Change is Happening ✔️

Case

JJ pov...

I head into the round table and sit down while Hotch and Garcia present the case. Two men were violently murdered in a small community in West Virginia. Hotch says "Wheels up in 20".

I walk out and grab my go bag, my phone goes off and its Will. I answer and we talk for a little bit, he wanted to look after Henry for the next few days before he moves away and it was fine with me and works out well as I am going away for a case.

I get on the jet and set down at the table next to Spencer with Hotch and Rossi across from us. Blake and Morgan are sitting behinds us. We go over the case and start working on victimology. Hotch assigns jobs for us to do when we land.

I partly zone out while watching Rossi and Spencer playing chess.

Once we arrive we split up to talk to different people, visit the dump sites and set up at the station. Hotch pulls me aside and asks "are you alright?"

I nod and say "yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

He says "you seemed a little off"

I smile and say "no, everything is just fine. Let's get back to work"

We talk to the families of the victims but they are hiding something as they have a long time feud with each other and don't want to help us. Cases when people don't help out it does make it a lot harder to solve.

We finish up for the day and head back to the motel for the night. The we separate into pairs for the rooms. I am sharing with Alex , we head to bed and I think that I might finally sleep tonight as I haven't slept in a few days.

I wake up to Alex shaking me and she says "you were screaming, are you alright?"

I nod and say "yeah just a nightmare"

She asks "do you want to talk about it?"

I shake my head and say "no it fine, you go back to sleep"

She nods and asks "do the others or at least Hotch know?"

I say "no, they don't need to know so I never told them"

Alex goes back to sleep quickly but of course I know I won't be sleeping any more tonight. I look at the clock and its 4:30am, I get up and go outside for some fresh air. I sit on the deck, look at the sky and think. After a little bit I hear a noise and look around to see Dave leaving his room, he sees me outside and come over and sits down. I ask "are you alright?, you are up early"

He nods and says "Hotch talks in his sleep, the noise kept waking me up so I came out here for some sort of quiet. What are you doing up?"

I say "couldn't sleep, come out here for something to do"

He asks "are you alright?"

I nod and say "yeah I'm fine, why does everyone keep asking me that"

He frowns and says "we are all worried about you, you seem different all the moment and we worry because we care"

I smile and say "you don't have to be worried, I'm fine"

We sit in the quiet for awhile before it's almost time to get up and start back on the case.