Please patient with me. I will get to my other stories. Simply put, I work on whatever interests me. I do have a reasonably good completion rate (by my standards). Thank you for your patience.

Natural Love

Chapter One:

It was his first entire day of freedom and Reid was trying to breathe in every moment. With a nurse watching his mother, he decided to go out for lunch on his own. Morgan had been nice enough to bring breakfast, but now he wanted to enjoy the fresh air alone.

He took a seat a table outside and waited for a server. His mind drifted to the team. Prentiss had told him not worry as they had gotten out alive. Yet he hated seeing the bruises J.J. had developed and Walker was out with a broken leg. Reid supposed they were lucky Scratch had chosen to let them live another day.

While waiting for the server he had settled on a BLT sandwich and tea. He lowered the menu to see a man approaching him.

"Shaw can get to you anywhere!" he shouted and pulled out a gun.

Reid screamed as the man shot him in the abdomen and ran.

He fell back and out of chair.

"Help," he whimpered.

After what felt like forever, a waitress emerged and applied pressure to the wound.

"No," he moaned as he began to lose consciousness. "No." It can't all end right now. Not like this.