This is my first full Criminal Minds Fic and just as with my one shot it involes my favorite Dr. Specer Reid. I'd love and appreciate feedback. Thanks and enjoy.
"Good morning Diana." A young woman in her late 20s said as she approached an older woman who was sitting in a rocking chair reading Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
"Good morning Lisa." Diana said putting her book down.
"You've got another letter." Lisa said handing Diana her daily letter. Diana recieved a letter every day. The postmarks were from all over the country but they were always from the same person, her son, Spencer. " What's he up to now?" Lisa asked sitting down in the chair next to her.
"He's in Kentucky, a man is kidnapping women and holding them somewhere. Spencer and his friends are trying to find him." Diana told her as she read the letter.
"Sounds exciting. Do you think they'll find him?" Lisa asked.
Diana looked up from her letter and smiled. "They always do."
"Good." Lisa said before standing back up and leaving Diana to read her letter in peace.
Lisa had been working at the Vegas psychiatric facility for about a month and she already had a favorite patient. Diana Reid, was a schizophrenic and a brilliant woman. On her first day at the facility she was asked to bring the patients their mail, Diana had been the last one she had to deliever to. Diana had be reading Lisa's favorite book, Felix Holt: The Radical, by George Eliot. Lisa had commented on the book which had seemed to shock Diana.
"You've read Eliot?" she had asked.
"Yes, he's one of my favorites. In fact that's my favorite novel." Lisa had told her. Diana had looked her up and down before saying anything else.
"Most girls your age favor Austen or Bronte" Diana commented.
"Guess I'm not like most girls my age then." The two soon began a discussion of the book. By the end of the conversation Diana had given her approoval of Lisa. Lisa had at one point in their conversation began to wonder why Diana was there at all, until she began to tell Lisa about her son. He was supposedly a genious, having joined the FBI, with some obscure unit Diana called the Behavioral Analysist Unit. According to Diana the unit dealt mostly with seriel killers, even one that Diana herself had know. Hearing her talk about the boy upset Lisa, who had simply assumed that this was the delusion keeping Diana here, so she felt no need to check on the reality of the story with any of the other workers.
The next day when Lisa had delivered the mail she took a look at the name on Diana's envelope. It matched the one Diana had given as the name of her son, at least the boy was real if nothing else, Lisa had thought. Lisa still maintained that the boy was real, but everything else just seemed too outlandish to be anything more than delusion. Lisa soon learned that it wasn't Diana's fault for the illusions, she had read Lisa one of the boy's letters and it was just like all of the stories that Diana told, full of crime mysteries. The only conclusion that Diana could come up with was that Diana's son was a writer, telling his mother stories to make her happy. While she appreciated the contact, Lisa found herself angry that the boy would play into his mother's delusions like this. Lisa shook the thoughts of Diana and her son out of her mind as she went over to Mr. Johns to see if he would like to play a game of checkers.
"What's that?" Derek asked from his seat across the aisle. The team had just finished up a case in Kentucky and were on the jet back to Virginia.
"A letter from my mom." Spencer told him gesturing to the paper.
"You got mail in Kentucky?" Derek asked.
"No, I got it before we left, haven't really had time to read it." Spencer told him as he quickly read through it.
"How is your mom?" Derek was genuinely curious. It wasn't often that Spencer talked about his mom.
"She's good. There's apparently a new nurse on staff, and she actually likes her." Spencer smiled as he said this.
"That's good to hear. Her birthday's coming up soon right?"
"Yeah. Next Thursday, I'm going down for the week."
"We'll miss you kid." Derek said giving Spencer a smile and putting his head phones on.
Spencer smiled back and re-read his mother's letter. His mother seemed happy for once, whoever this new nurse Lisa was, he was glad she was looking after his mother. According to his mother the girl was young, and bright, and they often spoke about books, his mother's favorite topic. He was sort of excited to meet this girl and for once Spencer was actually looking forward to going home.