Max drove to Spencer's apartment as fast as she could. Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered the call that informed her about her sister's kidnap.
When she was on her way there she could see some police cars behind her, she was stressed and hit the wheel with her hand.
Two of them stopped in front of her to make her stop. And so she did but gets out as quick as possible saying "No. No, no, no, no, no, please. You've got to move your cars. It's an emergency" her hands were up showing she did not have a weapon.
"Max?" Said a voice behind her.
When she turned there was her dad "Dad?" She runs to him and hugs him tight.
"Sweetie, you're alright. You'reok" he rubs her back softly.
She cries as they were hugging. A man walks toward her "Hello Max. I'm SSA Matt Simmons. I work with Spencer, I think you know something happened to your sister and we will need your help to rescue her"
"What... what about my dad?"
"An agent will take him to the hospital. He's alright but we need to check him after being kidnapped for several hours. He's in good hands"
Her dad nodded and after a last hug and a kiss on the cheek, they both go separate ways.
Max into Matt's SUV and her dad into another. Inside hers were Garcia and JJ, who introduced themselves and quickly start to explain everything to Max about the situation.
They told her how Spencer outsmarted Cat the first time, then when she made him go to prison for a crime he did not commit using drugs to make him hallucinate.
"She did what to him in Mexico?" She was shocked by this women's methods.
"Yeah, and that's where the story gets even more convoluted"
"All you need to know is, he whole reason for doing this is to destroy Reid's life" JJ says.
"And that you're just the next pawn in her game" this time Matt spoke.
Max nodded and looks at the street "Ok, so, she's, like, a mean girl, but more stabby"
"Yes!" The three agents says at the same time.
After some more minutes they arrived to Reid's apartment and parks there. And they were glad Spencer, Luke and Cat have not arrived yet. They got in and checked everything before let Max in. Knowing Cat was capable of planting a bomb or something.
After that they let her in. JJ hands her an earpiece "We'll be able to monitor you with this the whole time. We'll all be listening, but Prentiss will be telling you what to say" Max nodded.
"Thumbs up if you can hear me" Garcia whispers in a microphone and Max did it.
After that JJ gave her some advices about how to being relaxed, they had her back covered and if she needs a hand they will jump in any second. She nods and sighs as they leave her alone.
Max can listen to them arriving and takes a deep breath ready to her encounter with Cat. When the door opened she can see Cat and Spencer kissing.
She was in shock at that and when they broke apart Spencer's eyes set on Max and he wanted to die right there.
Some guy of the SWAT team pulls her away as Spencer walks to Max with Luke behind him "What are you doing here?"
"Get her out of here. Get her out of here" Luke ordered.
"No, no, no. She will kill them if I leave"
"Kill who?"
"My father and my sister"
"Michelle?"
"No, my... my younger sister" Spencer's mind was working faster to understand that Cat kidnapped Max family not her own father and stepsister "Look, I got a call from some woman. I heard my sister screaming in the background. She told me to come here, that there would be a key under the mat. Spencer, what is happening?!"
He understood what was Cat's plan "it's your family she kidnapped"
Luke got a message saying JJ and Matt recovered her dad. Of course Luke and Max already knew it, because Prentiss told him her plan.
He asked Spencer to take Cat back to her cell and regroup but Spencer has other plans.
"No. Bring her in here and leave us alone"
"Dude"
Spencer got out his phone and called to his house's phone, and hands his cellphone to Luke "you can monitor us with this" then turns to Max "Follow my lead. We can outsmart her. Let her gloat. She loves to gloat. Just don't show fear or she'll use it against you"
"Who?"
"Her" The three of them turned around to see Cat walking in with a smirk on her face, cleaning the lipstick he messed up after the kiss. When she was closes to them, her eyes on Max's "We're all here. What do you want to talk about?" He knows she planned this. Make her partner to call Max, acting like he offended her while thinking about Max and pushing him to go there.
"So, so much" she smirks looking at him and then looks at her "she's cute" Max could feel her predator's energy as she walked next to her.
Spencer's and hers eyes met and she knew the game had started.
"Did it make you mad that I was kissing your boyfriend?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Well, he's not my boyfriend" she says with a little laugh looking at him from the corner of her eyes, she wanted to be his girlfriend but she will not say that to her "and I kind of have some other things on my mind"
"Like what?"
"Are you gonna hurt Eloise?"
"Not if I don't have to, no. Honestly, if she follows instructions, she might even learn from this whole experience"
"What does that mean?"
"Normally, Spencie and I, we spend out time together playing games, but tonight, I've brought you all here to make a point. You can do so much better" she said that looking at Spencer.
"With you?"
"I'm not talking to you" she then turns to Max and pointed at Max "I'm talking to you. Because, girlfriend, you need to know the truth about your boyfriend"
"He's not my boyfriend" she looks at him after she said it again, like trying to give him a message she was just saying that because it was obvious that Cat was jealous of her dating him. But he did not get it.
"No kidding. You guys haven't even made out yet"
"You told her that?" She said a little hurt, she never expected him to tell her that.
"I had to say a lot of things tonight" Spencer usually told Cat some personal information so she can split some more information but he never thought she could know about Max or make this.
"Yes he has. He said that you're not me, that, um... that not matter what, he can't get me out of his mind"
"Everything I said I was lying to save your family"
"Did our kiss look like a lie?" Cat was making sure to point that out to Max to made her hate Spencer.
"No" he cursed himself and could not believe he kissed Cat.
"Thank you. See, now we're getting to the heart of the matter" Cat sighed "You see, everyone thinks that Dr. Spencer Reid is... is just this nice, bookish, uh, genius who, uh, always save the day and has all the answers, uh..." she took a photo of his mother "and has zero mommy issues, right?" He wanted to snapped her hands off that photo "but, um... I know the real him"
"Oh, yeah? Who's the real me, Cat?"
"The real Spencer Reid throws women against walls..." that made him to remember that day, he was set free hours from jail, thanks to Cat, and he was not himself. He was upset because he just heard something exploding from the other side of the phone, he thought she ordered her partner to kill his mom "and hisses that he's going to kill them" he was thankful JJ stopped him, if he was alone Cat would die that day.
"That was a very different situation"
"No, it wasn't"
Max talked after several minutes of silence, she knew what happened in Mexico but she did not know what happened after that.
JJ cursed after listening what Cat said. She could not believe how Cat had everything planned to destroy his relationship.
"What is she talking about?" Spencer did not want her to know this, at least no yet.
"You tell her. She's not gonna believe it coming from me"
When Prentiss arrived to Spencer's apartment and Luke told her the situation was not good, the unit chief made contact with her "Max, listen closely. We are gonna need you to lie" Max just listen and planned what she will need to do or say. The situation was really stressful and she has to do it right. Cat Adams looked really dangerous.
"Two years ago, Cat had her partner kidnap my mother. Just like tonight. She got under my skin and..."
"And you threw her against a wall?"
"Don't skimp on the details, Spencie. She deserves to know everything"
Spencer could not look up as he keeps telling her the story "She was pregnant at the time and I knew that when I hurt her"
"And?.. the next day..." she looks at Max as she said it "I miscarried" Cat said with a calm voice "the end"
"That's not true"
"It is most certainly true, check my medical records" and Garcia did immediately. She discovered the miscarriage was true but not the day before the incident happened.
"That doesn't mean I-I would..."
"Boss... it's a big lie from Cat's part" she informed and all the team listed.
Then Prentiss told Max and added "Fake tears, if you can't fake tears, fake anger" and she did.
"Stop. Look" Her look towards Spencer was of totally disappointment that made him almost had a breakdown right there.
"I thought you were decent" a silence felt on the room and you could hear Spencer's heart breaking with every minute he saw Max has to hear what he had to been through two years ago.
Cat was having a blast looking how she was destroying them. Max could see now how this woman was able to use such a thing to make him feel bad, she was not a profiler but she knows Cat was a typical Queen Bee.
"I'm sorry" he sat next to Max looking down like a kid who just did something bad.
"Notice how your boyfriend is apologizing to you and not me" she keeps calling him her boyfriend.
"He's/ I'm not my/her boyfriend" this time Spencer and Max said at the same time. Both looking away. She has to keep her fake angry.
"That's good, because men are all the same, aren't they Maxie?"
Reid will not let Cat calling her Maxie like they were friends. He will protect her "don't call her that"
"What, are you gonna throw me against a wall and choke me, or do you only do that to pregnant women?" She keeps using that against him and remembering Max what of an awful person he was.
"Why are you doing this?" She knew it, she wanted to destroy Spencer.
"Because I want you to see it. I want you to see that he is... no better than whoever hurt you before"
"Stop"
"I can see it on your face. What's his name?"
"It's none of your business. It is exactly my business. In fact, it's my specialty" Max keeps looking at her. She could tell this was the other thing she wants. She hates men and knows she will love a story of abuse men "I mean, i could have Juliette and baby sister go over there if you want. They could take care of him"
Spencer saw a chance to make her split with her offer. He knows if she calls her partner they will be able to pinpoint her location and save Max's sister "Say yes. Give her what she wants"
"Hmm. See? He wants you to get me to make a little phone call so they can trace it. They're so good, the FBI"
Cat was reading Spencer like a textbook. Max on the other hand was tired of their games. She can tell they are reading each other and they will not let anything to slip.
She stands up "what is wrong with the two of you? What is this sick, twisted thing that you have?" Cat was having fun as she thought she was under control of everything and that she was getting into Max's skin "Listen, I just want to save my sister. Will you please just tell me what I have to do to do that?"
"Tell me his name. Tell me the story. That's it" Spencer could see Max desperate look and he knows Cat was not trustworthy "and then if they can let Juliette exit stage right, then I promise you I will let her go"
Max nodded and Spencer knows she was getting into her trap. Cat will not let her go, that was just a lie to get what she want. Max was not stupid, she can tell she has Cat where she wanted. She just has to play her cards well, first hung up the call Spencer made at the beginning of this.
She walks to the door play like she think the FBI will not trace her phone if that line was not open. Spencer and Cat thought the same, she was acting naive "Here. Use this use my phone. They can't trace it"
"Hmm... you'd be surprised"
"I don't even need a call. Just... just a photo. Something to prove to me that she's still alive. Please"
Cat could tell she was desperate "story first"
"Max, Max, I have been here with her before. She called the number and told the partner to kill my mom"
"It is so tricky, isn't it? I mean, who are you gonna trust? The lying, cheating, violent psychopath... or me?" Max looked between both of them. If she has to be honest she could never trust Cat but right now she had to act like she was hurt with him.
After several minutes of thinking she decided to tell the story she planned. She can see Cat thought every man want to hurt women so she has to play on that. She turns and take a deep breath, she unlocked her phone and starts it "His name was Mike Davis. We dated for two years"
"Good. When did it end?"
"Last year"
"Was he good in bed?" She asked like they were best friends and they were having a sleepover.
"Shut up" Spencer was not happy.
"What? You have to know where you stand"
"He was good... good at, um, separating me from my friends and my family enough that the first time he punched me in the face, I didn't have anywhere to go" she was holding her tears and looks down "and my first response wasn't 'get out' it wasn't 'go to hell' it was 'I'm sorry, Mike'" she covers her mouth with her hand and having tears in her eyes "that's when he knew he had me"
"How many hospital visits were there?"
"None. No, he... he knew how to hurt me just enough, I guess"
"But you found the strength to leave. What did you do?"
"I planned and I... I waited"
"Waited for what?"
"I live here in D.C. but I'm also a resident in Virginia. It takes 60 days for the permit to clear" Spencer understood immediately what she meant by that.
He stands up trying to stop her "Max, stop talking, stop talking right now"
"No, don't stop. Here. Give me the phone" Cat says also knowing what she implied with her last statement "Look, I'm gonna enter the text, stick the landing and I'll hit 'send'" that is what Max wanted. Emily, Luke, JJ and Penelope hearing what she was saying and getting ready to send to Matt and Rossi where Juliette has Eloise.
Max kept her poker face "when I was ready, I picked a fight louder enough for the neighbors to hear. And he came at me with his fist just cocked back, so, I pulled my Glock 19 out of my purse. I shot him" she said as she felt a knot in her throat.
Cat looked so pleased by that and Spencer tried to defend her "it was self-defense. He was attacking you"
"That's what I told 911 when he was struggling to breathe on his kitchen floor. That's why the police didn't charge me, but I... after I hung up I... I shot him two more times" when she said the last part Cat could not control a little sadistic laughs as she send the text and trigger Garcia's computer.
Spencer, on the other hand, was dying inside. Max could tell by his look.
"Wow! You really have a type, don't you? Quite a dilemma, too. She just admitted to murder"
"She'll beat it"
"Probably. But you two are done" again the silence was so deep that you could hear both hearts finally broken. She wish she could tell him it was a lie but she could not until they meet in their office "oh, wow! Look at that. Your sister" Cat handed her, her phone with a photo of her sister "Alive and well" Max runs to the door "Well, you're welcome"
When she reaches the door there was Prentiss "I-I got something, I got something. Please, please, please help" her eyes met with Spencer's one last time that night. She was sorry for everything she had to say in front of him.
Meanwhile, Cat hold and drop the black King and says "I win" looking at him with a smirk.
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Ok that was all for this chapter. I had to write this twice because I misclicked the copy button and touched the paste one. All the text was selected and it got deleted. I'm writing on my phone and I couldn't recover it. It was the worst thing that ever happen to me.
But I'm here. I'm glad that the last chapter liked you. Hope you find this entertaining and we will see in the next one.