smiled, I could see that these three children were going to be just fine continuing on with their lives. "You three helped me just as much as I helped you." I bopped her on the nose before she wrapped her arms tightly round my neck, hugging me tightly.

"I won't forget you either Clara." She whispered before I put her down, allowing me to say good bye to the other two.

"Stay in school!"

Reid called as they walked away, a smile still holding strong on my face. "Who are the flowers from?" Reid asked as I watched them walk out of the hotel.

"The kids bought them for me." I looked down at them, smelling them. "They came to say goodbye."

"They're good kids."

I nodded in agreement, looking at him. "You seriously haven't been called cool before?"

He smirked, tucking his hair behind his ear. "Never cool. I was too nerdy in school to ever be considered cool."

I chuckled, nudging him with my shoulder. "Well I think you're pretty cool too."

I could see him blush slightly and I grabbed my bag, seeing the rest of the team walking toward us.

"Secret admirer Red?" Morgan asked as he eyed up the bouquet in my hands.

"The three kids came by and gave me them."

"That was very nice of them." Hotchner said, looking at me. I raised an eyebrow at him, his tone suggesting he knew something about this.

"Did you have something to do with this?"

He shook his head, checking his watch. "With what? Right come on everyone."

He moved past me and my eyes trailed after him before glancing back at the team who all shrugged their shoulders. So the guy wasn't all stone after all.

"Henry thinks I'm cool." Reid blurted out and they all looked at him as we walked out the hotel.

"Really?" Morgan replied and we all laughed.

"Oh give him his moment Morgan." Prentiss said, tapping Reid on the back.

"What you guys don't think I'm cool?" He looked stunned and we chuckled, splitting into two groups and getting into the cars to head back to the jet.