CHAPTER 18
"Declan?"
Emily can't believe her eyes. It is him. It's Declan Doyle.
"Oh, so you do remember me?" he said with a brow raised.
"I must admit, I am pretty unforgettable," He said with a grin.
Emily studies his facial features. It is Declan alright.
He still has a similar haircut that Emily last saw him with, though his hair is messier, unlike the well-kept curls that he had when he was a child. His dark, blonde hair is covering part of his face.
One thing that sticks out to the agent is the scar that he has on his left eyebrow. It looks like it was done with a sharp object, piercing through his skin, cutting through his brow.
He looks older but no more than twenty years of age. He has similar features as his father. The shape of his eyes and facial structure resembles the one of Ian Doyle.
Especially his grin. His grin reminds the agent of the man who almost killed her.
"Declan, why are you doing this?" Emily asks him.
Out of all people, she could think of, Declan was the least expected. No. She didn't even consider him being a potential suspect at all.
She has to know why he is doing this.
"I don't know why you are asking this question. You are smart. I'm sure you can figure it out."
"I thought you would be in college and-"
"Shut it!" Declan exclaims, making Emily jump.
"Did you really think I would be prancing around and having a normal life? After everything that happened you still believe that?"
"You have a second chance. You are no longer under your father's influence," the agent tells him.
"You don't have to follow his steps."
"That is where you are wrong. I don't want to be the great international terrorist like Ian was. That isn't me," he said.
"I'm different. I just want to avenge my father."
"Avenge?" Emily asks with a brow raised.
"Why? All I did was help you get out of that horrible life you had with your father."
That is what Emily firmly believes. She helped Declan get out of that dangerous environment that Doyle had him in.
She knows that the man would have raised the child in an unsafe place. Ian wanted his son to be a warrior just like he was. That meant that he was going to raise Declan as one.
A life where crime and violence are consistent is not suitable for a child. Ian was not a suitable parental figure.
"No! You didn't help! All you ever did was ruin my life!" Declan exclaims, raising his hands in anger.
"You just came into my father's life in order to destroy it."
"Your father was a criminal. You don't know what he was capable of doing," Emily explains.
She has seen what Ian was capable of. He was powerful and ruthless. He had no mercy for those who he saw as an enemy.
"You were too young to understand."
"Shut up!" he exclaims, slapping the woman in frustration.
Emily takes the hit and moves her jaw slowly, feeling how her right cheek is stinging.
"Even though my father died, his empire never collapsed. He created a very loyal base of people that never backed out of his business. It took a while but they managed to find me in order to give me everything that is mine to inherit."
That is something that Emily was worried would happen. The BAU managed to take down the leader of the IRA organization but they didn't dismantle the organization as a whole.
Someone else could have taken Ian's place as the leader in order to continue their operations.
And apparently, that did happen.
Declan looks at Emily with an angry expression.
"I know exactly what happened. You see, before my father died he left me a video explaining exactly what happened. He told me the trap you set him up back when you first met him."
"Working undercover, giving him a false sense of a romantic relationship in order to land him in prison. Not content with that you decide to fake my death as well as your own just to torture him," he pauses and shakes his head.
"That is stooping low, Emily."
"Declan, there is more that happened that he didn't tell you," Emily says, trying to rationalize with him.
"After everything you have done, you expect me to believe you? All of this happened because of your lies!" he said, giving her a disgusted look.
"You lied about everything. About Lauren, about me! Not only did you lie, you saw him dying and didn't do a single thing to help him!" He exclaims with his face turning red with anger.
"I saw him die in front of me and you didn't do a single thing."
"There was nothing for me to do-"
"Quiet! I don't want to hear no excuses from you!" Declan tells her.
He walks behind Emily and pulls her up. She stands up and feels a cold gun pointing at the back of her head.
"My father loved me with all his heart. I remember him telling me that when I was smaller. He told me that in the video. You took away the one person who genuinely loved me," he tells the woman.
Declan has his reasons for doing this. After his father died, he was taken in under witness protection in order to avoid Ian's enemies from reaching him.
Declan was sent to the other side of the country in the city of Seattle. He lived with a couple in which took care of him like their own. He was raised in a healthy home.
But a change of environment did not erase the scars he had from witnessing his father's death.
His memories from his father are blurry and limited, with him remembering only bits and pieces. From what he can remember is that Ian treated him well. He never did any harm to him.
The few memories Declan has with Ian are good ones. Ian Doyle was a criminal but that didn't change the fact that he was a loving father.
The one memory that is vivid is the most painful one. He remembers seeing Ian dying right in front of him. How he was on the floor with a bullet wound near his neck.
Declan remembers how the man was quickly losing blood, with a puddle of red right under him.
He remembers clearly how his father reached out to him with blood on his hands in order to hold Declan's smaller ones for the last time.
"I'm sorry, son," was the last thing Ian said before he closed his eyes, never to be open again.
And Emily did nothing. She did nothing to save him.
"You have to understand, I did it for your own good. So you could have a normal life. I did it for you," Emily explains.
"No! You didn't have any right to decide my life with my father. You did it for yourself because you are a selfish bitch. You knew that my disappearance was the key to my father's suffering."
"You used that for your advantage in order to save your own skin, not mine" he replies with anger.
He presses the gun against Emily.
"Unlike you, I am not a liar. Let's go see the kid. After all, it will be the last time you will be able to say hi to her."
Emily feels her body shudder with fear when hearing those words.
Declan takes Emily to the end of the hallway where there is a set of stairs leading down to a cellar. They descend down the stairs which makes a creaking noise with each step they take.
When Emily arrives at the last step, Declan pushes her, causing her to fall on the floor, face first. She turns around, groaning in pain, and looks at him.
She is surprised that the fall didn't knock out her teeth though she isn't complaining.
"Wait," he orders.
He takes out a rope from a small table nearby and ties her feet together. He makes sure it was tight so that way the agent wouldn't run in order to escape.
He has worked too hard for this. He isn't going to take any chances in this going wrong.
Declan has planned this long enough in order for this to work smoothly and without error.
He drags Emily back up and leads her to the back where Dani is.
Daniela is still strapped in the chair with her head down. Once she hears footsteps approaching, she immediately looks up in order to see who it is.
She expected that the person approaching would be her abductor but once the person entered, her eyes go wide in surprise.
"Emily?" she said while seeing the brunette being held by the kidnapper.
This is not going well at all.
Emily looks up at Dani, feeling a wave of joy when she hears her voice. She immediately tries to run towards her but she is being held by Declan who refuses her to step any closer to the girl.
"Baby, are you okay?" she asks with worried eyes.
Emily sees all the cuts Dani has on her arms. They look like they stopped bleeding for the most part but it is enough to make the agent's stomach twinge.
"Yeah," Dani said with a nod.
Normally she would have been relieved to see Emily but she didn't expect her to arrive all tied up. That is not the plan Dani had in mind.
Yet again, the girl has no plan, to begin with. The only plan right now is to survive.
Declan pushes Emily to the floor, causing her to stumble and fall to the ground. He uncuffs the woman but quickly ties up her hands with a rope to the same pole Dani was before.
He stands up and looks at her.
"I will leave you two in order for you guys to chat for a while. Don't get too comfortable without me," he announces with a smirk and leaves.
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Emily looks at Declan exiting the cellar. She couldn't believe it was him. The same little boy who she had met undercover during her operation to detain Doyle.
The kid who she had sworn to protect.
Now he is all grown up wanting to avenge his father.
She tried keeping tabs on him but eventually, she was told that his files had to be strictly reserved to witness protection.
She didn't completely agree with this measure but accepted it as a form of caution.
From what she had known, Declan was sent with a nice family in Washington state and was doing well at school, living a seemingly normal life.
That is what she had thought.
She wants to know how Doyle managed to keep tabs on him. Even after his death, Ian managed to get to him. That was the part that made Emily feel defeated.
She did everything she could in order to get Declan away from his father. That was her end goal. To let Declan have a normal life without the influence of a terrorist.
She had thought she had won the war against Doyle. After all, he was dead. Now she knows that he was two steps ahead of her, managing to get a hold of Declan.
He filled his brain with lies and hate in order to get what Doyle always wanted. To hurt Emily.
"Emily, what are you doing here?" asks Dani with a confused face, getting the woman's attention.
Emily looks up at the girl. "I came here to save you," she states.
"Look, I don't want to offend you or anything but I always thought the person who saves the day in a situation like this is the one who is not held hostage with the hostage," she tells her.
"That is just two negatives."
"Two negatives make a positive," Emily said, trying to lighten the mood.
"This isn't the best time to give math lessons," Dani said, narrowing her eyes.
She suddenly realizes something.
"Wait, if you are here then that means the rest of the team knows where we are, right?" she said with a hopeful expression.
It makes sense. Emily and the team must have made some sort of plan in order for them to rescue her. The team would be here soon in order to get them out of this whole mess.
Emily looks down at the floor. She knows she is about to disappoint the teen with her response.
"I came here alone without them knowing in order to make sure that you weren't hurt."
"What? What do you mean they don't know?" asks the teen with a mix of confusion and anger.
Now this situation makes no sense at all.
"It was a deal I made with him," Emily explains.
"Listen, I know it doesn't sound good but I promise you they will find us."
"And how the hell are they gonna do that?" asks the teen with a frown.
"Damn it!" she utters out while putting her head down in defeat.
How was the team going to find them now?
"Hey, look at me," said the agent, trying to meet with the girl's gaze.
Dani lifts her head slowly, her pure hazel eyes meeting Emily's dark brown ones.
"I know we are not in the best position right now but I need you to have hope," she said, trying to lift the teen's spirit up.
Emily needs the girl to have faith that everything will turn out fine. It does no good to no anyone if the girl has a pessimist attitude in this situation. It will only stress her out.
Dani looks at Emily and lets out a sigh.
"Alright," she said with a nod. She can't argue with the woman.
She knows that the agent is trying her best to keep her calm. The teenager doesn't want to make this situation harder than it already is.
"Thank you," Emily tells her with a sincere smile.
A small smile but enough to ensure the girl that the agent has hope too.
There is a small pause before Daniela speaks up.
"You didn't have to do this you know," the girl tells the agent.
"You didn't have to come out here and risk yourself like this. It's too dangerous."
"Hun, I am not about to stand on the sidelines and watch you get hurt," Emily states firmly.
"Watch me?" Daniela asks with confusion.
How did the woman watch her?
Emily remembers that Daniela was never aware of Declan taking a video of her and sending it.
The camera looked like it was positioned somewhere hidden yet it was able to record the whole thing.
"I uhh... the team and I were sent a live stream of him hurting you."
Daniela looks up at Emily and bites her lip. She isn't sure what to say or think. They all saw what happened, everything. Well, at least the little "welcoming" she got.
That is what convinced Emily to go find her alone. It makes sense now though the girl still didn't agree with the woman's decision.
"I didn't know he was recording," Dani tells the agent.
"Or that he sent anything to you."
"I saw it and I knew I had to get you out of here. That's why I came here," Emily explains.
"I don't want you to get any more hurt than what you already are."
There was no other way around it. Emily was going to save the girl one way or the other. She wasn't going to stand on the sidelines and see the girl get hurt.
"It's not that bad. It looks worst than it is," the teen tells her with a weary smile.
She isn't exactly lying. It does look bad but it doesn't hurt.
"Dan, you have cuts all over you. I'm pretty sure that is something to be concerned about."
"As I said, It's nothing to worry about."
Emily looks at the girl with a small frown. Of course, the girl would try to convince her otherwise.
"Oh, Dan. You can be pretty damn stubborn from time to time."
"Look who is talking. The queen of eternal stubbornness herself," Daniela said with sass.
If anyone is stubborn, it's the agent.
The Prentiss genes contain the element of eternal stubbornness. It's a fact.
Emily looks at the teen and gives her a small smile. She is glad to see that the girl still has her sense of humor despite their current situation.
She doesn't know how the girl does it but Daniela is managing to keep her composure and her odd sense of optimism.
Daniela lets out a small chuckle but abruptly stops when she feels a stinging pain on the cut she has on her eyebrow.
Her face wrinkles in discomfort. This doesn't go unnoticed by the profiler.
"Does it still hurt?" Emily asks with worry.
She sees Dani's cut. It looks very deep, with the girl having dry blood on part of her face. The agent knows that the cut was going to need stitches in order for it to heal.
Emily desperately wants to heal the teen's wounds and make her pain go away.
"Just a little," Dani said.
She doesn't want to worry Emily more than she already was.
"It stopped bleeding a while ago. It's better now." She gives Emily a small smile, trying to prove her point that she is okay.
She knows she can't lie to the woman. She is a profiler after all. The girl just needs to let the woman know that she is okay.
"Try not to move much," the brunette tells her.
She knows that Dani is trying her best to keep her composure in order to not worry her. It's not the first time the teenager is masking her pain in order to not worry her.
Emily could count the many times that the girl has gotten hurt but acted as if nothing happened.
Like the time when David bought her a mountain bike during the start of spring. There was no reason or special occasion for him to give Dani a gift of such size. He just did it because well... he is David Rossi.
No one was going to stop the man from giving random gifts to the people loves, especially when he is more than financially capable of doing so.
That same day, Dani showed off her new torquiest bike to her friends in which they suggested going on a bike trip around the city.
It went well... for the most part. It was until the girl failed to notice that part of the sidewalk that she was on was uneven, which led her bike to get stuck, thus making her flip over.
Fortunately, Rossi was kind enough in also gifting her a bike helmet and bike gloves. At least she didn't get a concussion but she did manage to scrape her left knee.
Emily could have sworn that she almost fainted once she saw Daniela's injury. It was a bad scrape, to say the least.
The concrete did a lot of damage to her skin, seeing how it was dark red in blood. Dani tried her best in convincing Emily that she was fine.
It's only a small scratch. Ni me duele, she told the agent.
Emily saw how calm and collected the girl was while the agent was panicking internally. Well, externally too. It was like if Emily was the one injured, not the girl.
She knows that Daniela hates being vulnerable. The girl has always been the one to put on a brave face no matter what the circumstances are.
She rarely, if ever, breaks her firm composure. The girl doesn't allow herself to do so.
Emily can agree that this is a bad habit. It's not healthy to keep debilitating emotions bottled up the way Dani does.
Emily can't be the one to point out this flaw though. The agent does the exact same thing.
They may not be biologically related but one thing is for sure. Their stubbornness is at par with each other.
Dani nods slowly, listening to what the woman is instructing her to do. She looks down at the floor, staring at her shoes.
She knows Emily wants her to have hope but the teen knows that hope alone won't help her get out of the situation.
She knows what the man wants from her. He wants to kill her. She knows that the clock is ticking and her life is on a thin line right now.
She doesn't want to feel pessimistic but the thought of her death is slowly catching up to her.
The grim reality of this situation is starting to hit her.
"Em, if things don't end right I need you to know some things," Dani speaks up, still staring at the floor.
"Dani, don't say that. I-"
"I know you want me to have hope. Trust me, I am. It's not that I'm being pessimistic. I'm just being realistic," Dani said, looking at Emily.
"The reason why I got in a fight at school wasn't because that girl was talking crap about me. She was talking badly about my brother."
"She was saying how it was my fault that he died and that he probably deserved it," she pauses, taking a breath.
"I know fighting wasn't the best choice. I just got angry and reacted without thinking."
The girl knows she has to set things straight. She knows that Emily wanted to know why the fight broke out in the first place.
She needs to tell her just in case she doesn't have the chance in doing so afterward.
"Honey, why didn't you tell me this?" Emily asks the teen in a soft voice.
How can a person say something so horrible and despicable? It's no wonder Dani reacted the way she did. The girl was defending her brother's honor.
"I don't know. I guess I thought you wouldn't have believed me," Daniela tells the agent.
She wasn't sure if Emily was going to believe her from the start. Truth is, Daniela was too caught up in her anger to the point that she couldn't think with a clear mindset.
Her anger influenced her decision not to tell Emily about how the fight started.
"Dan, I would have believed you. You have to understand that."
"I know. I just wasn't thinking straight," Dani said.
"I don't want you to see me as an asshole who beats up people for no reason."
"Dani, I don't see you like that," Emily said.
"I had a good feeling that you weren't telling me the whole truth. I know you wouldn't get in a fight for any reason. You are better than that. I see you as a loving person who would do anything in order to defend everyone you love."
She knows that Daniela is a fierce protector when it comes to the people that she cares about.
It's a noble act and good quality that the girl has. She doesn't think twice about defending someone.
It's an action that Emily admires yet also worries her. It tends to get Dani in trouble.
Dani gives her a weary smile. "Thanks," she said, feeling slightly embarrassed.
"About the drugs-"
"They aren't yours. A boy planted them in your folder while you were fighting. I think his name is Max," Emily states.
"Max? That son of a bitch," Dani mumbles while shaking her head.
She should have known that someone close to Amanda planted the pills. The fight, the pills, and the suspension. It was all planned.
"I told the principal about his involvement. He promised that Max will receive the punishment that he deserves," Emily tells Dani.
Dani nods, feeling a slight relief in knowing that Emily knows the whole truth.
There is a moment of silence between the two. The only thing that they are able to hear is a radiator making a constant humming sound at the end of the hallway.
"I would never take those things, you know," Daniela tells Emily while looking down at the floor.
"Not to try it or because of peer pressure. I know what they do to a person. How it destroys them, inside and out. None of it is good," she adds.
"Lord knows if my mom was still here she would kill me if I were to ever try that stuff."
Her mother fell into the void of addiction. It wasn't her choice per se. She was prescribed a very potent drug (OxyContin), after being a victim of a hit and run incident when Dani was just a toddler.
The medication was administered to her without the proper precautions, thus starting her addiction.
Sofia Hernandez, just like thousands of Americans, fell victim of the opioid crisis. She wasn't going to ever, ever, allow her daughter to take what she was taking.
She didn't want Daniela to suffer the way the woman was.
"I know you would never take those things, Dani. I'm sorry for ever doubting you," Emily tells her with nothing but complete sincerity.
"It's alright. It isn't your fault for thinking that way. I also doubt myself too," the girl replies.
In all honesty, she questions how she managed to not fall into the world of drug usage.
She grew up seeing the distribution and usage of these illicit items. It only makes sense for her to do the same.
She thinks that a few things helped her stay on the right track. One thing that has helped her is the sheer determination she has in making sure that both her mother and brother are proud of her.
She just wishes she can see them being proud of her in person.
"Now I feel so much better in you knowing the truth," she said while leaning against the chair.
She leans her head back and looks at the damp ceiling with dim lights.
"Al menos me voy a morir con un peso menos en mis hombros," she mumbles under her breath, thinking Emily wouldn't be able to hear her.
Unfortunately for her, Emily did.
She heard and understood exactly what she meant.
At least I'm going to die with less weight on my shoulders.
This comment catches the agent off guard. She was not expecting in hearing Daniela saying that she was going to die. Shivers go down the agent's spine when hearing the girl accepting her dark fate.
Emily practically jumps up when hearing this.
The girl is NOT going to die.
She didn't even want the minimal idea of that happening going through Dani's mind because that isn't true.
Emily is not going to let that happen.
"Daniela, look at me right now," she said with a stern voice.
The girl props her head up and looks at her.
"I want you to get that thought out of your head. You will not, and I mean will not die today. We will get out of here and go home, got it?"
Dani looks at Emily and is surprised by how stern and confident she sounds. Too confident for her liking. After all, it looks like all odds are against them.
"That's not what he said," she tells Emily in a small voice, suddenly sounding younger and vulnerable.
It's the first time that Daniela lets down her guard and allows herself to show how she is really feeling.
She is scared. Who wouldn't be?
"Don't listen to what he said. Don't let him get to your head," Emily tells her.
She wants to assure the girl that she is safe.
The teen nods in response while looking down at the floor. Emily takes notice of how she is thinking about something. Whatever it is, the girl's facial expression gives her the impression that her mind is troubling her.
"Thinking about something?" she asks quietly.
Daniela gets out of her cloud of thoughts and looks at Emily with a confused expression.
"Yeah... When he was done doing all this," she said while gesturing her arms with cuts.
"He told me something but I don't know who he was referring to."
"What did he tell you?"
"he said, this is for Lauren Reynolds," the teen said while scrunching up her face.
"Who the hell is Lauren Reynolds?"
Before Emily could say something, Declan descends down the stairs quickly, walking towards both of them.
"Oh, I see you guys were getting into the good part," he said with a smile. He turns to Daniela and faces her.
"So, you were wondering who Lauren Reynolds is?"
Dani bites her lip while nodding slowly. She does want to know who this Lauren is. Why is all of this happening to her for someone that she doesn't even know?
"Sounds fair. She is the reason why you are here, to begin with," Declan tells her, eying at Emily but quickly focuses his attention on the girl.
"I don't know a Lauren. Why the hell am I here paying for something that I have nothing to do with?"
"I didn't get you by mistake. I know I have the right person," Declan lets out a small chuckle, glancing at Emily.
"I don't know why you don't know who Lauren is. After all, you live under the same roof as her."
"I don't get it. What do you mean I live with her? The person I live with is Emily, not Lauren" Dani said with both anger and confusion.
This man has no idea what he is talking about.
"Ahh, but you see. This is Lauren," Declan said while stepping back and gesturing at Emily with his hand.
Dani looks at Emily and frowns in confusion.
What did this guy mean Emily is Lauren? Why the hell does he sound so confident in statting it? She asks herself.
He is either wrong or confused. There is no Lauren. She has never met a woman named Lauren in her life. The only people in that cellar are Emily and herself.
No Lauren Reynolds exists.
"What? You don't believe me?" Declan asks with a fake hurt tone.
He knows Emily never told the girl about her past as an undercover agent. He knows the girl is confused.
That is what he is going to use to his advantage.
"Maybe this will change your mind," he said with a smug.
He takes out something from his front pocket and pulls it out. It's a passport in which he flips to the main page.
He shows Dani the page in which shows the identification of Lauren Reynolds. Everything looks real to the girl. The name, date of birth, country of birth, and even the official seal looks just like a real passport except for one thing.
The picture of Lauren Reynolds is in fact a picture of Emily.
She looked younger, with her face smooth without any visible wrinkles. The one thing that stands out is her hair. It was not the same style or color Daniela knows Emily by.
She had wavy hair with bangs in the picture. Her hair wasn't the same dark raven color either. She had more chestnut-colored hair.
One thing is for sure. It is Emily.
Lauren is Emily.
On the other side, Emily watches closely as the girl analyzed the passport. She can't imagine how confused the girl must feel right now.
Seeing the face of the woman she has lived with for the last two years with a completely different identity. An identity she thought had died along with Ian.
So many things are running through the agent's mind at once.
What will she think of me? Will she believe me? Where did Declan manage to get the passport? What does he want to accomplish with this?
Too many things are happening at once to control. She starts to feel the ship sink. Sinking even deeper than it already was.
"It's you," Dani said with a low voice while looking up at Emily.
"You're Lauren Reynolds."
She thought that all of this was some sort of misunderstanding. That the man was delusional and didn't know what was going on.
Now she sees that she is the one that knows nothing about what was happening.
The only thing she knows is that Emily isn't the person she knows. Emily has a whole different identity that Dani was never aware of.
Emily looks down at the floor and nods slowly. She couldn't bear the weight of guilt she has right now. All of this is happening because of her.
"Why didn't you tell me about this?" she asks slowly.
"Why didn't you tell me this guy knows you?"
She feels hurt and slightly betrayed by the agent. The woman knows who the kidnapper is.
She knew this whole time and didn't tell her who he was. That isn't fair.
Declan turns his head towards the teen and snickers.
"So she didn't tell you?" He said. Dani just looks at him.
"That is very typical of her. Always telling others all her lies, refusing to blow her cover. Even in the face of death," he turns back and walks towards Emily.
"Do you mind telling the kid your little history, agent? Because if you don't I will but trust me when I say you won't like the way I say the story."
Emily looks at Dani who is sitting with a confused face. She looks back up to Declan who is staring at her with a frown.
"Go on. Say it!" He exclaims.
Emily looks at the teen. She never mentioned her job as an undercover agent working for Interpol. She never told her about Ian and how she had to fake her death.
When Dani came into her life, Emily wanted to start a new chapter in her life. She wanted to bury the past, never wanting to look back at the mess she was involved with Ian.
She knows the story is too long to unravel.
"Years before I met you, I worked as an undercover agent in order to take down an arms dealer. This man, was very dangerous."
"An international terrorist who would do unspeakable things to anyone who came in his way. I... I had to get close to him in order to apprehend him. In order to save a child," she said, looking at Declan.
She wants him to know that above everything, she did all of this to protect him.
"Shut up!" He yells, slapping her hard across her face.
Emily stumbles but quickly regains her composure.
"None of that is true! You know that!"
"What Ian told you was a lie. He-"
"Silence!" He exclaims.
He looks at Dani and walks towards her. Dani just looks at him, wondering what he was going to do.
"I will tell you what happened. This lady did everything she could for power. She didn't just go undercover. No. She did more than that. She slept with the man who she was supposed to apprehend."
"Made him suffer from countless lies. Not satisfied with that, she saw him die doing absolutely nothing to help him! She destroyed his life as well as mine."
Daniela looks down and shakes her head.
"That's not... there- there has to be an explanation for what she did," she said.
Truth was, the girl has conflicting feelings about Emily. She knows who Emily is as a person.
She is a kind and sweet person but hearing Declan saying all of this makes her feel like she doesn't know the agent as well as she thought she had.
She looks up at Declan meeting his eyes.
" She isn't a bad person."
She is trying to convince Declan but also herself. Emily isn't a bad person, right?
"You're right about that. She isn't a bad person. Emily is the absolute worst," Declan replied.
"She is a cold-hearted manipulative lier. She knew exactly which strings to pull in order to take down my father. She used lust as the ultimate weapon to take his guard down," Declan told the girl.
"The woman you know went to bed with a man who she was supposed to arrest. Emily is nothing but a slut."
"No no. That's not true. Emily isn't a..." the girl pauses and looks down.
"She isn't that," She said in a small voice.
Dani glances at Emily. She is confused about what she was hearing.
Emily never told her anything about her being an undercover agent. She had always thought she worked with the BAU for most of her career.
Dani had always felt that Emily was always open to her about her past. Dani herself trusted Emily enough to start sharing her own.
Now she sees that this wasn't the case.
Emily wasn't being completely honest with her. Now Dani is questioning everything that Emily has told her.
"You know, Emily. I thought you would have remembered this story by heart," Declan said.
He reaches inside the pocket of his jacket and takes out a silver object. The object is steel brass knuckles. He slowly puts on the steel knuckles in his right hand.
"Hopefully this will jog up your memories."