"Sit down"
Chapter Seven: Picture Perfect Memories. 1x09: Derailed
*Trigger warning*
Eden was currently on the train with Elle, the two were on the way to do a custodial interview with William Devries. A child murderer, Hotch didn't want Elle to go by herself and Eden can't stay another minute in the office with Derek and Reid doing paper work. No offense to Reid but all the offense to Derek. She hated paperwork days, they were boring and Derek is so nosy, he asks way too many personal questions.
Eden was willing to keep things cordial but being his friend wasn't on the list. They argued every second they got and if they were not arguing well they were working. Which was hard to do if you hated the person you worked with. It was just a mild dislike.
Oh no Eden despised him with everything she had, which for someone who had only one living relative left that wasn't much. Eden rarely hated anyone, she adored Reid, Penelope, and JJ. She admired her elders Hotch and Gideon and she tolerated Elle. if someone was to ask her what she thought of Derek Morgan well it would be easy to say she hated his fucking guts.
And everyone else would say, that if they weren't so busy bickering, or teasing, or making fun of each other. They would actually be a really good couple, that their differences would compliment each other perfectly.
The only reason why no one has locked them in a room together to set them up is because well they might actually murder the other person, or they would have no other option then to make really good intoxicating love. You know the kind you read about in books or see in movies. The good kind that gives you hot flashes and leaves marks on your body. Or body parts that you didn't even know could get sore.
But between those two something like that could never happen.... At least not until Pigs fly.
Elle and Eden sat quietly in a cubicle of the train across from each other. Elle pulled out her phone and flipped it opening pressing three for her speed dial contact which was Gideon,
"It's me." She says as Eden is chewing on gum.
She begins tuning out the conversation and focusing on the file. Of course she was in the zone. She had an hour to memorize this and didn't want to mess it up.
"Hello...Gideon...Yeah okay tomorrow." She says flipping her phone closed.
"How's Gideon?" Eden mutters as she sighs looking at her closed phone.
"I don't know. Connection is spotty, barely got anything. I'll call him again when we get there."
Eden chuckled before blowing a big bubble and popping it.
"You're such a child." She teases.
"Hey, I offered you gum hours ago. It's not my fault you didn't take it." the strawberry blonde sasses and Elle just shakes her heading bumping her shoulder against Eden's playfully.
They continued back to reading their files. When the train came to a screeching halt. Jerking their bodies forward then back into the seats. A black guy with dark stringy hair stands up.
"What the hell was that?" He says curiously.
"Everything is alright folks. All right, just relax, everything is gonna be fine. Everything is fine." A guard says walking down the aisle. Elle and Eden turn their heads to look at him.
"What happened?" She asked
" Nothing ma'am. You on the job?" He asks, nodding to the files in their hands.
"FBI."
"Suicide, somebody jumped in front of the train."
"Is there anything we can do?" Elle asks as Eden furrows her bows.
"Hello it's a suicide as in killed themselves. What would we even do?" Eden whispers only to her this time. She hits Eden with her file playfully. Before turning her attention back to the guard.
"Unfortunately we have this procedure down fairly well." he says to the two women. " Everybody just relax, everything is going to be fine. We are going to be back on underway again shortly." He says loudly getting up from his kneeling position and continuing his walk through the train. He reaches the back where a squirrelly guy sits anxiously.
Eden shrugs and continues to look down at her file when two gunshots are heard. She looked up just to be hit with the butt of the guard's gun. Squirrelly guy takes Elle's gun as Eden tuck's her into the waistband of her pants hiding it under her shirt. The cool metal pressed against her back
"Nobody move" he yells now holding two guns. Both aimed at Eden and Elle. He panics and begins looking around.
" You don't have to hurt anybody else." Eden says soothingly
"What are you doing?" Burnett, who was sitting in the back with him, asks.
Elle and Eden both sit up and look at each other.
"Have any plans to get us out of this?" She whispers.
Eden studies her surroundings, looking at the windows and the walls then the seats in front and behind them. Finally she studies people's facial expressions and body language. It's times like this that she realizes why Hotch hired her. Why did he decide to take a chance on the lonely surgeon who joined the academy on a whim? That may just be an answer she will never get? Maybe he saw the sadness dripping off her body? She was basically using it as a shield. She couldn't think straight. Not when her head was throbbing and blood was oozing down her forehead and onto her lap. Just by touching she could tell she had a hairline fracture with some broken skin.
"Teddy, you have to listen to me." The brunette woman said calmly.
"No! You have to listen to me now." Teddy yells back aiming his weapon at Eden and Elle.
"Ooh, lady, your boyfriend is whacked out of his mind." The black guy says.
Eden cursed under her breath at him shaking my head. As a signal for him to stop talking. The brunette woman was sitting behind them. Her hair pulled into a tight low ponytail. The black guy sat next to her in the next row of seats, and a squirrelly guy with classes, a three piece suit and a briefcase which he had laying in his lap sat across from the two. He would clench his briefcase every so often
"He's not my boyfriend." She sasses.
" Then who is he?" He replies.
"He's a psych patient, right?" Eden says as she nods
"Yes. It's going to be ok."
" And you know that, how?" Suit guy questions as Eden and Elle both roll their eyes.
"You're his doctor?" Elle explains as the doctor nods.
"I was taking him to Dallas to speak at a conference as an example of the progress being made to relieve severe psychosis."
"He's an example of progress?" The black guy retorts.
"What do we do to calm him?" Elle asks.
"He's never had this sort of break from reality, never been violent." The doctor says as Eden nods to Elle. Elle begins looking at Eden who shrugs, her head was still fuzzy and she was pretty sure she had head laceration along with a concussion.
"What can we do?" Eden asked, trying to help as much as possible.
"Make him feel less threatened." She says
"We're a threat to him? He's got 2 guns."
"You're a jerk," Eden muttered as he rolled his eyes.
The woman in front of the doctor starts coughing and Elle and Eden turn and try to look at her.
" Are you all right?"
" No... Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick." She mutters before throwing up on the floor in front of her.
" Oh, great." The black guy says.
"Are you all right?"
"Yeah. Uhh! I just haven't been feeling that well lately. My stomach," she replies.
"You're not pregnant?" The doctor questions as the woman just stays silent. The doctor looks at Eden and Elle before getting up out of her seat.
" Teddy, please. This girl is sick." The doctor begins getting up out of her chair cautiously approaching Ted. .
"Shut up! Sit down!" Teddy yells causing the doctor to sit down. He continues to look out the window at the officers outside who have the train surrounded.
"What are you doing? Don't be stupid." The black guy says to the guy in the suit. He was reaching in his briefcase for something. He looks between all of us before his hand submerges with a bible clutching it.
"Are you kidding me? What are you gonna do? Throw it at him?" The black guy sasses clicking his tongue is annoyance.
"Why are they just sitting there? Come on!" Teddy yells, making the red headed woman jump.
"Whacked out of his mind." The black guy says taking a drink from his alcohol bottle.
Elle turns forward in her seat.
"Still no plans swirling around in that brilliant head of yours." She asked with a smirk.
Elle and Eden whether she chose to deny it. We're friends, not the kind to question one another. The kind that accepted the answers that one of them gave. They went for drinks and she didn't have to tell her about my personal life. It was nice. But now, she feels like she owes it to her in a way. Like she's been holding back.
"Not at the moment. I'm like a Television without cable. Useless." Eden says as Elle shakes her head. "What the hell happens now?
"We keep trying to calm him down."
"And if that doesn't work?"
"We Pray to god that The team is on their way ." She says as Eden gulps quickly not liking those answers.
"Come on. Come on, come on, come on." Teddy yells to himself pacing back and forth.
"Ted, you have to try and"
" Get up!" Ted yell's pulling the red headed women by her hair.
"Take me." Eden yells as the woman begins to scream.
"Aah! No!" She screams
"Take me!" Eden yelled again, wincing at the pain in her head.
"No, take me." Elle says as Eden gives her a look.
" You think I'm gonna let you send them messages?" Ted gnarls at Elle and Eden. Eden's wrist were getting tired from the handcuffs. She was standing up partly due to the fact that she was handcuffed to a seat.
" They're gonna want to talk to me. I can get you whatever it is that you want. Take me!" Eden yells, earning an approving look from the black guy.
"Hey, man-" the black guy says but Ted hits him with the butt of the gun. Still gripping the red head's hair.
" You, too?" He asked the guy in the suit
" No. No. I didn't do anything!" He mumbles nervously.
"Ted, you're not in any danger here. You have to believe me." His doctor pleads as Ted drags the red haired women to the telephone that was sitting on the floor.
" Don't say a single word unless I say it. Deviate a single word, and I will kill you. Don't try to send them any secret messages or codes. Do you understand?" He says.
" Codes?" She questions confused.
"Do you understand?!" Ted says as Elle and Eden try to break free from the handcuffs
"Yes, yes. All right, all right." The red haired woman picks up the phone.
"Son of a bitch. I left my key in my purse"
"Which is where?"
"In my desk locked away because Morgan kept handcuffing me to my chair." Eden explains as Elle snorts.
"Don't laugh at me"
"When we get off this train we need to have a serious talk about you and Derek Morgan."
"You think?" Eden sassed, shaking her handcuffed wrist.
"Ask them who just arrived and who they work with?" Ted says to the red haired woman.
"He wants to know who you are. He wants to know who just arrived." She says into the phone.
"He says it's someone who can resolve the situation." She replies.
"What part of the government do you work for?" She says into the phone. There was a long pause. Ted flinches like he's about to hit her. "What part of-aah! What part of the government..." she says frightened by the gun which Ted was pointing at her stomach.
" Don't hurt her.".
"I swear to god I'm going to kick Morgan's ass." Eden muttered using her foot to try and kick off the handcuffs.
He looks back at two agents before looking at the redhead. "Ask who they work for. No, ask if they're NSA. No, ask- They're the FBI, aren't they?" Ted rambles as the women just sobs and asks the questions.
" He says you can ask him yourself." She sobs as Ted snatches the phone from her.
"Tell me who you are, or this agent dies!" He yells "If you're the higher authority then you can have it removed.....I want it removed now....No wait! Okay! One hour. You have one hour to remove it or I swear to god, I'll kill every agent on this train." He yells while hanging up.
Eden groaned looking at her watch. "We have 40 minutes left until one of us gets blown to smithereens. Do any of you guys have a cell phone with service?" she asked as the black guy winced. He had awoken from his slumber and was now bleeding, A Lot for a wound that small.
" We're in the middle of nowhere. Welcome to texas"
"You're bleeding more than you should be from a cut this small." The doctor says dabbing napkins on his head.
"Thin blood." He comments.
"The agents outside need to know what it is that he wants removed."
"He thinks the government is watching him, monitoring him." His doctor says.
" They monitor all of us. They have ways of finding out everything you do."
"Don't be stupid." Eden rolls her eyes.
"There's two FBI agents on board. You think that's a coincidence?" The black guy continues.
"I'm doing it!" Ted yells.
"He's going to kill us, isn't he?" The guy in the suit asks.
"No." The doctor replies.
"He killed that security guard."
" The security guard had a gun. He felt threatened by him."
" Uhh! It's so hot!" Ted yells.
"You took hostages in the middle of Texas. Of course it's hot." The black guy yells as Ted gets up approaching him.
"Are you trying to get hit again? Sit down and be quiet ."Eden says as he nods while sitting down.
"No! That's exactly what they want, Ted. They want to divert you from having it removed. You're close to having it removed." The doctor says grabbing his arm and looking at it.
35 minutes left
"Hey, why aren't they helping us?" Richard the guy in the suit asks.
"We're gonna get through this just fine."
" We? He isn't pissed at us. You're the government agents." Jasper, the black guy, says.
"I'm about to put a bump on the other side of your head if you keep talking" Eden mumbled as Elle kicked her with her foot.
"He probably thinks we're all agents. He believes almost everyone is." Laura the doctor explains.
"I'm not with any government agent. I'm with you. Big brother, right? New-think? New-speak? Hate is love. War is peace." Jasper preaches.
"Okay you can kick his ass when we get off." Elle says to Eden who nods.
"Stop it!" Ted yells aiming Elle's firearm at himself
" No, Ted, it's ok. He doesn't mean anything." Laura continues, trying to calm Ted down.
" Yeah, chill. I support you. Screw the government."
"Make him sit down." Ted yells
"What we need is a strategy." Elle says as Eden nods.
"I'll try to talk to him." Laura explains
"You think that's wise?" Eden asked as Laura just shrugs and stands up.
"Ted? You feel a little bit better now? You're in no danger here. These people don't want to hurt you." She reassures him. "The FBI agents just happened to be on the train today. They weren't following you, weren't watching you." She continues approaching Ted slowly. "Let them go, Ted. I'll stay with you. You and I will do this together only you need to let these people go. I will wait with you. No one wants to hurt you. We don't want to hurt you." She explains. Ted starts to panic and walks towards her aiming the gun
"Don't! I'll make sure that they never take it out of you. If you hurt one more person on this train I swear to god, I'll make them leave it in you forever." Eden threatens as the shrill sound of the telephone ringing starts happening.
" I want it out now! Or every agent on this train dies" he threatened before hanging up the phone.
"Do you think they are actually sending someone?" Elle asked.
"Beats me I just hope the team is here" Eden replies back words slurring a little.
Ted begins looking out the window before walking over to the red haired woman and grabbing her by her hair. Elle and Eden both tried to free themselves from their handcuffs. The door opens and a stalky shadow emerges from the darkness.
"It's Spence." Eden mouths to Elle who has her back to him.
"Hello, everyone. I'm here to remove a chip from Dr. Bryar." He says his voice is calm and easy.
"Take the vest off. I want to see you." Ted yells
" I don't have any weapons. The higher authority doesn't authorize it for technicians."
" Take it off!" Ted yells as Reid does what he says. "Come closer. I want to see both of your hands at all times. Sit across from me." He demands before throwing the red head to the ground. " Why are you so nervous?" He asked as Reid started prepping his arm.
Elle looks at Eden and she shakes her head. The two of them knew what was about to happen. He was going to cut him open right there.
" I told you. I'm not used to being around guns. This is going to probably sting a little bit" Reid cuts him open and then digs around in his arm before holding up a tiny microchip.
"Did you see that?" Jasper whispers.
"I knew it. I knew it."
"I've got to go to the higher authority-" Reid says
" Not yet! Turn it on. Turn the chip on." Ted demands
"Are you fucking serious." Elle mouths as Eden rolls her eyes.
" Excuse me?"
"Turn it on, or I pull the trigger." Ted threatens
"I can't turn it on." Reid says panic running across his face.
"Why not?"
"Because it has to be implanted." Eden speaks up, turning around to face them.
"She's right. The chip derives its power from tiny electrical impulses fired between neurons. It has to be in your skin to work." Reid babbles. "I- I really gotta go-"
"Sit down! You're not going anywhere." Ted Threatens. .
"See? Dude actually had a chip in his arm." Jasper whispers as Eden rolls his eyes.
Meanwhile In the Surveillance Van
"All right, it seems calm for now."
"Reid's still on the train. Now we have three agents there." Gideon says as Derek kicks the wall in front of him.
Whether Derek knew it or not. He felt something for the Red haired woman. He couldn't explain it. But he had to protect her at all costs. Eden was different. She only opened up to him a little bit, not too much. She quickly became closed off again. Deep down Derek was hurt, he was confused as to why she was so closed off? Why weren't there any photos on her desk? Like every other colleague. Eden was tough but Derek knew it was a front. That she was fragile in the end.
"Elle and Eden can hold their own Derek." JJ explains.
//
The phone began ringing.
"It's probably the higher authority. I told you I have protocols to follow. I was supposed to go right back out there. I-I have rules."
The phone continues to ring.
"You want me to stay, I'm obviously going to stay but, I mean, you're going to be the one that has to explain it to the man." Reid finishes.
"Why can't you all just leave me alone?"
" Leave you alone?" Jasper slurs.
"Stay out of this." Reid snaps.
"No. The government does watch us. You got microwaves and satellites. I'm with you, man."
" Do not agitate him."
" Screw you." Jasper replies
" Dr. Bryar, answer the phone."
" My old man used to have tracking devices in his cars. He said it was for theft but it's so he could find out where I'd go. And what about personal recordings and televisions? You don't think someone's monitoring everything you watch? You know how many patents are issued for devices to monitor people? Look it up, man." Jasper. mutters
"Answer the phone, Ted. Stop. This isn't going to help." Laura explains to Jasper.
"What the hell do you know?"
"Ted, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's just a kid." Laura turns to Ted now.
" Who are you calling a kid?" He snaps.
"Sit down! Now!" Eden threatens.
" Oh, now you're gonna tell me what to do? He'd only have one gun if you weren't here. I'm with you, man." Jasper sasses as Eden flinches in her seat.
"Answer the phone, Dr. Bryar. It's the higher authority" Reid says.
At this point everyone is talking all at once. Eden winced at the volume which was escalating. A gunshot rings through the air. Ted shot his doctor. Who gasped before falling to the floor.
"Oh, damn. Damn!" Jasper panics. As the phone begins ringing again Ted sighs and trudges Over to the phone.
"I'm tired. I've been fighting you for so long. I said it all ends today. Me, these agents-it all ends today." He yells into the phone before hanging it up and shooting it.
"Ted... No one on this train is an agent but me. No one else. I'm the only one. You can let everybody else go." Eden begs as Ted ignores her.
"Dr. Bryar, we need to get this woman help." Reid explains.
" Who's going to help me?" He shouts.
"The higher authorities can help you. T-they're not what you think. They're not the enemy. They can help you, Dr. Bryar."
Ted stands up and shoots the phone. "Not anymore" he says before He sits down and begins scratching the side of His face. He begins talking to himself,
Reid and Eden look at each other then back at him.
"Well, you just said when the chip came out, it would go away. I- I still hear it. Then there must be more of them. But you said it was the only one, Leo. I can still... Feel the buzzing, the burning."
"Dr. Bryar."
" What?" Ted replies with a gun aimed at Reid.
" Reid!" Elle says.
"It's alright." He reassures them as Eden struggles against her handcuffs.
" Is there another one?"
"You know there isn't. If there were, Leo would've told you."
"Make it stop!" Ted shouts
" I know what it's like..." Reid continues.
"Make it stop!"
" I know what the voices are like."
"The voices won't stop, they have been talking to you since you've been child.That's Leo speaking ... That's not even Dr. Bryar. Why don't you let him think for himself Leo." Reid says looking to the left of Ted.
"Yo-You can see him?"
" Yeah, he's right there." Reid explains as Ted's eyes go wide.
"Why don't you let him make his own decisions?" Reid continues. "Voices... They helped you. Right? To get your ideas from ... The other kids were outside on the playground you were inside reading, studying, learning... The voices wouldn't stop, they helped you understand things that other people could never realize. Then as you grow older it becomes... Oh.. Let's say responsibility. Right? Responsibility to use that ability to... ... to use your knowledge..."
"String theory. The Theory of everything." Ted says.
"The m-theory encompassing all the strings unifying the theories."
"You know what's funny? Most people say that m- theory can never be proved because the mathematical tools do not yet exist. But you see it, right? Am I right? You can see the different strings unifying the dimensions, the gravitational infinities canceling each other out. You see them, right, Dr. Bryar? You see them because you have the tools. Your mind is that And I have to believe that if you put your mind to it you'll realize that only you can make Leo stop. You can make him stop by understanding him by understanding that he is a liar and he only wants bad things for you. I need to believe that, Dr. Bryar." Reid says as Eden stands up still trying to break free from her cuffs.
The loud pop of a gunshot stings our ears as Ted lays there lifeless on. A row of seats.
"I had to. He was going to kill us. I had to. God forgive me." Richard says. Eden sat back in her seat. Gideon runs onto the train. Reid holding The gun that Ted once held.
"We need an ambulance." He says giving the gun to Gideon.
Gideon pulled a handcuff key out of his pocket and uncuffed Elle first. She then uncuffed Eden. They all exited the train. Seeing a bunch of deputies. Eden walked over to Jasper, and punched him in the face. As Elle just chuckled and Derek gave her a strange look.
"Hey, pretty boy," Eden yelled to Reid. He smiled at her, as she walked up to him and gave him the biggest hug and kiss on the cheek. They let go of the hug and both shared a sly chuckle.
" I know I'm not one to open up. But if you would let me, I'd like for you to be my friend." Eden explains
"You don't have to ask me to be your friend. But since you are. I accept." Reid replies. They both share a smile before walking their separate ways. She took a seat on the back of a sheriff's car Derek walks up to Eden he starts inspecting her.
She batts him away. "Who died and made you boss. I am fine. Stop touching me." She shoves him off.
"What is your problem?"
"My problem? My problem is that you feel the need to know everything about me all the time Derek. We can be friends without you knowing every single detail of my life."
"No we can't, that doesn't make us friends."
"Whatever, I don't even want to be your friend anyway, you're arrogant, and you think every woman wants you. news flash. I am a woman who is disgusted by you."
"Really?"
"Mhm. you make me sick." Eden's face was now just as close to his.
Derek smirks "So you think about me alot than?"
Eden groans and shoves past him as the rest of the team just chuckles at their bickering.
"The more I know Little Red." He mutters and walks off, Eden groans and walks over to the ambulance climbing into the back with Elle as it drives off.
Albert Einstein asked "a question that sometimes drives me hazy- am I or the others crazy?"
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