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When Jessie and Hotch rushed to the scene, they saw a mess everywhere.

"Dean." Seeing Jessie, the medical staff rushed forward, "We saw that the address was your home, so we thought something happened to you..."

"I'm fine..." Jessie felt as if she had been shot, "How about the wounded?"

"The situation is very bad... just ahead in the ambulance..."

"I'm going to operate on her myself." Jessie jumped into the car, turned and said to Hotch, "I'll leave it to you here."

Hotch nodded, went into the room to investigate, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a few huge words on the wall.

"RULES..." he murmured. "Is this scolding us for breaking the rules?"

Gideon lay silent on his office chair.The head sent to the cabin destroyed his last peace and tranquility.All the aloofness that was left in the cabin in the past turned into the human head that I received late that night.

"Elle had an accident...was shot..." Emily saw JJ and Morgan coming in from outside, she stood up hastily, "Jessie and Hotch went there."

Morgan turned to leave, but JJ held her back desperately, "Derek, Jessie is a surgeon, you have to trust her medical skills, Elle will be fine."

Morgan's back was stuck in front of the door, and he didn't move for a long time, but slammed on the door a few times with his hands.

"Morgan." Emily stepped forward, "Elle's side will be handled by Hotch. Let's go to Boston to learn about Rebecca, who has been missing for two years. Let's finish this adventure with this psychopath."

Morgan held back tears and nodded with his back to the two.

JJ sighed, "Emily and I drove to Boston to find out the situation, you stay here with Reid, remember to give Gideon the information about Rebecca."

"Did you see what was delivered to Hotch's house?" Reid turned to Gidoen, who was sitting on a chair, looking at the file absently.

"Look." Gidoen closed the file. "The numbers are connected with numbers, do you have any ideas?"

"He said at the end of the video that we need a book, and the number on it is probably the page number, line and word of the book." Reid expressed his speculation.

Gideon nodded, "The guy who delivered the things has been found, and I'm going to interrogate him."

Reid looked at Gideon's dejected back and wanted to say something, but he didn't speak in the end.

"It was dark, but it was like day for everyone."

"What's this?" Gracia tapped on the keyboard, looking at Reid.

"The poems in the music box we found at the scene...I always feel like I've heard it somewhere..." Reid held back his expression. "Have you perfected your system? Have you found the hacker?"

"Of course!" Gracia's lips curled up, "Mr. Kneighf!"

Reid leaned in front of the computer, "What the hell name..."

"Do you want to help?"

"Um... yes." Reid cleared his throat, "I want to look up a book, um, a book published in 1963."

"1963? What year did Gideon get the baseball card?"

"Well, by the way, look up the phrase 'It was dark, but it was day for everyone.'"

"It's in a poem..."

"Yes! The Meeting of the Birds by Chaucer." Reid jumped up. "My mom read it to me."

"Your mother read you Valentine's Day poems?" Grasia didn't understand for a moment.

"Search again, is there a book written in England in 1963 by his contemporary author?"

"A book written by Jonh Fowles, "The Collector" is also known as "The Butterfly Dream." The cover of the book appeared on the screen, and after seeing it clearly, Reid and Gracia were stunned for a moment... The same key, rare A yellow butterfly with a yellow pattern, and a strand of hair tied with a rope...

"We found..."

"Reid needs "The Collector" published in 1963? I have it there, um, I'll give you the address, the key is under the carpet..." Emily hung up the phone and looked at JJ who was driving aside. "We'll get to the answer soon enough."

"I didn't expect you to have so many books in your home." JJ had a smile on his lips.

"Well, my parents are embassy, ​​and they travel around the world. It's hard to integrate into the local environment. At least in my opinion, it's much harder than studying..." Emily smiled self-deprecatingly, "Well, I'm a bit of a nerd Are you angry..."

"No..." JJ's gaze shifted from the road ahead to Emily calmly. "I like you so much."

The shadowless lights in the emergency room kept swaying over Elle's head, and Elle squinted her eyes... in a trance, vaguely seeing Jessie's tearful eyes moving back and forth in front of her eyes.Why is this guy crying... She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.Her eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she fell into a nightmare again, with icy liquid falling on her face.Is Jessie crying?She thought confusedly, why is the little doctor so sad?

"Four units of blood transfusion... One milligram of cardiotonic injection, intravenous injection." Jessie's scalpel moved deftly, the hemostat stopped the bleeding point of the wound, and the other side quickly clamped the bullet embedded in the chest...The bullet was clipped out and thrown Entering the tray, Jessie breathed a sigh of relief.Continues to stitch up Elle's wound.

"She's fine..." Jessie walked out of the operating room, smiling tiredly at Hotch and Gideon who were waiting outside the door.

"I was at the murder scene..." Hotch changed his words, "I found half of the murderer's fingerprints on the blood on your house."

Jessie was stunned for a long while, "She will wake up soon, I'll go and be quiet first...You guys..."

Gideon watched Jessie step by step into the office, his eyes dimmed, "She and Elle will understand... If we don't break the rules, we can't get the half of the fingerprints... I..."

"Jason." Hotch interrupted Gideon's remorse, "I am also responsible for this matter, I should have sent her home myself..."

"The murderer had a plan, and he seemed shocked and angry that we didn't follow the rules. However, it's hard to make a connection between such a high-planned crime and his delusion." Gideon was lost in thought.

Hotch bit his lip, "JJ and Emily will be back soon, they have already found out about Rebecca's life experience, her current parents adopted her, her original name was Rebecca Garner, when she was five years old, the whole family had an accident... I have sent Morgan and Grasia to look up the details of that incident."

"Where's Reid?" Gideon asked suddenly. "How is he?"

"Morgan said Reid had figured out from the gunman's message that his mother might be involved in the case. He had his mother brought here."

"His mother is a patient in a Las Vegas nursing home..." Gideon froze suddenly. "Patient? If the shooter is also a patient, it seems to explain the reason for his obsession."

Turning off the lights and locking the door, Jessie sat on the chair in the office without saying a word, staring at the window sill in a daze. In the past, Elle would jump in through the window alive and kicking, but now she is lying on the emergency bed. out of danger.

Why didn't they escape this catastrophe... Jessie felt an unspeakable despair in her heart.

There was a sudden sound on the window sill, Jessie raised her head vigilantly, and saw JJ and Emily who had rolled in.

"Are you back?" Jessie's eyes raised and then sank again.

"The gunman sent a postcard to Reid's mother." JJ looked at the expressionless Jessie, "Morgan took people to the location on the postcard. We guess that's where Rebecca was imprisoned."

"The shooter was Rebecca's biological father. Rebecca's mother and brother were killed in a fire in 1992. His father tried to save the rest of the family but suffered severe burns all over his body... You guessed it right, his hoarse voice And the odd posture is the aftereffect of the burn." Emily tried to bring some good news to Jessie to relax.

Jessie nodded, oh.

"Jessie." JJ stepped forward, "It's not your fault, no one can predict what will happen next... You just need to remember that you saved Elle's life, that's enough..."

Really no one expected it? Jessie's heart was getting more and more melancholy, she knew it would happen...but she still couldn't protect it.

"Will she get PTSD?"

"I don't know if she will get PTSD." Emily said to Jessie, "I'm sure you will get depression if you continue like this."

"I just..." Jessie hesitated, "The thing I've been dreading... finally happened..."

JJ and Emily glanced at each other, but didn't understand what Jessie meant.

"Jessie," JJ said softly, "if you break down, who's going to help Elle?"

Jessie bit her lip hard to keep herself from crying. "I'm fine, don't worry."

JJ patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and walked out with Emily.

"If one day I was shot by a murderer, what would you do?" JJ asked Emily looking at the darkened office.

"I don't know..." Emily replied honestly, "I don't dare to think about it, it's too dangerous to be in this business, isn't it, it's good to just enjoy the moment like this."

"I know that as an FBI agent, you will encounter a lot of cruel cases." Emily paused, and continued, "If, uh... If you have anything you want to talk about, just come to me, okay?"

The corridor was very long, and the two walked side by side, touching hands in the dark, and finally held each other.

Elle wakes up from the nightmare and sees Gideon silently watching her.

"Stop talking and get some rest," Gideon said softly. "We rescued the girl, but the shooter was in his own world and committed suicide."

Elle nodded slightly, blinking her eyes.

"I'll call the doctor for you." Gideon patted Elle on the shoulder, "Jessie has been shutting herself in the office since she operated on you. It's useless for JJ to persuade her, but this news should cheer her up." .”

The author has something to say: Keke

Originally, I wanted Jessie to be shot here, but I thought about it and pushed back the time of Jessie’s shot, because I wanted the little doctor to have an in-depth chat with Hotch while cleaning up the blood...

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Seeing Hotch's serious expression, Emily secretly glanced at JJ beside him.

"Don't be afraid." JJ whispered into Emily's ear, "He's not really angry, he just can't laugh."

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