[Criminal Minds] years before love

It was late when Hotch arrived, and Rossi was still at the police station.

He had studied the case on the road, and he had some doubts about how much they could help with this case.

The disappearance case has always been a very troublesome case, because it has too many possibilities, not to mention that the situation of the missing person is quite complicated.She has a good family background and education, but is addicted to alcohol and drugs, it is difficult to say whether there are worse attempts, and it also means that she can easily put herself in danger.

Even for them, such cases are difficult.

Hotch stood in the doorway looking at Rossi who was still leaning on the table staring at the evidence board through the glass partition. Most of the police had gone home, and some were going about their daily work. No one bothered him for the time being.

He knocked on the glass to signal, and then stepped forward.

"Ah." Rossi turned her head and looked surprised to see him, "Didn't Jason give you another case?"

"Solved." Hotch didn't want to recall the details of the case, "it's not too complicated."

Rossi stared at him for a moment, then finally tilted his head, "Disappearance case."

"I heard, why did Jason take this case?"

Rossi shook his head, pointing to Emma's photo, "This is Emma McKain. When I first studied her a few years ago, I didn't think she would become like this."

"Study her?" Hotch quickly went through the case information in his mind, and didn't remember mentioning that this woman had any special characteristics. He frowned, "Don't tell me what she had with you."

"Me? No, of course not, Aaron, you know I'm not in the habit of dating victims." Rossi quickly denied, "A few years ago, there was a case where someone was hunting female college students on a college campus. We acted barely in time and saved she."

"College girl? Victim? I see."

"What?" Rossi was puzzled.

"I read the papers on the way here and was a bit surprised how such a well-born, educated woman would end up in such trouble." Hotch sat next to him. "Terrible addiction and self-indulgence."

Rossi sighed, "Sometimes it happens. But Emma... how to say, after all, the perpetrators of the year have been executed, I thought she would feel better. But sometimes it's not just what happened that bothers them, they see At its worst, trust in the world is shattered, and there's nothing to do but escape."

Hotch's eyes flickered, and he was silent for a moment before asking, "You think she's gone by herself?"

"It's hard to say." Rossi handed him a diary in her hand. "They have already looked for her boyfriends, and there is no doubt at present. They also found her psychologist, but she was away for a meeting recently and will be back tomorrow morning." , at least, judging from the people around her, there is no suspect."

"Her father?" Hotch asked tentatively.

"I do think her father's way of dealing with what happened to her in the past made it harder for her to come out, and a little too concerned." Rossi pursed her lower lip, "I don't think it's a very healthy father-daughter relationship. "

"Do you want me to talk to him again?"

"No, it's not him. Although he lacks strong measures for Emma's lifestyle, there is no evidence that he has done too much." Rossi sat down on the edge of the table and shook his head slightly. It's a lot of pressure to come out of the incident. It's not good for the victims, they can't go back to how it never happened."

Hotch flipped open the diary in his hand, and there was a photo in the middle, the girl on it had long blonde hair and a bright smile, he looked up at the evidence board with short dyed pink hair and a lip ring, visibly thin women.Despite some preparations, he was still able to hit him, "This is her?"

"Yes." Rossi took a look, "That's why she was sought out by that bastard back then. He liked nice girls with long blonde hair."

"She is trying to make herself disappear." Hotch took off the photo and pressed it on the evidence board, "to change herself completely."

"Together with traces of her past life. She probably left on her own."

Hotch patted him on the shoulder, but didn't answer.They all knew that what could be worse was that Emma McKain decided to leave, not only the past life, but also the world.

"She didn't say goodbye, I don't think that's the case yet." Rossi smiled at him with difficulty, comforting himself.

Hotch said suddenly, "Maybe—she's going to say goodbye?"

"Back to school?" Rossi stood up. "She still has the picture."

"No one wishes it hadn't happened more than herself." Hotch stared at the photo for a while, then looked down and flipped through the diary, which was actually almost empty, "Maybe her therapist knew more .”