The drive back to the station was silent other than the purr of the challenger's engine. Morgan kept sneaking glances at the once shy and reserved Spencer Reid as if he were some sort of alien. Spencer however was focused on the task at hand, getting his partner back. Threatening the harmless, or somewhat harmless, runner was not really a part of Reid's plan. However sacrifices were to be made if they could get Charlie back before any permanent damage was done.

At the police station, tensions were running high. Ace, Adhey and Steve, the three other team members of Charlie and Reid's had shown up and were talking to their captain. The BAU were still trying to figure out their feelings. JJ was especially emotional seeing her transformed best friend. She was unable to truly comprehend just how much Reid had changed. She didn't want to accept how much he had changed, she just wanted her best friend back.

"Jayje?" Emily asked her suddenly, stirring her from her thoughts. Emily had gotten up and stood beside the lost in thought agent.

"I'm fine, just thinking." JJ answered, disturbing the silence that the team had grown between them.

"Are you sure? You looked upset…"

"What ever happened to the 'no profiling team members' rule?" JJ wondered teasingly. Rossi turned to her with a smirk.

"I don't believe that rule ever existed." He told her. JJ just smiled and looked down at her lap, once again losing herself to her thoughts. Rossi was not overly shocked at the turn of events; he always seemed to know more than he would let on. He had a strange feeling that Reid was fine even when the rest of the team was worried to their wits end.

"Found her." Came Spencer's voice through the open doorway of the conference room, "Or at least I have a location of where she might be." He then sauntered into the room and straight toward the map on the bulletin board. He grabbed a pen that was nearby and circled the point on the map, in the older part of Las Vegas, where Charlie was possibly being held.

"It's an isolated place that no one ever visits, well besides the homeless and addicts; there won't be many people around." Reid stated, turning back around to look at his old team and his new one. His new team had looks of approval on their faces; the BAU team however, were sporting concerned faces.

"How did you get that information so quickly?" Emily asked Reid. His answer was to shrug his shoulders, but he did not escape judgement as Morgan answered for him.

"He threatened a drug dealer with his gun." Morgan told the team, his voice cold and angry. The BAU team was shocked, the Marines however looked passive, like that was an everyday occurrence, which for some, it was.

"That is not how we do things, Reid, you know that!" Hotch exclaimed suddenly.

"I'm not sure if you remember this or not, Hotch, but I am not a part of the FBI anymore." Reid stated calmly, adding a glare to Hotch in the process. Hotch decided that he could take no more of Reid's attitude and in a swift movement; grabbed Reid by the upper arm and dragged him out of the room and outside. As soon as they reached their destination, the back door of the police station, Hotch shoved Reid through and followed after. Reid was rubbing at his arm as Hotch closed the back door; he was also glaring at him as hard as he could.

"Your behaviour is going to stop right now." Hotch told him icily. Spencer raised an eyebrow at the authoritative tone of voice coming from his ex-boss.

"I'm terribly sorry that you don't care for my attitude, but the thing is, you are not the boss of me anymore, hence you can't tell me what to do." Spencer replied sarcastically. Hotch gave him the criminal stare down look and shoved Reid against the wall of the police station.

"You're acting like this because we betrayed you, I get it, but that does not been you get to be a complete jerk to everyone who talks to you. Nor does it mean that you are allowed to threaten people with guns. You are not this person, you know it, I know it, the team knows it and I'm betting Charlie knows it too. Reid you don't need to act like this because you're hurt, you need to learn how to forgive. Knowing Charlie she probably would have told you that…" Hotch lectured, but at the mention of Charlie, Reid shoved Hotch away from him.

"You know nothing about what Charlie has said to me! I can trust her, not you!" Reid shouted, wrapping his arms around himself.

"Reid…"

"Because of you and your stupid lie, I lost a friend; I went through the grieving process, something I was never good at! And I had the added bonus of a drug addiction! I almost… I almost…" He paused then continued, "Charlie stopped me, and she saved me from myself. None of you even saw how badly I was breaking! JJ let me into her house when I was crying over losing Emily, but not once did she ever tell me the truth, she just let me believe that Emily was dead. Maybe if you hadn't lied to me, none of this would have happened!" Reid snapped and turned on his heel and walked away. His anger blinded him to where he was going and Reid ended up walking along a very deserted street.

…

"Where's Reid?" Morgan asked when Hotch returned to the conference room. He noted the serious look on his boss' face and the heavy set eyes.

"Reid has gone for a walk to calm down." Hotch told his team. Jake however, turned an angry look toward Hotch.

"You let him go off on his own?" He accused.

"I couldn't have stopped him." Hotch replied.

"Well you should have! Those nut jobs already have Charlie; you want them to have Reid too?" Jake asked. Hotch paused, in his anger at Reid's behaviour he had forgotten the situation they were in.

"He should be fine." Steve said suddenly, "After all, I trained the scrawny bastard; he could at least put his training to good use." Morgan and JJ flinched at the term 'scrawny bastard' even though to Steve, it was used as a term of endearment.

"Those psychos have Charlie; you really think a less experienced operative is going to be alright?" Adhey reasoned for Jake. Steve only shrugged in a 'you never know' sort of manner.

"Well for his sake and ours, let's get on the streets and find him. Ace, Aaron, you two go look through the south, Adhey up the strip, Steve try for back alleys and the underground and I will stay here in hopes that he comes back." Jake ordered. His team nodded and set out to do their jobs.

"Your team is very efficient." Rossi noted from where he sat. He was a former Marine and he had not once seen a team that fast and organized.

"It's what we're trained for." Jake stated.

"Jake, I need to talk to you." Danny said from where he quietly sat in the corner of the conference room. His older brother nodded and they set out for a private room, leaving the BAU alone.

"He's been with them for the past five and a half months?" Morgan exclaimed, straining his shoulder. He winced at the burning pain and was reminded of how he received the wound in the first place.

"They changed him…" Emily quietly added.

"And not for the better, he's so cold. He's lifeless, he isn't the Reid we know." JJ muttered in a sallow tone. She wanted everything to be back to the way it was, with Reid acting himself and not the stranger she had recently met.

"No he isn't the Reid we know; although, not all the changes were bad." Morgan shot an incredulous look toward the elder agent.

"How are they 'not all bad' Rossi? He's a completely unbalanced dick now." Morgan sneered.

"But did you see how he held himself? His posture? He no longer slouched, his chin was held high and he had confidence that was so rarely there when he was our Reid." Rossi told his team. He knew that the agents just wanted their friend and teammate back, but maybe that wasn't what was best for Reid.

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I have no words. Sorry, I suck as an author? Will that do? School has started so I thought I'd give everyone a present. Here you go, Read and Review, the reviews guilt me into writing and this took so long due to health and stuff, soooo anyway. Here's an update.

~Love SpiderKate

PS sorry its so short!