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"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."

The team members of the BAU left Anna´s hospital room soon after Reid had told them his story. It was unbelievable for all of them, that he was able to hide a relationship for such a long time. More even, that none of them even had the slightest clue.

Morgan could hit himself for the countless times in the last years, he had told Reid to get a girlfriend and those times he had tried to set him up.

Hotch couldn´t believe how he had managed to always go on cases with them and still be there for his loved one.

Rossi, Prentiss and Garcia didn´t understand that he hadn´t told them from the beginning and that they never found out about it.

The only one who didn´t try to understand Reid´s actions was JJ, because she already did. She knew better than anyone else what it was like to want to hide a relationship. She had done it herself, though under completely different circumstances.

All of them were standing on the hospital corridor, still trying to let all of it sink in and to understand what that situation meant. How ?… that was the question everyone had in his head. But there was so much more anger than disappointment, more than hurt because Reid didn´t tell them … there was this anger because someone wanted to hurt a member of their team … a member of their family.

It was clear how much Reid cared about Anna, how scared he was to lose her and even though everyone would have liked to know from the beginning, they understood him the more they thought about this situation. The only thing clear right then was that they had to help Reid. He couldn´t do it on his own and they wouldn´t let him.

"Guys, I know this is a lot to take in right now, but he needs our help. Garcia, Morgan, Prentiss, Dave, I want all of you back at the bureau. Garcia, dig as deep as possible, we need information about this guy. Prentiss I want you to look through older files to see if he has a connection to any of them. Morgan I want you to interview Anna´s sister to see how much she knows about him. Dave you and I are going to order a personal security officer for her room and JJ I want you to stay with Reid. We need to find out more about this guy and about Anna … And be there for him. Now let´s go…"

And with that everyone took off to their ordered work. Garcia was working nonstop on finding something out about the man named "Jeff Breakson", the name they had gotten from Reid, though he wasn´t sure if that was even his right name. And he had been right with thinking, that Anna´s ex was a ghost, he really was. She found no records at all, not even credit card bills.

The only thing they were hoping for, was Anna waking up. She would know more than anyone else about that man, she would know about his behaviour and how he had gone through life. And of course, after he had faked his death, he would have changed his name, maybe even changed his look, what made it all more difficult to find him.

Garcia was really getting frustrated, how should she find anything if there was nothing?

Meanwhile, Morgan was trying to find out something through Anna´s sister Michelle.

"Michelle are you sure you don´t know anything about him?" Morgan asked for what seemed like the thousand time and he wasn´t getting anywhere. How could this man have isolated Reid´s fiancée so much, that not even her sister knew anything?

"Well, my sister and I didn´t have a lot of contact since I moved here a long time ago. I never met this horrible person who hurt my sister, all I´ve ever got was his name and that was Jeff. I always wanted to meet him when Anna told me about her relationship but then she always found excuses, now I know why. Once, it was years ago, I kind of pushed it too far. I went to visit Anna and didn´t tell her before. She opened the door to close it right afterwards. I had no idea why, but she yelled at me why I came there and that she wanted me to leave." She took a sip of water before continuing.

"I found it strange and as stupid as I was, I yelled back at her, that was when we lost contact, though I´m sure Spencer has told you about it." Morgan nodded silently.

"You know the only thing I can think of right now is, how stupid I´ve been to let something like that happen to my little sister. I was responsible for her, why didn´t I see it? Why couldn´t I help her? It´s all my fault…" and with that she broke down in tears.

"It wasn´t your fault you know that, just as much as it wasn´t Rei-Spencers. He too thinks, that it was his fault but it wasn´t…"

"If it was everyone´s fault but not Spencers, Michelle told Morgan. He was the one to help her out of it all, to get back in contact with her family, to enjoy life again … to find love again. He´s a good man and he told me about the people that work with him and that they are the best and also his family…" Morgan smiled slightly at his friends' description of their team.

"I just want to ask you for one thing … Please find this guy … please … for Anna." Morgan promised Anna´s sister to do so and left afterwards to go back to the bureau.

During that, JJ was still at the hospital with Reid, trying to comfort him, though she knew he wouldn´t be alright, as long as Anna wasn´t awake. Hotch had ordered a police man to stay for 24 hours, though Reid too refused to leave her side.

He was absently stroking his thumb over his fiancées hand while JJ started to speak.

"Spence ... can I ask you something … Why did you come on that case with us, why didn´t you stay here?"

Reid took a deep breath before answering. "I honestly have no idea and I wished I wouldn´t have but it´s statistically proved, that people do irrational things if they are in stress situations."

"You know, I´ve been calling her sister every day to see if something has changed … I just want her to wake up JJ, that´s all I´m asking for. She´s been through so much, why can´t we just be happy why do their always have to be bumps in our road?"

JJ wished she could answer her friend's question, but honestly she couldn´t. Every team member saw horrible things on a daily basis and they never got used to it but it got so much worse if someone they loved was in pain.

"I don´t know Spence … I really don´t know. But we´ll find him alright, I promise you we´ll find the one that did that to her…" But Reid didn´t look up at her, he simply continued to look at Anna. Her next words were, what made him look at her "She´ll wake up … I´m sure she will, she wouldn´t leave you, not after all she and the two of you have been through. She´s a fighter, she´ll wake up…" Reid said a silent 'thank you' while a single tear rolled down his cheek…

The team was slowly growing more and more frustrated, how could someone simply disappear like that. They had gotten a description of Breakson´s face from Reid, but where should they start to search if there were no information's about him.

Hotch was going through the profile with Rossi, when his phone rang. He picked up the phone immediately, as he saw the caller ID.

"Yes Reid?" Hotch asked the young agent.

"H-Hotch … "He heard that the voice of his agent was different, but not full of desperate and hurt, it was something else, something he hasn´t heard in his voice for days.

"She´s awake … Anna is awake…"