[Criminal Minds] The Waiting Behind

"Hotch." The blond woman stood up, revealing a face similar to the outline of Haley, this is her sister.

Did their hesitation refer to this? Hotch's heart seemed to be relieved, and he seemed to be hanging higher. With Brooks' parting eyes and the unnatural reaction of everyone just now, he really thought that The person in question was Michelle, and he thought he'd finally see her, after not knowing her whereabouts for so long.

Facing Jessica, Hotch didn't show his slight uneasiness, but only comforted the nervous Jessica, "So Brooks's subordinates brought you here, what does this case have to do with you?"

"What are you talking about?" Who knows that the woman on the opposite side looked at Hotch with a blank face, "I just wanted to give you something because I was entrusted by someone. I don't understand what you are talking about at all." .”

Hotch was really stunned this time, what does this situation mean now?He got it wrong? Wasn't the person Brooks was talking about Jessica?

Just when Hotch was stunned and said nothing, there was a knock on the door, Rossi poked his head in, his serious face was full of embarrassment, "I think you should come out and take a look."

Hotch gently comforted Jessica to wait patiently for a while, and then walked out as promised.Just as he closed the door, Hotch froze again the moment he turned around.

Familiar figure, unchanged eyebrows, warm smile.In the past few days, the girl who had silently sketched thousands of times in his mind with her voice and smile appeared in front of him. Hotch watched the blond young girl standing gracefully at the end of the corridor, only a few steps away from him.She gently hugged Emily who was holding her tightly, patted her on the back comfortingly, and whispered something to Reid and others around her, with a relaxed and comfortable expression, as if he had listened to her on the phone before. The uneasiness and panic that I feel are all illusions.

The first person to see Hotch was Reid, who looked at Michelle and smiled with peace of mind. When he saw Michelle appearing safely in front of everyone, he let go of the heart that had been hanging all this time.As if aware of a gaze staring at them, Reid looked up and saw Hotch standing at the other end of the corridor staring at this side. He reached out to touch Michelle's shoulder and raised his chin as a gesture.

Michelle followed the trend, and all she saw was a standing figure standing there like a straight and strong pine tree.He seemed to have lost weight, and there seemed to be a slight cyan beard protruding from his face. He must have not had a good rest these days. Michelle almost definitely thought, and couldn't help but move towards the man who was thinking about it day and night.

"Are you okay?" Michelle looked at the bloodshot eyes in Hotch's eyes with distress. This person must be busy with work to paralyze himself. Every time he encounters troubles, others don't care about work. He is fine, but he is more active .

"It's okay..." Before Hotch asked Michelle carefully what happened, a familiar voice appeared behind Hotch, "Agent Hoter?"

This voice... the guy on the phone? Michelle said it was the guy from the ATF police. Hotch immediately restrained his expression, turned around and stretched out his hand, with a businesslike attitude, "Hello..."

"I didn't expect us to meet so soon." The man's tone was less contemptuous, but more scrutinized and probing, "My boss seems to have a good impression of you and your team, I hope you can really let me See this. After all, you know, your previous performance can't convince me."

Hotch didn't pay attention to the man's intentionally provocative afternoon letter. His mind was completely attracted by another message revealed by the man's words, and his eyes met the other's eyes with seriousness. , "Your boss? You are not an ATF police officer, but Brooks' subordinate?"

"Yes, I concealed my identity before just in case the secrets were leaked, and you must know the details." The man didn't take it seriously, and introduced himself again, completely ignoring the annoyed and angry exclamation of Michelle next to him, "I'm a subordinate Agents of Interpol, on."

Hotch looked at Michelle, who had been complaining about On, who was concealing her true identity, and then looked at Agent On, who had regained her free and easy demeanor and seemed to be indifferent, and finally understood the true meaning of Brooks' last look just now.

Hotch's throat rolled up and down, if he guessed correctly...

His eyes slowly dimmed where no one was seeing, obscure: "So Michelle is a witness related to that person?" Understand the importance of the matter, even when Hotch is wondering who Michelle will get involved with At the moment when he was entangled and uncertain, he still paid great attention to the words he used, he did not explain, but chose to allude.

Of course On understood what he meant, and nodded resolutely, but the next sentence made the calm detective who had kept his face paralyzed for a long time change his face in an instant——

"She's not a witness, she's his lover."

There was no light turned on in the dim room, but one could clearly see a person sitting blankly on the sofa in the corner, motionless for a long time, as if looking at the paintings on the wall.But when I got closer, I found that the girl's eyes were not in focus at all, and she was obviously distracted.The whole person looked inexplicably lonely and helpless, making the whole room look desolate. When Emily came into the reception room with coffee and was about to turn on the lights, this was what she saw.

"Hey." A hot thing touched Michelle's face, and the girl who was sitting on the sofa woke up from the daze instantly.

"Well, thank you." Michelle took the steaming coffee cup and thanked her in a low voice, holding it in her hand but not moving. Emily looked at the girl's still blank expression worriedly, and knew that her series of actions were just a habitual reaction, and her real thoughts were not on it at all.

Thinking of the words she just heard, Emily felt her mouth dry for no reason, coughed twice, and tried her best to organize her words, "What happened just now should be a misunderstanding, I think Hotch will understand. You don't have to worry too much, He went into the office directly with On, probably because of the urgent nature of the case, you..." Emily mentioned that Detective On's tone was particularly drawn out, and his attitude was obviously displeased.

"In a way, that ichelle also accentuated the unpleasant Interpol's name pronunciation, and Emily even thought she heard the gnashing of teeth in it." He wasn't lying either. "

Michelle's understatement made Emily open her mouth in surprise, unable to speak for a long time.It took a long time before she couldn't help licking the dry corner of her mouth, and dryly asked the girl who was silent again: "What do you mean? You mean you have another lover?"

Emily, who didn't know the details of the case, only listened to the ending, but anyone could understand that on was not talking about Hotch.So, what about Michelle and Hotch...? Emily felt that she was overwhelmed instantly, with her boss on one side and her best friend on the other, how to deal with this kind of emotional entanglement!

Michelle didn't notice Emily, who was still sad, but just looked straight ahead, where the hot steam from the coffee was circling in the air, and it didn't dissipate for a long time.Just like my current mood, there is a feeling of illusion, which is not real at all.

"On said Steve."

Emily thought for a while before remembering such a character, and looked at Michelle and exclaimed in disbelief, "Didn't you reject him? Didn't you break up with him before you and Hotch got married?"

Michelle rolled her eyes unhappily, and glared at Emily who was guessing wildly, "What do you mean it's not broken? We never started it at all. It's just that I refused him and he has been unwilling to accept it."

Isn't that what it is... Emily, who secretly slandered in her heart, didn't say it out, she was afraid that Michelle would really pounce on her.After thinking about it, Emily was still puzzled, "But what does this have to do with your disappearance and protection, and it's still with... Interpol?"

Interpol... Michelle looked at Emily's face hidden in the shadow of the sofa, unable to see the expression clearly, and suddenly remembered that Emily also seemed to have an unspeakable relationship history.She collected herself, took a sip of the coffee in her hand, and let it cool down for a while, the temperature was just right. Michelle felt that the temperature seemed to make her body warm up slowly, and the icy aura surrounding her that Hotch hadn't looked at her just now was finally dispelled.

"That's because Steve participated in..." Before finishing speaking, Reid knocked on the door and came in, his blond hair was particularly conspicuous under the light, "Emily, Hotch told us to go to the conference room."

Turning his head to look at Michelle who was sitting in the corner, Reid frowned, seeming very bored, "I said that Michelle should go with me."

Michelle lowered her eyes and said nothing.This was actually expected by her, after all, she was already the key protection target, so she could be regarded as the person concerned.

Looking up and drinking the last bit of coffee in the cup, Michelle put the cup on the table. The bottom of the porcelain cup collided with the mahogany table abruptly, causing a heavy and dull sound.Just like Michelle's mood at this moment, heavy.

Michelle didn't know whether to use desperate or desperate to describe her feelings at this time.She could feel the astonishment and puzzlement that Hotch felt when he knew she was really involved in the identity, mixed with a faint disappointment for her.

—because she didn't tell him all this.He didn't even know Steve existed, while Emily and Reid did.

It was indeed her fault. Michelle was on the way to the conference room, biting her lower lip tightly, silently condemning herself for being wrong.

——Obviously as her closest lover, she was the last person in the whole world to know.

She didn't know this feeling of being obviously excluded from her own life, and she didn't want to know, if it was her, would she still be willing to be considerate of Hotch.

I don't know if Hotch knew about that... Michelle's heart was pounding.Maybe I was really not decisive enough with Steve, so this kind of rejection was not accepted by Steve, was it because he saw his soft heart?When did I become the kind of person I hate the most—indecisive and ambiguous?

"Here we are." Reid's voice whispered in his ear. Michelle looked at the worried eyes in front of her eyes, and heard Reid's hesitant to say: "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." For some reason, Michelle suddenly remembered that there seemed to be such a conversation between Reid and Reid not long ago, but the subject of the question and answer was switched.At that time, I had just met this group of cute BAU agents, and I hadn’t even met Hotch...

Thinking of the indifferent figure of the man who turned his head away, Michelle's eyes darkened suddenly, and soon regained her spirit.At that time, if I was rejected so desperately, I didn't even survive it. What is this situation?She'll explain it to Hotch after a while, and they'll definitely be back.Michelle, who secretly made up her mind, finally put on the familiar smile on Reid's face, sly and mischievous, "I will be fine in the future."

Taking a deep breath, Michelle maintained the smile on her face, knocked twice, and pushed open the door of the meeting room.

—There is her lover waiting for her over there.Really, love.

The author has something to say: This is a case I wrote myself, how about

Carefully ask for comments...

Because I always feel that it is difficult to grasp the description of the number of words in the original drama if I follow the plot

I don’t want everyone to read the V text, it’s all the original text.

If everyone thinks it's okay, I will intersperse it in the plot in the future

Generally speaking, it is still the main plot of the original drama.

The author really racked his brains TAT

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