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"Are you awake?" Jessie walked over to Elle's hospital bed, put her finger to her lips and made a silent gesture. "Sleep again..."

"I don't want to sleep anymore..." Elle lost so much blood that her voice was limp. "Why are your eyes so red?"

Jessie hesitated for a moment, then smiled wryly, "I..."

"I almost went to see God, you look worse than me." Elle tugged at Jessie's hand, "Gideon said you've been shutting yourself in the office, am I fine now?"

"I should take you home..."

"Who would have expected that?" Elle took the little doctor's hand and motioned her to sit beside her bed. "That guy has been following me. If you send me back, I'm afraid you'll get hurt too."

"This is something you can't expect." Elle nodded Jessie's forehead, "Smile~"

Standing outside the ward, Gideon saw Jessie put Elle's hand to her lips and kissed it lightly through the glass window. Seeing this scene, JJ and Emily looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

"Why..." Gideon turned to look at the two who were holding back their laughter, "No one told me?"

"Uh... I just found out." Emily looked blank, "Maybe JJ knows something inside?"

"Eh? I don't know very well." JJ looked at Elle who was in the hospital bed full of tenderness, "Why don't I take care of Elle tomorrow and help you find out?"

"inquire about?"

Those who heard Hotch's voice turned around obediently.

"The BAU...isn't it forbidden to fall in love between employees?" Hotch glanced at the window, "Why didn't the two of them tell me..."

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."

Emily: "..."

"Jason?" Hotch asked Gideon tentatively, "When did you know?"

"Ten minutes ago..." Gideon kept looking at the two people in the hospital bed. "Seeing them reminded me of you."

"Me?" Hotch wondered.How does this remind me of myself?

"Remember when you first came to the FBI office and you had to call Haley at least ten times a day?" Gideon turned his head and glanced at Hotch, "Love is blind. They have our microcosm in them."

Hotch nodded thoughtfully. "Reid accompanied his mother back to Las Vegas, and Morgan was helping Gracia fix her computer. I'll come and see Elle...just as long as she's out of danger." He waved his hand, "Leave them alone, we'll go quietly."

"Actually, he is very open-minded." Emily looked at the back of Hotch and Gideon leaving, "Then why BAU employees are clearly not allowed to fall in love, but they still acquiesced?"

"Gideon participated in making the rules." JJ smiled and held Emily's arm, "Of course he can turn a blind eye. Do you understand?"

"Huh?" Emily obviously didn't understand the deep meaning in JJ's words.

"Forget it if you don't understand..." JJ secretly complained about the slowness of the person in front of him, anyway, you are not a BAU member now, this piece of wood...

Hotch and Gideon parted ways at the entrance of the hospital, drove back to Jessie's residence, tore off the seal outside the door, went in and fetched a bucket of water, and carefully wiped the blood on the wall.The capitalized RULES dispersed little by little, and there was a sudden sound outside the door. Hotch turned his head vigilantly and saw Jessie coming in from the door.

"You don't seem surprised that I'm here." There was a moment of stillness in the air before Hotch broke the silence.

"I saw a car parked here outside the door, I guess it's you." Jessie looked at the faint mark on the wall and smiled.

"Jessie." Hotch wiped the marks on the wall vigorously. "Are you with Elle?"

Jessie seemed to guess that he was going to ask that, and nodded.

Hotch's deep eyes blinked, "Gideon said, I saw the shadow of me and Haley in you." He rolled up his sleeves and continued to wipe the blood, and the marks gradually dissipated. "bless all of you."

"Hotch," Jessie asked, his back turned to the man who was carefully scrubbing the wall. "Elle... will she get PTSD?"

"How could it be?" Hotch dried the rag in his hand, "I will give her a four-month holiday after she recovers from her injury. Let her make adjustments. With you, a medical professional, beside her, I'm sure she won't cast any shadow."

"You guys will always be behind her, with her, right?" Jessie murmured, staring at the scrubbed wall, "I mean, Elle considers BAU her family, so no matter what happens, I hope She can have a solid backing."

"Naturally," Hotch reassured. "BAU is her family, and you, Jessie, you are her lover." Then he patted Jessie on the shoulder, "The comfort between lovers can instantly disintegrate the darkness we have seen. It is really effective."

"So..." Jessie came back to her senses, "You call Haley a dozen times a day?"

Hotch burst out laughing, "You guys see each other all the time, so you won't understand the miss of making dozens of phone calls a day. But speaking of it, I haven't called Haley for so long... ..." He looked far away, "I have to go home with her..."

Jessie was stunned for a long time as she watched Hotch drive away.

【Hospital】

"This is delicious... This is also delicious..."

Elle on the hospital bed looked at Morgan and Reid who were devouring hungrily in front of her with disgust, "You two, it's really too much for you two to occupy my health meals in the name of visiting me..."

"I can't help it... Who told Jessie to cook so delicious food..." Morgan didn't even look up, "Look at Reid, he didn't even handle the chopsticks neatly, and he still ate with gusto."

"There is a saying..." Reid used his inflexible chopsticks, "appetite is accompanied by hunger, or the prelude of hunger, but it is relatively peaceful, sometimes even with a hint of relief, thinking of some delicious food food. Selective, specific to a certain food, can sometimes be elicited by the stimulating properties of the food, such as color, aroma, taste and texture..."

"In short, the dishes made by Jessie are so delicious..." JJ came in from the door, watched Morgan and Reid scrambling over the dishes like children, and shook his head with a smile.

"I didn't see her all morning." Elle asked JJ, "Do you know where she went?"

"She went to clean up the house..." JJ sat on a chair beside her, with a hint of a smile in her voice, "She said that she didn't want you to have bad memories when you go back..."

"Have you noticed..." Elle leaned forward, "Jessie seems to have PTSD?"

"PTSD?" Morgan and Reid were shocked for a moment, "I believe that Gideon got it, because I don't think he's finished yet...I also believe that you got it, after all, you have experienced the Fish King incident...but..." Morgan paused, "Jessie is fine, why did she get this thing?"

"PTSD is defined as a delayed onset and persistent disorder in an individual after experiencing, witnessing, or encountering one or more actual deaths, or threats of death, or serious injuries, or threats to bodily integrity, involving themselves or others. Existing mental disorder." Reid stopped his chopsticks, "It's not impossible for Jessie to suffer from PTSD..."

"But..." Reid frowned and looked at Elle, "You've been paying attention to Jessie recently."

The eyes of several people in the room immediately focused on Reid in disbelief.

"What's the matter?" Reid was puzzled, "Why are you looking at me with such strange eyes?"

JJ looked at Reid, confirmed that the look was innocent from the heart, and couldn't help laughing.

"You really didn't realize..." Morgan pursed her lips, "You didn't realize their... relationship?"

"What?" Reid's eyes widened. "What's the matter?"

"A relationship that even Gideon and Hotch can see and understand each other..."

The little doctor was almost dizzy by Elle's explanation, and turned to JJ for help, "I don't understand..."

"It's normal that you don't understand now...you will understand later..." JJ looked at Reid with a smile.

Morgan giggled at the side. Back then in the New York shopping mall, Reid was well-informed when he analyzed that Elle was already in love, but after only a few days, he became confused again.

"Let's go, prettyboy." Morgan patted Reid on the shoulder, "Don't disturb Elle's rest..."

"You haven't told me..."

"Talk at night, talk at night..."

In the ward, Elle looked at JJ and said slowly, "I'm thinking too much? Impossible, my intuition has always been accurate in this regard."

"She locked herself in the office last night. When Emily and I went through the window, the first question she asked was, will you have PTSD?" JJ recalled, "Little E said that she was blaming herself like this. I'm afraid I'll be depressed..."

"Little...E...?"

"Ah? Cough...that's Emily..." JJ's ears turned red suddenly.

"She's blaming herself?" Elle whispered. "What is she regretting?"

JJ shook his head blankly.

"If she is listless because she is afraid that I will suffer from PTSD, then I have a solution." Elle looked at JJ, "If she locks the door again, you will have to work hard for you to open the window a few more times..."

"You..." JJ remembered the three-story windowsill, "Why do you like this way of communication?"

"Because... it's more exciting?"

JJ: "..."

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Four months of vacation is too long, I will take two months, and Jessie will take two months, okay?

The school will start soon, everyone, happy school (>^ω^<)

☆, holiday