Hello, my name is StarMaya and welcome to 'Don't you touch him'. This is a Reid-centric story with NO SLASH but just ups and downs.
I will try to leave warnings in the beginning of every chapter but no promises.
Just go ahead and read!
Warnings: Cliffhangers ahead and beyond. Mild cussing
Summary: With Strauss gone, they now need a new boss but suspicion rises when the new boss is rude toward Reid. Does the new boss have a bone to pick with Reid or is he after Reid? The team must protect their youngest from this monster of a boss.
/Don't you touch him/
The team listens to the gentle hum of the jet's engines as they relax from an exhausting 3 days in Georgia.
Hotch and Rossi sit in two chairs across from each other and by the window doing paperwork while JJ, Blake and Morgan sat in the next bunch of chairs playing cards. Reid on the other hand, lay across the couch with his arm over his eyes and book on his chest, sleeping away the evening and terrors that is their job.
Morgan gets up to get a drink and passes by Reid. He stopped momentarily to smile at the sleeping Reid. Morgan grabbed a bottle of water and placed it in his spot and headed back to Reid. He stopped short in front of Reid and looked at him. Morgan rarely saw Reid sleep so he decided to savor the moment where he wasn't getting force fed random facts about trees or why bottle water can be unhealthy for him.
Morgan came out of his thought when Reid stirred a little and shifted his book on his chest, almost closing it but Morgan snatched it up before it could and looked at it.
Crime and Punishment by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Morgan opened to the page that Reid was on and automatically hurt his head. The freakin' book was in Russian!
Morgan shook his head at Reid but looked at the page number anyway and told himself to remember it: Page 366.
Morgan closed the book and set it by Reid's abandoned shoulder bag.
"Poor kid tired himself out from the case." Morgan turned toward Blake as she looked at Reid.
"Yeah, but you have to admit, he did pretty damn well on the case."
Everyone nodded in agreement and Morgan thought back to the case as he sat back down at the table.
-Macon, Georgia: 2 days ago-
The room was silent as everyone stared at the evidence. They just couldn't put it together.
The unsub murdered 5 woman; different ages, heights, weights, body presence, and background. They all lived in random spots in the city and never knew each other. Even Garcia was getting frustrated. The only one who seemed to be up still was Reid. He had a marker in his hand and was staring at the board, eyes flicking here and there, picture to picture, trying to find a connection.
"Another body was found by the Wal-Mart a couple blocks over."
Reid turned toward the group as they stood up to leave. Reid didn't want to go, he needed to stay with the facts and figure it out.
"Reid, you coming?"
"No… I need to figure this out. Just send the information to Garcia and I."
Hotch nodded and grabbed his coat, leaving Reid to his facts.
Within the next 10 minutes, Garcia called Reid.
"Hey Garcia."
"Hello my angel! I got the information for you from Hotch. Want me to send them to you now?"
"Yes please."
"Sent to your pad, good luck."
"Thank you Garcia."
The phone clicked off and Reid broke his attention from the board and focused on his pad.
Katherine Amberstone;
26, brunette, brown eyes, went to college with a degree in Animation, boyfriend named Adam, happy family.
Reid wanted to tear his hair out. There was no connection!
Reid printed out Katherine's picture and posted it on the board and just stared at the picture.
He stared at it for 30 minutes with absolutely nothing.
I just need coffee…
Reid walked out of the room and into the police station to get some coffee when he heard a tapping noise. He stopped in his tracks and saw a police officer tapping her pen against the desk but that's not what stopped Reid. He stared at her for a while until she stopped and started writing… using her LEFT hand.
That's it!
Reid turned on his heel and ran back to the conference room and looked at the pictures. He pulled out his phone and dialed Garcia.
"Computer Goddess at your service."
"Garcia, can you check to see if all the victims are left-handed?"
"Sure thing… give me a second. Got it and yes they are all left-handed."
"Thanks Garcia."
Reid hung up the phone before she could respond and turned back toward the board. He hurried toward the map and marked Katherine's address AND dumpsite. The two dots were diagonal of each other so Reid went to every victim's profile and marked their address and dumpsite, finding out that the dots are all diagonal of each other. Reid looked for a second before jumping and drawing a dot on victim #1's area. Reid marked the last known whereabouts and the dot was symmetrical with their address. He connected the dots and it made a 'L'. Reid did it to the other victim's and saw that they all had 'L's.
When he finished, he also noticed that the L's were slowly spinning in a circle around a blank spot in the middle. Reid drew a circle around the area and dialed Garcia.
"What's up buttercup?"
"Garcia, how many left-handed people live Macon?"
"Uh…. 10."
"Take out the victims."
"Okay… 4."
"Okay, what are the addresses of those 4?"
Garcia gave a bunch of addresses to Reid and he started marking them on the map, the first 3 being too close to the edge of the circle and the last one being just in the middle.
"I got it! Thanks Garcia!"
"Welcome kiddo."
Reid hung up on Garcia and quickly dialed Rossi's number.
"Rossi, I think I got something."
It took the team 5 minutes to get back to the station and sit down at the table as Reid briefed them.
"The unsub looks for left-handers. The locations of the dumpsite, last known whereabouts and their addresses of the victims all make an 'L' spinning around a circle. I called Garcia and she told me a woman lives right in the middle of the circle, who is left-handed."
"Alright, let's go. Good job Reid."
Reid nods a thanks and grabs a bullet-proof vest and follows the team to the SUVs.
When they arrived at the possible victim's house, they heard crashes from inside so they took position around the house, along with a few other police officers.
"This is the FBI, we're coming in!"
There was a moment of silence before a silent scream rang through the house. Morgan took it as a sign to break down the door. Soon the police officers and the team were running around the house, trying to find the Unsub and victim. Reid turned down a hallway that seemed to lead to a bedroom but was wrong.
When he opened the door, he nearly fell down a flight of stairs but caught himself. Reid went silent for a second and was about to walk down when he heard a faint whimper from below.
"Jordan Hunt, We know you're down there. Surrender now."
Reid said it loud enough so the other police officers and his team could hear him. Unfortunately, Reid had to go down there by himself as he heard the victim's screams get louder.
"No! She is the devil and must be punished!"
Reid walked down the steps of the basement and came face to face with the Unsub and the victim.
"She is not the devil. She is an innocent woman who happened to be left-handed."
"They were surrounding us! They were going to take our souls!"
Reid took a breath and heard his team stop just above the stairs.
"They weren't going to hurt you and she isn't going to either, right?"
The victim nods quickly but the Unsub tightens his hold on her hair.
Reid has to come up with a way to get the Unsub away from her so he does the only thing logical… He lies.
"Did you know that I'm ambidextrous?"
The Unsub whips his head and looks angrily at Reid.
"In case you're too stupid to know, that means I can write both right and left handed."
The Unsub glares at Reid.
"So does that mean I'm half angel, half devil or that I'm the devil in disguise?"
The Unsub stands up quickly, letting go of the victim and points his gun toward Reid who quickly points his gun as well.
Then two gunshots ring out…
There's a moment of silence where no one moves until the Unsub falls down in pain and Reid runs toward the victim and Unsub.
"Reid! Are you alright?!"
"I'm fine! He missed."
The team comes down and sees Reid helping the victim out of her binds. Hotch looks over at Unsub and sees him holding his leg in pain.
"You shot him in the leg?" Reid turns toward JJ and nods, handing the victim to her.
The next few moments go by quickly but the team couldn't be prouder of Reid.
-Jet-
Morgan comes out of his recollection as the jet lands safely on the ground at Quantico, Virginia. Once the jet has completely landed, they all pack up.
"What should we do about Reid?"
"I don't want to wake him."
"… I got him."
Everyone looks toward Hotch as he hands his stuff to Rossi and heads over to Reid. Everyone was expecting him to wake Reid up but instead Hotch slipped his arms underneath Reid's shoulders and knees and lifted. He turned around to face the team.
"Remind me to get him to eat, he's too light."
Morgan laughed as the girls cooed over Reid.
They all walked out of the jet and into the Quantico night where Garcia was waiting for them with some kind of pastry. She had a smile on until she saw Reid and automatically thought the worse.
"What happened to him?! Did he get hurt?!" Garcia softly petted his hair and looked for cuts or bruises.
"He's fine baby girl. He fell asleep on the jet and no one wanted to wake him up."
Garcia calmed down and took them all to the SUVs, where they all packed in and drove back to the BAU.
Once they got there, they all agreed to stay with Rossi over the weekend to have some family time but before they could leave, a mystery man walked in.
"Is this the BAU team?"
"Yes. I'm special agent Hotchner."
Hotch held his hand out to the mystery man who took it respectively.
"Hello. My name is Zack Riley. I will be taking over the section chief position for Ms. Erin Strauss."
Everyone went silent as to give a moment of silence for Strauss.
"Welcome! My name is Penelope Garcia, I'm the technically analysis."
Riley shook Garcia's hand as she beamed brightly at him.
"As you met Garcia, this is also special agents Jennifer Jareau, Alex Blake, Derek Morgan, David Rossi and Dr. Spencer Reid."
Riley shook everyone's hand until Hotch said Reid's name and no one was there to shake his hand.
"And where is this Dr. Spencer Reid?"
"Oh he's sleeping at the moment. He just came back from a tough case an-"
"Weren't you all at the case?"
Hotch straightened up at hearing Riley speak so coldly.
"Yes but Dr. Reid did a significant part of the case, tiring himself out."
Riley shook his head.
"That is no excuse. I want to meet this Dr. Reid."
Riley started walking toward Hotch's office but JJ stepped in front of him.
"We really rather you don't. He barely sleeps as it is and we want him to catch up. Plus, the kid deserves a break."
Riley looks at JJ.
"Kid?"
Morgan steps behind Riley and crosses his arms.
"Yes, Reid is the youngest of all of us so we call him kid."
"How old is he?"
"He just turned 30."
Riley took the information in but stood his ground.
"A grown man in the BAU should not be sleeping on the job, excuse me."
Riley pushed through JJ and climbed the stairs to Hotch's office, the team not far behind.
Riley looked toward the couch and saw the young agent sleeping. He looked behind him briefly and saw the team coming up the stairs quickly so he shut the door loudly, waking the man.
"Wh-?"
"Good morning agent."
Reid looked toward the voice and saw an older man standing before him. He sat up and smoothed out his hair, still feeling tired.
"H-Hello. Do I know you?"
"No. My name is Zack Riley and I'll be taking the position of Ms. Erin Strauss."
Reid rubbed his eyes and took the information in before standing before the man.
"It's nice to meet you. I'm special agent Dr. Spencer Reid."
Riley held his hand out to Reid who held his hand up in a wave. Riley slowly lowered his hand.
"Is there something wrong with shaking my hand, Doctor?"
Reid looked wide-eyed at Riley but shook his head.
"N-No! I just don't shake people's hands. I never had so don't take it personally."
Spencer gave him a smile but Riley just turned to walk to the door. He opened the door, showing the angry team behind it but that didn't scare Riley. Just before Riley walked out, he turned toward Reid who looked utterly confused.
"Oh and agent, I will be looking into your file soon. You seem to be an interesting… man and I want to make sure you never slipped up like you just did. If so, consider this a warning."
Riley smoothly walked out of the office, leaving Reid shocked at the hostility of his new boss and the team furious at the man. They didn't move except for Reid who stood by his family. They watched Riley walk toward the glass doors before stopping.
"It was very nice to meet you all and I'm sure I'll meet with you again. Good night agents and… doctor."
The man walked out of the room, leaving a shocked and angry atmosphere.
"What the hell just happened?" Everyone turned toward the tired Reid as he yawned.
"Jerk face just bullied you, that's what!"
Reid flinched under Garcia's harsh tone but she came to him and started petting his hair.
"I don't like the way that guy spoke to you Reid." Everyone agreed with Rossi on that.
Soon Reid yawned loudly.
"I think I should go home."
"I'll drive you pretty boy. You're too tired to drive."
"… Okay."
Everyone gathered up their stuff and walked out of the building, going home after a tiring and confusing night.
/Don't you touch him/
That is part one of this story. I'm actually really happy with this story so far!
Please favorite, follow and review for me and I will get the next part up soon.
~StarMaya~