Mágoa // Spencer Reid

Chapter 16

"Yes or No. In or out. Up or down. Live or die. Hero or coward. Fight or give in. I'll say it again to make sure you hear me. The human life is made up of choices. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in your hands."
Derek Shepherd

Shit. Come on Maria breathe. Isolate yourself from this. This is a hostage situation, you do not know anyone inside the building. You can do this. I repeated the words in my head as I tried to calm my breathing, I feel a sting in my left hand and I've clenched my fists again. Stop. Breathe. "Williams-" I'm pulled from my overthinking by Hotch's voice, "yeah?" I half whispered, "can you be on this case?" He asked and I nodded, "Hotch you would have to kill me to take me off this case, my dad is in there, and the last time I spoke to him he was not lucid, so he is scared there will be a lot of patients who are confused and scared right now so I want to do everything in my power to help them." He went to argue with me but decided not to, "okay, well we are two minutes out." I nodded and stared blankly out of the window, I looked down at the list of patients and nurses that Garcia sent.

The plan is to go in and split up and begin evacuating people as quickly as we can, and then we will head to where the unsub is holding people and take it from there, I look over at Reid as he straps on his vest, he looks so worried. I sigh and put on my vest, "okay guys lets do this." JJ said, we all nodded and started making our way inside. "Clear," I whispered through my comms, I heard a chorus of clears from everyone else I made my way to the main room keeping my gun raised and my eyes straight ahead, I looked to the room on my left and saw a woman strapped to a chair with tape over her mouth, sobs were visibly causing her to shake, I ran in and undid her tape, "hi I'm Maria, I'm with the FBI we are gonna get you out of here okay?" I whispered and she nodded, her breathing still shaky, suddenly her eyes widened and I spun around on my heel to see the unsub, I raised my gun "FBI!" He simply laughed, and hit my gun out of my hand he raised his semi automatic gun at me, the woman let out a scream.
"You don't want to do this, we can work something out, a deal." I said hoping I could reason with him, "I don't think so."

I stood frozen, the woman next to me was sobbing, I stared into the unsubs eyes and then as quickly as I could I hit his gun and kicked his leg, he fell down with a groan, I kicked the gun away from him and grabbed my cuffs and cuffed him, "guys, I got him." I stated, I heard footsteps and then Reid, and Rossi appeared at the door, "mum," Reid smiled as he rushed over to the woman, she let out a sob and pulled Spencer into her arms. Rossi grabbed the guy and dragged him out of the room, "Williams, there were two of them, one is in the main room and if you enter from the east he won't see you coming and you might get a clear shot," Hotch ordered, "I'll be back Spencer." I said leaving the two to reunite, I tip toed down the corridor and spotted the unsub, I also spotted the man who he is holding a knife to, dad. I took a shaky breath and crept up behind him, "FBI. Put the knife down!" I demanded, he dropped the knife but kept ahold of my dad, "left him go!" He obeyed and let go of my dad, I went to cuff him but he spun around and punched me in the face, he took another swing but I dodged it and delivered an upper cut to the jaw, "Morgan! Hotch!" I yelled as I realised my cuffs are on the other guy, the two ran in and cuffed the unsub, "thanks," I said as they took him away.

I bent down and helped my dad up, "you okay dad?" I said looking at him to see if he is hurt, "I'm confused, we were all just sitting around and then there was shouting and screaming- I dropped my book and went to see what was happening and then there was a knife up to my throat. A-are you okay?" I placed a hand on his shoulder and hugged him as tightly as I could, I nodded to him.
"I'm okay dad," I whispered, "I'm just glad you are ok, did he hurt you? Did he cut you at all?" My dad lifted his head and showed me his neck, there was a tiny cut that was bleeding a little bit, nothing to serious.

When I first joined the team I was worried about them knowing my dad is schizophrenic, but knowing that Reid's mum must have something going on, reassures me that it's nothing to hide.

I decided to go and check on Spencer, I don't know why, it's like a nagging feeling I have just to check on him, I walked into the room where he was earlier, "hey," I said as I approached him, he turned around and his eyes are bloodshot and his face is red, "Spence, what happened?" I whispered, "I don't know, the nurse gave me her medication and I told her to have it, I handed her it but she refused to take it and, she hit me." He gave me a sad look, "Shit Spence, I'm sorry." I said as I instinctively pulled him into a hug, I stood on my tip toes and he nuzzled his head into my neck, I could feel a warm patch of wet on my neck, he's crying, I wrapped my arms tighter around him and he sobbed into me, "ssh, it's okay Spence. You know she probably wasn't thinking straight," I cooed, "I know, you're right. Thank you," he mumbled into my neck, "for what?" I asked, "for being you, and saving my mum," I smiled, "I don't know how to be anyone else," he let out a small chuckle, and I paused thinking how to cheer him up, "why can't you ever trust atoms?" I asked and he pulled back from the hug, "I don't know," he said with a small smile, "because they make up everything," I grinned, cheesy jokes are my specialty.

As I was walking back to the SUVs Morgan appeared next to me, "hey, I saw what you and pretty boy had going on in there," he smirked, "what do you mean?" I asked, "Reid doesn't just hug anyone, is all I'm saying doll," I smiled, "okay sure, I honestly thought your were going to compliment me on that uppercut I did, guess I was wrong." I smirked as I got in the SUV and put the key in the ignition and waited for everyone to hop in.

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