A/N: I KNOW! I promised to post a new chapter everyday for the next month in my first Criminal Minds Fanfic: Can't Lose You, centered around Hotch and Haley, but this fanfic was eating at me from 8:54 PM last night (right after Maeve was killed in last night's episode of Criminal Minds) and I HAD to write this so I wouldn't go bonkers! Wait...to late, opps! Anyway, I felt so bad and sad (did I just ryme?) that Reid and Maeve didn't have a longer story, and I know others have written there versions of last night's episode already, but...I needed to write my version of it. If you don't like Reid and Maeve as a couple, don't read, okay? 'Cause I was sure as hell rooting for them as a couple...all through the episode I thought he was gonna save her, then she gets shot, WTF? I hated the ending of 'Zugzwang' though...I hate how the writers (among others) never let Reid have a long-term realationship! He got kissed by Lila Archer, didn't go anywhere! He flirted with that bartender, nothing happened! And then Maeve came, I was thinking 'Are they finally going to have a long-term love interest for Reid?' I talked to my grandma about it (lame? I don't care, I'm ranting) I said 'I hope they don't kill her off or anything, Reid needs a long-term happy romantic realationship' and then I added 'I have a bad feeling they will kill her off, because they NEVER have a long-term romance for Reid' Honest! I honestly said that to my grandma! Anyway, I'm ranting, and I'm sure no one cares about my opinions (but if you do, and want to rant with me, PM me and we'll rant about it, LOL) NOW, on with my take of 'Zugzwang'
Summery: Reid somehow saves Maeve, with the help of the team, but she is tramatized by the events that unfold and has slight PTSD from being shot, Reid also has trouble with Dilaudid...ReidxMaeve. Possibly only three chapters, unless there is possitive response, if people like it, I will continue with it.
Chapter One
Diana moved the gun to her own head, getting ready to take her own life, along with Maeve's.
"No!" Reid shouted and moments later Diana pulled the trigger.
Diana and Maeve both fell to the ground, seeminly dead.
The team looked in remorse at the two bodies.
Reid started to cry, he moved towards the bodies, wanting to hold Maeve, but Morgan stopped him, "Don't do it, kid." he said, to Reid it sounded like Morgan was on the other side of a tunnel, calling to him.
Reid tried moving past Morgan, Morgan put his hand to Reid's chest, "You don't wanna see her like that."
Reid looked at Morgan, anger and saddness in his eyes, "I saw her get killed."
"Its much worse to see her dead then see her be killed." Morgan said, his tone firm but a softness to it, he didn't want to be to rough with Reid, he had, after all, just wittnessed the murder of his girlfriend.
JJ walked over to the bodies, and, because of code, checked both for a pulse. First Diana's pulse, to which JJ shook her head, then Maeve's pulse.
JJ frowned slightly, still checking Maeve's pulse, "Hotch, call a medic."
Hotch looked at her with slight confusetion
"She's got a pulse, it's weak, but it's there." JJ said
Morgan turned to look at JJ, then moved out of Reid's way.
Reid hurried over and pulled Maeve into his arms.
JJ gently put a hand on Reid's shoulder in a reasurring way.
Reid couldn't not cry, though he tried his hardest, "Don't leave, not yet." he whispered to the limp Maeve.
JJ stood up and walked over towards the team, Hotch had just gotten off the phone.
The medics rushed there.
"Reid, the medics are here, you have to let them take her." Alex Blake's gentle voice made its way to Reid, he nodded and let the medics take Maeve from his arms.
"I don't want to lose her." Reid said, his voice hollow in a way, he felt the warmth of Maeve's blood on him.
Alex sat next to Reid in the waiting room, JJ was on the other side, Morgan was standing near, as was Hotch, Rossi was sitting across from him.
Garcia rushed in, "Oh my God, has there been any news?" she asked, her voice worried and frantic though she didn't even know Maeve, it was because Garcia knew Maeve ment a lot to Reid.
JJ and Alex looked over to Garcia, they were both looking at Reid.
Morgan looked up from the floor.
Hotch and Rossi looked over.
Reid looked up from his lap, "Not yet." his voice was still hollow, but it seemed he was the only one who could find there voice, his shirt was covered in Maeve's blood, along with a seldom amount of his own.
Garcia frowned slightly in concern, she didn't ask any more questions after that.
Time went by, slowly, it felt like forever, but it was only three hours and forty-seven minutes.
A doctor came in, still wearing his scrubs, his demeanor was somber.
The team looked at him, there eyes showed the little bit of hope they all felt, but Reid's eyes were dead and sad looking.
"She's out of surgery, but during the operation she flatlined, we were able to revive her," The doctor said, "but she slipped into a coma."
Reid felt cold, he knew the statistics of surviving a bullet to the temple, and it was very low.
"Miss. Donovan was lucky in a way, the bullet missed the vital vessals of the brain, a through-through, I'm not promising she'll wake from the coma, but honestly, I've never seen a gunshot victum like her in such a promising state." the doctor said, he didn't seem to be very much of a 'people-person'
Reid felt a twinge of hope, trying not to think of survival statistics of some one who was shot in the temple, or the survival rate of comatose patients.
Maeve's parents, Joe and Mary Donovan came in, Mary was crying and Joe seemed to be a nervous wreck, "Has there been any news on Maeve."
"Yeah, the doctor just said she's out of surgery and currently in a coma." JJ said, her voice soft
Mary sobbed hard, Joe rubbed her back and nods to JJ.
"Is-is that Maeve's blood?" Mary asked Reid, her voice thick with tears.
Reid nodded some, swallowing hard.
Mary sobbed more.
Joe frowned in worry and concern.
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