Reid woke up to find Tobias kneeling next to him putting the belt back around his arm.
"Tobias?"
"Sorry, I had to leave for a while."
"You.. you could leave again, and take me with you."
"My father would be angry." Tobias said as he drew up more of the drug.
"Not if he can't find us." Reid begged.
"He always finds me."
"If you tell me where we are, my friends... will come and save us." Tobias flicked the needle to get the air bubbles out.
"We can't be saved."
"We can... we can, I promise. If you tell me where we are, I'll save us both." He was trying to pull away.
"Listen to me. It's not worth fighting." Reid's lip quivered and he looked down at his arm.
"Tell me it doesn't make it better." Tobias said. Reid couldn't answer. It did take him away from this hell for a little while. But he still didn't want it. Or did he? Tobias injected him, and again Reid fell into unconsciousness. This time Reid saw himself talking with his mom, telling her to get out of bed. That she needed to get out of bed. It ended with him getting in bed with her and having her read to him.
JJ walked over to Garcia.
"Anymore sign of Reid?"she asked. Garcia shook her head.
"He just.. posted the last murder online. It's had almost 17,000 hits in the first twenty minutes." She sounded disgusted.
"I wanna see it." JJ said quickly.
"No you don't" Garcia said, shaking her head.
"Don't... tell me what I want and don't want." Garcia looked up at her, concerned. JJ shifted uncomfortably.
"If I can't watch this... I have no business being in the field."
"Jege, it's not a competition."
"I need to see it." she said.
"If you stop being affected by things you... loose parts of yourself, you know?" Garcia tried, but JJ wouldn't stand down.
"Show me." she said. Garcia sighed and taped a button on the keyboard and stood up.
"I won't watch it with you." and she left the room. The video began to play and JJ sat down.
Morgan, Emily and Ally concluded that where ever Reid was, Tobias took him there, not Charles. It would have been Tobias' place to get away from his father. JJ came in the room then.
"Where's Gideon?" she asked
"He's upstairs," said Morgan.
"Why? What's going on?" asked Ally.
"Hankel just posted the latest murder."
"I don't understand. Why can't we shut it down?" Gideon was pacing quickly behind Garcia wringing his hands.
"Cause I can't pinpoint his IP address,"
"Well just remove it once he sends it,"
"It's the internet sir, once something's out there you can never take it back." said Ally from the doorway she was leaning against. Gideon mumbled something then said;
"Can you please do something? Anything, I do not want him thinking he has a pulpit." He sounded more frustrated than angry.
"I have a list of everyone from the file sharing chain. I can send out a mass warning that the video is really a virus-"
"Yes, do that." Gideon said, interrupting her.
"Ok I'll do that." And her fingers flew across the keyboard.
"No. NO!" yelled Charles as Garcia's fake virus warning popped up on the computer screen. He spun around to face Reid who cringed at the furious look on his face.
"They're trying to silence my message!"
"I can't control what they do. I'm not with them. I'm with you."
"Oh really," Charles said and suddenly the video of Gideon telling Reid the recent murder wasn't his fault popped on screen. He wanted to cry. Tobias shut down all the laptops and walked over to him.
"You think you can defy me?"
"I don't know what he's talking about." Reid said pleadingly.
"You're a LIAR!" Charles yelled, and Reid's lower lip quivered. Charles spotted something then on Reid's arm and grabbed it, roughly shoving the sleeve up. The track marks.
"You're pitiful! Just like my son." Reid whimpered and hung his head. He closed his eyes and tried to think of being anywhere but here. The team, his mom, Ally...
Charles placed the video camera back in front of Reid and turned it on.
Garcia, Gideon and Allison all froze when Reid showed up on the screen.
"This ends now." Charles said. Allison's heartbeat began to quicken, and she saw Gideon visibly tense when the man spoke. "Confess your sins."
When Reid didn't answer Charles smacked him hard across the face. Garcia jumped and the sound and Allison shut her eyes briefly.
"Confess!"
"I haven't done anything." Reid sobbed and was smacked again. Allison felt tears stinging the corners of her eyes.
"Tobias help me..." Reid squeaked pitifully.
"He can't help you. He's weak!" Charles spat. "Confess!"
"Tobias..." Reid pleaded, and was hit for a third time. Allison was trembling slightly, trying so hard to look away from the screen but couldn't and Garcia had an iron grip on the hand Gideon had placed on her shoulder. Tobias yanked Reid's head back by his hair.
"Confess your sins." Charles said quietly in his ear. Reid squeaked out a 'no', and Charles shoved him, the chair flying backwards and crashing to the floor. Reid began gasping for air and convulsing on the floor.
"Oh my God, he's killing him." Garcia said aloud. Her and Gideon both leaned closer to the screen as Allison backed up to flee but was frozen in place when suddenly Reid's spastic movements stopped, and he was still. They heard Tobias say;
"That's the devil vacating your body." Ally turned and walked as fast as she could from the room, bypassing JJ, Morgan and Emily who were in the kitchen, unaware of what had just taken place. They all saw her though. JJ and Morgan followed her outside while Emily went into the other room to see what had happened.
"Allison?" JJ said. She was sitting on the porch steps now.
"Carter, what happened?" Morgan said. JJ held up a hand as if to say 'let me handle it'.
"Ally? Ally, what happened." she said and sat down next to her. She was simply staring out into the yard, her hands together as if in prayer over her mouth.
"Ally." Morgan said from the other side of her.
"Hankel... the fathers personality got mad. Something Garcia did pissed him off," She said slowly and quietly. "He beat Spencer.. knocked the chair over... he went limp and I left." JJ looked over to Morgan and they exchanged a knowing look.
"He could be dead..." Ally whispered.
Morgan went back into the house and JJ helped Ally up and back in as well. Neither of them knew what to say to make the situation better.
"You did the right thing." Gideon said to himself as he paced in the bathroom. "You had to stop the video. You did the right thing. There's no question."
"Jason." Hotch said as he opened the door.
Tobias was back on screen, giving Reid CPR. Allison had regained her composure and was hanging onto Morgan. Reid began coughing and the whole team let out a sigh of relief.
"Wait, wait a second. What time was the last murder posted?" Emily asked.
"9:23." said Garcia.
"And when was the death?"
"The 911 call came in at 9:04, and the murder must have been moments later." said Hotch
"That's only a 19 minute difference," said JJ.
"How long would it take to post the mpeg?" asked Morgan.
"Two, three minutes."Garcia said.
"Well lets call it two. You figure a max of sixty miles an hour in a residential area, that means Hankel has to be within a seventeen mile radius from the crime scene." spouted Morgan.
"Garcia can we see it on a map?" asked Hotch.
"I want that area locked down like its Marshall Law." Gideon said when the area in question came on screen. JJ picked up the phone to call the sheriff.
"Guys!" Garcia said, and JJ came back.
"You came back to life."
"Raphael" Reid whispered.
"It can be only one of two reasons."
"I was given CPR." Reid said breathily.
"There are no accidents. How many members are on your team?"
"Seven with out me."
"The seven angels who rang seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound." Hotch and the team stared at the screen. "The first sounded and followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown to Earth."
"He thinks it's Revelations. The seven arch angels versus the seven angels of death." said Hotch. Tobias pick Reid up off the floor.
"Tell me who you serve." said Raphael
"I serve you." said Reid.
"Then choose one to die." Every one's eyes grew wide. Not again.
"What?" Reid said. Allison tightened her grip on Morgan.
"Your team members. Choose one to die."
"Kill me."
"I thought you said you weren't one of them."
"I lied."
"You're team has other members. Tell me who dies."
"No." he said. Ally was trembling now. Tobias pulled out a gun. She sucked in breath when it was pointed at him. Tobias spun the barrel and snapped it back in place.
"Choose. And prove you'll do God's will."
"No." Tobias pulled the trigger. Ally cringed, as did every one, but nothing happened. Tobias re-cocked it.
"Choose."
"I won't do it." Reid was running out of fight, that was very clear. Tobias pulled the trigger.
Another blank. Allison had to be cutting the circulation off to Morgan's arm by now.
"Life is a choice."
"No." And another blank was fired.
"Choose." Reid couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't stall anymore. That bullet had to be coming up soon.
"I...I choose...Aaron Hotchner." Every one looked over to Hotch, who's expression was nothing less than shocked.
"He's a classic narcissist. Thinks he's better than every one else on the team. Genesis 23:4, ' Let him not deceive himself in trust, and emptiness, vanity, falseness and futility, for these shall be his recompense.' "
Hotch fled from the room, none of the others knowing what to say. Tobias lifted the gun over Reid's head and fired. It was the live round, and Reid cringed at the sound. Tobias replaced the bullet.
"For God's will." said Raphael.
The team found Hotch reading through a bible a few minutes later.
"I'm not a narcissist," he said, and Gideon was the one to answer him.
"Now, come on. Look. You can't think anything from that. He's not in his right mind, Hotch,"
"No," Hotch interrupted. "Stop. Stop. All right, everybody right now, what's my worst quality?" No one dared to say a word. "Okay. I'll start. I have no sense of humor."
"You're a bully," JJ blurted out.
"I'm a bully,"
"You can be a drill sergeant sometimes," Morgan said.
"You don't trust women as much as men," Emily said.
"Yeah, that one." added Ally.
"Okay, good. I'm all these things, but none of you said that I ever put myself above the team, because I don't. Ever. Reid and I argued about the definition of classic narcissism, and he knew that I would remember that, and he also quoted Genesis, Chapter 23, Verse 4. Read it." He handed the bible to JJ.
"I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me property, forbear a place among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight,"
"He wouldn't get it wrong unless it was on purpose," Hotch explained, and Morgan raised his eyebrows.
"He's in a cemetery." he said.
"I don't see a cemetery." Emily said as they stared at the map on the computer.
"Call up the first time we saw Reid." Gideon said, and Garcia obeyed. Reid popped up and was talking.
"I won't choose who gets slaughtered, and have you leave their remains behind like a poacher." He said and Hankel came into view scaring him. Garcia paused the video.
"Check to see if there are any reports of poaching in the last few days." Hotch said.
"Ok..uh, farmer reported two sheep being slaughtered on his property." she said.
"Where we talkin'?" Morgan said. Garcia zoomed in further on a rectangular cut out on the map.
"What's that patch of green there?" JJ said frantically. It too got highlighted.
"Marshall Parish," Hotch read aloud. "I think it's an old plantation."
"Wait, Tobias wrote in his journal's about staying clean and keeping away from Marshall." Allison said.
"Guys, there's a cemetery on the grounds." Garcia said quietly.