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When the phone rang, Jessie was looking at the report on the newspaper on the table about the arrest of the "Side Trail Killer". Looking at the strange call, she frowned slightly, then remembered something, and pressed the answer button: "Agent Greenaway."

"Elle, just call me Elle." Elle followed Hotch and his group at the airport, preparing to take off. "I'm sorry, I can't find a suitable restaurant as quickly as the case came."

"It's okay." Jessie smiled, "Now I have your mobile phone number, you can't escape."

"Does the wound still hurt?"

Jessie didn't expect Elle to ask a question suddenly, and it took a few seconds before she realized, "It doesn't hurt, it's almost gone."

"Okay, I'm getting on the plane." Elle looked at Morgan walking in front with a gossip-like face, suddenly a little embarrassed.

"Elle." Jessie said suddenly.

"Ok?"

"Be careful." Jessie whispered for a long time.

"I will." Elle hung up the phone, bowed her head and entered the plane.

"Oh..." Morgan let out a meaningful exclamation. "This call lasted 5 minutes, Elle, this is not your style."

"5 minutes and 17 seconds to be precise." Reid added, looking at his watch.

"It's normal... When I discuss cases with the heads of other states, half an hour is considered less." JJ said while distributing a bunch of documents to everyone.

"No, JJ, you have to know that Elle used to answer the phone for no more than 30 seconds. She hates the phone..." Morgan explained to JJ patiently, not looking at Elle's gouging eyes.

"We're just discussing medical issues..." Elle herself felt that this excuse was very pale, but Gideon came to add in time.

"Well, yes, I heard you, you asked her how the wound was."

(Morgan, Reid, JJ: "...")

Elle forced herself to look at the document in her hand, ignoring everyone's eager gossip.

However, about why the "path killer" stutters, maybe you can really consult the little doctor. Elle, who is reading the materials of the arson case at Bradshaw University, is a little happy for her sudden idea for a moment.

Unexpectedly, just after arriving at the university, before she had time to conduct a more in-depth investigation, new fires followed one after another. By the time Elle realized that she had a little free time, it was already late at night.

After struggling for a moment, Elle still dialed the number, and was slightly taken aback when she heard Jessie's hearty voice. She thought that calling at this time would disturb people's dreams, but it seemed that she was worrying too much.

According to Elle's thinking, after the phone call, she should go straight to the topic and ask the little doctor about the cause of stuttering, but when the words came to her mouth, it turned into: "Are you still awake?"

Jessie on the other end of the phone was also stunned. She called in the middle of the night to see if she was asleep?But the voice still kept a little calm, "Didn't you sleep too?"

"Are you waiting for my call? Little doctor?"

"Uh, huh? Yes... no, I just got busy with the hospital." Jessie felt that she didn't understand her words, and asked weakly, "You, looking for me?"

"Yes, I have a question to ask you. Do you know why some people stutter?" Elle finally remembered the purpose of this call.

"Aside from genetic factors, deliberate imitation, and physical diseases, the most important thing is psychological factors. Negative feelings and emotions such as anxiety, stress, shame, guilt, and frustration can all lead to the formation of stuttering. Most of them suffer from resignation and isolation. This is very common in many native families...but..." Jessie paused suddenly.

"Ok?"

"These are the characteristics of patients, and they may not be applicable to the "path killer." Jessie sat on a chair, spinning a pen, thinking.

"I don't seem to remember saying that what I'm going to consult is about the stutter of the 'path killer'."

"Elle." Jessie said with a slight smile in her tone, "Although I am a doctor, I still have the ability to infer. But I can only give you a general medical explanation."

"Then why didn't you just say it in the first place?"

"I said I know, and memorized a lot of knowledge points that you can Google, because I want to talk to you." The pen twirled in the hand, and it stopped firmly between the two fingers.

"Little doctor, you are procrastinating~"

"Delaying time?" Jessie repeated.

"Yeah... procrastinate... wait." Elle suppressed her smile and said seriously, "Gideon said he knew not because he really knew but because he was delaying time to divert attention..."

"Elle?" Jessie didn't realize Elle's fast speaking speed for a while, "Are you okay?"

"I see!" Elle cheered happily from the other side of the receiver. "Little doctor, thank you for giving me the idea. Also, I don't mind if you procrastinate for a while. If I'm free, but I can't do it now, I'll call you later..."

"OK..." Jessie hung up the phone with a smile still on her lips, and she couldn't help but smile when chatting with herself could provide ideas for solving the case.After a long time, he sighed again. At least according to the current situation, his own existence seems to have changed the original direction of the plot. Where will the change go?She looked out the window at the bright moon in the sky, and did not speak for a long time.

At the gate of the hospital a few weeks later...

"You go in..."

"You go in first..."

"Morgan!" Elle couldn't help shouting, "You have to go in by yourself, I don't want to go to the hospital."

"Sure...I'm waiting for your words. I'm really curious about who that little doctor is. If you don't go, I'll go and see for myself..." Before Morgan finished speaking, Elle pushed him away and walked in.

It wasn't working time yet, and there was still a steady stream of people coming and going in the hospital. Elle avoided the noisy crowd and walked upstairs to the office.Walking to the corner of the stairs, I heard a familiar voice.

"Damn! No office key."

Elle stopped and looked to the side, only to see Jessie standing in front of the door with a look of annoyance, followed by a small Chinese nurse.

"Dean, let me see if there is a spare key downstairs."

"Don't look, I'm sure not, give me a paper clip, and I'll pick the lock myself..."

The two spoke in Chinese, and Morgan and Elle didn't quite understand it, but they roughly guessed it from their expressions.

Morgan felt that this was an opportunity to show off, and walked up to the two pretending to be cool, "Do you need help?"

Jessie was about to refuse when she realized it was Morgan, and smiled slightly, "Thank you..."

The eyes did not seem to be surprised at the first sight, but with a sense of familiarity, with a hint of alienation in the familiarity. Morgan was in a daze, he didn't seem to have seen this oriental beauty before... Can't help thinking, he kicked towards the office door.

……

"Well, take this gentleman...to take a film downstairs..." After a while, Jessie looked at the impenetrable door and Morgan, who was in pain but tried to stay calm, and said leisurely.

I almost forgot, this little boy kicked the door... But the door of my office is a security door, so it's not easy to kick open...

"No, no need, I'm fine, I... I just want to ask, what are you, what door?" Morgan declined the kindness of the person in the white coat in front of him.

"In China, it's called an 'anti-theft door'. In layman's terms, it's an iron door." Jessie explained.

"Okay, Derek, if you come downstairs now, you can still get to work on time." Elle bit her lip to keep herself from laughing.

"What about you?" Morgan asked blankly.

"I'll catch up with you."

Morgan felt ashamed and humiliated today...

"Send this gentleman downstairs... I will call you after I open the door." Jessie whispered to the little nurse next to her in Chinese.

Not long after, there were only Jessie and Elle left at the stairs.

Jessie withdrew her gaze and looked at Elle with a smile. Unexpectedly, Elle happened to look back at her with a smile in her eyes.

Jessie felt an unspeakable feeling in his heart, and his face turned red under Elle's gaze.

She felt that she should say something to break the silence, but at the same time, she couldn't bear to break the tranquility of the two looking at each other.

The two of them just kept silent and looked at each other silently.

[Elle confesses to Jessie much later that she fell in love with her when they first met in the hospital.

The little doctor with a strange brain circuit asked: "Huh? I didn't say anything at the time?"

Elle: "..." (This guy is sometimes more ignorant than Reid)

Reid: "I'm finally not the lowest EQ"

Morgan: "So what, you're not single..."

Reid: "..."

The author has something to say: This is a story about a little doctor who knows the general direction of the plot and is thrown down by Elle when he is trying to change everyone's future??

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