[Criminal Minds] The Man in the Mirror

Jack held his father in his sweaty little hand, smelling the smell of flowers in his arms.

After a panic, Yao Sulin was sent to the hospital, and Reid, who was left behind, calmly took out Yao Sulin's mobile phone and started calling her relatives nearby.After explaining the situation, there was a long silence, the girl finally let out an oh, and hung up the phone.

Hotch fixed his eyes, and the uncle brought a big family.Yao and his son were sitting on a bench taking a nap, under the morning light full of jet lag, while his wife and daughter stood by the window discussing medical insurance and consultation fees.He saw their feet tilt out unconsciously, in the direction of the fire exit.

Yao yawned and turned to see his boss: "MrHotchner, are you here to see Su Lin? She's fine. The doctor said she can go home after a day of observation..."

A trace of shame flashed across Hotch's face, but Jack accepted his uncle's and aunt's hugs very skillfully, Yao Sulin was still awake, Yao suggested going out to get some air, and Hotch didn't object.

The two men walked in the cold aisle, chatting from work to housework, Yao lamented that his daughter was raised too tenderly by her mother, and he drove her to Manhattan for college. not on.

"That child was also forced out. When his parents left, he didn't graduate from a bachelor's degree..."

Hotch asked naturally: "Her parents..."

"Both of them teach Chinese. My daughter is abroad and they are in China. Suddenly something happened..."

When Hotch entered the ward, he saw half a table piled up on the small bedside table, and Yao Sulin half leaned to eat her breakfast.She saw Jack at a glance, and asked him to sit on the edge of the bed with crooked eyebrows. The freshly baked baguette was cold for a while, she poured skim milk, broke the hard bread through the wrapping paper, and watched him chewing bit by bit with the milk. He bit the straw of barley porridge and asked Hotch if he had eaten it.

Hotch nodded, sat down on the soft chair next to him, and told the whole story of the case in detail. Reid was going to come, but Granger was buried with the case in New Orleans. Before leaving, he packed up their house and left the living room I took down the photo, wiped it, and didn't hang it up again.

That was a group photo of them and their mentor, Reid and Granger shoulder to shoulder, Yao Sulin hiding in Mrs. Hudson's arms, Mr. Hudson's eyes are like the comfort of the head of the family, parents, brothers and sisters.

Seeing that she had a tendency to cough again, Hotch got up to pour water for her, she shook her head: "Old problem...emotional instability has flared up again."

The scene after that was very simple. After Yao Sulin filled out BAU's psychological assessment questionnaire, Hotch was about to leave. Yao Sulin thought about stuffing a few small tangerines in Jack's jacket pocket to refresh his brain. The yellow oranges had a sweet and sour taste. speechless.

Hotch let his son go out first, he still has a few words to say.

"Are you okay, Yao?"

"Fortunately."

Yao Sulin disappeared from Hotch's sight.

The days were like quicksilver, and he still went to work with an iceberg expression on his face to investigate the case. After get off work, Jack whispered that sister Rebecca hadn't been here for a long time, daddy, you know, Hotch didn't realize that Rebecca was an increasingly unfamiliar name.

He wanted to know something, the way she left was like a trickle into the sea, the water was familiar and unfamiliar, you couldn't tell where it came from by staring at a drop, it could be from a stream, it could be from a lake, it wasn't too big but it was long and narrow That kind, such as Slender West Lake, which she said was her hometown.He has never heard of the cities in China. He has only heard of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, China in the news, but he is willing to know. If there is no such accident, he is willing to wait for her to tell him in person.But he's not sure he still has a chance.

In terms of occupation, he and Yao Sulin are half colleagues. For those who are dedicated to psychology, trust is a scarce and fragile thing.He never doubted Rossi, never doubted his colleagues, he even had expectations for Sean, but he asked Yao Sulin, interrogation and investigation, the agency calculated everything, aggressively turned her past upside down, he To be honest, this is his occupational disease.

Around the beginning of winter, he received a text message from JJ. The director of BAU had to wake up the team members who were on their annual vacation under the covers. Reid's mobile phone was turned off, and he was calling home.

"Hello, are you looking for Spencer Reid?"

"Yao?"

The other end of the phone froze, and the voice became dry: "Mr. Hotchner?"

There seemed to be happy clapping sounds in the distance. Reid put away the toolbox. He was repairing the broken light bulb before, and then he found Yao Sulin handing him the phone and avoided it.

Hotch explained the case well as always, but just as he was about to hang up, he heard the slap in the face: "Why is she with you?"

"She's not feeling well..."

"What do you mean?"

"What can I mean?! Hotch, do you think she's doing well these days? She's being angry at her uncle's house, and Yao is too busy to take care of her every day. She can't say, have you cared about her? Is it interesting to ask now? ?”

Reid heard that Hotch was speechless, he didn't know if he was irritated or he was thinking about giving Yao more time to work at home.

"I have no idea..."

Out of anger, Reid smiled bitterly.

"Yes, you know, but she wants you to know."