Given that the Wolf brothers' identities had long since been "cleared," Jack suggested that the entire BAU team go on a "team building" trip.
Even Garcia, who usually stayed in her own little world, was pulled in. They split into several cars and drove in a large group to the Wolf brothers' farm.
When Jack got out of the car carrying bags of ingredients, Chris and the Braxton brothers, along with Justine and her father, Professor Harper, were already waiting outside.
After a brief introduction, Rossi was surprised to learn that he had heard of Professor Harper. As an expert in autism, Professor Harper was quite renowned in the field, with a prolific body of work.
Unlike Rossi, a psychologist who leaned towards practical application and data analysis, Professor Harper, specializing in theoretical research and treatnt, was actually at the top of the academic hierarchy.
The two old n quickly struck up a conversation, grabbed their guns and fishing rods, and went to a nearby stream to fish for bass.
Justine has recovered to the point where she's indistinguishable from an ordinary girl. Her appearance no longer reveals any signs of her past dical issues; to the average person, she's just a sowhat introverted woman.
Of course, this didn't escape the notice of the BAU mbers, who were psychological experts. Before arriving, Jack had given Justine a general overview, especially to Reid, repeatedly telling him not to pay too much attention to her.
Garcia was the only one unaware of the situation, yet she beca the first among them to befriend Justine, because she discovered an incredibly powerful mini-supercomputer in Justine's room.
Justine was overjoyed. She had been eagerly anticipating Jack's arrival, and now, busying herself in the kitchen had beco her greatest pleasure besides the computer.
Previously, whenever Jack visited, he would teach her how to cook several dishes, but today, unusually, she didn't pester him.
The two computer whizzes, and won of similar age, went into the room and never ca out again.
The Wolf brothers, along with Hotchner and Reid, went to set up the firing range, while Jack stayed in the kitchen, where a whole prepared pig awaited his preparation.
Two pretty girls volunteered to help him. Besides JJ, there was also a Native Arican girl nad Alia.
She was Braxton's girlfriend, or more accurately, his fiancée. The two had t several years ago in Wyoming.
At the ti, Braxton was an international rcenary, wandering from place to place, returning ho to search for his brother Chris when he had enough money, and going back abroad to take on more missions when he ran out of money.
Four years ago, Braxton arrived near the Wind River in Wyoming. It was hunting season, and he planned to hunt a moose and test his new Barrett MRAD.
In a small town, he and Alia fell in love. What started as a casual fling turned into a shock as he found himself completely loved by a girl, and the feeling of entrusting everything to her was wonderful.
If it weren't for his lingering thoughts of finding his brother, Braxton might have beco completely imrsed in this relationship and settled down in the area.
He even found a security job at a local mining company and stayed in this icy place for a full six months.
Ultimately, torn between his options, Braxton, persuaded by the understanding Alia, left all his money and painfully departed from his lover.
Alia hated the Wind River Indian Reservation where she was born, a desolate and hopeless place, and she did not want her descendants to live there like she had.
This intelligent and beautiful girl made a promise to Braxton: she would wait for him, waiting for his return to take her away from that place.
"In my perfect world, there is a adow, the wind dances in the branches, the shadows of the trees like leopard spots, swaying on the pond's surface."
"My love, you will wait for there. Until he finds this adow, I will guard every mory of you, even if I am frozen cold in this muddy reality."
"Knowing you is already perfect; my heart is filled with solace."
This was Alia's poetic and poignant lant. Now, as she sat on the porch, washing carrots, she sang it again in English mixed with Native Arican chanting, deeply moving JJ who listened.
Fortunately, Braxton didn't keep this beautiful and kind Native Arican girl waiting too long. Soon after he and Chris settled roughly on the farm, he eagerly brought her to Los Angeles.
Alia had typical Native Arican features. When she first arrived in Los Angeles, her health was poor; she was still suffering from the aftereffects of tuberculosis and dysentery.
These infectious diseases, long since eradicated from the general population of the country, still ravage the Native Arican reservations.
Of course, this young woman, barely in her early twenties, has long since recovered her health with Jack's help, which has sparked her keen interest in alternative dicine techniques like massage.
Now, Alia is diligently pursuing her studies, aiming for a Master's or even a Doctorate in alternative dicine.
Jack spent almost half a day processing a whole pig. Luckily, it was a free-range pig less than eight months old, weighing less than 140 pounds; otherwise, with the two girls' help, he wouldn't have finished in a day.
The most ti-consuming part was processing the offal. The idea that Europeans don't eat animal organs is a misconception; old European cuisine included a plethora of offal dishes, including delicious sausages.
However, with the developnt of the food industry in Europe and Arica over the past century, and the fast pace of life, the tradition of Arican housewives making their husbands traditional kidney pies and other nutritious dishes is long gone.
After all, a slaughterhouse now processes thousands of animals daily, making the sorting and sale of offal a costly process. Over ti, animal offal has gradually disappeared from the tables of Europeans and Aricans, especially North Aricans.
Jack's predicant was entirely his own doing. Once, he and his brothers hunted a wild boar. Seeing the fresh-looking offal, and considering that California's environntal pollution was within acceptable limits compared to other parts of North Arica, he secretly took so back and cleaned it.
He then made a large pot of fragrant stew, intending to enjoy it alone, but out of mischief, he secretly added two spoonfuls to his brothers' dinner.
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