Title: Obsession
Rating: Teen-ish
Disclaimer: If only…I don't own them at all.
Author's Note: I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good when I'm not updating (lies-I'm a bookworm). My goal is this chapter up before Saturday (which is the school sanctioned foam party (how much awesome can we fit into my school?). I will succeed.

Chapter Twelve

"No one ever listened to her. They just stuck her in some closet so that they didn't have to deal with her, and then they just used her mind every day without helping her or trying to talk to her. Garcia, her parents abandoned her. What kind of parents change their child's name and send them off to boarding school? I had Gideon." Spencer Reid pressed his hands around the mug. "At least he found me, and then I was on the BAU." Garcia pressed her fingers to her lips and kissed her hand. Reid smiled at the familiar gesture as she pushed his head back slightly with her once –removed kiss.

"We're family, Spencer. Family doesn't use each other." Reid smiled.

"You're all more my family than anyone else." Reid missed the small glint in Garcia's eyes as he turned away and glanced at the monitors. She pressed her hand over his and smiled.

"And never forget it." Reid glanced up once and smiled back. "She'll be fine."

"She's in a hospital scarred for life because of me." Garcia didn't open her mouth but pushed slid her mouse over on one screen, and Reid smiled as the security cameras from the hospital were pulled up on the screen. Reid stared at closed door to Addy's room while Garcia ruffled his hair.

"Be her knight in shiny armor and watch over her while she sleeps." Reid smiled again.

"Thank you, Garcia."

"Reid-Spencer Reid-and Lila Archer had a fling?" Prentiss had one eyebrow raised as Morgan chuckled at her wording, and she glanced at Rossi. "Dr. Spencer Reid?" Rossi smirked.

"I wouldn't call it a fling." Morgan glanced at Garcia as she walked towards them and nodded. "Reid met her at some art show while in L.A. with Gideon for a convention, and then we got this case involving her-some girl was stalking her and killing off people for her. Anyways, Reid goes with her as protection and Lila was already half interested, but now he's her hero. Elle and I were scouting out this paparazzo, and we see him snapping pictures of Reid and Lila by the pool-kissing. Reid didn't know what was going on. He looked like a drowned rat." Prentiss was staring at Morgan with her eyes wide while Rossi laughed to himself shaking his head. "She jumped him. Reid was confused for the next week." Garcia grinned at the story before opening her mouth to remind them why the actress had ever come up in conversation involving Reid.

"It's hard to notice the family resemblance, isn't it?" Their smiles faded. "I'm running checks on Nathan's mother's cards and accounts-I'll know if she's been helping him. As for location, that's up to you guys unless I find something in the cards."Prentiss nodded.

"I wish we could get Reid to run one of his Jeopardy maps." Prentiss's mind flashed back to the image of Reid's hands sliding one after another down the length of a sheet of paper, and how those three lines gave them enough about an unsub to lead to a location. Morgan nodded.

"Our genius is watching the security cameras at the hospital to keep an eye on Addy." Prentiss smiled at the computer tech half heartedly as she pushed her eyes to the file she'd found while rustling reports around in her desk.

"Nathan's obsessed with Reid." Morgan raised one eyebrow at his colleague. "He wants help from Reid like he did before, but now, since Reid couldn't help him then and he knows Reid can't help him now, he's directed his inner anger at Reid." It was Rossi that nodded as Morgan's eyes drifted across the empty bullpen. "He went after Addy when Reid directed his helping attention to her." Garcia glanced back in the direction of her office. "He needs the real Reid." The eyes of the agents had drifted away from any line of sight in reality long ago, and the four were focused on a hundred fold possibilities that would get them nowhere. None noticed the 'ding' of the elevator. Hotchner let his eyes wander over his agents as he followed Jason Gideon's rushed steps through the BAU. Gideon's eyes glanced over the room once as he came even with the four agents, and Garcia's eyes widened when she noticed him. She squeaked.

"He's in Reid's apartment waiting for him to get home. Ask why later. Where's Spencer?"

There was silence before Garcia pointed over her shoulder towards her office, and the silence went on as they all stared after the man racing to Reid. Morgan turned to Hotchner.

"What the hell, Hotch?" His eyes darkened beyond their usual black. "I thought the point was to make sure Reid was all right-not kill him." Prentiss pursed her lips while Rossi simply raised his eyebrows and glanced towards his friend.

"I did what I thought would be best for Reid and the team."

"It nearly killed him when Gideon left!" Prentiss opened her mouth once, shut it, and thought better of speaking then.

"Morgan, focus on finding Nathan Harris."

Rossi nodded. "Jason said Reid's apartment?" Prentiss nodded.

"It would make sense."

"Gideon, Hotch?"

"Gideon brought Reid to the FBI and oversaw all of his training. If Reid is considering quitting the BAU again I need Gideon time to pull him back. The first time none of us could do it." No one spoke while Morgan struggled to find something to say.

"The first time?"

"When he missed the plane in New Orleans." He nodded.

Prentiss turned towards Rossi. "He's waiting for Reid on neutral ground because Reid would have to go home at some point, and we wouldn't expect him there if we didn't know about it."

Rossi nodded. "We need to assemble."

"Reid never told me." Hotchner looked off after Gideon and nodded.

"He didn't tell anyone, Morgan. Gideon just knew."

"Thank you for the letter." Reid had known it was Gideon when the door had shut, but no voice had come. "It took me awhile-Prentiss helped-to read it correctly." Reid didn't take his eyes off of the still and locked door to Jane Addy's room. "What are you doing here?" Gideon stayed against the door, and was not unnerved by Reid's refusal to look at him when he remembered back to the days after Georgia and Reid's indifference then. He pressed his palm against Reid's shoulder. "I know who it is. It took me awhile, but I realized it while I was sitting here. There were too many coincidences."

"I told you." He smiled. "We'd catch him together."

Gideon followed the line of nurses that would file passed the door on the screen every few minutes as Reid sat there in silence. His fingers reached out for the screen and, as the motion the detector lights in the hallway on the screen flickered out, he pressed his fingers against the image of her door. Gideon tightened his grip on Reid's shoulder. It was as a nurse triggered the lights and caused Reid to pull his fingers back that he spoke.

"Thank you." Reid finally turned towards his mentor from a year ago, and his mind automatically took in the graying hair, but clearer eyes. "I don't really want to catch him though. I trust them to do it." Gideon nodded. "I don't know if I could do it." Gideon nodded again.

"Guilt is a common emotion for all of us." Reid shook his head and blinked at the man that he had once believed knew everything.

"I'm not guilty." Reid glanced back at the locked door on the screen. "I've never wanted to hurt someone so much." Even the months of a Dilaudid induced hazed had not triggered such anger in the younger man. "I don't know what I would do to him."

"We need to set up the team to go to Reid's apartment. Someone needs his key." Morgan shook his head.

"I've got a copy Hotch." Hotchner nodded and Morgan turned towards a drawer in his desk. "We go in, get Harris, and this kid will want to confess. It'll be easy."

"It's just us and backup." Morgan raised his hands while Prentiss nodded.

"Reid needs no part in this." They all nodded, and Garcia sat down in Morgan's car as the talk went on further into the realm of legal breaking-and-entering. Rossi rubbed his hands together.

"Let's go."

"What about Reid?" Hotchner nodded at the technical analyst.

"Tell Reid and Gideon what's going on, and make sure everything is all right." She nodded. "And make sure they're at the hospital when visiting hours start."

It was when they were in the elevator that Morgan turned to Hotch with a slightly smile. "Hotch, you might want to look away when I arrest Nathan Harris." Hotchner nodded, but turned to Prentiss when she snorted. A strand of her hair fell in front of her face, and Hotchner grinned as she pushed the hair behind her ear and spoke.

"When you arrest him?"

-TBC-