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"i'd like to by old self again, but i'm still trying to find it." -taylor swift
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"WIFE? AS IN PAST TENSE?"
Vienna's mind whirled with this news.
Dean nods, his face seemingly calm considering the fact that he just dropped a bomb of knowledge on them.
"The director sent her here?" Vienna asks. "How is that ethical?"
Lia rolls her eyes. "And a program using minors to catch serial killers is ethical?"
Vienna shrugs.
"That's the director's daughter. It's clear that nepotism is alive and well here at the FBI."
Director Sterling was the man who practically paid Michael's father to send Michael here, and he had hauled Lia off the streets. So maybe he wasn't the biblical definition of ethical.
Michael entered the room at that moment, as if he knew earth shattering news was being delivered.
"Morning." he mumbled, his eyes fixing on Vienna with a rather pleased look.
Vienna skips the niceties. "Did you know that Sterling was married to Briggs?"
Michael nods simply.
Vienna slapped him. "And you chose not to tell me?"
"Redding told me not to tell anyone."
Vienna turns back to Dean. "How long have you known?"
"Years. Didn't think it would ever be relevant though."
"How'd you know?" Vienna inquires.
"Briggs and Sterling worker my father's case." He admits. "Briggs was very driven, with the Unsub, not his wife. He didn't just want to catch killers, he was determined to win."
When Dean said the word "unsub" it made Vienna forget just for a moment that his own father had once been an Unknown Subject. He'd lived with a killer for the bulk of his childhood, living only a few hundred yards away from where his father killed.
He lived under the roof of a psychopath, a narcissist who was secretly killing, and he didn't even know it, until he did.
"Sterling was impulsive." Dean continues to profile the agents, his memory of them so many years ago was shocking to Vienna. But then again, it was a traumatizing period for Dean.
