Here to Help!

8.

WARNING: mild violence, but nothing too heavy.

A/N: this is the last part of my very first criminal minds series. i really hope you liked it & i can't wait to hear your feedback! xx

Spencer felt disgusted as he listened to Ruby telling JJ what she has been going through. He felt angry  at Michael for taking advantage of her like that, but he was also angry at himself for not noticing and helping earlier. Maybe he could have prevented all of this. But, now, it was too late and all he could do was helping Ruby to get through this and not letting guilt eat him up. His heart was breaking as he saw his girlfriend breaking down as she finally let her guard down. Something inside of him snapped and furiously, he ran out of the observation room to go find Michael. He wasn't through with him yet. At the same moment, Morgan and Hotch walked around the corner, guiding Michael into another interrogation room.

"You son of a bitch, you won't get away with this. I swear to god, I..", Spencer yelled, quickly walking towards the man, ready to beat him into a bloody pile if Morgan would not have stopped him.

"Reid..Reid, let go of him. Come on.", the dark skinned agent said as he pushed himself between the men, "he's not worth it, believe me."

Reid breathed heavyly, anger controlling his body.

"He hurt Ruby in the worst way possible..he needs to get his punishment for that."

"And he will, I promise you, kid. But it won't help you or Ruby if you get yourself in trouble now. We will give him what he deserves.", Morgan tried to console his friend. Spencer sighed.

"You're just jealous because I got to have all the fun with your little girlfriend while you tried to save the world. Believe me, she was in desperate need of loving since you don't give it to her.", Michael said, grinning at Spencer.

"You sick bastard, I will kill you..", Spencer snapped again and Morgan again needed to push him away.

"Shut up, Dugan, before I'll do it myself.", Aaron said as he grabbed the man roughly at his arms and escorted him into an interrogation room.

Reid tried to push Derek away, but the agent was stronger and kept Spencer in place.

"I need you to calm down. If you  don't want to do it for me, do it for Ruby. She'll need you.", he tried to talk into Reid's mind, who finally started to cool down a bit.

"Y-yeah...you're right. But...I can't help and feel guilty for what happened. I could have prevented this..", Spencer rambled as he stepped away from his friend and leant against the wall.

"No...there was no way for you to know what Michael was capable of. Neither could Ruby know that it would end like this. But the past is the past, it happened and as sad and terrifying it is, you can't turn back the time to undo it. All you can do is being there for your girlfriend. She'll need you more than anything right now. Yes, it might be a long way ahead for the both of you, but you'll have us. We will help you because we're family. You will make it through, okay?", Derek said and just as Spencer was about to reply, JJ came up behind him.

"Spence?", she carefully said as she put a hand on his shoulder, "Ruby...she is asking for you."

And with that, Spencer turned around immediatley to go to Ruby. Just before he was about to enter the room she was in, he looked at Derek, who stood behind with JJ at his side.

"Thank you!"

About three hours later, Ruby and Reid were finally able to go home. Actually, they would have been home earlier if Spencer wouldn't have insisted on getting to know what Michael had to say. He watched Hotch and Morgan interrogatin him for 15 minutes before he had enough. The things he said about Ruby made him sick, so he went to go and check on his girlfriend who was waiting for him at the conference room with Penelope and JJ by her side. Since Spencer no longer wasn't able to follow the interrogation, he at least wanted to see the police officers taking him away to make sure that he would never be able to hurt Ruby again. It took about over an hour until they finished interrogating him and in this time, Ruby had fallen asleep on the little sofa in the room, cuddled up into Spencer. It has been the first time in forever that she actually got to take a carefree nap. Another half an hour later, papers were signed and Michael was escorted away, hopefully forever, at least out of their lives. When he had been sure that he was gone, he carefully tried to wake up Ruby and together, they drove home to their apartment.