A/n hey all, here is the next chapter. Thanks all for your reviews and those who've added this to your alerts and favorites
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"Now wait just a minute." Reid said before the two nurses laid hands on the young man. Tommy erupted into a rage. Leia jumped out of Reid's arms and ran out of the room. JJ swore like a sailor when Tommy fell against her and pushed her into a nurse. Pandemonium erupted in the calm after a beautiful interpretation of musical genius.
JJ stumbled away from the second male nurse in the room. The man was so young that she wondered if he'd just been hired that day. Dr. Lev was shouting orders for Tommy to be restrained. She rubbed at her elbow while Reid spoke to the doctor, who was ignoring him. The nurses were trying to control the young man. A couple of guys that she supposed were aides, or orderlies had brought a gurney into the room and they manhandled the young patient onto it and strapped him down.
The small library was in shambles with books knocked off shelves in one corner of the room and the wooden chair that Tommy had been sitting in was on the floor. A vase of flowers on one table was shattered, and water spilt all over the floor before the men got Tommy restrained. They wheeled him out of the room, screaming and thrashing.
Reid tried again to get the attention of the doctor, but the man left the room with the nurses and the young man on the gurney.
"Spence… what the hell is going on."
"Just a minute JJ," Reid went over to Maria who'd been knocked down in the exchange. He helped her to her feet with Sondra taking her other arm."
"Are you okay ma'am," He asked, helping her back to her walker.
"No… por Dios… Que tiene el doctor!"
"Maria… Come with me… I'll look you over and make sure you haven't been hurt."
"Gracias Sondra," Maria leaned heavily on her walker as the nurse led her out of the little room.
Suddenly it was just Reid and JJ standing there looking at each other. "Reid… what is going on?" JJ hissed.
"I'll tell you later. We have to find Leia and get out of here before Hotch reads us the riot act."
"Yeah… he said the case we have is pretty important."
JJ followed him out of the room and they headed down the hallway to the nurses' station. No one seemed to be there, and he wondered if Tommy was ok.
"They're not going to keep him strapped down like that, are they?"
"No… His name is Tommy. He's autistic and can have what is called a rage when upset. They'll release him when they're sure he won't hurt himself or others. It shouldn't be more than a couple of hours." Reid told her as they looked down hallways and into the dining room used by the ambulatory patients.
"Where is that cat? We don't have time for this." JJ complained.
They turned down a corridor and heard a familiar meow in the distance. They hurried down the hallway and turned another corner. Leia was sitting by a door that was firmly closed to her. She batted a paw against the door and yowled again.
"Leia… what are you doing?" Reid crouched and picked up the cat.
She tried to leap back down out of his arms, but he held tightly to her till they got back to the reception area. She struggled again when he put her in the cat carrier. She spread all four of her legs against the carrier and hissed. JJ tried not to laugh, but in her mind she could imagine what Leia might be saying to Reid in her own cat-like way. The words "eff off" came to mind and she lost the battle with her laughter. She watched her boyfriend struggle with the cat, and decided that trying to help would only get her scratched or bitten. She backed off, and listed to the yowls and hissed from the pissed off cat. She thought that the cat could probably be heard all over the lobby and the reception area, as Reid wrestled her into the carrier. He finally got the very unhappy cat into the kennel and shut the door. They were about to leave when a voice spoke up from behind them.
"Thank you Dr. Reid." Sondra called. The turned to see that Sondra was back her post.
"Is Maria alright?" Reid wanted to know.
Sondra smiled, "Yes… don't worry about her. She'll have a few bruises, but there are no broken bones."
"Good… Is Tommy alright, he seemed very upset?
"Dr. Reid… You seemed to know that Tommy is autistic, so you know that some of the things he says aren't clear. I don't know why he was so upset, but I am angry that Dr. Stevens was so rough with him. I'm going to speak to Dr. Atkinson about it."
"Oh… well thanks for the information the doctor gave my wife about your residence."
"Yeah…thanks… Come on Spence… We need to get Leia back home." Leia was yowling and JJ was yanking on one of his hands, so they left the building.
"Come on… let's get Leia back to your place and into work before we're fired." JJ said pulling him along to his car.
They headed back to Reid's place with the angry, spitting, and hissing cat. Reid was relieved when they got back to his apartment. Mrs. Warburton was just coming out of her place when they were unlocking the door.
"Dr. Reid… Is Leia ok…?" She asked walking slowly over to them.
"Yeah… she's a little upset with me. She hates that carrier and now I have to get back to work."
Reid held the kennel as far away from him as he could without braining JJ who was next to him. The cat was hissing angrily, and he was sure he was going to pay for this day in someway.
"I'll take care of her." Mrs. Warburton told him.
"No… I can't let you do that. I might be going out of town again, and I already told you that I was going to find someone else -"
"Don't worry about me. I love this cat. Give her to me!"
JJ was suffering from suppressed laughter at the way Spencer was ordered around by a very small, very old woman.
"Hello JJ… I didn't see you there. Why don't you help me get Leia settled while your man gets his bag?" Mrs. Warburton winked at JJ, and the younger woman followed her into her apartment, leaving Reid standing the hall feeling ambushed by three females.
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Reid and JJ were the last to board the plane. Hotch had been very understanding over their troubles at the nursing home. Morgan had laughed at the abbreviated version of the story. Emily only wanted to know about Tommy and his musical abilities, which sent Reid off on a long winded explanation of the differences and similarities of Autistic Savants.
The plane was headed to Portland Maine. The BAU was being asked to look into the case of a serial rapist and murderer who was kidnapping young successful women in their late twenties and thirties.
They were met at the airport by the lead detective on the case Maury Hansen. He was about five seven , medium build, with coffee colored skin and lively dark brown eyes that had been made sober by the terrible deaths the women were suffering.
"You said on the phone that the women were found in public parks." JJ asked the detective, who was about forty and had never seen anything this brutal in his career.
"Yes… he manages to dump them without being seen. They are fully clothed and wrapped in plastic, as though he wants to protect them from the elements."
"That's a sign of remorse. Someone that didn't care about these women would just dump them nude in some remote location, or in a landfill, or someplace where the elements or animals would dispense with their remains." Morgan said, looking at the photos in his file.
"All of them have very dark hair and eyes. He has a very specific type that he likes. Maybe he's punishing someone from his past that abused him." Reid added.
"We need to see the latest dump sight." Rossi interjected.
"That's where we're going now." The detective explained as they headed into the darkening afternoon light.
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"I need you to get your best man on this. I need to know what he was doing in here." The man said into the phone. "I don't care how much it costs or what you have to do. I want to know what an FBI agent was doing in here. I don't like being fed a lie by undercover agents." He slammed the phone down and left the room.
He hurried down the hallway to a door at the end of the corridor. The stairs were concrete and his shoes echoed off them as he nearly ran down them to the basement. He flipped on a light and headed down another corridor to a second door. The door was metal and hermetically sealed. There was only one way to get in, with a code entered into the key pad next to the door.
The door swung open with a hiss and then shut behind him, plunging the world around him into silence. The hallway was metal and shaped like a long tube. He hurried down it and into another chamber at the end of the perfectly clean hall.
The man in the room was strapped to a gurney. He was just coming out of unconsciousness as the man entered the room. "Now… it's time for some answers and you're going to give them to me." The man told his captive.
A/n the translation of the Spanish phrase Maria uses is "Oh God, what is the matter with the doctor." I speaka little Spanish, and have relied on my own translation. not a website, so please forgive any mistakes.