It was 11:55pm, and Spencer was parked on the side of the road. He was staring at the warehouse that he would soon be entering to find JJ. He watched the clock, waiting for it to strike midnight.

11:59pm, Spencer got out of the car and began walking up to the warehouse door. His watch beeped when it was time and he rose his hand to knock, but found he didn't need to because the warehouse door was opening automatically.

It was a storage unit and the door opened like a car garage. This warehouse was right beside the Potomac river and Spencer shivered as he entered the unit. He wasn't sure if the shiver was caused by the 46.4 Fahrenheit weather or by the situation.

"JJ!" Spencer called out as the units door closed automatically behind him.

He looked at the door close and felt his heartbeat speed up as the unit had no lights in it. He reached into his satchel and pulled out a flashlight.

"JJ?" He started walking forward, but then his phone rang, "shit-"

"I said no phones," the lights turned on and Spencer saw the man standing in the far corner of the rather large unit.

Spencer put his hands in the air so the man could see what he was doing, "I didn't call anyone I swear. I only brought it for the directions here-"

"You have a GPS Doctor Reid," the man said sharply before he smirked, "take the battery out and empty your bag on the table."

Spencer did as he was told with his phone and then walked over to the table and dumped his bag.

Spencer kept his eyes on the man who had been standing in the corner, but he wasn't alone. The man was standing beside a chair that was facing the wall. Spencer saw her, with a pillowcase over her head and the man was holding a gun to her.

After doing what he was told he walked slowly around the table towards the man.

"Alright, I'm here so-"

"Take that metal detector and run it up and down yourself," the man commanded.

Spencer had noticed a metal detector laying on the table and had hoped that the man would forget about it. He took it and ran it over his arms, chest and left leg.

"The other leg too," the man said as Spencer hadn't done his right.

Spencer did as he was told and groaned when the detector beeped.

"Show it to me slowly," the man growled, "and remember that I can blow the head off your girlfriend at any moment."

Spencer pulled a gun out of his boot and put it above his head.

"Throw me the gun," Spencer followed the man's instructions.

The man got the gun and took the bullets out, pocketing them and throwing the gun to the far side of the unit before turning his gun from JJ to Spencer.

"Well, well this is quite the predicament you are in Doctor."

"Why's JJ being so quiet?" Spencer asked.

"She has got tape over her mouth and I told her to keep her mouth shut."

"Show me-"

"You aren't in any place to be making demands!"

"I followed all your instructions so please, just let me see that she's alive-"

"You can tell she's alive-"

"She's tied to a chair and isn't moving or making a sound, I can't tell-"

The man roughly spun the chair around, pulled the pillowcase off her head and then ripped the tape off of her mouth. JJ let out a cry of pain, Spencer could barely see her face, but he knew that she was alive and for now that was enough.

"Spence!" JJ cried and looked over at him, but she was unable to see him much either in the dim light of the unit.

"Shut up!" The man yelled, "this little game of cat and mouse is over Agent Reid."

"It doesn't have to end like this," Spencer said in a soothing voice, "we can work something out. Just give me the gun and let me call my friends. I'm sure I can get you a deal if you spare our lives and turn yourself in. You don't have to kill us, if you do they-"

"They what?! Will come find me?!" The man laughed, "the CIA hasn't been able to find me, what makes you think that your little FBI friends will be able to?"

"They're the best, much better than John and when they find you they won't hold back. You'll go down in a hail of bullets-"

"I don't believe that, they didn't even know that you were lying the entire time and they weren't able to get anywhere in the case until you returned. I know you went to John's office Agent Reid, and I know why he sent you the file. He thought you were the only-"

"He wanted to protect me!" Spencer interrupted the man as he knew where he was going with his sentence.

"He was using you Genius!" The man screamed back, "you think he sent you the file to protect you?! If that was the case he would've sent it years ago! He couldn't track me down, but he trusted that you could because you know me! However, he ruined you."

The man took a couple deep breaths before continuing, "you had a life Doctor Reid, and he purposely ruined that for you. You had a team, and a family that you loved. A woman, that you loved and he sent you that case file and turned your life upside down for his own selfish needs. He doesn't care about anyone, but him-"

"That's not true! He cares about me and he cared about you! He never meant for us to get hurt-!"

"You're still defending him?! Defending him although he's the reason that you got attacked, twice and that you're here?! That your girlfriend and you are about to die! This is his fault Agent Reid, all of this is! I never wanted to kill anyone!"

"Then you shouldn't have! You didn't need to kill, he didn't make you!" Spencer rubbed his face roughly and tried to regain his short lived calm composure.

"Listen, I know what happened to you. I know how much you got hurt and I'm sorry that you weren't more protected. You should have been given more protection, we all should have been, but that doesn't make him the reason for what you've done."

The man stared at Spencer with a look of pure hatred, "I'm not to blame here Agent Reid. I'm trying to protect young CIA agents, and if some had to die then that's too bad, but sometimes lives need to be sacrificed to do the right thing. Your life included-"

"Spence!" JJ screamed as the shot suddenly rang out and Spencer fell to the ground, the bullet hitting him straight in the chest.

... I hope you liked this chapter, and that you're enjoying the story. Thank you again to Annajadekin for prompting this story. I hope you most especially are enjoying the story. Thanks also to my 39 followers and to all the people who have reviewed this story. You guys are definitely boosting my confidence. Please, review and let me know how you feel about it so far. The storie's coming to an end (I may make an epilogue, does anyone like that idea?) and I don't want to disappoint.

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