Criminal Minds: Danika

Announcement

"Hey, you have a minute?" Hannah asks me in the hall.

"Um, sure." I say and follow her to her office.

She closes the door behind her and starts pacing back and forth. As if she's trying to get the nerve up to asks something.

"Back in LA with the motel fire...I wasn't there because..." She starts saying and I quirk a brow.

Instead of talking she just goes to a drawer and takes out a bottle of pills and hands them to me. I look down at them and up at her.

"What is this?" I ask.

"I was using." She finally admits and I look down at the bottle of pills and nod my head.

"Okay, and you're telling me this because-."

"Because you could've been trapped in a fire and I was abusing drugs. I should've been there, I should've-." She starts saying but I can't help but chuckle.

"What?" She asks and I keep chuckling.

"You're the one with the drug addiction and you're worried about me?" I ask with a laugh and she just stands there.

"You're room-."

"What is this really about?" I ask, feeling like she wanted to talk to me about something else.

"What do you mean?" She asks and I toss the pill bottle back and cross my arms and she gulps.

"You know how I said I know a lot about tragedy?" She asks and I nod.

"It wasn't just about my mom..." She starts saying.

She starts telling me how she got her position, how she was out on a job like we did in LA and Mitch forced himself on her in his hotel room. She didn't fight him off and didn't say no, but she also didn't want it to happen. And then afterwards he acted like it never happened. She went to HR but they didn't do anything so she went to Fred himself. Before she could even tell him everything, he promoted her and that was that.

I know I should feel something, sorry for her, angry at Mitch and Fred, but I don't, I can't bring myself to. In all honesty, I don't really care at all.

"And you're telling me all of this because?" I ask.

"I don't know...I guess I trust you, that you won't tell anyone else." She admits and I just nod.

"That it? Can I go?" I ask and she nods with tears in her eyes and I leave.

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I get to Hannah's apartment as a lady knocks on the door.

"She won't answer." The lady explains.

"How do you hace my number?" I ask.

"She told me to call you if I couldn't get a hold of her. I saw her go in last night but she never came out this morning like she always does to jog." The woman tells me and I huff and bang on the door.

"Hannah! Wake up-." I start saying but stop when I get a whiff of something.

"You have her key?" I ask and she shakes her head.