Chapter 1

Spencer's PoV

I was working on files to finish up a case when my phone rang. I grabbed my cell and answered it "Hello"

"Is this Spencer Reid?"

"Yes, why?"

"This is Charlotte Night with Bethesda Hospital, Timothy McGee has been admitted and we need your permission to do anything other than getting as much of the Dilaudid out of his system."

"How did it get into his system?" I asked shocked I knew that he didn't crave it anymore it had been fifteen years since he used it.

"His boss said a homeless man injected it into him at a crime scene. Because of his previous addiction we would like to admit him into rehab."

"No, he will be released into my care; I have dealt with his withdrawal's from it before."

"Can you handle it; it is likely to be worse."

"I will be fine just let me get time off from my boss and I'll be driving down to pick him up."

"Of course, I'll see you when you get in."

"Thank you and goodbye."

"Goodbye." She said before I hung up, gathered all of my belongings and went to search for Hotch.

As soon as I found him I said "I need at least a week off."

"Why?" he asked

"One of my friends is about to be released form the hospital and I'm the only one who can take care of him."

"Can't his family?"

"He doesn't speak to his parents and his sister is in England at the moment for college."

"Then it is a good time to talk to his parents again."

"How about no, his mother's idea of a good time would to bring him around while she whores herself out and live on the streets and his step-father is in jail."

"What about his father?"

"He doesn't know who his biological father is because his mother is a whore."

"Fine, I'll give you a week but you better be back by then."

"If my friend isn't better then I'll have to take him with us or take more time off."

"We can't have random people with no training trailing around with us as we try to catch an unsub."

"He has training. He's a special agent for the NCIS Major Crime Response Team here in D.C."

"Under Leroy Jethro Gibbs." I nodded. "That changes things he could follow us if he gets temporary employment with the FBI to work with us."

"Of course." I said before leaving the office and heading to my car. I drove quickly to Bethesda hospital and ran to the secretaries' desk.

"Are you Spencer Reid by chance?"

I nodded quickly before asking "Where is Tim and can I see him?"

She smiled at me before saying "If you'll follow me I'll bring you to him, he has no woken up yet but that is to be expected. He is likely to wake up in the next half-hour though. His boss is with him now."

"Thank you" I said as we reached his room. I entered the room and sat down next to his bed.

"Who are you?" his boss asked

"I'm Spencer Reid, Tim's friend from high school."

"You went to high school with Tim and your friends. He implied that no one like him then."

"I'm the only friend he had in high school and back then it was merely protected each other's backs as the two youngest of our class."

"Tim is younger right."

I shook my head "No I'm younger by 4 years."

He looked at me shocked and fell silent. Tim's eyes then started fluttering and I stood up and grabbed his hand. "Come on Tim, it's time to get up."

"Spence" He said with a raspy voice. I nodded and handed him a glass of water. "What happened?"

"Some homeless guy had a syringe with Dilaudid in it and decided to use it on you."

"Couldn't get his full name out of him, just Samuel." I froze and Tim flinched. I turned to his boss and said "If it's who I think it is then he should still be in jail."

"Who do you think it would be?"

"My step-father." Tim said quietly "Samuel McGee. He was the one who introduced me to Dilaudid in the first place. If he was out he would want to get revenge on the people who shut down his ring."

"And who shut down his ring?"

"NCIS."

"What would NCIS have to do with it?"

"He was in the Navy. He was dishonorably discharged when they found out that he ran a child sex ring."

"Wait was it in Las Vegas?"

We nodded and I hoped that he wouldn't make the connection of the boy he saved to Tim.

"I remember that. That would be why I thought your name was familiar Tim. I'm just glad you didn't decide to follow in his footsteps. I'm sure anything you did would be ten times harder to catch." Tim flinched and I was surprised when he didn't notice. The nurse then came into the room and said "Who is going to be taking care of Tim?"

"I am." I said

"If you just sign here you'll be able to take him home, if you have any trouble know that you can take him back here and we can get him signed up for-."

"We'll be fine." I said coldly before helping Tim walk to my car. Before we even left the room the nurse gave me a box of what was probably Dilaudid to wean him off of. His boss followed us down and said "Where are you taking him?"

"The house we bought before either of us was really working."

"How did you get the money for the house then?"

"I wrote novels and did research and testing of some new engineering products about ready to enter markets with Spencer's help. He also discovered a new element. It paid fairly well."

"Why weren't you two working if you could do all that already?"

"We were too young to do what really wanted. I got into NCIS when I could and Spencer joined the BAU a few years later."

"You know someone in the FBI and never told us, it would have been better to work with then Fornell."

"No it wouldn't be better to work with his team because that means we would have a serial killer on our hands and a very bad one at that."

"Technically Tim they have to be very good at what they do for us to get called in."

"I mean bad for anyone not a serial killer."

"True."

"Port-to-Port killer McGee."

"Just about to see if I could swing it when we found him."

"Come on Tim I want to get you to the house before your first withdrawal comes." He nodded at me and got into my car as I got into the driver's seat. As I backed out I saw Gibbs on his phone and I wondered who he was talking to and what was it about.