Chapter 2 - What have I missed?
"Muffin, give me the tie." Elijah sighed.
Muffin refused, running out of the room with the tie in his mouth.
"Muffin." Elijah shook his head as he ran after his cat.
He spotted Muffin at the bottom of the staircase and hurried down to grab him. Seeing him, Muffin launched himself into the living room and went to run around the couch before Elijah successfully scooped him up.
"It is my first day as an official Agent, Muffin. No Trainee Agent Deans, just SSA Deans." Elijah reminded him,"And that means I need to look good."
Muffin let go of the tie and meowed up at him.
"Yes, I know it's been a month or two. I'll just need to get them to catch me up fully." Elijah shook his head as he sat Muffin down on the couch.
Of course Reid called him to tell him about the cases they were handling but he heard the last one interrupted their vacations so they had some time off.
"There. What do you think?" Elijah asked, finally with his tie on.
Muffin meowed, flopping over on the couch.
"I'll be back later, okay? You've got food." Elijah stroked him,"I'll miss you, baby."
Muffin meowed, gently licking his finger.
"Have a good day." Elijah smiled before he grabbed his car keys and left his house.
He hummed as he walked to his car, putting on the radio as he began the drive to work. As he pulled up outside the building, Elijah spotted Fleur getting out of her own car and he waved to her as he parked.
"Fleur, hi." Elijah smiled as he got out of his car.
"Elijah, it's good to see you." Fleur hummed, waiting for him,"Are you with us as a proper Agent this time?"
"I should be." Elijah nodded as the pair entered the building.
"Good, I've missed seeing you around." Fleur told him as they stepped inside the elevator
Elijah looked around,"So.. What was that last case you guys took care of again?"
"Oh, that Fisher King." Fleur nodded slowly,"Yeah.. He kinda.. Exploded."
"He wh- How-" Elijah blinked,"Scratch that, I don't think I want to know."
"Did Reid not mention that in your little phone calls?" Fleur hummed.
"No- He mentioned that he was going to see his mother but no, he did not mention any explosions." Elijah crossed his arms as the elevator doors opened.
"Guess I shouldn't tell you he was briefly on fire then, should I?" Fleur raised a brow as they walked out.
"..Excuse me, what?" Elijah turned to look at her.
"Nothing." Fleur quickly began to walk ahead.
"No- No, you come back here and explain what you just said." Elijah hurried after her.
When they reached the area with their desks, Morgan and Reid were sat there and Gideon was stood nearby.
"Welcome back." Gideon nodded to them all before he walked off, presumably to his office.
"Uh- Glad to be here, sir." Elijah called after him, sitting his bag on an empty desk.
"No you're not." Fleur shook her head as she walked to her own desk, the one beside his.
"You don't know that, darling." Elijah pointed.
"Okay, I need to know one thing." Morgan sighed, looking up at the pair.
"Yes?" Elijah hummed, turning around.
"Reid and I wanted to know-" He began.
"Just you." Reid coughed.
"I wanted to know.. If you and Fleur are, well, y'know.." Morgan trailed off.
"Wait- Fucking?" Elijah raised a brow.
"Yeah." Morgan nodded.
"Hang on- When did..?" Elijah looked over at Fleur,"Am I missing something?"
"You boys still believe that?" Fleur had already burst out laughing,"Eli- One of the cases before the Fisher King, you remember calling me?"
"Vaguely?" He tilted his head.
"Morgan was repeatedly asking if I had a boyfriend, thought it would be funny if I convinced him it was you." Fleur hummed.
"Morgan, sweetheart, darling." Elijah sighed as he walked over to him, patting his shoulder,"Girls are nice, but I much prefer men."
"Yeah, and he's not my type." Fleur chuckled.
"I know you don't like stereotyping people but have you seen me?" Elijah raised a brow, leaning against Reid's desk.
"I mean, I think it was obvious." Fleur raised her hand as Reid just looked up at Elijah.
"She has a point." Elijah chuckled,"Have you seen how certain people look at me?"
Elijah was referring to Gideon. He hadn't been around him much, but he wanted to know if anyone else noticed how Gideon acted.. Differently around him.
"You've got a point there." Morgan nodded slowly.
"You can't tell anyone though.. Just us." Fleur pointed.
"Man, you just do what makes you happy. I won't judge you and I'll make sure nobody else judges you either." Morgan told him.
"Cheers, mate." Elijah smiled.
"Keep it between us four." Fleur hummed.
"Trust me, we will." Reid nodded.
"Right, we've got a case." Gideon clapped as he walked past their desks, causing Elijah to jump slightly.
"What kind of case?" Fleur turned.
"I'll explain when we're in there." Gideon pointed as he headed to the Conference Room.
The group looked between each other before they followed Gideon to the Conference Room.
"It's.. A case involving a child." JJ told them,"..Pedophile Ring."
"Forty thousand images of child porn are posted every week on the internet alongside the appearance of twenty new children." Reid began,"The appetite for babies as young as four months old has soared. Many of these children are kidnapped and sold into pedophile rings.' "
"One year ago the same boy appeared on several websites used by paedophiles. He was a new face then. After a massive hunt lead by our Crimes Against Children Unit, the boy disappeared." Gideon sighed.
"Until tonight, when SSA Cole telephoned us." Hotch added.
"Katie Cole?" Fleur looked up.
"She was in the BAU, right?" Reid raised a brow.
"One of the first profilers. Clinical psychologist, brilliant." Gideon pointed.
"She runs the Crimes Against Children Unit in Maryland." Hotch told them.
"I always wanted to meet her." Morgan nodded.
"I worked with her before joining here." Fleur hummed.
"You did?" Elijah tilted his head,"You learn something new every day."
"Really? I heard she's a bitch." An unfamiliar woman walked in.
"Nobody ever called you that, Katie." Gideon shrugged.
"Well, not to my face." Katie shook her head as she looked at the video of the boy on the screen,"The first time I ever saw him was when he appeared in a series of photos. I named him Peter. Now he's being auctioned off when that clock runs to zero."
"Auctioned." JJ raised a brow.
"His face isn't pixelated." Fleur pointed out.
"Because the Unsub is probably confident that we won't be able to locate or identify him in time." Elijah sighed.
"What about the site itself? Can't we just track it's origin?" JJ questioned.
"It's routed through a proxy server in Belarus." Katie sighed,"Even if that government was friendly, Peter would be gone by the time we finished the paperwork."
"We don't need to worry about paperwork, we have Garcia." JJ got up.
"Right, get on that, will you?" Gideon looked over at her.
"Yes sir." She nodded and left.
"So what happened a year ago, Katie?' Hotch turned.
"We crossed-referenced the images of the boy, talked to offenders nationwide. We narrowed the location down to the eastern United States. We had a few suspects but the trail went cold... Until today." Katie explained.
"With all due respect, Miss Cole, how is this time going to be any different?" Morgan sighed.
"We have a starting point." She nodded.
"The location where the image was first discovered." Gideon agreed.
"A chat room hosted by an independent web company in Cleveland, Ohio. And this time, I'm bringing you all with me." Katie turned to them.
"Just like old times." Fleur grabbed her file and got up.
*********************************
Katie stumbled around the jet as they flew, causing Elijah to chuckle. He wasn't used to flying but he enjoyed it, and he was definitely enjoying watching Katie.
"Don't laugh." Fleur threw a marshmallow at him.
"Make me, darling." Elijah caught the marshmallow and ate it.
"I'll darling you in a second." Fleur threw a couple more.
"Children." Morgan chuckled,"Enough fighting."
"Fine. I'll behave." Elijah rolled his eyes, continuing to eat the marshmallows.
"The image was uploaded to one of our CAC undercovers fishing in chatrooms." Katie told them,"We try to monitors as many of then as we can pretending to be children, pedophiles, whatever works on that site."
"Have you run a forensic linguistics on the chat log?" Hotch turned to Katie,"There might be something to Hugz's speech patterns."
"It doesn't exactly work that way with internet talk." Katie shook her head, stumbling as the plane hit turbulence.
Elijah covered his mouth, he didn't want to laugh again. Although he gained a glare from Gideon.
"Fear of flying?" Fleur looked at Katie,"Linked to deep routed issues of control."
"I think better on my feet." Katie pointed.
"I'm sure you do." Elijah coughed.
"Most of the talk is abbreviated text. LOL, laughing out loud, IMHO, In my humble opinion. FTF-" Kate began.
"Face to face." Morgan sighed.
"Right." Katie nodded slowly,"Pedophiles can be divided into two categories-"
More turbulence. This time, Elijah stood up and walked towards the coffee machine. He couldn't keep watching Katie.
"Show off." Fleur coughed.
"I know." Elijah winked at her.
"Situational and preferential." Hotch decided to contiue,"Situational offenders rarely seek out children, but they'll take advantage of a situation when presented with it. Whereas preferential offenders actively target children by age group, hair colour. They'll seek out jobs which give them as much access to children as possible."
"They often trawl around residential neighborhoods, hijacking home wireless systems then communicating with the children often outside the house the child is in." Katie explained,"Or they'll just use a coffee shop with wireless access to find, locate and arrange a meeting. And it's growing. It's growing as fast as the Internet. They're getting smarter and smarter and all the security in the world can't stop them from coming through our doors. Hell, the monsters are already in our homes."
"If he's kept this kid for a year, that makes him preferential." Elijah walked back over with his coffee.
"Definitely." She nodded.
"So, then why is he selling him?" Morgan raised a brow.
Again, more turbulence but it seemed that Katie was getting better as she stayed stable on her feet.
"Maybe he's loosing interest? Peter's getting too old? Too tall? Preferential offenders are very specific about their preferences."
"And what if he can't sell him?" Elijah raised a brow, sipping his drink.
"Well, he isn't going to just let him go." Fleur sighed.
"Hotch?" JJ spoke from the computer.
"Yeah." Hotch walked over to the computer, sitting down.
"I was thinking, shouldn't we release Peter's profile to the media?" She asked.
"No! No, no." Katie shook her head quickly,"If this Unsub thinks we're onto him, he may make a run for it and dispose of the boy."
"Shouldn't we assume he does know?" Gideon asked.
"As I said, we intercepted this image as part of an undercover operation. These predators have a fairly closed society. The way they run these sites give them the expectation of anonymity." Katie explained.
"Right." Elijah sighed, shaking his head.
"Have Reid and Elle check the live feed. Not just the boy, but everything around him, the room. See if we missed anything." Hotch told JJ and Garcia over the call.
"Got it." JJ nodded as they hung up.
*********************************
The group of Agents headed into the headquarters of the chatroom company, they had to try whatever they could to save Peter.
"FBI." Morgan spoke as he walked in,"We have a warrant to search these premises. Stop what you're doing right now."
The room fell silent, all the eyes were one them now.
"Can somebody tell me who owns this place?" He asked as the Agents all revealed their badges.
A blonde man walked out of his office, clearing his throat,"That would be me."
"I want access to your chatroom databases." Katie informed him.
The man, Ash, stepped back, allowing Katie to start typing, but he was clearly not happy.
"This is so typical. You feds can't help yourself." He scoffed,"You've got to pollute the truest form of free expression ever invented."
Fleur sighed before pointing at Morgan,"Derek, find a chatroom of your choice. Your name is Suzy and you're twelve."
"What are you doing?" The man looked at them.
"Fishing." Katie nodded.
As Ash began to retort, Morgan typed what he was told to into the chatroom. Mere seconds after he sent the message, the computer began to ping as multiple messages from strangers popped up on the screen.
"That sir, is the sound of pedophiles looking to hook-up with a twelve year old girl named Suzy." Elijah crossed his arms.
"You let them run everything through SSL connections from proxy servers in offshore countries." Katie turned.
"So they can't be identified?" Morgan asked.
"Not in twelve and a half hours, no." Katie sighed.
"Hey, I'm just a middle man here, okay?" Ash raised his hands,"What can I do?"
"There's a little boy for sale on one of your sites. 'What can I do?', just isn't good enough." Gideon shook his head.
*********************************
The group later heard word from JJ that another child was being held and this time, they had an adress. They sped to the house, Morgan kicking down the door as they ran inside.
"FBI!" Hotch shouted as they began to look around.
"It's clear." Fleur shook her head from the living room.
"Push through." Gideon instructed as they began heading upstairs where they could hear loud music blasting.
"FBI!" Morgan burst through the door, leading to the bedroom.
A shirtless, teenage boy with messy hair was restrained with ropes on the chair, the screen pointed at him.
"What are you doing?" He looked up at them as they entered.
"Where is he?" Hotch asked as Fleur rushed over to the computer, watching as everyone viewing began signing off.
"It's clear." Elijah sighed, turning off the music.
"It's okay, you're safe now." Gideon nodded to the boy.
"Safe?" He stood up, shaking off his restraints.
"What's your name?" Katie asked him.
"Kevin." He shrugged, putting his shirt back on.
"The man who did this to you, is he still here?" Hotch looked around.
"This is my house." Kevin scoffed.
"Graham Rose is the owner of this house, where is he?" Katie questioned, quickly stopping Kevin from grabbing his computer,"No, don't touch that. Where is he?"
"He's gone." Kevin sighed.
"What do you mean, 'gone'?" Fleur crossed her arms.
"He's just gone, okay?" Kevin shook his head.
"Graham Rose is your father?" Elijah raised a brow.
"Yeah, sure. You could call him that. I just call him a bastard." Kevin scoffed.
Elijah and Fleur contiued to look around the room, briefly speaking with Kevin as the others left, although they soon returned. Kevin was sat on the bed as Katie began typing on the computer.
"Kid, the boy whose video you've been sending around to all those chat rooms, he's going to be sold from one pedophile to another." Fleur crossed her arms.
"Boo hoo." Kevin glared up at her.
"There are dummy logs. What's the password to get me into the real transcripts of your sessions?" Katie sighed, looking over at Kevin.
"You're the FBI, you figure it out." He rolled his eyes.
"I know you don't think so Kevin, but we are trying to help you here." Hotch looked over at him.
"Help me? What I do is consensual and nobody is getting hurt." Kevin shrugged.
"Come on, Kevin. What's the password? Your birthday? Favourite band?" Katie tried.
"Kevin, this is prostitution." Morgan sighed.
"Well, I'm a minor. I don't really know what I'm doing." Kevin looked up at him,"Plus, I don't really leave this room, so no one.. No one touches me."
"Anymore." Elijah tilted his head.
Kevin quickly turned to Elijah who'd been studying Kevin, he could see the scars on his body. They were small.. But noticeable.
"Your father's been beating you since you can remember. At first it was when he was drunk on the weekends, then he was always drunk. You never knew why he was hurting you.. Why he was so angry." Elijah walked over to Kevin and sat beside him on the bed,"At night, you'd cry yourself to sleep hoping someone would come and save you... But nobody ever came."
"You have the chance to be the one that saves someone, Kevin." Fleur crouched down in front of him,"You can be the one who answers him, the one who stops his pain. You can't get to your father, but you can get to the man who's hurting this boy.."
After a few minutes of hesitation and sitting in silence, Kevin looked between Fleur and Elijah before over to Katie.
"Move."
Katie stood up, allowing Kevin to sit down and start typing something on the computer.
"This backs up all my transcripts. The screen name for the guy who sent me the file is Mehtevas." Kevin pointed.
"How long has Mehtevas been a client of yours?" Katie asked.
"Like six months." Kevin shrugged.
"Where's he located?" Fleur questioned.
"He's a local. He's always asking to meet me, but I don't do that." Kevin shook his head.
"Does he know where you are?" Hotch raised a brow.
"Just the city."
"How do you contact him?" Fleur looked at the computer.
"He contacts me." Kevin shrugged.
"Come on, Kevin. You don't just sit around all day and wait for these guys to look you up." Elijah sighed, crossing his arms,"That's no way to run a business."
"Right now you're the only person that can help us find Peter." Katie sighed.
"What do you want me to do?" Kevin asked them.
"Ask for a face to face." Fleur told him.
"No. No way, I don't do that. I've never been out of this room." Kevin shook his head.
"He won't lay a finger on you. We'll be right there beside you the full time. I promise." Elijah assured him.
"But won't he be suspicious if I suddenly want to meet up with him?"
"He's a need-driven offender, Kevin." Katie told him.
"What does that mean?" Kevin looked around at them.
"If you offer to meet with him, he won't be able to resist." Fleur explained,"He can't help himself."
*********************************
The team were now outside of the school for Mehtevas. Kevin was waiting by the gates as an older, white-haired man approached him.
"Don't you love that sound?" The man asked.
"Excuse me?" Kevin looked over at him
"Children." He hummed.
"Mehtevas?" Kevin raised a brow.
"You seem nervous." Mehtevas chuckled.
"Well, you are Mehtevas, right?" Kevin asked, looking around.
"My friends call me Hayden." Hayden walked forward, "Hey, you're taller in person."
Kevin backed away from Hayden before he ran past him.
"What's the matter? Did I say something wrong? Hugz?" Hayden went to go after Kevin,"Kevin!"
That's when they all hurried over, police blaring their sirens.
"FBI, turn around!" Morgan pinned Hayden against the wall.
"Morgan!" Fleur ran over with Gideon.
"I didn't do anything." Hayden shook his head.
"Agent Morgan, take it easy." Katie rushed over, Elijah following her.
"We need his cooperation, we just want to ask a few questions." Elijah crossed his arms.
"Here's a question. What's the principle of an elementary school doing hooking up with a fourteen year old boy?" Hotch looked at Hayden's ID before tossing it to Elijah.
Elijah caught it and looked over the badge in front. Faculty. Elijah shook his head, handing it to Gideon.
"Let's go, put him in here." Gideon instructed.
"Perv." Fleur muttered as Gideon lead him away.
Hotch lead Kevin to the cop car with Katie, he was going to take him to the local social services. However, that's when an SUV pulled up beside them, Reid and Elle quickly getting out.
"Hey, what are you guys doing here?" Elijah asked as they walked over, he was just curious and was happy to see them.
"You're not meant to be back in the field yet." Fleur pointed to Elle.
"Yeah, I know, but Reid said Hotch wanted us out here." Elle pointed.
"No I didn't!" Reid gasped.
"Yes, you did." Elle insisted.
"I'm sure you didn't, Reid." Elijah assured him.
Reid smiled at Elijah,"Thank you."
"The school district has given us permission to search Rawlings office." Fleur nodded.
"I'm on it." Elle nudged Reid as they walked off,"Nice one."
"So.. Why's she not meant to be in the field?" Elijah asked Fleur quietly,"I didn't want to ask earlier when I didn't see her but.."
"Nobody told you that either?" Fleur sighed,"She.. She got shot in her own home during the Fisher King case. Hotch sent her home to rest and then the next thing we know.."
"Poor thing." Elijah shook his head.
"I know.." Fleur nodded slowly,"But we should get inside."
Elijah nodded slowly, the pair heading inside the school to catch up with Morgan, Gideon and Hayden.
"I wish you would inform me what exactly I'm being charged with." Hayden scoffed as they walked through the halls of the school.
"Anything I can stick to you." Morgan pointed.
"But I haven't done anything."
"You're an educated man, Mr Rawlings. You know you're in trouble here." Katie shook her head.
"I believe I just walked out of my school. Is that a crime now?" Hayden shrugged.
"Do you know where he is?" Katie showed him a picture of Peter.
"How could anyone hurt something so.."
"Pure?" Fleur tilted her head.
"You sent this image to Kevin. Nonce." Elijah coughed to cover his comment.
"Well, that was wrong of me, I know. But I was so shocked. I wanted to try and save this poor boy. I thought Hugz- Kevin might know him. That's why I sent him the link to the website. See if he knew." Hayden shook his head.
"Please. You were trying to save him?" Morgan scoffed.
"Help search his office." Gideon sighed.
"We've got this." Elijah assured him.
Morgan sighed and walked to the office with Elle and Reid. Fleur, Elijah, Gideon and Katie continued to walk with Hayden.
"So how were you going to save Peter?" Katie asked him.
"Peter? Is that his name? Peter... I wanted to save them both, Kevin too." Hayden shook his head.
"Sit down." Gideon instructed.
Hayden looked around at them all before he sat down, looking up at them. As they began speaking with him, they turned and looked through the window of the office as Reid wrote something on a piece of paper against the glass. Mehtevas. But as he flipped it, they realized what is really was... Savethem.
After that, they all walked into the office, Morgan bringing a chair for Hayden.
"Mr Rawlings, have a seat."
As he slowly sat down, Elle pushed his laptop towards him,"Your laptop."
Morgan then left the room, Garcia had called him.
"This is uh... Research. I'm writing a book." Hayden shrugged.
"Just sit down." Elijah sighed, resisting the urge to roll his eyes.
Hayden slowly sat down,"I swear to you, this is all research!"
"No, it's not research. It's one hundred years in a federal penitentiary." Katie pointed.
"I'd like to make a deal." Hayden looked at Gideon.
"No deals. All you have is a very, very small amount of good will." Gideon shook his head.
"Tell me about Peter." Fleur leaned forward.
"I was contacted by the man who's holding him. I didn't search out this boy, I didn't go looking for this." Hayden insisted.
"Give me a name." Katie crossed her arms.
"Well, I only know the screenname. It's 'manchild'." Hayden told them.
"Did you bid on Peter?" Gideon asked, shaking his head.
Hayden stayed quiet.
"How much?" Katie questioned.
"Eight thousand dollars." Hayden sighed,"But it was only in order to save him."
"Are you the high bidder?" Katie raised a brow.
"I think so, yeah. I was anyway. I'm supposed to go back online and contact him on his website and get the address."
"So you can inspect the merchandise?" Fleur scoffed.
"Look, this child is being auctioned off and I am trying to save him-"
"Trying to save him. He'd have given you a code, what is it?" Katie leaned back.
"Come on. I have a family. I have children of my own, I love children. I would never harm them." Hayden sighed.
"In your pursuit to save them, do you think you could have avoided having sex with them?" Fleur raised a brow
"Mr Rawlings." Elijah looked down at him,"The code."
Hayden hesitated before he sighed in defeat,"Butterfly."
"Thank you." Elijah hummed as Katie soon took the laptop and started typing.
Hayden was then taken out of the room, taken outside and arrested so the team could work in peace.
"Finally." Fleur cursed.
However, the site quickly shut down and the feed went dark. That's when Morgan's sighed, walking back in.
"We've got reporters outside, this thing is all over the news." He told them.
"Oh my god, that's why the site went down. He knows." Katie realised.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Elijah questioned.
"We need to think fast." Gideon called JJ, walking off.
*********************************
"The name the school has is Charlie Sparks." Hotch told them as they exited their vehicles.
"No Sparks in any of the phone directories." Gideon sighed.
"Garcia can't even find a Sparks within a hundred miles for the past ten years." Morgan shook his head.
"Probably not his real name anyway." Katie paced.
"The school said he may have moved away." Hotch nodded slowly.
"Then we start over again. We don't gave a lot of time left." Elle leaned against the SUV.
"You guys, we may be looking at this the wrong way." Reid spoke up.
"What do you mean?" Elijah turned to him.
"The behaviour, it's odd, right? The Unsub apparently listed this kid in school and the Tadpoles until about a year ago. At that point, he had pictures of him online in a regular looking room, but now he's in a prison like room with no windows and no doors. Completely hidden." Reid explained.
"Preferential pedophiles don't change overnight." Katie shook her head.
"So what happened a year ago to make him change his behaviour so much?" Hotch asked.
"Fear. Katie, you nearly caught him." Gideon turned to her,"You probably talked to him, the Unsub is in your records."
Katie sighed and stepped back,"I never really had a good suspect. I only did some general interviews with child offenders on the East Coast."
"Well, one of them was the right guy." Elijah leaned against the SUV, shaking his head.
Katie took out her phone, calling one of her agents,"Amanda, hey. I need you to pull all the original files on Peter's case. Somewhere in my office, try my desk. I need the names of everyone I interviewed."
"Have her call Penelope Garcia at the BAU, she'll be able to tell is if we can cross any off." Morgan added.
"You got it? Thanks." Katie hung up.
After some waiting around, Morgan received a call,"Alright guys, I think we might have something. Twelve men were interviewed, eight are back in prison, one is dead, one lives in California and two have last known addresses within ten minutes of here. A Patrick Forest and Michael Earlson."
"Patrick Forest isn't smart enough to have put this all together." Katie shook her head.
"What about Michael Earlson?" Hotch asked.
"Definitely." Katie nodded.
With that, they all hopped into the SUVs and headed for Earlson's address. When they arrived, everyone quickly jumped out of the SUVs, pointing their guns at the car just as Earlston jumped out. Before he could get far, Morgan grabbed him and pinned him against the car's hood.
"Where are you doing? Try something now, punk! Don't move!"
Katie rushed up to the car, opening the trunk and inside was a container. Thinking the worst, she opened it and saw Charlie inside.
"Daddy!" The boy cried out.
"No, it's okay... It's okay." Katie tried to soothe him.
"Daddy!"
"You're safe now. I've got you, I've got you.."
"Where's daddy?" Charlie look up at her.
"..I know." Katie sighed softly.
*********************************
After saving Peter, the team were all sat on the jet. Michael Earlston was arrested and Charlie would hopefully be taken in by his mother.
"Well troops, I'd say that was a job well done for us." Elijah hummed.
"I'm just glad that it's over." Morgan leaned back in his chair.
"Does anyone else want anything while I'm still standing?" Elijah looked around.
"Oh, me! Can you add a little bit of canelle though?" Fleur asked him.
Elijah blinked,"You want me to out what in it?"
"Canelle." Fleur repeated.
"I'm sorry, I, uh, don't speak French." Elijah shook his head.
"It's- The spice! I can't get the name." Fleur snapped her fingers.
"Wait... Wait!" Elijah paused, thinking back to his grandmother,"Cannella- It's cinnamon!"
Fleur gasped and pointed,"Yes!"
"I'm a genius." Elijah hummed as he walked to the coffee machine where Reid was also stood.
"Oh, you here for coffee too?" He tilted his head.
"Yeah." Elijah nodded slowly,"But we need to talk."
"Talk? About what?" Reid blinked.
"Well.. You didn't tell me that you were on fire or anything about that Fisher King case, really." Elijah crossed her arms.
"Hey- I was only on fire for like.. Two seconds max." Reid pointed.
"And what about everything else that happened?"
Reid sighed,"Look, you're new here. I just.. Didn't want to worry you."
"Well, we're also friends.. And I care about you." Elijah leaned against the wall,"If something happens to you, I want to know."
"No more secrets." Reid smiled slightly.
"No more secrets." Elijah nodded slowly.
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: Truyen247.Pro