The door to the store is locked because Luke hasn't been here to open it, because Reid hadn't been able to find the strength to let Hild run the store herself when she's worried about Luke, too. Instead, he beckons for Derek to follow him around the corner of the store so they can head up the stairs to the apartment, to the home he's supposed to be sharing with his boyfriend right now, to the one place he's always felt entirely safe until now. Knowing that someone out in this city can get to Luke, it's terrifying, it's filled him with an anxiety he knows he won't be rid of even after he gets Luke because because Derek is right, they will find them. There's no other satisfactory option.

What Derek has said about Barry being special, though, has Reid thinking.

"When you say he's more than human, what do you mean, exactly? Magnus was taken, too, and one of the vampires I interrogated the night Luke disappeared mentioned one of their own was gone. A werewolf, a vampire, a warlock, now Barry. Seeing a pattern there?"

Russell and Mister Purrkins slink into the room as soon as the door is closed behind Reid, both of them rubbing against his leg before peering up at Derek curiously, and Reid can hardly take seeing them in those little sweaters his boyfriend had bought for their cats just the week before. So he steps forward, heading toward the kitchen and glancing over his shoulder at Derek as he does.

"I'll make us some coffee. In the meantime, can you tell me if you know of anyone else who's been taken?"