Fool For You: A Spencer Reid Fanfic

Chapter 20

Zoey's pov

"Welcome back girlie," I was greeting by Penelope as I walked into the BAU on Monday morning. It was my first day back to work since the 'thing' happened.

"It's good to be back," I smiled giving her a quick hug.

Everyone greeted me with a hug as I walked through the BAU to Spencer's desk, "Hi Spence," I say sitting on top of his desk.

"Really Zoey, you know I hate it when you sit on my desk. It ruffles all the paper and disorganizes everything," he rumbles trying to fix everything.

"Well nice to see you too," I say glaring at him.

"I'm sorry, good morning," he replies.

"Did you get your car back," I laugh getting up from his desk.

"Yes," he rolled his eyes at me, "here I picked you up a coffee," he handed me the coffee and I graciously take it thanking him with a kiss on the cheek.

"Everyone, we have a case," Hotch says coming out of his office calling everyone to the round table.

Taking a seat next to Spencer, Penelope starts presenting the case to us, "okay, this is Monica Young and Britney Eldridge. They were both run aways from home, Britney had a home, but Monica did not, she lived on the streets. They were both in their thirties and had a history with drugs in the past. Britney was abducted and 4 days later killed execution style and postmortem cut into. We're not sure if Monica was abducted since she didn't have anyone to look after her but they both had the same cuts and they both had a chunk of hair ripped from their scalp,"

The next words she said made my heart drop to my feet, "And this is Kelsey Miller,"

"Oh my god," I whisper as the image of my sister appears on the screen.

"Is everything alright Hanson," Hotch asks as I stare at the image.

"No," I paused, "that's my sister,"

"Are you sure Zo," Spencer ask sitting up straighter than he already was.

"Yes Spencer, I think I know what my own sister looks like," I snap back at him. "Oh my god is she dead?" I asked almost starting to cry.

"No, she was abducted last night," Garcia answers my question looking at me sympathetically.

"Um, I'm sorry, I have to go," I get up and run out of the office crying. I can't believe this, my own sister, that I haven't seen in 13 years is abducted and that's how I have to see her. On a screen next to mutilated bodies.

"Zoey, wait!" I hear Spencer yell from behind me. Apparently I ran pretty far because now I'm in the parking lot of the BAU. "Zoey, come here," he held out his arms and I run straight into them bawling my eyes out into his shoulder. He rubbed my back slightly with his thumb rocking me back and forth trying to comfort me.

"Spencer that was her, I know it was. She ran away from home when she was seventeen with her boy friend, Chris Miller," I cry into his chest.

"I know sweetie, we'll find her," he assures me.

"No we won't!" I yell in frustration.

"Yes we will Zo, we're profilers and with her being your sister we have an advantage. We can and will find your sister, I promise," he whipped a tear away that was falling down my cheek. "Now come on, let's go back inside, its cold out here," he grabbed my hand and led me back inside that BAU.

When we got back inside I went to the bathroom to splash some water in my face. As I looked up in the mirror I saw that my face was red and blotchy from the tears and there was bags under my eyes, I looked terrible. I tried to make myself look better but there was no use, Spencer was waiting for me outside of the restroom. He grabbed my hand and said, "do you think you can go back to the round table?" I replied with a simple nod of the head and he slowly walked me back, but before we walked back in he grabbed both of my hands, turned to me and said, "Zoey, we will find her. You have to stay strong, I know you've been through so much lately and I'm so so sorry baby," he wraps his arms around me pulling me into a tight hug. 

"Thank you for everything Spencer," I say into his chest as he hugged me.

"You're welcome," he gives me a quick gentle kiss.

~on the plane~

"Hanson, how well do you know your sisters husband?" Hotch asked as he assigned people jobs for when we landed.

"Uh I met him like once when I was younger, but I've never talked to him," I replied.

"Okay, do you think you can go talk to him with Reid when we land. If not it's okay, you don't have to,"

"Yes Sir, I can do that," I nod my head in agreement.

He finished assigning everyone a job to do. JJ and Morgan are going to the morgue to examine the bodies, Emily and Rossi are going to the crime scene and Hotch is going to the police station to talk to the officers.

I got up and went to make myself a coffee and I heard someone following me, "hey, are you sure about this?" I heard Spencer say grabbing my hand.

"Yeah, I'm tired and I want energy," I squint my eyes at him.

"No not the coffee," he said shaking his head, "I mean talking to Kelsey's husband,"

"Spencer, thank you for worrying about me, but I can do this, I want to do this,"

"Okay, I'm sorry if you feel like I'm trying to protect you to much, you're a grown woman you need to make decisions on your own and I'm just getting in the way of that because I'm worrying to much. I'm just scared," tears started to form in his eyes.

"Babe," I took his hands in mine, "it's okay for you to worry, it's human to worry. I know you're scared, I'm scared too. You don't have to be sorry about your feelings, everything will be okay,"

"I know," he nods understandingly.

"Come on let's go sit back down," I grab my coffee in one hand and his hand in the other.