Cruel - Criminal minds enemies to lovers

Love and loss

Athena's bloodied shoes squeaked on the hospital floors.

The air fell thick.

Screams of terrified patients in the waiting room only echoed, watching with borrowed breath whilst she held the plastic spoon against the nearest nurse's neck.

She didn't know how she had gotten there, she didn't know what car she had stolen or who's keys she was pressing into the terrified man's stomach- she just knew the thumping in her chest.

Morgan.

Morgan.

Morgan.

"Athena!" Reid's hands wrapped around her wrist as the team finally caught up with her, pulling her back from the quick to tears nurse, "he's been taken in for emergency surgery, he's not here."

"Let me see him!" She struggled to fight as he led her to the seating area, following Reid's shaking, tearful voice.

"Come sit down, p-please."

"Was he breathing? Did he have a pulse? I couldn't feel a pulse, you're basically a doctor right? Tell me, is he going to be okay?" Athena spoke quickly, her voice very out of breath with panic, "is he going to be okay Spencer?!"

"They found a pulse, it was weak but it was there-"

"Shit- he's got to make it through fucking surgery yet" Athena let out a cry and dropped her head into her bloody hands, "o-oh my god, he's not going to make it, is he?"

"Don't think like that- he's strong, he'll make it- he has to make it" Reid tried to comfort but knew the odds were slim, being interrupted by a nurse rushing to Athena's side.

"Oh my god mam, we need to get you to a doctor!"

"It's fine, it's not mine-"

"Athena, you're beaten pretty badly and have cuts all over you that could get infected by the blood- they need to clean you up, especially your hand" Reid trying to help her stand with the the male nurse but she wouldn't budge.

"I said I'm fine" her terrifying gaze snapped to theirs, speaking with an unsettling amount of control, "I'm not moving- not until he's okay."

"Mam please, we can't fix you up in the waiting room-"

"Don't 'fix me up' then."

The nurse stepped back and nodded shakily before walking to get a tray to stitch her up and clean her wounds.

"Can you tell me who's blood this is that's getting into your hand cut?" 

"Some of it's Morgan's, t-the guy who was just brought in-" Her eyes glazed over.

Blood.

So much blood.

He had lost so much blood...

"-a-and I think some of the dead body's blood got in there- I don't know who he was, he was just a torso; some of its mine, some of it is probably the guy's who took us."

"What? There was another person?" Reid quizzed. 

"Half a person- they were using him to hide the tools."

"They? There was more than one?" 

"I think there's been a few- a family thing. The original guy in the 80's, his son who I shot and the younger brother who's the one who stabbed Derek-" she explained, wincing as the nurse stitched her palm.

"That's terrifying- which one of them took you?" 

"I think the older brother got Morgan and the younger dude got me, I assume the grand-dad is dead or-" Athena's voice trailed off with a realisation that made her eyes widen, "-Oh my god!"