When Reid's Mum dies suddenly Reid takes off without any word to the team. The team work on tracking him down and hopefully bringing him back to Virginia safely.
I also want to note that for this story Emily never left the BAU and none of the team know anything about Reid's parents.
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Reid was awoken by his home phone ringing at 3:45 am, he groggily got out of bed and made his way over to the phone to see who was calling at this ungodly hour.
"Hello?" Reid asked
"Dr. Reid?" the man asked
"Dr. Norman is everything alright?" Reid asked
"That's what I am calling about Spencer. Your mother died in her sleep, I am very, very sorry for your loss." Dr. Norman said
"I am on my way." Reid said
"I will make sure nobody touches her things." Dr. Norman said
Reid hung up the phone and let one single tear run down his face before he turned to his bedroom and grabbed his satchel. He then wrote a letter to the team and taped it to the mailboxes with a note for the mailman and walked out the door. From there he got into a cab and headed to the airport so he could get on the 8 hour flight to Las Vegas. By the time he reached the airport at 4:30 am and was on a flight by 6:00 am.
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By 6:00 am Hotch was already up and about to leave his house and make his morning commute to the BAU. By 6:30 am Hotch had arrived at the BAU and was starting on his days paperwork in an effort to get it under control. Hotch was working away and noticed that it was after 7:00 am and Reid hadn't come in yet, this was odd because normally he was in and was getting a coffee by now. Hotch decided to brush it off, maybe he had slept in or the metro had broken down.
It was now 8:00 am and the entire team was now in sans Reid, this was now really starting to bother Hotch so he gave Reid a call but no one picked up. Then Hotch went out into the bullpen to ask the team if they had any idea what was keeping Reid.
"Does anybody know the whereabouts of Reid?" Hotch asked
"Last I saw him was last night when we went to see a Russian film together." Emily said
"I saw him at work but that's all." Rossi said
"I saw him at work as well." Morgan and
"He seemed fine yesterday. I could go to his apartment and take a look if you'd like." JJ said
"Thanks JJ."
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JJ got into her personal vehicle and made the short commute to Reid's apartment, when she arrived she immediately went to the second floor where Reid's apartment was situated. When she got to the door she knocked four times before she grabbed her cell phone and called Reid's cell. When JJ could hear Reid's phone ringing in the apartment JJ decided she should go in and see if everything was alright.
"Reid?" JJ said
"Reid I am coming in, just to let you know." JJ said
JJ put the key into the lock and quietly opened the door, when she walked in all of the curtains were still drawn and the bedroom door was open but no sign of Reid anywhere. JJ opened the bathroom door and again no sign of Reid. She then decided to call the team over and see what they would like to do.
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3:00 pm
Reid was now off the plane and was walking towards the rental car desk, he was looking around him and trying to re-acclimate to the climate of Las Vegas. When he got to the rental desk he asked for the cheapest car they had and the lady gave him the keys to a Kia Rio and then he was on his way to Bennington Sanitarium. On the drive there Reid was constantly zoning out and thinking about all of the good memories he had with his Mum even after he had her committed. He remembers one day in particular, it was the day he stayed in and let his Mum read to him from one of her first editions.
He turned off the highway after traveling for an hour and a half to Bennington. He parked his car and couldn't bring himself to get out, so he sat in his car for 10 minutes contemplating going home. He wasn't sure if he could do this or not, but after debating with himself he decided that it would in fact be best if he went in and got her belongings. Reid walked to the front desk and was met by Dr. Norman.
"Dr. Reid I would just like to say how sorry I am about your mothers death." Dr. Norman said
"Thank you Dr. Norman." Reid said
"I am going to assume you would like to do this by yourself." Dr. Norman said
"Yes please." Reid said
"If you need anything you know where my office is." Dr. Norman said before walking to his office
Reid started walking down the hallway to the room on the end, this time though it felt like a much longer walk than it normally was. When he reached the door he grabbed her name plate before entering. Once he was in the room he sat on the bed and wrapped himself in it so he would have the familiar sent of his mother around him one more time. He then grabbed her suitcase from the locked dresser and started re-folding her clothes and neatly putting them in, with each garment he stopped and remembered his mum wearing them. When he got to the bottom of the last drawer he noticed a legal envelope and got immensely curious as to what was in it.
He sat down on the bed again and opened the envelope and started to tear up at what he saw. Inside the envelope was every news article that Reid had been mentioned in and many different screen grabs from news conferences. Then he started wondering where his Mum was getting all of these pictures. So he walked to Dr. Normans office and decided to ask him.
