Here's another update, yay.
Well I guess I have to thank Laura, 'Aunty' M, Kasi, Steph, Nef, Nate, Brigitte, Irina, and everyone else from the Criminal Minds Fanatic board that continue to support me, which helps me write better stories.
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"Hey there ladies." Ethan greeted Trish and Abigail while they were walking home. Ethan pulled up along side the two girls, Abigail looked into the car, Spencer wasn't there.
"Where's Spencer?" She asked walking up to the car window and bending down so she could look Ethan in the eye.
"I'm not sure." Ethan said.
"What do you mean 'you're not sure'?" Abigail asked.
"I couldn't find him after school, I'm sure he just took off to walk home by himself. He was pretty out of it today, did something happen?" Ethan asked. Abigail made her way around the front of the car and opened the passenger side door. She slid into the seat and buckled her seat belt. Trish also slid into the back seat. Once Ethan heard Trish's seat belt click he pulled back onto the road. "Well?" He asked, waiting for Abigail to answer his question.
"Yeah, I guess something kinda happened." She said looking down at her hands that were in her lap.
"What does that mean?" Ethan asked taking his eyes off the road for a moment to look at her.
"We got into a fight." She said.
"A fight?" He asked.
"Yes, a fight." She answered impatiently.
"Why, what happened?" He asked.
"I was just upset, and he said 'he knew', he knew what I was going through. But how could he! I yelled at him, and woke up his mom, who thought it was time for school…" Abigail said.
"Wait, what time was this?" Trish asked.
"Two AM I think." Abigail answered.
"How could his mom think it was time for school?" Trish asked, she didn't know about Spencer's mom.
"Um, well, she's mentally ill." Abigail said.
"How?" Trish asked.
"Trish, never mind okay?" Abigail asked, she saw Trish hold up her hands like she was fighting off a bear attack.
"I think he knows what you are going through because he loves you so much, it hurts him a lot to see you suffer." Ethan said.
"Loves her?" Trish asked leaning forward in her seat.
"Trish." Abigail said impatiently, but this time Trish ignored her.
"Yeah." Ethan said.
"Like a brother." Abigail informed Trish.
"No." Ethan said.
"No?" Trish and Abigail both asked at the same time.
"You heard me." Ethan said. "Hey there's Romeo now." Abigail turned to look out the window to where Ethan was pointing; sure enough there was Spencer, walking along a sidewalk with his head down. Ethan stopped the car and Abigail jumped out, slamming the door behind her. Spencer heard the door slam and looked up at her. His face was covered in bruises.
"Spencer, what happened?" Abigail asked walking over to her friend.
"After school a couple guys… they took me behind the school…" Spencer started to say, but he couldn't.
"Who?" Abigail demanded angrily.
"Just a couple guys." He said.
"I want to know who." She said again.
"It's okay, it's not a big deal." He said, he didn't want Abigail to go confront the guys who had beat him up, because he knew they would do the same thing to her.
"Not a big deal!" She squeaked. Spencer was about to reply when she heard a door slam behind her. Ethan had gotten out of the car and was walking towards them.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Nothing." Spencer said, he looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Okay, well come on, get in." Ethan said gesturing towards the car. Spencer started to walk towards the car but Abigail stopped him.
"Listen, I'm sorry about last night. It's just…" She started to say, she lowered her head to look at the sidewalk while she rested a hand on her stomach.
"I know, I can't imagine what you are going through. But when I see you suffer all I want to do is make the pain go away, and I've failed. I failed to stop your father from hurting you and now you're pregnant. You're pregnant as a result of my neglect." He said.
"Do not blame yourself Spencer Reid. It is not your fault." Abigail said adamantly.
"But I should have stopped him, or told someone…" He said, his voice trailed off when he saw tears in her eyes. He couldn't just stand there and do nothing. He spread out his long arms and wrapped them around her small frame. She buried her head in his chest and wrapped her arms around him. Spencer put his right hand on the back of her head and stroked her hair soothingly. His shirt was starting to get soaked from her tears, and he could feel her body quiver as she cried. "Shhhhhh it's okay. Sh sh sh, it's going to be okay."
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"We're never had a sleepover." Trish commented after driving in silence for twenty minutes. Spencer and Ethan were in the front seat while Trish and Abigail were in the back.
"Because my dad can't go a night without screwing me and I don't want him to try it on you." Abigail said staring out the window. "Where are we going?" She asked.
"We've going out." Ethan said.
"Out where?" She asked, she didn't like the sound of that.
"Out." Ethan replied.
"You need to get away from home." Trish said. "My mom talked to your dad, and he agreed to let you come with us for the weekend."
"He what?!" Abigail asked looking at them for the first time.
"He agreed to let you come with us." Trish repeated.
"H…h…he…" Abigail babbled before just looking at her friends in amazement.
"Yep." Trish said smiling at her best friend.
"Spencer, what about Diana?" Abigail asked.
"I took care of that too." Trish said.
"How?" Abigail asked.
"My mom is a nurse at Bennington Sanitarium, she is staying with Diana while Spencer is gone." Trish said.
"Oh." Abigail said before turning to stare out the window again.
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"Here we are." Ethan said putting the car in 'park' once they were outside a small motel.
"It's um, great." Abigail said looking at the dirty motel.
"At least you're not at home." Trish said.
"That's true." Abigail said, she opened her car door and got out of the car.
"What are we supposed to wear?" Abigail asked looking at her black t-shirt and skinny jeans.
"We've been planning this since yesterday. Spencer snuck into your room while you were sleeping and got some of your clothes." Ethan said opening the trunk to the burgundy car. Inside were four gym bags.
"What about Diana, how'd you get that done?" She asked. Ethan pulled a cell phone out of his pocket.
"When'd you get a cell phone?!" Abigail squeaked, only rich people had cell phones.
"I saved up and bought one." Ethan said, he grunted as he pulled Abigail's gym bag out of the car and handed it to her.
"Wow this is heavy." She grunted putting the strap over her shoulder. Spencer eyed her with fear.
"Do you want me to carry it?" He offered.
"No Spencer, that's okay." She said. Then she and Trish, both carrying gym bags over their shoulder, walked off towards the main office. Spencer was about to follow but Ethan stopped him.
"Reid, man, when are you going to tell her?" Ethan asked.
"Tell her what?" He asked/
"That dich liebe her." Ethan said, he switched into German so that the girls couldn't hear or understand. What Ethan didn't know is that Abigail understood exactly what he said, though she couldn't hear them.
"Are you insane? Telling her that I love her would complicate things. She doesn't need that right now." Spencer said.
"Reid, wake up and smell the coffee! She loves you, okay? I know she does, and right now she needs someone to love her." Ethan said.
"I can be a friend to her…" Spencer said.
"Spencer Matthew Reid, that girl needs to truly feel love, to feel someone love her back! She's never felt that because of her father. Right now, I bet that's exactly what she needs." Ethan said sternly.
"Ethan, stay out of this." Spencer said before turning and walking in the direction the girls had gone.
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That's it for this chapter. And "dich liebe" means "you love". I don't know 'her' yet, anyways please review. Pretty please?