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

Part 20

I race down the road making it to where Alan was in less than five minutes. I pull over at the layby and get out of the car. "I thought you weren't coming." Alan says as he plays with his phone in his hand. "One little press of a button on my phone and that place blows."

"What do you want Alan?" I try to sound as if I actually cared but I think I sounded sassy instead.

"Now, now. That's no way to talk to someone who is calling the shots here is it Alannah?" His eyes are glistening, almost as if he was enjoying this.

"I'm sorry, I'm just in pain. I should probably still be in hospital." I lie, the pain medication worked wonders, I was only sore when I moved too much. I just wanted to get out of here.

"Well that one is on Hotch for making you leave."

"He thought I was in danger."

"I would never hurt you Alannah."I don't know how to react to that comment, what does he think he has been doing to me for all these months if not hurt me. I just stare blankly at him, waiting for him to say something because I'm at a loss for words. "I just want you to know, everything that happened with us is in the past. I want us to go and start a new life together. You me and our baby. If it is mine?"

I look at him, not knowing what to do or say, part of him still believes that this baby is his, I can work with that. "Of course it's yours. I told you nothing happened with Spencer and I."

"I want to believe you, I really do."

"I promise you Alan, this baby is yours." Since when did I become such a liar?

"So you have no feelings towards Spencer?"

"No, we're just co-workers." That was probably one of the hardest lies I've had to tell yet.

"Then how do you explain what I saw at the hospital?"

"What did you see?" I ask, I wasn't sure how much he saw, so I needed to know before I got myself into more trouble.

"I saw that sick bastard helping you get changed."

Ok maybe I can make this seem like nothing. "That's it?"

"What do you mean that's it? He saw you half naked. After everything that happened at the hospital you changed in front of him."

"I'm sorry, I needed help getting changed, there were no nurses free on the ward and JJ had to help Hotch so I had no choice." I plead.

"So you promise me that you have no feelings for that sicko?"

"I promise."

"That's good, so if I press this button then you won't care that he will probably die?" It was as if his thumb moved in slow motion as he pressed a red button on the screen of his phone. I lunged for the phone to try and knock it out of his hand before he had a chance to press it but it's no good. I fall to the floor just as his thumb falls onto the button...

***

"Rossi and JJ go after Alannah, see if you can follow her." Hotch orders as we gather at the evacuation point, It's been half an hour since the alarm was raised and nothing had happened yet, the bomb squad were scanning the lobby for any threats.

"I want to go as well." I demand, finally getting my tears under control to hear the orders being given.

"Are you sure you're going to be able to control your feelings?" Hotch asks.

"Probably not but I need to go after her. I can't just stand here and do nothing." I beg.

"Fine, but Reid, remember that he might know about you both so be careful you don't anger him more." I nod as I wait to hear if there was anymore orders to be given. "Garcia, you said that there was activity on his phone, can you see if there's a recording or anything that we can use to find him?"

"Yes sir." Garcia says before turning to her laptop that she had taken outside with her.

"Kate, Morgan and I will go to Alannah's house, there's a chance he might go back there so let's stop him before he can get there." The team nod and follow their orders as we each leave to work on our orders.

"You sure you're going to be ok with this Spence?" JJ asks.

"I have to be. I can't let that monster be alone with them, I'll do anything for them JJ."

"I understand." JJ gives me a friendly smile as she pulls me into a hug. "Come on let's get to work."

***

"What have you done?" I stare up at the phone, my eyes wide and filled with tears as I wait for the explosion.

My terror is met with laughter, I look up at Alan to see him standing above me laughing at me. "I knew it." He laughs, I look back towards Quantico to see it still standing.

"Knew what?" I ask through my confusion as I try to piece it all together.

"You do have feelings for him." I look back to Alan to see his eyes full of rage.

"There's no bomb is there?"

"No, this is just a button app thing I downloaded. Not much of a profiler are you? I couldn't get into the place even if I wanted to. I was testing you to see what you would do to save your precious Spencer."

"I told you, there's nothing between us." I wasn't sure if there was any point in lying anymore, but I had to try.

But my efforts are met with a slap to the face sending me flying onto my back. "If you didn't care then why try and stop me from blowing the bastard up?"

"There's more than just Spencer in that building, there are innocent people. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. You were going to blow them up to prove a point." I shout as I push myself up onto my hands and knees. Spitting a bit of blood that had gathered in my mouth from Alan's slap into the dirt of the layby.

Alan grabs a clump of my hair and pulls my head back. "Don't lie to me bitch. You love him. That kid is his and you were lying to me all along."

"I swear I'm not lying." I cry out.

"Get up." Alan pulls me up by my hair and drags me over to his car. He flings me into the trunk of the car. "I'm going to show you what happens when you lie to me." Alan spits before slamming the lid down and leaving me in the darkness. But there's something beside me, I turn in the trunk and can just make out from the dim light that was coming through from the lights. I realise what it was and feel sick to my stomach, it was Alan's latest murder victim wrapped in a plastic sheet.