forever and always [ spencer reid x reader]

XIX - with friends like this

it was 4 in the morning, several undercover agents had entered that room before me, obviously at different times, and my team in small groups of 2 or 3 people. I'm alone in the SUV, they told me to enter after 10 minutes of being inside. it's exactly 4:10am and I should check in at 4:20am or as Hotch told me wait another 5 minutes for security and then check in at 4:25.

just before the stroke of 4:20. I recognize some agents who were with me at the station who have offered to go undercover. Haven't been to this cafe since college. It's more modern than I remembered: the walls are painted white and it looks much bigger, they put more tables and more sofas near the wall, the counter used to be in front of the entrance, but now it's on the left and it's a bit smaller.

as soon as I enter I see Hotch and Prentiss at a table in the center of the room. At the tables with high stools facing the street, I find Reid and Morgan, and then there are JJ and Rossi who are sitting at the bar having a drink. I notice a little tension in the waitress' eyes: she's afraid. Liam probably took her hostage or something.

Speaking of Liam, he's in one of the usual places we used to sit with the rest of the crew. in the center of the room, not far from the table with Emily and Hotch. I sit across from him and he starts talking.

"you took your time" he complains.

"I was busy" I reply.

"you know it's good to see you again, we haven't heard from you since you graduated in.." he pretends not to remember what I graduated in, deep down he knows very well, there was that day.

"criminology" I complete the sentence a little annoyed.

"criminology! yes, I knew it. but I certainly didn't know that you would immediately become an FBI profiler." he jokes.

"what do you want from me? why do you care so much what I have become?" I say.

"because you know and have always known that I wasn't a good person" he says with his creepy voice.

"Do you remember what happened to Rachel that summer? When did she disappear and her body was never found again? It was me. Because she was a snob, a person who didn't care about others who only caused our friends pain." he says.

"the same friends you killed a week ago?" I challenge him. he gives me a very intense look, probably his face as he made our friends suffer. He approaches me and takes something from his jacket. A gun.

"you know in these years I've made some new friends, and I'm sure you've made them too." he tells me while pointing a gun at my leg under the table.
I see Morgan and Reid in the distance talking to each other and I turn to look at my situation. Hotch is talking on headphones and I see Rossi go to the kitchen to free the hostages.

"we're called the dirty dozen, it's quite a bunch i must say, much better than those college gossips" he continues.

"wait, so when I graduated, you..."

"yes I didn't graduate, it was a waste of time, psychology, I needed to let off steam, you all left me there, I was missing 3 exams and I would have gone with you guys. It's been since that summer that I've been killing for betraying my trust all these years." he yells at me.

"tell them to leave, now" he continues yelling.

"I don't know what are you talking about" I say shaking my head.