Cardigan, Criminal Minds¹

𝒍𝒙𝒊𝒊𝒊. we all scream for ice cream

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE: WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM !

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      CASEY'S MORNING WAS GOING OKAY. It started very roughly, if she were being honest. She had almost forgot what today was. It had been the one-year anniversary since she got kidnapped by Adam. She had finished brushing her teeth in the bathroom and washed her face and was beginning to dry it off.

The memories started flooding back.

       Casey washes her face and grabs a rag near the sink and dries her face and once she does, she looks up and sees someone standing behind her and she gasps and the next thing she knows, the person smashes her face against her mirror and Casey heard the mirror shattering echoing in her ears and she falls backwards and her vision is blurred as she lands on the floor and before she falls unconscious... she gets a good look at her captor that takes off his mask.
        Adam.

       Casey closed her eyes tries not to think about it anymore. She reverts back into reality and takes a deep breath as she hangs her rag up on the hook in her bathroom. She gets ready and heads into work. The girl had distracted herself by not saying anything to anyone and grabbing coffee and heading over to her desk and surrounding herself in paperwork.

        The girl was informed that the team had a new case they should be getting ready for and before Casey headed in the road table room, she headed towards the memorial and crossed her arms as she stared at Emily's portrait. She kept thinking about the day she left.

Reid had noticed her staring at the portrait and headed towards the girl with a cup of coffee in his hand.
"Hey." He greets. Casey doesn't bother to look at him. "Hey." She says back.

Reid takes a sip from his coffee. "You know, standing here, staring at her picture isn't gonna bring her back." He tells. Casey shakes her head, "No, but it's gonna make me wish that it was me." Reid looks at the girl as she continues. "I used to think that me getting taken was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I was wrong. This is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me."

There was nothing Reid could do to make Casey feel better. It was obvious that she was still struggling with Emily's death. He was, just as much. But he knew how to hide it. Casey had been trying her best to hide it but Reid read her like a book. "She's with us," He assured. "Everywhere we go, she is."

Garcia approached the two. "Not to interrupt anything, but we have a case." She tells and the three of them head over to the round table room.

The rest of the team is in the room and Casey and Reid take their seats as Garcia moves over to the screen to go over the case. "Mississippi. Two perps were seen dropping a body bag down the river. The body belongs to Sandra Rogers, nineteen, she was badly beaten and stabbed to death."