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A/n hello all... Here is the last chapter of this story. I never intended this to go past the second season because of JJ's pregnancy. Thank you all for support and your faithful reviews. Thanks to my wonderful beta REIDFANATIC who keeps me honest and my work free of all the errors that happen with my typing skills.
No Way Out: Part Two
The past always comes back to haunt you. It came back in several ways this week. The first thing that happened was that I cornered Spencer at his place. His time for hiding was over. He even agreed with me when I knocked on his door.
He sat me down and started to talk, telling me everything that happened to him with Tobias that we didn't see. He told me about how the drugs brought back vivid childhood memories of his mother. He said he remembered his father leaving and having to put his mother into fulltime care. He rolled up the sleeves on his shirt and showed me the track marks. I didn't want Hotch and Emily to be right about his drug habit, but there is was in stark reality, and I couldn't turn me eyes away.
He looked so miserable. He said that if I wanted to leave and not come back, it was alright. I told him that I wasn't going anywhere. He asked me to help him stop. He said he knew he should talk to a professional, but he didn't want to lose his job. I said I would help if he was willingly to do everything and that meant going through a horrible withdrawal period. I researched it on the internet and I know what would happen. He said he would. He kissed me for the first time in weeks and it felt so nice to be back in his arms again.
Of course work intruded, bringing back our greatest enemy to date. I got the call from Hotch to come to Gideon's apartment. An old friend named Sarah had come to visit him. She was dead on his bed, and slashed to pieces. We didn't know where Gideon was, or what had happened, till we started looking at the body. She had a missing rib and from the cuts the guys realized that Frank, the man that got away from them in Nevada, was back.
Hotch sent Garcia to stay with Gideon and help him go through his files on Frank. I went back to Quantico and looked through the crime scene photos. There was a book in one picture with writing and a page torn out. Hotch told me it was Gideon's murder book, a list of survivors he's saved. It was also a list of potential victims. We narrowed it down, but not fast enough to stop him from killing Rebecca Gardner. We saved her a year ago from her father, and now she's dead.
We found Jane and through her, Frank's mother Mary Breitkopf. She lived in Manhattan and we thought she was still alive. Gideon and Garcia worked together and discovered that Frank thinks of Jane as his mother. His mother was a prostitute and she turned tricks in front of him. I guess that's what screwed him up, or he was born that way, I guess we'll never really know.
He kidnapped Tracy Bell, the girl we saved in Texas last year. He used her to get us to bring Jane to meet him. He called Gideon and put Tracey on the phone just to torment him. Spence and I went to New York while the rest of the team went to the train station in DC to meet Frank. They took Jane to try and get the location of Tracey Bell from him.
When I was alone of the plane with Spencer he asked me to take point in the search. He said he wasn't confident to take the lead and he didn't want anyone to get hurt. I tried to argue, but he made me promise. So… when we got to the apartment I told him that no matter what happened we didn't separate again.
It was awful in there. Frank's mother was dead and had been dead for a long time. It looked like she was partially mummified and there were flowers all around her. Spence looked like he might be sick. The best thing was that Tracey was there. The poor kid was freaked out, but she was alive.
Frank and Jane ended up jumping in front of a speeding train which was horrific for the rest of the team. We called Gideon as soon as it was over and Tracey thanked him for saving her. I think he really needed to hear that and talk to her.
She's so cute and I couldn't help thinking for a minute what a child might look like for Spencer and me. Would she have blond hair or hazel eyes? Would she have his smile or my nose?
I know that things are going to be tough. Gideon is devastated. I saw Hotch going into Asst. Director Erin Strauss's office and he was in there for a very long time. Spencer still has to deal with getting off the Dilaudid. Maybe there won't be a happy ending for us, but maybe there will. Maybe all any of us can do is live the best that we can and only worry about what we can control.
The good news is that Spence and I are together. He's here with me and he's sleeping where I can keep an eye on him. This journal has come to its last page and I don't think I'm going to need to start another one soon. Life goes on and things always change. It's the people you love that are the most important thing.