Thank you for the patience. Had an overload of Homework this week. T.T

However, I took my time with this chapter, but the next one isn't so pretty... Once again. Sorry!

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*WARNING* Chapter could contain lies from certain characters!

"I wouldn't have judged you! Reid you're my baby genius, my little white sugar! How could I do that to you? How could you think that I would do that to you?" Garcia questioned.

"Garcia I—" Spencer stopped. He heard a small click of a gun.

"Reid?" He heard her voice.

"Reid?"

Spencer turned around and the store was empty except for a man pointing a gun at him.

"SPENCER!"

"Bye Garcia," Spencer whispered and a shot was fired.

"Reid!"

Garcia quickly started typing away at her computer, she got a location, and she heard it again. Another gunshot. Her hands were shaking in fear as she alerted the local PD in Spencer's area. She wanted to make sure help got there immediately. She jumped up and ran into the conference room where everyone was sitting discussing the case.

"Garcia? What's wrong?" Emily asked seeing the tears and panic roll off of Garcia like waves.

"Reid! He- he called me," Garcia stammered.

"What? Let me talk to him," Morgan almost demanded.

"I can't! We were talking and—"

"You mean you were talking to Reid this whole time and you didn't tell us?" JJ questioned slightly upset.

"I know I know I know but that is not the problem! I think he's hurt! Really bad, I-I"

"Garcia, tell us how you know?" Hotch said calmly. He needed her to calm down so they could get the story together.

"I.. He all of a sudden said bye. Then I heard a gunshot and right before I ran in here, I heard another one, and he's not talking back to me!" Garcia cried.

Everyone's stomach dropped that instant. Their youngest was probably dying somewhere and no one could help him. A clinging fear began gnawing at their necks daring them to say what is probably true. They may not get to him in time.

"Garcia where was he?" Rossi asked noticing that everyone else was trying to comprehend what was going on.

"Youngstown, Ohio," Garcia whispered still trying to overcome the grief.

"Ohio? What the hell? He only left yesterday… On foot!" Morgan yelled angrily.

"Well, he's probably a fast traveler," Garcia said quietly.

"Not now, Baby Girl," Morgan warned.

"I'm going to try to get footage," Garcia whispered and began to back to her office. She needed to see what was going on. She knows there are cameras everywhere. She sat down and automatically began typing.

There was a knock on her door.

"Enter," She said loud enough for whoever to hear.

"We are going to be flying out there in ten minutes, are you coming?" Emily questioned.

"I'm not leaving until I find out who did this!" Garcia snapped. Emily took a step back.

"Whoa, Garcia. We won't ever find them until we talk to Reid and get the truth," Emily admitted.

"Go!" Garcia demanded. Emily rose her eyebrows in slight shock and walked out quietly. Garcia didn't care. She wanted whoever attacked her baby to die. She was going to find them and find a way to annihilate them. That was, until there was another knock on the door. Before she could speak the intruder had already entered.

"Kitten. You're hiding certain things from us," Rossi said simply. He sat down on the little couch and waited patiently for her to reply. For a minute she said nothing.

"Was it that obvious?" She said sounding like a child.

"You normally come up to us every second with any type of information. Regardless. You've only shown us videos and then made no other breakthroughs. That's not like you," Rossi said while looking at her knowingly.

"Darn. Well, fine. You caught me Rossi. I just didn't want to say anything until I spoke to Reid first. I wanted to hear his side of the story. Rossi, he's in big trouble with some very bad people. I mean, I don't know his reasons, but he obviously must've had good ones if he got into the FBI," Garcia rambled nervously.

"He's a genius. He could be a mass threat to the country. Of course they would let him in. Same reason why they let you in," Rossi smirked.

"Really?" Garcia questioned.

"Yes, but we need to know so we can help him. He doesn't have much time left," Rossi warned subtly.

"I'll send the files to you. Emily told me you guys were heading out there in about ten minutes," Garcia said as she finally faced Rossi.

"That's fine. Are you sure you don't want to come?" Rossi questioned.

"I'll come when you all find Reid. I'll be there, yes," Garcia said softly and faced back to her computers.

"Fair enough," Rossi said as he got up and left.

He met with the team's curious faces and nodded.

"She knows, and we will once we are on the plane," Rossi said. They all nodded and quickly headed to the plane.

He didn't feel a thing. He felt rather comfortable. He didn't want the comfort to disappear.

"He's not responding," He heard a voice say.

"…Need to hurry up and…" Spencer couldn't make out the rest of that sentence.

He didn't want to hear the voices. He tried to block them out.

Then, it hit him. The pain erupted from his chest and he felt it shoot throughout his body. He couldn't find the will to scream. Breathing became more painful. He felt as if he was floating but it kept jerking him around. He wanted to go back to the comfort. He heard doors slam and very faintly, he heard a siren.

In less than an hour they will be there. They will see Reid and finally put an end to the secrets, lies, and dangers that are all hidden behind his walls. Rossi already had the file, but he knew the team needed a few minutes to work on their nervousness. They heard a beep. Automatically, each member looked towards the open laptop.

"Anyone here?" They heard Garcia's voice.

"Yeah, Garcia," Hotch said as they all made their way to the laptop.

"I got the footage and I watched it. I'm so sorry!" Garcia said quickly and the screen went black.

The video popped up a second later.

They watched as a soaking Reid walked into the diner. He looked a little different. Like he's been attacked by a bear. He looked tired and alone. Automatically their hearts went out for him. They watched as he headed straight for the phone. He hesitated and then he quickly dialed a number. They automatically could tell he regretted the call, but they saw that his rigid posture relaxed a little. They watched as someone walked into the store and people began to quickly walk out. They saw the gun in the man's hands. They watched as he directly aimed the gun at the oblivious Reid. Then they saw Reid freeze and turn around. His eyes looked colder and the only thing that moved was his lips. They watched as the man pulled the trigger and Reid fell back. Reid looked shocked for a couple of seconds. He slowly propped himself self against the wall and his face twisted in pain. The man slowly approached Reid. The team watched as the man aimed the gun at Reid one more time. This time aiming for his head.

"Oh God," JJ whispered.

Before anyone could blink, Reid pulled out a gun and both men had fired at the same time. Everyone's eyes widened in shock. They could tell the man was dead. He had hit the ground. Reid had been hit as well. He also looked dead. They watched as two pools of blood formed into one. Reid was slumped over and appeared to not be breathing.

The EMTs arrived and quickly rushed to Reid. Another rushed to the other man. The one with Reid nodded and the other shook his head. One got up and later came back with a stretcher. They lifted Reid onto the stretcher and rolled him out. About a couple minutes later, the coroners came and picked up the other man. The video ended soon after.

"That… That means Reid is alive, right?" Morgan questioned.

"As far as we could tell, yes," Hotch said gravely.

"Reid turned in his badge and gun," Prentiss mentioned.

"Obviously he had a back-up," Rossi said slowly.

"Point is, we need to know what he's involved in and with who. We can't help him if we can't even get the truth about who he is! I mean, who is Spencer Reid?" JJ said hysterically. "I miss having my best friend! I miss knowing my best friend!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, JJ calm down," Morgan said slowly.

"Rossi, did Garcia send over the files?" Hotch questioned.

"Yes she did. Garcia didn't want to say anything until she spoke to Reid, but given the new situation, she decided to actually tell us," Rossi stalled.

"Okay, what did you see?" Prentiss asked quickly.

"Before we left, I printed everyone a copy," Rossi said handing everyone the file. Everyone quickly opened the file and began reading. Rossi watched as everyone's eyes widened in slight shock. Hotch's face, as usual, stayed the same.

"What the…" Morgan mumbled.

"Murder?" JJ breathed, "I don't think so," She said in disbelief.

"That's only a part of it. Fraud, forgery, blackmail… The list goes on," Prentiss frowned.

"But.. Why?" Morgan questioned.

"Okay. Let's look at it as if we never knew Reid. From what I see, we will call him an "unsub." Our unsub grew up in a broken home. Father never around, and a schizophrenic mother. Goes off to college. Probably had struggles taking care of his mother being that far away," Rossi started.

"He obviously couldn't work because of his age and met someone who could help," Hotch continued.

"According to this file, he was most likely taught by the man we found dead in his apartment. Reid was molded to do this with perfection. All these claims were only speculation. None were able to be proven," Morgan said tensely.

"But things went from pretty good to bad when he was about eighteen," Prentiss said in confusion.

"In the year 2000, one of the guys who helped him was murdered. A couple months later another guy was found dead and that's also when Reid was suspected for murder, which was never proven," JJ added.

"What I can see from this, is that maybe Rei—our unsub— was in an organized crime?" Morgan questioned.

"There's no need to question it. He was involved one hundred percent, but he was also an informant. He knew a lot to keep them out of trouble with the law for a long time. He gained some enemies when he knew about a terroristic plot. When he was arrested, he confessed what he knew and was released, but was forced to join the bureau. There are holes, but only Reid can tell us the entire story," Hotch said still skimming through the file.

"I am confused. What does this mean?" JJ asked.

"It means, if Reid hadn't quit, we would have had to fire him and then investigate this case and if he truly is guilty, then we incarcerate him," Rossi said easily.

"He must have angered a lot of people," Prentiss said with a frown.

"I feel as if there is more to this story than what is on paper," Rossi said slowly.

"That's how I feel," JJ said with a shake of her head.

"What if Reid was framed?" Morgan questioned, causing more confusion.

"That is possible," JJ said feeling a glimmer of hope.

"Well, we will check on Reid's status when we get there. If he is awake, we can get some answers. The plane is going to be landing in a few minutes. Let's hope for the best," Hotch encouraged gently and everyone went to their respective seats with more questions than answers.

So I made a couple of possibilities that could happen in the next few chapters. Is Dr. Reid being framed? Was he really involved in these illegal acts (which I kept the details out of)? Did Garcia cut portions out?

Once again the next chapter won't be so kind. This was more of a mini fill in. I thought about ruining this chapter, but nope. Another relaxation period to keep the minds working. And to just make the characters more confused.

I hope it was pretty good.

Next chapter, I plan to add more details.

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-LD