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Daniel sat on Garcia's bed with her sobbing into his chest, her tears soaking his shirt and her shakes making him grow more and more concerned with each passing moment. He hated hearing her cry and he couldn't help but feel anger at Reid. He knew he shouldn't get angry at Reid but they were doing everything they could to help him and he was constantly trying to push them away. He kissed the top of her head and rubbed his hand in circles on her back. She came away from him and wiped her eyes.

"I-I miss the old him. The old Reid who would deny us the secrets of his magic tricks and who would be confused by women buying so many shoes. I want him back but I know that isn't possible. Daniel, I-I can't do this anymore. I can't watch him hurt himself anymore."

Pulling away from him, she grabbed her laptop bag and purse. "I need to go to work."

"Hotch said he would get Kevin to cover for you," Daniel said.

"I can't stay here, Daniel. I'm going to work. Obviously, I can't do any good here for Reid, seems I never could. I can try to do some good at work."

"Penelope-"

"No, I'm going. I just can't do it anymore. I won't watch him destroy everything we tried to help him rebuild."

Daniel felt helpless as he watched her walk out of the room. The apartment door slamming echoed in his ears. Getting off the bed, he stormed out of the room and into Reid's bedroom, he went into the bathroom and turned on the shower. He walked to Reid and quickly lifted the sleeping man up. Reid began to panic as he awoke and found he was getting carried to the bathroom. Daniel placed Reid in the shower.

"Oh my god!" Reid gasped as the cold water hit him, soaking his clothes and hair.

"Feel better," Daniel yelled at him.

"D-Daniel, what a-are you doing?!" Reid shouted back as he tried to get out of shower. Daniel grabbed his shoulders and forced him back down to the floor of the shower.

"Trying to put some sense into you. Spencer, you need to start fighting back. I know Barry Ralin hurt you and I know you are suffering but you have to fight back against the nightmares and buck up."

"Y-You don't u-understand," Reid shouted through chattering teeth.

"I may not fully understand what you are going through but I know one thing. You are hurting your family and you're hurting Penelope!"

"W-WHAT?!"

"You're hurting her Spencer," Daniel yelled. "She can't do it anymore and I don't blame her. She rushed out of this apartment to the BAU because she thinks she has failed in helping you. Watching you destroy yourself is destroying her and I won't let her feel that way. You're breaking her heart. You're supposed to be her friend. She sacrifices everything for you and you throw it back at her! Some friend you are. I don't know why she bothers with a pathetic man like you."

A moment later, Daniel got pushed to the floor as Reid lunged up from the shower and tackled him. Reid started to hit out at Daniel blindly in a fit of rage. His fist collided with Daniel's face. Grabbing his arms, Daniel quickly rolled and pinned a struggling Reid to the floor.

"Get off me!" Reid screamed as he lashed out. Daniel pinned down Reid's wrists by the side of his head and ignored the ache in his jaw from the punch that Reid had dealt.

"You got a strong punch there," Daniel said calmly. "I guess you were lying when you said you had no fight in you. Why'd you lash out?"

Reid stayed silent but began to relax and calm down his breathing.

"Don't get quiet of me, Spencer. You need to start talking."

"Garcia is my friend! She always has been. I'm not pathetic and I'm not hurting her!"

"Spencer, you are hurting her. She blames herself for not seeing that you were getting worse and for not being there to help you with the nightmares. Every bite mark on your arm is a failure to her. Her failures."

Reid stilled. "No, it isn't her fault. I thought not telling her about the nightmares was helping her. I thought I was protecting her."

"Lying doesn't protect someone. I think we have all realised that by now. We shouldn't have kept the video a secret from you. You are fragile and we didn't know the effect it would have on you. Now, we do."

"That video will never go away," Reid said angrily. "How can I go on knowing that is out there?"

"The video of Barry attacking you doesn't define you."

"I begged him for it," Reid whispered quietly.

"Everything he made you do is not your fault. You are a good man and you still have a lot of fight in you. It's buried deep beneath a lot of pain and hurt but I know you can bring it forward. Barry is dead, I burned the bastard to ashes myself. He can't hurt you in your dreams and he can't hurt you from a video. Define yourself as a strong man who won't let this destroy him and not as a victim of Barry Ralin. I know you care about Penelope and you don't like seeing her in pain. I'm going to let you up now."

Daniel got off Reid and sat on the floor next to him. He helped Reid sit up.

"In my dreams, sometimes I can see. I never saw what he looked like though. I look up and I look into the eyes of a demon, into eyes that aren't human."

"He was a weak little man," Daniel said gently. "Don't be afraid of the dead.

"Thank you," Reid said quietly. "Thank you for doing this."

"For shouting at you and calling you pathetic."

"You invoked an emotional response from me," Reid said. "One that I needed."

"I just wanted to kickstart that brain of yours," Daniel said before putting his hand on Reid's shoulder. "I also can't stand to see Penelope in pain. She's been crying since you fell asleep."

"You love her, don't you?" Reid asked.

Daniel closed his eyes and nodded. "I do. I spent years being a monster whilst undercover. I've spent so much time since then feeling wrong and fearing I would never get rid of the darkness on my shoulders. Penelope makes that disappear and its horrible watching her cry because she is upset."

"Do you think she will ever forgive me?" Reid said sadly. "I never meant to do this to her."

Getting to his feet, Daniel took Reid's arms and helped him up. He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around a shivering Reid.

"This is what we are going to do," Daniel said as he grabbed another towel and put it over Reid's head. He quickly began to dry his dripping hair. "We are going to get you dry and dressed. We're then going to go and get Garcia. You two need to have a serious talk."

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