Reid's Realization
By: Emily Powers

/Woah, I realized that I don't like Seaver and Reid as a couple...I'm rewriting that..I think it's going to be Prentiss and Reid...I dunno, anyway...without further-a-do, Chapter 4

Reid had more troubles sleeping that before. He found himself in Juliet's bedroom quite often. He always told himself that having kids was a bad idea, and now, he was positive it had been a good idea. Sure the birth of his child had given him a joy he had never felt before, but somthing in his gut told him somthing bad was going to happen before she was very old. At the age of 6, Juliet witnessed her father get shot. He survived, thankfully, but Reid feared what the sight did to his daughter.
He went to work, yet again, he was told he didn't have to work the case, but he felt that he needed to. A few more days, and a body would show up, and if the order was correct, Juliet was next to die. Reid had closed in on a geographic area. It took him longer than it normally would have, and he said less statistics than normal, but he workednonethe less. Reid also complied a list of people who Juliet had contact with, which was her teachers, other student's parents, and voulnteers at her school.
The profile grew, and grew. A day passed, and the profile was ready to be given.
"This UnSub will have recently lost a child, blonde haired and blue eyed, possibly twins with blonde hair and blue eyes, it's hard to say if it was a boy or a girl, or both. This man will have put himself in the investgation, or will have been following it very closely. This man will also work around children, he knows the children that he's kidnapping and killing. He is also a figure they trust, becuase all except for one child had been taken on their way home from school. If you have any leads, please call our tip hotline." J.J said into the microphone. Reid bit his lip, it was his turn to say what he had to say, to humanize Juliet, try to convince the man to give her back. Reid stepped up to the podium.
"I remember, Juliet's birthday about a week ago. She turned 10, and the one thing she asked for was a copy of The Fisher King, I felt bad, because I refused to get it for her. So I went out a bought her the entire Percy Jackson and The Olympians boxed set. She finished them all in 4 hours, and the 5th was her favorite, and she read it over and over again. We took a family trip to England, and went to Baker Street, to see where her favorite detective was inspired by. Then in the hotel room she curled up in a ball between her mother and me, and we picked apart the inaccurate information in the Indiana Jones movies." Reid swollowed. "I'd appreciate if you gave her back to me." he was tempted to list all the problems Juliet had, and say how she needed her medicine every day, otherwise she could have an allegry attack and die, but he didn't.
His teammates clapped him on the back as he walked out.

Juliet sat in the room. She was hungry, she wanted food. A man came to the door of the room and opened it. Juliet's heart raced, the man grabbed her arm and dragged her down the concrete floor, scraping her legs. She did the only thing she could do, she clamped her teeth down on his wrist.
The man muttered a few cuss words, and continuted to drag her to another room. Once in the other room, he pushed the girl onto the floor completly and took a knife and cut at her wrist, making the "4" deeper, along with the name "Emma". Blood flowed out of her wrists, making her a bit dizzy. The man smiled and the pain visible on the girl's face, and moved his knife to her face, slashing across her forehead,nose, and cheek, it was a perfect professonal cut that avoided her eye. Blood went from the cut into her eyes, stinging. She became more dizzy from the blood loss. She had lost blood in the other room, and she felt dizzy now. Her eyes closed as she lost conciousness.
The mand smiled, and brought his knife to her throat, beginning to cut gently across the skin on her neck. Slowly getting deeper and deeper, until it was deep enough to kill her, but not instiantly, it would take about an hour for the girl to bleed out completly.
He sat back and watched the show.

Reid sat at his desk thinking, when the last peice of the puzzle fit. He knew who had Juliet, and he knew where he lived too.
"Morgan, Hotch, J.J, Prentiss, Rossi! I know who the UnSub is!" Reid exclaimed, running out to the black SUV. The rest of the team followed and all split up between 2 vans and followed Reid as he drove to the UnSub's home.
They all piled out after the 15 minute drive. Each one pulled out their guns and approached the door. A child'd whimpering came from the old fashoned basement doors beside the house. Morgan pried the open and Reid desended down the staircase to find the UnSub.
He froze at that sight. A blonde girl, covered in her own blood laied on the floor. The UnSub noticed Reid and went over to the girl, and held his knife over where her heart would be.
"Move and I kill her on the spot." the UnSub said. Reid twitched, and the UnSub shoved the knife into the girl's chest, not her heart, but above it. The UnSub fell backwards, dead as Reid rushed to the girl.
He felt guilt well up inside him. Morgan called for a medic, as Hotch pulled Reid back a bit, everyone was sure she was dead, they didn't bother to take her pulse. The medics came and took the little girl. Reid was shocked with the news that she was alive. He climbed into the ambulince when they took her.

A day later, Juliet was asleep, while in a medicaly induced coma. She would be waking up soon. Reid and his wife sat near her, when they decided to run and get some coffee, a small voice spoke up behind them.
"Mommy, Daddy?" it asked.
The couple turned around to see a pair of bright blue eyes looking up at them.
"It's ok Juliet, we're here." Reid said.
Juliet smiled and said. "Did you know that 75% of children who have been kidnapped get killed within the first 24 hours?"
"yes" Reid nodded.
"While, I'm not one of them." Juliet said.