Chasing Happiness: Volume 2: Yours Always (Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid Fanfic)

Part 18

I couldn't ignore his call, not if I wanted even the slightest possibility for all of this to end well, if that was even possible at this point. I take a deep breath before pressing the answer button and put the phone up to my ear. "Hi Alan." My voice was a little shaky, but I was surprised it wasn't ten times worse.

"Don't hi me you little bitch." Alan shouts down the phone, there's are strange noises coming from the other end, like static. Where the hell was he?

"I don't know what you want Al.."

"I want you to tell me the truth!" He cuts me off by shouting down the phone. "Is the baby mine?" His angry tone is replaced by another tone of voice, he sounds sad. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost, but not quite

"I told you it was."

"Were you lying?"

"No, I wasn't lying." I would feel awful about lying if it was anyone else but I wanted this to end well so I would say whatever I thought he wanted to hear to make him believe me.

"How do I know you're telling the truth?"

How was I going to convince him? "Alan I promise, this baby is yours."

"I can't trust you."

I need to get the attention away from the baby. "Alan, did you kill those girls."

"What?" The question must have taken him by surprise.

"The girls that have been all over the news. The young girls that were killed and dumped, did you kill them?"

"Is this being recorded? You're working with them bastards to put me in jail aren't you?"

"No Alan, I promise I'm not." Why didn't I think to record this?

"Then why are you at Quantico right now?" Wait, how does he know where I am?

My voice gets a little more shaky as I realize he knows more than I thought. "Alan, I just need to know, Hotch thought I might be in danger so he ordered me to go to the office. I promise you that I this isn't being recorded and I'm not working with the BAU against you, I love you, I would never work against you." I lie once again.

"I never liked that Hotch one, I hope he's the second one to die, after Spencer of course."

I was afraid to ask but I had to. "What do you mean Alan?"

"Oh didn't I tell you? I snuck into Quantico and planted a bomb in the lobby. If you raise the alarm I blow it with everyone inside to pieces." I could feel my heart beat as if it was about to burst out if my chest. I look out into the bullpen to see the rest of the team walk through the glass doors. It's almost as if they're walking in slow motion as I watch them head over to Spencer and Rossi. "Although there is one way you can stop it?"

"How?" I whisper as I watch the team gather. They weren't just my team or some co workers, they were my family. I had to do everything in my power to stop them from being hurt, no matter what the cost was. I didn't care about my life, truth be told, I haven't really cared about my live in years. Spencer changed all that, showed me that I could have true love. I just wish my baby had a chance, but it's not looking good.

"You can meet me, convince me that the baby is mine and I might, just might not blow your team to pieces."

"Why are you doing this Alan?" Tears start to sing my eyes and my throat aches from trying to hold them back.

"Because I love you Alannah." I just about manage to stifle the laughter that I wanted to let out at that statement.

"How do I know that you won't just detonate the bomb anyways? You said yourself that you don't like the team."

"I guess it's a risk you're gonna have to take."

"Please Alan, hand yourself in and we can talk about this."

"You don't call the shots here Alannah, I do and I say if you want your team and everyone else in the building to live then you better meet me within the next half hour. I'm on a layby about ten minutes from Quantico, I suggest you get a move on." Before I have a chance to talk him down the phone hangs up. I take it down from my ear and stare at it as I try to process what he said. I had no choice.

I walk over to the desk where my bag was and take the files and letters out, I lay them out on the table, placing the file in the middle and then I sit each envelope the chairs around the table before leaving to make my way through the bullpen. "Alannah." Spencer calls. I turn to see him looking at me with a confused look, he was probably wondering where I was going. I can't exactly say I'm off to meet Alan.

"Sorry I can't stop, I really need the loo." I say as I run past them as fast as I could without causing suspicion; although the fast movements was making the bullet wound hurt. I take the stairs so that the team don't see me leaving in the elevator. I was dreading what Alan had planned but I had to do what he said, there were too many lives depending on it. My life wasn't worth everyone in this building; I want to tell someone but how can I do that without letting the team know what I was doing? They would try to stop me and then everyone in the building would be at risk. Then again, everyone in the building could be at risk if I don't raise the alarm.