Topic: Criminal Minds

Title: CRASH

Rated: T

Summary: The BAU Plane hits turublence and then crashes in the Canadian Wilderness. What will the team do to get out of this one?

Disclaimer: Criminal Minds is a trademark of CBS and I do not own it or any characters in it.

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(The team has just finished a tough case in a small town in Canada that asked for the BAU and are flying over the Canadian Wilderness.)

"There was nothing you could have done Morgan" Reid mentioned to Derek as he sat in the corner of the plane. In their most recent case, Morgan had hesitated a second to shoot and that gave the Un-sub just enough time to kill the victim. He hasn't said anything since. "Seriously Morgan, do you wanna play some cards or something." Reid said again. "Just leave me alone, kid" Morgan replied. "But-" "Just leave it alone Spence" JJ cut off Reid. Reid turned around to see Hotch and Prentiss saying the same thing with their eyes.

He sighed and turned around. "Does anyone else wanna play cards." he asked. "Sure, I need something to get my mind off of this case" Prentiss replied. "Yeah, deal me in too" JJ seconded. "Deal me out, I've gotta get some sleep because I've gotta use all the free time I have playing with Jack and helping Hailey out." Hotch said wearily. "OK, whadda we wanna play?" Reid asked. "How 'bout some 5-card draw?" Prentiss replied. Reid and JJ nodded. "Sure, your deal Prentiss."

A couple hands of 5-card draw go by and Morgan still stares out the window. He keeps replaying what happened over and over in his head. A part of him knew that he came in a second too late and the victim was shot. She looked so innocent and scared as she fell. Morgan couldn't help but think that if he had drove or ran a little faster he could have gotten there in time to save her. No one could see the tears that streamed down his face as he thought about all of this. He knew that if Gideon were here he would know just what to say but he wasn't and Morgan was going to have to live with that. Everyone thought of Gideon as Reid's mentor but all of that time Morgan would look at Gideon's every movement and would cherish every word he said because Morgan wanted to be able to be as good a profiler as Gideon was. He thought of him as kind of a father figure and wished he knew where he was or how to connect with him.

As Hotch laid on the couch of the plane, he thought about Hailey and Jack. He hadn't told anyone on the team about his problems with Hailey and had no plans of doing that. He wasn't the kind of guy who brought his problems to his work. All he had seen of Jack and Hailey in the last month was a couple videos and pictures and one visit. After that visit he sat in his car and broke down crying for the first time since his mom died of cancer 12 years ago.

The only person he ever would have even thought about telling it too would have been Gideon but by now he was thousands of miles away. He suddered at the thought of it. One of his best friends in the world had left and they said that they would have a replacement in place by the time the team got back. In the back of his mind he wished the team would never make it back. He was blind sided when Elle left and luckily the replacement had turned out well but he didn't think that anyone could ever replace the insight that Gideon had.

As Reid threw back 2 cards he looked over at the beautiful woman across from him. He had always admired JJ for her looks but most of all for her personality. When they first went to that Redskins game a year or two ago he knew that he wanted to be with her. He got to see a different side of her that he was more than happy to see. She totally let's go when she get's off of work and Spencer had loved every minute of that at the game. They even shared a little kiss at the end of that but haven't done much together since then. The only reassuring thing that he felt was the way she embraced him when the team found him from his kidnapping. It made him feel so good. She was even the reason that he stopped doing the drug Dilaudid. He saw the way she looked at him when he took out one of his bottles and it broke his heart. At that moment he knew he needed to stop.

Reid was even planning to ask JJ to a soccer game when they got back. He found out how much she had loved soccer and thought that he might spark something if they went to a game. He thought that a perfect Christmas gift for her would to get her tickets to a game where that one English guy played. What was his name again. Oh yeah! David Beckham. He better commit that to memory so he doesn't flub it up when he tells it to JJ.

As JJ looked over at Reid, so many memories fluttered over her. The strongest was when she and Reid split up at that barn. Even though he suvived she was depressed for weeks after that and even thought about suicide once. Good thing she pushed it out of her mind because she would have missed out on so much. After that, she promised herself that she would never leave another team member alone.

Another strong feeling that washed over her was the football game that her and Reid had gone to. It was one of the most fun things she had done in a long time. She even listened to some of Reid's random facts about football. She especially cherished their kiss that night. Despite being short it made her feel so good and after that day she knew that she wanted to be with Reid but since then he hadn't made any more moves towards her, never even asked her out, so she just left him alone. She figured he wasn't that interested in her which hurt her a little inside but she kept telling herself that she would have to live with it and had stuck with it silently for so long.

Prentiss was deep into thought about Gideon and his leaving. He had first doubted her and her abilities when she came to the BAU but she felt like she proved herself to him and was sad to see him leave. She almost knew that if he had stayed she could have learned so much from him. She also felt like the outcast of the team as they were sad about him leaving. She hadn't been there very long and knew that the team would be grieving more than her because they knew him so much better. She hoped that she would get the chance to get to know this "new guy" and learn more from him when they got back.

"Please fasten your seat belts, we'll be running into turbulence soon but everything should be fine," said a familiar voice over the intercom. They hit turbulence on almost every flight and they all buckled their seatbelts without thinking. They knew when they hit the turbulence because the plane started shaking and rocking like it usually did. Then something unexpected happened. There was something that felt like an explosion and the plane did a nose dive out of the air. It scraped the tops of the trees as it came down and then crashed straight into the ground in the middle of the deadly Canadian wilderness...