Intervention [RP with so_lessfragile Hanna Carmichael]

[yesimagenius]

Reid was sitting at a table outside the coffee shop waiting for Hanna to show up. They'd pre arranged to meet here. In his head he was trying to decide what the best approach was. Clearly, Hanna was mentally unstable but the only person he'd ever had to intervene in their lives directly because of that had been his mother. He couldn't exactly commit Hanna. She'd have to do that herself. He had time to make those sort of decisions though. Right now he was going to have his coffee and wait for her to show up.

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[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Mentally unstable is how he would have worded it but yeah, pretty much he thought she was a nutjob. Right now he figured the best he could do was go along with her, try to keep her from killing whoever she perceived to be demons and put a call into Hotch when he had probable cause.

"I'm an SSA for the BAU. I don't look-We have to take firearm certification every year, keep up with target class."

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

"Oh. I see..." she said. Inside she was having a little freak out, though she was keeping her cool face on on the outside. Leave it to her to pick up a fed. A fucking fed. I am so, so very screwed... she thought.

"We're not killing the demon, by the way. The demon takes a vessel, a host body, if you will. The demon possesses a human. Now, if we can detain the demon into a devil's trap and perform the right exorcism, the body will be fine. Unless of course the demon fucked it up before hand... either way, we aren't looking to hurt the body. Becasue even if we were to shoot it, it would do no good." Hanna had to say anything to get this fed from thinking she was a killer. In all honesty she was a killer, but not the run of th mill kind. She killed bad things.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Reid watched her, brow furrowed and carefully thought about her words.

"Don't you need a priest for that? And there should be medical personnel..." All accounts of 'real' exorcisms he'd read were extremely dangerous for the possessed person.

Not that he thought she was stable or doing anything except telling the truth as she believed it--and she did whole heartedly believe it. She was exhibiting none of the signs a person lying would exhibit.

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

Hanna laughed. "No way. Just the right latin ritual, a devils trap and we're all set. More people there would only get in the way." Which was true, if you were dealing with a single demon, but if there was more, like Hanna expected to be the case in Seaford, it would be good to have a few extra people on hand. But not no medical personel. She was talkin' hunters. But that was obviously not in the cards. All she had was some fed that thought she was a nutjob.

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"Huh," Reid responded, brow furrowing a little deeper.

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Hanna pursed her lips, annoyed. "What's huh supposed to mean?"

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

"No...I just-" Reid stopped and started. "At the BAU, we've had a couple of cases with ritual exorcisms. The people performing the exorcisms always claim to want to save the person, expel the demon. It never works out that way though. The possessed person ends up dead."

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Hanna rolled her eyes. Stupid wannabe hunters fucking everything up once again. "That's because they're not real hunters or real rituals. Did the person have black eyes? When the exorcism was over did black smoke fly out of the possessed person's mouth? No. That's becuase it's a bullshit exorsicm. Probably some poor person that was sick of following the church and so everyone thought they were possessed."

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Reid didn't do shock so much as he just got more troubled looking, brow furrowing up more, eyes narrowing as he thought. He tucked his hair behind his ear again.

"They were all dead when we found them. Except the last girl and she was-he'd broken her out of a mental facility."

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

Hanna rolled her eyes once again. How was she going to convince him that those "exorcisms" that he had heard of and investigated were fake? "That's my point. No demon is stupid enough to get themselves committed. And if they did get themselves into a mental facility it would be because they have some motive behind it."

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"If they're possessing the person...they can't really help what's done with the person by other people...can they?" Reid asked. He still wasn't buying into the whole deal but he needed to know what he was walking into and what her thoughts on the whole thing were.

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"The demon controls the vessel. The person's... essence if you will, is still there, inside, but they can't do anything. All they can do is watch what the demon does to other people. Is that what you mean?" Hanna sighed. It was difficult explaining demon lore to someone who not only knew nothing but thought what he knew was the truth.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

Reid thought about what she was saying, trying to compare it to other delusionals they'd studied. She didn't want to be held responsible for some of the things she'd done or that others had done. In her delusional, she could lay all the blame on the demon. Or someone could at least.

"You're saying the demon can control what the human does but I'm asking if it can control outside forces. For example, if the demon possessed the person, could he or she keep the parents of the child it possessed from committing it."

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

He was totally going to commit her after so she figured she'd just dig her crazy grave deeper. "They don't stick around if they have a job to do. They find some poor bastard to possess and leave. Or they pretend to be that person. The person usually just simply goes missing. Thoese missing persons that are never found? Probably a demon possession. Those random dead bodies found that have no evidence linking to any killer? Probably a demon." They just drove past Deleware state lines. They'd be in Seaford in no time.

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"W-well sometimes we find the bodies of m-missing people," he stammered, a little unnerved by the whole idea. She had a point. There were missing people that they never found.

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Hanna nodded. "But did you ever find the killer? Was there any evidence? Or were they just dumped? It's demons. Black eyed sons of bitches. And there are people like me out there trying to stop them; trying to save the people we can."

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"S-sometimes," Reid admitted. "We usually solve our cases but there are cold cases out there." It wasn't something anyone in his profession liked to admit.

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Hanna smirked. She was getting to him, even if it was just a little. She was making him think. "Exactly. And why do you think they're cold cases? Because the investigators did a shitty job at trying to find the killer? No. Because what killed them can't be explained by science. What killed them didn't leave fingerprints or fibers. They might have left the smell of sulfer but that's it. It's because something supernatural killed them. A ghost, a vampire, a demon or something else. Yes, those all exist too, by the way."

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

"You believe they existed but that doesn't mean-" Reid stopped because she could just as easily turn that around on him. "Maybe you'll turn me into a believer. I tend to want proof of things in general."

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

"Then proof you'll get." And that was fact. She heard from a few of her sources - not friends, she had none of those - that Seaford had a few demons in town. They were masquerading as a waitress and bartender at a club there. Why? Because clubs were a hotspot for demon deals.

The car just whipped passed the Welcome to Seaford sign. Hanna smiled. It was almost dark. Perfect timing. The club would be opening soon. Maybe she could get this job over and done with quick.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

"Alright," Reid nodded. He was worried about this whole thing but he just needed to keep his cool and think this all through. He could handle this.

ooc: he's kinda absorbing and wondering and thinking so I apologize for the lack of words on his part right now!

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

Hanna pulled up to a motel that was just down the street from the club. She cut the engine and opened the car door. "Seperate rooms or two doubles?" she asked.

ooc: haha thats ok! Hanna is just determind to make a believer out of him.

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

If she was mentally unstable and considering killing people who were 'demons', he didn't want to leave her alone. "Two doubles are fine."

[so-lessfragile.livejournal.com]

Huh. Hanna was sure he would go for the seperate rooms, seeing she was "mentally unstable" and all but she went and got the one room nonetheless. "Ok, we'll shove our things in the room and head to the club."

[yes-imagenius.livejournal.com]

"Right," Spencer nodded as he grabbed his bag out of the back. He grabbed her bag as well and followed her to the room.