[Criminal Minds] The Waiting Behind

Reid sat in the passenger seat, looking at the image of the girl reflected in the rearview mirror from time to time.At this moment, she was silently resting her chin on one hand, staring at the scenery outside the window.

Since getting in the car, Michelle has kept this posture. Until now, she hasn't turned her head to look at them, nor said a word, not a word. Reid and Emily in the back seat exchanged a look in the rearview mirror, and the latter closed her eyes knowingly, and brought up a topic again, hoping to attract Michelle's attention.

"Michelle, have you noticed that the Inspector On just now seems to be targeting our BAU all the time,"

Emily thought for a while, but didn't mention the scene just now, but chose another irrelevant topic.

"En." The girl did speak, but she still didn't move, as if the answer just floated out from between her lips carelessly.

It's more of an unconscious response to the sounds around me than a conversation.

Reid glanced at the girl's motionless back again, and received Emily's help-seeking eyes, "Actually, I think he cares more about Hotch than our BAU."

At this time, Man, who was sitting in the driver's seat, concentrated on watching the road conditions, but also realized that Reid deliberately emphasized Hotch's intentions, and participated in the discussion of the topic:

"Maybe he doesn't agree with his boss asking us for help. Isn't the Interpol always arrogant, with eyes on the top of the head?"

"Hey!" Emily was upset when she heard this, "There's a former Interpol sitting here!"

Sensing that Michelle's expression was a little loose, Emily continued her efforts to attract the girl's attention, "I always feel that he is hindering the investigation, am I the only one who feels this way? He is targeting Hotch a bit deliberately."

"I don't think Hotch didn't notice this." Man said calmly, turning the steering wheel beautifully, overtaking cars one after another, "He is the most careful person, but he just refrained from talking."

It seemed that they had thought of some kind of possibility that they didn't want to admit. Everyone fell into silence, and no one in the car spoke again.

One brake, here we go.

Man unbuttoned his seat belt, bent down and groped for a while, then turned around and opened his hands, reaching out to Michelle who had already put on the body armor.

——A pocket pistol lay quietly in his palm.

"This is what Hotch asked me to hand over to you." Man watched the expression on the girl's face change, from surprise to amazement, to understanding, and then became complicated and inexplicable.He frowned, with a very serious tone:

"He made me swear that he will protect you. So you don't get out of the car until we confirm it's safe. It's better to hide under the seat so that no one can find you from the outside."

"Why don't I stay and protect Michelle." Emily looked at the girl's slightly trembling body, thinking she was afraid, "You two, be careful."

"No, I don't need it." Michelle raised her head, her eyes were shining brightly, the dazzling look made the three of Emily stunned: it was as if she had suddenly possessed infinite courage and faith. Michelle looked at the friends in front of her and made a firm promise:

"I won't do things that I promise but go back on my actions. I will protect myself well and will never cause trouble with you. So, please, if there is really danger, you must be extremely careful. The most important thing is to protect yourself .”

Man looked at the girl's swearing expression, and his serious expression broke in an instant, "Hey, silly girl, do you think we are going to face a hail of bullets or some kind of perverted trap, maybe Jinks is the only one inside. Let's go in, find him, and bring him out , it’s such a simple thing, OK?”

Michelle understood that Man was deliberately using a teasing tone to dilute the tense atmosphere, but she told them to be careful again, and watched them approach the house. It was a very ordinary two-story building with a garden. What is it.

Michelle squatted nervously by the back seat, poked her head out cautiously, and saw Man outflanking from behind, while Reid and Emily both held pistols and tapped on the front door.

Seemingly there was no response, Michelle's heart tensed instantly, watching Emily and Reid cooperate tacitly, one opened the door and the other raised a gun, and they all entered the house like that.

There was silence all around.

Michelle withdrew her gaze and squatted in the gap between the front and rear seats as Man said.It's hard to spot her at a glance outside here, and naturally she can no longer inquire about the situation outside.

Michelle felt that every second passed so long, so long that she could only count the beating of her own heart to get through this tense moment.

Everyone, please stay safe!

Just as she was secretly praying for everyone, the car door was suddenly pulled open. Michelle's pupils shrank, and she suddenly raised the gun she was clenched in her hand, reflexively facing the person coming.

"Hey, it's me!" The visitor raised his hands quickly to calm down Michelle's excitement, and then put the pistol into the magazine behind him.

It's Emily! Michelle breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, but fortunately she didn't have the inertia to pull the trigger, "What's the matter, no one is inside?" Michelle said this casually, and handed the pistol back to Emily, this kind of weapon that is easy to go off should not be used It is better to put it in her own hands.

"Uh...yes, no one else." Emily put her hand to her lips and coughed a few times, then squeezed the pistol she had just picked up in the other hand.She was obviously hesitant, licked the dry corner of her mouth, and answered in a low voice, but she seemed very confident.

Michelle looked suspiciously at the unnatural Emily, feeling more and more ominous in her heart.She stared at Emily's flickering eyes and said word by word, "Tell me, what happened?"

"It's nothing." Reid walked out of the room without knowing when, walked quickly to Michelle's side, heard her pressing question, and answered quickly.He glanced at Michelle, then lowered his head again, "The police will come here later, you should get in the car first. Emily will drive you back first."

Hearing Reid's answer, Emily hesitated, glanced at Michelle, then at Reid, gritted her teeth, and finally said, "Reid..."

Reid didn't speak. Michelle took a deep breath when she saw all this, hoping to suppress the churning emotions in her heart: "Just tell me, what happened inside?"

"Michelle, I said, get back in the car!" Unexpectedly, Reid suddenly pointed at the car door behind Michelle, and shouted explosively, his voice even seemed a little out of tune due to excitement.

Michelle looked at Reid like this, she knew more about this simple genius than he thought, and he almost couldn't wait for him to get away from this house.

What this represents is self-evident.

Michelle tried her best to grasp her right hand with her left hand, as if she could control the involuntary trembling, and it seemed that only in this way could she bring herself infinite courage and allow her to stand here.

She heard her own voice speak slowly, slowly but with difficulty, "Spencer, what's going on?"

Michelle stared closely at Reid's eyes, who also looked straight at her, and finally blinked as if he couldn't take it anymore, his eyes seemed a little wet.She watched Reid's Adam's apple roll up and down violently, and her tightly pursed lips finally opened:

"Please, go back to the car."

——It can almost be called a bitter pleading.

Michelle glanced back at Emily next to her, who looked away as if she couldn't bear her gaze.

Michelle understood instantly, knocked away Reid who was blocking her, and rushed into the house at a speed she had never seen before.

Emily then slowly approached Reid who was staggering back a few steps, patted his shoulder, and followed Michelle's back.

Only Reid's thin figure was left standing there.He stood there quietly like that, until a heart-piercing shout suddenly came from the room.

--"Do not!"

The young genius doctor slowly moved his somewhat heavy steps, turned and walked into the house, even though he had exhausted all his strength just now to muster up the courage to come out, facing Michelle with an anxious face.

Walking into the room slowly, the first thing that catches the eye is the scene of Emily hugging the crying Michelle tightly.She has cried in front of him more than once, Reid thought to himself, but there has never been a time like this time, where she cried so hard, but whimpered almost silently.It was as if the grief was overwhelming, and he couldn't even support himself standing there.

He really didn't want to see other people's mourning tears anymore.

Man came over and patted Reid on the shoulder, "I'll go out and call Hotch and the others first."

Reid nodded numbly, and as Man's figure moved away, the moment that made him icy all over just now swept over again.

In the center of the room is a chair with a man sitting on it.The limbs are spread out, the face is facing outwards, the eyes are wide open, but the expression is extremely serene.

It's like the photo of the victim's body at the scene of the previous crime, except that the man's face appeared in another photo.

— Their mission objective, Steve Jinks.

Quantico, Office of the BAU Director.

For some reason, instead of going out with Rossi and the others, Hotch chose to stay. Just as Hotch put down the phone in his hand, the phone rang again.

"Man, did you find anything?" Hotch connected to the phone directly, but frowned as if he heard something, "I see."

After a while, it seemed that the man on the side had finished speaking, Hotch hesitated for a moment before asking, "How is she?"

"Okay, I see." Hotch put down the phone, and was with Emily and the others... In this case, she would not be so sad if she had someone to accompany her.

The scene of the girl crying bitterly was constantly sketched in his mind, Hotch pursed his lips, and the lines at the corners of his eyes seemed to deepen.No matter how unhappy he was with Michelle caring about other men, he couldn't just sit back and watch her grief.

Just because she's her own, girl.

Hotch thought about the content of the previous call, and also thought about the suspicious points Man mentioned in the call just now, maybe there are some things that Garcia needs to check.

Hotch, who was immersed in his own thoughts, was suddenly attracted by something on the corner of the desktop.This... seems to be...

The black SUV was driving fast on the way back to Quantico.

It was still Reid sitting in the passenger seat, still the silent girl in the back seat, still in the same posture.

It's just that this time, the genius doctor with a negative EQ didn't know how to speak.

First, it was Man who broke the silence. He didn't say some pale words of comfort, but went straight to the point, "Evans, you can choose to immerse yourself in grief, but we need your help."

These words really made the girl who had been silently looking out the window turn around.Her crying red eyes stared blankly at Man in the rearview mirror, the corners of her mouth curled into a sarcasm, her voice was a little hoarse from crying, "Steve is dead, what else can we help."

"Don't you want to know who killed Steve?"

"Who else is there, isn't it the gangster group you mentioned?" Michelle didn't care, the case ended here, with Steve's life ending as the end.

"No, there are traitors among us." Man calmly finished the sentence that was enough to cause an uproar, and turned a corner perfectly, completely ignoring the shock of others.

"What are you talking about?" Emily opened her mouth in disbelief. "You mean, us?"

"No, I believe there will be no problems inside our BAU." Reid had calmed down a long time ago, and his genius brain was spinning rapidly, "You mean inside the police?"

"What do you rely on to say this? You can't lie to me, right?" Michelle was dubious, and she obviously never mentioned such a thing in the previous profile.

"I don't joke about things like this." Man stepped on the gas pedal, thinking that it would be better to get back to BAU as soon as possible.

"I checked Jinks' body earlier," Man continued, pausing slightly when he said this, and seeing Michelle's expression in the rearview mirror, before continuing, "He's dead no longer than One hour."

"What?" Michelle couldn't help but screamed, "We set off after we found the address, and the journey would take half an hour at most. If we arrived earlier, wouldn't Steve have died..."

Emily saw that Michelle was about to fall into the mood of self-blame again, and quickly reminded, "Even if we had already done the same thing. It couldn't be such a coincidence. As soon as we knew where Jinks was, the enemy immediately found him."

"But isn't it too far-fetched to say that there are spies based on this?" Michelle still didn't quite believe it. What a sad and insignificant way to die when an undercover agent was killed by a police agent!

"You have to trust the intuition of a BAU agent." Man saw that Michelle was still a little unconvinced, and directly blocked the girl's argument with words, "Hotch also admitted this, he seemed to have discussed this issue with Mr. Brooks, so We need to go back quickly."

Sure enough, when Hotch was mentioned, Michelle kept silent.If Hotch already knew, why didn't he bring it up before... Michelle didn't dare to think about it, because she wouldn't suspect him casually.

This is the most merciless insult to him, which denies both his personality and his professionalism.

In Michelle's uneasy mood, Man's quick overtaking technique finally brought them back to Quantico quickly.

Just after Emily stepped into the transparent glass door, Michelle saw a waiting figure not far away.

As always, in a black suit, standing upright.A few hours ago, the two broke up on bad terms. Now that they met again, Michelle felt that her heart was more complicated. Various emotions were intertwined and tumbling, and finally found the exit, and only merged into a simple one. word--

"Aaron..."

The author has something to say: The appearance of Steve in this episode refers to the scene of S13E3 in warehouse 11.

Those who have seen it probably already guessed it, and those who haven't seen it probably guessed it...

This stalk was almost decided when I wrote Steve

Because Steve's death was pretty much the best scene ever ==

i cried so much

However, the number of words in this episode exploded!Sure enough, it went smoothly when I wrote about my favorite scene [Escape]

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