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mommy-mystic · 9 months

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📚 July Reading Wrap-Up 📚

Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel - James Markert

Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children - Angela J. Hanscom

Nora Goes Off Script - Annabel Monaghan

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Novel Proposal - Denise Hunter

The Diamond Eye - Kate Quinn

After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid

📚 TBR: The Weaver & The Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec that I purchased @ The Bookworm in Edwards, CO today.

🫧 A Bookish Journal Entry 📖

🫧 July 2023 has been a wild month! Truly, I don't think I've ever read this much in my life. But, it's a lovely hobby that's been helping me get through all the stress of traveling, work, toddler parenting/potty training, my husbands deployment, my pregnancy, etc! Prioritizing a little bit of escapism/quiet time in my life outside of my responsibilities helps me feel refreshed. Actually, it helps me feel alive. Sinking into a story for a few days feels so much better than mindlessly scrolling through social media during restful moments. I can actually hear myself think. I can sort out my emotions with a little more clarity. These are my beneficial side effects of my experiment in becoming a summer reader.

🫧 Also! I'd say 4 of these books were borrowed from my local library and/or the Libby App, one was a copy I had around the house, another a copy I borrowed from my mom. So, truthfully, reading has been a rather inexpensive hobby for me this month. It's nice to know I haven't been splurging on the things I usually would (furniture, craft supplies, and sundresses seem to be my kryptonite). I love that though. I love that when I do go to the bookstore to purchase a new release, it feels like a treat. I love that when I return a library book I really enjoyed, I feel like I'm sharing the experience with my community ~ like somebody has loved this too, & someone else will come across it for the first time, like I did, and we will have that little memory in common, though we may never cross paths. That feels really beautiful to me!

🫧 This month, I read my first 2 Silvia Moreno-Garcia books and I fell in LOVE with them. Her stories are insane and magical and perfect and all-consuming. Those and Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel were positively masterpieces. As was The Diamond Eye I listened to as an audiobook. A thrilling, captivating work of historical fiction. I also added in a few romance books. One was a silly audiobook written by Annabel Monaghan that got me through a complicated week of chores and working and travel preparations, and the other was a precious Christian romance beach read by Denise Hunter that actually warmed my heart. Romance books without the 🌶 are definitely more my speed, I bashfully admit.

🫧 July was a lot. It was wonderful and heart wrenching. It was easy and very, very hard. I'm so excited for the rest of the year ahead. For the stories I've yet to crack open and for the ones I'm about to create for myself. I'm excited to find magic in everything, I'm excited to give my children a world of adventure, stories, magic, learning, acceptance, coziness, hope, faith, & goodness.

🫧 I wasn't expecting so much passion for life/books to come over me after a short visit to Barnes & Nobel with my mom and daughter in May of this year - but visiting a gorgeous bookshop cafe in a little mountain town today with them, it all came full circle.

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dawnwave16 · 4 years

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Not what I expected

Please note there are mentions of suicide in this chapter, please don’t read it if this makes you uncomfortable!

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Chapter 9

Having said that she turned on her heel and walked a little way away from the group and dialled the bakery.

Sabine was the one who answered the phone and she quickly confirmed that the four adults with them were there to help. Upon hearing this Alix relaxed and the rest of the teens followed suit. After heading onto the Liberty and settled in for what promised to be a long conversation. The teens told the BAU team as much as they could about Lila arriving at the school and everything that followed. How she had targeted Marinette almost immediately, how she had been making suggestions about what they class could do that would supposedly help them “make it big” but from what their group could see, it was slowly making them destroy whatever chance they had of achieving their dreams. They spoke about how they had taken a good look at their own actions when they had realised what was going on and realised what they had done to Mari was not right at all and so they had each gone to her and apologised.

Marc, Nathaniel and Alix all explained how they kept all of Mari's art supplies in their lockers in the art room as they were worried that someone might get the bright idea to destroy them. The list just kept going and throughout it all, they made sure to keep an eye out for Akuma's as they knew they would be prime Akuma bait with everything being spoken about and none of them wanted to deal with that. Once the teens were done it was the BAU teams turn. They admitted that they couldn't reveal everything yet but did fill the teens in on what they could. It was nightfall by the time they were done talking so the team agreed that it was time for them to head back to the hotel. The teens decided they would have a sleepover instead as Luka had the boat to himself that night. So, after saying their goodbye's the four of them headed back to the hotel.

By the time they reached the Hotel they had worked up quite an appetite, so they called the rest team and asked what they wanted to eat, placed the order for room service, then headed up. When they got to the room they were surprised by how quiet Garcia was being however before they could ask Garcia spoke.

“Two things, firstly I will give you the details of what I found after we've eaten as if I start now, none of you will want to eat. Like at all. We've had bad cases but what I've found makes those cases seem so normal it's scary. Also, Jack is still in the room and I don't want to give him the same nightmares I know I'm going to be having. Anyway, the second point is more of a question for Emily.”

“What's the question, Garcia?” Prentiss asked as her friend stopped to take a breath.

“Do you still have your contacts in Interpol?”

The team gasped at the question. While Jack wouldn't understand the implications of it the team did, what they had originally thought to be a case of getting rid of a bully was so much bigger.

“I'll call and ask if any of them are in Paris at the moment and get them to meet us here in an hour if you'd like?” Prentiss answered.

“Please do.”

The next hour passed relatively quickly, they had eaten and tried to keep themselves distracted and it worked for the most part. As soon as Jack was in bed and the Interpol agent, Clyde Easter, had arrived Garcia knew it was time to start.

“If I could turn your attention to your tablets you will see the files of three other girls have been sent to them. I know this seems random, however after going through our little Mari's old phone and looking at how 'Lila' had basically convinced all of Mari's friends to join her in what amounts to cyberbullying, I knew I had to look deeper. My first point of call was looking into Lila Rossi specifically only to find that she didn't exist prior to joining Collège Françoise Dupont, like at all. If we look at the school records the day she first joined Mari's class she was actually enrolled as 'Nekane Layla Kelly' originally from Basque. About the only thing Nekane hasn't lied about is that her mother is an Italian diplomat. Anyway, she was born in the Italian Embassy in Basque and attended school there until she was 10 when her mother was transferred back to Italy as Nekane's grandmother was dying. They spent two years there before heading to Spain for two years and finally came here to France. She didn't change her name until she came to France as she felt that it would stand out too much here. Now I know it's normal for diplomats to move but except for the first one there wasn't a reason given for the change.

Anyway, I looked at her old classmates and found something weird. If you look at the files for Aisha Robinson; Tamiko Norris and Amara Mogami you will see that not only are they similar in looks to Marinette but they also have multicultural parents with one being Europian and the other being Asian. This may seem minor at a glance but all three girls were in the same class as Nekane and two of them committed suicide shortly before Nekane moved. Aisha attempted to commit suicide too however her babysitter got concerned when she didn't respond to the call to come down to eat and went to check on her then called for emergency services who were able to save her. In each of the girl's cases, they were fairly popular at school until Nekane joined their class were upon their classmates turned on them and started bullying them. Aisha doesn't talk much anymore but she has had to be changed to homeschooled as she can't handle being around people her age anymore. In her case her parents supported her however in Tamiko and Amara's case, the girl's parents believed what everyone was saying about their daughters.”

The team was silent as they listened to Garcia, JJ had tears running down her face at the thought of what could have happened if Marinette's friends hadn't rallied around to support her. Emily had closed her eyes, as a diplomat's child herself, she knew that frequent moves happened, but that they always had a reason. Clyde had also closed his eyes, he'd dealt with a lot of nasty things while working for Interpol but this was something he never thought he would see. He looked at the age that Nekane Kelly would have been at the time of each of the other girl's suicides and realised that she would have been about 10 for the first 12 for the second and 14 for the third. He looked up as he realised this and repeated his thought out loud so that the rest of the team could hear it too. Reid made the connection first.

“She's targeting Marinette as her fourth victim. Unlike our other unsubs, she get's her satisfaction from playing with her victims' lives and destroying them without having to kill them herself. I think the deaths are inconsequential for her, she just likes seeing her target suffer. Marinette is suffering but she isn't letting Nekane get her way. She's speaking out more and hasn't let herself be isolated, she changed her phone number but rather than let her old number be reassigned she kept her old phone to help get evidence of what's going on. Do we know if the other three girls were targeted at school the same way Marinette has been or was their's only cyberbullying?”

“According to Aisha's parents it was at school as well,” Garcia replied. “I only looked into the cyber side thanks to Marinette's phone. I saw several messages telling her she should just kill herself and spare the world, among other things. They all started when Nekane rejoined the class.”

“According to the group of Mari's friends we spoke to earlier, the bullying from the class started at around the same time. They mentioned that one of the more aggressive girls still calls herself Mari's 'bestie' but is the first to put her down if 'Lila' even looks like she's even mildly upset. The girl seems to think that Mari is jealous of 'Lila' being interested in the same boy as Mari, yet according to her friends Mari and the boy, Adrian, have agreed to just be friends until the boy completes at least another year of councilling. They didn't say what he needs that for but it does show that those that truly know Mari know the truth. They also mentioned that the two might not date at all and that it depends on how they both feel at that time.” Morgan commented before he and the other three who had met with Marinette's friend group told the team what they had found out. Hotch followed Morgan's example by telling the team about what happened in the bakery.

“Before the three of them left I got the mother's name and said I'd like to speak to her, Nora said she'd stay up and talk to her parents when they got home. Hopefully, I'll hear from them soon as I have a feeling there's more to the babysitting story then we know,” Hotch concluded.

It was then that his phone rang, apparently they would be hearing from Mrs Césaire much sooner then they had thought.

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dawnwave16 · 4 years

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Not what I expected

Quick notice before we dive into the chapter, I will be visiting family tomorrow so I am not sure if I will be posting a chapter or not as I don't know if I will have time to write one. I post as I write so within about half an hour of a chapter being finished it's posted.

Also, I hadn't planned on writing Jagged and Penny's wedding but if you would like me to I will do so as I do have some idea's for it. Please just let me know in an ask or even in the comments! I don't think it would impact the plot but hay, it might make a nice fluffy piece. If I did write it would just be a one-shot side chapter much like Jack's day...

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Chapter 8:

The team nodded and with that, they all separated to get to work on the tasks Hotch had set for them.

Hotch made his way to Tom and Sabine's bakery with Jack walking excitedly next to him. He was still babbling about how pretty his sister looked and how kind she was. He kept repeating how much he loved her already and how happy he was that he had the best big sister in the world. He hadn't run out of steam by the time they arrived and walked through the bakery doors. Two little girls were trying to choose which sweet they wanted while an older girl watched them. During a pause in their debate, they heard what Jack was saying and a sad look crossed their face. Their big sister noticed and spoke up.

“Ella, Etta, what's wrong? Any time another child says that their sister is the best you normally argue that Ayla is better than them, this time you just looked sad. Is everything alright or did you fight with her?” Hotch heard the name Ayla and decided to listen in as the girls replied.

“We didn't fight with her Nora, how could we have she never babysits us anymore.”

One sulked before the other continued, “Every time Ayla is meant to look after us, she sneaks out to go on a date with Nino.” Without thought, the two started to tag-team to explain what was happening, first one then the other then back to the first with every sentence

“It wasn't so bad at first, Ayla used to get Mari to babysit us so sometimes there was us, Chris and Manon all together and she would teach us first aid or how to sow something simple like fixing a button or if she was really busy she'd let us watch a movie.”

“But recently Ayla has been getting another girl, Lila to babysit us and all she does is tell us stories and they are all about herself, they aren't even very good.”

“She says she never lies but if you listen to her everything is a lie as she says she knows people who are dead.”

“She said she rescued Jagged Stones kitten but we all met Jagged the one day when Mari was looking after us because he face-timed her to ask her to make him some more sunglasses and saw we were there so he played a mini-concert for us.”

Hotch and the others listened in slight horror to what the twins were saying. How long had Marinette had to babysit four children all at once? Did the rest of the family know? Hotch glanced at the big sister's face and knew that she hadn't known what was going on at all. He could also tell that the girls had something else they wanted to say so he knelt then he asked a question he knew would prompt them into revealing it.

“Was there anything else? I promise you won't get into trouble for answering no matter what it is.”

“Yeah, when we called her out on her lies the first time, she said that she doesn't lie, just tells people what they want to hear.”

“She then said if we tried to tell anyone we would regret it.”

By this stage, the alarm bells were ringing loud and clear in Hotch's brain. His team had chased unsubs that had less experience covering their tracks then this girl. He wondered which other psychopathic tendencies she displayed and how long she had been targeting people. He turned to the big sister.

“My name is Aaron Hotchner and I work for the FBI in America. I know by french law it is illegal to have recorded what your sisters sad without permission but I wasn't fast enough to have asked before they started speaking. So I recorded them as they spoke, I'm now asking for your permission to keep the recording so that we can hopefully build a full case against this Lila girl before she can hurt anyone else. We will be contacting Interpol as soon as we have enough evidence to move forward.”

“Nora Césaire and with pleasure. I know one of my sister's, Ayla, is already under her spell but I'm hopeful with time and help she can come right. I know my sister isn't perfect, she's stubborn; brash and can be very impatient but she's usually loyal and kind. If those traits are being turned against her I want to help free her before she destroys her future.”

Hotch nodded and handed Nora a card as a precaution then wave as the sisters left. He was very grateful to Tom for distracting Jack before he could hear what the girls said.

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Morgan and Reid had been wandering through the city acting like normal tourists for most of the afternoon. They hadn't spoken about the case but they had made sure that they were talking about anything and everything that crossed their minds simply so that nobody would think them suspicious. They had just wandered closer to the Seine and Reid was rattling off the fact that the river is 777km long when they bumped into a teenaged boy with blue eyes and dark blue/ black hair with teal tips.

“Whoa, sorry about that we should have looked where we were going,” Morgan apologised.

“It's alright,” replied the teen. “I was so busy looking at my phone that I wasn't concentrating on anything around me. I should know better.” As the teen went to put his phone away, the screen lit up briefly to show a picture of Marinette, the teen in front of them and two others. All of them were dressed in clothes suited to going to a rock concert and all of them had the tips of their hair dyed. Marinette's tips were pink, the other girl had red tips and the last teen was blonde with green tips. The teen noticed the screen light up and checked it again.

“Dammit Adrien, we were meant to have a jam session today,” he muttered after reading the message. “There again, I can't exactly blame this on you. Your pops is an asshole for making you do yet another photoshoot today despite you booking it off two weeks ago.” He then looked up at Morgan and Reid, “Sorry about that, my friend just had to cancel our plans for the afternoon. I'm Luka by the way.”

Morgan introduces himself to Luka then Reid did the same. “I couldn't help but notice the picture on your phone, what concert were you going to?”

“Oh, it was a Jagged Stone concert. My friend Marinette managed to score us some tickets so we dyed their hair with chalk just to complete the whole 'rock' vibe Mari was going for when she designed our outfits. I think the tickets were meant to be for some of her other friends but in the end, she chose to take us instead.”

“Why'd you think that?” Morgan asked with feigned curiosity.

“Look, no offence man, but I don't know you and I don't feel comfortable telling two strangers about my friend's problems,” Luka stated firmly, which made Morgan smile.

“That's probably the best attitude to have.” He said with a reassuring smile. He was just about to continue speaking when he saw JJ and Prentiss walking towards him. They had a group of 5 teens with them that waved to Luka.

“Hey, Luka, do you have time to talk? We know Adrien is supposed to be joining you for a jam session this afternoon,” the black-haired boy in a hoodie asked.

“Yeah, he had to cancel thanks to his dad why, what's up?” Luka responded.

This time it was the red-haired boy that spoke. “We were drinking juice while we were walking when the two ladies with us stopped us and asked about the whole Hawkmoth thing and we kinda got talking about Mari and how she is the only one from our group to never have been Akumatised. That led to talking about her a bit more and then we saw you so we thought we may as well get everyone together so that we don't have to repeat anything.” The redhead looked embarrassed as he spoke.

“Ah makes sense then.” Luka looked thoughtful then spoke again, “Since we are right outside my place, let's make sure we all know each other's names and make sure these four aren't going to kidnap up or anything, then head in. At least that way we can all sit down as we talk. I'll start us off, I'm Luka.” The teens nodded then they each said their names as did the four members of the BAU.

“Kagami,” said the stern-looking girl with shortish hair the same colour as Marinette's.

“Aurore,” this time it was the blond girl.

“Marc,” the boy in the red hoodie said with a shy wave.

“Nathaniel,” the equally she redhead said with a wave.

“Alix,” the final teen introduced herself.

“Alright I'm SSA Derek Morgan and these are SSA Emily Prentiss, SSA Jennifer Jareau aka JJ and Dr Spencer Reid,” Morgan said as each team member waved when their name was said. “We work for the FBI in America and have met Tom and Sabine as well as Marinette, you are welcome to check with them before you talk to us if you prefer.”

The teenagers exchanged a look before Alix spoke up, “I think checking with them first would be our best bet, I'd rather not risk my friends or my own safety by talking out of turn.” Having said that she turned on her heel and walked a little way away from the group and dialled the bakery.

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