A/N: Writers block is still getting the best of me, so PLEASE private message me your ideas/suggestions, they are always appreciated!
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Chapter thirteen:
Spencer was pacing, he couldn't stop. He needed Addison back. He had already lost her once, he couldn't lose her again.
"Guys, we have a lead." Penelope quickly said as she entered the room.
"Declan has been spotted." She finally said.
"Where and when?" David asked frantically.
"He's closer than we think." Penelope said.
"Just tell us already!" Spencer blurted. He needed to know, this not knowing was killing him.
"He was spotted buying various things at a local grocery store."
"Was Addie with him?" Spencer asked, hoping she was at least so he if she was alive or not. Penelope shook her head and Spencer's heart sank. There was no proof that she was still alive. His mind then wandered to Hannah, was she at least alive?
"What did he purchase?" JJ asked Penelope.
"He paid with a credit card, so his full purchase was a bunch of food, but something did stick out to me." Spencer looked up at her waiting to hear what she was going to say next.
"He bought a lot of that cheap microwave mac n cheese that is like super bad for you." Penelope finally said.
"Addison loves that garbage." Spencer said softly to himself.
"Wait! There was a bunch of that stuff back at the Harrison's home?" Derek said realizing that the mac and cheese was for Hannah. Spencer had a tear fall down his cheek at the relief that Hannah was more than likely still alive.
"Okay, clearly Declan is holding Addison and Hannah locally which really narrows are search area." Hotch said.
"He probably picked the closest store to where he is holding them to limit his time away from them." JJ noted.
"Penelope narrow down the search area to secluded and abandoned areas; JJ and Morgan go talk to the store clerks where Declan was seen, I want to see if he's on foot or car." Hotch ordered.
"We are getting close, I can feel it." David said to Spencer.
Spencer smiled at him, he was happy that things between the two of them were looking better than in the past.
(Flashback to Rossi and Reid on an old case when Rossi first came out of retirement)
"Reid, I need you and Rossi to go to the crime scene." Hotch ordered. Spencer nodded, but he was not happy at all. Although he still had contact with Addison every once in awhile, David Rossi was a whole other story. David felt that it was all Spencer's fault for not going after Addison, but it was Addison who wanted to leave. No one knew about the tension between the two of them. No one needed to know about Spencer's past, he liked it that way.
"You know, they probably won't let you drive because you have no balls." David said as he drove the SUV. Spencer rolled his eyes; he knew better than to say something back to him.
"Come on, kid. I was only joking."
"Sure you were." Spencer was uncomfortable.
"Have you heard from Addie recently?" David asked. What was he up to?
"Yeah, we talk every once and awhile."
"She tell you that she was thinking about going uncover?" Spencer's heart sank when David said that.
"No…she never mentioned that." Spencer's tone was soft, sad almost.
"I think it'll be good for her." David was so proud.
"Of course you do." Spencer didn't mean to say that out loud, but he just couldn't stop it.
David slammed on the breaks, pulling over on the side of a dirt road.
"You have something to say, say it now!"
Spencer sighed. He didn't want to do this. Not now.
"I don't like conflict…sir." His voice was soft again, his heart pounding.
"I love her, with everything in me."
"She's all I've got, Reid. After her mother died…" David's voice cracked.
"Addie never talked much about her mother."
"Kind of hard to do when you never saw her alive." David said sadly.
"If I could go back in time and stop Addie from leaving…I would in a heartbeat. She was my everything."
David had so many things he wanted to scream at Spencer, but he knew nothing good would come from it. He could see how Spencer was hurting, he knew Addie was hurting too.
"You two had something very special." David sighed.
"There's something you need to know, though." Spencer looked up at him, wanting to know what he was about to say next.
"When Addison left Caltech, she flew to me. I had never in my life seen her so broken in so many ways. Her heart, the poor thing wouldn't speak. She cried herself to sleep every single night and she refused to sleep in her own room…she slept on a pull out couch in my bedroom until I finally switched with her." David started.
Spencer's eyes filled with tears, he wanted to be there for her.
"It took a long time to get her to speak to me. She wanted to go back to you, she stopped herself though."
"Why?" Spencer was so upset and confused.
"She was scared that if she came back to you that you would reject her in retaliation."
"I would never do that to her…she knows me better than that."
"She just wanted to protect herself from more hurt." David said.
Spencer couldn't get over the part about how she thought he might reject her. He would've taken her back in a heartbeat.
"Is that when she started drinking and racing?" Spencer wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer to this. He knew Addison had always been a bit of a rebel, but he liked that about her. They balanced each other out perfectly.
"Yes, and that was when I tossed her out." David swore he would never tell anyone that, but he knew Spencer would keep his daughter's dirty secrets.
"You kicked her out when she was at such a low point in her life!?" The thought enraged him.
"I was okay with the drinking…but the second she brought coke in my house…I had no choice, Reid. I was only trying to help her." David felt in his heart that he did the right thing for his daughter.
"And you think she got herself clean and magically ended up going to Yale?" Spencer wasn't buying the story. Something was missing.
"She cleaned herself up, stopped the drugs, the drinking was different. She had a harder time with that, but she managed to make it through that, it was the racing she couldn't give up."
"There's something else though…" David added.
"Addie was called by the Harrison's and there were some serious health problems with Hannah."
Spencer didn't know what to think about Hannah having health issues, especially such a serious one. He was proud of Addison though, she managed to clean herself up to give Hannah bone marrow. There was one thing Spencer knew for sure and that was he was forever completely in love with Addison Renee Rossi.
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