Addison Winchester (Now Completed)

Chapter 33

I could hear him calling after me and the light that told the nurses who needed help was flashing like crazy. I quickly started moving down the hall and wiped the tears that leaked from my eyes. I didn't want to do this but I don't have another choice, at least not one that doesn't end up with me in an interrogation room. I made it all the way to the elevator before I saw Morgan turn the corner. He was still talking on the phone. I was passing him when he looked up at me. I walked the same pace that I was before and didn't acknowledge that he was there.

"Addison? Where are you going?" He stopped.

"I just need some air." I said and turned around.

"Hotch wants to talk to you." He crossed his arms, "And you shouldn't leave the hospital, not with a red target painted on your back." The suspension in his voice was thick and I forced myself not to look back down the hall towards Spencer's room. I didn't want to bring attention to the fact that I was 'escaping'. I felt anger beginning to rise in my chest as he regarded me with a face one would use when looking at someone who had done something terribly wrong, I guess in his mind I had. I've noticed in the time that I've been around police officers, they tend to get a little pissy when one of them goes down. And I completely understand that. Especially under these circumstances. I just wish that he knew the whole truth, I wish that I had come clean to Spencer awhile ago but that's not the case.

"Well, I'll do my best to answer any questions he has." I put as much honesty in my voice as I could muster. I forced myself to swallow the tears that wanted to stream down my face, right now is not the time for crying. Not that it was ever a good time to cry. He frowned.

"Addison, I don't want to make this any more difficult then it already is."

"I understand that."

"What's scaring you?" He placed a hand on my shoulder. "Are you trying to protect someone?"

I took a deep breath before answering his question "I'm protecting all of you." I kind of wanted them to be as far away from what happens when it happens but at the same time I want them to see it. I don't want to have to look at them, mainly Spencer, and try and explain something that no one in their right minds would believe without seeing it for themselves. I couldn't expect Spencer to do that let alone two men that I've known less then six months.

"Agent Morgan?" A nurse asked, coming up to stand beside us. He turned his attention to her and I took the opportunity to start backing away from the two of them. All the way down the hall sat the elevator, and a little ways past that, the stairs. Once I was a good few feet away I booked it down the hall.

"Addison!" But I was already to the door of the stairwell. I made it down a flight and a half of stairs before Morgan even hit the door. "Don't do this!" I ignored him and moved even faster. None of this would work if I got caught now. I had to at least take Rodney out before they catch up to me. There's no doubt Morgan and Aaron will start looking into my childhood, or at least what they could find of it.

Spencer was on the fifth floor so it didn't take me very long to make it all the way down and the lobby wasn't as crowed as one might think so I didn't have to worry about running anyone over. Once I was outside the hospital I didn't stop. I kept running and running until I saw a coffee shop. I ducked inside and moved straight into the woman's bathroom. I leaned against the cold tile walls and caught my breath. This better work.

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Spencer looked at Morgan and Aaron with confused anger. Morgan had come back twenty minuets after Addison left without Addison. He said that she outran him and ducked inside a random shop. He hadn't been expecting her to be as fast as she was.