Jessie Grey just got hired in the BAU and feels like her life is finally getting in order. She finally found a way out of her old life and is more than willing to start over without her horrible ex in the picture. But from her first day in the BAU u...
October 4th We caught our latest unsub in action and made the arrest. "Jessie" I hear Emily calling as I walk to the office "Yeah?" I ask stopping "I was thinking about your offer and I think I'll stay" she says "Really?" I ask excited "Yes. I figured that it would do good to both of us" she says "You have no idea. Welcome back to the team agent Prentiss" I say and she chuckles.
We keep walking and we go in the office. "So how did it go with Jack yesterday?" she asks "Good. We talked and we will continue to talk I think" I say "That's great. But what about you?" she asks "Me?" I ask "I am sure you told Jack that he shouldn't compress his emotions because it's the worst thing you can do right now. But what are you doing?" she asks "I'm handling it" I say "I know that you feel like you can't trust anyone to talk to since it was revealed that Cohen, your therapist, the person you told everything to was the unsub X. But Jessie please. I'm here to listen and not to judge" she says. I frown and I sit down on the couch. She comes and sits next to me "Helping others can only distract you for so long" she says.
"You know what pisses me off?" I ask "No, tell me" she says "It pisses me off that I'm mad at him. I'm mad at him because he knew exactly what he was doing. He knew that Cohen would prefer to see me suffer than kill me so he stayed back and literally offered himself to him. Like he said 'Play with me so they can get away'. The last thing he told me was 'I'm sorry'. But he wasn't sorry for staying back and getting hurt. He was sorry because he couldn't hold on for longer" I say as tears roll down my cheeks "I know. And I also know that you're probably mad at yourself too for being mad at him" she says.
"Wow, I seem to have made one hell of a choice for the team" I say "Don't try to change the subject" she says "I can't. Everytime I think of him, I think about a million ways I could prevent this" I say "You did what you thought was right. That's what we always do and second guessing doesn't do any good" she says "I don't know how to do this alone" I say "Alone? Am I a joke to you?" she asks and I chuckle slightly "No, of course not" I say "Then you get up and go own what's yours" she says "It's not as easy as it sounds" I say "It really is" she says and opens the door. "You just slide this plate out and slide the new one in" she says "Emily..." "Don't Emily me. Come on" she says grabbing my hand and getting me to get up from the couch. I slide the old plate from the door and I slide the new one in. I look at the old one
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I felt my legs give up as I started crying. I fall on my knees and Emily follows me. She immediately holds me and lets me get it all out "Why? Why is the world so messed up?" I ask crying "I don't know" she says rubbing my back. "I should be dead right now, I'm the one Cohen was after. Aaron should be here. The team needs him, Jack needs him. I need him" I cry.
She didn't say anything. She stayed with me and let me get it all out. When I started to calm down, she brought me tissues "What do you need me to bring you? Alcohol? Snacks?" she asks but I was still wiping my tears "Both?" she asks and I nod "Ok, I'm already on my way" she says and gets up "Emily" I say and she stops "Thank you" I say and she smiles. "I'll be right back" she says and leaves.
February 21th Today, while I was reviewing some potential cases, Peter Lewis' file came through my hands. For some reason it fell among them even though it had nothing to do with any of the cases. He had a pretty big beef with Aaron but for some reason he disappeared after his death. That's either a good or a really bad thing.
But Peter Lewis wouldn't just stop. It's the opposite actually. He is a genius, he plans for every variable in his schemes and doesn't act out of compulsion. He would only go into hiding again in order to plan his next attack and I should definitely take advantage of that because I'm probably missing something here. But I don't have much time to take a look today, so I left the file on the first drawer. If there is a loose string, I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna pull it and I'm gonna find out what's really happening here
March 25th This morning I was a bit late to work because I had to go by my doctor's office to pick up the results from my annual check up. Everything was normal, healthy as a horse. But he mentioned that he got a look at Aaron's medical records and before he was got out of surgery and once again after but they were different. He didn't seem to think much of it because errors in the charts happen during a fast exam in the ER but always get corrected by the surgeon as soon as the patient is out of the surgery.
However it got me thinking. What if that's the lead what Peter Lewis has been after? He wants to see him suffer so he needs to make sure that he died that night before he moves on. But for him to be looking for 6 months now, he has to have more than just a report and if that's true, he already has a 6 month head start. But does that mean that... No, it can't. I saw the monitors and I even felt his heart stop.
As soon as I got to work, I opened the first drawer next to me and I take Lewis'file out. What would be the first thing he would do after finding out about Aaron's injury? Security cameras and online records. So after work, I went by the hospital and asked for the cameras' footage from September 26th and 27th, the days that Aaron was there supposedly for an old case that I was looking into. I took them with me in a hard drive that I borrowed from Penelope and went back home. At night, I sat on the bed with my laptop and binge through every single one of them. But there was no sign of Peter Lewis. Although I spotted someone else.
March 26th Mateo Cruz. He was in and out of the hospital in an hour but I never saw him in the waiting room or the nurses' station. Aaron was still in surgery during that hour but he left before he came out. What the hell was he doing in the hospital during that hour? Oh my God, this can't be happening again.... But if it is, they have a lot of explaining and making up to do.
"Jessie!" I hear and I see Spencer standing by the door "Yeah? What do you need?" I ask "We are starting the debriefing of the case. Are you ok?" he asks "Yes. Let's go" I say "You know, 6 month anniversary can trigger many emotions" he says as we walk "What?" I ask "It's been 6 months since September 26th" he says "Oh, yeah, I know. But it's not that. I'm fine don't worry" I say and he nods.
