Life Outside the BAU

Chapter 7

Morgans POV

When Reid didn't show up for the work the next morning I knew something was wrong. We waited all day and he didn't show. Reid never missed work, ever. "Reid, come on man pick up the phone, everyone here is worried sick, just call us back" I leave a message on his answering machine. That's the fourth one I have left today. Where the hell could he be. No one can concentrate on the work at hand. What could he possibly be doing. I try not to think of anything happening to him, it makes my stomach churn, but when he didn't show up the next day either it was time to do something. The whole team agreed. We dropped everything we were doing and put all of our attention on Spencer, that poor kid. JJ and I went to his house while Hotch, Rossi, and Callahan went to see if anyone has spoken to him in the last few days. I knocked on his door, nothing so I let myself in JJ behind me gun in hand. When I saw what was inside my eyes lite up. I was half expecting his house to be torn apart but it wasn't. It was spotless, not a book out of place. I looked back at JJ confused and she had the same look on her face. I called Hotch to see if he had any leads as to where the heck this kid could be. "Yeah so Hotch, there is nothing wrong with his place, if he was taken I don't think it was from here. You got anything?" I asked him "Nothing, we spoke to everyone who knew Reid and they say they haven't spoken to him in three days" Hotch replies in his strict tone. "Alright, I'll let you know if we find anything" I hang up the phone and turn to JJ who is inspecting his room. "There is nothing we can use here to find out where he is" She says sounding worried. "Don't worry JJ, were gonna find him" "But what if we can't, what if somet...." "No JJ, don't think like that" I look at her in the eye as a small tear rolls down her cheek. I wipe it away and give her a hug. "Were gonna find him" I repeat myself. Then I notice something on his kitchen table. I get up from beside JJ and walk over towards it. I pick it up and begin to read. "JJ, this is a phone number for a girl named Victoria, do think she maybe has something to do with this?" "I don't know maybe, I'll give Garcia a call and ask her to pull up Spencer's recent phone history" I look down at the paper so confused, maybe he is just out with his new girlfriend, maybe he isn't in any danger whatsoever. But he would have called, or somehow let us know, he woudn't leave us hanging like that, and plus, he always has his phone on him just in case we have to call him into work. I walk over to JJ who starts calling Garcia. "Hey yeah Garcia it's me, umm I was wondering if you could check Spencer's recent call history?" I could hear Garcia's voice get heavy like it always does when she gets worried. "Wait what why, has something happened to him because you only ask me to do that when something bad happens!" her voice gets really loud and fast. "We arn't sure but we are trying to find him, he isn't at his house but we found a number on the counter." I can hear Garcia's fingers rapidly slamming on the keyboard as she sets off on her new mission. "Okay, so it says here that Spencer has recently made a phone call to this girl Victoria, but two days ago she left a message, actually three" "Can we hear them?" I ask "Most defiantly my sweet" Garcia responds in her witty way. The first message plays and my heart almost stops, I hear a girl pleading into the phone begging Spencer to pick up. Then the second, then the last. The last one is the worst of all, imagining Spencer turning on his phone to this. "Wait a minute, Garcia play the last one again" I listen to it carefully and notice this Victoria girls tells Spencer that they are at the Warehouse by his apartment. "I know where that is" I frantically say to JJ. "Oh god he went after her didn't he?" Garcia asks. "I think so" I reply. "Just bring my baby home" Garcia pleads to the phone "Were gonna dam well try" I say running out the door hanging up the phone. I jump in my car and JJ calls Hotch. "Hey Hotch I think we know where Spencer is" "Where?" Hotch demands "The old warehouse downtown we are on our way now, we will be there in 5 minutes" "Okay we will be there soon" Hotch says hanging up. I race down to the old warehouse as fast as I possibly can. I pull up out front and jump out of the drivers seat with JJ behind me. "Should we wait for backup?" JJ asks. "There is no time" I say hoping I'm making a good decision "There others are all the way across town" "Alright, let's go" I try turning the handle on the outside of the warehouse but it's locked so I kick open the door. I put my gun in front of my face and enter. I walk down the long metal hallways checking each and every room. I make as little sound as possible so they don't try and escape. I continue walking down the hallway when I very quite bang of a door. I point my gun in that direction and walk towards it. My heart starts racing, and my breathing gets heavy. I will kill whoever took Spencer I don't care about the consequences. I approach the room from where I heard the noise. A person jumps out in front of me pointing a gun at my face. As I'm just about to pull the trigger I realize the person was only JJ. I take a deep breath. "You almost gave me a heart attack" She says angerly to me. "Yeah, I know the feeling" I said back to her. We continue checking all the rooms when Rossi and Hotch walk up behind me. "Found anything yet?" Rossi asks. "Not yet, but we will" I say keeping my gun in front of my face. "Callahan went to go help JJ" Hotch informs me. I nod and continue checking rooms. This place is huge, they could be hiding anywhere. We look around the abandoned warehouse for an hour before we give up, they were not there. "The message did say this warehouse right?" Callahan asks as we walk out of the building. "There arn't many warehouses in this area" I reply. "Well maybe it just looked like a warehouse to her but wasn't" said Rossi. We all walked back to our cars JJ still in mine. As we drive back to headquarters I turn to JJ "You know, I still don't understand why Spencer didn't tell us about his little crush" "Maybe he didn't want you to know, we are all entitled to our own lives" "I know but he could have told us this" I say angrily. JJ just sits in silence. I slam my hands on the steering wheel. JJ looks up at me with a terrified look on her face. "I'm sorry" I say "I just keep imagining something awful happening to him and we arn't doing squat about it" "Derek, we are doing everything we possibly can right now, we need to stay focused. As a wise man once said, Were gonna find him" I looked at her and smiled. She always knew what to say and how to cheer someone up no matter what is happening. "Thank you" I relax a little bit. We drive back the rest of the way in silence. When the elevator doors open guess who is standing right there, Penelope. "Where's Reid?" she asks frantically. I walk up to her and put my hands on her shoulders. "We couldn't find him" Penelope's eyes instantly fill with tears. I take her in for a large hug. Penelope starts crying on my shoulder. I take a deep breath trying to hold back my tears. She pulls away from me and wipes her eyes, her pink eye shadow smudged all over face. She walks back to her office and so does everyone else. No one is in the mood to talk. We all walk with slumped shoulders and sad droopy eyes. We collect our things and head home. I bet not many people get much sleep that night. I know I don't. I can only think about that tiny kid being held somewhere having who knows what done to him. How could they do that? And mostly, why wasn't he at the warehouse?