Torn Apart

7,169 Homeless People

Warnings; drugs, yelling, nightmares
words: 1427

btw i am no expert on drugs lmao so don't judge me of using the wrong terminology:)

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"Spencer!!"

"Riley? What are you doing? Where are you?" Reid called out.

"Over here! Hurry, he's coming!"

Reid felt like he was running through almost a cornfield, except the corn started turning into sharp knifes. Extremely sharp knifes.

"Riley, I can't get to you. Who's coming?" He tried his best to get through the metal stakes, but soon enough they were penetrating him. He made it just far enough to see Riley.

"Riley, listen, I'm stuck. Who's coming?"

"You know who." Riley said ominously.

"No, please. I don't. Riley-" A man about six feet tall walked into Reid's view. Riley started to cry out.

"Hey Spence," the man said, "It's your father." He grabbed Riley and ran, leaving spencer to bleed out on the stakes.

"Dad? You're supposed to be dead."

"You can never get rid of me." his voice echoed, scaring Reid. The stakes started to move loose . but the second Reid tried to move with it, he fell from the ground into an endless pit, screaming Riley's name.

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Reid shot up from a hotel bed, covered in beads of sweat and out of breath.

"Hey kid, you okay?" Morgan asked, coming toward Reid.

"Uh, yeah," he relied panting, "just a dream. I'm fine." He got up from the bed and walked to the bathroom. Running freezing cold water, he splashed his face multiple times.

"Do you remember anything that happened last night?" Morgan asked, concerned.

"Um, I saw my mom?"

"Yeah, then I found you sleeping on a park bench. You broke down into my arms. Is there something you aren't telling me?" It was an obvious question. He knew Reid was hiding something, he always is. He just never comes to tell anyone about it.

"It's nothing, " he dried off his face, then walked back into the bedroom. He sat himself down on the bed, fiddling with his fingers and hoodie strings, "hey, who's clothes are these?"

Morgan sat next to Reid on the bed. "Mine. Do you not remember anything that happened last night?"

"I guess not. Can you at least tell me?"

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After Morgan brought Reid to the station, the whole team paraded out to the SUV. They found Reid sleeping in the passenger seat, and Morgan put a finger up to his lips to keep them silent.

"What happened to Reid?" Hotch asked, almost fatherly.

"Found him in a park just sleeping on a bench. Kid started bawling in my arms."

JJ hearing this felt a pit in her stomach. Her motherly instincts kicked in right away, "is he okay? Do you know what's going on?"

"No, I'm just as clueless as you all are." JJ came to Morgan for a hug, which he gave, then keeping his arm around her.

"Morgan, we should be fine without you two, I'm hoping we'll catch this unsub tomorrow. Take him to the Hotel, but you stay with him." Morgan nodded, getting back into the SUV. he rolled down the window and said,