Tangled Up in You (The Story of Us Book 2)

Chapter 14- Lies and Secrets

The team stares at the screen in shock for a few different reasons. Most of them are worried about their friends that they just watched get chloroformed but Morgan is more focused on what they had just seen. "Why would he pretend to be someone he wasn't," he can't help but ask.

Emily sighs. "Morgan, the two of them didn't leave things on good terms. Maybe he was just playing into people's assumptions because Amy was the only one to ever assumed differently."

"Yeah, whatever," he scoffs, leaving the room as Emily's phone rings.

"Hey Garcia, I'm putting you on speaker," she tells her only to be stopped.

"No, wait. Is Hotch in the room?"

"Yeah?"

"I watched the video and I couldn't find anything about Kaiden Miller but I did see a lot more of Reid and Amanda than I wanted to."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that between the videos of Reid taking a body shot off of Amanda and the one of her waking him up while he was only in boxers which ended in a tiled camera and a heated makeout session he might not want to hear it."

"Mm, I can do you one better. We just watched a heated makeout session where his hand was all the way up her dress and it ended with their kidnapper chloroforming them. Can I put you on speaker now?"

"I really don't have anything else to say. I'm trying to trace the connection since neither one of them have phones but it isn't going well. I even tried to find a phone for Kaiden but I can't find anything. I'll look into siblings and see if I can get anything there."

"Well good luck. All we've got is an upset Derek Morgan and the confirmation that Spencer Reid isn't who we believed him to be. We'll call if we get anything else."

"Hopefully you get something soon. PG out!" With that, Garcia hangs up and Emily relays the information to the team before they go back to work trying to find anything possible while they wait for Kaiden to show his face on the video again.

It takes about an hour for the two to wake up and as soon as they do, Kaiden is back with a vengeance and a piece of paper. "Guys, he's back," JJ calls as they all crowd back into the conference room.

"Wakey, wakey," he taunts.

"Oh goody, my favorite screw-up is back."

"Funny. I would've thought your favorite screw-up was yourself."

"Okay, jackass, I'll bite."

"As I said, I was upping the stakes. I realize now that I made a mistake. I was going after him because I thought that you cared about him enough to save him the embarrassment but he didn't care. Now I realize that I should've just torn you apart from the beginning so the question is, are you going to let me?"

"Go ahead and give it your best shot," she threatens and he chuckles.

"I was hoping you'd say that." He turns to Spencer and smirks. "As I said, I was stalking Amanda but it didn't start for a while. When I did, things at Caltech had changed. For example, her old sorority had moved and the free clinic had too. The funny thing about moves is that they tend to leave things behind. For example, all your little home videos were left in the abandoned basement of the sorority and some patient files were left at the free clinic. The best part is that they were all alphabetized in a filing cabinet. Did you know that Amanda went to the clinic once, Spencer?"

"Ooh, I went to the clinic on campus. You've succeeded in making him hate me," she mocks and his smirks widened.

"Oh, my mistake, did I say once? She actually visited twice. One time was to get a birth control prescription which is pretty normal but the other visit was the abnormality. In fact, it was a whole month before she went in for her birth control visit. You're probably wondering why I'm bringing this up and the answer is I looked into what was happening a month before her second appointment and two weeks before her first was her father's funeral. On February 12 to be exact."