Toxicity (Spencer Reid X Reader)

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"Wait, is this why Spencer had a busted lip?" he looks at you with a confused face, "did he choke you?"

"Let's talk about this later," you walk to the car and get in the pasengers seat.

You fold down the mirror and look at the part of your face that you scratched, you use your finger to try to blend the makeup over it.

Morgan follows you and gets in the driver's seat and starts the car. The car ride was kind of awkward, you had no clue what to say to him.

"Did he do that to you?"

"You barely even know me, why do you care so much?"

"Because you are clearly getting hurt You are apart of the team now, you matter to every single one of us."

You look down and start crying.

You don't know why you are so emotional recently but you have been. You tried to stop yourself from crying but the pain is so gut wrenching.

Morgan rubs your leg trying to comfort you. You pull down the mirror and see that your makeup is coming off.

You use your shirt to wipe the tears and make it seem like you weren't crying.

But the bruises are still showing through the makeup, Morgan glances over to you. He sees how bad the bruises actually are.

"Spencer did that?"

"He was drunk. Please don't tell anyone, I don't want him to get in trouble."

"There's bruises all over your face and there's bruises from him choking you, you need to tell someone," Morgan keeps glancing at you then back at the wrote as he continues driving.

"I'm not going to press charges, so why would I tell anyone?"

"When did this start?"

"Recently."

"Does it only happen when he's drinking?"

"Yeah.."

"Then we will get him help and we'll help you through it but you must tell someone."

You gulp and look over at Morgan, "okay."

He pulls into the police station and you two get out. You walk in side by side and as you look for the room.

You spot it and allow him to walk in first, everyone is already there and everything is set up. You sit down in one of the chairs.

Everyone looks at you.

"What happened to your face," Emily says.

"Nothing, let's get to the profile."

Everyone tries to focus their attention to the forming the profile but they keep looking at you.

You just ignore it and eventually the team comes up with a profile.

We deliver it to the local police, this time you participate. After the team delivers the profile, they make a few connections and call Garcia.

They find a suspect, a woman that had lost her family due to a home invasion when she was a child.

The case was never solved because it was in the 80s.

The team gets in their SUVs, you and the team drive to her home. The door is open when we arrive, the team investigates the house.

You hear "clear!" being shouted from all over the house. The woman is found, dead and hanging from her back porch with a note.

It was a suicide note that was a confession to what she did and why she did what she did. She apologized in the letter and asked whoever found the letter to take care of her dog.

You look around the house and hear whining from a door in the hallway.

You open the door and a border collie is sitting in the bathroom.

Local police arrive at the scene as well as paramedics that take her body down and into the ambulance in a black plastic bag. One of the police officers take the dog.

Everyone is about to leave to go back to the police station, you take a deep breath and walk up to Hotch.

"I need to tell you about something."

"What is it?"

"It's about Spencer. He's drinking and he did this to me," you point at your face, "we need to uh do something about his drinking before it progresses."

"How long has he been like this?"

"For as long as I knew him but he was never this bad."

"Do you want to press charges?"

"No, I just want to get him some help."

"I'm sorry this happened, thank you for bringing it to my attention. We'll get everything straightened out soon."

"Thank you."

Hotch walks over to his SUV.

You walk beside Morgan as you two get into your SUV.

You look over at Morgan, "I told him."

"Everything will be okay soon. We take care of each other here, even if we do barely know you."

"Thank you for helping me today," you try to prevent yourself from crying.

Morgan drives you two to the FBI building where you board the jet together. The team parts off as they are tired and need to get some sleep.

You stay up but eventually doze off but you're woken up by everyone getting ready to get off the jet. You and the team exit the jet and go back into the BAU.

Morgan stops you when you are about to leave, "are you going to be okay tonight?"

"Yeah, I'm staying with a friend right now. I just hope Spencer doesn't come back to her house this time."

You look over and see Hotch talking to Spencer.