two people's agreement

[For love, you need to have no scruples, no distracting thoughts, no fear, no complaints and give everything. ——Thomas Kempis]

BAU Office, Quantico, Virginia.

They just returned from Ohio today, and Reid, who returned to the office, decided to talk to Hodge.

"Hodge, I want to talk to you." He knocked on Hodge's open office door.

Hodge raised his eyes and saw him, put down the pen in his hand, let him sit on the sofa beside him, and sat on the chair opposite Reed after he closed the door.

In fact, when he arrived in Reed, he already knew what he wanted to ask, the question he had avoided for a long time.

"I know what you want to ask," he said.

Reed remained silent, waiting earnestly for his answer.

"Dani...I don't know what to say about the relationship between Dani and me." Hodge spoke hesitantly. "We have been like a family since we were young, and she is a part of our family. My relationship with her is even closer than that of Sean."

"After Dani was 15 and went to university, I started working and we gradually lost touch. The next time we met was when Hailey and I were divorcing. That's when I realized that Dani's feelings for me were more than I thought. It’s just a family relationship. I had just divorced Hailey at the time, and I didn’t want to get into other relationships, so I alienated her.”

"Then you still moved next door to her?" Reed thought of Dani's move.Will it...

"It was a coincidence, I didn't know Dani lived next door until a month after I moved there. She chose to continue that family relationship with me for Jack's sake."

"Then why did she become Foye's target?" Reed didn't want to hear such trivialities from him. "If that's all you have with Dani, there's no need for Foye to take her away."

Not to mention, let her survive.

"...if Foye." Hodge clenched his fists. "If Foye had been spying on me since then, then he would have seen one of my dates with Dani, and he may have misunderstood my relationship with Dani."

He knew he was avoiding the important ones.

Looking at Hodge's painful and guilty look, Reed suddenly felt that he shouldn't have come, and accused this man who was already struggling on the verge of pain.

Hayley and Jack are lucky to survive.

In the compartment behind the stairs, the forensic officers found Jack's bloody coat, which was covered in Dany's blood.She saved their lives.

He himself is still in danger.

"Do you think so? But I think from the interaction between you and Dani, Foye will never misunderstand your relationship." Reed said his thoughts. "Could there be some other reason?"

Hodge knew that he couldn't hide it from Reid, the child was sometimes surprisingly sensitive. The people in BAU are not fools either. Even though Rossi and the others thought of the unusual relationship between him and Dani, they just didn't want to make it public in front of everyone, especially in front of Reed. "Reed, I think I must tell you."

What he wants to say should not be what they or even themselves can imagine.He probably knew that if Reed knew about this, his relationship with him would never be the same as before. (Actually, Tang Xiaoyuan wants to say, you usually suppress our little Reed as an authority when you have nothing to do, and even tease and bully us if you have nothing to do. Reed in the play is really afraid of Hodge. But when you meet our sister-controlled version of Little Reed, you I can only do nothing, are you so easy to bully when you are a brother-in-law?!)

"I... I had sex with Dany."

Hodge, who has always been a strong executive, showed this weakness in front of Reed for the first time, like a child who made a mistake.

He didn't even dare to look Reed in the eye.

Reed stared at Hodge with wide eyes in surprise, feeling the urge to punch him for the first time. "you……"

"I thought of a possibility, and this is the only reasonable possibility." Hodge hesitated for a while, and said that glance. "She might be pregnant."

If what Hodge said before, it only surprised Reid, but it was also expected.So what Hodge said now, like a thunderbolt on the ground, stunned Dr. Reed.

"What are you talking about!!" Reid stood up abruptly, his voice extremely angry.

Hodge looked at him honestly.

"Besides this reason, I can't think of anything else." Hodge accepted his idea in frustration. "Foye is waiting for her to deliver the baby."

He no longer dared to imagine what would happen if they couldn't find Dani in time.

"Oh my God!" Reed exclaimed.

Even now, no matter how painful and self-blaming Hodge is, he can't calm the anger in his heart.

He grabbed Hodge by the collar and looked him in the eye. "Alan Hochner, if we can rescue Dani safely, that's fine. If... I will never let you go! It doesn't matter if you are my boss or not!!"

After yelling at Hodge, he slammed the door and left.

The loud voice caught the attention of everyone in the office below.

Emily and Morgan watched Reid running down the stairs in surprise, and they looked at each other. Morgan went after Reed who had rushed out of the elevator, and Emily went up to find Hodge.

Rossi also came out of the office when he heard the voice, and saw the back of Reed leaving.

He probably understood what was going on.He couldn't help frowning, shook his head at Emily who was going upstairs, and walked into Hodge's office by himself.

Like a defeated soldier, Hodge leaned on the chair with his head bowed, looking disappointed.

Rossi sat aside with a nonchalant expression, her eyes kept scanning all the things in the room, but she didn't even look at Hodge.

"Dave." Hodge called out Rossi's name after a long time, with a sense of powerlessness that could not be ignored in his tone.

Rossi didn't talk to him. He knew that Hodge just wanted to talk, not their advice.

"She is the most important family in my life. She used to be by my side to support me no matter how much pain I faced. It was the same before, and it is the same now."

"I don't understand why things are the way they are?" Hodge asked him, and himself. "I never wanted to hurt her in the past, but..."

"How can I heal the hurt I caused her, how can I make up for the mistakes I made." He sat there, bent over sadly, with his hands on his forehead.

"Sometimes we always do things that cannot be controlled by reason." Rossi comforted meaningfully. "The harm caused is unavoidable, and the bitterness and sweetness in life come from this."

"Have you ever wondered if Danielle blamed you? You are suffering, blaming yourself, and guilty now, but what about Danielle? What does she think? Is she indulging in the harm you caused her?"

"She didn't, she chose to let go, she forgave you openly, and she wanted to get out of this shadow. She let you go, and she let herself go. But you held her back and let her stay with you This quagmire of pain."

"Then what about us now?" Hodge murmured.

"Rescue her, and then let her choose. This is not something that can be solved by 'you think'. The final choice is in Danielle's hands." Rossi left these words and Hodge alone, and left.

Now Hodge needs to think about it alone.

Here, Morgan chases Reed into the elevator. "Reed, what's the matter?"

Reed looked like I'm upset and ignore me now (otherwise, I'll kill you!), just stood there staring at the control panel of the elevator, not looking at Morgan's face.

Morgan shrugged amusedly, looking like a teenage boy who frowned.

The elevator goes down to the first floor.Reed went out and Morgan followed until they were together in the clearing outside the gate. ,

"Morgan, tell me, do you all know about that?" Reed turned and looked angrily at Morgan who was strolling behind him.

Morgan was startled by the look in his eyes.

This should be the most imposing look Reed has ever seen.Morgan had the urge to take a picture of this historic scene with his mobile phone.

But the question he asked was not something he could laugh at. "us……"

"You know it." Reed looked at his expression and said affirmatively.

"We're just guessing. After all, when Danielle was caught by Foye, Hodge's expression was more complicated than yours." Morgan explained. "We have all kinds of speculation, not just this one."

"But none of you told me." Reed said coldly.

"We just don't want to talk about Danielle like this in front of you."

"I know her best, and I know how she will react to such a thing!" Reed emphasized. "If I knew..."

"If I knew...if I knew..." Reed suddenly choked up.

Morgan's big hand tapped lightly on his shoulder.No one wants to encounter such a thing.

"Good boy, Reed. She'll be all right! Like you said, she ain't gonna let herself be!"

Morgan didn't stop him, but let him vent his anger.The kid had been repressed for a long time, since Dany sent him that farewell letter, he had been holding back.Even a few times, when he thought Reed would explode, he still held back until now.

Until Dany's birthday.

Morgan was equally angry at his own inability to do anything.

This time George Foye basically hid himself perfectly. Garcia searched all the places where he might appear, but found nothing, together with some abnormal clues that Dani might have sent out.

They evaporated together.

Reed can shed his tears like a child, but what about Hodge?How did he face the pain in his heart.

When I thought Hailey and Jack were going to be killed, when I learned that Dany was captured by Foye.

Now, in the dead of night, how did he spend the time alone with the deep pain in his arms.

Will he have nightmares,

Dreaming of Hailey and Jack lying in that house bloodied, or Dany lying there with stab wounds all over her body.