Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN CRIMINAL MINDS!

After a few minutes the team finally calmed me down and we were thinking about how to remove the microchip that isn't even in his arm. The UNSUB's behavior seems organized so he'll figure out any game that we try to throw at him. Since he believes that the microchip is in his arm, not on his neck or back he will be looking at us removing the "microchip" the whole time. Until I had an idea.

"What if we could fake it?" I suggested, "Conceal a chip in the palm, a little slit of hand"

"C'mon, Reid, what are you talking about a magic trick?" Morgan asked.

"Yeah I'm talking about a magic trick" I said.

"No" Hotch said.

"I used to do it during college exams, I could make it appear, disappear" I insisted.

"We can't risk giving him another agent as a hostage" Hotch said.

"We have to do something" I said.

"All right Reid, let's go, teach it to me" Morgan said.

"What, no" I said.

"Look if you could do it I could do it"

"I've been practicing this my whole life, we only have 30 minutes"

"Reid, I'm not about to let you get on that train with an armed psychotic and your ex-girlfriend is on that train what if she recognizes you and that will blow your cover"

"I've seen her on those tapes and she's always talking to Elle, Elle could tell her what to do, and we don't have any other choice do we?"

"No, we don't have any other choice" Gideon said.

*Mia's POV*

It's been extremely hot in this train, I had to take of my blazer and unbutton the two top buttons of my white short sleeved button down top. All of us had a chance to learn each other's names since we were in here for so long. The tall kid with curly hair is Josh, the red headed pixie hair cut girl is Elaine, the skinny guy in the suit holding on to his bible is Harry and the woman in the tan long sleeve, long brown skirt and brown boots is Linda. When I introduced myself as a doctor Josh thought that I was lying until I helped patch up the wound on his forehead; thank God that I brought my medical bag. I sat across from Elle again and Linda was standing up thinking about what to do.

"What we need is a strategy" Elle said.

"I'll try to talk to him" Linda said.

"You think that's wise?" Elle asked.

Linda stepped a couple of small steps toward the shooter whose name is Ted.

"Ted" Linda called for him, "Are you feeling a little better now? You're in no danger here, these people, they don't want to hurt you, the FBI agent just happened to be on the train today she wasn't following you, wasn't watching you, let them go Ted I'll stay with you, you and I will do this together, only you need to let these people go, I will be with you, no one wants to hurt you"

"NO!" Ted screamed and aimed the gun at her. I immediately jumped in front of Linda guarding her from the gun and Elle got up as far as she could since she was handcuffed to her chair.

"Don't" Elle hissed, "I'll make sure that they'll never take it out of you, if you hurt one more person on this train I swear to God I'll make sure that they'll leave it in you forever"

The phone started to ring and Ted went to answer the phone, Linda sat back down and so did I, we listened in the conversation Ted was having. "I want it out" was all he said. "No! One technician! One technician or every agent on this train dies" "Not anymore, I want it out right now, NOW!" and Ted hung up the phone and sat back down in his seat.

"What do we do now?" I asked Elle.

"They'll probably send someone from my team to come in here" Elle answered.

"Who?"

"Morgan or maybe Reid but I doubt it"

"Spencer?"

"You know him?"

"We dated in college; he was my older brother's roommate"

"If Reid comes one this train, here is what I want you to do, don't make eye contact with him, act like you've never seen him before in your life"

I nodded, "Okay"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, it's just that I've never jumped in front of guns before in my life, and now I've done it 3 times today and it scares the shit out of me"

"It will be fine, you're doing great, okay?"

"Okay"

We sat in silence for another minute until Ted looked out the window and grabbed Elaine again, pulling her to our side of the train then had his arm around her neck and the other had the gun and pointed it to her stomach. I wanted to do something but Elle shook her head "no". I heard the door to the train open and I saw a tall figure come through the shadows and I saw that it was Spencer, I remembered what Elle told me, so I kept my head down to keep myself from looking at him. But I remembered the first glance I got of him, he's gotten taller and his hair is shorter from when I last saw him.

"That's far enough" I heard Ted say.

"I'm here to remove a chip from Dr. Bryar" I heard Spencer say.

"Take the vest off, so I can see you" Ted said. As soon as I heard that my head shot up thinking "Don't!"

"I don't have any weapons; the higher authority doesn't authorize it for technicians" Spencer said.

"Take it off!" Ted demanded.

Spencer slowly took the vest off, Elle turned to look then turned back to look at me she gave me a concerned look; I guess that she figured out that I was scared for Spencer.

"Come closer" Ted said, and Spencer did as he was told and had his hands in front of him to show Ted that he was harmless. Once Spencer got closer Ted made him sit across from him which was a seat behind me. I turned my head slowly to take a look at what was going on. Spencer struggled to open the alcoholic wipes that the nurses use to clean a spot on a patient's body before they give he or she a shot.

"Why are you so nervous?" Ted asked.

"I told you I'm not used to being around guns" Spencer answered.

All of us watched intensely as we saw Spencer cut open a small place on Ted's arm, once it was over it seemed like Spencer was trying to dig something from Ted's arm. After a few seconds Spencer pulled out what seemed like a little microchip.

"Whoa, did you see that?" Josh asked as everyone gave out little gasps.

"I knew it" Ted said happily, "I knew it"

Spencer got up from his seat gave me a glance and was about to walk away, "I've got to take this back to the higher authorities-"

"Not yet!" Ted exclaimed and Spencer slowly sat back down.

Ted pointed his gun at Spencer and said, "Turn it on, turn the chip on"

Spencer was speechless

"Turn the chip on or I'll pull the trigger" Ted threatened.

Spencer facial expression was blank like he didn't know what do, "I can't turn it on"

"Why not? Why not!" Ted asked.

"Because it has to be implanted" Elle said.

Thank you Elle I thought to myself.

"She's right the chip derives its power from tiny electrical impulses from neurons, it has to be in your skin in order for it to work" Spencer said.

Ted looked at him skeptically and Spencer got up and said, "I've really got to go-"

"Sit down!" Ted demanded and Spencer had no other choice but to listen, "You're not going anywhere"

Ted got up from his seat pointing the gun to everyone as he backed away taking a look at everyone else before sitting back down in his seat behind me.

"Did you see that? The guy actually had a chip in his arm" Josh whispered.

I rolled eyes and shushed him; we sat in silence for a minute until the phone rang a couple of times.

"It's probably the higher authority" Spencer said, "I told you I have protocols to follow I was suppose to go right back out there, I have rules, if you want me to stay I'm obviously going to stay but you're the one who has to explain it to the man"

"Why can't you all just leave me alone?" Ted asked.

"Leave you alone" Josh said as he got up from his seat.

"Stay out of this" Spencer told him.

"Sit down" I hissed at Josh.

"No" Josh said, "The government does watch us, you've got microwaves you got satellites, I'm with you man"

"Don't agitate him" Spencer said, "Dr. Bryar, answer the phone"

"My old man used to have tracking devices in his cars, he said it's in case of theft but I know that it's so he could find out where I go" Josh said, "And what about personal recordings and television, you don't think anyone is monitoring what you watch, you know how many patens, or issues, or devices they got monitoring us, look it up man"

"Answer the phone, Ted" Elle said.

"Stop this isn't gonna help" Linda stood up and told Josh.

"What the hell do you know" Josh spat at her.

"Ted, don't listen to him, he doesn't know what he's talking about he's just a kid" Linda assured Ted.

"Who you calling a kid?" Josh retorted.

"Sit down" Elle and I demanded.

"Oh so know you're going to tell me what to do" Josh said trying to lose Linda's grip, "He would only have one gun if you weren't here, I'm with you man"

"Answer the phone, Dr. Bryar, it's the higher authority" Spencer said.

Josh started walking up towards Ted; Ted quickly aimed his gun at Josh.

"NO!" Elle exclaimed trying to stop him. I tried to get up to block the gun from Josh but Spencer grabbed my arm and pulled me down to the floor in his embrace as we heard a gunshot.

I quickly looked up to see that Linda had been shot.

"Teddy" Linda said as she started to fall to the floor.

"Oh damn" Josh kept repeating as she supported her back.

I pushed Spencer off of me and quickly grabbed my medical bag, I took out gauze and quickly applied it to Linda's wound. The phone was still ringing off the hook as everyone surrounded Linda. Spencer helped me keep the gauze on her wound.

"What should we do?" Spencer asked me.

"I could try to remove the bullet but Linda as already lost a lot of blood so I can't patch up her wound here, she needs to go to the hospital" I said, "Keep her awake"

"Dr. Deaton, listen to the sound of my voice" Spencer said.

"Linda, stay with me okay" I said, "You need to stay awake"

Linda was unresponsive and that was a bad sign, I put some more gauze on her gun wound.

"She's unconscious" I said, "We need to take her to the hospital immediately"

The phone started to ring again and Ted was just sitting in his seat.

"Ted" Elle said, "No one on this train is an agent but me, no one else, you can let everyone else go"

"Dr. Bryar we need to get this woman help" Spencer told him.

"Who's gonna help me?" Ted asked.

"The higher authorities can help you but they're not what you think they're not the enemy they can help you, Dr. Bryar" Spencer assured Ted.

Ted got up from his seat and at first I thought that he was gonna shoot Elaine but he shot the phone instead. After a short pause Ted said, "Not anymore" turned around and sat back down.

"How bad is she?" Spencer asked me.

"The gun shot is on her right side so it's a possibility that it hit her spleen or it could be a ruptured stomach " I said, "What I do know for sure that she needs immediate surgery"

"It's not gone" Ted said to no one in particular, "But you said that if the chip came out that it will go away, I could still hear it. You said there was only one Leo. I could still feel it buzzing, burning"

"Dr. Bryar" Spencer called him.

"Reid" Elle said the same time as I said "Spencer"

"It's alright" Spencer said giving my hand a reassuring squeeze.

"Is there another one?" Ted shouted pointing the gun at Spencer.

"You know there isn't" Spencer told him, "If there were Leo would've told you"

"Make it stop!" Ted screamed putting his hands to his ears.

"I know what its like" Spencer said.

"Make it stop!" Ted repeated pointing the gun at Spencer again.

"I know what the voices are like" Spencer said and I gave him a "what are you talking about?" look, "The voices they won't stop they've been talking to you since you were a child"

"You're lying to me" Ted said quietly.

"That's Leo speaking to me that's not Dr. Bryar" Spencer said then looked at a empty spot next to Ted, "Why don't you let him think for himself, Leo?"

Ted put his gun down and pointed to the spot next to him with his thumb, "You, you could see him?"

"Yeah he's right there" Spencer answered, "Why don't you let him make his own decisions?"

"The voices they helped you right?" Spencer continued and stood up from the floor, "It's where you get your ideas from, while the other kids were outside in the playground you were inside reading, studying, learning, the voices wouldn't stop they helped you understand things that people can never realize, and as you became older it was almost as a responsibility right? A responsibility to use that ability, to use your knowledge"

"The string theory" Ted said, "The theory of everything"

"And M-theory encompassing all of the theories, you know it's funny most people say that M-theory could never be proved, because the mathematical tools do not yet exist" Spencer said, "But you see it, Dr. Bryar, right? Am I right? You can see all of the strings, unifying dimensions, the gravitational infinities canceling each other out you can see them right Dr. Bryar? You could see them because you have the tools; your mind is that tool"

"Shut up!" Ted yelled to the window.

"And I have to believe that if you put your mind to it, you will realize that you can make Leo stop, you can make him stop by understanding him, understanding that he isn't doing anything right" Spencer said.

Ted was looking around figuring out what to do when Elle took a chance and took one of his guns and kicked him down to one of the seats, Spencer then fought with him to get the other gun away. Fear took the best of me as I watched Spencer struggle then I heard a gunshot. I shrieked in fear and saw that Spencer was okay, it was Ted that was shot. The train door open and a middle aged man came into the room and I looked at everyone else to see if they were okay and I saw Harry with the gun pointed at Ted's direction.

Oh my God! He shot Ted I thought.

"I had to" Harry said, "He was gonna kill us, I had to, God forgive me"

I was still applying pressure to Linda's wound when Spencer told the middle aged man, "We need an ambulance"

Once they put Linda on the gurney I followed off the train, I told the paramedics to keep her wound wrapped in gauze and that should stop the bleeding for now and that she would need morphine to stop the pain when she comes to. Once we got to the ambulance the paramedics were finishing up strapping her in. A very handsome black man walked up to the ambulance and asked, "Is she gonna be alright?" to the paramedic.

"She should be, thanks to the doc here" The paramedic pointed at me.

"Agent Derek Morgan" Derek extended his hand for a shake.

"Dr. Mia Moreno" I shook his hand and smiled.

The paramedics then lifted Linda onto the ambulance and Morgan and I hopped on the ambulance with her. We got to the hospital in 20 minutes due to us being in the middle of nowhere. Once we got off the ambulance, they took Linda into surgery. Derek and I were waiting in the waiting room when he asked me a very awkward question.

"So you and Reid, huh?" Derek asked.

"What?" I asked.

"You and Reid" Derek repeated.

"That was when we were teenagers, I was 15, he was 16, and somehow we just clicked" I said.

"I've seen you and Reid on the security tapes on the train it seems like you two still have feelings for each other"

I laughed, "Who are you? Matchmaker Derek?"

"Something like that" Derek laughed.

Spencer walked in the waiting room a minute later; I could tell that he wanted to talk to me. I guess Derek noticed too because he left the room to "find the doctor", Spencer sat next to me and gave me a quiet hello.

"Hey" I said quietly.

"Are you okay?" Spencer asked.

"Yeah"

"So… I heard that you're…um… living in DC"

I laughed, "After not seeing you in 8 years, I, Mia Moreno still make Spencer Reid nervous"

He kept his head down but I could tell that he was RED, "Yeah"

I placed my hand on his, "You know that you shouldn't be, Spencie"

Spencer laughed a bit knowing that I used his nickname that I gave him a long time ago. We talked to each other for a little while longer when I heard someone yelling for my name at the front desk, Spencer and I looked at each other then went to the front desk to find my cousin Janelle screaming at the nurse to know which room I was in and her husband Damein was holding her back from going crazier than she all ready was. Good grief! She must have heard about the train accident on the news.

"Janelle!" I called for her name, she turned and looked at me with Spencer and ran to me crying.

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Gracias de Dos you are all right!" She was squeezing me so hard that I couldn't breathe for a few seconds.

"Girl has to breath here" I choked out.

"Sorry" Janelle said and released me.

"Janie, what are you doing here?"

"I saw the news about the train to Dallas had hostages and I knew that it was your train because you didn't call me when you said you would and when I heard that one of the hostages was shot I panicked and made Johnny drive me down here"

"And she was panicking the whole way here" Damien added putting an arm around my cousin's waist.

"Hey Damien" I said

"Hey Mia" Damien said, "And now that we see that she's okay, can we leave now I didn't want to leave my kid with the babysitter in the first place"

"And we will soon" Janelle assured him, "So who is this cutie?"

Spencer went red a bit

"Janelle!" I snapped.

"What? Can't I ask about who my baby cousin is with?" Janelle asked.

"We're not together, well we were but that was a long time ago" I said.

"Aww, why you two look adorable together" Janelle pointed out.

I knew I was turning red because my face was burning, "Long story short, he moved"

"Aww, too bad but I still want to know his name"

I sighed, "Janelle this is Spencer, Spencer this is my extremely over protective cousin Janelle"

"Hey!" Janelle snapped and we all laughed even Spencer, "Hardy-har-har c'mon Mia we'll give you a ride"

"But I'm not ready to leave yet" I protested.

"You are now" Janelle said.

"Por favor, can you give me a minute?" I said.

"Make it quick, I'll start the car" Damien said as he left.

"Spencer, can I talk to you?" I asked him as I pulled him back to the waiting room.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" He asked.

"Here" I handed him a slip of paper with my cell number on it, "Call me if you need anything okay?" I gave him a kiss on the cheek before I left the room probably leaving him speechless. Hopefully, he'll call me.