Story: Lost and ¿Found?
Author: Sarahwradcliffe
Chapter: ONE
General Disclaimer:
I don't own anything you might recognize…
Author's Note:
You should probably take into consideration this story WILL BE SLASH.
Summary:
It has been a year since anyone has seen Reid and now, while on a new case, Morgan is absolutely sure that he had found his missing lover in one Jonathan Peace. Is it true and if so, what happened. SLASH.
CHAPTER ONE
It all happened before so fast it took them a while to realize he was missing. They had been working for three weeks on a very difficult case in a very little town on the outskirts of Nevada and they had been stretched thin. Several women where being abducted and they were being mummified, they internal organs appearing in several parts of town and the police force there was not big enough to handle everything so they had helped. The crime scenes were brutal and gruesome and more so because they each had to visit them y themselves to try and cover them all before another women was killed. They had taken three scenes each and it was Reid that had realized the presence of a satanic statue in all of his crime scenes and that had been the break they had been waiting for.
The investigation had been simple from then on, a phone call to Garcia to see if anyone in town had some connection to any satanic cult and a five minute search later had produced one name. Aurora Genzo, a 45 years old woman with a military background and a title in taxidermy. They were supposed to drive straight to the police department after their search and when they all got there; local police had already gotten a hold on the woman and Hotch, Gideon and Morgan had immediately moved to interrogate them. She told them where she was hiding the missing woman and Prentiss and JJ quickly went to get her. After that, Aurora had completely shut up and no amount of pressure form any of them had made her talk. When Prentiss and JJ had returned with good news from the hospital JJ noticed it.
Spencer Reid had yet to appear.
Morgan moved to call him while JJ called Garcia and told her to track his phone; none of them even made them to the phones when one of the local policemen entered to report and abandoned vehicle, the exact same vehicle that Spencer had been riding.
The search had been exhausting, even today, a year later, Hotch wondered how his youngest agent, his friend, Spencer Reid had vanished without a trace and no one knew anything.
They had all taken it very hard. Garcia's usual bubbly self had vanished that day finally realizing that the evilness that passed through her computer screens had found a way to seep into her life darkening her usually happy self.
JJ had never lost hope that she was going to see him again. They had worked hard on Spencer's case for a while until other cases had forced them to put it on the backburner and eventually realizing it to the local police who treated it as just another missing person. She still checked up on the progress of the case even when there has been no progress in ten months.
Emily missed him; it was clear that even when their start had been very rocky they had grown on each other. She kept her walls up all the time but it was always the little things that made her break. She broke down when she had found Spencer's coffee cup in the cabinet and no one had been able to comfort her, none of them knowing how to.
Gideon blamed himself. No matter how many people told him there was nothing he could have done, he still blamed himself for it. He had taken to spending his free time with Diana Reid, reading to her and keeping her company. He had also taken on the expense of her treatment and when the rest of the team had realized it they had started depositing some money on his bank account, if he had realized it he hadn't said anything.
He himself felt as if he had lost a son, and he guessed that in a way or another he had. Reid was their youngest and they had all felt the need to protect him from the big bad world they lived in and they all hurt knowing that they hadn't been able to.
No one was sadder about Spencer's disappearance than Morgan. Hotch sighed as he watched his agent writing a report by himself in an isolated part of the bullpen. They had been forced to accept someone new as part of the team but no one lasted more than a couple of weeks, the lack of cooperation from everyone and the active hostility against them had them placing their transferring papers quick enough. The one who antagonized them more was Morgan and Hotch had a feeling that there had been more than just friendship between his two male agents.
JJ walked toward him and told him that they had a new case. He nodded at her and moved towards Gideon's office only to find him silently staring out of the window.
"Gideon, we have a new case." He said.
"It has been a year." Gideon answered ignoring Hotch's previous statement. "Do you think he is still alive somewhere?" he asked and Hotch sighed.
"I… I don't know." He answered truthfully. "I don't know what to think anymore." He finished and Gideon nodded at his answer.
"We better move, the others are probably waiting." Hotch moved to let Gideon pass and as he was closing the door he saw Spencer's picture in Gideon's desk.
He moved towards it and smiled at it. It had been Spencer's first birthday with the team and if it hadn't been for Garcia, Hotch was sure they wouldn't have even known but somehow Garcia had made him tell her and she had prepared him a surprise party.
The picture that held in his hand was the picture of that day and of one of Spencer's rarely seen true smiles.
He sighed and smiled sadly at it placing it silently back on the desk.
"No matter what, I hope you are ok." He said before closing the door.