[Criminal Minds] years before love

Hotch looked at Lindsey Bowden who was still crying in the interrogation room, Rogers sat next to him in a daze, Bowden and his ex-wife were arguing outside the door, he really didn't know what to say.

The little girl obviously couldn't tell a lie yet, and anyway, she killed four people, and Hotch wasn't about to get involved.

He didn't know where the town was going.

"Agent Hotchner, your boss." The policeman who answered the phone interrupted his thoughts.

Hotch was a little surprised. He did leave a message saying that he had solved the problem and was about to return, but he didn't expect Gideon to call. At least he knew very well that Gideon never had the habit of confirming the result.

He answered the phone suspiciously.

"I received your message, has it been resolved?"

"Yes." Hotch didn't quite understand what he wanted to do, he glanced at the interrogation room again, everything was normal inside, "What's the problem?"

"No, pretty quickly." Gideon smiled on the other end of the phone. "Great. I'm just making sure."

"what?"

"If you figure it out..." Gideon paused for a few seconds, as if still hesitating, but made up his mind before Hotch could ask, "Go to David."

Hotch was even more surprised, "I thought his case wouldn't be very complicated."

After all, Rossi seemed to have no burden before leaving, and Hotch absolutely believed in his ability.

"He asked me earlier when you'd be over." Gideon sighed on the other end, "He didn't say it outright, but obviously he wanted you over there. I'm not sure. But I guess if you don't want to go, he does It can be resolved. Aaron, I know you have been tired lately, this is not a request, in fact, I would suggest that you rest."

"I have no problem." Hotch licked his lips unconsciously, and slightly raised the corners of his mouth, "I'll go over."

Rossi did have some troublesome troubles.

A surviving victim from a case he once investigated goes missing.

In the bad cases they handle, the surviving victims are affected in some way, and very few people can return to the life before the event.

Rossi asked himself that there was nothing he could do about it, but he knew very well that law enforcers like them frequently appeared in each other's lives, except to remind the other party of what happened time and time again, and seldom played any positive role.

As a result, he rarely communicates with victims.

It is true that survivors may get into all kinds of troubles, drugs, alcohol, and even sex, but it is rare for a victim to fall into the same vicious case again. After all, people are not always so unlucky.

But this time the case was a bit too simple. There has not been any similar case recently, and there was no sign of forced entry to the residence. At least from the evidence at the scene, there is no reason to say that she was kidnapped again.

It's even hard to say if she disappeared by herself.

Rossi carefully reviewed the previous cases, which were a series of cases against female college students. The criminals used their teaching assistant status to date college students who had just entered the school, and lured them to the cabins in the suburbs to commit crimes. Rossi rescued the victim in time when he committed the fifth crime. He was arrested at the scene, the evidence was solid, and the suspect also pleaded guilty.

There is no doubt.

And this criminal is still in prison to continue his betrayal of hundreds of years of prison life.

In other words, strictly speaking, this is a case of disappearance without any clues.

If it weren't for the victim, Emma McKain's father, a well-known lawyer in the area, who insisted on Rossi's presence, the local police might not consider bailing out BAU.

"I know it's probably useless to invite you here." Mr. McKain looked a little sad, "But you saved her once, maybe you can save her again."

Rossi carefully inspected her room. Back then, Emma was just a female college student who had just entered school, and her social relationships were simple, so it was not complicated to find out the order from it.And now Emma... Rossi can hardly believe that she is the same person as she was back then.

She apparently fell into a vortex of alcohol and drugs, changed boyfriends frequently, never had a steady job, and attempted suicide several times.If it was just an accident that she was involved in the case back then, her disappearance now is not a strange thing at all.

"I know it's hard for Emma, ​​and I try to help her, psychiatrists, support groups... anything as long as she can feel better." McKain sighed, "But I never felt like she really came back from there gone."

Rossi patted him and didn't speak.

Then he left a message for Gideon - somehow, he kind of wished Hotch was by his side.