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Reid didn't really pay attention to the court proceedings. The judge had warned Michaels not to interact with him again or he would be barred from speaking again. The prosecution had begun and the judge listened to medical reports. The prosecutor also spoke about his parents with great love and how hard their deaths had been on Spencer. He looked up now and then and noticed the jury giving him looks of sympathy. He didn't like the looks but he understood why they were happening. Michaels kept trying to look at him but a guard was now stationed between them.
Reid felt dread in his heart as the videos of that night began to play for the jury. He brought up every ounce of courage he had and looked to the screen. He watched himself being dragged into the warehouse and chained to the wall. He rubbed his wrists as he thought about the padded cuffs that had held him. He felt himself begin to crumble slightly as he heard his mother's voice begging. It sounded different when it came from the video, it sounded more real. Morgan noticed that he was beginning to struggle. "You want to go?" he whispered.
"No," Reid said back. He looked back to the video. He flinched as the metallic sound of the wire that held his mother upside down got pulled. His mother was crying and scared. He clenched his eyes shut as he heard his mother die. Tears leaked down his cheeks. Morgan put his arm around him and comforted him. He blocked out the rest of the video. At least, until he heard his father talking on the video. The jury watched a father try to comfort his scared son. Reid knew he was beginning to break. All the courage he had summoned at the beginning of the trial was gone. He shouldn't have come. He had wanted to prove a point to the man who had murdered his mother and father but he was struggling.
His eyes widened as he watched Michaels pin his father's head to the floor on the screen. He clenched his eyes shut as he heard his muffled scream as his father got killed. He opened his eyes to see Michaels looking around the guard.
"I love you too, Spencer," Michaels said as he mocked William Reid's last words to his son. Reid lunged out his seat and tried to get to Michaels. Morgan grabbed him around the waist immediately and began to drag him out of the court.
"I hope you suffer!" Reid screamed at Michaels. "Your father is burning in hell and he was nothing but a fucking bastard!"
Morgan wrestled him out of the door and out of the court. Reid didn't stop struggling until they reached the bathroom. Morgan locked the door and let Reid go.
"Reid, he will pay for what he has done."
Reid let out a small yell before he smashed his hand against the wall. The bathroom was empty apart from them. Morgan stayed back and felt his heart ache as he watched his best friend collapse against the wall and slide down to the floor in tears.
"I-I want them back," he cried. "I want them back."
Morgan walked over to Reid and sat next to him. He put his arms around him and held his friend as he cried. "I know, Reid."
"I don't deserve this," Reid cried. "I haven't done anything wrong in my life and I tried to look after my mom as much as I could. Why did he do it? His father deserved to die. Mine didn't. I want them back."
"Shhh..." Morgan soothed gently. He didn't know what else he could do apart from comfort Reid. Watching the video himself had horrified him. He had watched everything up until the point that William Reid had died. He had seen his friend break in the video. Each disgusting thing that Michaels did on the video made him feel sick.
"I don't know how to do this," Reid sobbed. "I've lost them and I can never see them again. I'll never send another letter to my mother or get a response from her. I just want to hear her voice again."
Morgan came out of the hug and grabbed some tissue. He gave it to Reid and sat against the wall.
"Reid, when I lost my dad, it was one of the most difficult things in my life I had to deal with. I know it isn't the same as you losing your parents but I know how much pain losing a parent can cause. I went on a path of self-destruction when I lost him and it breaks my heart to see you like this. You are falling apart and I feel like there is nothing I can do to bring you back from the edge of your own path of self-destruction. I don't want to walk into your bedroom one day and see you not moving or breathing. Every day that I wake up, I fear that I will get a call telling me that you are gone."
"Why? I'm not that important. I thought I was but I can't handle things since that night. There is like a fracture in my head and more pain is leaking through it. The part of me that wants to be myself again is losing."
"First of all, you are important. More important than you will ever know. There are people out there who wouldn't be here today if you had not caught the unsub after them. You are a hero, Spencer Reid. Not only to them, but to me as well. I look up to you because you have strength inside that I will never have. You fought against that son of a bitch and you trapped him in that well. You got free from him despite all the pain that you were in. You are so important and your parents knew that too. Remember that you are never alone. You still have a family around you. I am your big brother and I want my little brother to get better. You are never alone and you will always have people around that love you and want to protect you."
"You really look up to me?" Reid asked.
"Absolutely. I look up to you because you inspire me."
Reid let out a small laugh before wiping more tears from his eyes. "Thanks, Morgan."
Morgan put his arm around Reid and hugged him close again with one arm. "Anytime, little brother."
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