the art of saying goodbye

three months ago, spencer reid's apartment blew up and supposedly killed him in the explosion. despite his team's desperate efforts, the case was marked as unsolved and filed away. they had nothing to bury, and his funeral had a devastatingly small turnout. and yet they were expected to move on.

little did they know, spencer had not been in his apartment when it blew up, and is being held captive in an underground testing facility with other hostages. with his team's efforts to avenge him slowing to a stop, their investigation being closed, and believing him to be dead, he is unlikely to ever escape.