Without Warning | Spencer Reid + Anne Grey

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Anne Grey was angry. She was enraged, pissed off, or whatever word or phrase you'd please. She was all of it. Five minutes ago, everything had been perfectly fine, but now, it was hardly such.

"What's up?" Derek Morgan asks, watching her expression. Judging by the look on her face, she would be punching a hole through the wall as soon as she could. Her resting face was slightly sour, but it was never this bad. Something was wrong.

She hears him, but doesn't respond. Her mind was already preoccupied, sitting at her desk with narrow eyes and attempting to process something.

As of yesterday, Elle Greenaway, Spencer Reid, and Aaron Hotchner were on their way to a case in Massachusetts. There had only been one victim so far, a female abductee. That was why only half of the team had been sent. Everyone else was helping from home base, and keeping up with paperwork in the meantime. That was the plan. They were going to make it to Massachusetts, and they would start the case.

As soon as he realizes that she wouldn't be responding to his first question, Derek's concern for the woman across from him escalates. "Grey. What's wrong?"

She had just hung up her phone. The work phone, not her personal cell.

Her jaw was clenched, looking far sharper than it had a few months before. She blamed that on her recent switch to Adderall, the medication whose name she would constantly curse when she had to pull out a belt to wear old jeans.

The medication that wasn't keeping her remotely calm right now.

"We need to go to Providence." Her eyes were set on Morgan, though they looked like they were out of focus. Her right hand was on top of her left, scratching her own skin over and over until layers began to peel off.

She was trying to keep her cool, but she hadn't been upset like this in a while. One wrong trigger was about to send her over.

This wasn't the goddamn plan.

Morgan squints. Going to Providence made no sense to him. "Why, Grey?" His voice was wavering from calm, but it was still calculated and measured. He knew now that something serious was going on.

With that, Grey seems to be kicked back into gear. She was still upset, obviously, but the initial shock was over.

"That was Sheriff Alcott. He said that there's a hostage situation on a train up there. The perpetrator isn't cooperating or trying to make deals, but he says that he has three FBI agents." Explaining it only makes her angrier, so she doesn't add much else on. "Al said he recognized Spencer from the cameras."

Morgan stands up instantly, shocked."Say less. I'll get Garcia."

Anne gets to her feet as well, knowing she would have to inform the other agents of the situation. "Wheels up in ten," she calls after Derek, before turning around and making her way to Jason Gideon's office.

She wanted to scream. She had let her guard down and assumed that a two hour train ride was safe. How wrong she had been.

When they had divided up and picked who would stay home and who would go to Massachusetts, this wasn't what any of them had in mind.

Hotch was a given, and Elle came soon after. She was still on the newer side, after all, and needed field experience more than the BAU veterans.

That was what made Reid the logical third choice, as well.

"You should go, Spencer," Grey had proposed, watching her husband's reaction from her desk.

He had been slightly surprised, fully expecting Morgan to go. "You think?"