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Reid heard a car come up the drive to his work garage. He wiped his hands and made his way out but stopped when he saw a man he thought he would never see again. Reid recognised the other man as he got out of the car. They had not noticed him yet. He took a deep breath and made his way down to greet them. "Hello, Gideon. Hello, Steven."

"Spencer," Gideon said in surprise.

"Dad, do you know him?" Steven asked.

"I helped him become an FBI agent," Gideon said.

"And then you left," Reid said. "I'm not angry by the way. I came to understand why you did it. What can I do for you?"

"You work here?" Gideon asked.

"I own the garage. I left the BAU a few years ago and I came to enjoy restoring and fixing cars."

"I just brought a beat up mustang. I left it down the road to see if we had the right place first," Steven explained. "I wanted to get an estimate first."

"I need to take a look at it first," Reid explained. "Then I can give you the cost. Let's go and take a look."

All three began to walk down the road. Gideon looked at Reid and saw a different man. Steven walked ahead of them. "What happened, Spencer?"

"What always happens to good people. I got hurt and humiliated. I understand why you left. The BAU was eating away at the hope you had for the world to get better. I did the same thing you did when I left. I left a note and ran for two years."

"What are you doing back here?"

"I reconciled with the team over some stuff that happened and I settled back down here. I lost too much at the BAU, I couldn't ever go back there. I see you are talking to your son again."

"We patched things up," Gideon nodded. "Leaving the BAU was the solution to a lot of problems I had. You could do much more with your life, Spencer. You have one of the most amazing minds this world has seen and yet you are here restoring and fixing cars."

"I love restoring cars, it makes me believe that anything can get fixed, no matter how broken it gets," Reid sighed. "I don't need to prove my mind anymore. I love my life since leaving the BAU. Leaving gave me a beautiful girlfriend and a little girl."

Gideon stopped walking. "You have a daughter?"

"She just turned two," Reid smiled. "My girlfriend's name is Luna, she's the love of my life."

They came to the mustang that was on a trailer. Reid climbed on the metal trailer and began to inspect the mustang. It needed to have some major body work but he could manage that. A new paint job. Brand new tires, rims and other things. He opened the trunk and looked inside. He would need to have the inside of the car done and replace the old tattered interior. He moved the front of the car and lifted the hood up. He found himself relieved to see the original engine inside, it look a little worse for wear but it wouldn't be too difficult to rebuild. He would need to track down a few parts but he liked the prospect of rebuilding the car. He jumped down and walked back over to Steven. "It isn't going to be a cheap rebuild but I can bring this mustang back to its former glory. Where did you pick it up?"

"I have a friend who owns a junkyard and I saw the mustang just sat there. I've got money and I wanted to have a classic rebuilt car. I realise that this will cost a lot of money but I want something fast and something to leave to my son when he is older," Steven said. "I looked up your website online."

"Your name isn't on the website," Gideon said.

"I don't want my name splashed everywhere. I bring in a good amount of business. I can rebuild the mustang and I'll give you an estimate when I've tracked down some other parts. Luckily, you have the original engine inside and it isn't too messed up. You have some missing parts but I have a friend who helps me tracks parts down. You can leave it there and I'll have Jacob bring it up."

"Jacob?" Gideon questioned.

"He's a new hire. I'm getting a lot of business and I hired him. I need you to come back to the office and sign a few papers. Um, Gideon, would you like to have dinner with my family tonight? I'd like to talk to you about some things. Steven is welcome too."

"I have to get back to the hotel and Skype with the kids tonight," Steven said as he held up his hand.

Reid and Gideon sat in the car together. Reid turned a corner. Silence has filled the car for a while. "What happened?" Gideon said as he broke the silence. "You survived Hankel and your drug addiction. I want to know what happened to you."

"Do you want the list?" Reid said. "Let's see. Since you left, I watched a young unsub get shot in front of me. I was held hostage with Emily and she got beat up because of me. I found out my mother and father covered up the murder that a friend committed. I kept dreaming of boy called Riley Jenkins. Turns out I had suppressed memories. The same man who had raped and killed Riley, had targeted me and my mother sensed it. Their friend, the father of Riley Jenkins, killed the guy. I lost a young man who fell into his psychosis. Exposed and almost died from anthrax exposure. I got shot and was on crutches for months. I suffered headaches and struggled for a while with them. Emily lied to us. She's gone now, she left and is now part of Interpol. I came to my breaking point when I witnessed the death of the woman I had fallen in love with. She helped me with my headaches but she had a stalker. We talked for over ten months and then her stalker found her. I never saw her till the night I entered the building and was willing to die for her. Her stalker killed herself and Maeve. That was when I reached the tipping point. I regained some control over my life after though."

"What tipped you over the point?" Gideon asked. "I'm sorry that you went through all that. I feel responsible because I brought into the BAU."

"Don't be," he said. "I learned lessons there that I needed to learn. The team got called into another agency. We were to go after a team that had stolen information and had left a trail of blood. They got hired by William Johnson. One of them, named Jason Mordo, got ordered to take me to send a message. He kidnapped me, beat me with a crowbar, almost drowned me and then he did the unspeakable."

Reid's grip tightened on the wheel. Gideon noticed. "Spencer, what happened?"

"He pinned me to the ground and raped me for over twenty minutes. He took me to the hospital in a van. He cut my throat and threw me out in front of Hotch who was sat outside the hospital. Then he and his group walked away even though the team managed to arrest them."

"Oh god," Gideon breathed. "I'm so sorry."

"In the two years after I left, I resolved the issue with Jason Mordo and his gang. I won't go into detail but I wasn't exactly a good man in those two years. I ran into the team and some stuff happened. One of my new team betrayed me to William Johnson and I got kidnapped. The two other members of my team, men I consider brothers, they teamed up with Hotch and the others to find me. During that kidnapping I got burned, beaten and raped twice."

Reid pulled into his driveway and shut off the engine.

"Things are better now because I stepped back and chose a simpler life. I only returned to Luna this year. She raised my daughter alone till I was able to come and be with her. I like my life now. Come on, dinner is probably almost ready. Luna knows you are coming."

Gideon digested all the information he had received before getting out of the car. He followed Reid through the front door.

He jumped a little when he heard a little girl. "Daddy!"

He watched the little girl, who looked liked Reid, run up to them. Reid swooped his daughter in his arms and kissed her cheek. "Hi, Penny. I want you to meet someone. This is Jason. He's a good friend of mine. Say hello."

"Hello," she waved.

"Hello, Penny."

Luna came into the hall and smiled. She kissed Reid and took Penny into her arms. She faced Gideon. "Hi, my name is Luna. Nice to meet you, Jason."

"Nice to meet you too," Gideon smiled. He never thought Reid would turn into the man he had become but he was happy that he had.

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