I always go back to my other stories. This will be my most daring story yet. The location is semi-fictional on purpose.
Inspired by an "Elephant's Memory." At the age of twelve, Reid snapped and killed a student. Over twenty years later, he works as a mechanic and tries to keep his head down. The BAU seek him out as a copycat is poised to strike.
Wrong Turn
Prologue:
Only in Vegas would a kid wearing nothing but garbage bags attract no attention. Holding the bag around his middle, he opened the door to find his mother passed out on the couch as usual. He walked into his room and quickly put on some underwear, jeans, and, a t-shirt. He then crawled into bed buried his head into his pillow, and cried. Reid howled into his pillow until his voice went weak. Until all the pain and humiliation poured out.
"SPENCER!" his mother screamed, jolting him awake. "You're going to be late for school."
He turned away. "I don't want to go to school."
"How will you learn if you don't go to school?"
"But they're mean to me," he said.
"Don't let them get to you. You love school."
"I don't anymore," he said.
"Just go to school today honey, please," she said.
"Fine," he said getting up.
"Good boy," she said and closed the door.
Reid sighed. He'd go to school and keep going to school. Then when the time was right, he'd go to school ready, for revenge.
Chapter One:
Hotch took a step outside Las Vegas West High School. He just needed a moment to breath. Gideon followed him out.
"You okay?" He asked.
"There's just a lot of blood," he said gasping for breath.
"One shot to the stomach and then one to the head. He wanted the boy to suffer briefly before he killed him."
"What could have the kid done to him to deserve death?" Hotch asked. "What could he have done?"
"That is what we're here to find out," Gideon. "I know this only your second case and we don't usually analyze these situations, but the Director asked me personally to help out and I wanted you to join me."
"Why?" he asked. "I know nothing about interviewing kids, especially homicidal ones."
"I want you to learn," he said calmly. "We're going to encounter monsters of every form."
"I don't ever want to encounter a kid like Spencer Reid," Hotch declared. "Never."
