A/N: Sorry for the late update, it's just my life disturbing me while I'm writing. Also, I started writing another story and got a little...carried away to say mildly. I will upload it some day, so don't worry! Hotch/Reid from now on, guys!
I forgot Simon's name for a second omg -_-
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Everyone stormed into the interrogation room where someone was screaming.
"What's going on!?" Kingston asked looking at scared Scarlet.
"I-I don't know... I was talking to him and-and he started screaming, the blood... He-he was bleeding pretty bad and I didn't know where the blood came from so I-I asked him... And he-he fell from his chair and silenced for a second and then he started screaming again... What's going on?" she asked, clearly petrified. "Wait... You guys are back?" she questioned after a moment of thinking and listening to Setton's screams.
"Yeah... Yeah, we're back..." Simon smiled sadly at her, hugging her closely.
"What happened?"
"He's in Kingston's office." was the only answer and that told her everything.
"Oh my God..." she looked up at her husband, tears in her eyes. "No..." Scarlet moaned and started crying. But then it hit her. "Wait... Shouldn't he be able to let all his powers go and not do anyone anything bad when he's in Kingston's office?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" JJ looked at her curiously.
"Well, it was built so that whenever any of us couldn't take control over our powers we could go there at take a minute or two to collect ourselves... And judging by Setton's behavior, Spencer's powers are escaping from the room..." Scarlet answered, thinking heavily about the situation.
"We have to stop him... I mean, I do want Setton to suffer but no one, even him, doesn't deserve that big amount of pain." Emily concluded.
"But how do we help him? If anyone goes in there, they'll die..." Hotch asked, worry in his voice pretty easy to notice.
"I would advise someone talked to him through Scarlet. I mean, she can talk to him because of her telepathy but she has already done it once. Someone else should try this time..." Simon didn't even get a chance to end, because Derek cut in.
"I can talk to him." he stated, looking at everyone. "I mean, he loves me. I may not be loving him but it doesn't matter. If I can make it stop, I will." he added but he definitely wasn't ready for the next thing that happened.
"What the fuck..." Hotch hissed, taking a step closer to his subordinate and hitting him hard in the face. "Are you kidding..." he asked, venom in his every single word. Everyone looked at him surprised. "Are you retarded or what? Can't you see that you're hurting him? Can't you see that you're acting no different than you acted when Annie was in your brain? What is wrong with you? You used the mind possession to explain your behavior but now, it's only you in your head but you're acting no different but even worse! Some people would kill to be able to comfort him like your presence once did. What happened to you? You were intelligent, you were kind and understanding once. That's why he fell for you. Did he do something to you that you've come to hate him so much? I will not let you talk to him." he concluded, looking down at Derek, like he was some kind of trash. "I will talk to him. And you will think about your behavior." he added and looked up at Scarlet. "Let me do it." She nodded and touched his head.
"Close your eyes and get comfy." she smiled softly.
"Spencer?" she started.
"What is it again, Scarlet?" annoyed voice asked.
"I brought someone to talk to you." she smiled.
"So?"
"So I think I'll leave you two alone to talk." she answered, not feeling put off even a bit.
"Who's there?" he asked when he felt Scarlet's presence disappear.
"Hi there, Spencer." Hotch started.
"I can't believe it!" Reid laughed "They've sent you?"
"Yeah, well, we've figured that Derek wouldn't do you much good." Hotch smiled and he earned a chuckle from his subordinate.
"Yeah, so clever of you."
"Look, Spencer. I figured that you might be tho one hurting Setton at that moment." he started cautiously.
"Yeah. Does he suffer? Is he in pain?" Spencer asked, hope in his voice.
"Oh yes, he is. And I would lie if I told you that I don't enjoy it but I'm afraid I have to stop you."
"Why? Doesn't he deserve it?"
"He does. But Spencer, you have to understand that by doing it you're becoming a monster. Your mother-"
"YOU WILL NOT SAY A WORD ABOUT MY MOTHER!" Reid yelled, furious by then.
"I will and you, young man, will let me finish!" Aaron answered by yelling even louder. When he was positive that Spencer got the message, he started again. "Your mother brought you to life. She gave birth to a human and she always wanted you to stay human. What do you thing is she feeling now, when you're torturing someone? When you make a human being suffer? It's not what Spencer I know would do." he said softly, almost fatherly but there was something to his voice that meant more that parental love.
"Hypocrite." Spencer snarled. "What did you do to the Boston Reaper when he killed your wife?" he asked calmly.
"Something I regret every time I look at Haley's grave. She wouldn't want me to do it." he answered softly. "Spencer... He's in pain and I understand that you feel you have to do it. That you actually have to feel it. But you don't. There's another way to make it go away." he smiled slowly.
"And what would that be?"
"We all know that Setton's suffering isn't even close to the pain you're feeling now. And we're all willing to help you. We always were. So let us in. Let us help you. You don't have to suffer alone. You have m-us." 'shit, he mustn't know' he reminded himself.
"What was that?" too late. Spencer caught that one. "You wanted to say 'me' didn't you?" What was the point in lying?
"I did... And I meant it. But we'll deal with it later. Now the only thing that is important is you. So let's focus on that. Okay? Will you come back with me? Will you stop the pain that keeps flowing into Setton?" receiving the nod from Spencer, everything went black. But not for too long. There were pictures everywhere. At first, it was hard for Aaron to understand them, but when he did, he gasped in shock.
After a second he opened his eyes again and looked at everyone.
"I think I did it." he smiled and received a relieved sighs from everyone. "And I think I know, what your problem is, Morgan." he added.
"You know nothing." he hissed.
"Oh hell, I know. You see, Spencer knew it as well and he decided to show me some of it when I lost the contact with him. At first, there was black everywhere." he started.
"That's when I lost you." Scarlet added. "He must have took over the connection." Hotch nodded.
"And then, I saw pictures of you and Reid." he smiled. "And you know what? Looks like you're into sado-maso stuff. You love the pain you receive and give, right? And even though what Carl did to you was rape it's not like you were upset about it. Even when you revealed the truth about it to us, you didn't look upset because it happened but because it only happened once. When we came back from your case, you sought for pity. But Spencer told you that you were not alone. That he was repeatedly abused as a child and even as a teenager. You just couldn't stand it, could you?" Hotch hissed, looking disgusted. "A young, innocent boy, so kind and optimistic has actually been living the hell you've always been looking for. So you thought that if he's already all fag, you could use it to fulfill your fantasies."
"What happened with 'no profiling each other' rule?" Morgan barked, clearly not liking the truth in Aaron's words.
"You do not deserve him." Hotch barked back.
"Excuse me?" Derek hissed.
"You've heard me. You do not deserve him." Aaron snapped.
"You son of a bitch!" Derek yelled. "I don't deserve him? He's a mutant! He doesn't deserve me!"
"That's actually pretty sad, Derek." someone spoke up behind his back.
"So much anger... Why are you so angry?" Scarlet asked politely, coming closer. "Ah... I see... You're actually afraid of who you are, aren't you?" she smiled softly. "You hate that part of yourself. You hate the pain but you can't resist and you just must make someone feel it. Someone, it means anyone, even you, when it comes to it. You hate yourself because you've hurt so many people and you loved it. You know, honey?" she put a hand on his cheek. "There's nothing wrong with you. You're not the wrong one. The only one who's wrong is the world. We live to learn to accept it. But before you accept everything that surrounds you, you have to accept yourself." she ended, hugging him closely.
"You're saying that there's nothing wrong with being a sadistic masochist? Are you crazy?" he sobbed. He finally let all his walls down and started to let his heart breath deeply.
"Oh boy, you're not a sadistic masochist. Look at Setton. Look at Annie. They are what you want to label yourself as. You're nothing like them and you will never be. And by thinking the way you are now, you only make it harder to believe what I'm saying." she held him closely as he cried for over ten minutes. Everyone waited patiently till he collected himself. And when he did, he told them the truth. For the first time, he said what he'd been dreading to say to everyone of them.
"I am sorry. And even though it's not enough, I'd like to invite you all, including you, Spencer, for a dinner after that case is over. I don't expect any of you to forgive me so easily but I will try as hard as can, even harder, to make it all up to you." he said, looking each of them in the eyes.
"Finally." Spencer laughed, entering the room. "You wouldn't listen to me when I told you it's alright to be the way you are. I figured that someone else should do it. I hope you're not angry?"
"How are you feeling, Spencer?" Hotch asked, looking at the boy with concern in his eyes.
" 'We'll deal with it later', wasn't it?" he smiled knowingly and looked at Setton. "I stopped causing him pain but, please, don't make me apologize to him." he attempted to joke.
"We won't. No matter how you look at it, he deserved some kind of pain and it just happened to be really... physical" Hotch smirked.
"We probably should start looking for Annie now. Setton suffered, but she's still free and happy with what she's done. I'm sorry." Spencer smiled sadly, looking at his shoes as if they were the most attractive being in the world.
"Don't be sorry, Reid." Emily smiled, hugging him. "I'm surprised that you are able not to break down in front of us. I don't know if I would be strong enough to do that.
"Yeah, I'm not that strong. If it wasn't for Hotch, Setton would be dying over and over again until I grew bored." he smiled shyly.
"You were actually killing him?" JJ asked, fear in her voice.
"Yeah, well..." Spencer stuttered, scratching the back of his neck. "I made him feel everything I felt over the years he had me. I also gave him a glimpse of what schizophrenics feel. And... some other things you wouldn't actually approve so I won't mention it." he grinned slowly and turned to leave. "Come on, as I said earlier, we have bad guys to catch. And this time I mean it." he smiled at them and walked out.
Right. They had one bad guy in the custody.
There was only one left.
Or so they thought.
A/N: WOOOOW, I did it! Yeah, so I know some of might actually want to kill me, but I was fed up with writing bitch!Morgan so I ended it in the way suitable for me :D Reid and review!
