Chapter 1: Five Years Later

Five years, it's been five years since Sally died, since I became Dr. Jack Dream and started to work for the BAU with my team. It's a great job, and I'm good at it, I know I've helped a lot of people and I know I've lost some. Because I understand you can't save everyone, and not everyone can be saved like Sally. But with this job, I started to learn things, I've learned I can read people like a book, the minute I look into their eyes, I can see their whole life I feel like. It's like I'm watching a movie on their life, what they did in the past. I never knew or why I got this "gift", I didn't have it as a kid or even when I was a teen, I noticed it maybe after two days after Sally died.

Another thing I was good at was telling when someone was lying. My boss likes to call me the human lie detector but really, it's just easy to tell how they lie. But he also calls my "movie" my sight, I hated that name because I don't see it as a sight at all. Only him and my team knew about my sight. But really, everyone has a story, and their eyes are the windows into those stories.

I lend back in my chair as I finish my report form our last case. It's nice to travel but to be back home, it was the best feeling. As I close the file I pull out another file, case #101, Sally Carter. Yes, Sally did kill herself but I found out that night that she wasn't the first but she was the last.

***

"Jackson Dream?" I hear as I look up to see a man with sliver black hair slicked back. "I'm Special Agent Ezra Reid, I wanted to ask you some questions." He says as he sits down next to me. "Special Agent? Are you BAU or FBI?" I ask making him smile, "I forgot, you're in the academy right now, am I correct? I work for the BAU, is that where you're training for?" He ask making me nod, "Yeah I am." I say as he opens up a file, "Well look at that, you got your masters at seventeen, how did you do that?" He ask. "I took college classes while I was in high school. I didn't want to skip high school so I did college and high school at the same time." I say taking a drink of my coffee trying to figure out whey Special Agent Reid wanted to see me after the death of my girlfriend.

"But yet... You waited two years to go into the academy why?" He ask. "I wanted to graduate with my friend Cash and Cash was getting money to join. So we waited until he had enough and then we joined together, we thought hell, it's four months in the academy and then what four years as FBI agent before I can join the BAU right?" I ask making Ezra nod, "In most cases yes, but you... You're a different story. Not a lot of people can get their masters at such a young age. You're only... What twenty?" He ask and I nod again, "Yeah." Ezra let out his breath, "Damn you really are young." "Is there a reason you're analyzing me?" I ask taking him off guard before he smiles, "I should of guessed you'd catch on. The reason I am here is because... I don't think Sally killed herself, I mean in the way you're thinking." He says making me laugh, "I saw it Special Agent Reid. I watched it with my own eyes. I..." I start before I look down at my hands.

"I felt the fabric of her dress as she jumped. I was... Inches away from grabbing her to pull her back... inches." I whispers trying not to cry again. I felt a hand on my shoulder making me look to see Ezra giving me a heartbroken look, "I didn't tell you before but I really am sorry for your loss." He says making me nod, "Thanks." I say almost monotone. "This wasn't your fault. There was nothing you could do. Even if you grabbed her, she would of found another way." He say making me shake my head, "No, no I could of talked her down, I could helped her." I say but Ezra shook his head, "No you couldn't because she had no choice." He says making me raise an eyebrow to her, "What are you thinking?" I ask him.

"Right... Mr... Excuse me, Dr. Dream, have you ever heard of the serial killer called The Therapist?" Ezra asked making me nod, "Yeah his a therapist who somehow convinces his patients to kill them...." I start but stop as I hear the words come out of my mouth. "Selves... Dr. Connolly." I whispers.

"What?" Ezra ask but I don't say anything as I feel my hand go into a fist. "That fucker... He killed her." I almost scream as I feel Ezra grab my shoulder, "Dr. Dream you need to calm down and tell me who he is." Ezra says I turn to him, "Dr. James Connolly, he was Sally's therapist! He was the last one to see her alive before me! Sally... Sally was scared of heights, terrified actually, that was her nightmares were about... Her jumping." I move my hand to my head, "I... I sent her to her death... It was my idea to go to Dr. Connolly... I sent her there." I say feeling my hands shake trying not to blame myself on this but I couldn't help it. "You didn't know... How would of you to know? The Therapist kills at less three people at a time before he skips out of town and changes his name.

"We've been looking for him for three years now, and Sally..." "Was the third victim..." I finish as I stand up, "We need to go get him.. We need to stop him." I say as he joins me, "No, I need to stop him, you need to go, and finish your exams so you can join my team." Ezra says. I freeze as I turn to him, "Join your team? But... I haven't even graduated yet, or did my four years in the FBI." I say but he just shook his head, "You don't need to, I just need you to graduate first and then you're with me and my team... If you want it." He says giving me his hand. I look at it trying to figure out if this is the wanted, if it was fair. "Jack." I hear turning around to see Cash.

His brown eyes were red from crying but he was smile, "Take the job man." He says. I turn to him fully, "But we..." "We did. We went to the academy together but we both know I was going to stay as a FBI and you wanted to go to the BAU. This is perfect, take the job. It's what..." he stops to hold back a cry before breaths again, "it's what Sally would of wanted." He says with that smile on his face again. I could feel tears going into my eyes again as I turn back to Ezra as he gives me his hand again and I quickly take it.

"Catch this fucker."

***

"Ash to ash, dust to dust, we shall never forget our dear Sally Carter." I hear the family priest say as I watch as the coffin that held Sally go down into the ground. I could feel tears fall down my face but luckily my sunglasses didn't show anyone I was breaking. I look up to see Cash holding his mother as she cried into his chest for the lost of her baby girl. Cash locks eyes with me and I could see the tears in his eyes as him and his mother moved to the grave to throw in their red roses, Sally's favorites. One by one, more people walked up to put flowers in her grave and then they'd walk away to go to the Carter's house to give their respects.

Everyone was gone but me as I finally go to Sally's grave with the mix of white and red roses in my hands. I took a deep breath as I looked at the white coffin in the grave. "I'm so sorry Sally. I should of been faster... I should of known that you weren't getting better. I should of protected you." I say as I throw the flowers into the grave. "I love you." I say as I feel a drop of rain hit my head. I look up as the rain start to come down faster making me laugh.

"The perfect weather." I hear behind me making me turn to see a man with salt and pepper hair and a beard as he starts to walk up to Sally's grave. "I guess it is." I say turning back to the grave as the man stop right next to me. "She was so beautiful, so... youthful." The man says. I turn my head to him, he had to be in his early fifties but I couldn't tell more with his sunglasses on. "How did you know Sally?" I ask. The man turns to me, "I heard you graduate form the academy, congratulations, I know she would of been so proud of you." The man says. Something was off, how did he know me, how did he know Sally. "What made you wait to have the funeral so late?" He ask. "That's none of your business... Why are you here?" I ask.

"Isn't it obvious?" He ask as he takes off his sunglasses and I could finally see his green eyes. I feel my eyes widen as I lock eyes to see different people from his past, they were all hurt, they were all... Dead. And Sally, Sally was there, he was there when she jumped. "I'm here to visit my last victim." The man says making me grab him by the collar. "Who are you?" I scream only to make him laugh. "Oh I think you know who I am Jackson Dream." The man laughs.

I narrow my eyes, "You're The Therapist... Dr. James Connolly." I say. Connolly starts to clap, "You got me Dr. Dream." This bastard was pissing me off, "I could kill you for taking Sally form me, for killing all those people." I say. But Connolly only laughed, "I didn't kill them Doctor, they choose to do it." "Bullshit, what did you do? How did you do it?" I ask but he kept his mouth shut only locking his eyes with mine. I gave him a little shake, "Answer me!" I scream. I watched as he laughed, "You really are an angry man aren't you? Trying to push out the answers you so desperately wanted. Why did I kill all those people? How did I do it? What is my power in this world?" Connolly says only making me tighten my grip harder, "You're stalling, answer the question." I push again only to see him smile. "Did you know that every therapist must learned hypnosis, in case we need our patients need to remember something from their past." Connolly says making me raise an eyebrow.

"Or... To use it to make our patients see what they fear most. Like how someone with long brown hair was scared of change, so she dyed her hair red and cut it all off. And then... I saw the real fear, heights, soo..." Connolly smiles "She jumped." I saw it in his eyes, Sally jumping off the roof and landing on the car, that what he saw. Then I watched as he looked up to see me, holding my arm out over the ledge like I was catching air. "There's no way you can..." "Oh but I can... And I did." It was like he had no feelings when he watched his patients kill themselves, it was like he... enjoyed it. "You were there... You are always there to watch your patients die... You saw her jump, you saw me.. Why Sally?" I ask. "Because she was with you." He answers. "What?" I ask.

"We're not so different you and I, you got your masters when you were what... Seventeen, eighteen? I got mine when I was twenty. And you.. You can read people right? By just looking into their eyes? You saw all those patients I had, you saw how they all dead didn't you?" I don't say anything, I don't know how he knew so much about me, how he knew about my kind of power. "We are not the same." I answer making him laugh, "But we are, we both are fascinated by the mind and how it works. You crave control like I do. You wish, you could control your powers, I can show you how." Connolly says. "I don't crave anything, my job is to put assholes like you in jail." I say as I push him on the ground twisting his arm to his back as I grab my handcuffs. "And I don't want to learn anything from you. You know nothing about me."

"I thought you had to put criminal with mental illness in a mental hospital." Connolly jokes. "We both know you are not mental ill, you're just insane and hunger for murder." I say making him laugh more, "Oh but you are so far off Jackson. I don't hunger for murder, I hunger for knowledge. I mean... Why were all those people afraid of? What are you afraid of Doctor?" He ask as I pull out my phone. I don't answer him as I call Ezra, "Hey.. It's Dr. Dream, I got Dr. James Connolly at Sally's grave." I say on the phone. "You what? Jack... are you sure?" Ezra ask. "Yes.. he gave me his confection." I say closing my eyes. "We'll be there soon Jack, hang on." Ezra says as he hangs up and I put my phone away.

"Are you going to answer my question?" Connolly ask.  "I have nothing else to say to you." I answer as I wait for my team to get here. "But you... I know you want to ask me something... Why you right? Why did I target you?" He ask. I did wonder that... Why he wanted me. "I don't want to know." I lie as I hear sirens close by. "Well isn't your team fast." "They were close by." I answer. "Jack!" I hear behind me to see Ezra running to me and that's when I noticed the rain had stopped. I got up pulling Connolly to his feet as Ezra grabs his shoulder. I was soaked form head to toe along with Connolly. "Coming to see your final victim huh?" Ezra ask. "Stupid move on my part, I didn't think Dr. Dream would see me." Connolly lies making me narrow my eyes at him as Ezra hands Connolly off to a cop. I knew he was here to find me, he wanted me for some reason.

Ezra turns to me, "Are you okay?" He ask as I watched Connolly walked away. But before he go to far he stops and turns back to me, "Remember what I said Doctor." He yells at me as I glare at him. He smiles and starts to walk off,

"I do hope you come visit soon Jackson."

***

I put the case file back and sigh, I don't know why I do this to myself, why I bring back that memory. Connolly was sentenced to life in jail for the accomplice of murder of twenty people, maybe even more but Connolly never did tell us how many he helped kill. I did think of visiting him, to get more information out of him, I still didn't know why he targeted me, and half of me wanted to know. To know why Sally and I were targeted and how he knew about my powers. "Dream." I hear making me turn my chair to see Ezra walk over to me. I had him to thank for giving me this job, this second family.

"Hey boss." I say as Ezra puts a file on my desk making me look up at him. "We just got back form our last case, why are you giving me another one?" I ask with a huff. "This one... She asked for you." Ezra says pointing to the file making me raise an eyebrow as I turn to the file and open it to see a picture of a woman with white blonde hair and light blue eyes. "Elsa Frost, age 25, is a Victoria Secret model." Ezra says making me laugh, "Yeah... yeah I can see that. She is very pretty." I say looking closer at the picture, she looked... Very familiar to me.

I turned to the next page to see what the report was about. "Ah, a stalker huh?" I say reading more, the girl has been through a lot with this. Getting love letters, notes, pictures of her at shows or just walking in the street. I close the file and turn to my boss, "Why me?" I ask. He shrugs his shoulders, "I couldn't tell you Dream, but if she wants you, she has our team. Let's go talk to everyone else and get a game plan set." He says making me nod as I stand and as I follow him to the conference room.

I keep thinking of that girl, Elsa, the name didn't sound familiar, I felt like I would remember a name like that. How did she know me? "Did you see anything?" Ezra ask braking me from my thoughts, "Sir?" I say as he stops at he door of the conference room. "When you look at the picture, did your sight show you anything?" He ask again making it click what he was asking. "It doesn't work like that Ezra, I have to see them in person, I can't just look in their eyes and see their lives." I say. "You should really work on that." He jokes making me roll my eyes but smile. It took a few years but I learned how to control my sight so then when I look at people, I don't just invade into peoples lives.

I've never looked into anyone of my teams lives, I didn't want to break their trust. The only reason they believe me was on our first mission, a boy was kidnapped, and everyone person I talked too, I saw their lives, who the boy was with last, it took us three days until we finally find the bastard and the boy. That was the only reason the team knew I wasn't lying with my sight.

"Good morning team." Ezra says, I didn't know he opened the door as I step in. "Jack!" I hear before I feel arms around me for a hug taking me back, "Molly, hi." I say shocked even though I shouldn't be. Molly Hunt, a twenty nine year old red hair with bright green eyes with freckles around her nose who had the heart of a fifteen year old. She's our tech girl, she's the one who can get us any address or information on anyone. She's kind of my best friend on the team. "How are you doing?" I ask as she lets go and we walk to the table. "Tried but excited for the next mission, do you know what it is?" She ask all excited, she kind of reminded me of a golden lab with how she acts.

"I think we should let the boss talk about it." I say sitting down before I feel a hand on my shoulder. "Did you actually sleep last night Dream?" I hear looking up to see Chase Morgan. Chase a thirty year old with black hair and blue eyes he kind of remained me of my dad, he was a little over protective of everyone on the team, especially to Molly but they were engaged to each other. "Hello beautiful." Chase says kissing her on the cheek making her blush. "Hello to you too baby boy." She answers making me cover my face, "You two are embarrassing." I say making them both laugh. I like them, but they were embarrassing.

"We're missing someone, where's Nikia?" Ezra ask before I hear the door slam open and in runs the last of our team, Nikia Yan. A beautiful Asian American with short black hair with red streaks in it and brown eyes that also looked red from lack of sleep. "Sorry sorry I'm late." Nikia says as she puts her jacket on trying to look like she's ready for work. "Actually you are right on time." Ezra said making Nikia stop with a half a bagel in her mouth and turns to him. She pulls the bagel out of her mouth, "But you said 9:30... It's almost ten." She says making Ezra smile, "I told you 9:30 knowing you'd be late. So welcome." He adds making her glare and sits down putting the bagel back in her mouth.

Nikia was a hot mess, she was always late and she always looked like she rolled out of bed but, she was a damn good Agent. And honestly I think Nikia and Ezra had a little thing for each other. "Now that everyone is here, we got a new case." Ezra says as he clicks a button and a picture of Elsa pops up. "Elsa Frost age twenty five, she has been having problem with stalker." He says clicking another button to show some of the letters, "She's been getting letters confessions his love for her, that they are meant to be together and no one would get in-between them." Ezra pushed another button to show pictures, "These pictures were sometimes in places of the letters with notes written on the back on where she was and the date." Ezra says turning the projector off and turns on the lights.

"A stalker... Is this really the work for us?" Nikia asked looking at the file more. "Well Miss. Frost has asked for our own Jackson Dream to take this job." Ezra says as all the eyes go on me. "Damn Dream, didn't know you had it in you." Chase smiles. "I don't know her Chase. I don't know why she asked for me." I says trying not to feel embarrassed, I didn't really date much after Sally, I just didn't have the heart to do it. I mean I have dated but it never lasted after one date.

"Okay, so should we just let Jackie boy go by himself to meet this girl?" Nikia ask making Ezra nod, "She doesn't want us yet, she only wants Jack right now. She understand that we are his team but until she knows Jack will take the case for sure, she doesn't want to meet us yet." I still couldn't figure out why this woman wanted me. I open the file again to see the address she placed on file. "Will she be home?" I ask. "She has a show tonight so must likely she'll be there getting ready, I'll send you the address." Ezra says as I stand, "I guess I should get going then." I start to walk out. "I'll call you when I get there." I say as I close the door behind me making me take a deep breath.

God I was exhausted, half of me just wanted to go home and sleep. I go back to my desk to grab my keys and jacket as I hear a loud bang making my reflexes react as I pull out my gun and point between the hazel eyes of Cash. He throws his hands up in the air and smiles, "Still mad that I owe you twenty bucks?" He jokes making me sigh, "Jesus Cash, you have to stop doing that." I say putting my gun back. "Where the fun in that though? And come here, it's been six months since we last saw each other." Cash says pulling me in for a hug. "Cash, you act like it's been longer." I say pushing him back.

Cash is always gone, he lived his dream to be a sniper, and his aim is always true, his never missed a shot. We've worked together a few times cases, he was the first one beside Ezra who knew about my sight but I never used it on Cash either, his my best friend, I know everything about him. "When did you get back?" I asked throwing my jacket over my shoulder. "About an hour ago, I had to go see the girlfriend first." He says as he sees me walking off having him follow. "How is Mimi?" I ask. "Oh man she's great, you really need to come to dinner with us, I know she wants to meet you." He says.

Mimi and Cash have been dating for about a year now but I never meet her, I've been to busy and to be honest, I didn't want to see people who were in love, it was hard enough with Molly and Chase, and even if Nikia and Ezra weren't together they didn't hide the flirting. "I know... Soon okay?" I say making Cash sigh, "You've been saying that for a year Jack. I really think you need to get out there again. Mimi has some really hot friends who..." I stop him, "I don't want to date Cash." I say looking at him. "It's been five years Jack, Sally wouldn't want this. She would want you to move on." Cash answer as I start to walking again reaching the door to leave the building. "I did move on Cash, I dated. Remember that girl with the thick accent?" I say.

I could see my car ahead, I was close enough to get out of this talk. Cash has been waiting me to move on and date since Sally died. I get it, I live alone in studio apartment, he thinks I'm lonely. "Oh yeah, and what was her name?" Cash ask as we reach my car. I stood there and thought for a minute until I hear him laugh, "See you don't even remember her name!" "Okay I don't but still I've dated and I'm fine. Really Cash." I say touching his shoulder, "Quite worrying about me." I answer as I get into my car. I took a deep breath before hearing the knocking on my window making me growl as I roll it down. "Cash I have to go, I have to meet a client." I say. "Just let me say this last thing, please." He says. I turn my head and lock eyes with him, "I know I worry but I just... I want you to meet someone, and I want you to finally be happy, to fall in love again. It dosen't have to be the next girl you see, just... Be happy again Jack." He says as he slaps the roof of my car and walks off.

I don't know why but his words hit me like a rock, I knew he was worried and he didn't want me to die alone but... I really was happy, in some ways. Maybe not all the time but, I did enjoy life and my job. I liked my team and my friends. But... Maybe he was right.

Maybe the next woman I meet could be my soulmate.

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