The clock is ticking. I'm due at work in about an hour. Let see how much I can write. I'm not usually one to shout "first!" but I am today.
What If
Chapter One:
He held his mother as she slept in his arms on the couch. He watched as she slept so peacefully. It had been a horrible experience for her. One that he would spend the rest of his life guaranteeing she would never have to endure again.
Sleep did not come to him as his mind drifted. Drifted back to Catherine Adams and what she said. They deserved each other in ways he was still refusing to admit to himself. Yet he became more intimate with Catherine "Cat" Adams in that short period of time than he had with any woman in his life, include Maeve sadly. He was not in love with her by any definition of the word but they were bound to each other for the rest of their lives.
The truth was Cat wanted to save Diana, which is why she lied. Lied to the closest person in her life she could call a lover. She lied in the end because she wanted him more. Obsessed with controlling his life. Her guaranteed their relationship was bound for life.
A DNA test would be conducted to confirm what Reid already knew. The team didn't understand and thought he was being paranoid. But he understood the game she was playing was much larger than any of them.
Reid always wanted a child and she knew it. She didn't so much care about the child as she did that every time he looked at his or her face he would see a reminder of the pain he went through and the darkness he had succumbed to. Reid would never call his child a demon. He would love him or her unconditionally. Yet Cat Adams saw this child as part of a long game, one that he would spend the rest of his life refusing to play.