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CHAPTER TWO
Around one o'clock Lily saw one of the men from earlier making his way towards her.
"Hello." He smiled with his hands in his pockets.
"Hi."
"My name is Dr. Spencer Reid. The team calls me Reid."
"Hi Reid, you can call me Lily." They shook hands.
"I won't get you into trouble for talking to you will I?" Reid looked around nervously.
Lily laughed. "No, if anything, I feel like I'd get you into trouble. Your boss seems like a really tough guy."
"He can be but he gets the job done. He doesn't mean anything personally." They started walking towards some picnic tables.
"I think he does with me. He has a look of disgust on his face every time he looks at me. I can't blame him though." They sat down on the tables.
"Why are you out here if you don't want to be?" There was a moment of silence before Reid realized how personal of a question that might be. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to offend you or anything. It's probably really personal. I completely understand that you don't want to tell me." They both sat down on top of the picnic tables.
"It is but that's okay. Believe me, I'd much rather be studying then out here. I miss those days."
"School?" Lily nodded. "Hmm, most people don't like school except for nerds like me."
"Well I'm definitely one of those nerds." Lily laughed.
"That's awesome. What are your favorite subjects?" He couldn't help himself.
"I liked my math classes and science classes and I really liked all my history classes but my passion was my British Literature class."
"Mine too! I love to read. I have an eidetic memory, I can read over 20,000 words a minute and I have an IQ of 187." Reid was very proud of himself.
"Well I don't know about how many words I can read a minute, but I know my IQ is 164."
"A genius. Wow."
"Shocking I know. Why is someone so smart in a place like this?" Lily criticized herself.
"Don't put yourself down. You'll find a way to get out of here and we could be your ticket. You never know what the future will hold."
"How old are you?"
"I'm 22."
"That's great that you've been able to accomplish so much in such a short time."
"Thank you."
"So how about that paperwork I'm supposed to sign?" Lily asked.
"Oh right." Reid started digging through his bag he still had over his shoulder.
"It's a contract. You're agreeing to work with us and if you decide to back out on your own or you betray us to McCaid, we'll arrest you for prostitution and treason."
"That's all." She mocked the seriousness of the situation.
"Also, you cannot tell anyone about this, just like Hotch said. For some reason he's being really hard on you. I think it bothers him that someone so young is out here; also, he's really uncomfortable with relying on a prostitute to break this case. It's the FBI's main priority right now, so it's all up to you."
"So there's just a little bit of pressure. Thanks." She laughed.
"Don't think about it like that. Your boss now might not notice but McCaid will definitely notice if you're nervous for some reason."
"Gotcha." She nodded. She then took the papers from him and a pen. She quickly read over the papers and signed them.
"Thanks." Reid took them and put them back in his bag. "I know you're supposed to be working, but did you want to grab a bite to eat? A midnight snack? I'm buying. I mean,…just food, nothing else…I don't mean to offend you." Reid started stuttering over his words once he realized they could have a double meaning.
"I know what you meant and sure, we can grab a bite to eat but I can pay for myself." Lily smiled.
"I don't want to get you in trouble."
"Don't worry about it. What your boss gave me was way too much, so I've just been sitting here in the park all night waiting for one of you to come back. I've passed my quota per say." She laughed.
Reid laughed nervously. "Alright, where is there a good place to eat around here?"
"There's a diner on the other side of the park that's open twenty four hours."
"Perfect."
"Do you mind if I change first?" She was glad she'd brought some clothes with her.
"No, of course not. Let's go back to the truck and you can change in the back seat."
"Awesome thanks."
The two of them spent the rest of the night chatting away at the diner. Both of them felt great having someone to talk to who understood them and how their brain worked.
The next evening, Morgan was getting ready to head to the address Lily had given them.
"What's the max price we can pay?" He asked as he was tying his shoe laces.
"$15,000 but I don't want to pay that much. Get him down as low as possible." Hotch informed him.
"No problem. Anything else?" He asked grabbing his gun and badge.
"Leave those in the car. More than likely you'll be patted down. Garcia's created you a background so if he does a background check, you'll check out."
"Alright, I shall see you later." He slipped on his sunglasses and headed out of the hotel room.
Arriving at the address, he realized it was a massage therapy business. Taking a deep breath he got out of the truck and headed up to the building.
"Hi, what can I do for you today?" The receptionist smiled at him.
He took his sunglasses off. "I'm looking for Liam Connolly."
"I'm sorry sir, he's out of the office, can I take a message?"
"I know he's here, tell him I want to make him an offer on one of his girls."
The receptionist wavered and looked at some men standing behind Morgan. He turned his head in time to see them nod that it was okay.
"I'll let him know." She rushed off through a set of closed doors next to the two men who looked like body guards.
Morgan only had to wait a few minutes before the girl came back out and told him he could enter.
"Thank you." He smiled. Walking into the office, he took a good admiring look around. He wanted to show Connolly that he was impressed with his things.
"Maria tells me you want to buy one of my girls. Who are you?" The man didn't move from his seat behind his desk.
"My name is Anthony Riley." Morgan held out his hand for the man to shake. "I came out here on business, and then thought I might make some purchases for my other business, if you know what I mean?"
"Aye, I do. What kind of girl are you looking for? What's your price range?"
"I'm looking for someone young. My girls are getting older and I need someone young that the clients will like."
"What age? I have girls as young as eighteen."
"Eighteen? Hmm do you have photos of them or are they here so I can take a look at them?" Liam pulled out a binder from his desk.
"Here, that's all of my girls. Best girl to worst."
Morgan started looking through the pages for Lily's picture. He found a couple girls that he pretended to be interested in but Liam turned down his offers. On the last page he finally found Lily's picture.
"What about her?"
"You don't want her."
"How come?"
"She's seventeen and very inexperienced."
"I'm good at training. How much for her?"
"She's underage and not worth the trouble anymore. I'll sell her cheap; how's $7000 sound?"
"I have to ask, what's wrong with her? Ok, she's underage but if she's that bad why would you keep her?" Morgan questioned.
"It's not that she's bad, she's just not up to par with the other girls in their late teens and early twenties. She's not a pretty as the others. She's good at what she does, don't get me wrong, but she won't be given a chance to prove herself. She's underage and the guys like the allure of innocence. Once that's gone she's gone. Plus she has a lot of emotional baggage. So the fact you're willing to buy her now, I'm willing to sell her cheap."
"Consider her sold! I know she'll sell well in Miami." Morgan grinned and shook hands with Liam.
Liam called out, "Rob!"
Rob walked into the room. "Sir?" He questioned.
"Go get Rose back in here." Liam ordered. Rob nodded and left the room.
A few minutes later he returned with Lily.
"Pack your bags, you've just been sold. You're going to Miami."
Lily didn't have to pretend to be shocked. She didn't know anything about Miami.
She glanced at Morgan but directed her question to Liam. "Miami? Why there?"
"This is Anthony Riley. He's here to do some buying for the Miami area. He just bought you." Lily feigned a hurt look but kept her mouth shut.
"Head home and pack your shit and leave." Liam said waving his hand in a dismissing motion.
"Um, can I finish tonight first?" Lily asked pleadingly to Liam.
"You do not belong to me anymore." Liam said turning toward Morgan.
Morgan then turned to Lily. "We have a plane to catch first thing in the morning."
"I can still work tonight. Make you one last profit. It doesn't make any sense for me to not do it. I'd just be sitting around doing nothing anyways, so why not?" Lily shrugged and smiled.
"You know, she does have a point." Liam turned to Morgan.
"I get 75% of her sales."
Liam chuckled. "20%."
"Hell no! Like you said, she's mine. At least 70%."
"30%." Lily watched as they went back and forth negotiating.
Finally, they settled on 60% for Morgan and 40% for Liam. After all she did belong to Morgan now.
"I'll be back here at 1:30 am to pick you up." Morgan told Lily. She nodded and left the room.
"I'll make sure she's back here in time."
Morgan pulled out a large roll of cash. "Here's $3500 for now. You'll get the other $3500 when I pick her up." The men shook hands and Morgan left.
A little while later Morgan was back at the hotel with the team.
"How'd it go?" Hotch asked immediately.
"Really good. He doesn't suspect anything."
"Where is she then?" Prentiss asked.
"She convinced Connolly to let her spend one last night here."
"What? That wasn't part of the plan. Why didn't you make her leave Morgan?" Reid asked worriedly.
"Because man, she needed to convince him that she didn't really want to leave him and that her loyalty was still to him. I would have preferred her to come with me too but she did what she had to do." Reid opened his mouth to say something but JJ beat him to it.
"Do you find her trustworthy?" JJ asked looking at Morgan, then around at the rest of the group. Hotch quirked his eyebrows and watched everyone's reactions. He thinks Lily can be a trustworthy person but he doesn't trust criminals and others like her so he's being cautious.
"I think she is. She's obviously been hurt by someone and it's caused her to have the kind of life she's living." Reid quickly stuck up for her.
"All we can do is wait and see what happens. She knows the risks and she knows what will happen to her if she breaks the rules." Hotch determined.