[Criminal Minds] years before love

The police acted quickly and Payne led Rossi and Hotch to the school the next day.

The police contacted the local government department and invited a psychologist to give a lecture in the school auditorium, inviting students and their parents to participate, claiming that they hoped that the issue of youth suicide would be taken seriously.

"Will he really come?" Payne whispered as they sat in the back near the door, watching the crowds coming and going.

"He's stimulated and now desperate to find the next victim." Rossi nodded.

"Kids who really want to kill themselves don't necessarily come here."

"Kids who have given up asking for help are not his targets," Hotch explained softly. "He wants change, not salvation. The previous victim didn't really want to end his life."

"He exploited his victim's desire to satisfy his desire to control."

"So Harry once wanted to live, and he could come to me...I rarely come to his school." Payne said softly, "Probably more times than before combined. I'm really not a Good father."

"Payne, no matter what, he still wants to tell you that he loves you in the end." Hotch's eyes drifted away, and it took a while before he comforted him.

"I always thought... I'm not the kind of very strict parent. After all, I was very worrying back then."

Rossi sighed, "Jimmy, this state makes me worry about whether you can continue to work. Promise me that you can take a rest after things are over, or you can take a vacation with Carrie."

Payne hesitated and sighed, "D□□id, I don't know. For us, vacation is really a luxury, and I don't think your boss will like your proposal."

"There's never enough bad guys to catch, Jimmy, you have to be passionate about life." Rossi rubbed his shoulders. "No one can ask you to work all the time after what you've been through."

"And our superiors have been very lenient with him," Hotch added, glancing at him.

"I never really thought of him as my boss." Rossi shrugged.

"I'm afraid he is too," Hotch whispered.

"Aaron, I think you can relax around him too, Gideon is nice to talk to most of the time, in fact, I think he likes you a lot."

Hotch was silent for a second, and said blankly, "That's because I haven't done anything that he needs to tolerate-don't say that, I haven't asked, Gideon told me you were investigating a mass suicide case, why did you When there is only one dead person?"

Rossi raised his eyebrows and didn't say much, "Jason may have misunderstood what I meant? I mean this case is related to a group. Carrie mentioned the CL group during the investigation, and I didn't find any specific information about this group. But An old policeman remembers that he heard the family members of the suicide mentioned it many years ago, and vaguely said that his partner also committed suicide, but the other party died of illness several years ago, so he really can’t provide more information, and he can’t track it down. Yes. I researched it for a long time, there were so few leads, and Jimmy was not telling the truth, it was not listed as the focus of the investigation at the time. Then you brought a new case."

"Many years ago?" Hotch frowned, "but I don't think his modus operandi was mature enough."

"The case back then may not have been related to him." Rossi agreed. "From the current evidence, I agree that he is a newbie who is evolving rapidly."

"Hopefully we can catch him, it's going to be tricky once he's mature enough." Hotch sighed, turning to Payne. "Keep an eye out for him."

Payne's eyes lingered between them for a while, hesitated to speak, and finally shifted his gaze to the only entrance.He didn't see the person he was looking for right away among the crowd. Occasionally, he could see a few parents of the students he knew. Until the lecture started, the person they were looking forward to did not appear.

Payne was a little restless, no one was coming in and out, so he had to concentrate on the lecture.

Rossi and Hotch didn't seem in a hurry, but were clearly not listening either.After almost an hour, the two began to turn their heads frequently to look outside the door.

"Jimmy." Rossi pulled Payne suddenly, motioning for the door.

A middle-aged man, dressed as a social worker and with neatly combed hair, stood watching.

Payne almost felt dizzy, he tried to calm himself down, and whispered, "It's him."

And before he could do anything, Hotch was already firmly on his arm.