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TWO YEARS LATER...

I sat in a tree in the woods. It overlooked a small wooden cabin, and beyond some more trees there was a pool of fish, most of which ate meat, that my kidnapper fell into while running away as I lost control of my anger. I never intended on harming him. All I wanted was to not be experimented on anymore. It hurt afterward. The rustling of leaves in the distance snapped me out of the terrible memories that plagued my mind. I shoved all of the feelings deep down inside as I saw Reid emerge out of the bushes, covered in torn, blood-stained clothes, cuts, and bruises. I stood on the branch that I'd been sitting on, and wrapped my long, silky, black tail around my waist and down until it was halfway between it and my knee. It looked like a small skirt. I jumped down to the ground, and walked over to the startled, injured, skinny man.

"A-Amanda?" he stuttered. I nodded.

"Get inside. We need to take care of your injuries." I said with no emotion. The experiments had done strange things to my mind and body, and it gave me strange abilities along with the small claws and long tail. It reached down to my heels, even if it is coiled. As for the abilities, I never had chance of controlling my abilities when I felt my feelings, so I stopped allowing myself to feel. We walked in the wooden building and I wrapped a flattened vine around his wounds. It wasn't long until I found the rest of the team and led them to the place I had come to call home for the two, long, painful years after I was kidnapped. We got Reid to a car and I decided to go along and go back to civilization. They already knew that my kidnapper had fallen in the pool and had been devoured by the fish. I didn't say anything the entire ride and when we got back I jumped into a tall tree instead of going inside the building that I called home two arduous years ago. Everyone kept calling my name; telling me to come down.

"C'mon Amanda it's alright, nobody's going to hurt you!" JJ yelled up. I knew that no one would try to hurt me, and I could easily get away without breaking a sweat if any of them did. It was myself that I didn't trust. I didn't want to go into the building and have so many memories of the way my life was before the experiments to be flooded back at me. The life that, no matter who I turned to or what I did, I could never have back. I didn't want to lose control and hurt anybody. Eventually they left me alone in my tree, but Reid stayed. I looked down at him with a confused mind and stone face.

"What are you still doing out here," I asked him, "shouldn't you be with the others?" I heard a small chuckle come from him.

"After I worried about you for so long? No, I'm gonna spend some time with you; even if we're sitting in an awkward silence. It's up to you." he said sitting down against the tree trunk. I looked down at him and remembered when he accidentally told me that he loved me, and I fought myself not to smile. 'NO, YOU IDIOT! DON'T FEEL ANYTHING! YOU'LL HURT EVERYONE!' I looked at my clawed hands as I mentally yelled at myself. I wondered if anyone had noticed my eyes being completely black yet, both the pupil and irises, I mean. I glared at my clenched hands as I thought about the black blood running through my veins do to the man who wanted to play scientist and became fish food. I was finally able to get my feeling 'shut off' again and looked down to see Reid asleep against the trunk of the tree. I jumped down and gathered him into my arms and carried him inside bridal-style. I set him on the couch and turned around to be greeted with the rest of the team behind me, at a distance.

"Well, well, well look at who finally decided to come inside," Morgan quietly joked.

"Derek, be nice, she just got back," JJ scolded him, quietly so that wouldn't hear. I heard.

"I don't need you to defend me. I can fight big baboons myself." I told her. I didn't want to be cruel to my teammates, but I it was just too risky to let anyone get close. Pushing people away was my only option, and this was the only way I knew how to do that very thing. It was then Emily's turn to speak.

"Amanda!" I looked at her, waiting for more than just my name and a disapproving look. After a minute or so I realized that's all she was going to say and that nobody had the immediate urge to say something and nudged past the small group in order to get back outside. Or I was going to until Garcia busted in the door. She wrapped her arms around me and spun me around as I tried to get her to release her grip without tearing up her arms with my claws. "Why are your ears pointy?" she asked.

"Put. Me. Down." I said.

"That doesn't answer my-"

"NOW!" I yelled at her.

"Okay," she replied defensively as she unwrapped her arms from my lithe frame. "Oh, I love your skirt!" she added ecstatically.

"Good for you," and with that I left to go back in my tree, thoroughly surprised that Reid had yet to awaken despite my yelling. I wasn't exactly quiet. Aaron came out later.

"Amanda, we're setting some therapy appointments up for you and you're going to them. Just so you know," he said up the tree, very confidently. I simply looked down at him and offered a curt, little laugh.

"Funny, Hotch, funny. No I'm not and you can't make me." I shot back.

"Oh, Really?"

"Really."

"Might I ask why you refuse to see a professional?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. I knew the game he was playing, and I wasn't going to give him any information so easily, so I decided to be a pain in the butt instead.

"Might nothing, you just did." I told him. I repeat, pain in the butt.

"Ha, ha," he said bored, "but really Amanda, why?"

"Why what?" I said, I knew this act very well.

"You know the question!" Hotch replied sternly. I looked back at him.

"Because it doesn't matter who I go to, they'll never be able to do anything. Besides I want my life kept to me and not just more for you to put into your fancy files. I tired of the things that you try to pull, and by you I mean pretty much everyone in the human race. You can't just keep the wool over my eyes, so just quit trying."

"You are part of the human race, Amanda." he shot up.

"No...I used to be...I don't know what I am anymore, but it's not human." Eventually everyone went home and I was ordered to stay with Hotch so that he could try to force to go to the shrink the next day. In the middle of the night I snuck out the living room window and climbed into a tree in the front yard. From the top I had a great view of the stars as a greatly struggled to keep tears out of my eyes. It was so hard to keep my feelings away with so many great memories of a life I could never get back being shoved in my face, "Why," I whispered to the starry night sky before falling asleep on one of the tree limbs.