🄼🄰🅃🅄🅁🄴 🅃🄷🄴🄼🄴'🅂 - 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱.
"𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫."
Mariana is a textbook genius. Three PhD's and an IQ of 179. She's almost as smar...
"What is that mommy?" Emilia asks. "I don't know honey. Go ahead upstairs. I'll be there in a second." Mariana says.
Emilia goes upstairs without another word. Mariana looks at the pictures plastered up on the walls. There were pictures of her and Spencer, Spencer and Emilia, Emilia and Jamie, Mariana and Spencer.
Petrified was an understatement.
Pictures were scattered in the floor and hung on the wall. Mariana stood there in horror looking at the pictures.
"Penny. Nine-one-one. I need everyone in the round table room in no more than thirty minutes." Mariana says into her phone. "What's wrong?" Penelope asks. "I'll tell you when I get there."
Mariana calls Jamie. "Hey. I am so sorry for calling you this late. I have to go into work. Could you watch Emilia for me?" "No problem. I'll be there in five."
Mariana goes upstairs to Emilia. "Hey baby. I gotta go into work so Miss Jamie is going to watch you. Okay?" "Okay, mommy. I love you." "I love you too." Mariana says, crouching to kiss Emilia's cheek.
Mariana heads back downstairs to the pictures and starts taking photos of them. She didn't want Jamie to see them since she was in some of them. Mariana took the pictures as quickly as she could before taking all the photos down with a pair of gloves on. She put them all in plastic bags.
There was a knock on the front door and Mariana opened it to see Jamie waiting with a smile.
"Thank you again. You're a lifesaver." Mariana says. "Of course, Mariana. I hope everything's okay at work." Jamie says, smiling at Mariana.
Mariana leaves and speeds to the BAU. Her fingertips tap nervously against the steering wheel as she drives.
She pulls into the first parking spot she finds and gets through security quickly before taking the elevator up to the sixth floor.
She quickly enters and walks up the stairs and into the round table room. The rest of the team is already there looking at her with concerned eyes. Especially Spencer.
"What's going on, pretty girl?" Morgan asks her. Mariana takes a deep breath. "Emilia and I went out for ice-cream and when we got back... I found hundreds of pictures plastered on the wall and over the floor. There's pictures of me and Spencer, me and Emilia, Emilia and Spencer, Emilia and her babysitter, there's even some that some of you guys are in." Mariana says.
"I took pictures of the scene before taking them off of the walls because I didn't want her sitter to see them." Mariana explains. She sets down the backs filled with pictures.
"Okay. Since most of them are of you and Spencer you two go through them. Wear gloves so we get them tested for finger prints." Hotch tells her. "Send Garcia the pictures you took as well." He says.
Mariana nods and takes out her phone, sending Garcia the pictures she took of the scene in her house. "You guys can go in my office and sort through them." JJ says. The two nod and take the bags and head over to JJ's office.
They take some gloves and open the bags, dumping the pictures on the floor. "I'm so scared, Spence. Mariana whispers, her eyes watering. Spencer hugs her, kissing the top of her head. He rests his chin on her shoulder and she cries into his chest.
"It'll be alright. I can't promise you anything, but I can assure you we will work through this." He tells her. She sniffles and nods. They pull apart and sit on the floor, thoroughly looking through the pictures.
"They took pictures of us having sex Spencer. What the actual fuck?" She says, holding up the picture. "Let's maybe not hold that up." He says, grabbing a hold of her wrists. "I'm sorry." She mutters, looking down.
"You didn't do anything wrong, baby. Look at me." Mariana looks at him, tears falling down her cheeks. "You are scared. You have every right to be. I am scared. But we can't let this come between us. We gotta get through this. Alright?" He says. She nods. "Alright." She sighs.
He kissed her lips. "Let's just get through these pictures." He tells her. She nods and continues looking for clues in the pictures.
It was such a disturbing sight.
"It's a man." Mariana says. Spencer looks over at her and furrows his brows. "What makes you say that?"
"Window reflection. I'll take this to the team." She says. The man's face is covered by a camera but you can easily tell it's a man.
She leaves JJ's office and walks into the round table room. They all look at her. "It's a man. His face isn't in it but look." She shows them the picture. It was a picture of Spencer, Mariana and Emilia in Spencer's car the day she asked him to be her new dad. They were all smiling.
"I'll leave it in here for you guys." She mutters, setting it down and walking out. The team all watched her leave, frowns on their faces.
"This case is obviously affecting them. We need to figure this out. For Mariana and Spencer." Hotch tells the team.
When Mariana walks back into JJ's office Spencer looks up at her with wide eyes. "Spence? What's wrong?"
"Mariana. It's Jeremy." He says. Her heart drops the moment he says his name. She rushes over to the picture he's looking at. It's a picture of them when they were watching 'Friends'. Mariana was on Spencer's lap and they were kissing. His face is clear as day in the window reflection.
Mariana gags, feeling the bile pile up in her throat. She rushes out of the room and runs past the round table room. The team looks confused as Spencer pops in quickly.
"It's Jeremy." Is all he says.
He runs after Mariana who had run straight into the bathroom. She collapsed im on the floor in the first stall she saw before puking all meals she ate that day.
Spencer uses one hand to pull her hair into a makeshift ponytail, the other rubbing her back.
"You should not be seeing me like this." She says before throwing up again. "Through sickness and in health baby." He says.
Mariana gasps for air and she leans against the stall. "You're in the women's bathroom?" She says. "You're throwing up. So yes, yes I am." He says.
"I think JJ has an extra toothbrush from when she was pregnant with Henry. Let's go ask her if she has it." Spencer says. Mariana nods and stands up, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.
They walk back up to the round table room, Marianas face paler than usual. JJ was already waiting there with a toothbrush and toothpaste in hand. Mariana smiles thankfully and she heads back down to the bathroom to get the stank out of her mouth.
"You're sure it's Jeremy?" Rossi asks. Spencer nods. "He was in one of the pictures. This puts Emilia at risk too. We need to find him." Spencer says.
"Spencer. You are at risk too. This picture proves it." Emily says. He looks down. "I think you guys should go into witness protection." Hotch says. "Absolutely not." Mariana says, re-entering the room.
Marianas phone begins to ring and she looks at it, confused who would be calling her this late.
"Dr. Castillo." She answers.
"Mariana..."
Jeremy.
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uh oh guys... he's back. i hope y'all enjoyed, because we're just getting started.
