Who is the Victim Here
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Chapter Twenty-Five.
Monday morning finds out agents back home at Quantico heading into work. Rossi is released from the hospital and is finally going to his own home, which he hasn't been in for quite some time. He will need some care but should return to work in a just a few days. He was not tortured mentally so he is not in the same shape as Aaron after the ordeal. Sean takes Aaron in his stroller and Spencer to the headquarters and stays with Aaron in his office after placing him in his office chair. Remember the director has ordered that he begin to return to work on a limited basis. Spencer feels he is doing great and plans to return to his own home that night. Morgan and Prentiss are back after checking out more contacts in New York to no avail. They plan on checking the D. C. area contacts now. Garcia is happy to be back in her little bunker. JJ is working at the different cases that come and needs to decide on the cases they take. She has found one and extols everyone to meet in the round room.
Sean carries Aaron in and puts him in a chair while the remainder agents gather. She begins to talk about the case and Aaron agrees that they should take it.
He says, "Although, I will not be able to go with you because I'm not allowed in the field. Morgan can handle the leadership while there, but I will just a call away. The wheels will go up in thirty minutes and I will hear from you soon." Sean takes Aaron back to the office and reads a good book while Aaron works at the pile of paperwork on his desk.
Spencer feels a little out, since he doesn't feel quite up to par yet, but he is working on it and will not be left out.
Back in New York, Angie goes back to the hospital for her final tests and is uncertain as to how she should tell Spencer about the problem she had discovered. It seems that Susan had been feeding him an experimental drug that Angie had been designing to help her clients who want to be babies for awhile actually lose full control over their bladders. The drug has had very few tests done and nothing for long term or overdosing has been tested, until Susan overdosed Spencer. She wants to check the man's blood and see what if any damage may have occurred from the overdosing. After her final test, she decides to go to Quantico and talk with the man while waiting for the doctor to get the results. He can contact her there.
When she arrives however, the agents, including Spencer, had already left for the case. She wonders how the boy is going to deal with his uncontrollable bladder problem. She sees Sean and Aaron and decides to tell them about the drug.
"Sean, Aaron, I need to tell you something about what Susan did to Spencer."
Aaron says, "What do you mean Angie? What else did she do?"
"She drugged him."
"Can you explain that in more detail?"
"I have designed an experimental drug for my clients who want a more baby like experience by losing full control of their bladders. The effects are temporary if given in a small dosage. Large dosage had not been tested yet and why would I test a large dose if I know a small dose is sufficient to do the job. Susan gave multiple large doses of the drug to Spencer. I don't know what the effects of these dosages will be. Hopefully it will be no different than a normal dosage but I won't know until I test the blood and do some neurological tests on the bladder area. If its normal then his control would come back after two weeks, if not then we need to determine whether control would ever come back or if his muscles atrophy."
"Are you saying that Spencer might not ever be able to control his bladder muscles again?"
"Yes, that is what I am saying. It is not the end of the world, but he will need to wear protective underwear for the rest of his life possibly."
"That's just not what he needs."
"I didn't do to him."
"I know it is not your fault. It's just another result of the torturous siblings."
Sean says, "Do you think she may have done that to Aaron?"
"Well, he only ate once under her control, she might have put it in there but I don't think it would have an overdose and it has been more than two months since then. Any consequence would be known at this time."
"Then I don't think she did, his lack of control is more by choice than anything else."
"Well, I am going to go and stay with David while he recovers. I wanted to come by and see you and let you know about Spencer."
On the plane to the case, Morgan notices something unusual about Spencer and goes over to the man to talk to him. "Spencer, I don't mean to interfere in your life but I think you just wet your pants."
Spencer looks up at him and then down and notices the same thing. "Oh shit, how did? I didn't even feel it happening."
"Don't freak out, we can get you cleaned up. Where's your bag so we can get a clean pair of pants."
"In the baggage area, I am not Hotch and I don't need a diaper bag."
"With what you just did, are you sure you don't need a diaper bag?"
"That's not funny Morgan."
Prentiss notices the men are talking low and decides to find out why. She asks, "What's up guys? Anything I can do to help?" She starts to walk over to them.
Spencer cries out, "No don't come over here." She stops and looks perplexed. JJ looks up and also wonders what was wrong.
At that moment the laptop buzzes and Aaron is on the video feed. He feels that he needs to tell Spencer and warn him about his problem. The other agents could not help but overhear the conversation and the girls now know what the 'problem' Spencer currently has.
Understandably Spencer gets very upset at the news. "Great, I am treated like every body's little brother already, now all of you will just treat me like the baby I guess I am." He gets up and goes to the bathroom on the jet to see if he can at least clean up a little.
When the plane lands, Morgan gets Spencer's bag and brings it to the man before he gets off the plane. After he changes, the group goes to meet the sheriff who asked them to come. Morgan and Reid go to the latest scene and begin to profile. JJ works with the locals to get all the files and has them all faxed to Hotch to get his input and then Garcia on getting some info about the victims. Prentiss begins to interview the victims.
It doesn't take too long before they have a working profile. Before Morgan and Reid head to the locals' office, they stop at the store. Reid buys some protective underwear because he doesn't want to show wet pants to the locals. His problem was that he wasn't sure what size to get and just picked one off the shelf. When he took it to the bathroom to put one on, he discovered they were a little big on him. But he just wore them anyway, not realizing that too big can lead to leaks.
It doesn't take long for the profile to get out and for the unsub to be found.
In Quantico, Sean had already taken Aaron home and put him to bed. The team flew home very late that night and Spencer fell asleep on the jet and once again wet his pants, although the brief took most of it, it did leak and the disposable rubbed against him the wrong way and he began to get another rash. It seems that our boy's very sensitive behind is allergic to the materials in the disposables. It irritates and hurts when he wakes up at the plane's arrival in Virginia. Morgan notices that Spencer's pants were wet again and tries to help the boy out by having his bag ready so that he can change into dry pants. In the plane's tiny bathroom, Spencer removes everything below the waist and then just sits and cries because his bottom hurts again and he doesn't want to put another disposable on which would make it hurt even more.
"Come on Reid, finish up in there so they can close the plane down. Let's get you home."
Spencer opens the door and says, "Can you take me to Hotch's place instead? I don't want to be home alone."
"Sure, come on and let's go."
The men leave and Morgan drives them to the Hotchner apartment. The lights are on at the apartment because Sean is holding Aaron in the rocking chair. Aaron just had a bad dream and needed to be awakened and comforted. When Reid and Morgan knock at the door, it startles both the men and Aaron sits up so that Sean can check out who is at the door. It was a surprise to see the two men there and they were let in the apartment. Sean sits back down on the rocker and Aaron lies back down in his arms.
Sean says, "Hello guys, what are you doing here so late or should I say early this morning."
Morgan responds, "We just got back in from the case and Spencer didn't want to go back to his place. He wanted to come here." Spencer looks at Derek with trepidation and bites his lip when he looks back at Sean. Sean looks at him and watches while the man wets himself right in from of him and doesn't even realize that he had done it.
"Is there something you wanted or needed Spencer?"
"Could you take care of me Sean? I don't think I can do it myself." He hangs his head low and feels so ashamed by having to ask to taken care of by this man in the rocking chair. Who is just one year older than he is but right now he wants to say to him daddy take care of me.
Sean look at the two men standing before him and sits Aaron up and says to Derek, "Could you sit and hold Aaron while I go take care of Spencer?" He smiles and acts very pleased to hold his boss in the chair and replaces Sean in the chair. Sean gently puts his brother in his arms. He gets a bottle and hands it to Derek for Aaron, who begins to suckle greedily. He takes Spencer's hand and takes him to the bedroom. He takes the man to the changing table and takes off his clothes. He washes him up and then lies him down and puts a cloth diaper on him after putting the rash lotion all over his bottom. He puts a plastic pair of pants on him and then puts a purple sleeper on the man. He picks him up and puts him in the crib to lie down. "Go to sleep Spencer. I will get you up in the morning and we can discuss more about your problem." He turns and shuts off the overhead light but makes sure the nightlight is on and the door is kept slightly ajar.
Back in the living room, he looks at Morgan sleeping in the chair while holding Aaron, who is still drinking from his bottle. Sean picks up Aaron and puts him in his bed and then places a blanket over Morgan and puts the rocker blocks in place so that he doesn't flip over when he wakes to where he is. Going back to his bedroom, he catches Aaron just as he was about to get off the bed. Sometimes Sean forgets that he can't really trust Aaron to stay where he puts him. He gets his brother and places him further on the bed and gets into bed beside him and holds him while he goes back to sleep.
