When Spencer awoke it was dark out. There was no sign of Ashley, but he had been tied up along with the chain around his foot. His head felt groggy, and reaching up his hair felt sticky. It was too dark to see but Spencer was almost 100% certain that it was blood. Why hadn't Derek found him yet? Why was he still a prisoner? What made him such an easy target? Spencer heard footsteps approaching him.

"Why'd you try to fight me Spence? I'm not a bad person. I just know what I want. And I happen to want you. I want you very much, and if those stupid jocks hadn't interrupted I would have had you fourteen years ago. I wanted you so bad back then. You were so smart and weak and that made you sexy. And you're still the same now. Only older. It's not the same but it'll have to do since I couldn't have you back then." Ashley flicked on a light, and Spencer could see the crazy look in her eyes, the look that only killers get. And that scared him.

"Ashley you're scaring me. If you loved me you wouldn't do this to me. You would let me be with the person I love and you would accept that. Why can't you let me be? Why are you hurting me?" Spencer was nearly in tears now, thinking of getting back to Derek.

"I'm not hurting you Spencer! You are hurting you! If you just listen to me everything will be alright. You won't get hurt. But if you keep talking about him? I will find him and I will kill him. Do you understand me?" Ashley got right up in Spencer's face. She was serious.

Spencer let out a sob. He didn't want anything to happen to Derek. But he also wasn't thinking clearly. Between the knock to the head and the stress of the situation it was just too much. "Please Ashley don't hurt him. I'll do anything!"

"Anything Spencer? You'll do anything to save this man you think you love?" She smiled. "Good so we understand each other." She got even closer to Spencer, pushing her chest against his. "We're going to have sex tonight. And it's going to be the best sex you have ever had."

Derek woke up from a fitful sleep. All he could dream about last night was find Spencer's dead mangled body. The one thing he always worried about was not having Spencer in his life, and right now that was a reality he just couldn't face.

Derek quickly showered, shaved and dressed and went and knocked on JJ's door.

"Hey Derek. Let's go get to work so we can bring Spence home." She said as she exited the room.

When they arrived at the police head quarters the rest of the BAU team was still there, sifting through files on all the girls Spencer graduated.

Derek walked over. "Have we narrowed anything down yet?"

"Well it looks like four of them live in the area, but that doesn't mean much. She could have just lured us here to drag us off the real area she lives in. However out of the two dozen girls, we have ruled out sixteen. They are either no longer within a reasonable area or are dead. A few of the pervious victims were already murdered by this woman." Hotch told Derek.

"Which of the girls were murdered by her? Maybe this girl was friends with our unsub in high school and that's why she targeted them. She was trying to get back at them for something. Get Garcia to run it and see." Derek said.

"Normally I would say something witty, however under the circumstances I don't feel like my usual self. Garcia here what can I help with?"

"Garcia I need you to dig into the high school files and see if you can find any relationship between one of our suspects with a few of the victims to see if there was any strong relationship between them." Hotch told her.

"Give me the names and I will find everything out that I can." She was more than ready to get Spencer back safe and sound.

"The victims are: Kayla Overly, Sophie Richmond, Danielle Levitt, Octavia Smith, and Megan Hill. How long until we have a connection?" Hotch asked.

"Well Hotch that's hard to say but, I can tell you that all the victims were in English class together, and that they were all cheerleaders. Now here we go. There is on suspect that was a cheerleader with all of them, Ashley Crowly. She was the head cheerleader, and the runner up for prom queen. She also has a closed file. Should I open it?"

"Find out what is in that file. It may help us figure out if she is our unsub." Hotch stated.

"I'm opening it as we speak. Alright so it says here that six years ago she was charged with statutory rape and molestation. She coerced a twelve year old boy into believing that he wanted to have sex with her. Then when he wouldn't she threatened him. The charges were dropped because the boy wouldn't testify."

"Hotch che has to be the one! No girl in there right mind wants a twelve year old boy. She may have been uses this boy as a substitute for the twelve year old Spencer she never got." Derek cried out.

"Do you have an address?" Hotch asked.

"I'm sending it to your phone right now. Bring our Dr. Reid home safe."

"We will Garcia and thank you."

The call was ended and the team along with some of the police force geared up. They also called for S.W.A.T. to come in. They were going to bring Spencer home, alive and well.

Spencer stared up at Ashley. "I don't think I'll be ready for that tonight. I like to take things slow in a relationship. I don't like to rush things."

"We don't have time to take things slow Spence. I know it's only a matter of time until they find us, and I want to have my way with you before then. So that I can end our lives so that I will be the last person you ever touch, and so that we will be immortalized together for the rest of eternity. You will never see, feel, smell, or hear his voice again. You will always have me in your memory. Now I want you to eat something so that you have the strength for our expedition tonight. You'll need a lot of it. I'll go get you some food. I'll be back in a bit." Ashley kissed his forehead and sauntered out of the basement.

Spencer sat in the basement for what seemed like forever. The sun came up, and was about mid sky as far as he could tell when he heard the door upstairs open. This was it. This was going to be the end. He was too weak to fight anymore, and with no hope of Derek coming to save him, he might as well give up anyway.

Ashley came downstairs, with a small bag in her hand. "I have food!"

She sat in front of Spencer and opened the bag to reveal carrot and celery sticks. "Since you're a vegetarian I thought you would like this."

Spencer thanked her, and ate a couple of pieces, he just didn't have any appetite.

"Sweetie you need to eat. Like I said you need to have strength tonight for our expedition. If you don't you know what will happen to your precious Derek. He will die and it will be your fault. And then instead of ending our lives tonight, I will let you live so that you can feel the guilt every single day of your life."

Spencer ate until everything was gone and he felt sick. But what else could he do? Derek was his entire world; he didn't want anything to happen to him. He couldn't live with himself if anything happened to Derek.

Ashley leaned in close to Spencer he could feel her breath against his neck, "You're such a good boy Spencer." She said stroking his hair. "This is going to be amazing. It's almost sun down, and when that happens we will finally be together forever." She started to unbutton his sweater vest.

Spencer sobbed. This was not what he wanted. He didn't want her to be the last thing he saw, felt, smelt, or heard. But that was what was going to happen. She slowly unbuttoned his shirt.

Just then the unbelievable happened. The upstairs door burst open. "F.B.I." Spence could hear Hotch, Rossi, Emily and Derek all yelling clear. Then he heard footsteps coming downstairs. Ashley was prepared. She had grabbed a knife and had it pressed firmly against Spencer's throat. That's when Spencer saw Derek.

"Derek! Help!" Spencer couldn't help but cry out.

"So this is the guy you love? The guy you were willing to die for?" Ashley laughed manically.

"Ashley Crowly, federal agents. Drop the knife and let him go." Hotch said coming up behind Derek, they both had their weapons drawn and pointed directly at her.

They both had clear shots and wanted to take them, but they knew that had to at least try to talk he out of this before firing. "You won't make it out of this alive if you don't put that knife down Ashley. Is that what you want?" Hotch asked.

"What does it matter if I live or die if I can't have Spence." She asked pushing the knife a little harder into Spencer's neck. Spencer winced clearly she was hurting him.

"Don't you call him that," Derek growled.

"Why is that what you like to call him when you two are in bed together."

Derek growled. This woman was hurting his man, and he didn't like it, not one bit.

She dug the knife in just a little further and both Derek and Hotch could tell Spencer was starting to have a hard time breathing under the pressure. It was just when blood started to trickle down Spencer's neck that Hotch took his shot. Ashley fell clutching her shoulder. It wasn't a fatal shot but it gave them the time they needed. Hotch pounced on Ashley cuffing her, while Derek rushed to Spencer.

"Spencer are you okay?" Derek asked removing the ropes.

Spencer sobbed. "I didn't think that you would find me. But you did. You came and saved me. She said she would kill you if I didn't listen to her."

Derek buttoned Spencer's shirt back up, and wrapped his jacket around Spencer's frail shoulders. The younger man looked up at Derek with tearful eyes. "I love you so much Derek."

"I love you too pretty boy. Hotch we need to call an ambulance." Spencer's eyes started to flutter closed. "Baby stay with me. Open those pretty eyes for me." Derek whispered.

"Derek, promise me something."

"Anything baby, anything."

"Promise that we will always be together."

"For as long as I can help it we will be. I won't every let anything happen to you." Derek whispered kissing Spencer's forehead. "You will always be my pretty boy."

"Good cause I don't ever want us to be apart."

"The ambulance is on the way Derek." Hotch said keeping Ashley pinned down.

"Just hold out until the ambulance gets here babe. It'll be here soon, and then we can get you fixed up good as new." Derek said.

Rossi had just come downstairs to the basement with a set of metal cutters to get the chain off of Spencer's leg. "Tell him to hold still Morgan."

"Baby you need to hold still so that Rossi can get that chain off of your leg."

"Okay Derek, I trust you. Will you hold me tight while we wait?"

Derek wrapped his arms around Spencer holding him tight. Rossi just cut the chain off when the ambulance arrived. Spencer's eyes began to flutter closed. "Pretty boy open your eyes. Stay awake. The medics will be down in just a moment."

The medics came down and strapped Spencer on the gurney. Derek held his hand all the way to the hospital. The doctor's took a look at Spencer. "So pretty boy how'd you make out?"

"Just a little dehydrated, and needed a couple stitches. Oh and a minor concussion. But I will be fine. Thank you Derek. You will always be my knight in shining armour."

"Black armour baby, black armour." Derek said with a chuckle.

Spencer smiled. "Can we always be together?"

"Of course baby, I want nothing more than that." Derek said pulling Spencer into a tight embrace, giving him a fierce kiss.