Hello my dedicated readers. First off, I would like to thank you all for your patience. I have been having a hard time juggling school and also trying to get these posted so I appreciate you not jumping on me about it. Second, I would like to thank those who reviewd. There weren't many but those who did...THANKS SO MUCH! :D Alright so here we go! Chapter 8! Go on now and enjoy this very tense chapter
It was early in the morning when I felt myself wake up. I wasn't ready to get up so I kept my eyes closed, and scooted closer to where Reid was…or should've been. I felt around for him only to find nothing but air. My eyes darted open.
"Reid?" I called. Nobody answered. I turned on the lamp by my side of the bed, and slipped on my robe over my pjs. When I got up, I started to get confused. I knew he was there when I fell asleep because for one, we'd been talking, and two, I'd been cuddled up to him. "Reid?" I called again. Again, there was no answer. I sat down in a chair and waited, looking at the clock. It was about 6:00am. "Maybe he got hungry." I suggested to myself. I waited around for until 6:45am, and then heard the door open. It sure enough was Reid. He looked distressed. "Hi. Where were you?" I asked him.
"Oh just went for coffee and ran into Morgan." He said. I nodded.
"So, is something wrong?" I asked. He looked at me and then shook his head.
"No." He told me blandly.
The rest of the vacation was tense. Reid wouldn't barely talk to me around the others, and he wouldn't even hold my hand.
I was beginning to feel very unwanted, so when it was time to pack up and go, I asked, "Reid what has been wrong with you?"
"What do you mean?" he asked, without looking up from what he was doing.
"I mean, the fact that you barely talk to me, and you wont even hold my hand." He looked up then.
"You think I'm ignoring you?" He asked.
"Well actually…yes." I said.
I must've hit a nerve, because he more or less yelled, "You have no idea what its like to be made fun of all the time!"
I got confused and said, "Actually I do but…what does that have to do with anything?"
"Morgan won't leave me alone about it and I'm sick of it!" He said.
"Oh so you're taking it out on me!" I asked angrily.
"Well its your fault!" He said.
"How is it my fault!" I asked.
"You're the one who…who.."
I finished for him, "Who seduced you! Well excuse me for being liked!" I said.
He looked really mad and said, "You know what! Whatever! I never really liked you anyway!" Then he went for the door.
"Fine I don't need you!" I yelled.
"Fine!" he yelled back, and then slammed the door.
"…Fine." I whispered to myself, and then sat on the bed, and began crying.
On the jet ride back home, I couldn't even look at Reid. I was so heartbroken over the whole thing. We got back, and I just trudged to my car, and went home. The hot shower was very welcome to my sore and tensed up muscles. After getting out, I crawled under my covers, and cried myself to sleep.
The next morning when I went into the BAU, we had a case. JJ presented it in the briefing room.
"There have been three different bodies found with various limbs and organs missing." She said.
"Could this person be a collector?" Reid asked.
"No the authorities don't think so because two have their right arms missing and a collector would only take one of each body part." JJ said.
"Then what's the motive?" Morgan asked.
"They think the unsub's eating them." JJ said.
"Wheels up in an hour." Hotch said quickly to us all and we dispersed. I packed my go bag and then sat outside quietly, waiting for everyone else. When everyone was finally ready, we boarded the jet, and headed off. Once there, we investigated and interrogated, but came up with nothing. "Lets turn in for the night." Hotch said, and we headed toward a motel. Again, we had to share rooms, and I got stuck with Reid. I dreaded sleeping in the room with him only a bed away. However, I was exhausted, so I just showered, and went to bed, without so much as a sideways glance at him.
The next day, we made progress, and Hotch and Morgan apprehended a suspect. We all interrogated him for hours and hours, but got nothing out of him whatsoever. So, we went to his house. There we found a shocking discovery. It was a freezer filled with human body parts. I gagged and went outside to take a moment. That's when I broke down completely. I missed Reid, and I was slowly loosing the ability to hide it. Life was getting to me, and I needed somebody there to fix it…like my brother always had…and like I'd needed Reid there to do in his place. I started to bawl like a baby, and then sat down on the front porch steps of the house. I held the bracelet Reid had given me in my hand and let the tears fall.
Then, I heard a familiar voice say, "Chealsee…are you…okay?" It was Reid. I shook my head and he sat down next to me.
"I'm so sorry Chealsee. I was an ass and I regret it…are we okay?" he asked.
I looked up at him and said, "You know why I've never had a boyfriend before?" He shook his head. "Because I was afraid this would happen. My parents split up when I was very young, and then my mother started doing drugs. She threw me and my brother out. We've been living alone ever since. Just last year he went off to the military and left me all alone. I'm a very guarded person Reid. I don't want what happened to my parents to happen to me." Reid just looked at me after I told him my story.
"I promise to you that will never ever happen to us." He said and took me in his arms.
"Then we're okay." I said, enjoying being in his arms again. The day had been perfect. We'd caught our guy, I'd got my boyfriend back, and now we all got to go home to Quantico.
I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house.
That don't bother me.
I can take a few tears now and then and just let 'em out.
I'm not afraid to cry,
every once in a while,
even though Goin' on,
with you gone,
still upsets me.
There are days,
every now and again,
I pretend I'm okay.
But that's not what gets me!
What hurts the most,
Was being so close.
And havin' so much to say.
And watchin' you walk away.
And never knowin',
What could've been.
And not seein' that lovin', you,
Is what I was tryin' to do.
It's hard to deal with the pain of losin' you everywhere I go,
But I'm doin' it.
It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone.
Still harder gettin' up,
gettin' dressed,
livin' with this regret.
But I know if I could do it over,
I would trade,
give away all the words that I saved in my heart,
That I left unspoken.
What hurts the most,
Is being so close.
And havin' so much to say.
And watchin' you walk away.
And never knowin',
What could've been.
And not seein' that lovin' you,
Is what I was tryin' to do.
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