"$200,000?" Seaver asked as she leant against the wall. Rossi nodded and slowly and glanced up at Fayhee through the one sided glass.
"What kind of leverage do we have?" Hotch said from the side of the room as he leant a hand against the wall to steady himself.
"He could be an addict" Morgan said and looked thoughtfully at Fayhee.
"He asked for cigarettes when we went in and he looks like he's going through a nicotine fit now… we wouldn't let him smoke" Rossi added.
"We could use that… get him to relax, open his big mouth" Morgan said.
"Will that be enough?" Hotch said and turned to his team.
"What if we use Ashley? He's more likely to relax with her than he is with us" Morgan said and stood up straight. "Rossi can go with her, Fayhee knows where he stands with him" Morgan added.
"I'm up for it" Ashley said as she stood up and took a step closer to the team to show her eagerness.
"Alright, take him up to the roof. If anyone asks where you're taking him, talk down to them, inflate Fayhee's ego as much as you can, it'll get him talking quicker" Hotch said then opened the door so a flood of dazzling light spilled into the mostly dark room.
Rossi and Seaver were the first to follow him, then Morgan and finally Reid who had spent the time leant against the wall in silence, deep in thought.
"We need to talk" Hotch said quietly as the team passed them. Reid slowly nodded and stared down at the floor, he'd been expecting Rossi to tell Hotch about him losing his cool with Fayhee.
Hotch walked Reid out of the police department and into the parking lot, towards the SUV's. He stopped at the car and slightly leant against the car.
"Rossi told you about what happened with Fayhee, didn't he?" Reid asked, he'd resigned himself to the fact Hotch was going to suspend him and send him back to Quantico.
"Yes, but that's not what I want to talk to you about, Reid" Hotch said and blew out a breath of air. "I know what it's like when business and home life gets mixed up. It's why me and Haley separated… it was never a matter of love, I wasn't there for her or Jack when they needed me and it was because I put work before them" Hotch said, Reid had turned away from him once he'd realised what it was about and was trying hard to hold in the tears.
"I don't want the same to happen to you. I thought I could detach myself from everything I saw at work, I thought I could be the strong team leader and still come home and be Jack's dad, Haley's husband. And in the end, I couldn't. For a while I lost my family because I refused to believe that I couldn't be both people" He said and gave a heavy sigh, this was as hard for him to say as it was for Reid to hear.
"I don't want that to happen to you, Spencer. I want you to be able to go home to Prentiss after all this has ended. I want you to choose whether you want kids or not, I don't want the job to make the decision for you…" He said, his voice drifting off towards the end. Slowly Reid turned to Hotch and nodded, accepting what he was saying.
Suddenly they heard feet running towards them, they quickly turned, Hotch's hand on his gun.
"What's happened?" Reid called as his eyes recognised the familiar shape of Morgan running towards them.
Morgan closed the space between them quickly and blurted out "Fayhee's dead"