Hey everyone, here is the next chapter for you all. I hope you like this chapter. Only one update today as I got home later than I thought. Sorry about that and I'm sorry if you read my cleansing the evil fanfic. I'm actually going to post the last two chapters for that tomorrow along with the regular update for this and I'm also updating Saving Blood tomorrow. So, you get four updates! I hope that will make up for today. I'm also thinking of starting a new fanfic but that might not be till sometime next week. I'm debating whether to do one with a supernatural edge to it as I've recently got a few message asking for a fanfic like that or one that would be AU. The AU one would focus on Reid as a teenager in trouble and of course, feature Reid whump. I want to do something different. I'd love to know which one you would like and, don't forget to review and tell me what you think of the chapter.

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Reid sat on the beach, he watched as the sun began to rise. He had walked all the way to the beach, he knew that Morgan would be angry about him leaving the hotel room but he just needed time on his own. He enjoyed watching the waves come onto the beach. He remembered a dream he had, one that had given him some salvation during his time with the monster. The entire team had been at the beach with him in his dream. Henry ran around and laughed as he played with his mother. Garcia set up a picnic basket for them all and they had all enjoyed the selections of food. Morgan teased him for not being able to catch the ball all the time. Hotch had been there with Beth and Jack while Blake and Rossi had enjoyed talking with each other. He remembered that dream clearly and hated the way he had gotten ripped from it.

Reid moaned as he opened his eyes, coming away from the wonderful dream. He realised that he was moving. He clinched the bed sheet as the monster continued. He stared at the wall and tried not to cry. He cringed as a hand ran through his hair.

"Almost there!" the monster said through gritted teeth.

The monster collapsed on top of him as he finished. "I need something good to start my morning," the monster chuckled.

They laid there, silent for a minute before the monster spoke. "You should appreciate what I do for you, Spencer. No woman could give you what I give you and it was only a matter of time before someone killed you if you had stayed out in the world. I've seen your record when it comes to the criminals you catch. You've been in the sight of danger before. I brought you away from that. Here, you're safe. I feed you, clothe you and make sure that you are kept under a roof," he said before stroking his hand down Reid's body. "This is all I want in return. I'm never going to let you go, Spencer. You're mine and I will use you as I wish."

"You took me from my family," Reid said, his voice shaking. "You took away my innocence. You took something you had no right to take! I hate you, I always will. You think I should thank you. I think you're a monster. You rape, beat and hurt me because you get off on it. I am not yours to use as you wish. I belong to nobody but myself. You can't get into the one place you really want to, my mind."

Reid laughed as he felt a small amount of courage come up.

"You want nothing more than for me to break and I won't do it. You're just a coward with a tiny piece of equipment."

The monster's eyes widened and stared down at him with hate and fury burning in his eyes.

"Did I hit a nerve?" Reid smirked. "They'll find me. My family will find me and when they do, they'll make you pay. Go to hell, you sick fuck!"

"TINY!" the monster yelled. The hand in his hair dragged him out of the bed and into the hall. They came to the room with the tools. Reid collided with the floor. He tried to scramble away but failed as a punch came into the back of his head.

Hours later, he laid in his hole, unconscious, bloody and his body barely holding on.

Reid snapped out of the memory and wiped the tears from his cheeks. It was that day he learned the true cost of his bravery. For days, it hurt him to breathe and he could barely move. No food, barely any water. The monster had gagged him, blocked his ears so he couldn't hear and blindfolded him. Cutting him off completely from the world.

"Reid!"

Turning around, he watched Morgan walk towards him. He looked back to the sea to watch the sun. Morgan sat beside him and quickly checked him over. "Are you hurt, kid?"

"I'm not hurt. No-one hurt me during my walk here."

Morgan grabbed Reid by the arms, scaring him slightly. "Do you have any idea how worried I've been?! You can't just do that. You can't leave the hotel room. Any thing could have happened to you!"

"I just needed time alone. I had a dream once that we all came to a beach like this one. We had a picnic together and we laughed."

"Why did you write whore on the mirror?"

"It's how I feel all the time," he sighed. "I feel like it all the time. It's hard to get rid of that feeling after what he did to me. You've never woken up to find yourself being raped. That was the same morning I discovered the true cost of bravery. He almost killed me after what I said. I went into that room with him yesterday and I let him touch me. He'll find me again, Morgan. When he does, he'll kill me. At least, he gave us the names. I sold myself with a kiss and his payment was two names."

Reid noticed the look on Morgan's face. "Morgan, what's wrong?"

"Reid, the men that he gave us are dead. Suicide. The men they had with them were dead too."

A look of disgust came on Reid's face. He got to his feet. Reid let out a scream before hitting himself in the head. Morgan rushed over and grabbed his hands. "Kid, stop it."

"No, let me go. I did that for nothing. He got his sick pleasure from me!"

"It's okay. He's going to fry. He broke the deal."

Reid pushed Morgan away. "THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT OKAY! He's already done the damage. He dies and that is the end for him. I get to live with every thing he did. I can't ever have a normal life again because of that monster. No-one came for me. You didn't come soon enough. He's done the damage and now I have the scars. None of you have scars like I do. I know you suffered abuse by Buford but this isn't the same. You weren't treated like an animal and used almost daily."

Morgan watched as Reid let it all out.

"Every time he hurt me, I felt like nothing. I feel like nothing."

Surging forward, Morgan grabbed Reid by his arms. "You are not nothing. I know Buford isn't the same. What I do know, is how much it hurts being hurt that way. I understand the humiliation and I understand what it feels like to lose your innocence. I'll never truly understand what you went through because it isn't the same. I was able see my family after it happened and I was able go home. You weren't able to see us and you suffered a year of continual abuse. Day after day. I want to help you and I am not going to accept you talking about yourself like that. You're not nothing. Do you think Henry and baby Spencer think of you as nothing? They adore you and Henry missed you. He cried because you disappeared."

Morgan continued as Reid stayed silent. "Your mother thinks the world of you and you are everything to her. Spencer Reid, you are my little brother and I am not going to let you down. I know we didn't come for you soon enough and it breaks my heart that you have gone through so much. I know that some scars never go away but I do know that you can overcome what he did to you and you can gain back your life. You told me that he could never reach you inside your mind during that time. Don't you dare let him win now."

"I won't let him win, if you promise that I'll never have to see him again," Reid said, his voice wobbling. "I can't get my life back as long as I have to see that monster. I can't see him again!"

"You never have to see him again. I promise."

"Morgan, I really want to go home now."

"Okay, I'm going to take you home."

Hotch came to the hotel room and found Reid watching television. They were going to the airport to go home. Lincoln had been denied his deal and was going to face all charges against him. Hotch was going for the death sentence on the bastard. Morgan came forward and caught Hotch before he could talk to Reid. They went outside the hotel room.

"Is he okay?" Hotch asked.

"No, and the progress he made before may have been destroyed by his visit to Lincoln. He's still traumatized and he's petrified that Lincoln will get out and come for him. He feels like he is a whore all the time and he's struggling to break that feeling. The son of a bitch raped him as he woke up in the mornings. Hotch, I know what it feels like to lose something precious, something that you never wanted to lose that way. He needs help, a lot of it. We can't give up on him. He can't go down a dark path because trust me, we won't get him back."

"He won't go down that path," Hotch said.

"You think you won't and then you do. Trust me, self-destruction isn't unusual in cases like this. You hate yourself and then it gets worse. He needs to have a normal life again and we can't let him focus on the bad memories. They are like small drops of poison. When enough of them come forward, we'll lose him."

"I'm not losing him again," Hotch said. "Lincoln is going to pay for what he did and Reid will witness him dying. Then, he'll know that the bastard won't ever be able to get to him."

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