I'm still working on SOL, but I got an idea while watching Criminal Minds that I had to write real quick. It's just a short one, maybe two-shot.
Related episodes are episodes 2x15 (where Reid is kidnapped by Tobias Hankel) and 11x18, (in which Morgan leaves the BAU)
Enjoy!
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Reid's face paled, losing every bit of color it had. His breath quickened and his fingers thrummed against his leg. He inhaled slowly, trying to calm himself. It took him a second to realize that no bullet had been fired.
"We're closing in. ETA four minutes," Hotch growled, his hands tight around the steering wheel.
On the other end of the phone, Morgan and Chazz were talking- arguing, had long since tuned them out, suddenly recalling an all-too-familiar memory.
Charles pointed the gun at Reid, telling him to choose. Unlike when Tobias handled Reid, his kidnapper's hand holding the gun was steady. One unlucky shot and Reid would be dead.
"I said, Choose!" Charles yelled, taking a menacing step forward. Reid flinched and began trying to talk his way out of being shot.
His words were slurred, and stuttering, and even in his murky phase, Reid knew it was no use.
Charles cocked his gun, his finger resting on the trigger, pulling it back slightly. Reid shook his head, and Charles drew the trigger back towards him.
Click.
Reid shook himself out of his stupor with a gasp. It hadn't been a final shot, not yet. More words were being exchanged, as the SUV took a sharp turn
"This is my fault, you understand? No one else's," Morgan's voice filtered through the phone. Garcia took a shuddering gasp, and worry radiated off of everyone in waves. Reid closed his eyes as Morgan continued, "And if this is how it ends, it was meant to be."
There wasn't a bullet in that chamber, but Reid knew statistics. And statistics said that if he had already used several, the next shot would have Reid's name written in blood.
Reid's eyes met his captor's, and flitted to the gun. He took a deep breath and gave the one name he could think of through his drugged haze.
"Hotch. A-aaron Hotchner," He whispered in a raspy voice.
"Look after Savannah and the baby. Please," Morgan said his goodbyes, and Reid realized Hotch stepped on the pedal, sirens blaring.
The cocking of a gun, the few seconds of silence in which everyone knew the trigger would be being pulled, and then
Bang.
Please leave a review and look forward to a possible follow-up chapter which will take place in 11x18, and is between Reid and Morgan.
Happy Holidays!
-PineappleKiwiMango