Gentle Hands

Four

"This is absolutely ridiculous!"
Derek shouted kicking one of the many cups he had tossed on the floor from when he drank coffee earlier.

"Derek please calm down, shouting isn't going to help Spencer at all. If you keep this up you'll be kicked out." JJ warned placing a hand on her colleagues back.

Derek shrugged it off and shook his head.

"How can I calm down when I can't see the man I've been looking for all these years?" Derek cried.

"He was so petrified when I found him. But you could see.." Derek was choked off by his own tears.

"You could see in his eyes under all that fear that he was pleading, begging for help." Derek huffed trying to keep the tears back.

"He needs help Jayge." He croaked.

"He will get the help he needs." JJ replied softly.

Derek shook his head. "I hate this..I hate that son of a bitch." Derek cursed kicking a chair across the room.

Suddenly the door opened and someone walked in.

"Hotch.." Emily said, unsure of what to do.

Derek's head shot up the moment he heard that name.

"You!" He shouted. "You son of a bitch! This is your fault! If you wouldn't have given up the search for Spencer he wouldn't be this hurt! He wouldn't be this terrified of others!" Derek spat jabbing his finger at Aaron's chest.

Aaron gazed at him strictly and shoved his arm off of him. He turned to JJ and Emily.

"I need you to go to Spencer and examine his wounds with the doctor that's in there. We need to figure out what kind of weapons he's used to torment Spencer." Aaron explained.

"Yes sir." JJ nodded. "Lets go Emily." She said dragging her friend with her leaving Aaron and Derek alone.

"The only reason you can't see him yet is because we've opened up the case again." Aaron boomed.

Derek stared at him with a gaze like ice.

"You're continuing the case?" Derek breathed, his nostrils flaring.

"We are yes." Aaron nodded.

Derek shook his head, chuckling in disbelief.

"You opened the case back up right after we found him?! After the maniac who kidnapped and tormented Spencer was shot?! What good is this going to do?! He's safe now!" Derek cried angrily.

Aaron stared at him and exhaled deeply.

"You're lucky you aren't in jail." He said before turning to leave.

Derek gazed at him in pure and uttered anger as he watched Aaron leave.

Derek decided that if Aaron wouldn't let him see Spencer, he would have to see him himself.

He opened the door and slowly made his way out into the hall.

Just as he did someone bumped into him. "Watch if you idiot!" Derek snapped.

He heard a squeak suddenly and looked to see Penelope.

"Oh..I..I.." she gasped flustered from what Derek had said.

Derek inhaled and exhaled deeply to calm himself a bit.

"I'm sorry. " he sighed.

"I didn't know it was you I'm just stressed." Derek croaked.

Penelope frowned and sat him down in a chair that was next to them in the hallway.

"Oh chocolate thunder.." She gasped.

"Is it because you were fired?" She asked.

"I was firedtoo and we.." She was cut off by Derek.

"No..no i don't care about being fired. It's because Aaron said I'm not aloud to visit Spencer because they're on a case and I was suspended so I can't see him." Derek shook his head feeling as if he'd cry again.

"What?" Penelope asked.

"They opened the case again?" 

  Derek nodded.

"I'm not sure why, Spencer is alive and safe and that son of a bitch is dead. I don't understand why he opened it now.." Derek sighed.

Penelope gazed at Derek and placed a hand on his cheek.

"Look. You might not be able to see him now but just now he's alright and that soon, after the case is done you can see him." ************************************
"He was tormented pretty badly."
The doctor said to JJ and Emily.

He was a tall dark haired man with flecks of grey you could see under the lights.

JJ assumed he was the age of Aaron, maybe a little older.

"These marks here are from a whip." He explained turning Spencer over a bit to show the girls his back.

It was slashed and cut badly but they were cleaned by the doctors so there wasn't any blood.

"He was being hit pretty badly. I'm guessing every day considering how fresh some of the cuts are." The doctor explained.

"Damn.." JJ said shaking her head, feeling so awful for the younger boy.

"Is there anything else you can tell us?" Emily asked.

"There is." The doctor nodded.

"He was also scalded very badly. So bad I'm surprised he's alive." The doctor sighed.

"It'll take a long time to heal but the scars will be permanent. They're also very prone to infection so we had to bandage him almost all over his body. He was also starved pretty bad. We found he's been eating the same thing for a long time. We're not sure what it is at the moment. " he explained.

"He also had multiple broken bones and some fractured ones. He also had some internal bleeding. It was very hard to stop it. I'm guessing the reason he had this was because he was thrown around somewhere." The doctor tells them.

"The crawl space.." JJ gasped.

"Excuse me?" The man asked, confused.

"Derek Morgan,... our friend found him in a crawl space. He was absolutely terrified of Derek. "
JJ told the doctor.

"That's probably because of all the torment. He probably lost all of his trust and he most likely became suicidal and manic when he was in that crawl space. When he wakes up he will probably act the same way. So we might have to hold him in one of our special rooms if he gets too out of hand." The doctor warned.

"Is there anyway you could tell us when he is going to wake up?" JJ asked worriedly.

"No way to tell yet unfortunately ." The doctor sighed.

"All we know is that Spencer is stable but unconscious. He's in a coma." The doctor frowned.

"Aw man.." Emily frowned sadly.

"Were there any signs of sexual harassment?" JJ asked, praying the answer would be no.

  The doctor inhaled deeply and gazed at his feet.

"There was. " he said with a frown.

"He's been raped and assaulted too many times to count. It's bad. He's probably also traumatized from that as well. He will need lots of therapy to recover from this." He said.
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