Garcia wrapped Sara up in a blanket and placed her on a chair next to hers.
They were in Garcia's office, because she still tried to find out what the hint "Johnson" meant, right now she was checking through surnames.
Sara had refused to lay down, so Garcia had taken her to her office where she could calm down a bit, still being included in the process of finding Reid.

Sara had a hard time to stop crying, one of the reasons why she was so thankful, that Derek and JJ took care of Audrey right now. She wiped some new tears from her eyes and sniffed.
Garcia turned around and looked at her, with a gaze full of empathy.
Garica was easy to talk to, Sara didn't know her well, but she knew enough about her to know that she was a person, she could trust.

"Garica…"another sniff, another try to control her emotions,
"I don't know what to do if something happens to him, I know you are all sure that we will find him in time, but this isn't a movie in which it is obvious from the beginning that the protagonist will survive… this is life and in life one second can change everything, the killer might lose his mind and just shoot Spencer… I …. I can't lose him… I don't know why but I don't want to live without him."

She watched Garcia's reaction, she looked content at her, signaling her with silence to continue – "When we were in this building I admired him for being so strong and I was so incredibly thankful for saving us, but over the last months... it changed… when I spent time with him I feel like I can be myself …no actually I can be more than just myself, when I'm with him I change, I become another person and I like this person better.
Just thinking of him makes me smile – when he plays with Audrey and I see the admiration for him in her eyes, I wished he would always be with me… and just the thought of losing him,... I never knew this kind of feelings before, but now that I know how life could be with him …. I can't live without it anymore."
she sighed it was so great to have finally put her feelings into words.

Garica was crying.

"Oh my god Garcia I'm sorry I didn't want to worry you, you are all so optimistic and I'm just destroying it with…well…being me and- " Garcia had hugged her.

"I'm happy, we always knew how special he was, but hearing how you feel about him, you are exactly what he deserves. He deserves someone like you. Someone who appreciates how special he is and not someone who wants him to be like everybody else." Suddenly Garcia squealed.

"OH I need to tell Morgan…and we could go out with the team…maybe you should have a date first…I could take care of Audrey…and he will be so happy, that you feel about him this way…"

"Garica calm down, I haven't told Spence yet and I doesn't even know if he feels the same way about me… I mean it is a lot to ask someone to accept me in his life, I'm not an easy person at all and then there's Audrey."

"Oh come on he loves her, he gets always so childish around her it is adorable." Garcia got a point watching Spencer and Audrey was actually really adorable.

"But we still don't know if he will survive this…" reality crashed down on her, remembering where she was and why she was here.

"We will find him… if I couldn't believe, that some things in this world are meant to be - I don't know if I could do this job, and you and Spencer are meant to be together."

"Sounds a little stereotyped doesn't it?" Sara smirked.

"Of course, but somehow such stereotypes developed, through people like you for example."

"I hope you're right."

"If you should know one thing about the almighty Garcia, it should be that I am always right."

"Time for our the last level of our game."

Spencer woke up from his surprisingly peaceful sleep, he remembered how Audrey began to sing and from there was just the darkness, that welcomed him again.
He tried to sit up straight when a stinging pain went through his back , it was a really nice routine to wake up to a new pain and he had no idea, how long he could keep it up.

"The last level?"

"Sure, a game that lasts too long is just boring, three levels are enough – don't you think so?"

"What is the last level about?" Spencer was suspicious now, did the last level mean that he would get killed now…

"I will let you go."

Well now, Spencer was really suspicious.

"I am sure, it is not that easy."

"Oh it is, I will let you go and you have to find your way home."

"Alright then let me go." Spencer knew there was something wrong.

"But you forgot the goal of the game, I want to break you and you seem alright to me. I guess a little present and some broken ribs will make this more fun." The unsub took a baseball bat in his hand… ;Spencer's eyes widened in fear of what to come.

"NO!", but it was too late, the unsub had already hit him hard in the ribs, he could feel the loss of air in his chest.

His head fell on his chest, the pain and the blood loss was just too much ,he felt a little sting in his neck before he fell unconscious again.

"I got something!" Garcia rushed into the conference room while the team still tried to find any new hints on Reid's location.

"Do you know what "Johnson" means?"

"Yeah, I searched through names, but not one of them fit the profile. Then I started to search for small towns, nothing – but then I found a small town with a "Johnson" street, I'm sure this is where he keeps Reid."

"It is not much and we can't be sure if this is Reid's location, but it is the only thing we got, we will go immediately. I will contact some teams for support, I will also call an ambulance just for the possibility, that we find Reid."

"Alright let's go" Sara stood up and waited for the others to join her – "don't get started, I will come with you, Garcia will stay here with Audrey. I will stay by the ambulance, but I will not wait here."

"We have no time to discuss this…" Hotch sighed in defeat, he knew there was no sense in arguing with her.

"Let's go find Reid."

They asked the local police officers for anyone in the Johnson street, who might fit the profile.
They only knew one person, he lived in an old house, the owner had never allowed them to wreck it. Timothy Clark had a tough life, after he escaped his parents, who abused him during his childhood, he had to witness his wife being shot. Not a really desirable life... after that he broke down, he got addicted to an unknown drug and lived alone in the house, he once shared with his wife. He didn't take good care of the house and according to the officer it looked abandoned.
So they made their way to the house, even if it was bigger than they had expected, it was still small and it didn't seem like there lived someone in there either.

The support they had called went in first. The BAU team was following them, Sara waited outside with the ambulance.

When they entered the house, they saw something they certainly didn't expect to find – Hotch was ready to face any situation at least he told himself so… he wouldn't be able to deal with a dead Reid. It was not, that he wouldn't be able to do it; he just didn't want it to happen - it was as simple as that.
Sure as agents, who face danger everyday, most people would expect them to stay calm in situations like this and they were….on the outside. On the outside they were able to show their strong face, but this wasn't a normal situation for them and they were scared.

Scared of facing a reality, in which they had failed Reid.

But finding their unsub, sitting on his couch and reading a book was really not what they had expected, the agents didn't want to get too close to him, they aware of his knowledge of bombs and they didn't want to take a risk. But he sat there calm, licking his lips and turning his head around slowly, a smile was plastered on his face, just a content smile.

"FBI. Timothy Clark, put your hands in the air, just move one bit and I can guarantee what will happen." Morgan snapped at them man in front of him… was this really their unsub?

"Oh of course, I understand." He raised his hands in the air and stood up from the old red couch, that looked like it had seen better days… a long time ago.

"Are you aware why we are here?" they were confused.

Prentiss, Rossi and some other agents were already searching for Reid in other parts of the house. He was too calm, his facial expression told them nothing more than the fact, that he was relaxed.
Why wasn't he on alert, he must have known that they would find him eventually?

"I am. You are here for Doctor Reid, I guess you are surprised why I'm not in panic. Well if you think about it, I gave you the hint how to find me, I knew you would be here soon and I'm really sorry, that apart from catching me your journey was useless."
Morgan was handcuffing him rougher than he was supposed to and Hotch stood only inches away from him, studying the man. They knew, that he would expect them, but not that he would be that calm… but what if they were too late… that was it, he was so calm because his task was already finished. Reid was….-

"Clear." A shout rang through the old house.
Prentiss entered the room, obviously devastated and out of breath.

"We've searched for Reid in every part of the house, but it is empty.
We found the basement, where this bastard held Reid hostage, there is some blood, but no hint on Reid's location."

"I already told you that you are too late, Doctor Reid is already far away."

Hotch's thoughts worked on full speed, did this guy have partner… the profile said that he would work alone…

"Before you ask where he is, I have no idea. The last time I saw him, was when I left him and regarding in what condition he was, he was eager to get away from there as fast as he could."

"What do you mean you left him?"

"Exactly what I said… I let him leave. I'm not that evil, I knew he didn't want to stay, so he was allowed to leave. I wanted to break him and I'm sure that I don't need to be present to do so."

"Where is he?" the venom in Morgan's voice was more than audible, you could feel the tension in the air, but the Timothy stayed calm.

"No need to get all "bad cop" on me Agent Morgan, I left him in a forest not far away."

"He was electroshocked and he suffered from blood loss, he couldn't have come that far. Morgan go outside and inform every one of the situation – We need to search through the forest for Reid." Rossi took Morgan's place in keeping the unsub under control, not that he needed to be controlled.

Morgan stormed outside and gathered the agents, telling them what they knew and what they needed to do now, before Morgan could take some agents and start searching he was approached by Sara, he had completely forgot about her.

"Morgan, if he's out there and hurt – how can we be sure that he's alive?"

"We can't, but I know Reid, he isn't the type of guy to give up easily and if there's a way to survive and I'm sure there is one, Reid will find it." That reassured her but it still left her with a bad feeling.

"Let me come with you. The unsub is under arrest, this is just about Spencer now. I will stay close to you the whole time, I promise."

"Alright, but please don't go away on your own."

"I won't." she wanted to find him as fast as possible…

Since when could trees get so high?

He knew all statistics about trees, but these trees seemed still pretty high… and all the birds, he could hear so many noises and he could swear, he was surrounded by at least hundreds of birds. His headache had already killed him, without being followed by a bunch of birds.

Reid laid on some leaves on the ground, staring up at the sky.

He hadn't seen any sense in moving, since he rolled down a hill.
Since the unsub had told him to leave, he was stumbling through a forest, crossing trees that looked all the same, he had no goal he was just walking…walking away from this cold basement where he was held.
There were so many colors and suddenly he could have sworn, that he saw someone standing next to him, that was when he lost his balance and rolled rather harsh down a hill.

When the world stopped turning, he saw how beautiful the sky looked and how high the trees were.
And this was the situation Reid was in when a familiar face bent over him.

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