[Criminal Minds] The Waiting Behind

Michelle felt that her mouth was a little dry, so she stopped talking, and finally told Reid, this friend who looks like her big brother to her,

"Be careful in the future, do you understand?"

"Yeah." The good boy Reid answered honestly, and finally couldn't help asking the question he had been curious about all along, "Are you also nagging Hotch like this..."

"Hey, what's nagging, what's chattering," Michelle got annoyed in an instant, how she said herself like an elderly woman, "I've always been gentle with Hotch,"

"In that case, he knows now." Reid said with a smile, looking at Hotch who had been standing by the bed for a long time.

He'd just come in midway through Michelle's talk, with Emily.

Reid couldn't help shaking his head proudly, hum, Michelle kept talking about him, now it's her turn to be nervous.

"No, I already knew that side of her." Hotch's answer made Michelle on the phone burst into laughter, which sounded like mockery to Reid.

"Don't try to provoke the relationship between the two of us, kid!"

Reid watched helplessly as his boss took his mobile phone away, released it, put it to his ear, and walked out of the ward.

"Hey, that's my phone..." Unfortunately, his words fell on deaf ears, and only attracted amused glances from Emily and Man.

"How silly of you to want to fight Michelle, and in front of Hotch?"

Emily watched speechlessly as Reid, who was instantly reduced to a preschool child, covered his head in the quilt, avoiding her and Man's teasing.

It seems that what Michelle said is right: kid, he looks good everywhere! Emily thought bitterly, how childish!

Outside the ward, Michelle leaned against the wall, watching the doctors and nurses passing by, and whispered her thoughts to each other in a low voice.

"Aaron, is the case over?"

"Ah."

"Spencer is so bad, he bullied me."

"Yeah." In fact, she was the one who bullied him.

"I miss you."

"…Me too."

"However, I have to stay for a while. This time I came to know that Nick's health has not been very good." Michelle turned her head to look in the room, where Emma was carefully pinching the quilt for Nick who was lying down, "I don't want to I regret not spending more time with them."

"Yes, I know."

"I said Spencer for a long time just now, and I don't hope to say the same about you one day in the future."

Hearing the silence over there, Michelle lowered her eyes, and every time Hotch asked this question, she would not agree easily, because he couldn't guarantee it either.

But she knew that he would do his best.

Michelle told Hotch again to look after the store for herself, and Michelle hung up the phone.

Hopefully that stops Foyet in his tracks.

Michelle walked to the corridor, looking forward to the rain falling outside.

Unfortunately, reality often backfires.

More often than not, the least expected will happen.

A few days later, Michelle had just returned home. Today, it was Vi who stayed with Nick in the hospital. She could finally go home and rest for a day.

Taking a hot bath is a good idea.Thinking so, Michelle took off her clothes and entered the bathroom.

But he didn't notice that the screen of the mobile phone on the bedside table lit up.

Michelle wiped her hair casually with a dry towel, and walked out wrapped in a bath towel. When she was very comfortable, she found the faint light projected on the wall by the phone.

Could it be that Hotch just called?

She quickly took the phone over, and the moment she saw the screen clearly, the towel in her hand fell to the ground instantly.

This is... the image sent by the hidden camera installed in her house before!

Michelle tried her best to close her eyes, controlled the involuntary shaking of her body, and carefully watched the scene on the video.

No one was in the shot, but she saw a dark red mark on the ground next to a mobile phone.That look seems to belong to Hotch!

The scene of Hotch being stabbed in and out with a knife by Foyet flashed before her eyes. Michelle felt cold all over her body, as if falling into an ice cellar, and tremblingly dialed a number.

It took a long time for the phone to be picked up, but an angry voice came from inside: "I hope you can forgive me for answering this call while still dripping wet!"

Michelle trembled violently, and it took a long time to piece together a complete sentence from the broken voice: "Penelope, Aaron... something happened to him..."

Michelle didn't know if she had described it clearly. She only knew that her mind was blank and she kept repeating, "Penelope...what to do..."

The familiar voice sounded so ethereal from far away.She sat on the bed in a daze, and it took a long time to realize that it was her phone ringing.

Michelle rushed over almost the moment she found out, and pressed the call button: "Penelope, have you found him?"

"Michelle, it's me." Emily's voice came.

"Oh..." Michelle's disappointment spread, she had made such perfect preparations, how could Hotch still be...

"Hey, listen to me, don't you worry. Garcia is trying to track down Hotch right now. She checked the camera feed carefully. Hotch hasn't been taken for long."

"Penelope, did she call out the previous video? Tell me...what happened to Aaron..." Michelle heard this sentence, as if she had grabbed a straw, she needed to know the extent of Hotch's injury.

"I'm online, Michelle." Garcia's worried voice came. Her work always made her face sad things. A few days ago, she even helped Reid record his last words. Fortunately, the final result was good.

"I checked the previous video. When Foyet came in through the gate, he entered the password for the first time to the anti-theft system at the gate..." Speaking of this, Garcia suddenly remembered that Michelle didn't know the identity of the person who took Hotch away. , quickly explained, "Foyet is before..."

"Boston Reaper, I know." Michelle interrupted Garcia's explanation, she didn't want to waste time on this now, "Aaron told me. Now, go ahead. Did he enter the correct code?"

"Well...Foyet is also a computer expert, so it's easy to crack this password." Garcia was a little worried, after all, she had promised this anti-theft system at the time, "But he didn't know that this anti-theft system had a second password Time. It is the 10 minutes you asked me to add before and within 30 minutes after the second layer password is not entered, the alarm will not be issued but will be called directly.”

"Then the police came late?" Michelle was relieved to learn that Foyet hadn't cracked the second code, "So Aaron was taken away anyway."

"It's not really..." Garcia didn't know what to say next, because if she said it, Michelle might...

"Tell me, Penelope." Sensing that Garcia hesitated to speak, Michelle's uneasiness grew wider and wider. What's going on?

"Michelle, I have to tell you first, it's not your fault, you couldn't have considered this situation before..." Emily obviously knew something, she who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.

But it made Michelle panic even more.

"Penelope..."

"Okay, I said. You asked me to set it up for you to simultaneously transmit the camera image to your and Hotch's mobile phones while calling the police. It was originally a double measure, but after Foyet knocked down Hotch Found his phone..."

"Oh, my God!" Michelle covered her mouth, feeling regret, "Please tell me I didn't kill Aaron..."

"No, no, no, Michelle, it's not like that." Garcia quickly denied, "Foyet had a knife out, ready to torture Hotch. But after seeing the phone, he quickly left with Hotch."

"Michelle, you did a good job. Hotch, he didn't suffer too much abuse, he just got a gunshot wound..." Emily comforted when she heard the girl's crying.

Although she also knew how feeble this kind of words seemed.

"But, maybe he was just afraid of the police coming to the door, so he went to another place..." Sure enough, Michelle also thought of this possibility.

For a while, no one spoke on the phone, Garcia and Emily listened to the girl's sobs that were trying to be concealed, and both remained silent.

It wasn't until Garcia, who went offline to find Hotch's trace, appeared again that the deadlock of silence was broken.

At the same time, she also brought some news.

In a way, this is good news.

"I just called each hospital one by one to see if Hotch had been sent to the hospital, and then I found out..." Garcia's rapid speech was not interrupted, Michelle and the others just listened intently, for fear of missing a clue.

"He wasn't on the patient list, but someone dropped an anonymous person at San Sebastian's, and this guy's name was Derek Man. Did they mix up the papers?"

"Oh, that's him." Ignoring Emily's voice over there explaining to Garcia why Foyet got the Man's ID, Michelle suddenly felt like weeping with joy, she'd never been like this for a moment, thankful that the goddamn hasn't changed fate!

"Tell me again, the name of that hospital." Michelle was already fully dressed, and now she had grabbed her bag and rushed to the door.

She needs to go to the airport immediately and catch the nearest flight back.She had no choice but to stay here and wait for someone to tell him about Hotch's life and death.

"Michelle, don't worry, I'll contact Reid and the others now and go to the hospital first." With Hotch's whereabouts, Emily regained her usual calmness and comforted the girl, "Don't worry, come back slowly, okay?"

"I know, don't worry, don't worry about me." Michelle knew the silent concern of her friends, after all, she was the one who cared the most.

"Emily, please, find Foyet!"

Even if the hope is so slim.

"We will." Emily has never promised so sincerely, her eyes flicked to the newsletter she had just checked, and there was a page torn out of it... What does it represent?

However, when Michelle rushed to the hospital in a hurry, what she saw was Emily holding Jack outside the ward.

And in the ward... Michelle's pupils shrank instantly, it was Haley!

"Michelle..." Emily's eyes shuttled back and forth between the girl and the ward, but her expression was extremely awkward.

It was hard to get here, but I couldn't go in right away, just because my boyfriend's ex-wife was inside.

Emily looked at the girl who was drooping her head and said nothing. For the first time, she realized that her eloquence was so poor that she didn't know what to say. It took a long time before she could only utter a dry sentence:

"Aaron's injuries are not serious. Apart from two gunshot wounds, he has no other major injuries. He is awake."

"Well, I saw it." Michelle looked up, looked at her friend's worried eyes, smiled reassuringly, then knelt down/body up, and put her head against Little Jack's.

"Hi, Jack."

The author has something to say: So, I changed the plot slightly

At least Hotch didn't suffer that much

I can't imagine Hotch living the pain and suffering of being stabbed in and out with a knife

Foyet's role has officially kicked off!

But I'll have to wait a while for the next show.

Those who said before that Hotch should never get knifed come out

I kept my promise to you!

He didn't get a knife, he got a gun...cough cough cough