Start again (a spencer reid fanfic)

Six: Take down

KATRIN'S P.O.V

"Shoot as many blue jays as you can hit but remember, its a sin to kill a mockingbird" ~Harper Lee, 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.

"You know this book isn't nearly as good as everyone said it would be" Spencer mumbles beside me, flipping through the pages of whatever his latest literary venture is, seemingly not worried we might be about to find a serial murderer.
"What are you reading?" I ask, craning my neck to see both it and the road at the same time.
"'Go Set A Watchman' " I say with a frown "wa- why are you reading on the way to the UnSub's house?"
"Because I know it probably won't be us who takes down the UnSub" he says, setting the book down on the dashboard.
"Why do you say that?" I ask when we came to a set of traffic lights
"Because you're new and I rarely get to be the one who catches the UnSub" he shrugs.
Ah, dynamics!
We screech around a corner and park outside the oldest and by far largest house on the street.
"Do you have your gun?" Reid asks and I nod, pulling it from the holster at my hip, concealed by my shirt
"Let's go".
I get out of the car and quickly tiptoe around the perimeter, up the stairs towards the door.
"Katrin" Reid says when he catches up to me and gently pushes me behind him
"Why-"
"Take the upstairs, I'll take the main floor"
I nod, though I still don't know why I'm behind him.
"Kick the door" he whispers
"I-"
"Kick it down, last time I tried I nearly broke my arch-"
"Okay, I will".
In one swift move my foot collides with the door and it swings open, punching a hole in the wall behind it as if for good measure.
"Spence" I point at a door with my gun "There's a basement"
"I'll take it, you take here" he suggests and I nod before we go our separate ways, me into the UnSub's hallway, him through the door and down a set of stairs.
When I look up at the walls I see they're lined with crooked photo frames, the glass shattered all over the floor disfiguring photos of a seemingly once happy family. In the last frame there's a news paper article from 2007 about a car crash that killed four people, a mother and three kids. Right when the killings started.
Jason Campbell's kitchen is a shambles, nothing has been washed in like, a year, and the fridge smells of... dying animals. When I open it I turn away, fighting off my gag reflex
"Oh God" I cough loudly and swallow hard before looking back at the fridge which is full of human organs, blood dribbling down the surface of the shelves.
There are flies buzzing around and I make the decision to slam the fridge door shut and move on.
What kind of sicko?-

BANG!

I whip around toward the source of the loud sound, obviously a gunshot, ringing through the house coming from...
"Spence?" I half walk half run to the door and down the stairs into a large concrete basement with surgical equipment set up, sprawled all across the floor from an obvious struggle.
"Spencer?"
"Over here sweetheart" I aim my gun directly at Jason Campbell as I look down at Reid, caught in a tight choke-hold with a gun to his head.
"You don't want to shoot him" I tell him
"Why not? Then I could have all kinds of fun with you" Campbell gives me the sickest smile I'm sure he can manage and I force myself to not crinkle my nose.
"Hello?" An older girl, maybe a teenager's voice comes from behind a plastic curtain and I look over, still training my gun on Campbell.
"Hello? I'm Katrin Coleman with the FBI, could you please tell me your name and age?" I say, calmer than I anticipate
"My name is Rachel Simmons and I'm fifteen" she says in a shaky voice
"Okay Rachel, are you able to move?"
"No he- I think he drugged me and I can't move anything"
"Okay, just stay there and be quiet".
I fix my blazing eyes back on Campbell and say
"Put the gun down"
"Why should I?"
"Because otherwise I'm going to have to shoot you"
"Better than going to prison"
Hotch said it would end like this...
"Say goodbye to your boyfriend"
"No please don't... I don't have a boyfriend"
Why would the UnSub think Reid and I are a couple?
"Why do you care so much then?"
"He's my friend not my bo-"
"Won't matter if I do this then"

BANG!

Two shots are fired simultaneously and both hit their target.

*%*%*%*

I ignore the searing pain that's wrapping its way around my arm and look down at Reid who is sitting propped up against the wall
"You okay?" I ask through sporadic intakes of breath
"Yeah, I'm fine" he tells me, breathing heavily for no apparent reason and I look at the deep cut on his temple
"Just get that checked out for me okay?" I say before I move behind the plastic curtain and find a girl with ash blond hair and hazel eyes strapped down against an operating table, hooked up to a heart monitor and bags of fluid.
"Rachel I'm going to-"
"Were you shot?" She asks worriedly and I nod
"Yes but don't worry about that, are you okay?"
"I can't move, help me" she says biting her bottom lip.
I rush around removing IVs and unhooking her from the monitor before looking back at Reid who has blood trickling down the side of his face.
"Wait there" I tell Rachel and I jog to Spencer.
"Reid put pressure on that cut"
"It's not... It isn't tha-" his head begins to lull to one side and that's when I look down at his abdomen to see blood seeping though his blue shirt
"Spencer?!"
"Is he okay?" Rachel's standing awkwardly against her bed, her legs more like wet noodles than things with bones in them.
"He was shot somehow..." I look at Campbell's body sprawled on the floor and see a gun lying near each hand.
Brilliant...
"This is Agent Katrin Coleman with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit requesting backup at 730 Adamson street, agent down" I half yell into the communicator at my wrist
"Coleman?" Hotch's voice comes from behind me and I turn my head momentarily to look at him.
"What happened?"
"The UnSub shot Reid"
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine its just a graze" I shrug about my arm
"Can you get Rachel out of here please?"
"Okay, I'm sending in a medic for Reid"
Rachel pretty much collapses in Hotch's arms crying with joy and saying "thank you" over and over.
He takes her up the stairs and I turn to Reid
"Come on Spence"
"It's oka.... Its not that b.... Doesn't hu...." He can't get out a sentence before he goes completely unconscious.
"Medic!" I scream
"Right here" a person with a medical bag who's standing behind me says and I shuffle out of the way, pain shooting through my arm at the sudden movement.
"Are you okay?" The medic asks as he checks Reid's pulse
"Me? Yeah, I'm fine" I tell him, standing up and holding the lower part of my arm to keep it steady
"Go get that arm checked out"
I look at Reid, covered in blood and unaware of what's happening to him and shake my head
"I'm gonna go talk to my team first"
I run up the stairs, tripping out the front door to find Emily, JJ and Morgan waiting on the grass.
"Are you okay?" JJ asks and I nod- why is everyone asking me that?
"Yeah I'm great, its only a graze. Reid was shot though"
"Is he okay?" Emily asks looking worried
"I don't know, he lost a lot of blood" I start to feel slightly breathless and like I might pass out so I sit on the lawn with my face buried in my knees and attempt to slow my breathing.
"K" JJ says quietly "they've got Reid in the ambulance now"
I look up towards the ambulance that's waiting by the curb with it's lights flashing
"I might- I might go with them" I say, getting up and stumbling over to the ambulance where people then proceed to tell me to stay away.
"Let her in" Hotch commands, flashing his credentials to the paramedic hovering over Reid before he helps me up into the ambulance by my uninjured arm.
"Thank you" I breathe before a medic comes over to me.
I don't even feel anything as she cleans my arm and patches it up, I just sit there staring at nothing in particular and thinking that this is all my fault...

A/N: Two chapters in a day, I'm on roll!- also, Reid got shot! *dramatic face*. Read, vote, comment ~Spencer-the-kat