AN PLEASE QUICKLY READ: HOLY SHIT. I UPDATED, HALLELUJAH IT'S A MIRACLE! Guys, you have no idea how sorry I am that I haven't updated in forever, I honestly just lost interest in writing everything. I am so sorry. But hopefully this extra-long and extra action packed chapter will make it up to you. I love you all and thank you so much for following this story at it's birth and soon to be retirement. Your reviews recently kept me writing. So thank you all so much! Anyway, now that you've read this, onto the LONG awaited chapter.

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Damien and Darius were on the way back to the warehouse where Charlie and Reid were being held. They had gone to Ralf's club to bring him back, telling him that Charlie and Reid had been the ones that were killing those women, when in reality it was them. Ralf had believed them whole heartedly because he trusted them with his life ever since they had started working for him eight years prior. As it would turn out, Reid hadn't broken Dmitri's arm, just fractured it so they had wrapped It quickly and gave him oxy to dull the pain. They had another SUV driving behind them, carrying more guards for Ralf, seeing as he was one of the most important gangsters in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile Jake's team, the BAU and a SWAT team were on their way to the same warehouse. Danny was with them, wearing a vest and trying not to anxiously chew his fingernails, a habit he had grown out of years before. His sister, his other half, was in trouble and he had to save her, he felt like he did when he found her OD'ed in the upstairs bathroom of their house in Maine. He was not ready to lose his twin, he wouldn't let that happen.

"SWAT and my team are going to enter the building first, once we tell you it is clear, your team and Danny may enter. Got it?" Jake announced to Hotch and Morgan who were in the same SUV as Aaron, Danny and Chase, the rest of the BAU was in the second SUV with Steve and Adhey. Jake was not prepared to lose any of his people, including Reid.

"How long until we get there Dmitri?" Jack Ralf asked as he sat in the back of a dark sedan with two guns in his shoulder holsters.

"Five more minutes sir." Darius answered for his brother. His smirk turned devilish, he was getting out of his punishment that he knew would be torturous and awful, yet would be inflicted on two very innocent guards.

In the abandoned warehouse, Charlie had exhausted herself crying, she was now staring listlessly at the wall a few feet away from her. Reid still hadn't woken up and she was trying to work her confidence back up. She was trying to be a soldier again, something she had lost when crying in front of the enemy. She scrunched her eyes shut as waves of repressed memories flashed before her eyes, Tyler Crane and Terrance Michaels being at the forefront. She had never been as terrified as she had been when they kidnapped her. The sounds of the girls being murdered echoed in her ears, she had never thought she would end up in the same position again. Drugged and tied up, waiting for death.

Reid's fingers twitched, his brain was slowly forcing him back into consciousness; a place he really would rather not be. Constant shivers ran through his body and his head was in excruciating pain, an indicator of a concussion from being hit by Darius. Somewhat distractedly Reid heard the sounds of another person in the room with him: Charlie. She was sniffling slightly, as if she had been crying and her arms were moving restlessly behind her back where they were almost connected with Reid's own. Hesitantly Reid tried opening his eyes, only to be assaulted with blinding pain caused by the white florescent lights illuminating the warehouse. Squinting in obvious pain, Reid tried to reorganize his thoughts. He wouldn't let the pain of a small concussion prevent him from finding a way out of his present situation.

"Charlie…?" He questioned in a small voice, trying not to worsen his headache with any loud noises.

"Reid! You're awake!" Charlie exclaimed in a somewhat desperate voice. That was the first thing that clued him in that something was wrong with his partner. The second was that her voice was thick and that she had definitely been crying.

"You were crying." It wasn't a question, but a statement, proving once again that she could hide nothing from Reid, an ex BAU profiler. The profiler in him never did die.

"I'm fine." She told him, her heart hurting as she could feel the walls she worked so hard to build turning into dust from the initial breakdown. Reid sighed, he had to help her pull it together, which was unusual in their relationship. She was stronger than he was, she had gone through more than he could imagine, yet he knew she would always need someone to understand her and pick her up when she fell, like in that instance then.

"You aren't, but you will be. Charlie we will get out of here, we will arrest them and we will be fine. They cannot break us." He said to her, quoting Gideon a small bit when Reid had been held captive in Georgia. After some deep breaths, Charlie replied, in a small but determined voice.

"You're right. We need to get out of here." Reid nodded in agreement, forgetting that Charlie was not able to see him, he was about to reply verbally when the sudden loud sound of squealing tires cut him off.

"They're here." Reid announced monotonously, his voice watered down with a foreboding sense of dread. However, before Charlie could answer, more tires were heard and then the gunshots started.

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"STAY DOWN." Jake yelled overtop the sound of gunfire. SWAT was fighting back against the plethora of gangsters, all in different places of cover around the abandoned warehouse. SWAT had taken cover immediately after jumping out of their van. The BAU and Jake's team were using the SUVs as cover but were trying to find a way inside the building.

"Well, they're obviously being held here." Ace stated. Jake shot him a quick look and then returned his concentration to the massive gun battle occurring.

"Jake!" Steve shouted, pointing to a black escalade across from them. Jack Ralf was being escorted by his body guards into the warehouse. Jake immediately shot the bodyguard flanking Ralf's left and Steve took out the one in front, leaving Ralf exposed on his left side. Aaron, who was an amazing marksman had taken out his sniper and had assembled in in the SUV, with a shocked BAU team watching. He quickly dropped to the ground, aligned his shot and blasted two bullet holes into both of Ralf's legs, taking him down. The two guards with him took off into the warehouse.

"Damnit! We need to go after them!" Jake exclaimed, he was about to move when he noticed that Agent Morgan, Hotchner and Jareau had disappeared, as well as his baby brother.

"FUCK. Steve, get inside that building, we'll take care of things out here." Steve nodded and quickly made his way into the warehouse.

The large metal door made a very intimidating screech as it opened. Steve's weapon was at the ready and he stuck to the shadows of the warehouse. All too soon he made his way to the main room, the massive open space holding Reid and Charlie. He was however too late. Dmitri and Darius were holding the pair up, guns pressed to their temples.

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"Move any closer and you'll be cleaning their brains up off the floor." Darius said as he pressed his gun more forcefully into Charlie's head. Her arms were still tightly bound behind her back, her legs were free however and she was wracking her brain with a way to use that. Reid on the other hand was trying to find a way to talk them down, to use his brain and try to ignore the pounding and dizziness that had started when he was pulled into a standing position. Dmitri had his left arm hanging at his side, but he barely noticed the pain from his fractured limb after taking another shot of oxy.

Darius and Dmitri were, sadly, the first to reach them. They had quickly undone the leg bindings on Charlie and Reid and forced them to stand, and then promptly put their guns to the undercover operatives' heads. They were just about to get the hell out of the warehouse, with hostages in tow, when Morgan, JJ, Hotch and Danny rushed in. They had their guns at the ready, aiming to kill.

"Think about this, it's over. You have nowhere left to go. We know who you are and what you've done." Hotch told them, glaring daggers at the man who was holding Reid hostage.

"He's right you know." Reid spoke up suddenly, as Dmitri was trying to think of another escape plan. He had noticed Dmitri was high and that could be used to his advantage. Normally Dmitri was very in control but he was unorganized and almost unpredictable the few times Reid had seen him high.

"Shut up." Dmitri growled, his palms had started to sweat due to his nerves. Reid rolled his eyes, turned his head slightly and threw on the smuggest grin he had ever used.

"You're screwed Dmitri." He said arrogantly. Dmitri cursed and turned Reid around very abruptly, so abruptly that the gun he was holding moved away from Reid and to his right, giving Reid an opening. Quicker than anyone who knew Reid before his training could see, Reid head butted Dmitri, knocking the man off balance even more, causing his left hand and fractured arm to come up to cover his bleeding nose. As he brought the gun around again, Charlie broke free of Darius by hitting her head into his chin, causing him to drop his gun, and then quickly turning so that she could kick him in the groin, with her steel toed boots. Before Dmitri could fire at Reid, Charlie round house kicked his wrist, almost snapping it with the amount of force, combined with her reinforced boots, making him drop his gun and Reid able to kick him quickly in the groin and as he was going down, forcefully kick upwards into Dmitri's chin, effectively knocking him out. The entire sequence of events barely took more than a minute to complete, and JJ, Morgan and Hotch watched astounded as their youngest agent moved with a speed and grace none of them had ever seen before.

The two undercover operatives were breathing heavily, Reid's head had begun pounding even more and he had begun shaking. Charlie was staring breathlessly at Reid, proud of what he had done. Provoking the man could have either ended up in getting Reid shot, or the result that happened. She thanked every god out there that he was okay. The two smiled at each other and Reid distractedly, out of the corner of his eye saw Danny rush over to embrace his sister. But he quickly took notice of his face, and then the faces of his team members, they all had terror written on them. Reid's brain, of course, processed this in a matter of seconds, but Charlie didn't have an extreme intelligence. Charlie was also drugged, hurt and a tad bit traumatized and wasn't quite paying attention to her surroundings as she should. Danny was running to her now, desperate to get to her.

"Charlie, MOVE!" He yelled, jumping in between her and Darius, who had gotten his gun back. Steve, who had entered the large room, with his gun by his side, had let his guard down and had not seen Darius' move toward his gun. At the call of her name, Charlie turned quickly, her bindings cutting into her wrists, to see her brother jumping in front of her. Two gunshots were fired and Danny stumbled into her, hitting her unprepared body, causing them both to crash to the hard cement floor. Darius was lying dead in front of them, a bullet to the head from Steve's gun, Steve who was rushing over with the BAU team to where Charlie, Reid and Danny were. However Charlie stopped being aware of anything but the blood running from her brother.

"Danny!" Steve shouted when he reached the two on the ground, Charlie in shock and too dazed to move and Danny, unconscious with a bullet hole in his shoulder and no exit wound.

Reid was still standing, extremely stunned by the turn of events. Hotch was in the process of cutting Reid's bindings and Morgan had moved Charlie into a sitting position so he could cut apart her's. Steve had, by that point, stripped Danny of his vest and shirt to get a better look at the wound. From what he could tell it had gone in at an angle, not coming out through the other side of his shoulder. The bullet was still rattling around inside him, which worried Steve to no end, because he could be internally bleeding.

The sound of gunshots outside had stopped altogether, and the rest of the BAU team and Jake were in the warehouse. Jake, upon seeing his pale, and covered in blood younger brother, ran to him, disregarding the BAU team.

"Danny?" He asked quietly, hoping for an answer and not getting one. Charlie had yet to move from her frozen position on the floor and her face had lost all color.

"Reid are you alright?" JJ asked, somewhat tentatively, still afraid of the anger he had toward her, Hotch and Emily.

"I'm fine." He said, not looking at her, but instead, going to shakily kneel down beside his partner. He placed his arm around her and pulled her into an embrace. She willingly went into his arms, having no strength to hold herself up anymore. Finally broken from her trance Charlie started to shake, tears leaking from her eyes. She didn't notice anything around her besides Reid's arms around her quaking body and her brother's bleeding form. She didn't notice Morgan handcuffing Dmitri, or Prentiss checking Darius' pulse to confirm his death. Nor did she notice when the paramedics arrived and began working on her brother. She had stopped noticing anything, and she didn't even care.

Reid however was aware of everything going on around him. He was aware of his team talking amongst themselves about him. He was aware of Jake brokenly whispering to Danny that everything would be okay, He was aware he had started telling Charlie the same things. He was aware that Charlie had started digging her nails into his arms for some sort of anchor. But most importantly he was aware that the Dilaudid that was once in his bloodstream was slowly making it's way out in a very uncomfortable way. His brow was dotted with sweat, his body ached, fingers trembled and he felt like throwing up.

"Reid?" Jake said suddenly, snapping Spencer from his thoughts, he had stopped being aware at some point, he wasn't sure when.

"Yeah?" He answered, Charlie had passed out in his arms, a limp ragdoll with tears streaming down her face.

"There is an ambulance here for you and Charlie, Danny has already been taken to the hospital, Steve is with him." Jake told him in a quiet and slow voice, like he was talking to the victim of some horrible crime, which, Reid thought darkly, was technically true.

"Alright…" He mumbled, his old team was standing near him, they all had looks of worry on their faces.

"I'm going to carry Charlie out, okay?" Reid nodded, "Your friends Morgan and Hotch are going to help you out, okay?" Reid nodded again, not really feeling like speaking, the exhaustion from the previous events were finally shutting him down. Jake gently maneuvered Charlie out from Reid's embrace and lifted her from the ground. He carried her bridal style out of the warehouse and Reid absentmindedly watched them leave.

"Reid, were going to get you up now." Morgan said to him, bringing him out of him mind once more. Morgan grabbed Reid's left arm and Hotch grabbed his right, they then hefted him up and put his arms around their shoulders. Reid gasped from the pain that shot through his dislocated shoulder and cracked ribs. Having feeling in everything hurt, Reid thought. Morgan and Hotch tried to adjust to make him more comfortable but Reid had already started to sink back into the oblivion of his thoughts. Together the trio made their way out of the warehouse. Morgan and Hotch were trying their best to ignore the dazed look to the ex FBI agent's face and the way almost every step he took could not support his weight. JJ and Prentiss watched Reid as he seemed to give up and all fight drained from his body, his stumbling steps were contradictory to what JJ had witnessed Reid do earlier. She could not believe that their once mild mannered profiler could fight a man holding a gun with two hands behind his back. Rossi took up the flank and watched his newly reunited family, all their looks and expressions, carefully taking them all in so that he could somehow find a way to bring all of them back together.

Upon his arrival to the ambulance, Reid was taken into the back and laid on a stretcher beside Charlie. She was still unconscious and Reid thought to himself that that was a place he would like to be. He shut his eyes and let the black spots that he had seen obscuring his vision take up all the space.

"I'm sorry but we don't have enough room to let any of you ride with us." The paramedic said to Jake.

"That's fine, we'll follow you." Hotch answered, for Jake looked too emotionally drained and worried to be the leader.

Thankfully more cops had arrived which gave the BAU and Jake a way to get to the hospital since the SUVs were riddled with bullet holes. The rest of the Marines special ops team was staying behind to help clean up the mess. Ambulances had also taken away the injured mob members and the mob boss himself, who was being treated for two bullet wounds in his legs. He was then going to be arrested and charged. Danny's condition was bad from what the paramedic had said and Jake was anxious to get to the hospital. He was in a car with Hotch, and JJ who looked equally as anxious.

"Why him?" JJ asked suddenly, breaking the silent tension growing around the three.

"What, you mean Spencer?" Jake replied.

"Yes."

"We needed someone who was smart enough to see right through the guys he was sent in to arrest. We needed someone thin and lean so that we could make him look the part. We needed someone who was able to cheat at every card game in the book and make it look like he was an excellent card player. But most of all we needed someone who looked quite disarming but could break an arm if needed." Jake told them. JJ had never once thought of Reid like that, she had thought of him as sweet and innocent and smart. He was nerdy and nice and he hated to shoot people or harm them in any way. She never had thought of him as anything more that the nicest and most innocent kid in the world. But maybe that's where she went wrong, JJ thought, maybe if she had thought of him as a mature person who was able to do so much more than what he did around the team, he wouldn't have left.

"You trained him well." Hotch announced from the front of the police cruiser.

"He was actually a very fast learner, and he wanted to learn what we taught him. His long limbs made the techniques and style of fighting we taught him quite useful." Hotch nodded thoughtfully, he had never expected Reid would be able to move like that. In fact he had never expected a lot of things from Reid. He should have never underestimated the youngest agent.

"Thank you for taking such good care of him." Hotch said. Jake smiled slightly from where he was sitting.

"That was all Charlie."

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THANK YOU SO MUCH TO "Lo" You reviewed like some time ago, but I saw it tonight and it made me finish tis chapter and update it. Also to Fiction111, you constantly attack me with reviews and PMs and I totally appreciate it. And I would love to name everyone who reviews and reads by name and I will eventually but not right now because it's one in the morning and I have school tomorrow. Thank you for loving this story as much as I love writing,

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