I shakily press answer button before putting the phone on speaker. "Hello?" I say, failing to hide the panic in my voice as we all wait for a reply.
"You son of a bitch." A look of disappointment and worry washes over the team's faces, we were all hoping that we would be speaking to Alannah, not Alan.
"I'm sorry." I say, although I knew it would make no difference to the situation.
"You will be!" Alan cuts me off. "You screwed my girl and got her pregnant. Now you're gonna pay."
"Is Alannah alright?" I ask, needing to know for sure if my girls were alive.
"For now, she's unconscious but she's alive if you would classify that as alright." Alan answers. I feel a little relieved knowing that she was still alive; although I was still concerned to know why she was unconscious.
"Alan, if you turn yourself in..."
"Don't even try it Agent Hotchner, we're way past that shit." Alan shouts down the phone at Hotch. "Here's how things are gonna go. You lot are gonna get your asses down here. I want that sick bastard in here, unarmed and no vest, within the next half an hour or people are going to die. Understand?"
Alan doesn't give us a chance to reply, he hangs up and we're left with the dial tone. "We have to go." I say as I run for the door but I'm stopped by Hotch's demanding tone.
"You're not going in there Spencer!" I turn to see Hotch, he looking into my eyes but I wasn't about to back away from this.
"I have to Hotch, if I don't then people will die. Then when he gets bored of killing strangers he's going to kill Alannah. I'm not about to let that happen without a fight. I'm going in, with or without your permission Hotch." My voice is suddenly commanding, it's as if I found the fight I needed to save my family.
"Fine, but we're getting snippers on the roofs of all surrounding buildings. As soon as they have a clean shot they have the order to take it. And don't challenge him, if we know one thing it's that he doesn't like being challenged. Do as he says for as long as you can. He knows our moves so we're going to have to come up with new ones." Hotch orders. The team nod in agreement before making their way to the cars.
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I can hear crying from somewhere in the distance, but all I can see is blackness. I get flashbacks of telling Alan about the baby, he was so mad. He hit me, hard; that's the last thing I remember. I can feel the sting on my face from where he hit me, there must be a bruise around my eye. I let out a groan as my hand reaches for the stinging sensation on my face. "Finally, you're awake. I was hoping you would wake up before your work mates got here."
"Wh... What do you mean?" I ask as my eyes flutter open, quickly adjusting for the sudden flood of lights that had attacked my eyes.
"Well they're all coming to see the show. They should be here any minute, and Spencer is gonna join us. Well for a little bit anyways, he'll be gone soon enough." I look over to Alan who was sitting on a chair loading bullets into the magazine of his gun that was lying on the table next to him beside a box of bullets. I push myself up and look around to see a load of people standing in front of the windows.
"Alan what have you done?" I ask in shock as I process the sight of around fifteen people standing at the window.
Two women had crying babies cradled in their arms, while another man had what looked like a four year old little boy in tears as he clutched at the man's jean leg. There was a old couple clinging onto each other's hands and group of about four young girls crying as they held onto each other's hands. Three of the people were wearing aprons, I guess they work here, and there was two professional looking men in their twenties, and a woman in her thirties. They were innocent people, why was Alan doing this?
"Well I needed to get the attention of the BAU. I had you so that was easy, but I wanted to hurt you. I know the best way to do that would be to hurt Spencer. But I wanted to hurt him too so hurting you will do that. Then I thought hurting innocent people will hurt you even more."
"You're doing this for revenge?"
"Pretty much, and if your boyfriend isn't here in the next seven minutes then one of this lot is going to get a bullet in the head." A few whimpers come from the hostages at Alan's words. "Might shoot one of them kids. They're doing my head in, I've had enough baby talk to last me a lifetime." The parents pull their kids closer to them as Alan flicks the safety of his gun on and off again.
"Alan you don't have to do this, we can work something out."
"No we can't, you slept with another man and you lied to me. You made me think that the baby could have been mine when you knew it was his!" Alan shouts, I flinch in fear remembering the pain he caused me when he got angry in the past. I wasn't sure if my baby or I could survive that so soon after being shot and having surgery.
A knock at the door startles everyone. My eyes shoot to the door to see Spencer standing there with his arms raised in a surrender pose. He has no vest on and I can't see his gun on his belt. Alan must have ordered him to come unarmed. "No." I whimper as I watch Spencer look through the door.
"He came." A creepy smile creeped onto Alan's face, sending shivers down my spine as thoughts race through my mind, I start to think about what he wants with Spencer. "Get up!" Alan says as he grabs hold of my arm tightly, pulling me up from the floor. I see Spencer looking closely at what Alan was doing with me. He pushes me forward jabbing the gun into my back. "Open the door. If anyone tries anything I shoot you, understand!" Alan shouts at the hostages. I look through the door at Spencer's loving eyes as I unlock the door. As soon as the latch is off I'm pulled back so that Spencer can make his way in. "Lock the door again." Alan orders. Spencer does as he's told and locks the door before turning around to face us.
"Are you ok Alannah?" He looks at me waiting for me to answer but Alan still has his gun pressed against my spine, his hand wrapped tightly around my upper arm, I wasn't sure how I should answer.
"What's the matter Alannah? You fell out with your boyfriend?" Alan jokes.
"I'm fine." I say although I knew Spencer knew that I was lying.
"Alan, you don't have to hurt anyone else. We know you killed those girls but we've managed to get a deal for you. Turn yourself in now and you won't get the death sentence." Spencer pleads.
"What will I get?" Alan asks moving the gun from my back, resting it on my shoulder to point it at Spencer.
"Life in prison." Spencer's answer gets a laugh from Alan.
"Really? The death sentence would be better." Alan laughs.
"It's the best we can do, you did rape kill at least five victims that we know of. You've also repeatedly assaulted a feudal agent. It's life in prison or the death sentence." Spencer ties to reason with Alan, although I can tell it's not working because the grip he has on my arm is getting tighter.
"I have a better idea." There was a deafening bang from the gun that was placed inches from my face, I had to look away so that I wasn't blinded from the small explosion inside the barrel. I look back towards Spencer to see Spencer cry out in pain as he falls to his side.
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Chasing Happiness: Volume 2: Yours Always (Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid Fanfic)
Fanfiction*Carried on from Chasing Happiness* Spencer and Alannah have never has it easy. From the moment they met there was instant chemistry between the two geniuses. They tried to fight their feeling for as long as they could but they couldn't fight their...
