Sydney's POV

After I heard her voice, I froze. I didn't know what to do or what to say. I was like a deer in the headlights.

"Baby."

"Don't call me that."

"You love when I call you that, don't you, babygirl."

I rolled my eyes as she is making zero sense. What part of 'don't call me that' do you not understand. I don't like when she calls me that. Only Dad. And Uncle Derek. Not one of them is her.

"You good, Syd?" I hear Dad ask as I hung up so fast I knew it was suspicious. I couldn't get the words to come out right away as my jaw tightened as I had tears brinking in my eyes.

"Bad news. The she-demon is here." He knew exactly who I was talking about. Otherwise why would I act this way.

"What?!" Dad exclaimed as I took a step behind me, as it scares me when he does that.

"That's who called. I thought it was Rossi again. T-then I-I h-head h-her." I say as a stuttering fucking mess. I feel myself shaking as last time I checked she was in prison and being executed or something. I didn't pay attention to the news. Matter of fact, I don't.

"It's okay. Stay by me, you'll be alright." He says to me as he took in my features. I nearly flinched when he kissed my forehead before he made his way to the front door with me behind him like a lost puppy.

I almost didn't want him to open the door. Is that bad. I had my hands in my hoodie pocket, as I saw Dad opening the door. Let me tell you the she-demon was there. Smirking, happy, with a sadistic smile on her face.

I could tell that Dad was the opposite of her that's for sure. I avoided eye contact with her as I could bring myself to look at her. I started gnawing the bottom on my lip, not caring if it would be bruised later.

"Catherine." Dad says with his voice calm but yet raised at the same time. I saw that mom's smile was getting wider by the second, as it was starting to get creepy.

Now you know why she's in my literal fucking nightmares. She's creepy. Also very haunting. I bet you, that Dad has nightmares of her too. If he does, can't imagine why.

"Spencie." She says as I looked down to the ground avoiding eye contact. I do it to avoid awkward situations. I felt her beaty eyes looking at me. She went to walk to me, but Dad stopped her. "Baby."

"Don't call me that." I tell her like I said on the phone moments earlier.

"I can call you whatever I want." She says to me as me and Dad made eye contact he gave me a reassuringly look, meaning it was safe. "Give your mommy a hug." She says as I scrunched my eyebrows, as I slowly walked towards her. Dad took a step behind her but still close enough to where if she were to do something that he'd still be close enough. When I got within arm's reach I gave her a hug fulfilling her wishes. "I missed you baby girl." She says as I gently patted her back, as Dad know how uncomfortable I am.

After thr hug which felt like forever, I lulled away. She was rubbing my arm then the other one she was squeezing. I was getting uncomfortable. I glanced at Dad and he was gone. I cursed mentally as mom made me look at her. Forced me mind you. She forced me against a wall and I felt some pierce my back but I kept my composure.

"You are worthless." She says as she held my throat behind my back I pressed the bracelet that Derek had made for me for emergencies. Dad wasn't in the room as she was choking me.

I felt by breathing hitching, when I looked away a harsh slap nearly echoed in the house. I didn't look at her so she went to slap my face again. I stopped her I kneed her and she backed away. I grabbed the nearest thing I could use ad a weapon.

"CAT ADAMS, I KNOW YOUR THERE! OPEN THE DOOR AND WALK OUT SLOWLY!" I heard Derek yell at her from the other side of the door. I fanagled with the door and I felt Derek grabbing my arm and pulling me behind. He quickly apologized as he had his gun at mom.

"I didn't do anything to the brat!" She yells as Dad handcuffed her I still had the baton which I realized that's what I grabbed. I didn't realize what I grabbed.

"Then why does she have hand marks on her face? Huh? Explain that." Dad says as I was clutching Derek's arm I couldn't bare myself to look at mom.

"Can I go now?" Mom asks as I heard Derek scoff at her.

"I also found strangulation marks on her, a faint hand print, then right underneath her shorts what looked like lacerations." Derek says to Mom and to everyone else who was there. I heard JJ gasp at what he said. I couldn't bear to listen, I excused myself from the situation and didn't waste any time running to my room.

"Shit!" I cursed as I tripped but I caught my balance and accidentally slammed dad's bedroom door. I grabbed my earbuds and my phone and I listened to the one thing that worked of calming me down. Taylor Swift.

A hour later

I was woken up by being shaken, and someone kissing my head. At least I thought. I opened one eye and saw it was JJ. She removed my earbuds she helped me to my feet. It was easy to find me. 99.9 percent I'm in dad's room, including hiding in his closet.

"Syd, come 'ere." She says as I got put of dad's closet as she brought me into a hug as she rubbed my back, before she pulled away from the hug. "Your dad's downstairs." She says to me as I nod my head.

"You did a brave thing Syds, I'm proud of you." I heard Derek say to me as I smiled softly as he brought me into a hug. I felt him kissing my head as I smiled and sighed in his warm arms.

I heard steps coming up the stairs and heading in the direction of dad's room. I knew it was Dad. He didn't say anything he hugged me immediately as soon as he made eye contact with me. "She's gone." He says as I had tears welling up in my eyes as he pulled away from the hug. "I love you, so much."

"I-I love you too." I say to him as he cupped my cheeks.

"Not possible." He says to me which made me softly smile at him.

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The next day

Sydney was reading a book during her lunch period as she is eating her chicken nuggets and fries. She sits in the corner of the busy cafeteria at her high school, when she got a notification on her phone. She jumped slightly as she unlocked her phone as she read her message from Derek: hey shortie, i'm picking you up, your dad is on a case. She replied with a thumbs up emoji as she flipped her phone back over as she continued reading her book.

"Hey, Syd." A voice said as she looked up at the voice as it was possibly her only friend here. Her name was Annie Jones. Sydney smiles at her friend as she sits beside her.

"Hey." She says before going back to her book as Annie smiles at her.

"Anything interesting in your life, lately?" Annie asks as she is the only person who knows who her mom is. Sydney cleared her throat wanting to desperately to avoid that topic. Annie gave her a confused look, with a raised eyebrow. "Syd."

"I don't wanna talk about it." Sydney says wanting to change the subject as she knew that Annie wouldn't let her just ignore the subject.

"Sydney." Annie tries again as this time Sydney looses it.

"I said I don't wanna talk about it!" She exclaims making the cafeteria goes silent before she freezes once she realized what happened, she immediately sat down, before packing up her stuff and walking out of the cafeteria.

Annie immediately follows her out of the cafeteria. "Hey, whatever it is, I'm sorry."

"Annie please, I don't wanna talk about it." Sydney says as she walked to her locker to grab the rest of her stuff for class.

"O-okay. If you ever need anyone, I'm here for you." Annie says with a small smile then the bell rang as it was time for class.

"Bye." Sydney says as her and Annie part ways going in their separate directions.

What felt like forever was the end of the school day, as Sydney was heading to where Derek said he was going to pick her up. She looked up and saw Derek's truck. She got into the truck as she sighed.

"Long day?" He asks her amused at her as she gave him a look which made him smile more.

"You can say that."

"What happened?"

"Annie wouldn't stop bugging me. Then again when doesn't she."

"Did she ask about your mom?"

"Yeah." Sydney says to Derek as he nods his head as he drives off. "I didn't want to talk about it." She adds before she grabs her phone that's in her back pocket.

"She's there if you need her."

"Yeah, I know." Sydney says as Derek smiled softly at her.

"Dad's on a case, he should be back when we get back." Derek says as Sydney nods her head at him.

"Where was the case?" Sydney asked as she played a matching game on her phone.

"In Arkendale."

"The fuck is that." She says without even looking up at him.

"It's twenty-two minutes from Quantico."

"The fuck is Arkendale?" She asked again completely confused on what the hell that was.

"It's a city, genius."

"No, shit."

Derek chuckled to himself as he turned as they were almost back to the BAU. "What you playing?" He asked her.

"Mahjong Club."

"Imma pretend I know what you just said, but I have no shit what you said."

"Real funny."

"No seriously, what the hell is it?"

"It's a game."

"No, shit."

"OMG." Sydney says as when she saw her Dad she got out of Derek's truck just as it stopped, and she dashed towards her father.

"Spence, Syd at your six o'clock." JJ says as right before Spencer was able to prepare himself, Sydney practically jumped on his back.

"Oh, God."

"I'm not that heavy."

"Give me a heads up, next time, Syds."

"JJ did, you were too slow to process." Sydney says as she was happy that she had won.

"I wasn't slow." Spencer says as they walk into the building as Sydney doesn't plan on getting off of her father's back anytime soon. This is the best place to be for the time being.

"You're not moving are you?" Spencer adds to his daughter as she was absemendly playing with his hair.

"Nope."

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