Life Outside the BAU

Chapter 8

Spencers POV

I sleep beside Victoria with my arm around her. Her bullet wound has healed slightly but it is still difficult for her to move. I am awoken my the sound of a large door swinging open.  Not the one to my room but far off outside my room. I sit up and put on my shirt (a new one Tyler gave me) Victoria shots up and grabs my arm. She is still very shook up by what happened, everything sets her off. Suddenly Tyler storms into our room and grabs my arm. "What is happening?" I ask confused. He puts a knife to my throat "Don't make a sound or I'll kill you" I do as he says. He grabs Victoria in his other hand and leads us out of the room. I can hear noises coming from down the hall. Who is here and why are we in such a big rush to get out. I listen as hard as I can and notice a familiar voice. It's JJ. I so badly want to jump up and scream 'HEY I'M OVER HERE!' but I would get us killed so I just keep my mouth shut. Tyler leads us farther down the hallway. By the time my team is finished inspecting the warehouse I could be long gone. Panic starts to set in. Some how they found me here, they probably won't be able to find me where ever I'm going next. We get so far away I can no longer hear JJ, her voice is so comforting. For the first time in who knows how long I felt like some one cared, like some one was looking. I don't want them to put their lives in danger for me but I kind of am happy that they are looking. I look over at Victoria who is cringing in pain. "Hey, go a little easy on her okay?" I whisper as quietly as possible. He just lookes at me like I'm some rabid animal and keeps going. We exit out of a small back door and the light burns my eyes. I close them at first then convince myself to squint. I look around at my surroundings. I see a few police cars around the corner and I see people. They wouldn't be able to see us though because of the mass trees. I take a deep breath of the fresh air. It fills my lungs and calms my nerves, until I remember what is really happening. Tyler drags us deep into the woods out behind the warehouse. We keep going deeper and deeper. I get one last glimpse of a police car before it all disappears again. My one sighting of civilization, gone before my eyes. Would my team give up after a week, a month, a year. I hope so, I don't want them pondering over me there whole lives. How long will I live before Tyler decides to take it all from me? Would I ever see my team again? I found that I have been asking myself so many questions but to have no answers. We keep going deeper into the woods. I didn't even know the woods went this deep. Tyler was talking to himself in a grunted tone, I couldn't make out what he was saying, he looked angry though. He just kept pulling us through branches. I try and shrug myself free from his grip, but his much stronger than I am and he has a knife and a gun. He looks at me like he wants to bite my head off and feed it to his pet shark. He shoves me to the ground and stands over top of me. "Do you realize that this is all your fault? If it wasn't for you I would have her all to myself but no, you gotta come in and be the hero, well look where that got you?" he just keeps ranting "No one would notice she was gone but since your an FBI agent the whole world is on the hunt for you, I better just kill you now" I just looked at him shocked, I've never seen him this stressed before. With him being like this he is bound to make a mistake. "What are you looking at?" Tyler demands. He kicks me in the side and I feel the rush of pain make it's way up my body. He kicks me again, and again. I can hear Victoria crying. He turns to face her. "I told you to be quiet" putting the knife right by her throat. He doesn't care about her right now, he wants to beat the shit out of me. He gets down on his knees and grabs the collar of my shirt and punches me in the face. I can feel the blood shooting out of my nose and mouth. He punches me again. I don't attempt to fight back, there is no use, I take each blow as it comes. When he is finally done he gets up to his feet and walks over to a tree. He sits down by the trunk of the tree and rests his head. I can barley move, each bone in my body feels like a ton of bricks. Each bruise feels like a hot stove top. Victoria sits down beside me and just stares at me with so much concern in her eyes. "I'm fine, honestly" Just as I try and sit up a see two men run up towards us. At first I think it maybe two officers but as they get closer I realize they are two henchmen. Now there is no chance of us escaping. Victoria helps me get over to a tree and I lean my back on it. As one of the men pass by me he just laughs. He walks over to Tyler who is once again talking to himself. He stands up as soon as he see them. "Oh thank god your here" Tyler says to the one. "We are going to get caught, so very caught, they are going to find us, I'm going back to jail" Tyler says like a madman. He sounds like he is going completely out of his mind and when people go crazy they do crazy things. That could benefit us but also be bad. Victoria and I just sit there quietly while the men argue. I think about how right now would be the perfect time to escape but neither of us are in any condition to be running for our lives. The first night outside roles around and we are in the same spot. No one lights a fire just in case it attracts unwanted attention so it's freezing out. Victoria and I lean up against each other using each others body heat. Tyler ties us to a tree before he goes to bed and one man stays awake and takes turn with everyone all night so there is little probability of us making it out of here without being seen. The next morning they hand out pieces of bread. I haven't had food in such a long time, well it feels like forever. I eat it slowly hoping to make myself hungry faster but before I know it, it's all gone. I hear voices of people yelling in the distance, calling Victoria's and my name. I jump straight up forgetting about my aching bones I grab my side but still look for a moving body. Tyler walks over to me "Sit your ass down" he whispers looking through the trees. He points to his two henchmen and as if in cue they get up and grab both Victoria and I. The drag us deeper into the woods. Every time we even made the tiniest noise one of them would jab us in the side with his elbow. I was in so much pain I could barley walk but I still did, getting scratched by every branch and tripping over every root. I could still hear them calling us but it was getting fainter the farther we moved. So many times they were so close to finding us, twice now. I don't think we will get that lucky again. If only they would keep quiet, keep their mouths shut. Victoria dropped to her knee's grabbing her stomach. "I can't go any farther" she explains staring at the ground. The man lets go of me while Victoria starts to throw up. I hold her hair back as I try myself to hold back the vomit. "Something is wrong" she says barley able to make the words out. Tyler and everyone just stand there staring at us. I lift up her shirt slightly just enough so I can see the bullet wound. "It's infected" I say in a panicked tone. "She doesn't have much time" I plead to Tyler "She needs help" The infection was spreading to the rest of her body and by my calculations she doesn't have more than two weeks.