Chapter 45: Issues Part 2

It's break before Reminders.

Able said someone would come get me. Is this how it's going to be from now on? An escort everywhere? I'm lying on my bed with my eyes closed, waiting for the inevitable knock when images of the lady in the red bandanna flash by. Who is she? And why does she only come in my dreams? Shutting my eyes tighter, I try to will more of the scene when a quick two-pound knock sounds on my door.

I sit up just as Reid walks through, his face hardened. "Tell me what happened."

"Hey..."

"Did he touch you?" Reid moves toward me, his hands balled into fists. "Did he lay a fucking finger on you?"

"What?" I'm surprised at the ferocity in his tone. "No."

"And what about the other two?"

"No..." I gulp, suddenly uneasy with the rage emitting from him. "They didn't - nothing happened. I'm fine."

He exhales, still unsatisfied as he begins pacing the room. He runs his fingers through his hair, bringing his thumb to his front teeth, gnawing on it.

"Reid?"