I do not own criminal minds.

Constructive criticism is welcome.

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Penelope could still see Aarons blood on her hands, even after she had washed it off three times.

Rossi was still gone, trying to get information.

He had been trying to get information on Spencer and Aaron for almost a half an hour.

"What if they are both dead and no one wants to tell Rossi?"

Elle and Spencer's friend stopped arguing and Emily looked up from the wall she had been staring at to look at her and laugh.

"I wouldn't want to tell Rossi, he gets scary when he's angry."

Elle glared at Emily, and Penelope wondered if washing her hands again would help at all.

"They are both going to be fine so shut up."

No, it probably wouldn't help at all.

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Spencer opened his eyes and decided that light was not fun. At all.

So he closed his eyes again, but the light was still there, and someone was beside him.

He could feel them watching him, which would have been a lot creepier if he could bring himself to care.

Whatever, light was making his eyelids hurt.

"Spencer, are you awake?"

He didn't reconise the voice, not that that meant anything.

Spencer was pretty sure he wasn't firing on all four wheels or whatever.

"Shouldn't he be awake by now?"

The light was still there, and whoever was there didn't seem to be leaving.

So he opened his eyes again, and saw blonde hair and concerned eyes.

"Mom?"

He didn't reconise his voice, it was also a lot quieter than he though it should be.

"Um, no. My name is Erin Strauss, I am in charge of your living situation."

Right, his mom was dead.

"Spencer, I know that you are tired, but there are things that we need to talk about as soon as possible."

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The air was cooling rapidly, and he remembered a gun.

"Someone shot me."

The sun was gone now, but they hadn't moved.

"Yeah, you bled a lot."

Aaron hadn't thought anything would be able to surprise him anymore.

"You saw it?"

His brothers smile faded until it was gone

"I saw everything."

Sean stood up abruptly and held out a hand for him.

"You have to go back now."

His fingers were cold, the moon was bright in the sky and Aaron was getting anxious.

"I don't want to leave you here alone."

Sean was still standing with his arm outstretched, his breath was visible.

"You'll be back. You just have to go now."

Aaron was pretty sure that if he stayed he would die, but he wasn't leaving Sean again, not this time.

"No."

Snow started to fall around them.

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They called Julie to get him.

Adam liked Julie, he really did.

But he wasn't leaving until someone told him that Spencer wasn't dead.

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David was almost ready to freak out, especially when he saw Erin Strauss exiting a room he had just been denied permission to enter.

He was not a huge fan of Erin, mostly because she was in charge of him, a little bit because she didn't like him.

He didn't avoid her when she started walking toward him though.

He needed information.

"We had a conversation, and he went to sleep. The doctors say that he is going to be fine."

David didn't ask why she had gone in to see Spencer, there was really only one possible reason.

"I have decided that, it is in Spencers best interests, because the situation was… resolved, to stay in your care. Is that acceptable?"

She didn't wait for a response before she was gone, which was good because David wasn't entirely sure he would have been able to talk.

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They were inside, and his dad was there.

Aaron could hear him walking around downstairs.

The air was frigid and it felt like he was trspped in one of his nightmares.

"If you stay here, it won't end"

Sean's lips were blue, and he looked dead again.

Aaron hated it

"you have to leave."

The snow was turning into a blizzard outside, and his dad was getting louder.

"No"

He wasn't leaving, no matter what.

"It isn't up to you."

His dad was walking up the stairs.

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It was Elle who told him, strange because he was nearly positive that she hated him.

"He's going to be okay."

When Julie got there she was crying.

Adam told her about Spencer and she sat with him for two hours until Elle updated him.

Then he went home.

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David brought the kids home after he finally got an update from Aarons doctor.

There was nothing they could do there but wait for someone to wake up, and it was already crowded.

The sun was only just starting to set when he pulled into the driveway.

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Julie dropped him off at his house, but didn't go inside with him.

She hated his step-dad as much as he did.

Thankfully the pitiful excuse of a human being was still sleeping on the couch, where he had been when Adam left for school.

Adam went to his room and fell asleep almost instantly.

Amanda was there when he woke up.

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A/N Very sorry that this took forever and that it is so short. It shouldn't take as long to get the next one up now that I know what I am going to do.