Hey everyone, sorry for the slight delay with this chapter but I was ultra busy yesterday, I barely had time to sit down. Here is the next chapter for you all.
Okay, so the reason Henry can see Reid is because children's minds are more open to the world, they haven't decided on what to believe yet. Henry could see Reid because his mind is more open to the world. Hope that makes sense.
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Morgan took the picture from JJ, he looked at it and knew it was a tattoo. He couldn't understand though how Henry could have drawn this without help or the fact that Henry knew about the bad man and the clothing Reid had died in. Morgan knew deep down that he wanted Reid to have told Henry to draw the picture, he wanted to believe so hard that Reid was still there with them. Morgan's mind flashed back to the bathroom. No-one had been in the bathroom with him when all the motion sensored taps had gone off. At least no-one he could see.
A strong part of his brain was telling him that he was being stupid, there was no such thing as ghosts. His mind kept slamming his brain with the same fact over and over.
When someone dies that is it. There is no such things as ghosts.
Morgan ignored that part of his brain though, he ignored it and listened to the part of himself that had a little hope that Henry had seen Reid and that Reid had not completely left them yet. Morgan handed the piece of paper to Garcia bringing her out of her confused and shocked state.
"Garcia, can you run this through all known databases? I don't care if you have to rip apart the computer world, I want some connection found to this tattoo. Can you do that for me babygirl?"
Garcia looked at the tattoo on the paper before looking to Morgan, she blinked a few times before nodding her head.
"I'll get started right away," she said in a determined voice before making her way to her office.
JJ handed Henry to Will so the team could talk. Will walked away from the group with a sleepy Henry in his arms.
"Morgan, you can't seriously think that Reid told Henry to draw that tattoo," JJ said even though deep inside she wanted Reid to still be around. She just wanted to hear him talk again, she would have done anything to hear another statistic from him.
"She's right, we can't start believing in fairytales. We need to keep our heads in reality. We all miss Reid and as much as we would all want him to be alive, he isn't," Rossi said although he was still shaken by the latest clue they had recieved.
"What if he is still here? I know it sounds crazy but we have to consider the facts. No-one has told Henry that Reid had died, he said that Reid was in his night time clothes, the same clothes he-" Morgan said before pausing to continue, still finding it hard to say Reid was dead. "The same clothes he died in. Henry doesn't know anything about Reid's death, so why would he say the bad man?"
"Even I have to admit that it is strange," Emily said.
"Garcia is checking the picture, if she gets anything from it then we are going to have to have a serious discussion of what to do next," Hotch said, he wasn't sure what to say or do for the first time in a very long time.
Morgan's mind clicked into place.
"What if we tried contacting Reid?" Morgan questioned, his mind already knowing a way to test.
Reid - An hour later
Reid had been standing in the room where Will was playing with Henry. Reid crouched down in front of the two as they built a lego house.
"Henry, can you hear me?" Reid said gently in the hope that his godson could hear him again. Henry didn't look up or even acknowledge him. Reid felt fustrated, he needed to tell the team so much and his godson was the only one that could help him do that. Every ghost myth was running through his head as he tried to think of a way to talk to the team.
Reid's attention was drawn away from his godson when he saw Morgan carrying something into the briefing room. Reid walked through the walls until he found himself in the briefing room. He looked down and found himself feeling joy as he recognised what Morgan had brought into the room. It was a sign his best friend believed he was still there.
The rest of the team apart from Garcia walked into the room.
"Morgan, you can't be serious. You have to stop this. We all miss Reid so much and we would do everything in the world to have him back but you can't start doing things like this," Rossi said as he tried to reason with Morgan as Morgan set up a ouji board.
Reid looked down at the board, it was old but it had everthing he would need to talk with his team. Reid watched Morgan place the pointer on the board. Reid felt sad that he wasn't going to be there to be a friend to Morgan. Reid was happy that he had had Morgan as friend when he had been alive, he was even more happy to have had Morgan as he friend not that he was dead.
"We've all seen things happen that we can't explain. Emily, you've died and you told me you had an experience. Isn't it possible that he could be here? Isn't it possible that he can't move on because of what that bastard did to him?" Morgan said to Emily and the team.
Reid stood in front of the board, he closed his eyes and found every ounce of strength inside of him. He put his hands to the pointer and started to push it. He almost wanted to jump for joy when it started moving with him.
"What the hell?" Emily shouted as she watched the pointer move on the board, the rest of the team looked down at the board in equal shock.
Reid pushed the pointer to send a message to tell them it was him.
'I-M H-E-R-E M-O-R-G-A-N'
"Reid, you are really here," Morgan smiled before letting out a small laugh of happiness. JJ collapsed into a chair and put her hand over her mouth, her eyes watering at the revelation that Reid was still with them.
"Reid, I'm so sorry for what has happened to you. I'm sorry that you were alone and that I wasN'T there to protect you. We miss you all so much," Morgan said as he struggled to keep himself from crying. Reid wished at that moment he could hit Morgan around the head.
The team couldn't have done anything to help him that night, his life had ended at the hands of a brutal killer that had planned the attack. The team couldn't have known. He moved the pointer again.
'N-O-T Y-O-U-R F-A-U-L-T'
Hotch snapped out his shock and knew he needed to ask Reid a question.
"Reid, I'm sorry this happened to you. We all are. Do you remember everything about that night?"
Reid hesistated for a moment before he pulled the pointer to the word 'yes'. Reid also wanted to send another message to the team, a message he needed them to follow with everything they were.
'L-O-O-K A-F-T-E-R M-U-M'
"We will Spencer, we'll make sure your mum is taken care of," Rossi said tearfully.
'T-H-A-N-K Y-O-U'
Reid felt the same wrong feeling run through him as before. He felt weaker.
"Reid, can you tell us anything that can help us find the man who killed you?"
Reid pushed through the weakness to send a message to them. Reid had to tell them the name he had seen on the knife that had carved into his body that night.
'W-I-L-K-I-N-S-O-N'
Reid hand went through the pointer as he lost the ability to touch it, he felt the weakness spread through him. He looked at his hand and felt himself flicker.
"Oh no, w-what's happening?" Reid panicked.
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