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My Lily Chapter 4

For the past two weeks, time moved too quickly, I have looked over everything I have compiled over this case. It's like the un-sub disappeared. I just can't do this, not alone anyway. I have decided to go to Garcia and see if she can help me. Now all I have to do if find a way to get her to help, without having to tell her anything about Lily. I know she would do just about anything for me, but I hate always feeling like I am going behind her and everyone else's back, but if she can get me anything helpful that can get me even one step closer to finding the un-sub, the sooner Lily will be safe again, and the sooner I can finally tell the team the truth. I knocked on the door to Garcia's 'cave', as she likes to call it, and opened it after I heard her muffled 'enter'. She turned her chair so that she could face me and gave me one of her usual cheeky greetings, "Hello my junior G-man! What brings you to my cave of all knowing today?" I know I have to do this gently and carefully to keep her suspicion and curiosity at bay, if that is even possible.

"I need your help with something" I started with, trying to do this slowly.

"Just ask for it and it is yours, baby face!" Baby face, really? Her nicknames for me are just getting worse and worse!

Shaking the name off I continued, "You see I have this case file I would like your help with." Hoping I did not just blow everything by asking for her help. By the way her face turned so serious, I think I might have.

"Spencer, what is this about, the team does not have a new case, and why would you ask me to help? Anyone on this team could proudly help you just as well if not more than I can. In fact, the team as a whole could be even more help." I really hope this works but by the way she called me my real name, I'm not so sure that it will.

"Look Garcia, It's just a case an old friend asked me to look into a while ago and I can't seem to be able to get any closer to solving it. I already have a profile and even have a rough sketch of what the un-sub looks like. I just need your superior computer skills to find a name and maybe track the guy down. I just don't want to bother the team with this. So please just look in to it and keep it quiet. Please for me?" I know I'm begging but I have screwed up big time by telling her about this and will do anything to fix what I have done. My only help now is that she trust me enough to do as I ask.

"Spencer please just tell me what's going on. Are you in some kind of trouble?" Of course she thinks the worse.

"I promise you Garcia, I am not in any trouble! There is just a man out there that has killed two innocent girls and I need your help to stop him" I said while I internally begged her to stop asking questions.

"Ok, I will help you, but why can't we tell the rest of the team Reid?"

I feel really bad for what I'm about to do. "Look Garcia, it's nothing bad. I just don't want to bother them, and if I tell them that I'm doing it for a friend they will start asking questions which always leads to them making fun of me. I would just rather avoid that you know." She looked so sad for me. At least this time I'm not flat out lying to her. Every time they start asking questions they always end up making fun of me, well Morgan does at least, and I really would like to avoid any situation that involves making fun of me. Plus, I really don't want them asking questions about this part of my life. But their making fun of me does not really bother me too much, because I know they only do it in fun and because they care about me.

"Oh, Baby face! If they are making you sad you just come to me and I will kick their butts, you know I can, or at the very least I will hack them and use my skills to embarrass them some way or another so they will lay off of you." I knew that would work, the team likes to baby me too much. I really should put a stop to it, but it comes in handy so I kind of like it.

"It's alright, I know they only do it because they care but I would rather just try and avoid it as much as possible, so please Garcia, just between you and me." I could see the fight leave her face.

"Ok, I'll keep this to myself, but promise me that you will tell someone if you are in trouble or if something is wrong!"

That is easy enough. "I promise."

She looked at me awhile longer, studying my face for something and she must have found what she was looking for because it was not long before she sighed and said, "Ok, I will start looking in to the case right now and I will get back to you as soon as I find something"

"Thanks Garcia! I will see you later!" I can't wait to get out of here! I was really close to messing up everything Lily, John, and I have worked so hard for these past four years.

As I left Garcia's office I heard her call out a final, "You can count on me!"

I could not hold back the feeling of relief I felt when I was down the hall and free of anymore of her questions. Now, all I had to do was hope that in the next week she will find something that I have not been able to that will help me find the man that ripped Lily and me apart. As well as prepare everything for when Lily gets here, because if this case keeps going at the same rate that it has been for the past four years, then there is no way I will be able to find anything new in the next week, even with Garcia's help.

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