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Now for this story, Reid finally tells the truth about Maddie and her family. There's going to a flashback involving Maddie and Reid. There's also a little Morgan/Reid moment. You'll find a little surprise at the end of this chapter with Maddie's birth dad and cell mate.

This chapter has been re-updated.

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Chapter 6:

- They may not have my eyes, they may not have my smile, but they have all my heart.

– Unknown

Reid took a deep breath as he sat down next to Maddie. He absolutely didn't want to tell her; he dreaded this time and day would come. But they were tracking down her biological father, who escaped from prison with the help of a powerful but dangerous, whom they put away. But his team members were right; he had to tell Maddie the truth.

"Maddie? Do you want to know why you've been having these dreams lately? And why you've been seeing these people in your dreams?"

Maddie simply nodded her head.

"Well…that's because…I'm not…your real father."

Maddie looked at Reid with her big dark brown eyes with a hint of worry.

"What do you mean, 'You're not my real father?' What are you trying to say?"

"What I'm trying to say is that…you're adopted. I adopted you."

"I'm adopted?"

"Yes."

Maddie just sat still. She opened and closed her mouth, but just couldn't get the words out. She even felt a tear in her eye. Finally,

"May I please ask you something?"

"Anything, Maddie." Reid said with the tears in his eyes.

"If you're not my real dad, then…what happened to my real family?"

Reid bit his lip as Maddie asked him that. He felt his team members' nerves rushing through their veins from the other side of the door. How was Reid supposed to tell her that her birth father killed all of them but Maddie? But he had to get it out there.

"Your mother, oldest brother and older younger fraternal twin brother and sister; they were all being threatened by a…very bad person. You were a newborn…after you spent a few months…inside your birth mother. When the threats became serious, especially after you were born, you and your siblings had to be separated from your mother until either the person would be caught or the threats were no longer happening, but unfortunately…"

He took another deep breath before continuing. And it wasn't going to be easy. "Your mother, brothers and sister, and everyone else in your family, including your grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles…they all…went to that big place in the sky called heaven. You survived that person because…you were in this truck chest inside a wicker basket wrapped in a pink blanket…which is where I found you. You were just three months old when it happened."

He felt the tennis ball in his throat. He thought telling Maddie about her family was hard, but it was just getting harder.

"When I found you in that truck chest, you were crying. I think it was because you felt something was wrong. I picked you up after setting you down on the table, touched your little hand and…you just smiled at me and immediately calmed down. After we got you checked out from the hospital, you were taken here under protective custody for a while until Children Protective Services came. Whenever anyone else tried to calm you down, you either kept crying, screaming or spit up. Soon you were taken to the local orphanage by CPS and you were placed in and out of five different foster homes for three months. Then when you were six months old, a judge granted me temporary custody of you and…I guess you can say the rest was history."

Maddie stared at Reid before setting her eyes on the floor. She had her fingers in her mouth when Reid gently set her eyes back on her.

"Madison Jean Reid…please, understand this, if you can: I may have not help make you, but I sure will always love you as if you were my own daughter. Please…" He felt the tears streaming down on his face as he began to hug her. "I don't want to lose you. Please…"

Maddie didn't know what to feel. The only thing she felt was…numbness, even after everything Reid has told her about her family. Finally,

"So…I'm the last survivor of my family?"

"Yes."

"May I please ask you one last question?"

"Of course, Maddie. Ask me anything."

"Where's my real dad? What happened to him?"

Reid's mouth slightly dropped when Maddie asked him about her birth father. He bit his lip down so hardly, it'll start bleeding. How could he tell her that he was the one responsible for their untimely deaths and horrific murders?

"Well, Maddie…let's just say…he's not around. He's…just not around."

"Okay." Maddie got up and before she left the room,

"Thank you for being honest with me."

She left the room, didn't even bother to see that Morgan, Garcia, JJ and Emily were standing to the side. She just needed time to digest what Reid had just said to her. Finally, as Rossi and Hotch walked by Maddie, they both noticed the look on her face. Turning to the members,

"What happened?"

"Reid just told Maddie she was adopted."

After a couple hours has passed, Reid was just sitting at his desk, trying to digest about what he told Maddie about her being had adopted, her family and parts about her biological father.

Come to think of it, he never really knew how to tell Maddie her biological roots someday. He could remember it as if it was just yesterday.

Over four-and-a-half years ago…

The team, especially Reid, had a rough two-to-three days, hunting down an unsub in Washington D.C. who was committing crimes while being under the influence. Finally, after they caught the unsub, after picking Maddie up from her nanny, he took her home, made sure she was well fed and relaxed. He sat down on the couch with her in his arms,

"Hey there, Maddie. I had a rough few days. Luckily, that's all over for now and I'm here with you. I have an idea: what do you say we…"

Knock, knock, knock.

Carrying Maddie in his arms as he planned to answer the door,

"I wonder who that could be, Maddie?" He said as he was looking through the peephole. Opening the door, he notices a UPS box on his doorstep with his address. Setting the box on the coffee table before setting Maddie down on the couch,

"Hey, Maddie. What do you think is in this box?" He asked her as he was opening it.

"Baba." Maddie babbled as she was holding on to her pink plush bear.

"There's no baby in here, but good guess though." Reid chuckled.

"A dolly."

"Another good guess, but no." Finally opening the box,

"It's a book." Sitting down on the couch as Reid brings Maddie on his lap.

"And it's a very special book. On a topic…called adoption."

Maddie just looked at him with her dark brown eyes as she has her little fingers in her mouth.

"I know you're still too young to understand what the word 'adoption' means, but…hopefully someday…you'll know what it means."

Maddie slowly put her small head on his chest. Reid chuckled as he pets her head.

"I know I may not be part of your biological roots, but I want you to know I will always love you; no matter what." As he prepares to read Maddie the book,

"You can even help me by turning the pages for me."

Maddie babbles at him happily and Reid chuckles as he strokes his fingers through her hair.

"I love you."

He kissed the top of Maddie's head as he starts to read to her.

Flashback end…

All of a sudden, Reid starts to hear an echo-like sound.

"Reid? Reid? Pretty boy?"

"What? Wh…" Reid snaps out of his thoughts when he saw Morgan standing over him.

"Are you okay?"

Shrugging his shoulders as he sighed, he put his hand on his head with his elbow on his bullpen desk.

"You did the right thing by telling her."

"I don't know if I did. I mean…I didn't want to tell her much about her real dad; only because..."

"As far as I'm concerned, you are her real father. She wanted you to take care of her when you found her in that trunk chest. When all of us and most of her other caretakers tried to calm her down, you were the only one that could. You fed her, took care of her and most importantly, gave her a hell of a lot of love. Her family would be incredibly proud of you. I bet they're looking down on you two right now."

Giving him a smirk, "I guess you're right. I just hope she does."

"She does, but like you, she's trying to…understand what's going happening."

"Yeah." Morgan walks back to his bullpen desk to get some last minute work done. Reid continued to think about as he thought about what Morgan said. He both hoped and prayed Maddie would still think of him as her father.

The next day was still a bit awkward for both Maddie and Reid. Come to think of it, they haven't said a word to each other since Reid told Maddie she was adopted by him and how she lost her family. Reid wanted to take Maddie to school himself, but still wanted to give Maddie some space and asked JJ to give Maddie a ride to school after she dropped off Henry.

Once she got to Maddie's school, she parked the car and waited for Maddie to unbuckle herself from the backseat. Noticing Maddie had that sad look on her face from the reflection mirror, she turned her head,

"Hey, Maddie. You okay?"

She nodded her head as she had her head down.

"You know your daddy love you, right?"

"I know and I do, too. I'm just…"

"Trying to understand what he told you?"

"Yes."

"Well, all I can tell you is that he will always love you, no matter what."

"Same here."

"Good." JJ smiled. "Now have a good day at school."

"I will, Aunt JJ." Maddie said as she opened the door, but before she could leave for school,

"Oh, Maddie? One more thing?" She hands Maddie a silver necklace with a whistle attached to it and put a small cell phone in her hand. Giving her a confused face on her face,

"Uncle Morgan and Aunt Garcia thought it would be a good idea for you to have them. Remember, if you feel threatened or some stranger tries to approach you, blow into this and this phone is only supposed to be used for emergencies only."

As JJ began to hug Maddie,

"We'll pick up and see you when you get out of school. Behave and be good to your teachers and fellow classmates, okay?"

"I will, Aunt JJ."

JJ smiled as she saw Maddie made her way through the school's front school before walking back to her car. As she drove off, she saw a couple of black cars parked in front of the school. She knew who they were: they were the security for Maddie, in case Maddie's biological father and Mason Meyer came anywhere near her. She hoped and prayed they wouldn't come near her.

They do not want to face the wrath of the BAU team.

Unknown

Click, click, click, click, click.

As someone dressed in black clothes was taking pictures of Maddie with their high-tech camera with the tinted windows were slightly down from the passenger seat, someone else, also dressed in black clothing and sunglasses, was munching on a breakfast burrito, finally said,

"So, what's the plan, Müller? Are we going to go after her right now?"

Finally putting the camera down as he put on his dark sunglasses,

"We still can't go through with this plan right now, Meyer."

"What do you mean 'we can't go through with this plan right now,' Müller. I mean, seriously…"

Looking at him, "We wait until the right moment, Meyer. Like you said before, you can't rush perfection. This plan needs to go according to plan…perfectly."

Meyer proudly smirked at him when he quoted what he said to him in the beginning. He was right. This plan had to work perfectly.

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