AN: Hi, guys! Jeez, you must be getting sick of me. I've been posting like mad the last day or so. =P

So, I was struck with a new idea for a series of CM fics: I'm going to do a series of song inspired one shots and group them together in one story. Except for three that I know of, none will be considered in line with my Declan Prentiss series. (Holy crap, it just hit me that I have a series.) If I've missed any, I'll be sure to include it in the AN.

The pairings will be different for each story, but there will be:

- (3) HotchReid
- (2) JJWill
- (1) An Elle character profile
- (1) A 3 in 1 story about JJWill, HotchReid, and EmilyRossi (To a Disney song! It's all of my favorite things jammed into one story!)
- (1) MorganGarcia
- (1) EmilyRossi
- (1) EmilyIan (You'll understand when you read it! I promise!)
- (1) A character profile of Declan
- (3) ElleGideon
- (1) A story of Reid chaperoning Henry's senior prom
- (1) A Hotch-Jack family story (Which I am DYING to write!)
- (1) A Reid character profile with an appearance of Diana (Jane Lynch is fantastic, but that's neither here nor there.)
- (1) A JJ-Reid friendship fic about the fallout from Emily's return
- (1) And a Garcia-Team story.

So, this is the first one. It's ElleGideon, and it's set to Jennifer Love Hewitt's song, 'My Only Love'. I don't know why but this song just made me think of Gideon sick/ injured and Elle being there. It just built on itself from that. There is also a little humor because of Rossi, and a healthy dose of HotchReid because I don't think it's possible for me to write something without them influencing it. Seriously. I'm addicted.

Disclaimer: I own NOTHING. I wish I did, but I don't. Quit mocking me! *cries*

Enjoy!

Reid had been sitting on Hotch's couch watching a documentary while Hotch sat beside him and completed some paper work. He hadn't been expecting the phone call that came at eleven o'clock that night from the hospital. As soon as his phone had rung and the doctor on the other end of the line identified himself as a cardiologist from the city hospital, Reid had begun to panic. His first questions had been what had happened, who had been hurt.

When the doctor said that he was calling because Reid was the emergency contact for one Jason Gideon who had just been rushed into the hospital for an emergency angioplasty, even the experienced poker face of Spencer Reid had failed to hide the shock. Hotch took the phone and got the basic information, then the two agents gathered Jack up to drop him off at Jess' because while Reid was still beyond pissed off at Gideon for leaving the way he had, he still felt the same fatherly affection for the man who'd left him high and dry. If Gideon called for him, no matter how angry he still was at the abandonment, Reid couldn't just let him sit in a hospital room alone after almost dying.

On the ride there, Hotch called the team while Reid tried to make sense of everything, and Reid looked so shocked when they arrived at the hospital that no one said anything about how Hotch's hand wouldn't let go of his. The team met them in the hospital entry way, all looking confused and tired but concerned. Morgan looked at how pale and drawn Reid looked, and JJ tried and failed to get some answers from her best friend. Hotch filled in the blank parts of the story for the team, and the young doctor walked up to the receptionist and said who they were there for. The sympathetic looking receptionist nodding, saying that they were expected then given the room number Gideon was being kept in. Reid darted down to the room, and only Hotch had enough time to wonder exactly who had told the receptionist to be expecting them.

When Reid ran into the room, unstable emotions playing across his face, more shock filtered through when he saw the one and only Elle Greenaway sitting by Gideon's side, her hand clasping the elder agent's.

"Elle?", Reid asked, and when he saw the tears that were on Elle's face, he felt himself sway. Hotch steadied him, his own surprise stamped clearly on his face. Elle sniffled, then wiped the tears from her eyes and turned to look at them.

"I was wondering when you would show up. He told me how angry you probably were with him, but I knew he wanted you here, Reid.", Elle explained.

"I don't understand.", was Reid's only answer. "I thought you left. You didn't even say goodbye, to him or to any of us. Why are you here?"

Elle turned back to the unconscious Gideon, a sad smile on her face. She looked so different from when he'd last seen her; instead of the anger he'd seen in her every feature, there was a quiet peacefulness. While before her outward appearance reflected the turmoil she felt inside, now it reflected a stability that Reid hadn't seen in her since before the Fisher King. A ring sat on her left ring finger, and to Reid's shock there was a matching one on Gideon.

"He found me after he left.", Elle explained. "I don't know how he tracked me down, or even if he was looking for me to begin with, but he found me."

"Where were you?", Morgan asked, hurt in his eyes as he looked at the woman who'd been as good as his sister for the better part of four years.

"I was working in New York as a private investigator and counselor when he walked into my office, beaten down into someone I wouldn't have recognized as the Gideon I knew if he hadn't spoken to me. He was so tired when I saw him, there was nothing left of the man he had been, or if there was I couldn't see it. I couldn't believe it; this was what the great Jason Gideon had been reduced to?"

"When was this?", Hotch asked.

"Two years ago, or a little longer. It took me almost a year to get him to tell me what had happened to Sarah, and another month to get him to talk to me about it. He told me he just couldn't do it anymore, that the team was better off with Rossi as their leader because Gideon couldn't feel his own pain anymore so he knew he needed to leave.", Elle told them, nodding to the shocked looking profiler who stood beside the woman she'd heard had replaced her. "He was so sorry he left you like he did, Reid, but he couldn't handle being strong for himself just then, so there was no way he could help you. He drove back every month to check on you, you know? You and the team. When I found out, he asked me if I wanted to come back with him. I said I couldn't get the time off work but I think he knew I had moved on, and that I was afraid to see you all again."

"And you two are together?", Reid asked, seeing the matching rings. Elle laughed and kissed Gideon's hand.

"Six months ago last week. He'd been living in my guest room for the last year and a half as strictly friends and old co-workers while he looked for a place of his own. He knew I wished we were more, but he was still so hurt so I didn't push. One weekend, I woke up to a note on the fridge saying he'd be back by Monday morning, that he had some thinking to do. That usually meant he had gone to check on you. When he came back, something about him had changed. It was like he was alive again, almost happy. He told me that he was done living with what had happened. Then he said that he wanted us to give a relationship a shot and I said yes. Four months in, I knew I was still in love with him so I asked him to marry me.", Elle remembered, smiling as she thought back.

"'Still'?, Reid asked.

"I had a crush on him when I was still in sex crimes. The great Jason Gideon, profiler extraordinaire. Don't look at me like that, Hotch. You knew it as well as I did when I walked into the BAU with him that first time.", Elle mandated, looking at Hotch.

"I knew you admired him.", was Hotch's only answer. She shrugged.

"Then it was just hero worship, he was everything I thought I wanted to be. When he took an interest in me and got me into the BAU, it became a pathetic case of puppy love. I think he knew; he could always see right through me, but he never said anything.", Elle told them, a slight smile as she ran her fingers across Gideon's hand. "Then after the Fisher King, things... things got really bad. Reid, you saw the state I was in. Jason did everything he could to help, and we did somethings we probably shouldn't have, considering he knew better and I knew I was emotionally fractured. The only time I wasn't self destructive was when I was with him, and just before William Lee, I realized I was in love with my boss. When that entire situation happened, I couldn't... I'd just left Gideon to go confront a rapist I'd let walk, and then when we came back, I couldn't even face him. I ran."

"And then he found you after he ran.", Reid finished softly, looking at his old mentor. "What happened to him? And did you get them to call me, Elle?"

"I did." She nodded. "He was always talking about you, Reid. I couldn't count how many times a day he checked Google just to make sure you were okay, to make sure nothing had happened to you. When he said he was having pains in his chest during our evening walk, I knew something was wrong so I browbeat him into letting me take him to the hospital. We were only in the car maybe ten minutes when he said his left arm had gone numb. I broke at least fourteen different traffic laws doing it but I got him to the hospital with just enough time for the doctors to help him. Before they carted him off to surgery, he told me to call you. He said that if... if he died, he wanted me to tell you how very sorry he was for letting you down, Reid."

JJ wrapped her arms around Reid's waist as the doctor went as pale as the bedsheets Gideon lay on. Hotch put his hand on his shoulder, letting JJ give his significant other the comfort he needed. "What have the doctors said? Will he be alright?", Hotch asked, seeing that Reid was in no shape to ask anymore questions.

Elle nodded. "They say he'll be fine. They had to clear out an eighty percent blockage, but he'll be okay after some rest." She smiled at JJ and Reid. "JJ, Gideon told me about Henry. He's been keeping an eye on all of you, and said that's a beautiful little boy you've got."

JJ looked ready to cry but nodded, her head resting against the plane of Reid's back. "You're both welcome to come visit him, and you can meet Will.", JJ choked out, tears in her eyes. She'd missed them both so much, but understood that Spence needed her support right then, and that that was more important than giving Elle and Gideon her forgiveness just then. Elle seemed to understand and smiled, then turned her eyes on Hotch, who was watching Reid with unhidden concern shining in his eyes.

"You finally told him, huh?", she asked the SSAIC. Hotch turned to her in confusion.

"Excuse me?", he asked.

"Reid. You finally told him how you felt.", Elle stated, laughing at the surprise on Hotch's face. "Oh, please. Hotch, you were about as obvious as I was with Jason. Frankly, I'm surprised it took you that long. I thought you were braver than that." Hotch scowled good naturedly at the dig, then looked at Gideon in concern.

"Does he know?", Hotch asked.

"She had to hide my car keys and make me swear on her engagement ring that I wouldn't drive to DC and punch you right in the face for taking advantage of Spencer, Hotch.", a raspy voice spoke up, and Elle's eyes went bright as she looked at the newly conscious Jason Gideon, who had a drugged looking but relaxed smile on his face. Gideon's eyes went over his old team, then focused on the distraught face of Spencer Reid. "Spencer. You came."

"You were in the hospital.", was all Reid said.

"I didn't think you'd come. I'm glad you did, though."

"I'm still angry with you beyond reason, but of course I came.", Reid choked out, looking like he was fighting back tears. He cleared his throat. "I - I didn't know I was your emergency contact."

"Technically Elle is, but I didn't know if I was going to make it, so I wanted you to know how sorry I was, Spencer. I know it doesn't mean much, but I am so very, very sorry for leaving you.", Gideon rasped out.

"You couldn't have told me without almost dying? A little dramatic, don't you think?", Reid hiccuped, a watery smile on his face. "How am I supposed to forgive you if you're dead, Gideon?"

"Can you forgive me for abandoning you?", Gideon asked, and there was a new hope in his eye. Reid bit his lip in thought, then looked at Hotch, who looked steadily back at him.

"In time, yes. I'm still so angry with you, Gideon, but I don't hate you. I know your reasons for leaving, and while I don't agree with them, I can understand them. So yes, I can forgive you.", Reid told him, then his face went blank as Hotch's hand clasped his. "But, you've got to promise that you won't accuse Hotch of taking advantage of me ever again. We're both consenting adults and what goes on between us is our business, not yours or anyone else."

"Can we talk about it when I'm not hooked up to a heart monitor? And for what it's worth, I'm happy for you both. Seeing you two together was what made me realize that I could move on after Sarah and be happy with my life. That I could be happy with Elle.", Gideon replied, his hand squeezing Elle's as she smiled through the tears of relief in her eyes.

"If you ever scare me like that again, Jason, I, for one, will never forgive you.", Elle told him, but the smile on her face and immense love in her eyes towards their old lead profiler contradicted the statement. "Why didn't you tell me you'd been having chest pains for a week before this?"

"You had enough to do with planning the wedding. I didn't want you to worry.", Gideon shrugged. "I thought it was nothing."

"Because clearly I wouldn't worry when I'm driving through red lights in rush hour DC traffic and you're telling me that the left side of your body is slowly going numb!", Elle exclaimed with a roll of her eyes. She muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, 'Men!', but didn't elaborate. She just settled for glaring in exasperation at her fiance.

"When are you getting married?", Reid asked.

"This summer, we're thinking June.", Elle explained. Hotch went rigid; the bombing that had driven Gideon into a nervous breakdown happened in June. "That is, if I can keep you alive until then!"

"That's so soon.", JJ commented.

"I'll be fine, you heard the doctor.", Gideon denied, moving his hand as if to physically sweep the concern aside. "We wanted to get it done as soon as possible, figured we'd wasted enough time being apart and didn't need a long engagement. We already knew the worst there was about each other. And we were thinking it would be a quiet ceremony, just family and friends."

"We were thinking of sending your invitations in the mail, but we didn't know how to go about giving you a heads up.", Elle explained, her eyes worried. "We didn't know if you'd even want to attend, after everything."

"We'd love to.", Reid answered, his voice rough. "Where were you thinking of having it?"

"I wanted New York, Jason wanted Los Angeles. We settled for Vermont.", Elle laughed.

"I had to come up with a laundry list of reasons why getting married in New York was a bad idea, and wound up convincing her by saying that everyone wanted to get married in New York, and that if we wanted to follow the trend, we might as well skip the whole ordeal and elope to Vegas.", Gideon continued.

"You can imagine how impressed I was.", Elle said to them with a roll of her eyes that brought smiles to the group that was with them. She turned to the still sleepy but smiling tech analyst who stood by Morgan near the door of the room. "Garcia, I might need some help with the decorating side of things. Would it be too much trouble-"

"Sugar, if tracking down psychopaths by the tips of my fingers is no trouble, decorating the wedding of two people I love would be an absolute joy.", Garcia assured her quickly, a bright smile on her face. "I'm your girl, Elle. Tell me what you want and it will be done."

"Are you going to be ready for a wedding though, Gideon? Summer's not that far off.", Morgan asked while Elle and Garcia discussed venues for receptions.

"If I have to drag myself to the alter in my hospital bed, I will be ready.", Gideon told him, sounding determined. "However, I do a favor to ask you, Spencer and Hotch."

"What is it?", Hotch asked.

"I was hoping, Hotch, that you three would be my best men. I can't think of anyone else I'd want with me." The three in question looked floored at the request, but Reid broke into a genuine smile.

"I -"

"Hey, no fair!", Elle protested. "I wanted Morgan, Jason! You can have Hotch and Reid."

"Wanted me for what...?", Morgan asked, looking confused. Elle flashed him a teasing grin and Garcia cackled at the quick worried look Morgan sent to Gideon, who just laughed.

Elle smiled, then said reassuringly, "I wanted you to walk me down the aisle, Morgan, relax. Since my dad isn't able to, I wanted someone who's like my brother to give me away. What'd you say?"

Morgan smiled at her, then gave her a half hug. "I'd be honored to, Elle. Just don't scare me like that again, woman! Your man is hooked up to a heart monitor and he could still probably kill me."

"No 'probably' about it.", Gideon muttered, making Hotch grin at him. Gideon looked to where Emily and Rossi stood, then smiled. "Dave, Emily. Come on, take a seat. I haven't seen either of you in so long."

"Considering the last time we spoke, you call me a fool with deluded fantasies of law enforcement, I figured you wouldn't want to see me.", Rossi commented with no real heat in the reply. Gideon shrugged, receiving a careful hug from Emily then shaking hands with the other profiler.

"Well, you were wrong. Emily, you look beautiful. I see you're keeping Rossi in line.", Gideon replied, then laughed at the surprise and embarrassment that filled both Rossi and Emily's faces, as well as the bewilderment on the faces of the other team members. "What? You didn't know they were together?"

"How did you know? We've only been here five minutes!", Rossi demanded, then pointed at Hotch, who looked like he was gearing up for a lecture. "Oh no, Mr. I'm-Totally-Dating-My-Subordinate, don't you even start with me. Now how the hell did you know, Gideon?"

"I have eyes.", Gideon offered smugly. "Face it, Rossi. I can read you like a book."

Dave's face turned almost purple and Hotch rolled his eyes, knowing there was going to be a very loud argument sometime soon. He moved between them, unconsciously walking closer to Spencer, who was smirking at him.

"Well now, if we're having a reunion, should I call Max Ryan to come up here?", Hotch asked. Both Gideon and Rossi rounded on him with a sound, 'NO!', then returned to glaring at each other. Elle laughed, shaking her head, then held her hand out to Emily.

"Elle Greenaway.", she greeted. Emily smiled then shook her hand.

"Emily Prentiss. I've heard a lot about you.", Emily responded while Gideon and Rossi continued to argue. What they argued about was a mystery to everyone else in the room, but Hotch gave up trying to referee them.

"And I, you. Dating a profiler isn't easy, is it?", Elle asked when Emily sat next her. Emily gave a scoff, then turned fond eyes onto Rossi, who was being reprimanded along with Gideon by JJ for shouting in a hospital. When JJ ended her rant, the two were silent except for sniping remarks they shot at each other.

"I imagine being engaged to one isn't a walk in the park either.", Emily acknowledged.

"No, but it has it's bright spots. Few and far between as they may be." Elle's eyes shot to Gideon when she heard he and Rossi get into the precursor to another argument. "Jason, for heaven's sake, you're in a hospital bed! You're supposed to be resting!"

"Dave, you're not helping! Knock it off!", Emily added, and the two brunettes gave the other exasperated looks while their significant others shared a look of horror at the combined force of Emily and Elle. Hotch and Morgan gave the two veterans looks of sympathy but elected to stay far, far out of it. JJ and Garcia were laughing hysterically at the scandalized look Rossi wore, and Reid was laughing into Hotch's shoulder.

"Can't take them anywhere.", Elle sighed, rubbing her forehead.

"I hear you.", Emily agreed. Reid looked at the two women, then smiled at Hotch. Gideon and Rossi decided that for both their sakes, they would stop their rivalry, and Gideon sent Spencer a smile from where he lay. Reid returned it, then felt Hotch take his hand. Nothing was fixed, not by a long shot. But, his family was back together. It was a start.

AN: That's it, guys. Hope you liked it!

Here are the parts of the song that just got to me for this particular story:

Deep in my soul
The love so strong
It takes control
Love we both know
The secrets there
The feelings shows

You've reach the deepest part
Of the secret in my heart
You've known it from the start
My only love

I found the lyrics online and I think some of them might be wrong, but the basic idea is there. No idea why, but there you have it. I'm going to get to work on the next one, and I think it will be one of the ones that falls in line with my Declan Prentiss series. (Hint: It will be ReidHotch. See AN above. I told you, I'm addicted to them!)

Thanks for reading, and as always, any questions, comments or concerns, let me know. =)

As always, much love,
Oracle. (L)