Chapter 10 The She-Wolf
Rossi sat in the lounge chair in his den after dinner Sunday evening. Music was playing in the background. He was enjoying the nice calm before the week began.
The calm was interrupted by his phone ringing.
"Rossi," he said answering to the Colorado-based number.
"Agent Rossi," Warden Carson said. "This is Warden Carson from Denver."
"Is there something wrong?" Rossi asked.
"I am afraid there is," Carson answered. "I just received word that Settles has been sneaking letters out. He was using a code that prisoners don't know we've broken yet."
"I take it there was something not good," Rossi said.
"No, the letter was addressed to his sister," Carson said. "His records state that he was an only child, not even step-siblings."
"That's what our records show," Rossi said remembering from the file.
"There's more than that," Carson said. "He said that he hopes she has fun when she meets the kid that came to see him and that he was going to look gorgeous after she was done with him."
Rossi considered this information.
"You are the only ones that have seen him," Carson said. "I don't need to be a profiler to see that he was interested in the shy younger agent, the doctor."
"Agent Reid," Rossi provided. "I appreciate you calling me. Let me know if he sneaks any more letters out."
"This is connected to something else." Carson stated.
"Yes, I don't think it is a coincidence," Rossi said. "We'll keep an eye out."
"Have a good evening then," Carson said hanging up the phone.
Rossi started to dial Hotch. He stopped before pressing send. It could wait until morning. He wanted to talk to Aaron anyway.
There was something on his mind.
Ever since the team had gone to Virginia on that case there had been something amiss.
The case had been two missing boys, another dead a month early. The team had immediately gone to work tracking the two boys.
In the end, it was Hotch and Reid that had found and taken down the Un-Sub.
Hotch had shot the Un-Sub. The Un-Sub had attacked Reid, and Hotch had shot him in defense. Rossi believed that Reid had been in a fight. The bruises and cuts on him were proof enough. But the story for some reason did not make complete sense to him.
It was never made clear, even from the boys' story why the Un-Sub had taken them. The story had been that the Un-Sub was looking for a child. That didn't fit with the boys' ages. They were too old for that.
Woman kidnapped children to fill a maternal desire, not men.
Ever since they returned from Virginia, Hotch and Reid had been spending an extended amount of time together. They had private conversations in Hotch's office. When rotations came up to stay with Reid, the kid had purposely scheduled to stay with Hotch over the weekend.
There was something going on and he wanted to get to the bottom of it.
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In the morning Reid did not eat breakfast with Hotch and Jack. He had instead gone to his apartment after waking. Reid had planned on getting something to eat from the coffee shop.
Reid walked down the steps to the parking area for his apartment building. He was going to drive in that morning to avoid sticking with the pattern.
He pulled out his phone to text Morgan to let him know, but he didn't get a chance. Reid felt the weight drop on him. He looked up and saw the werewolf. That was the last thing he saw before everything went dark.
Reid woke up feeling sore. He didn't know how long he was out. Immediately he started to evaluate his surroundings.
He was in a bedroom in what appeared to be a house.
Reid felt the chill from being naked. His wrists and ankles were bound to the brass bed with what appeared to be red scarves.
He couldn't believe it. He was naked and tied spread eagled to a bed.
The decor of the bedroom was black and red. It reminded him of a cheap hotel that he had gone into for a case. He remembered the comments that Prentiss had made about the place. She probably would make the same about this one.
That was when Reid saw the Un-Sub the first time. The she-wolf.
The first thing that Reid registered was that she was pretty. She was blonde and had a had a thin frame. There was a radiant beauty about her. There was no doubt in Reid's head that if she had been in Hollywood in the nineteen fifties, that Hitchcock would have cast her in some role.
"Hello, my dearest," she said to him. "I have waited so long for you. My brother, Benjamin, told me to find you. I'm glad he did."
Reid remained calm. That was the only way that he could get away. "You are . . ." He started trying to look longingly at her. He wanted to be romantic. That was what she wanted.
"I have looked so long for someone like you." The she-wolf said.
"I'm glad I was able to meet expectations. You never told me your name." Reid said providing a shy smile.
"Badriyah." The woman answered moving towards the bed.
"Moon," Reid said providing the meaning.
"My mother wanted to celebrate me. She found another wolf to mate." She was now standing next to the bed looking down on Reid.
"I'm not a wolf." Reid said. "I am afraid that I am not much experienced."
"That's alright I have got something to help you out." Badriyah said.
Without a word she pounced onto Reid. She had something in her hand.
Reid fought while Badriyah straddled him.
Badriyah grabbed his mouth and squeezed it to open it.
Reid clenched his teeth, but the she-wolf squeezed forcing his mouth open.
She then pushed something in his mouth and rubbed his throat forcing him to swallow. "I'll give you time for that to react."
Reid knew he was given Viagra.