Spencer snatched up the phone just as the first ring finished.

''Where… Where are you keeping her?'' His voice was stern but it wavered slightly as he spoke into the corded telephone.

''Doesn't matter, Spencer. How could it? She was dead before we pulled out of the lot.''

''I will find you,'' Reid tried hard to catch his breath, now, anxiety enveloping him quickly.

''And when I do, you had better pray.. that I have the restraint not to empty my magazine on you and your filthy friends…''

''I ache for our next meeting, Spencer. Until then.''

Click.

Reid gazed downward as he dug his nails viciously into his thighs. His body went numb, but he just barely felt a press to his shoulder. He crumbled underneath the hand, his chest beginning to heave as his head fell into his hands.

Morgan kept his hand pressed against the racking shoulders for a moment longer before Reid shook them off, immediately standing and pushing past Hotch, who was just entering the area.

Hotch didn't need an explanation. Reid's exit and the glassy eyes of the team members explained the entirety of the phone call.

Reid hurried frantically into the mens restroom, his eyes clouded over with tears and his knuckles white with pain.

He paced back and forth for a moment before stopping at the long concrete wall, pressing his forehead to the cool rock in submission. He held his stomach as salty tears poured down his cheeks in a frenzy. He slammed his fist furiously against the wall, his body aching from the gut-wrenching sobs he now emitted.

Reid turned away from the wall, and slid down into a sitting position against it. He buried his face in his knees as the sobs racked him harder.

With any other case it would be different.

Up until now, all of the threats of his mothers safety were empty and merely ploys to capture his attention and throw him off guard.

Then this one…

This unsub was far too prideful to lie about his work. It was too far into the investigation for them to ignore any of his threats of claims. He wouldn't confess to killing her if he hadn't actually done it.

For Reid, this was the end of the single most important person to him in the world.

And it hit him like a ton of bricks.