An Old Friend

Chapter 22: Black Eye

Mia
"Hi mother and father."
They turn their attention away from each other to stare at me. My mom stumbles out of her chair to rush over and hug me. I try very hard to keep my emotions at bay.
"Oh sweetie. This is terrible. Your father and I just saw her a few days ago. So did Elouise, Talia, Sara.......just promise me you will find Lilith."
My lip quivers. "I promise I will find her."
In what physical state I don't know. Ahhhh. Stop it. Don't think like that. What's wrong with me.
I mentally slap myself. My mom stops hugging me so I lead her back to her seat at the table. "Agent Morgan and I need to ask you two multiple questions that will help us find Lilith. Can you handle it?"
"Only if they will help find Lilith." My father says.
"They will sir. Let's get started." Derek says taking a seat.
I do the same. "Exactly when was the last time you saw Lilith?" I ask taking the report file from Derek.
"3 days ago, it was about 1:00pm. We all went to the beach." My mom answers.
"Who is we?"
"Lilith, her mom, her dad, Mia's sister, my husband and I."
As I write down everything my mom said, Derek continues questioning my parents.
"Was she acting weird? Like, was she keeping an eye out for anyone? Did she look worried or act like she was being followed?"
"No! What do these questions have to do with finding Lilith. You shouldn't be asking us questions! You are wasting valuable time. Are you doing this because you think we did this?!"
My father shouts at Derek.
"Father! You need to calm down. We aren't accusing you of anything," I say as calm as possible. My voice rises as I finish my sentence.
Why can't he just corporate. Can't he see we are just as stressed and worried as him.
"These questions are very important to finding Lilith sir. Asking if she looked worried when you saw her tells us whether she met the unsub before she was taken, or if she was being stalked or possibly a victim of chance." Derek explains.
My father slumps in his chair, pure annoyance on his face.
"Are we done with the questions? Can we go home?" My mother asks.
"Yes. You can go home. I'll visit later to check up on how you guys are doing."
My parents get up to leave. Derek gives me a look. After they leave and close the door Derek explodes.
"What the hell was that? Why did you let them leave?! They have information that we need!"
I have been trying very hard to control my emotions but after being yelled at I went crazy. "YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO YELL AT ME LIKE THAT! I know my father and once he is pissed you can't get anything out of him! He isn't a suspect!!! We were only asking questions." If I looked in a mirror there was probably smoke coming out of my ears. I take deep breaths to calm myself.
"I'm so sorry Mia. I should be more understand." Derek says.
I close my eyes and sigh. "It's ok. I'm sorry for yelling at you. You didn't deserve that. Are we good?"
Derek smiles. "We're good. We should bring in your friends for questioning now."
"O......" I get cut off by loud shouting.
Derek bolts to the door. "What the hell?"

Spencer
"So are you Mia's boyfriend." The girl Elouise asks. She sniffles trying to control her emotions so she can have a nice conversation.
"Yes," I answer. Mia went in the interrogation room to talk to her parents so I was left to awkwardly stand outside the door.
"She has said so much about you. She was right, you are very cute!" The girl Sara says.
The girl I think is named Talia starts to uncontrollably giggle. She obviously thought of something funny. "When are you going to marry her? Are you going to have kids?!!! How many?!" She asks.
I blush. Before I can say we just started dating and I don't know when either of those things will happen the interrogation room door bursts open. Mia's parents come out. First her dad then her mom.
Why are they leaving? They should still be getting questioned? Hotch probably wants to talk to them before they go. I'll bring them to him.
"Um....Mr. Rose. My boss would like to ask you something before you leave." I say blocking his way.
"Well your boss can kiss my ass because I'm leaving. My daughter just questioned me so I'm done for the day. Now get out of my WAY!"
I sense shuffling behind me. It's JJ and Emily walking over to check on the commotion. I give a quick glance to Mrs. Rose. She has embarrassment plastered across her face.
"Mr. Rose, please. My boss would like to ask you a few questions. Just follow me." Before I can turn around to lead the way Mr. Rose's fist flys at lightning fast speeds to make contact with my face.

Mia
Derek throws the door open. Two cops are holding my father's arms behind his back.
What the hell?
I look at Spencer to get a clue as to what happened. JJ and Emily have crowded around him. I walk up to him. When Emily and JJ see me they part to let me through. I gasp. Spencer has a black eye. I finally process what happened.
What is wrong with my father?! Can't he just do what he is told. It was not necessary for him to punch Spencer!
"Oh Spencer. Are you ok?" I ask gently placing my hands on his cheeks.
"I'm o-ok now-w that you're h-here." He answers. I blush at what he says giggle at his stuttering. Spencer looks to my left so I follow his eyes. The cops are handcuffing my father. "There is no need for that. You can let him go."
The cops give him a confused look but they obey. As soon as they let my father go him and my mom speed walk to the exit door.
I bring my focus back to Spencer. He is smiling at me. "I'm so sorry my father punched you. He is never like this. I promise. He is usually caring and fun."
"You don't need to apologize. I know he is just stressed." Spencer says.
I feel a tap on my shoulder so I drop my hands from Spencer's face and turn around. A hand is holding out a room key. I follow the hand to see that it's Hotch.
"I want you and Spencer to go to the hotel and rest. You two have had......an interesting night." Hotch says.
I take the room key. "Thanks Hotch."
I grab Spencer's hand and drag him to our Black SUVs.
"Can I drive?" Spencer asks.
I open my mouth shocked. "Of course not. You drive bad without a swollen, black eye. I can only imagine how much worse you drive now."
Spencer laughs as he gets in the passenger seat.
When we get to the hotel Spencer insists that he roll our suitcases to our room. It is very gentleman like but I keep getting death stares from every girl under thirty.
"Great now everyone here thinks I'm an abusive girlfriend." I don't realize I said that out loud until I feel Spencer wrap his free arm around me and whisper in my ear, "You aren't abusive so it doesn't matter what everyone else thinks."
I smile and lean my head on his shoulder. When we finally find our room and open the door I collapse on the nearest bed. Spencer sets down our suitcases and joins me. I cuddle into him, my head on his chest. I look up into Spencer's eyes and I get a strong urge to kiss him. I lean toward him and he does the same. When our lips meet I notice that this kiss is completely different from the last two we have had. Those were gentle but this one is passionate and sure, I was hungry for more. As our kiss deepened I felt Spencer's arms hug my waist. He gently pulls me closer to him. I break the kiss to breath. When I do Spencer lightly trails kisses down my neck. I shiver from this new feeling. I once again place my head on his chest. "I know that your bed is right next to mine but will you stay with me. I'm afraid I will have nightmares about Lilith."
"I will always stay when you need me."