All These Scars... (A Criminal Minds fan-fiction)

Chapter Nine

Spencer's POV:
I never expected Will to shoot at me. I was only trying to calm him down because I knew exactly how it felt to go through withdrawals. The headaches were the worst. One minute I would feel fine and the next I was doubled over in pain from a splitting headache.
Unfortunately, headaches weren't the only side effect. Sometimes my heart would flutter out of the blue, sometimes I couldn't sleep and, most of the time, I would feel depressed. There were so many side effects it was unbearable, but, for some reason, I could bare it.
Part of me felt bad for JJ's husband but the piercing sound of a gunshot snapped me out of my thoughts and I remembered all of the pain she went through, Henry too.
I also remembered that a deranged man had a gun on me and just pulled the trigger. I didn't remember feeling any pain, could've been from shock, but I did remember Will immediately jumping into his truck and peeling out of the driveway.
Before chasing him down in my own vehicle I made sure a bullet didn't find its way into my body.
I holstered my gun, checked my body and, when I saw that he missed my gut and hit my passenger door, I ran to the drivers side of my car and hopped in before giving Hotch a quick call.
After a few rings I was already on the road tracking down Will when Hotch answered.
"This is SSA Aaron Hotchner," he said but I barely gave him time to finish his sentence before I blurted out the situation.
"Hotch, this is Spencer, I found Will at JJ's house, parked in the driveway, and when I wouldn't leave he pulled out a gun and shot at me. He got away and is heading westward bound. I need Richmond PD to get out here before he hurts anyone else," I said, out of breath afterwards.
"Woah, woah, woah. Slow down. Will shot at you? Are you hurt? Where did he hit you?"
"I'm fine. He missed me and hit my car but I need road blocks on Lions Field Road, Wayne Drive, White Oak Drive, Expedition Drive and Sapling Way. He's having severe withdrawals, which is dangerous by the way, and is about to drive by Penelope's apartment!" I was shouting by the time I finished and Hotch was telling me to slow down.
"Reid! Calm down. This is out of our hands. The police department will handle this, I've already had them notified. We don't have jurisdiction so stop your car right now, I know you're following him."
"Hotch-"
"Meet me at the BAU right now. You're a key witness," he snapped and hung up before I could object.
After hearing Hotch hang up I slammed my phone onto the passenger seat and pulled my car over.
I turned off the car, put it in park and laid my head on the steering wheel. My surroundings were becoming more distant.
All of the sounds were becoming muffled, car horns sounded far away, everything seemed to get darker and darker. I lifted my head and to look around and suddenly everything became excruciatingly bright before it all went back again.

When I woke up my head throbbed like crazy and all of my limbs tingled. With tired eyes I picked up my phone and saw that it was midnight, along with fourteen missed calls and messages. A few were from Hotch, several were from JJ, one from Morgan, several from Garcia and a couple from Mom's hospital.
Oh no...
The hospital wouldn't call me unless something was wrong so I hesitantly unlocked my phone and held it to my ear as I listened to the voicemail they left.
"Hello Dr. Reid, we were just calling on behalf of you mother, Diana Reid. Do not worry, she is doing well, we just saw your name on her insurance-"
I turned my phone off and took a deep breath. I didn't care what they had to say, as long as my mother was okay.
I quickly skimmed all of my text messages and saw that the team was worried about me since I blacked out in my car on the side of the street without answering any calls for an hours.
I didn't bother to reply to them. My head was killing me so I just decided to go to JJ's house and crash.

JJ's POV:
By the time midnight rolled around I was a mess. I always, almost, had Henry's babysitter, Amanda, pick him up from preschool since she had graduated high school and needed as much money as she could get.
I was so furious with her. When she went to pick Henry up he wasn't there and she didn't even bother to tell me until I got off work. She stopped by my house, unlocked it and saw Henry sleeping on the couch. She acted like nothing happened, like Henry just decided to walk home and was okay with it.
I threatened to fire her but I had no one else to watch over her since Will was an idiot.
I was worried about Spencer. Spence went to his apartment and gathered his things for my house during his lunch break and never returned but after the call that Hotch got, I was even more worried. Everything was confusing.
As soon as I got home I held Henry tight and didn't let go of him for a while. Will had picked him up from school and took him for ice cream? To torment me? To show that he could come back into our lives somehow and do what he pleased?
I didn't know at the time but after Hotch told me that he shot at Spence I was a complete wreck.
I asked someone to stay with me, to make me feel safe. Little did I know that I would put my best friend's life in danger so easily.