Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. - Shigenori Kameoka
Reid knocks on Millicent Beck's door. She answers it quickly, as if she had been waiting on the other side. "Here again? What is it that you people want?"
"I'm FBI agent Spencer Reid. May I come in?" Reid inquires, ignoring the woman's sour mood. "Not without telling me why I should let you in!" Millicent snaps. "Ms. Beck, if we locate the missing women we'd likely find Adele and the person who made your life a nightmare would be locked away." Reid replies.
Millicent glowers at Reid. He's not that much younger than her – around the same age as her brother, she figures.
"Fine," she huffs, and pulls him inside.
***
The entire team – except JJ who stayed at the police department and Reid – meet in front of Mildred's address.
They sneak up to the house and Morgan bangs down the door. They stream into the house, "Clear!" Emily yells as she looks into one room. "Clear!" Hotch calls next and then Rossi too, "Clear!"
The local police and the BAU team push through the door and run down the cement steps into the basement, only to find nothing in there – nothing but frayed ropes and blood.
"We're too late." Prentiss says sadly.
***
Reid hung up his phone with a frown.
"Something wrong?" Millicent asks, uncaringly. "Yeah, actually. Can we just pretend something for a second?" Reid suggests. Millicent shrugs, "Try me." She says dryly.
"You and Mildred were friends but she was just using you, the whole entire time you were just being used as a ploy so she could get closer to the group. When you found out, you were mad, and humiliated." And then, on a very un-Reid-like whim he adds, "So tell me NOW where Mildred took you when the two of you just wanted a space to be!"
Millicent raises an eyebrow, "Temper tantrums aren't going to get you anywhere, Mr. Reid." She chuckles. "It's Dr. Reid." He corrects. Millicent smirks, "Listen. Wherever Mildred and I went is old business. It doesn't matter now."
"Actually, it does. The other agents weren't able to locate the women at Mildred Farmer's home." Reid informs her.
"Really? What a shame. Tell me, doctor, what do we have to pretend?" Millicent mocks him. "I want you to close your eyes and pretend you're going to wherever Mildred took you. Describe it." He says.
Millicent shuts her eyes.
***
"A cottage?" Hotch asks. "No more like a cabin…but not in the woods kind of just out of the way." Reid retells. "Reid the place we're at has three rooms and is far from other homes. Where other places are there like that?" Hotch tests.
Still in Millicent's house, Reid gives her a look. She sighs and snatches Reid's phone, "It was a storage unit!!!" she shouts before pressing the off button hard. She grins evilly at Reid. "You know what the funny thing is, doctor?" her eyes are lit up with horrid gleefulness.
Reid shakes his head, a bit worriedly. "That Mildred and I both go by Millie." She laughs.
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