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If you'd told Garcia years ago that this is how Spencer Reid was going to turn out, she would have thought you were crazy.
She stares up at the bridge, Kevin's hand clenched tightly in her own.
Please no.
She reaches her free hand out as though to catch him but he still falls, taken down by the team he so loved.
No one had seen the signs, though they should have. There is a history of mental illness in his family, they all know it but somehow they all thought Spencer immune.
That he would take hostages, threaten to kill a busload of people before forcing his team to kill him... no one could have predicted that.
They find the notebooks stacked neatly on his desk. A slow descent into madness laid out neatly in black and white.
The last page states it most clearly.
"I won't end up like her!"