THIRTY-FOUR; THE RECKONING
"rora?" came the tentative voice of dr spencer reid through the cold tiled room, Rory, who stood with both hands clutching the sink takes a deep breath, "hey spence'', she looks up at him, tear stained face and chin quivering, eyes holding back the tears that threaten to spill down her cheeks. "rora i am so so sorry i never told you that i used to like jj or elle, it really wasn't anything serious i was so young, it never even went anywhere and it never even compared in the slightest to what i feel for you, elle was playing with us, it's why she called, she knew she could use it to get between us i love you so much aurora Hearst don't know what i would do without you and i would never leave you nor in a million ears there is no one else in this world who is even in the same stratosphere as you in my eyes, you are the most beautiful girl in the world to me and i-" aurora steps towards him, placing a soft kiss on his still moving lips to stop his rambling, knowing it was the one and only way to shut him up, she wanted to be mad at him for keeping it from her but she just couldn't do it, he couldn't have made her feel any more special, her heat glowing with the warmth of his words she smiles into his lips before speaking.
"you know spence, you're early good with your words, but if you ever keep anything from me again, or i find out you're cheating on me, the power of god won't be able to save you, got it?" he looks down at her stern face, unable to stop himself from smiling, "got it. i love you aurora Hearst, how are you ready to catch that fucking psychopath i used to call a friend?" she smiles, eyes hardening in determination "i love you too spencer reid, and fuck yes i am"
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hands firmly clutching the other, Spencer swings open the door to face the gaggle of heads leaning up, ears close to the door, the sheepish faces of Penelope, jj, Emily, Morgan and rossi look up at them guiltily. Spencer's face goes beet red knowing they heard him rambling about his love for her. "are you ok kid?'' Rossi asks looking directly at Rory's tear stained face, she nods "that bitch knows just how to push the right buttons. i know you guys know her pretty well, or well knew her, but i'm gonna put this bitch away" the strength behind her voice was commanding and reid looks over to her with a look of pure adoration, that was his girlfriend and he loved her with all of him.
Penelope types furiously away at her key board as the other discuss strategy "Garcia i need you to find the most recent exonerated rapists in the area, we need to find her next victim because thats how we'll track her" the typing loudens as she fins the records, unsealing files and digging through court transcripts, "got one, his name is james ackby he was charged with raping a 15 year old girl at a bus stop at night when she was on her way home from a lat eight ballet practice, he was exonerated because of, ew i hate the system 'he is a good young man with his whole life ahead of him' this is one gross son of a bitch, his address is 27 shackley drive" aurora grabs her gun, badge and phone before standing up along with the rest of the team "she always kills them at their houses before dumping them in a secondary location, now its already 8pm she kills at night, this guy lives alone, hopefully we catch hr before she gets away again" hotch says while the team is half way out the door.
The silence is thick, tense and angry as the team piles into black suvs, they scream down the road in a roar of flashing lights and police sirens, swat not far behind them. Aurora takes a deep breath and looks her boyfriend in the eye, gives him a small note and squeezes his hand for reassurance.
"FBI OPEN UP '' Morgan roars, turning to hotch for the nod of approval before kicking open the wooden door, knocking the lock of its hinges. elle swings around the corner sweeping her leg under Morgan knocking him to the ground and giving him a swift kick to his crotch, leaving the man groaning in pain "too bad, i liked you, not so big and tough now are you Morgan'' she then turns to hotch and punches him squarely in the jaw and knees him straight in the crotch sending him to the ground. Aurora holsters her gun, the determination and anger raging through her body, taking long confident strides over the men and punching elle in the nose, knocking the woman backwards, who wipes her bloody nose, looking at spencer who had his gun drawn, smug expression adorning her bloodied face "ooo girl fight, think this is hot spence?'' Aurora cocks her head to the side before scoffing "how" she punches her in the jaw "dare" the next one goes to her gut "you" the next straight in the face once again.
elle looks up an expression of fear decorating her bloodied face as aurora glared down at her "you don't get to call him space and you most definitely do not get the pleasure of calling me anything. you're going to jail for the rest of your life. you are nothing but a fucking cunt and everyone you have ever caed about sees that now. from the deepest most sincerest part of my soul. fuck you" she slaps her hard across the face before stepping backwards, admiring her handiwork, allowing hotch to pull the bloodied, bruised woman up and slapping hand cuffs on her wrists. aurora smirks at her as the wounded woman stares at the ground as she is dragged out to the back of a police van. Emily and jj come downstairs with pained expressions "we may have caught her, but he's dead, up there, stabbed 9 times in the chest and genitals removed and mutilated" aurora sighs and dusts of her hands on her pants.
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"you guys should have seen her, that woman is terrifying reid i'd watch out if i were you, elle floored me and hotch within 2 seconds but Rory practically had her begging for her life, those punches were as solid as they come" Morgan grinned as he recounted rory's beating of elle Greenaway the day prior. Rory grins proudly as the girls look over in awe and Spencer looks down at her proudly, even hotch cracks a smile after Rossi shoves his arm. Rory snuggles into Spencer's arm and smiles softly, no matter what she knew that she could trust him, she loved him with all her heart.
the team sits idly in the bau jet staring comfortably out of the windows, aurora and spencer sat snuggled under a blanket in the corner, Morgan snores next to Garcia on the seat across from rossi who sleeps soundly, hotch is typing up his report, aurora never knew how he managed to be a full time dad as well as deal with the paperwork that came with being the bau's leader.
jj and Emily sit in the seats diagonal from Spencer and Aurora, unknowing of the fact that the two 'geniuses' were eavesdropping.
"jj are you ok? you haven't called will yet and we've been gone a few days' ' jj averts her gaze and stares down at her shoes. "Jj?" Emily repeats, the blonde woman sighs and looks up "will and I have been having some issues' ' Emily clutches her hand tightly in support and nods for JJ to continue. "I was suspicious he was seeing someone else, Henry was telling me that a strange woman was in the house the other day, Will said it was just a new babysitter he was trailing, but we usually discuss that kind of thing, he's been off with me for a while so I um.. I went through his phone and found so much weird stuff, messages to s bunch of random numbers, he seems to be responding to calls in the middle of the night and I don't know what to do, he says I'm crazy and maybe I am but I know there's something going on here." The blonde tears up as Emily puts her close, "jage you have to trust yourself ok? If you think he isn't being loyal then that's that ok? You are a smart woman, and an even smarter profiler ok? Now have a conversation with him, and if it down end well, take Henry and come to my place ok? You're always welcome have three bedrooms two of which I never use." Jj buries her teared face into Emily's shoulder and nods. "Thank you em you have no idea how much this means to me" Emily smiles and pulls the slightly younger woman close to her "you deserve so much better than him anyways ok?" Jj chuckles and nods before laying her head on the lap of the agent next to her and closes her eyes, seeming to finally be able to relax for the first time in what felt like years. She worried about Henry and what he would do without his dad, she worried about what she would do as a single mother who went away so often. Shushing all of these thoughts allows herself to relax, the calming feeling of Emily's hand stroking her hair calmed her, and she found herself drifting into a lull of dreamless sleep, the first in many moons.
"You know what this means right spence?" Rory turns to her boyfriend with tears decorating her eyes, "what's that beautiful?" Rora smiles softly at him "your godfather duties are about to double" Spencer's eyes widen in fear, knowing that he had only babysat once and it was a disaster, he loved little Henry, but he didn't think Henry liked statistics quite as much as his godfather. Aurora chuckles at his expression of terror before patting his arm condescendingly "don't worry spencie ill help you" he screws up his nose at the childish nickname and nods in thanks. "Do you reckon I should give them a couple months before I start trying to play cupid?" Aurora questions while gazing over at the two women, one sleeping soundly, and the other staring lovingly down at her, hand stroking her blonde hair. Spencer scoffs and shakes his head "I reckon you should give them plenty of time and when I say plenty I mean minimum 6 months before you try to set them up" aurora looks up at him offended, "6 months? You're joking right?" He grins down at her, placing a soft kiss on her forehead "when its been 6 months i'll help you do it ok?" She lays her head back down on his shoulder grumbling "yeah yeah" he grins, placing another kiss on the top of her head.
The bad team slept peacefully that night, knowing that they had done something admirable, they had put their own thoughts and feelings aside and caught an unsub, they had put someone behind bars who was dangerous, and they were proud.
So for one night, just one, they all slept soundly.