Mannequin

by DragonsintheMoonlight

When Reid was little, he was kidnapped by a serial killer that targets young boys. When he escaped he never told anyone what happened to him. But when Reid recognizes this killer's MO at one of the crime scenes, will he finally have to confront his past and tell the team what happened to him when he was younger? Title will eventually make sense. Lots of bromance and family dynamics

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Criminal Minds

Reid's POV

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Blood leaked down my arms as I ran through the woods, a mix of both mine and his.

My glasses were broken on the left side, causing my vision to be partially blurry, but it didn't matter. I couldn't see anything in the pitch black of night anyway. Clouds covered the stars and the moon was new.

I collapsed briefly by a tree, panting.

You get one minute, I tell myself. One minute and then you have to run again.

I don't think he is following me. For all I know, he is dead. He fell when I pushed him; he is at least unconscious.

I hope he is dead, but I doubt it. All I did was stab him with a dull pocketknife a couple times and somehow manage to push him back through his own trapdoor.

I'd been in that room for two days… alone in the dark, except for when he was there. I preferred being alone though.

He'd kept calling me Gabriel, saying he was sorry; he just wanted me, Gabriel, back.

I get up again. I can't rest anymore, not with the risk of him still being alive, with the risk of him waking up.

I continue running.

I hitchhiked home with a nice old man. He tried to take me to a hospital, but I told him I was fine; I just needed to get home.

I didn't have him drop me off at home, of course. I knew that if I did, he would try to come back and make me go to the hospital later or talk to the police about what happened.

But no one needs to know what happened.

He dropped me off at a familiar place I knew I could get home from. And I did. I snuck in through the window that night. My mother didn't even realize I was missing for three days.

That's okay though. It is better than if she had noticed. She has enough stress going on as it is.

No one ever needs to know that he kidnapped me, or what he did…

Or what he was going to do.

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AN: I've been wanting to write this story for a while now and have finally decided to start writing it. I tried yesterday, but was having trouble coming up with a way to start. Now that I have, I'll post the next chapter as soon as possible, which will be much longer than the prologue.

-DragonsintheMoonlight :)