Healing

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The finger prints came back disappointing. The only positive thing was that it told them there had been three assailants. The crow bar and spikes had clear but unknown fingerprints on them. The knife which had killed Haley had a separate set on it. The third set had come from a metal ring and an iron bar. These did have owners. Taki Otikami. The person Reid had walked off with. The yakuza rent boy. What the hell had Reid been thinking? More to the point what the hell had Haley been thinking!

Aaron sat at his desk in the dark with his door locked. Sometimes he got up and lay on the couch and tried to sleep, but the images of Haley and Reid were firing through his mind constantly. Why did she do that? How could they recover Reid? Had Organised Crime come up with anything? Was Reid still in the country even? He knew that these people shipped captives out to all over the world. They were nothing more than goods to be traded. The survival rate was low but someone pretty like Reid might be kept back. Kept for someone special so there was the chance he was still in the country.

These thoughts going back and forth continuously never letting his mind relax. He needed to cry for Haley, but didn't seem to be able to. He needed to hold Jack and feel the warmth from the child and cry, but he couldn't do that either. He needed to wrap his arms around Spencer and tell him it was all going to be alright, and let him cry on his shoulder, but no – that was being denied him also. Aaron just wanted to scream and do something, but they weren't even on the case. His hands tied as tightly as Reid's.

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He was awoken by the pulling on the collar and shouting. He tried to stop it, but he was being dragged across the floor.

"Otsu no!"

Someone was shouting. He didn't think it was him. It sounded like Taki.

"I want to play. It's not yours." A sharp voice.

"He is healing. Let him heal. Then we can play."

"Get out of my face freak."

And he couldn't breathe where the collar was cutting off his air, and he was feeling dizzy where it was slowly strangling him.

"You will kill him."

"You can find another one. There are plenty. Go ask Matahatchi. He has spares."

And as things started to go grey and he was dragged out into the corridor he heard the sound of fist on flesh, and the chain went limp. Reid gasped for breath and tried to crawl back into the relative safety of the cell, but Otsu still had hold of him.

"Get back here trash. I need you for target practice." And the pressure was around his neck again as he crawled to his hands and knees and looked over at Taki sliding down the wall a trickle of blood coming from his nose.

Spencer tried to keep up with Otsu. He didn't trust that if he didn't the man wouldn't just kill him. This was the person who killed Haley. This was all her fault. What did she do this for? Why did she hate him so much? He was brought out of his thoughts but a tug on the chain.

"Stand up." Pulling harder.

"I I can't."

Otsu crouched down in front of him. "You still haven't learned not to talk?"

"What has Otikami been doing with you? Silly question! I know exactly what that pervert has been doing with you."

Reid looked up into the eyes of his new tormentor and received a slap in the mouth.

"You keep your mouth shut and your head down. Stand up."

Reid stayed kneeling on the floor with his head down. He really didn't think he would be able to stand. Slowly he brought a leg up from kneeling and put his foot on the floor. He wanted to hold onto something but there was nothing, not to mention that his hands were strapped up and pretty much useless. As he put pressure on his foot and the searing pain shot up his leg he felt the collar being pulled upwards again to force him to stand. He moaned in pain, but felt hands wrapping around him from behind and pulling him close taking the weight for him.

"Otsu this is not necessary. Leave him to heal."

"I would get more fun amputating." He pulled Reid's left hand out to look at and inspected the bandages. "I will take it off at the wrist." And a knife came out of his belt and rested gently on Reid's wrist. "Just here. Stand or lose your hand white trash boy."

Reid was twisting his arm trying not to antagonise by saying what he wanted to say. Trying to stay silent. He could feel Taki dragging him backwards, but Otsu still had a tight grip on his hand, digging his fingers into the wounds.

"Let go of him Otikami or your boyfriend loses a hand. Now."

"Please don't." Spencer spoke before he could stop himself and the world went black.

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"Sir." Garcia stood with Morgan at the now open door way to Hotch's office. "You asked me to tell you if I could get any information."

Hotch had been sitting staring into space listening in his mind to the screams of the people he loved and had lost. "Garcia, Morgan, come in – what have you got for me?"

"Taki Otikami. Small time thug. Came legally to the country with his family when he was a teenager. His parents since died, and he was taken under the wing of someone in Vegas. Running drugs and getting tourists into the correct casinos. Small time porn involvement, but he has never done any time."

Hotch nodded. "Anything on the others?"

Garcia shook her head. "Nothing sir. I am still looking."

Hotch looked over at a photo of Haley on his desk and closed his eyes. "Thank you Garcia."

Derek and Pen left quickly and closed the door. "I wish there was more I could give him Derek." She wiped angrily at a tear running down her face and walked back to her bunker.

Hotch picked up the picture of Haley and ran his finger over her face. "Why?" he whispered and threw the picture across the room.

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When light began to seep through his consciousness again he realised a few things. He was on the floor, he had his hands restrained behind him, he was in a metal cage, and there was a small crowd of people watching. Spencer moaned slightly and tried to sit up. He saw a few faces he recognised, but Taki didn't seem to be there. Otsu was, but it was Andanatchi who was approaching the cage and crouching down to look at Reid.

"I still think I should have castrated you when I had the chance." A big white toothed smile. "But now I have something else to help you learn. Get on your kneel like the animal you are dirty white pervert trash."

Reid's stomach twisted with a knot of fear. He knelt on the floor of the cage with his hands behind his back and his head down. He could feel hot tears trying to escape from behind his eyes.

"Who is Floyd?" Andanatchi asked.

"What?" and Spencer looked up.

At first he didn't realise what had happened. Every nerve ending in his body suddenly exploded in pain. He fell forwards onto his face yelling out in pain, smacking the side of his head onto the bottom of the cage and adding to the pain. As he lay there he realised they had electrocuted him. He could feel his limbs twitching and he was drooling and whimpering.

"Get up." Andanatchi again. "Get up or I will do it again."

Slowly Reid got back to his knees. He kept his head down 'don't talk don't talk don't talk'

"So who is Floyd? You talk about him in your sleep. I am curious." Keep your head down and don't talk. "Answer me."

"A f f friend."

And again the pain as the electricity coursed through his body and he fell twitching to the floor of the cage once more.

"You have to learn not to talk. Whatever I say, don't talk." Reid could see him beckon over someone. It was Otsu and he was pushing Otikami in front of him. "If you talk to me I will electrocute you. If you refuse to answer my questions Otsu will start cutting your friend. You have to decide what to do."

Reid got back to kneeling but looked into Otikami's eyes.

"So scum, tell me, who did you say Floyd was?"

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