"Okay, the first pictures are from the day I made the arrest." Spencer told them and everyone looked closely at the pictures, holding their anger back when they saw Lewis stranding next to Spencer with his hand on their youngest lower back with a somehow betrayed look on his face.

"I don't know if I'm seeing something that isn't there but Scratch looks betrayed. It looks like he knew that you were going to arrest him." Morgan said and Reid nodded, deep in thoughts.

"That's what I first thought when I saw the picture. But if he knew that I'd arrest him, why did he stay? He planned to leave the location the day I arrested him but he stayed. Originally it was planned to arrest him when he's leaving but we arrested him inside. My handler probably told him about it but then comes the question why he didn't kill me back."

"Maybe he fell for you. You were with him for months and even though it was just a job for you, maybe for him it was real. It would explain why he looks so betrayed," Blake explained and took out a picture from her file, laying it down in the middle of the conference table for everyone to see, "it doesn't look like the love in his eyes is fake. He developed feelings for you, Spencer."

"But that would mean that my profile of him is incorrect." Reid thoughtfully said.

"You have a profile of him?" Hotch asked surprised. He always knew that Reid's a good profiler and that just proves it again. They themselves weren't able to put enough together to make a profile of scratch but Reid who was all alone for months was able to make one. Maybe because he spent everyday with Lewis but does it really matter how he made it? He made it and that's the important thing because a profile will help all of them and maybe Aaron will get the questions he has answered from it.

"Yes. It isn't complete and definitely expandable but I have everything that is important," Spencer started to talk and looked up from his file, "I profiled him as a sociopath and narcissist. With everything he does, his goal is to get revenge. He wants to do as much damage as possible and while he didn't care about who was hurt for a long time, he now is fixated on us, Aaron, Jack and myself especially. I still haven't figured out why he wants to get revenge but I suspect that it has something to do with his childhood. He was probably abused by his parents, bullied in school as college and a loner for most of his life due to his high intelligence."

"But why did he turn out so evil when other people don't?" Garcia quietly asked, hoping that Reid didn't understand what she's trying to say but he got it and smiled at her, showing her that he's not angry.

"It always depends on how the life turns out for the specific person. While my bullying stopped in college, his continued. I don't know how bad he was bullied and it is possible that his bullying was worse than mine because he was always surrounded by people his age but I doubt it. My bullying was extreme, far worse than everything we've seen but I met Ethan in college and found a true friend, later on lover in him. Then I joined the team and grew close with all of you. Scratch didn't have something like this at the NSA. He did work on a team but they didn't accept him due to him always thinking that he's better than everyone else and only caring about himself. It is possible that he experienced some kind of bullying, more like exclusion at the NSA which brought up his past again and turned him into what he is now. A narcissist, sociopath, stalker, killer and hacker." Spencer explained and everyone thoughtfully nodded, turning to the next picture in the file and no one was able to hold back their anger anymore.

"It was consensual." Reid reassured his team but that didn't change anything. Seeing their youngest in such a vulnerable position with scratch on top of him, inside of him, made all of them so unbelievable angry, especially the oldest on the team.

Spencer knows that he's like a child for Rossi and Blake. He knows that Alex sees similarities in him and Ethan and that David wonders if James would be like him and while he normally didn't mind, now was a bad time for the parental feelings inside of them to take over. He trusts both of them and sees them as some kind of parental figure and he knows that as soon as they start to question him about it, he'll break down and let everything out and that can't happen. Not until scratch is either dead or in prison for good.

And then there's Hotch too. Single parent, unit chief, former prosecutor and a mystery for everyone, especially Spencer.

For a long time Reid wrote Hotch's behavior off as parental feelings inside of him taking over, just wanting to protect and shelter him from the rest of the world. He always thought of Aaron as a father figure but during his time with scratch, it changed. The feelings he has weren't clear for him anymore and weeks ago he finally noticed that he had romantic feelings for his father and not the kind of feelings he has for Rossi and Blake.

Spencer Reid has a hopeless crush on his unit chief and even though he knows that Hotch is straight and not interested in dating again, he can't help but fall for him more and more with every passing second.

For the longest time he tried to hide any kind of feelings he has for him and was always successful but now with everything that happened in the last months coming out? With his team seeing him at his most vulnerable moments? Seeing him have sex with a brute like Scratch? It's impossible to hold everything inside of him and sooner or later Spencer will break down and his feelings along with everything else will be out in the open for everyone to see.

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