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Thank you for your reviews and also for the favourite alerts. So, you´ll learn once more about Anna and Reid´s. Hope you like it and reviews would be great :)

Sorry if I got some things about Stockholm Syndrome wrong, I´m not a psychologist, that´s what Google says

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"But Reid, why did you never go to the police" Hotch asked.

"Because he shouldn´t have been able to hurt her again" Reid answered.

"And why is that?" Morgan asked.

"Because we thought he was dead…"

"I don´t get it, now I´m out, why did you think he had died?" Morgan asked.

"Well, of course I went to the police after I had committed Anna to the hospital. I mean, even though I didn´t know where that man was, I still wanted to catch him to get revenge for what he had done to her." Reid squeezed Anna´s hand and took a brief moment to look at her, letting a small sad smile play on his lips at the sight of his girlfriend, but it soon disappeared as he had to continue with his story.

"The problem was, that I didn´t know anything about that man and neither did anyone else, except for Anna. And she was unconscious for two days after all of it had happened. On the other hand I also refused to leave her side until she would have woken up…"at that statement, Garcia let a small sympathetic smile show for the young couple.

"So, we had no idea with who we were dealing, I didn´t even know his name. And I told the police officers to talk to her friends, apparently that monster had done more damage than I thought at that time. Anna never had many friends but she had a few, she really trusted. Apparently, he isolated her from everyone around her, friends, family, he even made her quit her job. I was the only exception. It was normal for us, that she came to Virginia twice a year, but how I later found out, she always had to pay for that…"

"What do you mean?" JJ asked.

"She simply disappeared for three days, she never stayed longer. And whenever she did that and then came home, he beat her worse than ever. I think she was way too scared about the people she loved and that´s why she never told me. She had been in that relationship for ten years, he was her first real boyfriend and was used to it. Until I found out, she never considered leaving him…"

"Stockholm Syndrome" Prentiss mumbled.

"In a way yes, but on the other hand she once said that she had known all along that it was wrong, but she was way too scared to ask for help. Did you know that statistically, 27 % of people that were held as a hostage show signs for Stockholm Syndrome?" Reid mumbled the last part quietly. Everyone let out a small smile, that being the first statistic in a week he told them, for someone who normally spouted them out like an encyclopaedia.

"Anyway, I only found out a couple of months ago, how she managed to let me visit her, which was quite often, at least 4 times a year. Anna used to tell him, that one of her co-workers noticed the bruises and contacted someone like a social worker, who came to visit a couple of times a year. I never stayed longer than two days either so she had it all thought through. Apparently, he believed her and whenever she told him, that that 'social worker', who was me, was visiting, he went out for the night to drink."

"I still don´t get all of that, why he believed her, why he never questioned that, I have no idea. But the most horrible thing is, that I never noticed. Whenever she was with me, she seemed different than I knew her; I should have noticed the signs. Though she did a pretty good job hiding all of it, it´s still my job to stop people like him and I´ll never stop feeling guilty for not noticing and protecting her. Though, she told me three years ago, that she would never blame me. Anna once said, that their relationship wasn´t abusive from the beginning, but the last five years or so were. He always told her, that if she ever contacted the police or her friends or ever her own sister, then he would find them and kill them, one by one."

Reid paused for a brief second before he continued.

"Well, after I found out, it was three days later; the police had found him near a bridge, completely drunk. He jumped and everyone was sure, that he shouldn´t have had a chance to survive. When Anna heard, that he jumped down a bridge, she got a lot more confident. I needed a while to convince her, but she eventually came with me. Of course, it wasn´t easy. It took more than half a year so she could sleep without nightmares. And even though I tell her as often as I can that I love her, she sometimes still thinks, she doesn´t deserve to be loved. Anna still goes to therapy and sometime has those breakdowns, but we always come through."

Again, Reid lifted his gaze from his friends up to Anna and tucked a small strand of hair behind her ear.

"You know, the way you talk about her, the way you look at her … You really love her, we can tell" Garcia said.

"I really do and even though it was hard at the beginning, we managed to still have somewhat like a happy life together. But a couple of months ago, Anna started to receive gifts at the beginning it were simple flowers and we didn´t think much of it. But the presents got more expensive, like jewellery. And a month ago, those calls started. Someone would call her and then there was nothing but silence. She got scared and so did I, truth to be told. Anna changed her phone number countless times, she died her hair and we wanted to move into a new apartment next month. We contacted the police but she had no idea, who could be responsible for all of that. After all, that monster was supposed to be dead."

"Reid … How did she … I mean what happened to her?" Rossi asked.

"I know all of you have noticed the way I behaved during that case. It happened that Friday before I came to work. Ahm … I went home and saw that the door to our apartment was opened. I found … I found her in the kitchen on the floor. S-She had been s-stapped and … and I rushed towards her and tried to put pressure on the wound and called an ambulance … I thought she – she had d-died … I thought I had lost her…"

The young profiler´s eyes were slightly watered when he told them about that night. He still remembered seeing her, feeling frozen for the slightest bit of a second. In his mind, the worst scenario hadn´t been as bad as it was in reality. Fearing to lose her again. Fearing to lose a part of himself.

He closed his eyes, trying to get the images of Anna, lying unconscious in a pool of her own blood, out of his head. JJ reached over and squeezed his hand, showing him support.

"I know that it has been him, because before the ambulance came, she opened her eyes to look at me and said 'It was him, he´s not dead' and … well she told me that she was sorry and loved me before she broke down completely…"

"Reid why didn´t you tell us?" Hotch asked the young profiler.

"I had no idea how to deal with it all, I mean how should we hunt someone who´s a ghost. I know I make no sense right now but I was actually scared what he could do to you and to her. He was supposed to be dead. We thought he was. And again I wasn´t there to protect Anna … it´s my fault all of that happened. And I know I probably have no right to ask that, because I hid it all from you, but please … please help me."

"Reid, if that man is messing with your family, he´s messing with us. From now on, this is a BAU case, we´ll help you find him."