Sal-e13 – Good question! You'll find out a major hint to that in this chapter! Thank you for reviewing, it means a lot to me! : )
"Sir, can you hear me? Do you know where you are?"
Reid blinked until clarity came, sounds increasing in volume as he came to.
"Sir, I have to ask you not to move. Who can I contact for you?"
"...Hotch. Aaron Hotchner...BAU.." Reid sat up on his elbow, much to the disapproval of the paramedic. "I'm fine."
"Mr...Reid? Dr. Reid. You swerved right into that semi." Things went fuzzy again. Black.
"No...No, I swerved to the left, to avoid hitting a girl...She was just here. Is she okay?"
"I'm fine but you won't be. James is dead. James wasn't the man." The girl sneered at Reid, arms tight over her chest.
"That's why you need to stay until my team arrives."
"I don't need the police!"
"We're not the police..."
"You made me kill a man—You-you killed him!" The girl shouted angrily. Before Reid could move, she snatched his gun from his waist and aimed it at Reid. "First Vicki, now James Regan. You're on a very brief trial Dr. Reid. My uncle is a great marksman you know. He murdered his wife but got away with it. He'll still get away with it when he kills you!" The gun went off. Reid bit his lip hard at the pain, shutting his eyes tight to not see, to not hear.
"Hey, hey kid, it's okay!" Morgan shouted, a hand clamped on Reid's shoulder. Reid opened his eyes to see a hospital room. Various beeping machines. A nurse leaning over him. And Morgan.
"No..I was shot. My leg..-Morgan, Hotch probably told you about a girl I saw who needed help. She was the one to kill James Regan. She thought he was her uncle—She's been abused by this man, the same man who murdered her aunt. I think she's suffering from Stockholm because now she's protecting him. Yet she tried to commit suicide on the road out there and I swerved to avoid her. She hates me now and is going back to her uncle because she knows she'll die in his hands. She has my gun and said I should be wary of my life. Either she's telling him I gave her the gun to kill him and he'll come after me for revenge...or her psychosis is strong enough to believe she can kill us both for letting her down. I don't know, but I need your help."
Morgan stared blankly at Reid, trying to process all this information. He happened to glance at the nurse, who silently told him to let it go for now. Morgan looked back at Reid. "Kid, you need to rest. Hotch is out there with the rest of the team. I'll go talk to them."
"Well?" Prentiss jumped up from her chair when Morgan entered the waiting room.
"Hotch, do you know anything about a girl Reid's been making contact with? Because apparently now she's a suspect."
Hotch's demeanor changed. The team watched his every move. It became inevitable to keep this from them now that Reid had admitted she could be responsible. After he relayed information to them, Morgan repeated what he had heard.
Hotch started slowly. "Everybody, Reid's just been in a car wreck that had a fatality in it. He's going to be unnerved once he hears of the death of his other neighbor..As much as this present case matters, our UnSub is directed, has targets. She's not disorganized or unstable enough to go on a spree—not yet. I want you to all find information, as much as you can, but don't be obvious. Not until Reid is back on board with this case.
The team nodded and waited for their agent to be cleared.
"How's the leg?" Prentiss asked mildly, bringing Reid a cup of coffee.
"Oh, thanks. And, uh, fine. It's pretty much healed, actually." Reid smiled, taking the warm hot and sipping it slowly.
"Great! I heard it was quite a gash."
"Actually more of a puncture. A bullet's diameter can never exceed in length enough to create a gash." Reid's technical voice came.
"Ha, yea. 'Bullet' of a glass shard. Never heard it put that way before. I thought glass was just glass." Prentiss grinned, deciding to sit next to Reid at his office space. Reid gave her a quizzical look. She seemed to think it was a glass injury.
"Pretty boy! There you are!" Morgan pulled up a chair and sat next to Reid. "If you're up to, I'm going to need a description of your girl. For the profile."
"Oh, right, um...She's about 5'3'', thin. Real pale with deep-set brown eyes. Her voice is timid and young, even when she's angry. It's like she knows this personality isn't hers; she's not used to being assertive..." Reid's voice trailed off as he thought.
"So..putting on a false identity. That's got to put a lot of stress on her." Prentiss commented, looking between her two teammates.
"She's not used to males. I'm not threatening in the least. She came to me because of that. Even then, her uncle's really damaged these views to her. I'm pretty sure she's been through sexual abuse.." Reid spun on his chair, eyes half squinted in thought. Only partially in his reveries, he nearly jumped to suddenly grab the phone.
"This is Dr. Reid with Behavioral Analysis Unit."
"Perfect. I know your exact location."
"Excuse me...who is this?"
"Tovrea. Amber's uncle. I caught her with your gun. I know you sent her to kill me. You're a dead man. Eye for an eye."
"...Sir, please, it was all a misunderstanding."
"365 Preston Apartments. 5th floor. 3rd door on the left. Sleep well tonight Agent Reid."
The phone line went dead and Reid went pale. He slowly hung up the phone.
"...Kid?"
"I have to find her. Now." Reid got up quickly, grabbed his coat, and left the BAU.
"Um...Morgan?" Emily's voice came out, rather unnerved.
"I know, but Hotch said to let him be..."
"No, Morgan...we had an electrical surge not too long ago. JJ sent an email to all the staff saying the phones wouldn't be working until the electrician came at 11:00..."
"...And it's 10:35 now..."
"...Look, the car wreck. It's probably just his head injury." Prentiss voice became leveled again.
"He never had any head injury. His passing out was from loss of blood from where the glass gashed his thigh. There's no way he could have hit his head anywhere."
"I think we better get Hotch..."
So I got permission from a super cool video maker on YouTube to use their trailer for this story. And since I had no path or plot planned at all, now I do and it's going to be extremely helpful! I know my writing skills suck, but I'm sure now that with this, they'll grow MUCH better! The question is, should I start a new story, or add the trailer's plots onto this story? xD
