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One week later

Hotch felt frustration as tried to focus on the newspaper. He finally shut the newspaper, he knew he wouldn't be able to focus on it. His mind was focused on other things. It was focused on Morgan and Reid, Reid especially. Hotch and the team were no closer to finding the man that had hired Jack Pine to kill Reid. They had been taking turns looking after Reid and Morgan who had been staying at Morgan's house. He looked up from the closed newspaper and smiled slightly at the sight in the living room. Reid was sitting on the sofa, his legs crossed and his nose buried in a book, his glasses perched on his nose. For a moment, Hotch pretended that nothing that had happened to Reid. For a moment, Reid was the same genius he had always been. A genius who was always reading at an impossible speed and spouting statistics.

That was the problem and Hotch knew it. That genius was hidden in the hell was Reid's mind. He just hoped that the team could help Reid get his mind back to a stable place. Hotch stepped from the kitchen and walked into the living room. He gave Morgan a small nod which was returned before he sat down on the couch. Reid looked up from his book and smiled gently. "Hey Hotch, is everything okay?"

"How are you feeling today?" Hotch asked.

"I'm feeling better than yesterday. The pills are helping with the pain in my head," Reid answered. "Have you found him yet? The man that is trying to hurt me."

"No, I'm sorry. Reid, we will get him," Hotch said. He felt guilt rush through him. He was supposed to protect Reid, he was supposed to be giving him part of his life back.

"Hotch, I want to go outside," Reid moaned. "I hate being cooped up side of here. It's too small. I can't breathe sometimes. The padded room trapped me. I don't want to be trapped any more."

"Reid, we can't risk taking you outside. We have no idea to the identity of the person that is after you. I know you don't like being cooped up inside but it's for your own protection."

Reid gritted his jaw angrily before throwing his book onto the floor.

"I hate this!" Reid snapped. "I want to go out. I'm sick of being treated like a baby. Leave me alone!"

Reid jumped off from the couch and stormed into his room. Hotch rose from the couch and tried to open Reid's bedroom door, it was lock. "Reid, open this door. Right now!"

"Go away. Go and get the bad man, do something useful," Reid shouted at the door.

Hotch sighed and stepped away from the door, he turned back around and looked to Morgan.

"Don't take it personally, Hotch. He can't always control his emotions. The doctor said it would happen and it was perfectly normal. He will calm down in a few hours and be his shy self again. He wants this to all be over. He can't start his life until we get this guy," Morgan explained.

"It's just difficult seeing him this way. He is acting like a child but I know he can't help it."

"He just needs time," Morgan said. "Hotch, go and spend some time with Jack. You been so busy with us, you need to spend some time with your son. Hotch, I know all you want to do is help Reid but you have to remember that you have a family. We will be fine for a couple of hours. Emily is coming over in an hour, we can manage till then."

"I can't. I can't enjoy time with my son knowing that Reid is danger," Hotch sighed even though all he wanted to do was spend a few hours with Jack. A few hours where he was able to forget the world and all its evil.

"Hotch, we will be fine. Go and spend time with your son. I think would like to see his daddy for a while," Morgan urged.

"Okay," Hotch agreed. "I'll only be a few hours. I want you to lock the door behind me though and I'm going to leave my weapon with you. I don't want to leave you here with no way of protecting yourself."

Hotch crouched down and unstrapped the gun from his ankle. He handed it over to Morgan who took it with his uninjured hand. Morgan got to his feet slowly and winced slightly at the pain in his back. "It's good to be walking around again," he smiled.

Hotch walked over to Reid's door. "Reid, I'm going to be gone for a few hours. I'll be back soon."

Half an hour later

Reid laid on his bed, the duvet cover over his head. It was his way of blocking out the world. He closed his eyes and settled himself further into his pillow. He was warm, he loved being warm. Being cold reminded of him of the dead. Tobias was dead. The dead couldn't feel warmth. Reid was about to fall asleep when the cover was ripped from above him. He panicked as he looked up to see a man standing above him.

"Hello Spencer," the man smiled at him, a smile that was full of evil. Reid tried to call for help but found a large, strong hand over his mouth. He screamed into the hand as the man straddled his hips. Reid tried to shake the man off but became still as a knife was placed under his eye.

"Good boy," the man whispered in his ear. "You will do exactly what I tell you or I will kill Agent Morgan outside. He already got hurt once because of you. Do you that to happen again?"

Reid didn't answer, his body shook with fear. The unknown man tightened his grip over his mouth. "Answer me!"

Reid shook his head fearfully as he felt the man's weight on him.

"That is what I thought. You be a good boy and stay quiet."

Reid let out a small whimper as the unsub removed his hand from his mouth, he was then roughly turned onto his stomach and his hands forced behind his back. "What are you going to do to me?"

He felt duct tape being wrapped around his wrists and then his ankles. The unsub ripped of a large piece of tape from the roll. He leaned down till he was at Reid's ear. "Why, Dr Reid, I'm going to kill you tonight."

Reid cried as piece of cloth was shoved in his mouth and the piece of duct tape was placed over his mouth.

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