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After being assessed, the team were allowed to go to Morgan's room, unsurprisingly he was trying to get dressed; everyone knew where he was trying to go.

'Don't even try it, you know we would tell you if we knew anything' Rossi said making Morgan jump slightly.

'I'm fine, I have no need to be here, stuck here, I need to be with her.'

'Enough Derek' Hotch holding no arguments began 'How is she going to feel when you're still stuck in a hospital bed because you couldn't allow time to heal, we know she's in surgery, but just rest, you can get up when we know we can see her, okay?'

'Fine'

The team laugh an awkward laugh at the strop Derek began to show. Everyone knew that a bit of Garcia's sparkle had taught them a lot, everything happened for a reason after all. Garcia always knew how to smile even at the dimmest of times, a way to relieve the stress. Now the team knew they had to band together even more and relieve the tension of the situation, even if it was hard.

Elsewhere

After being rushed to surgery, Garcia's life was placed in the hands of surgeons like it had done just over a year ago. The surgeons were successful in repairing the bullet wounds to her leg but were struggling with wounds to her shoulder and stomach.

As the surgery went on, the trauma to her body took effect, her heart stopped. The surgeons worked out the bleed and managed to start her heart again. The only worry the doctors had was that because of her heart stopping, it meant her waking up would take longer.

After being placed in intensive care, the team sat and waited.

For two days Derek didn't move, all he could do was sit and watch over her unconscious body and listen to beeping of the machines.

9 days later

Derek felt movement coming from the bed; he looked up to see a confused looking Garcia staring back.

'Hey baby girl, nice to see you' Derek said with a smile.

He received a slight smile back just as she slipped back asleep.

Meanwhile, at Emily's

'Grab your stuff; we can head off to the hospital. I'll meet you outside'

'Okay, my purse is just by the door. Then I'll just lock up.' As she finished locking the door, she caught a glimpse of light reflecting off metal. 'Get down, JJ get down!' Both women dropped and JJ crawled towards the porch to get cover. When they were safely back in the house, Emily got on the phone to Hotch.

'He targeted us.' There was pause 'Yes we are both fine' another pause 'Okay we will wait and then get to the hospital. See you later.'

Turning to JJ 'We've got to sit and wait. I'm going up stairs to see if I can see the unsub. Will you be alright here?'

JJ just silently nodded and carried on to pulling herself together as she was left alone.

Back at the hospital

Later that day Hotch came to see how both were doing. Derek stepped out of the room and told him she had woken up but not for too long.

'She looked so confused, like she didn't know what was going on, I said hello and used baby girl, she smiled like it all made sense. Why is this happening again?'

'I don't know but the unsub targeted Emily and JJ, their both fine, they are waiting for the police to check the area and then are coming here. It's safer.' Hotch noticed a look shift over Morgan's face 'Anything you want to talk about?'

'I was going to propose that night we got shot at and now I think I'm too late. I was going to propose and then worry about Strauss later. I realised what she meant to me after Baylor and Lynch, she makes me live, she makes me see the good side of life, the laughter after a bad case, all the good things in life she gives to me. I can't lose her now.'

'You're not going to, Derek. She's woken up, that's a good sign.' Hotch sounding reassuring. 'All we can do is sit and be there for her, like a family'

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