[Criminal Minds] years before love

Rossi forcefully left Payne at home on the grounds that he didn't need him to make trouble for the time being, and took Hotch into the car.

"Aaron, where are you going next?"

"Where are you going?" Hotch turned his head in surprise, "Shouldn't we go back to the police station?"

"Aaron, you obviously haven't had a good rest these days." Rossi shook his head, "It will take a while for the lab to process the evidence, we can go eat."

"Police, Dave." Hotch shook the notebook in his hand. "At least I have to send this back."

Rossi was slightly taken aback, then smiled, "Aaron, I thought you would care more about the legality of the evidence."

"I really don't want to argue with Mrs. Payne at this time." Hotch leaned back in his chair wearily, "although we will be able to convince her in the end."

"I'll talk to Jimmy." Rossi nodded. "Carrie did have a nervous breakdown, but I can't blame her."

"Dave, I wouldn't say that a teenager commits suicide. Parents are not responsible at all." Hotch put on gloves, opened the notebook in his hand, and carefully checked the pages. "I don't think he can completely hide his emotions at ordinary times."

"I wouldn't say that either," Rossi sighed, "but it's hard for me to blame them either."

"Parents who have lost their children." Hotch also shook his head and sighed.

"Aaron?"

"Adolescents are always difficult to understand." Hotch stroked the paper in his hand, feeling the traces left by the torn pages. "He was desperate."

"If he had confessed to his parents earlier what he was thinking, it might not be like this. Jimmy is not an unreasonable person, I think he should be able to understand." Rossi said with some regret, "When he was young, Jimmy also did a lot to make his parents feel better. their headaches."

Hotch shook his head, "If he could confess to his parents, he wouldn't be so desperate. Dave, you know Payne's past, so you think he can understand, but his son doesn't know. The father in his eyes is not reconcilable. He communicates with those who are desperate."

"Sometimes we try to do better, but people around us can't understand the real us." Rossi parked the car, seeing that Hotch didn't seem to want to get out of the car immediately, and didn't move after turning off the engine.

Hotch looked at the police station, "Dave, you've seen so many criminals and broken families, Payne and his wife... I can see that they are very, how to say, good people in the social sense- although I don't like how they treat them Your attitude, there is enough love for each other. But I chatted with Payne, and although he didn't admit it directly, I could hear that there was something wrong with his marriage. Why did their marriage and family become like this. "

"As someone who has had two failed marriages, I really can't answer you." Rossi was silent for a moment, and reached out to shake his hand.

"You? Dave, for you, I wonder why you got married." Hotch sneered unapologetically, and withdrew his hand, "Most of the content left is just study notes, but it's a bit strange, the previous The part is similar to what he wrote down in the textbook, lost and scattered, and occasionally scribbled. The handwriting becomes more and more neat as it goes on, as if trying to be a good student, but the more pages seem to be torn off."

"You think it has something to do with the organization he joined?"

"I guess so."

"Judging from the limited clues now, this organization lures them with change as a bait, regulates their behavior, and finally lures them to commit suicide?" Rossi was a little puzzled, "It doesn't make sense, if these children are like Harry or the one in your case Like George Bassand, without this organization they would probably end up on this path, or some other bad path."

"I don't understand why this organization wants to regulate their behavior. At least from Bassand's point of view, he has indeed become motivated, hardworking, and in line with his parents' expectations during this period of time. Why did everything stop abruptly when it was almost reversed? They What is the point of being? What do they want?"

"To make the one who stays sadder when he loses. Maybe in the past, he also felt this kind of sadness."

"It looks like at least we have a direction." Hotch nodded, "But there are too many people like this, and we still need to narrow it down. I think the people he can bring back to his small base know what he's doing, I hope the police can find a way to confirm their identities as soon as possible."

"Jimmy doesn't even know his friends, classmates...Jimmy picked a school where the parents pretty much know each other, you know." Rossi paused. "Aaron, get your stuff up, and then we'll go take a break."

"Break?" Hotch frowned. "If I'm not mistaken, you know we're still on the case, right?"

"Yes. But the police have no leads, and I need some...reassurance." Rossi looked at him.

Hotch looked away uncomfortably, looked out the window, then leaned over and hugged him.