Friday, November 7th, 2008;

Twenty-seven-year-old Spencer Reid was currently sitting at his desk, working on a pile of paperwork. He had been sitting at his desk since noon when himself and his team had finally arrived back in Quantico after working a child abduction case in his hometown of Las Vegas.

It was now 6:00 pm and his teammates were packing up to return to their homes and leave the office behind for the weekend.

"Aren't you coming to Pretty Boy?" Morgan said as he went to leave.

"No, I think I'm going to hang back for a while" Spencer looked up from his work, "after all, I'm not done since somebody snuck papers onto my desk".

Morgan laughed, "I'm sorry kid, but you finish them so much faster".

"Yeah, I know. It's not like I have anything to go home to anyway, right?"

"Come on, don't be like that. Besides, we all know the only thing you have planned for the weekend is watching Star Trek".

Spencer grimaced for a moment before smirking, Morgan didn't have any idea...

"Well, I'll be done soon", he said getting up with his coffee mug, "then I'll go watch Star Trek all night long".

Morgan laughed, patted Spencer on the shoulder and left the office.

Derek didn't know the truth. Neither did the rest of the team that Spencer had been working with for the last six years. He had done his best to keep his personal life and work life separate.

At first, it was out of shame and fear of rejection. If his coworkers at the BAU ever found out about who his father was and what his father had done, Spencer had been afraid they wouldn't accept him.

He was already somewhat of unique individual and never seemed to belong anywhere, even when people didn't know about the family and 'traditions' that he had come from.

That had changed when he arrived at the BAU and began working with the small group of profilers that had become like his family away from home.

They loved him and supported him through all the difficult times that the job had put him through, especially in the last couple years.

When it had become obvious to him that these people wouldn't turn their backs on him, Spencer had felt like it was too late to tell them the truth without them hating him for keeping secrets about his past. After all, it wasn't just his father that he was hiding from his team, but his own little family that he had at home.

At the age of twenty-seven, Spencer had a wife, two sons, and a daughter. He also had custody of his teenage sister and niece. It seemed like a lot for a man that was only in his mid-twenties, but for the young genius, it had been this new family that he had created for himself that had finally let him break away from the horrors of his past. They gave him something to thrive for.

He had been married to his wife, Maeve for almost eleven years. They had married, with parental permission at sixteen years old after she had found out that she was pregnant with their son.

The two of them had been young and stupid and despite him being a diagnosed genius, had fallen victim to teenage pregnancy, not just once but twice. Spencer knew the statistics – teenagers who had one teenage pregnancy were likely to become pregnant again before they were ready.

They had gotten pregnant with their second son four years later at the age of twenty, shortly before they had been planning to move to Quantico for Spencer to begin at the FBI Academy. Despite this surprise, Maeve had followed him to the other side of the country so that their family could remain together.

Shortly after the birth of their youngest son, Spencer had begun working for the BAU and due to the financial stability that brought Maeve had started considering having a third child in hopes of having a girl to complete their family. He had mentioned how they already had the two older girls to take care of, but she had insisted on wanting her own and Spencer couldn't disagree that a girl would be nice. The two older girls in his care had been extremely excited at the prospect of having a 'little sister.'

With three children of his own and two teenage girls to raise, as well as a crazy and dangerous job, the young man sometimes found himself wishing that he had told his team about his family life. The two members of the BAU who had known about his family were gone now, Gideon and Elle and that still hurt him more than he let on.

For Spencer Reid, his life was work and secrets and family. That was how he had built his life over the last six years and while it sometimes pained him, he hadn't seriously considered changing it.

Unfortunately for him, a part of his past was about to change everything for him. His secrets would be revealed and a dangerous game and race against time would begin, with the main victim being him.