Soulmates

Chapter 53-Misdirected Evil and Peace.

Continuation of 4x17 Demonology.

Trigger Warnings: Talks of Demonic Possession. 

Ryan and Emily drove straight to the Baltimore archdiocese. They met Rossi outside as Ryan Parked the car. "Guys have a good coffee?" Rossi asked after they got out of the car. "Yes, it was a good one." Emily said. "Are they inside?" Ryan asked. Rossi nodded, "Yeah. By the way your uncle's a real interesting guy." Rossi said as they walked into the archdioceses. Ryan nodded, "Yeah." He said in agreement. 

They went to a conference room where all the priests including Rossi's friend and Ryan's uncle the Cardinal was. Reid was also there. The cardinal walked towards them when he saw them enter, "Everybody's here." He said. Ryan nodded, "Thank you, Cardinal." He said. The Cardinal nodded and went to sit in the head chair. All the priests sat down at the table with Rossi's friend, a priest with long grey hair and beard.

"Thank you all for coming." Rossi started. "We wanted to talk to all of you because we believe that there's someone out there who is killing men using methods in the act of exorcisms." He informed. The other priests besides Cardinal Ramirez and Rossi's friends looked disturbed by this. "How sure are you?" One priest asked. 

Ryan, Emily, and Rossi shared looks. "We're pretty sure." Ryan said. Cardinal Ramirez then spoke up, "You must realize Agents, this is a highly complex issue for us." He said. Rossi's friend nodded, "As I told agent Rossi, this is something we all like to agree to disagree." He said. 

"And we all respect that." Emily quickly said. "We are not here to examine your beliefs in demonology or exorcisms, but we are operating on the theory that the person responsible for these deaths does believe." She added. "We believe that the inciting incident was the death of Father Raul del Toro in Galicia, Spain, four months ago." Rossi informed. 

"How so, David?" Rossi's friend asked. The agent's shared looks, this was gonna be difficult. "There's an element who believes the death was actually a murder." Reid let out. The group of priests looked equally disturbed by this. They murmured among themselves. "You're not suggesting that this is some kind of retribution?" One of the priests asked.

 "Even priests can have a psychotic break. He may be under the mistaken assumption that he's doing God's work." Ryan explained. "The man we're looking for would be obsessed with the incident in Galicia." Rossi added. "He believes he's fighting evil and may very well have followed these men here to Washington." Emily said.

Reid cleared his throat, "We believe that one of the exorcisms took place over enough days for the victim to die of dehydration." He said. "If I may, an exorcism is like a prize fight. It's completely draining, both physically and spiritually." Rossi's friend said. Cardinal Ramirez nodded, "This is true. If this man really did perform this ritual three times in the past few weeks, he would need medical attention." He said.

"Is there somewhere he would go to convalesce?" Emily asked. Ryan felt himself wait in anticipation. If they can lead them to where this guy would go for help, that brings them one step closer to finding him. "Um, anything less than a working hospital would be too dangerous." Rossi's friend replied. 

Spencer left the room to call Garcia. After a few minutes Ryan and Emily followed him out and caught up to him, "We got him. He's at St. Agatha's hospital." He informed. Rossi then came out of the church. They looked at him, "St. Agatha's hospital." Ryan informed. Rossi nodded, "Let's go."

They raced to the car and rushed off to the hospital. 

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Arriving at the hospital they walked to room 214 where Garcia said Father Silvano was staying. The door was open and they walked right in to see Father Silvano packing. He was an older man. Bald with no hair on the top of his head, the only hair he had was on the back of his head that was black with a hint of grey and a beard that was fully grey.