I Just Wanted You To Love Me
xStarletx
A/N: Hello everyone. Have you figured it out yet? Lol If you haven't you will in the next chapter. Don't forget to review!
Chapter 2
Reid sat staring at the picture pushed in front of him. The picture of the Author he had never seen a picture of before was shaking between his fingers. For some reason she was familiar, something about her layered shoulder length hair, those big brown eyes her small pointy nose. Everything about her was familiar, like an old memory just waiting to pop up. He just couldn't place her. Suddenly he was aware that Gideon was trying to talk to him.
"Pardon?" Reid replied, looking up to Gideon.
"You're looking at that picture as if it holds all the answers." Gideon repeated. Reid shocked.
"Her new book came out today, but she went missing yesterday? Then how did Reid get a new book? We were all certain it was Raven sending the books." Emily mused in the background. Reid didn't want this to be about his stalker, he wanted this to be about finding the unsub before he killed Raven.
"Well maybe the publisher will know something about that." Morgan offered.
"Good you can check that out." Hotch ordered, "Emily I want you to come with me, we're going to check out her friend, and Gideon and Reid will go to her apartment." Everyone nodded and then disappeared to do what they were ordered to do.
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Morgan walked into the small publishing firm an easily found the person in charge of Raven's novels. Ms. Tartan was a small stout woman with a hooked nose and thin lips.
"You're here about Raven." She stated. Morgan nodded.
"We were looking into this book. It arrived this morning." Morgan whispered, handing the bound book to the publisher. Ms. Tartan opened up to the first page and then handed it back.
"She always sends the first two batches of the freshly printed books to Spencer Reid and Dianna Reid." Ms. Tartan replied. Morgan was a little surprised by this, she sent a book to Reid's mom too?
"Why those two?" Morgan asked.
"I don't know." Ms. Tartan responded. "Now, unless you plan to use this book to find her, I suggest you look somewhere else for my missing writer. She owes me one more novel."
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Emily stared at the small dangerously thin, nervous girl standing in front of her. She looked only to be nineteen maybe twenty. Her blue eyes were rimmed with black circles from lack of sleep. She was definitely afraid. Her name was Sarah and she was Raven's best friend
"How long have you known Raven?" Hotch asked.
"About four years." Sarah whispered.
"And she came to stay with you when Dalen escaped?" Emily asked, trying to clarify.
"Yes, she was so scared he'd come to kill her. He was furious when she turned him in. But what else was she going to do? He handed her the murder weapon and told her to hide it." Sarah cried, as if trying to defend her friend.
"It makes perfect sense Sarah, what made her go back to her apartment?" Emily asked.
"Her pictures, she wanted her pictures." Sarah cried. "The only picture she had left of her stupid brother, the jackass that dropped her in that stupid boot camp when she got to embarrassing for him. I begged her not to go, but she needed that picture. She was afraid that he'd take it and it's all that she has left of her family."
"She has a family?" Hotch asked.
"Her mother's in a psyche ward, and her brother works for some level of the government, he doesn't talk to her." Sarah explained. Hotch immediately took out his phone.
"Garcia, I need you to look up the name Raven A. Stallcroide." He then thanked Sarah for her time, and then took Emily back to the car. Sure enough Garcia called back.
"Hey Hotch, up until about 3 years ago she didn't exist. It says it moved from Scotland, but there's nothing else on her." Garcia stated.
"But Sarah said that she's known Raven for four years." Emily whispered, Garcia was on speaker phone she had heard everything.
"Sarah was in and out of foster care, she was sent to a Quarters Boot Camp in Las Vegas Nevada for two years." Garcia offered up.
"So she must have met Raven there. Who did she bunk with?" Hotch asked.
"No Raven but there is a… Oh My God…"
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Reid stood in the open space, he could see a water fixture outside in the courtyard, he could see it outside the window.
"Looks like we found your stalker." Gideon whispered. Reid moved into a room off of the living room, in it was a typewriter and a wall filled with pictures and articles of him and his team. On the desk were rows of photos in various frames. At the near front was a frame he recognized. He picked it up and found that he felt like his breath had been knocked out of his chest. There she was, Raven A. Stallcroide, only in the way he finally remembered her. Long dark black hair, the same pointy nose and that smug smile that her lips turned up into. Spencer felt his heart skip a beat, now it all it made sense now, why she was sending him the books, why she was calling him and hanging up, why she sent the notes with the book. His stalker wasn't a stalker at all, and worst of all he knew exactly who she was.
Gideon came in from behind him, Spencer quickly pocketed the small picture.
"Are you ok Spencer? You look like you've seen a ghost? Do you finally recognize her?"
"No, not at all." Spencer lied.
=O oh no! He lied! Who do you think she is?? =P Neways don't forget to review! - tell me Should Raven die at the end or live to stalk another day? =P
