Stepping in I wait for the doors to close but just before they do Aaron gets in as well. THe doors close and he wraps me in a hug.
"It wasn't your fault Abby." He whispers but I shake my head as the tears quietly roll down my cheeks.
"We didn't go home, I asked not to." I whimper and he runs his fingers through my hair while shushing me.
"Hey it was ultimately my call, and had we gone home that would've been you." He says lifting my face up and wiping the remaining tears. "We'll get this guy Abby all of us, alive, together. Okay?" He asks and when I nod he kisses my forehead.
"I need you and Reid to go through past cases you two can read the fastest and there is a lot. Find anyone who might've had kids." He says and I nod again stepping off when the doors open. "And Abby?" He says so I stop and look at him. "I love you." He says and I smile.
"I love you too Aaron." I tell him before turning to go find Spencer.
I find him in the conference room with boxes all around him. "I figure we divide and conquer, you grab that half and I grab this." He says gesturing to the piles.
"It's still a ton any way we can narrow it down? What about the 5 years I was in Guam?" I ask and his eyes brighten.
"I didn't even think about that....that removes these." He says motioning to about a third of the boxes.
"And the 3 months I was dead?" I ask and he points to 3 boxes. "Alright now we can each take half." I tell him sitting down and getting to work reading through all the cases, putting the cases into seperate stacks of people we should look at and people who we don't need to worry about.
---End of Flashback---
"When did you start feeling safe again?" He asks and I laugh at him.
"We spent months looking through possible leads and during that time he kept sending us letters, more presents were sent and we were jumping at shadows. Some of the strongest people I know are sitting behind me now and I can tell you every one of them were terrified, you didn't need to be a profiler to see it. In the months that followed my daughter was born. As I laid in the hospital bed looking at her and her father and my team all of us became more worried, because it meant I had to go home alone with an infant while they went back to work while we were still being taunted and hunted."
"And that's within the time frame that you killed Mr. Thompson correct?" He asks and I flinch.
"That's correct."
"Tell me about that day."
"It was a month after Grace was born..." I start taking a deep breath.
---Flashback---
Gracie's awake I think I might be the luckiest parent alive, she sleeps through the night only waking a couple of times before drifting off to sleep again. Now it's 7 am and she's awake, after changing her diaper I take her downstairs to feed her. Everything was fine after eating I held her close and started to hum softly watching as her eyes started to drift closed once again. I smiled down at her and put her in the small playpen next to the couch before getting up to do dishes.
On my way to the kitchen there was a knock on the door, since I knew Aaron and the team had a case here in Virginia but wouldn't be allowed to stop by I grab my phone and dialed Aaron's number.
"Abby?" I hear him ask and I don't hear it from the other side of the door so I grab the gun that's in the end table next to the front door just as the person knocks again.
"There's someone here." I tell him quickly. "I've got the gun and I'm gonna open it like everything is fine but there's someone here."
"David and I are on our way stay on the line do you hear me?" He asks and I tell him an ok before putting the phone down and opening the door.
