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triskehale) wrote2016-03-10 06:37 pm
triskehale) wrote2016-03-10 06:37 pm
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[for reid, dated 3/17]
This can't be happening again. It was so stupid to think that Barry would be safe with Derek, that old patterns wouldn't repeat themselves. How could he have been so foolish as to think that he could open his heart up to someone like that again, and they wouldn't get hurt?
He rushes through a darkened alley, eyes red and fangs extended, and remembers what it was like to fight that copy of himself in that other Darrow. Your love is a curse, Derek.
The scent of Barry's blood stings his nostrils, and Derek thinks about finding it smeared across brick. All he found was that and Barry's scent, thick with anxiety and pain. Fear. Derek followed the trail until it ended, vanished into thin air.
It's horrible, so horrible to think, but at least the blood told him that Barry is most likely still here somewhere in the city. He may be somewhere that Derek can still reach him. Maybe he can fix this.
He needs Luke, and he needs Oliver. He needs anyone who could help, but first on his list is someone with a nose nearly as good as his. He's on his way to Luke's when he runs right past Reid, who smells like anger and grief, and Derek skids to a stop. Whirling around to face him, fangs and claws extended with eyes glowing red in the darkness, Derek feels his heart drop into his stomach. Reid looks awful, like he just lost his whole world.
"Reid," he rasps out around his fangs. "I was just going to get-- is Luke gone too?"
He rushes through a darkened alley, eyes red and fangs extended, and remembers what it was like to fight that copy of himself in that other Darrow. Your love is a curse, Derek.
The scent of Barry's blood stings his nostrils, and Derek thinks about finding it smeared across brick. All he found was that and Barry's scent, thick with anxiety and pain. Fear. Derek followed the trail until it ended, vanished into thin air.
It's horrible, so horrible to think, but at least the blood told him that Barry is most likely still here somewhere in the city. He may be somewhere that Derek can still reach him. Maybe he can fix this.
He needs Luke, and he needs Oliver. He needs anyone who could help, but first on his list is someone with a nose nearly as good as his. He's on his way to Luke's when he runs right past Reid, who smells like anger and grief, and Derek skids to a stop. Whirling around to face him, fangs and claws extended with eyes glowing red in the darkness, Derek feels his heart drop into his stomach. Reid looks awful, like he just lost his whole world.
"Reid," he rasps out around his fangs. "I was just going to get-- is Luke gone too?"
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"The KIRIN facility," Reid answers, pushing those thoughts from his mind. If he thinks about it, about how much he misses Luke, how much his heart aches for the man he loves, he knows he won't be able to focus the way he should. He hadn't been able to function properly when Maeve had gone missing but this is different. There's no BAU team to rely on, and Reid has never felt more alone.
"'Knowledge and Inspiration Reducing Inequality in our Nation,' are you familiar with it? They're very meticulous with their record-keeping, we've been trying to find any holes that might give us a reason to go in with a warrant but..." But they haven't found anything, and Reid wonders how it is that they've made such an enormous misstep now. "It makes sense that they'd be responsible for the disappearances, they're interested in people with powers from outside of Darrow but up until now, they've never given anyone a reason to suspect they'd take their research to this level."
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Squaring his shoulders, he nods toward his desk, the one Luke had brought in to make Reid his own little corner of the apartment where he can do his work. "I have a few possible locations. If we work together, we can figure it out."