An Unexpected Love

Chapter 2

(Cathy's POV)

This is my first time on a jet. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, the view outside was just cloudy but beautifully peaceful.

"Okay here's the plan, Reid, JJ, and Daniels, you guys go and interview the fathers and the kids. While David, Morgan , and I go see the crime scenes. We will meet up later at the downtown LA police department." Aaron Hotchner says.

We finally land and we all split up just as Aaron commanded us to do. We arrive at the first victims home. Reid rings the bell. A young girl opens the door. She looks she could be 10.

"Hi sweetie, I'm Jennifer and these are my friends Cathy and Reid. What's your name?" Jennifer says

"My name is Emily." She says

"How old are you?" I ask?

"I'm 9 years old, almost 10"

"Where is your father Emily?" I ask

"He's at work, he comes home at 3 o clock."

"Is there anyone here to watch you?" Reid asks

"My brother is supposed to be here watching me but he went out with his friends so I'm home alone."

"You guys go ahead and interview the other families. I will stay here and watch her until the dad and son comes home. I'll interview the father then."

"Okay we will come back when we finish with the other families" JJ says

"Well it just leaves you and me Emily." I say.

Well it's only 1 o clock, 2 hours is fine.
She started to take a small nap but shortly after, she started to scream and kick during her slumber. I could see how distressed she looked.

"Emily, sweetie, wake up. It's only a dream! wake up now!"

She awakens and clenches me tightly. She starts to cry.

"Hey Emily it's fine you are alright. No one is going to hurt you. I'm here to protect you. You're okay sweetie"

"I saw a man hurting my mom. Over and over and he forced me and my brother to watch it. I was so scared. I couldn't help her and now she's gone." She says as she's crying

"Hey, it's okay, let's talk about something else so you don't have to think about that okay?" I say as I wipe her tears away

"Okay." She says sniffling

"How old are you Cathy?"

"I'm 27 years old"

"Do you have any babies?"

"No, I don't have any yet. But I will some day"

"You're starting to get old, so you need to have babies"

"I'm old?" I ask laughing, she laughs with me

"Do you have a boyfriend?" She asks

"No I do not have a boyfriend, I haven't found prince charming yet"

"I'm sure you will find your true love someday, I'm sure of it" she says

"Thank you" I say hugging her

We hear the front door opening.

"Daddy you're home!!"

"Hi sir, I am agent Cathy Daniels from BAU and I've been here for the past 2 hours and watching your daughter." I tell him as I show him my badge.

"I'm sure my son has been home and in his room studying for school." The father says

"But daddy, Danny left me all alone. But Cathy was nice enough to watch me" Emily says

The father looks a bit upset and embarrassed.

"Look it's fine Mr. Mathews. I just have some questions to ask you about the night your wife died."

"Okay let's just talk about it privately and not infront of my daughter" the father says

I got nothing new from interviewing the father. But I gave them my card just incase if they need anything .

After, JJ and Reid picked me up and we met up the rest of the team at the police department and gathered all our information.

"This guy has to know every time the father leaves, when we come home. What if it was a mailman? Mailmen go on certain routes at certain times and they could easily go back to certain neighborhoods using the excuse of forgetting a package to deliver." I say

"Let's call Penelope" Morgan

We contacted Penelope to narrow our search down to one person that worked near by at a postal service that have the same route everyday, passing all of the victims homes. She soon found a match. We arrested the guy that was doing all the crimes. The next thing you know we are on the jet back to Virginia. Now I can finally sit back, relax, and sleep.

"Hey may I sit here?" Spencer Reid asks

"Yeah sure it wasn't like I was about to sleep or anything!" I say sarcastically

He looks at me all weirdly, he probably didn't get my sarcasm.

"Yeah, it's fine"I say

"Since you are new, I need to evaluate you and need to know everything about you?" He says

"Oh you mean you want to profile me? What do you need to know? I'm an open book" I say as I smile at him

And from there it was a start of a new friendship