Say It (Hotch x Reader)// ✔

Roll Call

Summary:

You make a plan to catch the thieves' collaborator - and you can finally taste how close you are to catching Reus

Notes:

V short chapter - but maybe a jealous/territorial Hotch?? oooo

(Also if u close an eye while reading any fight scenes maybe they will look kind of ok lol)

title from the song by Neighborhood (simply bcs that's what i was listening to while editing this lol)

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A plan is made in the early morning as Detective Parker is made aware of the suspicion over Denise Castor. The police department will act out a riot in the offices, which conveniently will call upon every police officer away from the interrogation room and the floor. And it works.

Denise Castor enters the room, a jacket in her hands that she throws over Elle's wrists to hid her cuffs.

"Here we go" Prentiss says at your left.

"The happy collaborators are on their way out" Rossi narrates.

"Not a word" Denise says at Elle, "Let's go"

"Son of a bitch" Detective Parker lets out.

Hotch raises a hand, "tell your officers to arrest her only when they clear out the floor"

"Why?" he asks.

"Otherwise, you cannot charge them with escape"

His years as a prosecutor help the case – and soon enough Morgan and JJ arrest them both on the staircase as they're about to flee.

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"We need to talk" Olivier says, when they bring both women back in, "alone"

You follow him outside to the roof of the building and he holds out a cigarette, which you take but do not light. He perches his over his lower lip.

"You need to tell me about your relationship with Reus" and he lights it up, taking a quick drag.

You flinch because you'd thought only Martins would ever question that. Or even think that you were romantically attached to Reus.

"Olivier, I do not have-"

He cuts you off.

"I'm not Martins" he says as he steps away from door of the rooftop, walking further away from it.

"I know your relationship with Reus is not an intimate one." He says once you follow behind.

"You told us about your former-colleague Revi, and that they're half-brothers. So, I do think this case is personal for you"

"It is" you confirm.

He turns to you, "then you need to tell me why."

You falter, not knowing what to say.

"Y/N, when we arrest Reus he becomes a CIA asset. Whatever questions or things you want to address with him – will not be possible once Martins gets him."

You curl your free hand into a fist.

"Junie and I can help" he says then, catching you off guard, "we can delay it – say we have to interrogate him for the cases we need to close with Interpol while he was in Europe. But you need to tell me everything."