So it's my first fan fic! *Cheers erupt*
Disclaimer- I don't own Criminal Minds
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Reid's Fear
The team knew he was afraid of the dark.
They didn't know why, but they knew he was. They would never leave him afraid and alone in the dark.
So he wasn't alone, but that couldn't stop him from hyperventilating.
"Reid, don't worry, the team will be here soon." Said Morgan.
"It's the dark." Reid replied in between breaths.
"You okay, pretty boy?"
"No."
No! No, Please don't!
Reid remembered calling out.
"Don't leave me in here!" Reid called. "No!" He pounded on the locker door. The darkness was suffocating, and he had nothing to do but stand in it for two days. It was the weekend; the cleaning crew wouldn't come till Sunday. The bullies knew that he wouldn't have any food or water, they just didn't care.
"Reid, it's just the dark." Said Morgan, snapping Reid out his memories.
"To you, it's just the dark. To me…"
Another memory surfaced.
"Mom! Mom! Let me out!"
"You're not my son! Where is he? What did you do with Spencer?"
"Mom I am Spencer! Let me out of the closet!"
Diana Reid was having an episode, and she wouldn't let Reid out of the darkness until the next day. He knew that, it had happened so many times before.
"What Reid, why are you so scared of the dark?" Morgan asked.
"It reminds of…" he trailed off. He knew Morgan was wondering, but he didn't want him to know.
"Come on Reid, you can tell me."
"Sometimes, when my mom was having an episode, she wouldn't believe that I was her son, and she would lock me in the closet all night. And the kids at school… they would just leave me in a locker all weekend. And my mom would never notice." Reid explained.
At that moment they heard a door open outside, someone yelled F.B.I. and the closet opened, letting in the light so that Reid and the team could see the shocked look on Morgan's face.
"Reid…" Morgan started.
"Forget it, Morgan. I'll be fine. Can't change the past." Reid stopped him.
He couldn't change the fact that Reid was afraid of the dark.