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"Okay…alright I'll look into it. No Garcia didn't find the cell phone. We think he used a disposable one. Alright, thanks Reid."
"Well?" Emily asked as Derek hung up his cell phone.
"Well, apparently the person who called threatened Connor. Told Alexandra to tell him to leave her alone permanently." Derek explained. "He also said they would see each other soon and that he was sorry for what happened the other night. That seeing her with other men brings out the worst in him."
"Alright, so he's very jealous." Emily noted, her eyes widening as she looked away.
"Yeah. All men." Derek added, as he pushed his phone into his pocket. "He also told her that all these men should stay away."
"All these men?" David asked, his face scrunched as he pondered. "Well who else is there besides Connor."
"Adam?" JJ suggested.
"The only way Adam would be in this category would be if he isn't the unsub." Aaron explained. "And as of right now, based on what we have, he's a highly likely suspect."
"But so is Connor." Derek noted. "Both brothers are in our suspect pool. They both clearly have past relationships with Alexandra, and from what I can tell they have feelings for her."
"So we have two brothers, who both have a past relationship with Alexandra, and who both could possibly be the unsub." Emily looked up at them all. "This is getting to be complicated."
"Yes…" Aaron agreed. "Alright, let's go and talk to the brother's. Rossi, Prentiss you're with me. We'll head over to Connor's house. Derek and JJ, go to Adam's and talk to him. We're gunna try and get what ever we can. I don't care what you have to do, get any information that's imperative to the case."
There was a single head nod from the agent's before they set out to their destinations.
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"It doesn't even feel like home anymore." She sighed, as she looked around the dark house. "It's like…I lived here for years, moved away and now I'm coming back. And it's not that same…"
"Yeah…"
"So…" Alex sighed and stopped looking around, resting her eyes on Spencer. "What now?" She asked, shrugging before shoving her hands into her pockets.
"Well…there's a police car parked outside your house so you should be safe. And…I guess that's it."
"Oh…okay."
"So I guess I'll be heading back…" Spencer said awkwardly, looking to the door. "And…one of us will probably be here in the morning to check up on to you make sure…."
"Stay." She said suddenly.
"What?" Spencer asked, looking down at her.
Slowly, she moved closer to him, pressing herself against his chest. "Stay." She whispered, reaching up and placing her hands on his chest. "Stay the night. Stay here, with me."
The urge to say yes was nearly killing him, but Spencer knew better. As much as he wished, deep down, that he could say yes, he knew he couldn't. "Alex…" He groaned.
"I don't feel safe..." She said suddenly, looking down at his chest, still pressed against his body. "I don't feel safe unless you're with me. I don't feel safe unless you're here." Slowly, she leaned in and rested her forehead against his chest, closing her eyes and sighing. "I need you to stay with me Spencer." She whispered. "I need you."
An over whelming feeling of peace came over Spencer as he pulled his arms up and wrapped them around her waist, pulling her closer to him, hugging her as he rested his cheek against the top of her head.
"Okay…" He whispered, holding her close, the dim glow from the street lights shinning in through the door. "Okay." He repeated.
"I guess…" Alex said, after a moment. "You can sleep on the couch?" She suggested, pulling away from him.
"Okay." Spencer nodded, his arms still pressed against the small of her back.
"Uh…there are some blankets and a pillow in the closet." She turned slightly and pointed to the closet behind Spencer. "I…I'm really tired so I'm gunna go to bed. It's almost ten and…" Alex looked up at hi, her words failing her.
"I understand." He smiled, and his hands left her back, landing at his sides. "I'll be right here if you need me okay?"
She looked up at him, hands still on his chest. "Okay." She whispered. "Thank you Spencer." Alex smiled softly as she looked up at him. "Thank you." She repeated, before slowly rising up on her tippy toes, before pressing her lips to the corner of his mouth.
Pulling away, she turned fast, her hair swaying as she did. "G'night." She whispered, before slowly walking up the stairs, looking back at him only one to smile on last time.
"Night." Spencer smiled, watching her till she was gone.
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"Look." Adam snapped, looking at Derek, more then JJ. "I don't know what you're getting at but…I left the hospital. Connor didn't. He said he was going to go try and talk to her again. And that's the last I've seen of him today."
"And where did you go after you left the hospital." JJ asked.
"To a bar." He snapped, turning to JJ.
"Listen man, you don't need to take an attitude with us. We're just trying to help Alex."
"Yeah I'm sure you're really trying to help her." Adam looked up and his eyes locked with Derek. "Let's just get one thing straight. You do your job and that's it." He rose up suddenly and walked into the kitchen that was just off the living room. "You do your job, and you leave Alex alone." He called, ripping the door open and pulling out beer, before opening in and inhaling nearly half of it.
"Is this guy serious?" Derek asked, leaning into JJ. "Does he really think I'm coming onto Alexandra?"
"If I looked at her a certain way he'd probably thing I was coming onto her."
"Yeah…" Derek nodded as Adam came back into the room.
"Are we done here? I've got lots of beers to drink and not that much time to drink 'em."
"Been drinking a lot lately?" Derek asked, looking at Adam a she sat down.
"Yeah. So?"
"Is that because of Alex's situation?" JJ's eyes lifted and locked onto his. "Or because you have feelings for her."
He stopped mid drink and looked at her, slowly pulling the beer bottle away from his lips. "Excuse me?" He snarled, leaning forward.
"Well you do don't you?" Derek asked, continuing where JJ left off. "You have feelings for her right? In a more then friend's kinda way?"
"That's none of you business." Adam's seemingly soft features suddenly went hard with anger as he leaned back in his chair, looking away from the agents.
"Does it bother you that she doesn't love you back?" Derek demanded, his voice low and spiteful.
"Shut up…" Adam hissed.
"I mean from what I can gather, she and your brother had a thing too didn't they? That must have made it hard for you…"
"I said shut up…" Adam snarled, still not looking at them, his hands curling into fists.
"I mean, I don't know about you but, seeing the woman I love with my brother and not with me everyday would…."
"She was mine first!" He screamed out suddenly, turning and looking at Derek, his eyes a blaze with rage.
"What do you mean when you say…'Mine'?" JJ asked, stepping in and taking control.
"Exactly what it sounds like!" He yelled. "I had her before him. She was with me long before she even looked at Connor like that."
"You were in a relationship." Derek assumed.
"Well…no but…She loved me."
"So if it wasn't a relationship what was it?"
"Dude what do you think?" Adam asked, leaning forward and looking at Derek with a smirk. "Look, I was on the football team, I was popular. And Lex was the hot nerd that wouldn't put out for anyone…accept me." He chuckled lightly, leaning back against his seat. "I may have feelings for her but, I bagged that bitch a long time ago." The smile on Adam's face disappeared. "I don't need her anymore." He whispered, his eyes suddenly emotionless.
Derek turned and looked to JJ to see the look of disgust on her face. "Alright." Derek whispered, looking back at Adam. "I think we're done here. We'll be in touch." Derek added as he and JJ rose up.
"Yeah sure…but hey!" He called, jumping up before they could leave. "Don't…don't tell Connor about us. Me and Alex I mean…he doesn't know."
"I wouldn't doubt that…" JJ sighed, looking up at Derek.
"And don't tell Alex I told you either…she doesn't like even acknowledging that it happened."
"Sure man." Derek called, as JJ opened the door. "Whatever you say." He added before the pair stepped out of the house, shutting the door behind them.
"What do you think?" Derek asked, placing his hand on his hips and looking down at JJ.
"I think this makes things even more complicated…" JJ sighed as she pulled her cell phone out, dialing Aaron's number. "Hey Hotch…look there's more to this story then we knew. Apparently Adam and Alexandra were involved in high school and he seems a little hostile towards the fact that she went from him to his brother…Okay…you have got to be kidding me."
"What?" Derek asked, as JJ sighed angrily.
"They can't find Connor." She whispered, covering the speaker of the cell phone while Aaron continued to talk. "No we haven't heard from him. Yeah we'll give him a call and see what's going on."
"Whats up?" Derek asked as JJ hung her cell up.
"No one's heard from Reid. He called Garcia about an hour ago and told her about the phone call, and now he's dropped off the radar."
"And Alexandra?"
"Nurse on duty says that Reid came by and picked her up." JJ explained. "Look, lemme call him and see what he says." She sighed, dialing out once again.
"Hey Reid? Where are you?"
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"What?" Spencer called into the phone, half asleep. "Yeah I'm with her."
"Where?" JJ called, and the sound of a vehicle starting up could be heard.
"At her house…"
"Is she okay?"
"Yeah of course she is. She's upstairs sleeping."
"Alright we're all on our way."
"What? Why?" Spencer called, jumping up off the couch.
"There's some new developments that we need to talk to her about. That and we can't find Connor."
"ALEX!"
Spencer flinched and wheeled around, grabbing hold of his gun as a roar of banging erupted onto the front door.
"ALEX LET ME IN!"
"JJ…" Spencer whispered into his phone, pulling his gun out.
"Yeah?"
"I think I just found him…" He whispered, before hanging up and slowly walking towards the door, his gun fully drawn.
He slowly walked up to the door, seeing Connor's figure behind it, slouched against the door.
"Alex…" He called again, most softly, and now it became evident to Spencer that he was drunk. "Alex…LET ME IN!" He screamed.
"Spencer?"
He turned fast and looked up o the top of the stairs to see her standing there in a over sixes t-shirt looking down at him, horrified.
"What…what's going on?"
"Stay there." He ordered, as Connor banged on the door once again.
"Who…who is that?" She whispered, her eyes locked on the door as she descended another step.
"Alex stay there!" He said harshly, before turning back to the door.
"Alex…" Connor called.
"Connor?" Alex called out, before rushing down the stairs.
"Wait!" Spencer snapped, grabbing her arm and pulling her to his side, where she melted against him, her arm flying up and resting on his chest. "Connor?" Spencer called.
The shadowy figure against the door pulled away. "Who's that?" He called.
"It's Doctor Spencer Reid? With the FBI."
"What the fuck are you doing here?" He demanded, his speech greatly slurred.
"Alex asked me to stay the night."
"The fuck she did!" he cried out angrily. "You're just trying to take her…your just…just doing the same thing they all try and do!" HE screamed, before punching the door.
"Connor?" Alex called softly, as she pressed herself closer to Spencer.
"Lex? That you?"
"Yeah it's me…"
"Lemme in Lex." He sighed heavily. "Lemme in."
"Connor I can't let her do that." Spencer answer.
"Shut up!" he screamed, hitting the door once again.
"Connor you have to calm down." Alex called softly.
"Don't tell me to calm down Lex…don't you dare tell me to calm down. Not when you got some little nerd in there with you, planning on doing god knows what to you. Well I wont let 'im!" He screamed. "Now let…me…IN!"
"CONNOR!" Alex screamed. "I WILL not let you in my house when you are acting like that. Now either you calm down, or you can leave and NEVER come back."
"I don't think that was the wisest of things to say…" Spencer whispered.
"Fine…" Connor whispered on the other side of the door. "Sorry…" He added.
"Okay." Alex called, before stepping away from Spencer and towards the door. "I'm gunna let you in now Connor…and when I do…"
"Yeah, yeah I know the drill." He sighed, pulling away from the door.
"Good." She answered, before pulling it open. "Wow." Alex whispered, looking at his wobbly figure. "You look like shit."
"Yeah." He snarled, stepping into the house and pushing her out of his way. "And it's your fault." He added, before marching into the living room, where he crashed onto the couch, passed out before his head his the pillow.
"Great…" Alex sighed, walking back to where Spencer was standing as he holstered his gun. "Now you don't have a place to sleep."
"Well…actually JJ and Derek are on their way here."
"Why?" She asked, yawning.
"Apparently they went and talked to Adam and…" He looked up at her and could tell that she already knew what was about to come. "He mentioned something they need to ask you about."
"Can't it wait?" She asked. "I would rather not tell while…"
"While Connor's around I understand."
"No." She said fast, and he looked down at her, a little shocked. "I don't want you to hear it and…hate me."
"Why would I hate you?"
"Cause I hate myself." She admitted, and it shocked him to his very core. "I hate myself for doing it…"
"Alex, I won't hate you." He smiled down at her.
She sighed then, and once again leaned into his side, pressing her cheek to his shoulder. "Promise?" She whispered.
"Yeah." Spencer smiled, pulling his arm around her, pulling her closer just as he had earlier in the night. "Promise."
"Come on…" She whispered then, pulling away slightly and looking up at him. "I think we'll need some coffee for this."
Spencer smiled. "Yeah, probably." He chuckled, as they pair walked towards the kitchen, leaving a now snoring Connor on the couch.