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We ran out as we found out that Tobias was our unsub, heading to JJ and Reid fast. My heart was pounding, I didn't want them to get hurt. If he even hurt JJ or Reid, im going to kill him. My leg was bouncing up and down, panicking. We arrived and spread out. I went with Gideon and Hotch to the house.

"downstairs is clear." I called out as we were done clearing. No sign of the son of a bitch.

"So where the hell is he?" JJ was a mess when I saw her, she was shaken up. We didn't stop looking for Reid. I need to know that he's okay. We stayed put at Tobias house, looking through the computers, albums you name it. Garcia was sent out to be with us and Hotch and her just came back.

"Welcome to our nightmare."

"His computer is an extension of his brain. I need you to dissect it." Gideon told Garcia as she looks around.

"I'll get you set up. Come on." Derek takes Garcia to the room.

"So, nothing new since I left?" Hotch looks at us.

"Well, the good thing is, the guy documented practically every second of his life." I said, dropping his journals onto the table. "The bad news is, we dont know where to start."

"From the looks of it, he hasn't left this place in years." The way he had old things, hoarding things in every room.

"He knew he could pretend to be looking for a motel and throw us off his trail."

"No, no, no. It's more than that. Sheriff's office, 911 calls. Every time he engages the police and gets away with it... He reassures himself god's on his side, not ours." As we continue our search, book after book, photo after photo, nothing but a narcotics prescription.

"Hey, guys! I think I got something!" Derek yells out. We all ran out and found Derek hunch over a cellar. I took out my gun and Derek nodded. He opens the doors.

"Tobias hankel!" We called out.

"F. B. I.! Tobias hankel." We both went down, looking around the old room. We turned on the lights and saw a man, sitting on ice.

"Tobias." He didn't move. And it wasnt him.

"I think we just found hankel's father." The stench came on to me, almost gagging.

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"There's something weird going on here." Derek said as he walked around reading one of the journals.

"You think?"

"No, seriously. Check this out. This journal is filled with religious ramblings. He notates hour by hour. November 15th, 3:17- if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offering unto the lord, ye shall offer it at your own will." I flipped the journal i had, stating the same thing but tobias wrote about his dads beatings. "And it goes on and on. 5:04, 7:41, 10:22, 1:42. But then it goes blank for days."

"Maybe he got sick of writing."

"I think I got it." Hotch said. My head went up.

"What is it?"

"Journal entry- december 6th. Father sick. Wants me to put him down. I say, thou shalt not kill. He says, honor thy father. Must pray for guidance." He read from the book.

"So he kills his father as an act of mercy?" I closed the book, listening in.

"This is 2 months ago. Tobias hankel's father had been dead for 4 months already."

"That's exactly it. Look at the floor. These scuff marks are fresh. I mean, it's like 2 people were moving the chairs constantly, trying to fight for control." Derek said as he moved the chair.

"So?"

"This journal matches charles hankel's handwriting. But it was written after he died. Upstairs, tobias' bedroom- it's got junk piled from floor to ceiling, but the other bedroom could pass a military inspection."

"So are you telling me one of tobias' personalities was his father?" The voices from the call. Split personalities.

"Well, tobias was raised with a strict religious code- black and white, right and wrong. When his father asked tobias to kill him, something had to give."

"His brain couldn't handle the moral contradiction, so it split into 2 personalities in order to keep his father alive." I continued, thinking like Gideon.

"So... who is raphael?" The detective asked again.

"My guess-he's a mediator between the two."

"Angels have no human emotions. Live or die, they don't care, as long as it's god's will." Surprised that I still know this.

"We need to start profiling tobias' father. He may be the one who chose where to take reid."

"I'll get garcia on it." Morgan walked away and went to Garcia. Emily and JJ came back shortly from speaking to a guy who the Hankles. JJ still shaken up, i could tell by the body language.

"Any luck with the rehab contact?" I asked Emily who walked by, putting down a prescription on the board.

"Well, he has no idea where hankel might be, but we did learn that he has a serious drug problem- dilaudid." No wonder, that stuff is really strong.

"Well, that could explain the psychotic break."

"What are you talking about?" JJ squinted.

"Tobias is living as at least 3 different people- himself, raphael, and his father."

"A computer store was robbed in the middle of the night. A suburb outside of atlanta. The thief got away with 4 laptops, external hard drives, and a satellite." Its definitely him.

"If it's tobias, it puts him right back in business."

"Guys! Guys! Get in here!" Derek yells. We went running to the room and saw a video of Spencer. My mouth dropped as I saw him tied up, beaten.

"He's been beaten. Can't you track him?" JJ asked Garcia.

"Hankel's only streaming this to his home computer. This is for us. He knows we're here."

"I'm gonna put this guy's head on a stick." Im with you on that one Morgan. I felt numb just by looking at Spencer.

"Why can't you locate him?"

"He's rerouting to a different I. P. Address every 30 seconds. I can't track him." Dont worry papito, we're gonna find you and we will. We saw that Spencer and Tobias were having a conversation, making Spencer choose a life to save. When he chose, we called them, Gideon talked to the women and she shut her screen off. Then Spencer wasn't on the screen anymore. My heart dropped. Derek hit the door and walked away. I didnt want to cry, i bit my lip.

"So now what?" I growled, my hands making a fist.

"Wait for a 911 call, and hope we get there in time?" No, I cant wait.

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We got a call, Gideon and Hotch went, while we stayed, hoping we get Spencer back on the screen. Everyone went to rest but all I could think about was Spencer. I made myself a cup of coffee and texted Luke. In the corner of my eye, I saw JJ.

"I thought you were going to try and get some rest." I closed my phone, tucking it in my back pocket.

"Do you think if I stayed with Reid-" I stop her.

"JJ, dont." I shook my head. "You didn't know. Dont put this on you. We're gonna find him, okay." she nods. I patted her arm as I walked out to get fresh air, I saw Garcia and Gideon watching a video. I stood there watching Tobias hurting Spencer. I covered my mouth, then he kicked him to the ground, and what looked at like he was having a seizure. Spencer please dont. We need you. Just as Gideon turns, i hid. He went upstairs. I snuck my way into the room with Garcia.

"I can't see him hurt like this." I held her hand, watching him on floor, not breathing.

"Come on Spencer." I prayed. Then Tobias comes into the frame, giving Reid CPR. He wakes up.

"When was the video of the last murder posted?" Emily adds.

"9:23."

"And what was the time of death?"

"The 911 call came in at 9:04, and the murder must have been moments later."

"That's only a 19-minute difference." I didnt take my eyes off him.

"How long would it take to post the mpeg?"

"2 or 3 minutes."

"Let's call it 2. You figure a maximum of 60 miles an hour in a residential area. That means hankel has to be within a 17-mile radius of the crime scene."

"Garcia, can we see it on a map?"

"Call farraday. I want that area locked down like it's martial law."

"Guys." We looked at the video again. He started talking about 7 angels who had the 7 trumpets.

"He thinks it's revelations- the 7 archangels versus the 7 angels of death." I filled them in.

"Your team members- choose one to die." My heart started to beat faster.

"Kill me."

"You said you weren't one of them."

"I lied. Your team has 6 other members. Tell me who dies." He points a gun at him. I didn't feel good, my legs felt wobbly. They were playing Russian roulette. I jumped as i heard a blank, after blank everytime Spencer said no.

"I... I choose... aaron Hotchner." Spencer spoke. My eyes widen, looking at him. "He's a classic narcissist. He thinks he's better than everyone else on the team. Genesis 23:4. Let him not deceive himself and trust in emptiness, vanity, falseness, and futility, for these shall be his recompense. In emptiness, vanity, falseness, and futility, for these shall be his recompense." Aaron left the room. Tobias points the gun up and shoots, the bullet came out. We followed Aaron out.

"I'm not a narcissist." He said.

"Come on. Look. You can't think anything from that. He's not in his right mind, hotch."

"No. Stop. Stop." He stops Gideon. "All right, everybody right now- what's my worst quality?" Nobody said anything, uhh I would like to keep this job. So im good. "Ok. I'll start. I have no sense of humor."

"You're a bully." JJ went right up.

"I'm a bully." He agrees.

"You can be a drill sergeant sometimes."

"Right."

"You take things very seriously." I said as I looked at him.

"Yeah."

"You don't trust women as much as men." Thats a good one, Emily. Sounds like it.

"Ok, good. I'm all these things, but none of you said that I ever put myself above the team, because I don't, ever. Reid and I argued about the definition of classic narcissism, and he knew that I would remember that, and he also quoted genesis, chapter 23, verse 4. Read it." He hands the book to JJ.

"I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me property, forbear a place among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

"He wouldn't get it wrong unless it was on purpose."

"He's in a cemetery." We ran to Garcia, checking out every cemetery we can find.

"I don't see a cemetery."

"Call up the first time we saw reid." Garcia pulls up the video.

"I won't choose who gets slaughtered and have you leave their remains behind like a poacher."

"Check to see if there are any reports of poaching in the last couple of days."

"Ok. Uh... A farmer reported 2 sheep being slaughtered on his property."

"Where are we talking?"

"What's that patch of green there?" I pointed at the screen.

"Marshall parish. I think it's an old plantation."

"Wait. Tobias wrote in his journals about staying clean and keeping away from marshall."

"Guys, there's a cemetery on the grounds." There he is. We're coming Spencer. We got into the SUVs and headed there. We made it to the cemetery that had a house.

"Go! FBI.!" Derek kicked down the door and we cleared.

"Oh! What's that smell?" Emily gagged. I looked down, fish. I covered my nose with my arm.

"Let's spread out. They have to be on foot. Let's go!" I followed them outside. I heard a gunshot. I ran out.

"Reid!" I yelled out as I ran through the woods.

"Over here." He called out.

"Reid." We saw him. So much relief when I saw Tobias body on the ground.

"I knew you'd understand." He hugs Hotch. He then hugged JJ.

"I'm so sorry." She apologized.

"It's all right. It wasn't your fault." He whispers. I placed my hand on Spencers cheek. Im glad hes alive. I nodded to JJ as we walked away.