PRESENT DAY

"So she was raped?"

Emily Prentiss asked out loud in disbelief, but her voice was filled with a mixture of sympathy and remorse. Doing the job she did, she saw a lot of sexual sadists and torture she didn't think was imaginable, but each time she heard it, the thought still made her nauseous.

Reid nodded and looked at his hands.

"…Did they ever catch him?" Morgan asked as he leaned against the edge of the table in the boardroom.

Reid shook his head as he flipped through some papers in front of him, "No. The case went cold. Vegas is a hot spot for crimes like that, and there weren't any other reported attacks with the same description. The cops couldn't even find any trail on him, it was like he had vanished."

His voice was tinged with a bitterness as Reid remembered that day.

"And when she found out she was pregnant, she didn't want to, um…" Prentiss stammered on her own curiosity as she scratched the side of her head, wondering if it was right to bring up someone else's past. She couldn't help it though, this woman was only a few years her junior and she couldn't imagine if anything like that had happened to her. It wasn't something she wished on anyone, but the fact that she had raised a child on her own was undeniably brave and something Prentiss found a great amount of respect for.

"Nope," Was Reid's short reply before he finally gave up playing with the file folder in his hands and tossed it onto the table. He ran a tired hand through his sandy hair and sighed as the flashbacks came rushing back to him. He remembered waiting in the hospital with Dave, filling out the police reports, holding Katelyn's hand each time she had to do a line up at the station, and being there for her when none of them was the guy who attacked her. He remembered when Katelyn told him she was pregnant and that it was definitely a product of the rape attack because she hadn't been with anyone in a while. And he remembered knowing she was going to keep the baby before she even said it.

Reid shook his head and shrugged, "She has too big of a heart. She's not religious, not even a little bit, but she couldn't have an abortion. Even under the circumstances that Keira was conceived, she said she couldn't blame the baby for what happened to her. She didn't care that she had no money or family to help out, she says all you need is love in the world and everything will be ok," Reid smiled slightly at the thought of remembering her say those exact words. "She can be really stubborn…"

Morgan and Prentiss smiled at the thought and Reid shook his head again as he tidied up the papers beside him. "Um, I'm going to go check on her and make sure she's ok… Can you guys check with Garcia and see if there's anything of whether or not a car was used?"

"No problem kid, and hey," Morgan looked into Reid's eyes as he turned around. "Don't worry Reid, we'll get her back."

Reid nodded and tried to smile before he left the boardroom.

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"I thought you quit?" Reid asked gently as he stepped outside of the police station and found Katelyn leaning against the exterior wall with a cigarette in her hand. She jumped slightly from his sudden appearance then composed herself before she shrugged a reply.

"It's been two years since I last had one…" She said, but her expression seemed distant as she studied the cigarette between her fingers before inhaling. Spencer slowly walked up to her, hands in his pocket, and cautiously leaned against the wall beside her. She had wiped the smeared mascara from her face in the washroom of the station earlier, but her eyes still remained red and puffy. The smile she attempted at Spencer was a great contrast to the expression on her face. "Do you think this counts as a fall from grace considering the situation at hand?"

Spencer chuckled softly and shook his head, "Nah, you could never fall from grace, Katie… Maybe fall off the wagon, but never from grace…"

She gave him a smile, this time a genuine one, and then flicked the cigarette butt to the ground. "Thanks, Spence…"

He smiled gently at her and she let out a large, shaky sigh. "Spencer, what if… What if she's…?" She couldn't even get the words out before the tears pooled in her eyes and Spencer's heart quickly lurched at the sight. He quickly opened his arms to envelop her in a hug.

"We'll find her Kate," he murmured into her hair in comfort and she squeezed him back tightly. Inside his head, he wondered exactly what would happen if… No, he couldn't let himself get that far. They would find Keira, safe and sound. He continuously repeated the thought in his head, but deep down he thought of the other victims, of what this guy was capable of and the serious time restraint they had if their profile was right. He cared very much for Keira and if something happened to her, he would never be able to forgive himself.

As if hearing his thoughts, the door beside them quickly opened and Morgan burst out into the fresh air where his eyes quickly landed on Reid and Katelyn. Reid quickly pulled away from the embrace and his cheeks reddened at what Morgan must have thought at the site, but if he had any suspicions, he didn't make them known.

"They've found something," Morgan advised as he nodded towards the inside of the station. Reid shot a glance at Katelyn, then quickly followed Morgan back to the board room.

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A/N: Sorry this chapter is a little short. I forgot to mention, if anyone has any 'flashback' ideas they would like to see, I'd love to hear them and would gladly try to incorporate them. So PM me or review. Actually, review anyways, you know how much I love them! :)