Doctor

Chapter 10

This chapter wasn't easy either, but it's finally done! Thanks to everyone who gave review, it helps me a lot to know if I am still giving the story a good lead or not, and it's really appreciated, even if I don't always answer the review directly.

Hope you'll enjoy this one!

The team was on the edge. Prentiss had told the team about the phone call, and about Walker. All of them had been both relieved to know Reid was alive, but were scared for their colleagues too. Still keeping their usual calmness as FBI Agents, they took their guns and bullet proofs vest. Emily told them how he had hung up weirdly, which could mean only one thing: Walker had surprised their colleague calling them. They hoped Reid would be able to hold on until their arrival.

They rushed to Walker's home with the police immediately; it didn't take much time, only time was really precious in those kinds of situations. Morgan was feeling guilty. He should have known. He remembered now the professor didn't have much difficulties looking at the pictures of corpses, though it was a view unused persons wouldn't have been able to bear easily. Why the hell was he thinking about this now? Why didn't he notice it before?

'Please, Reid, hold on we are here soon.'

Once there, they let the cars in the middle of the road and exited them swiftly. Hotch gestured to some cops to take the back, he and the team would take the front. Morgan went first and at Hotch's signal kicked the door hard. It opened with a loud Bang, and the agents were inside in a blink. They didn't need to search far; they immediately saw someone in the living room.

They discovered the professor who was crouched and beginning to envelop something into a blanket. He looked at them with wide eyes. He stood up, as if he believed he had a chance to run, but there was no way it would even happen. They pointed guns at him, Hotch telling him to put his hand behind his head. The man was obviously scared and impressed, he did as he was told, surrendering easily, begging them not to hurt him. Morgan handcuffed him quickly, and didn't even listen to Walker's words as Hotch undid the blanket. They saw Reid, pale as death with blood on his chest.

"Shit! Reid!"

Hotch checked his pulse, and Morgan almost let go of Walker, but Rossi stopped him, and told him to take him away while they called the medics.

"We need medics right now! I feel a pulse!"

Prentiss immediately went out with Seaver and urged the medics to come and take care of Reid. There was a lot of blood. Going back into the house, they saw Morgan who was half dragging Walker away. He handed him to the police chief and went back, with the girls. The doctors entered first and put Reid on a stretcher. They heard small grunting and realised Reid was slowly waking up. His eyes were still closed but small movements were visible.

"Reid! Hey kid, can you hear me?"

"Reid, you're okay now! I'll go with him." declared Prentiss in a tone that dared anyone to argue with her on that.

She followed the meds in the ambulance and went away with them, not caring about the rest. Her heart was beating, making the blood stream strongly and sorely in her veins, she was feeling sore and full of energy right now, transported by the need to help him. All that mattered was that her friend, her love was there, wounded, but slightly conscious and needed to hear a voice, someone he knew and she wanted to be there for him. The wound was near the heart, she hoped it wasn't going to cause too heavy damages.

"Reid, please, hold on, okay, I don't want you to die, we just reunited, you can't die now!"

The doctors were taking care of him, one of them nodded to her, indicating her to continue to talk to him.

"You survived worse, you remember? You beat Hankel, you beat Anthrax, and we survived Cyrus together. We can do this."

She saw his eyes flutter slightly, and her heart almost broke her ribs. He was waking up.

"Reid, you hear me? I have things to tell you, I don't want to tell them like this, so please, stay strong, for me, because I…"

She didn't want him to hear it like that. But what if he died?

"I really want to tell you those things, and you need to hear them, but not this way. So I'll wait for you, be there, okay?"

His barely open eyes winked twice, as if he wanted to say something, but nothing came out. He closed his eyes again, and the whole travel was like this, Prentiss talking to him, the medics doing the best they could to maintain him alive. They were talking to each other, but Prentiss didn't even try to decipher what they were saying. She was focused on him. They were finally at hospital, and Reid was lead immediately in surgery. Prentiss knew she could only wait for now.

She sat down and put her head in her hands. She clenched her jaw, feeling so bad and stupid right now. She should have told him! Should have told how she was feeling. It wasn't the ideal moment so what!? Now he could be dying and he would never know!

She stayed like this for some minutes, before feeling a hand on her shoulder. She raised her head abruptly in surprise to see Hotch standing.

"You followed the ambulance?"

"Yeah."

He sat beside her, and sighed. Silence passed until Hotch decided to talk, understanding Prentiss wasn't about to do it.

"They are going to interrogate Walker. I told them to keep us informed."

She didn't answer immediately, and when she did, she surprised him.

"I want to do it."

"I thought you wanted to stay here."

"I am no use, and…I need to know what he did to Reid. I can't stay here, I…"

"Okay. I'll stay, I know Morgan wanted to interrogate him. Call him and tell him you are coming. When we'll learn something new, I'll call."

She nodded and thanked her boss. She called Derek, leaving the place, not bearing being inactive and waiting, she wanted the one who hurt the one she loved to pay, she wanted to confront him. Morgan waited for her, and when he saw her, he was glad not to be Walker, the look in her eyes was threatening. Rossi and Seaver would watch, the older agent hoped they wouldn't lost it.

They entered the room where the man was waiting, biting his nails nervously. He was so pathetic, Emily felt she could have vomit. He crossed her stare and turned his eyes away. Morgan began:

"Do you know why you are here? I guess you do."

The man nodded, knowing he was already condemned. Both agents knew this interrogation would be easy.

"The cops called me from your house, they founds cut hands in a plastic bags. Ready to talk?"

After some minutes, Prentiss really felt the temptation to strangle Walker. He had confessed all the murders, tried pathetically to deny at first, but he had soon understood it was vain. Now he was talking about Reid and she didn't like it one bit, she knew Morgan certainly was feeling the same way. He told them he kidnapped Reid because he needed to and couldn't stop himself from doing it.

"I had to have him, it's not my fault, it's his!"

Morgan titled his head to the side and had a hard time not to punch the guy.

"How is that, exactly?"

"He crowded my head with obscene thoughts! When I met him, you were there, I had a hard time hiding how…"

Walker stopped ashamed. Morgan was wondering how both Reid and him hadn't noticed this. Walker was biting his nails. Prentiss told him to continue.

"Well, I know it's disgusting to have that sort of feelings for a man, but…I couldn't do anything, I tried to stop thinking about him, but I couldn't…"

Morgan clenched his teeth. He knew he had to ask this question, even if he didn't want to. He hoped Prentiss would be able to stop him if he beat up the guy. But she looked like a tiger waiting to be released. So he decided himself.

"What were your fantasy, exactly?"

He told them about the disgusting fantasy. Prentiss breathed in to calm herself down. She looked at the man who had his head down. Well at least, he wasn't being arrogant, and wasn't talking about Reid like a thing. She wouldn't have handled it.

The two agents were quite in shock at the end of Walker's explanation about his wants. This was fucking sick and twisted! They had heard and seen worse, but since Reid was involved in those crazy things, it was hard not to be hit by this.

"Okay…So what happened exactly with Julio Ruiz?"

"Well, I had prepared everything as I explained you. And then, I saw him, and I knew that…Well, that it was my chance. I made him enter and he had talk to me, saying there were similarities between us, and that I hadn't do this only to sell a book. Then, I…He told me he had the right to know why I was doing this since I was going to kill him. So I told him that maybe I wasn't going to kill him, and I cornered him to a wall…"

"Why?"

"Well I…He was keeping his cool even when I was threatening him and I wanted him…Scared. And I wanted to…Kiss him."

Morgan nails were digging into the metal table. Prentiss was stiff and wondered if they really didn't have the right to kick his ass. She gave him a glare that really made the professor frightened, and he continued, knowing that if he shut up, they would imagine worse. He told how he finally knocked Reid out and murdered Julio.

"I often watched the doctor sleeping while doing that, it was almost like I dreamed to do, except he wasn't awake to see it. I did all the ritual with him there, and it had been even better than the first killing."

Reliving the memory, Walker had forget the two furious agent right here. He came back to reality when Morgan stood up and began to pace the room. The man was obviously furious, he turned toward Prentiss who sensed his discomfort and who were not going to help him.

"Go on, Professor"

She said the last word with irony and venom filling her voice. He took a shaky breath and continued.

"Well I carried him away to my home, and I tied him into the cellar. I rubbed his forehead with a washcloth to make him wake up and when he did…The first things he talked about was Julio! He asked what happened to him."

Once again, the professor forgot the threat. Prentiss titled her head, and he went on.

"He was there, with me, after giving a hell of a hard time with all those…Those things he made me imagine and he could only ask about him. So I asked him if they were lovers, and he told me he didn't liked men, and that he would never like me. So I told him it was death or me."

Morgan and Prentiss looked at each other. Morgan was against the wall, with his arms crossed tightly over his chest, as if he was trying to stop himself from jumping on this guy. She had her jaw clenched and she let him continue. He came to the episode of the water bottle and then the shower. The two agents had already felt another wave of rage, hearing how he had forced Reid to kiss him in order to have water, but when he said how he wanted to make Reid undress before him, was too much.

"He made me go out of the bathroom and I had to leave him. I really thought about breaking in. I mean, he was there, and I wanted it so much…But I didn't do it…"

Emily couldn't bear it anymore, she needed to know. This guy had…this crazy desire for Spencer and then he certainly had…

"Did you sexually abuse the agent Reid?"

Walker lowered his head and she paled. She was fidgeted as he explained:

"I wanted it to be consensual…I deprived him of food for days, and told him that if he wanted food he would have to…Well, comply. It would have been consensual!"

He heard Morgan snort, and continued, in a smaller voice:

"But he was ready to let himself starve. So I…I told him I would kill again if he didn't accept. And this time he accepted. And we…It was consensual! He did it because he accepted…"

He was interrupted by the sound of Prentiss standing up and leaving the room. She went immediately to the bathroom and emptied her stomach. She felt a hand gathering her hair and saw Seaver holding her black tresses. She looked concerned and was all pale.

"Are you okay?"

"No."

She sat down on the floor, and Seaver crouched.

"I don't know him since long, but I like him. I wish we could kill this guy. Morgan almost beat him when you left, Rossi had to restrain him."

Prentiss had a ghost of a smile imagining Rossi struggling to stop Morgan from jumping on Walker. Reid…He did it to save people…He did it to help…Just like she accepted to have a liaison with Ian Doyle years ago, to arrest him. She knew what Reid had felt, the feeling he was obliged to do it. She was trembling. She took some minutes to calm down and finally stood up with the help of Ashley.

She exited the bathroom, and saw Morgan on a chair, looking down, anger and hurt evident in his eyes. Prentiss went to him and put a hand on his shoulder. He barely looked at her. He was absorbed in his thought. He had always tried to protect Reid, almost since the beginning in fact.

The first time he saw Reid, he had wondered if Hotch and Gideon weren't pulling a prank. The kid looked too young, too skinny and inexperienced to be an FBI agent. He hadn't say anything though, and observed him on work. Sure, Reid was inexperienced, but he was very intelligent, he was thinking fast, and compared to a lot of rookies, he could handle the sight of gore and corpses well. Morgan was annoyed sometimes by the way he was talking about random facts, but he soon admitted the guy was useful to the team. Still, the kid had vulnerability in him, and Morgan decided to keep an eye on him. Now he failed that promise.

He knew Reid would necessarily got his lot of wounds, beatings, etc…Like every FBI agents, still it affected him. And now knowing what kind of thing Walker did to him…To his friend, using something incredible sneaky and coward, putting life of other people in danger! Wouldn't have Rossi stopped him Walker would have been transported to hospital. Prentiss caressed his shoulder, he looked at her again, she looked sick. He could smell a foul odour.

"Are you okay?"

"I threw up."

He bit his lips, and didn't know what to do. She sat near him, and they began to talk, to relieve themselves of the stress. Morgan told Prentiss about Reid's first day in the BAU, about things which happened between the team before she came. She liked to hear those stories. She was curious to know how each of them was doing before. He told about his and Garcia's meeting, how he called her baby girl for the first time. On her side, she told him how she finally went into the BAU, and how she had met the witch/bitch they name Strauss. This moment was broken by Emily's phone ringing. She took it and saw it was Hotch. News were finally coming.

Yeah, you have to wait to know how Reid will be doing. I am horrible, am I not? But please, even if I am, leave comments, it motivates me!